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Watch: Akshay Kumar's message for every Indian

Akshay's touching message for India.









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Watch: Tiger Shroff's dance lessons!

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This top star has a message for you!

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Worried about your sex life? Get tips from Sunny Leone

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Video: Sara-Kartik get up close

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Cultivate Your Calling in Each Stage of Life

Angie Ward discusses cultivating leadership amid ever-changing responsibilities.

Angie Ward, author of the recently published I Am a Leader, has 30 years of leadership experience in diverse roles in ministry. I was excited to talk with Angie about how our calling shifts through the various seasons of life.

How can a woman’s calling change over the course of her life?

Sometimes we think as young women that we have one calling, and that’s it. We just have to find it, and we put so much weight on that one thing. But for most people, it changes how it looks and how it’s lived out based on seasons of life and age. Our calling can also change because we change. Who we are, our gifts, our passions. And that’s okay.

For me, I started out in youth ministry, but then God expanded it. It didn’t shift entirely. It was still vocational/occupational ministry, but it went to more broad ministry—leadership and to leadership development. When I was 22, just out of college, I didn’t have the experience or the wisdom to train other leaders. I was just working with students who were sometimes only four years younger than me. The Holy Spirit moves and flows. Working with kids in children’s ministry at your church may make you aware of the needs of foster kids. It opens a door to a whole new thing.

How can we discover what our calling is today?

Cultivate an ear for the Holy Spirit—a heart and a mind that's receptive, that knows the Shepherd's voice, and a heart that's obedient and responsive to whatever it is during that season. A lot of times we get focused on the wrong question: What is it? We focus on trying to figure out the it. Instead, the real focus should be on cultivating our relationship with Jesus and walking with him. We want steps to cling to. If I ...

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When Your Calling Is Challenged

As hardships come, you have 1 of 3 options.

This was not how things were supposed to work out.

Every night for a year, my husband and I had prayed that God would direct us to the right place in his right timing. Based on our own prayers as well as confirmation from others, it seemed that the “right place” would be a church where Dave could serve as senior pastor, giving him more opportunities to exercise his gifts of preaching and shepherding. Now that we had two little boys, we also desired to be closer to family. We told God that we would go anywhere he led us (and we meant it!), but that we would love to end up somewhere in the southeastern United States, ideally within three hours of Dave’s parents.

We explored options around the country. We prayed, waited, and sought counsel from wise and mature believers. We continued to serve faithfully in our current ministries. We prayed and waited some more.

Twelve months later, our little family made the 1,200-mile journey from Minnesota to our new church in North Carolina—just two and a half hours from our sons’ beloved Nana and Papa—where Dave would serve as lead pastor. We felt God had clearly answered our earnest prayers, as evidenced by all sorts of confirmations that seemed like way more than coincidence. I mean, at the boarding gate for our flight home from our interview weekend, we discovered that our pilot “happened” to be a friend who first came up to Dave a year earlier and said he felt God was preparing my husband for a lead pastoral role!

We were over-the-moon excited. We felt we had come home, and we thought we’d be at that church and in that city for life.

Yet three years in, our dream situation had turned to a nightmare. Our church was slowly dying, our marriage ...

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IDFC Bank is getting a person who understands retail: CEO Rajiv Lall

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Achieving high energy density and discharge efficiency in multi-layered PVDF–PMMA nanocomposites composed of 0D BaTiO3 and 1D NaNbO3@SiO2

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0TC00838A, Paper
Qinzhao Sun, Jiping Wang, Lixue Zhang, Pu Mao, Shujuan Liu, Liqiang He, Fang Kang, Rong Xue
The choice of dielectric fillers and structure design play an important role in improving the energy storage properties of polymer-based nanocomposites.
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Electro-forming-free Mechanism for Cu2O Solid-electrolyte Based Conductive-bridge Random Access Memory (CBRAM)

