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Pepper prices rise 15% amid lockdown on hope of healthy post-monsoon sales

Farmers hold on to stocks due to great demand for high-quality Indian produce




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Farmers destroy crop as lockdown brings floriculture market to standstill

Normally, farmers anticipate a huge bump in demand during the February-May season due to weddings and other such occasions




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India's jewellery demand dips 41% to 11-year low in March quarter: WGC

Global holdings of physically-backed gold ETFs and similar products jumped by 298 tonnes during the March quarter - the highest quarterly inflows for four years




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India's gold demand slumps to 11-year low of 102 tonnes in March quarter

Investment demand, though lower by 17%, was relatively better as sentiments towards equities turned negative and investors turned to gold's liquidity and safe haven status




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Average mandi prices of most agri commodities show mixed trend in April

A disruption in supply chain means that the arrival of commodities across the nation's main mandis remained a cause of concern




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Mango traders suffer loss as Alphonso sales slump in Mumbai amid lockdown

The coronavirus cases in Maharashtra have reached 12,296, including 2,000 discharged cases and 521 deaths.




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April gold imports plunge 99.9% to three-decade low amid lockdown: Report

In value terms, April imports dropped to $2.84 million from to $3.97 billion a year ago




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Crude oil punters shift positions to natural gas after negative price row

According to the MCX data, the share of natural gas in the total volume of the exchange has almost tripled, while that of crude has reduced by more than half




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Scholarship scam: How officials, bankers cheated poor students

Initial investigation by the CBI into the multi-crore scholarship scam reveals a deep-rooted nexus between government officials, private institutions and public sector banks to siphon-off funds meant for poorest of the poor students. Students belonging to Scheduled Castes and Minorities were also deprived of scholarships to pursue basic education.




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Covid lockdown: With eating out in containment, home come the indulgences

“While during the early days of lockdown basic essentials got sold, with time some discretionary sales are coming back,” said Devendra Chawla, MD at Nature’s Basket and Spencer’s Retail that saw 30-60% growth in sales for cold cuts, exotic vegetables, assorted breads and cakes, cookies, international sauces, organic range of staples in last ten days.




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Covid lockdown: At McDonald’s, Domino’s sellers, staff get paid in slices now

“There is absolutely no income coming our way due to the Covid-induced lockdown for over a month. As a result, most companies are facing the problem of paying the employee salaries in full for the month of April,” said National Restaurant Association of India president Anurag Katriar.




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Lockdown 2.0: Consumers' focus shifts to packaged, high-value food items

Meanwhile, several retailers have reported an increase in sales of their private labels, which filled the gaps as supply lines from other manufacturers were disrupted.




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Create strategic reserve for milk powder says CII

CII suggested government to consider measures such as rationalization of GST on value added products such as butter and ghee to build market resilience. CII also suggested the government to distribute liquid milk through mid-day meal schemes to ensure nutrition availability for children.




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Salt shortage ahead? Manufacturers predict a shortfall as lockdown halts production

Salt farmers are predicting a shortfall as lockdown has truncated the production cycle.




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West Bengal becomes fastest growing market for Dhara edible oil amid lockdown

Consumers in West Bengal preferred Kachi Ghani Mustard oil followed by Refined Soybean oil over other variants during the period. Dhara in West Bengal primarily operates in categories like Kachi Ghani Mustard Oil, Refined Sunflower Oil, Refined Soybean Oil and Refined Rice Bran Oil.




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The relationship between motivation, Maslow's hierarchy of needs, time, and craving levels in the mandated substance abuse treatment population [electronic resource] / by Kristin D. Marvin-Humann

Fresno, CA : Alliant International University, California School of Professional Psychology, 2008




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[ASAP] Microscale Biosensor Array Based on Flexible Polymeric Platform toward Lab-on-a-Needle: Real-Time Multiparameter Biomedical Assays on Curved Needle Surfaces

ACS Sensors
DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.0c00078




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[ASAP] Optimizing the Specificity Window of Biomolecular Receptors Using Structure-Switching and Allostery

ACS Sensors
DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.0c00237




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[ASAP] Polymer-Based Micromotor Fluorescence Immunoassay for <italic toggle="yes">On-the-Move</italic> Sensitive Procalcitonin Determination in Very Low Birth Weight Infants’ Plasma

