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IIEBM - Learning experience for gen-next leaders

If you are an aspiring management student, you might have been storming your head after reading about all the academic rigour and jam-packed schedules that o...




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Gujarat HC allows an accused bail for Ramzan

The Gujarat high court has granted temporary bail to a murder accused to observe fasts during the holy month of Ramzan. He will have to surrender to jail on May 25, after Eid-ul-Fitr.​




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Saurashtra on edge over infection due to influx

The district administration in Saurashtra is jittery fearing import of coronavirus cases into the district with the permission for intrastate travel granted by the state government. Jamnagar, which had only one Covid case till now reported five new cases in the past one week.




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Ahmedabad lockdown: Today's news from the city




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'Pvt hosp staff at par with govt medical staff'




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Covid-19 medical staff to get addl compensation

The Amdavad Municipal Corporation (AMC) has decided to give additional financial compensation to health and paramedical staff of AMC and private designated Covid-19 hospitals who contact coronavirus infection on duty.




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Gujarat's Covid-19 tally 7,403; death toll 449

With as many as 390 more people testing coronavirus positive since previous night, the total number of Covid-19 cases in Gujarat reached 7,403 on Friday, a health official said.




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At frontline, junior docs are soldiers, generals

In the ward of Covid-19 patients, one could expect the medicine, anaesthesia or pulmonology experts at work. But if one visits Civil Hospital, the treating doctor could well be on his/ her way to become ophthalmologist, gynaecologist or general surgeon! In SVP hospital, he or she may be specialising in psychiatry too!




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Gujarat HC restores land to civic body from royals

The Gujarat high court rebuked the erstwhile royal family of the princely state of Bhavnagar for its "dishonest intention" to claim a land parcel in an unauthorized manner from the Bhavnagar Municipal Corporation.




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Ahd Covid-19 waste peaked to 8,422kg in 1 day

On March 24, when the lockdown was imposed, the total biomedical Covid waste incinerated in Ahmedabad that day was 82kg. The waste was mainly from the initial admissions at SVP Hospital,




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Ahd: Patient’s death discovered 7 hours later

In an incident that raises serious questions about Covid-19 care centres run by the city civic body, a 27-year-old coronavirus positive man died in his bed after suffering seizure at room 808-Block G3, at Samras Covid-19 care centre in Navrangpura. Only asymptomatic patients are isolated here so that they can be monitored and sent to hospital if they develop symptoms, or discharged when they turn negative.




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Palghar workers stuck in Guj wait to return home

Hundreds of brick kiln workers and their families from Dahanu and Talasari talukas stranded in Gujarat since the lockdown began, are waiting to return to their homes.




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Rajkot achieves another techno feat

In what could be a major breakthrough for N95 masks production in India, two Rajkot-based engineering firms have developed the machine indigenously to make this medically crucial masks. Most companies making N95 masks have been procuring the manufacturing machines from China, Japan and South Korea.




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Eight held for hunting nilgai in Chhota Udepur

Eight persons from Bhumaswada village in Chhota Udepur district were arrested on Friday for poaching a nilgai on April 21. The kingpin father-son duo was already nabbed on May 6.




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Parents away, cops celebrate kid's birthday

(This story originally appeared in AhmedabadMirror on May 9, 2020)




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Ahmedabad: 3,175 beds arranged in 104 hotels

The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation, which had marked four hotels as Covid care centres till now, will now have 100 more hotels with a bed capacity of 3,175 for the purpose. In another important development, the civic body has planned a massive sanitization campaign in AMC areas from Saturday.




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Migrant workers clash with police in Surat

Demanding a return passage to their home states, hundreds of agitated migrant workers clashed with the police at Mora village in Gujarat's Surat district on Saturday, an official said.




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Resource Showcase: National Emergency Library

Internet Archive has launched a National Emergency Library, containing over 1.4 million ebooks that are usually restricted by institutional passwords and paywalls. These are freely available during the Covid-19 crisis until 30 June 2020. Read more about additional e-resources currently available See what e-resources we currently have on trial See what other resources the library has for your subject




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Resource Showcase: The New York Times

Did you know that you can access The New York Times via Durham University Library and Collections? As well as access to current articles, via TimesMachine you can access The New York Times archive as far back as 1851. Access The New York Times Access the archive via TimesMachine See what other newspapers and news services are available via Durham University Library and Collections




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Resource Showcase: Trial e-resources

British Online Archives: Providing access to over 80 collections of primary resources, the website hosts over 3 million records drawn from both private and public archives. These records are organised thematically, covering 1,000 years of world history, from politics and warfare to slavery and medicine. This is one of many e-resources we currently have on trial. You can see the complete list and gain access via our trial e-resources page. Please remember to leave feedback – your opinions help shape our collections.