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0TC01325K, Paper
Ki-Hyun Kwon, Dong Won Kim, Hea-Jee Kim, SooMin Jin, Dae Seong Woo, Sang-Hong Park, Jea-Gun Park
In a CuxO solid-electrolyte-based CBRAM cell using a Ag top electrode, electro-forming-free and electro-reset processes could be achieved at a specific ex-situ annealing temperature of the solid electrolyte (i.e., 250...
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Synergetic magnetic and luminescence switching via solid state phase transitions of the dysprosium–dianthracene complex

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0TC01111H, Paper
Jing-Cui Liu, Xin-Da Huang, Qian Zou, Song-Song Bao, Xi-Zhang Wang, Jing-Yuan Ma, Li-Min Zheng
A dinuclear complex Dy2L2(depma2)Cl2 containing a pre-photodimerized dianthracene phosphonate ligand (depma2) undergoes consecutive two-step structural transformation upon heating depma2, accompanied by a synergetic switching of the photoluminescence and magnetic dynamics.
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A hybridized local and charge transfer excited state for solution-processed non-doped green electroluminescence based on oligo(p-phenyleneethynylene)

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0TC01266A, Paper
Hakan Usta, Dilek Alimli, Resul Ozdemir, Emine Tekin, Fahri Alkan, Rifat Kacar, Ahu Galen Altas, Salih Dabak, Ayşe Gül Gürek, Evren Mutlugun, Ahmet Faruk Yazici, Ayse Can
A novel oligo(p-phenyleneethynylene)-based hot-exciton molecule with hybridized local and charge transfer (HLCT) excited states was developed to yield high radiative exciton yields in OLEDs.
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Origin of aggregation-induced enhanced emission: role of pseudo-degenerate electronic states of excimers formed in aggregation phases

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C9TC07067B, Paper
Wataru Ota, Ken Takahashi, Kenji Higashiguchi, Kenji Matsuda, Tohru Sato
The origin of aggregation-induced enhanced emission (AIEE) is investigated considering cyano-substituted 1,2-bis(pyridylphenyl)ethene (CNPPE) as an example.
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Intersystem Crossing via Charge Recombination in a Perylene-Naphthalimide Compact Electron Donor/Acceptor Dyad

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0TC00017E, Paper
MUHAMMAD IMRAN, Ahmed Elzohry, Clemens Matt, Maria Taddei, Sandra Doria, Laura Bussotti, Paolo FOGGI, Jianzhang Zhao, Mariangela Di Donato, Omar F. Mohammed, Stefan Weber
In order to study the relationship between the molecular structures of compact electron donor/acceptor dyads and the spin orbit charge transfer intersystem crossing (SOCT-ISC) efficiency, we prepared perylene (Pery)-naphthalimide (NI)...
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Relaxor/antiferroelectric composites: a solution to achieve high energy storage performance in lead-free dielectric ceramics

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2020, 8,5681-5691
DOI: 10.1039/D0TC00589D, Paper
Pengyuan Fan, Shan-Tao Zhang, Jiwen Xu, Jiadong Zang, Chanatip Samart, Ting Zhang, Hua Tan, David Salamon, Haibo Zhang, Gang Liu
Compared with the relaxor with pinched PE loops, the relaxor/antiferroelectric (RE/AFE) composites have narrower and oblique curves, proving the design of RE/AFE is an effective method to improve the energy storage properties of dielectric ceramics.
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A flexible semitransparent dual-electrode hydrogel based triboelectric nanogenerator with tough interfacial bonding and high energy output

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2020, 8,5752-5760
DOI: 10.1039/C9TC06937B, Paper
Xin Jing, Heng Li, Hao-Yang Mi, Pei-Yong Feng, Xiaoming Tao, Yuejun Liu, Chuntai Liu, Changyu Shen
A flexible semitransparent dual-electrode hydrogel based TENG with tough interfacial bonding and high output was developed.
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Plasmonic enhancement of photocurrent generation in a photosystem I-based hybrid electrode