ACS Sensors
DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.9b02515




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Now Available - Subject Headings Manual, Update No. 2, 2013

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CDS Print Publications Now at Half Price

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Cataloger’s Desktop Expert Users Group Now Being Formed

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Smart education and smart e-learning / Vladimir L. Uskov, Robert J. Howlett, Lakhmi C. Jain, editors

Online Resource




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Somebody knows, somebody cares: reengaging students through relationship / edited by Kirsten Hutchison and Tricia McCann

Online Resource




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Job service: how it works for you / U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration, U.S. Employment Service

Online Resource




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Visible learning and the science of how we learn / John Hattie and Gregory C.R. Yates

Hayden Library - LB1067.5.H36 2014




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Poverty, class, and schooling: global perspectives on economic justice and educational equity / edited by Elinor L. Brown, Paul C. Gorski, Gabriella Lazaridis

Hayden Library - LC213.I587 2014




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Building the skills for economic growth and competitiveness in Sri Lanka / Halil Dundar, Benoît Millot, Yevgeniya Savchenko, Harsha Aturupane and Tilkaratne A. Piyasiri

Online Resource




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Great teachers: how to raise student learning in Latin America and the Caribbean / Barbara Bruns and Javier Luque [and seven others] ; cover design, Vladimir Herrera

Online Resource




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Réussir l'école du socle: en faisant dialoguer et coopérer les disciplines / Céline Walkowiak, Francis Blanquart

Hayden Library - LB1629.5.F815 W35 2013




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Revolution in higher education: how a small band of innovators will make college accessible and affordable / Richard A. DeMillo; foreword by Andrew J. Young

Dewey Library - LA227.4.D47 2015




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How college works / Daniel F. Chambliss, Christopher G. Takacs

Online Resource




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Make it stick: the science of successful learning / Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger, Mark A. McDaniel

Hayden Library - LB1060.B768 2014




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Minds on fire: how role-immersion games transform college / Mark C. Carnes

Hayden Library - LB2395.7.C38 2014




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Ready for fall?: near-term effects of voluntary summer learning programs on low-income students' learning opportunities and outcomes / Jennifer Sloan McCombs, John F. Pane, Catherine H. Augustine, Heather L. Schwartz, Paco Martorell, Laura Zakaras

Online Resource




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Professional learning in higher education and communities: towards a new vision for action research / Ortrun Zuber-Skerritt, Margaret Fletcher and Judith Kearney

Online Resource




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Everything to know about AKA.

Hayden Library - LJ145.A47 2015




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Governing educational spaces: knowledge, teaching, and learning in transition / edited by Hans-Georg Kotthoff and Eleftherios Klerides

Online Resource




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The Mobile Learning Voyage - From Small Ripples to Massive Open Waters: 14th World Conference on Mobile and Contextual Learning, mLearn 2015, Venice, Italy, October 17-24, 2015, proceedings / edited by Tom H. Brown, Herman J. van der Merwe

Online Resource




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Something must be done about Prince Edward County: a family, a Virginia town, a civil rights battle / Kristen Green

Dewey Library - LC214.22.V8 G74 2015




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Despite the best intentions: how racial inequality thrives in good schools / Amanda E. Lewis and John B. Diamond

Hayden Library - LC212.2.L49 2015




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A librarian's guide to graphs, data and the semantic web / James Powell, Matthew Hopkins

Online Resource




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Living as mapmakers: charting a course with children guided by parent knowledge / by Debbie Pushor

Online Resource




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International perspectives on financing higher education edited by Josef C. Brada, Wojciech Bienkowski, and Masaaki Kuboniwa

Online Resource




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Schooling redesigned: towards innovative learning systems.

Online Resource




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Games-to-teach or games-to-learn: unlocking the power of digital game-based learning through performance / Yam San Chee

Online Resource




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Burden or benefit: external data reporting / Kristina Powers, Angela E. Henderson, editors

Dewey Library - L11.N494




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Slower growth and a tighter fiscal

India slid into the pandemic crisis in the backdrop of economic downslide; fiscal stimulus has to be structured




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Two COVID-19 positive persons shifted from home to hospital following alleged ostracism

It is shocking that educated people resort to such acts, says health official