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New Report Highlights the MacArthur Foundation’s Grantmaking Legacy to Advance Maternal Health in India

Mathematica released findings from its cumulative review of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation’s Maternal Health Quality of Care (MHQoC) strategy in India.




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Ralanda Nelson Joins Mathematica as Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Leader

Mathematica is pleased to welcome Ralanda Nelson to its leadership team. A certified diversity executive, she will steer the firm’s diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts and help ensure the employee experience is at the heart of everything we do.




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COVID-19 Data Primer from Mathematica

Mathematica continues to partner with our clients and groups like the National Association of Health Data Organizations (NAHDO) to respond to the evolving COVID-19 pandemic, particularly in the area of data analytics.




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A COVID-19 Primer: Analyzing Health Care Claims, Administrative Data, and Public Use Files

This primer is designed to help researchers, data scientists, and others who analyze health care claims or administrative data (herein referred to as “claims”) quickly join the effort to better understand, track, and contain COVID-19.




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Medically important plant biomes: source of secondary metabolites / Dilfuza Egamberdieva, Antonio Tiezzi, editors

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Powdery mildew disease of crucifers: biology, ecology and disease management / Govin Singh Saharan, Naresh K. Mehta, Prabhu Dayal Meena

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Plant breeding: classical to modern / P. M. Priyadarshan

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Advances in plant transgenics: methods and applications / Ramalingam Sathishkumar, Sarma Rajeev Kumar, Jagadeesan Hema, Venkidasamy Baskar, editors

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Endangered species and fragile ecosystems in the South China Sea: The Philippines v. China arbitration / Alfredo C. Robles, Jr

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The Stockholm paradigm: climate change and emerging disease / Daniel R. Brooks, Eric P. Hoberg, and Walter A. Boeger

Dewey Library - QH543.B76 2019




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Marine big data / Dongmei Huang, Wei Song, Guoliang Zou, Shanghai Ocean University, China

Barker Library - GC10.4.E4 H8313 2019




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Introduction to environmental data analysis and modeling Moses Eterigho Emetere, Esther Titilayo Akinlabi

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Green growth that works: natural capital policy and finance mechanisms around the world / edited by Lisa Mandle, Zhiyun Ouyang, James Salzman, and Gretchen C. Daily

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Rehabilitating damaged ecosystems / edited by John Cairns, Jr

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Linnaeus, natural history and the circulation of knowledge / edited by Hanna Hodacs, Kenneth Nyberg and Stéphane van Damme

Hayden Library - QH44.L556 2018




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Diatoms: fundamentals and applications / edited by Joseph Seckbach and Richard Gordon

Barker Library - QK569.D54 D54 2019




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Detecting and modeling the changes of land use and land cover for land use planning in Da Nang City, Vietnam / Hoang Khanh Linh Nguyen

Rotch Library - HD890.5.Z9 D36 2018




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Big Lonely Doug: the story of one of Canada's last great trees / Harley Rustad

Hayden Library - QH106.2.B7 R87 2018




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Working with dynamic crop models: methods, tools and examples for agriculture and environment / Daniel Wallach, David Makowski, James W. Jones, Francois Brun

Hayden Library - SB112.5.W35x 2019




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Formation and control of biofilm in various environments Hideyuki Kanematsu, Dana M. Barry

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Florida oranges: a colorful history / Erin Thursby

Dewey Library - SB370.O7 T48 2019




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Stewarding the sound: the challenge of managing sensitive coastal ecosystems / editors, Leah Bendell, professor, Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby BC, Canada, [and three others]

Rotch Library - QH106.2.B8 S745 2019




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Biological control in Latin America and the Caribbean: its rich history and bright future / edited by Joop C. van Lenteren, Vanda H.P. Bueno, M. Gabriela Luna and Yelitza C. Colmenarez

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Wanderings of a naturalist in India, the western Himalayas, and Cashmere / Andrew Leith Adams

Rotch Library - QH183.A2 2018




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Estuaries and coastal zones in times of global change: proceedings of ICEC-2018 / Kim Dan Nguyen, Sylvain Guillou, Philippe Gourbesville, Jérôme Thiébot, editors

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Biodiversity of the Himalaya: Jammu and Kashmir State / Ghulam Hassan Dar, Anzar A. Khuroo, editors

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The ecology of invasions by animals and plants / by Charles S. Elton ; with contributions by Daniel Simberloff and Anthony Ricciardi

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Fire effects on soil properties / editors, Paulo Pereira, Jorge Mataix-Solera, Xavier Úbeda, Guillermo Rein and Artemi Cerdà

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Wheat quality for improving processing and human health / Gilberto Igrejas, Tatsuya M. Ikeda, Carlos Guzmán, editors

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Nature and the environment in Amish life / David L. McConnell and Marilyn D. Loveless

Hayden Library - GF80.M373 2018




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The American Museum of Natural History and how it got that way / Colin Davey with Thomas A. Lesser ; foreword by Kermit Roosevelt III

Barker Library - QH70.U62 N485 2019




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Białowieża Primeval Forest: nature and culture in the Nineteenth Century / Tomasz Samojilik, Anastasia Fedotova, Piotr Daszkiewicz, Ian D. Rotherham

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Mouthwatering food pix to lift your Friday mood

Hemantkumar Shivsharan is making the most of the lockdown with these tempting home cooked meals.




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PIX: Models dare to take #PillowChallenge!

See how your favourite models rocked the challenge.




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10 Open Source Calendar UI Layouts Built With CSS

Building a full calendar UI is tough work. There are major differences between calendars on the web and calendars for mobile apps, so it’s good to study examples and see what’s out there.