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2020, 8,5807-5814
DOI: 10.1039/C9TC06983F, Paper
Marcin Szalkowski, Ersan Harputlu, Małgorzata Kiliszek, C. Gokhan Unlu, Sebastian Maćkowski, Kasim Ocakoglu, Joanna Kargul, Dorota Kowalska
We demonstrate that oriented assembly of red algal photosystem I reaction centers on a plasmonically active Silver Island Film leads to strong enhancement of both photocurrent and fluorescence intensity.
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Muscle-inspired capacitive tactile sensors with superior sensitivity in an ultra-wide stress range

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2020, 8,5913-5922
DOI: 10.1039/D0TC00453G, Paper
Xiaoping Shen, Kangchen Nie, Li Zheng, Zhaosong Wang, Zhe Wang, Song Li, Chunde Jin, Qingfeng Sun
Tactile sensors with superior sensitivity in an ultra-wide stress range were designed from wood/poly(ionic liquid) hydrogels.
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Exchange-bias features in nanoceramics prepared by spark plasma sintering of exchange-biased nanopowders

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2020, 8,5941-5949
DOI: 10.1039/D0TC00428F, Paper
Giulia Franceschin, Thomas Gaudisson, Sonia Perez Quiros, Nader Yaacoub, Jean-Marc Grenèche, Nicolas Menguy, Silvana Mercone, Frédéric Mazaleyrat, Souad Ammar
The evolution of the exchange bias at room temperature is studied between a nanopowder and its ceramic counterpart.
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Electrochromic devices based on ultraviolet-cured poly(methyl methacrylate) gel electrolytes and their utilisation in smart window applications

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0TC00420K, Paper
Hyun Joo Lee, Chanyong Lee, Juhee Song, Yong Ju Yun, Yongseok Jun, Chil Seong Ah
Electrochromic devices (ECDs) have been widely investigated for application in next-generation displays and smart windows owing to their highly efficient optical transmittance modulation properties.
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Aggregation-State engineering and emission switching in D-A-D' AIEgens featuring dual emission and high contrast MCL

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0TC01733G, Paper
Ji-Hua Tan, Wen-Cheng Chen, Shao-Fei Ni, Zhipeng Qiu, yingying zhan, Zhiwen Yang, Jingwen Xiong, Chen Cao, Yanping Huo, Chun-Sing Lee
Thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) and room-temperature phosphorescence (RTP) have attracted much recent attention for their capabilities to utilize triplet excitons for emission. Herein, we demonstrate a strategy for switching...
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High efficiency,low efficiency roll-off and long lifetime fluorescent white organic light-emitting diodes based on strategic management of triplet excitons via triplet-triplet annihilation up-conversion and phosphor sensitization

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0TC01622E, Paper
Jingwen Yao, Shu Xiao, Shuai Zhang, Qian Sun, Yanfeng Dai, Xianfeng Qiao, Dezhi Yang, Jiangshan Chen, Dongge Ma
The simultaneous realization of high efficiency, low efficiency roll-off, long lifetime and stable EL spectra in fluorescent white organic light-emitting diodes (WOLEDs) is still a huge challenge. Here, we used...
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Diketopyrrolopyrrole-based multifunctional ratiometric fluorescent probe and γ-glutamyltranspeptidase-triggered activatable photosensitizer for tumor therapy

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0TC01836H, Paper
Jianli Hua, Zhicheng Yang, Weibo Xu, Jian Wang, Lingyan Liu, Yanmeng Chu, Yu Wang, Yue Hu, Tao Yi
Photosensitizers can generate highly reactive oxygen (ROS) by light exciting, causing cell damage and apoptosis. However, conventional photosensitizers cannot kill cancer cells selectively. In this work, we report a series...
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Luxury Retail and Digital Management: Developing Customer Experience in a Digital World, 2nd Edition


 

Develop a winning customer experience in the digital world

Luxury consumers are changing – they come from all over the world, they are young and they are digital natives. How can luxury brands that have built themselves as pure physical players adapt their business model and practices to address their expectations without abandoning their luxury DNA?

Luxury Retail and Digital Management, 2ndEdition sets focus on the major retailing challenges and customer



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The flight portfolio / Julie Orringer

Dewey Library - PS3615.R59.O77 2019