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Resource Showcase: Trial e-resources

IBISWorld: A leading global provider of industry research and analysis. With over 6000 granular reports across 5 geographies, IBISWorld supports curriculum and course development, student assignments and projects, careers counselling/employability, entrepreneurship and new business start-up preparation. This is one of many e-resources we currently have on trial. You can see the complete list and gain access via our trial e-resources page. Please remember to leave feedback – your opinions help shape our collections.




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Resource Showcase: Daily Mirror Historical Archive

The archive features more than 800,000 pages of brand-new, full text searchable, scans of the complete run of the Mirror from 1903-2000, including the Sunday Mirror. This is one of many e-resources we currently have on trial. You can see the complete list and gain access via our trial e-resources page. Please remember to leave feedback – your opinions help shape our collections. See what other newspapers and news services are available via Durham University Library and Collections




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Synthesis of lignin-functionalized phenolic nanosphere supported Ag nanoparticles with excellent dispersion stability and catalytic performance

Green Chem., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C9GC04311J, Paper
Shilin Chen, Guanhua Wang, Wenjie Sui, Ashak Mahmud Parvez, Chuanling Si
This work presents a novel and green lignin-based nanocomposite and highlights the synergism of lignin's multiple functions (surfactant, sacrificial template, and reducing agent) in the material preparation process.
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Simplifying levulinic acid conversion towards a sustainable biomass valorisation

Green Chem., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C9GC04306C, Paper
Chiara Defilippi, Daily Rodríguez-Padrón, Rafael Luque, Cristina Giordano
In the range of biomass valorisation, hydroconversion of levulinic acid (one of the products of the hydrolysis of lignocellulosic biomass) was tested for the first time using nanosized Ni3N and Ni0 catalysts, with very promising results alongside high stability.
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One-pot hydrodeoxygenation of biomass furan derivatives into decane under mild conditions over Pd/C combined with phosphotungstic acid

Green Chem., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0GC00428F, Paper
Song Li, Long Yan, Qiying Liu, Jianguo Liu, Qiyu Liu, Wei Fan, Xuelai Zhao, Xinghua Zhang, Chenguang Wang, Longlong Ma, Qi Zhang
One-pot hydrodeoxygenation of δ-furfurylidenelevulinic acid over Pd/C combined with phosphotungstic acid through successive hydrogenolysis and HDO of furans and lactones.
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Water Effects in the Heterogeneous Catalytic Valorization of Levulinic Acid into γ-Valerolactone and its Derivatives

Green Chem., 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0GC01082K, Critical Review
Rengui Weng, Zhihao Yu, Jian Xiong, Xuebin Lu
Levulinic acid (LA), which has been hailed as a versatile biomass-derived platform molecular, typically occupy a core position in the cellulosic biorefinery system. The heterogeneous catalytic valorization of LA for...
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Humin based resin for wood modification and property improvement

Green Chem., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C9GC03620B, Paper
Open Access
Anna Sangregorio, Anitha Muralidhara, Nathanael Guigo, Lisbeth G. Thygesen, Guy Marlair, Carlo Angelici, Ed de Jong, Nicolas Sbirrazzuoli
Focus on humins, a co-product from sugar conversion, to highlight their capacity to impregnate wood cell walls for making durable wood products.
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Methylation-triggered fractionation of lignocellulosic biomass to afford cellulose-, hemicellulose-, and lignin-based functional polymers via click chemistry

Green Chem., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0GC00451K, Paper
Kentaro Miki, Hiroshi Kamitakahara, Arata Yoshinaga, Yuki Tobimatsu, Toshiyuki Takano
This paper reports a new concept for the biorefinery of lignocellulosic biomass where the derivatisation and fractionation of lignocellulose are accomplished at the same time.
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Sustainable synthesis of cobalt and cobalt oxide nanoparticles and their catalytic and biomedical applications

Green Chem., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0GC00885K, Critical Review
Siavash Iravani, Rajender S. Varma
Recent advances and essential challenges as well as catalytic and biomedical applications of cobalt oxide and cobalt nanoparticles are highlighted.
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Ni-Catalyzed hydrocyanation of alkenes with formamide as the cyano source

Green Chem., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C9GC04275J, Communication
Xiao Shu, Yuan-Yuan Jiang, Lei Kang, Luo Yang
A novel Ni-catayzed hydrocyanation of various alkenes to provide aliphatic nitriles is developed by generating hydrocyanic acid in situ from safe and readily available formamide.
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