After scouring through CodePen, I’ve organized …




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Building WordPress Websites With Zurb Foundation or Bootstrap: Comparisons and Starter Themes

WordPress is super versatile. You know that. I know that. But sometimes this can be an overwhelming prospect. How on earth will you get your site up and running? What platform will you use? Zurb Foundation and Bootstrap are two …




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Normal and shear forces between boundary sphingomyelin layers under aqueous conditions

Soft Matter, 2020, 16,3973-3980
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00215A, Paper
Yifeng Cao, Nir Kampf, Weifeng Lin, Jacob Klein
Sphingomyelin boundary layers can maintain extremely low friction under high pressures both in water and at high salt concentration.
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Detachment work of prolate spheroidal particles from fluid droplets: role of viscous dissipation

Soft Matter, 2020, 16,4049-4056
DOI: 10.1039/C9SM02385B, Paper
Sergey V. Lishchuk, Rammile Ettelaie
The minimum possible work done upon removal of an elongated solid particle from the surface of a liquid droplet can be less than that for a sphere.
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Correction: Preparation of electrospray ALG/PDA–PVP nanocomposites and their application in cancer therapy

Soft Matter, 2020, 16,4074-4074
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM90064H, Correction
Open Access
  This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.
Yangjie Xu, Jiulong Zhao, Zhilun Zhang, Jing Zhang, Mingxian Huang, Shige Wang, Pei Xie
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Properties of surface Landau–de Gennes Q-tensor models

Soft Matter, 2020, 16,4032-4042
DOI: 10.1039/C9SM02475A, Paper
Open Access
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Michael Nestler, Ingo Nitschke, Hartmut Löwen, Axel Voigt
Uniaxial nematic liquid crystals whose molecular orientation is subjected to tangential anchoring on a curved surface offer a non trivial interplay between the geometry and the topology of the surface and the orientational degree of freedom.
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Mix and match—a versatile equilibrium approach for hybrid colloidal synthesis

Soft Matter, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00202J, Communication
Matan Yah Ben Zion, Yaelin Caba, Ruojie Sha, Nadrian C. Seeman, Paul M. Chaikin
We outline a simple yet general equilibrium technique for a scalable, high-purity, hybrid-colloidal synthesis with controlled valency. The method is applicable for liquid and solid particles and to a range of particle interactions.
To cite this article before page numbers are assigned, use the DOI form of citation above.
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A Novel degradation mechanism of the elastic modulus of wet polymer substrates under nanoindentation

Soft Matter, 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00645A, Paper
Ruling Chen, Zhe Wang, Shaoxian Li, Hongwei Du
We demonstrated that the formation and solidification of the continuous confined water film played a very important role in changing the elastic modulus of the wet polymer substrate during nanoindentation...
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Pinning dislocations in colloidal crystals with active particles that seek stacking faults

Soft Matter, 2020, 16,4182-4191
DOI: 10.1039/C9SM02514F, Paper
Bryan VanSaders, Sharon C. Glotzer
By designing the shape of an active particle, its transport through a dense crystal can be tailored, as well as its interaction with dislocation defects present in the host crystal.
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Experimental observation of boundary-driven oscillations in a reaction–diffusion–advection system

Soft Matter, 2020, 16,4243-4255
DOI: 10.1039/C9SM02291K, Paper
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Torsten Eckstein, Estefania Vidal-Henriquez, Azam Gholami
Boundary-driven oscillations are observed experimentally in a reaction-diffusion-advection system, namely in the signaling population of Dictyostelium discoideum cells.
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High antisite defect concentrations in hard-sphere colloidal Laves phases

Soft Matter, 2020, 16,4155-4161
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00335B, Paper
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Berend van der Meer, Frank Smallenburg, Marjolein Dijkstra, Laura Filion
We show that the equilibrium Laves phase in binary hard-sphere mixtures contains an extraordinarily high concentration of antisite defects:  we find stable regions where up to 2% of the large-particle lattice sites are occupied by a small particle.
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Ordering of binary colloidal crystals by random potentials

Soft Matter, 2020, 16,4267-4273
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00208A, Paper
André S. Nunes, Sabareesh K. P. Velu, Iryna Kasianiuk, Denis Kasyanyuk, Agnese Callegari, Giorgio Volpe, Margarida M. Telo da Gama, Giovanni Volpe, Nuno A. M. Araújo
A random potential can control the number of defects in a binary colloidal crystal.
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The tripeptide GHG as an unexpected hydrogelator triggered by imidazole deprotonation

Soft Matter, 2020, 16,4110-4114
DOI: 10.1039/D0SM00224K, Communication
Morgan Hesser, Lavenia Thursch, Todd Lewis, David DiGuiseppi, Nicolas J. Alvarez, Reinhard Schweitzer-Stenner
The tripeptide glycyl-histidyl-glycine (GHG) self-assembles into long, crystalline fibrils forming a strong hydrogel (G' ∼ 50 kPa) above a critical concentration of 40 mM upon the deprotonation of its imidazole group.
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On Day 2, Tasmac sales touch ₹140 cr.

The Tamil Nadu State Marketing Corporation (Tasmac) sold liquor worth ₹140 crore on the second day after it opened its outlets. A Tasmac source said t




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[ASAP] Colloidal Quantum-Dots/Graphene/Silicon Dual-Channel Detection of Visible Light and Short-Wave Infrared

ACS Photonics
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[ASAP] Update to Our Reader, Reviewer, and Author Communities—April 2020

ACS Photonics
DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.0c00628