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No hiring freeze: Companies hunting top talent despite salary, job cuts

More than 200 director-level and above posts were available over the past week, according to Xpheno, a staffing firm that compiles data from job portals, LinkedIn and company sites.




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Eight in 10 Indian companies not currently considering permanent staff layoffs or redundancies: Korn Ferry survey

Given the government’s extensive requests on avoiding laying off employees, the majority of companies have not implemented or are not currently considering permanent staff layoff/redundancies (84%) or temporary layoff/furlough (83% without government subsidy support and 91% leveraging government subsidy).




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Five in 10 organisations across industries keeping their salary increment budgets unchanged: Survey

According to the survey, five in 10 companies have deferred or suspended their promotion schedule; at the same time a downward trend on promotions numbers across all job levels was observed wherein 33% of organisations admitted to having reduced it. However, most organisations in IT/ITES, life sciences/pharma and retail sector have refrained from any downwards trend in overall promotion cycle.




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Nine in 10 employees stressed about returning to office post lockdown: Survey

As India Inc prepares for offices to open post the lockdown, the survey assesses the anxiety level of employees and shows a strong desire to do what’s right by their co-workers by complying to new health monitoring compliances, along with a high degree of awareness of changes in routine that await them.




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Manu Bhaker gets electronic target installed at home in place of manual machine

Manu Bhaker was sure in her mind that the Olympics will take place next year despite the uncertainty in the world of sports due to the COVID-19 pandemic.




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Manu gets electronic target installed at home

Boost to ace shooter’s basic training




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Enhanced removal of organic pollutants from super heavy oil wastewater using specially modified lignite activated coke

Environ. Sci.: Water Res. Technol., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0EW00033G, Paper
Kun Tong, Guodong Ji, Fan Nie, Mingdong Zhang, Wen Ren, Shuixiang Xie
Lignite activated coke (LAC) has been modified in situ by adsorbing the biodegradation effluent of super heavy oil wastewater (SHOW) to extract organic pollutants from raw SHOW before biodegradation is investigated.
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Atomic layer deposition and electrospinning for membrane surface engineering methods for water treatment: a short review

Environ. Sci.: Water Res. Technol., 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C9EW01134J, Critical Review
Jieun Lee, In S. Kim, Moon-Hyun Hwang, Kyu-Jung Chae
With the development of water purification, the membrane process has drawn attention because of its separation efficiency. However, low rejection efficiency and flux decline driven by membrane fouling remain as...
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Investigation of titanium mesh as a cathode for the electro-Fenton process: consideration of its practical application in wastewater treatment

Environ. Sci.: Water Res. Technol., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C9EW01144G, Paper
Jiho Lee, Aseom Son, Young-Jin Ko, Min-Jung Shin, Woong Sub Kim, Jae Woo Choi, Jaesang Lee, Seok Won Hong
We show that a Ti electrode with a large opening size is a promising cathode material in the application of the electro-Fenton process for degradation of organic pollutants in wastewater treatment.
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Harnessing salinity gradient energy in coastal stormwater runoff to reduce pathogen loading

Environ. Sci.: Water Res. Technol., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C9EW01137D, Communication
Kristian L. Dubrawski, Wan Wang, Jianqiao Xu, Craig S. Criddle
First demonstration of the capture of salinity gradient energy from stormwater runoff to the ocean, used to power UV-LED disinfection.
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Stepwise ammonium enrichment using selective battery electrodes

Environ. Sci.: Water Res. Technol., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0EW00010H, Paper
Moon Son, Eric Kolvek, Taeyoung Kim, Wulin Yang, Johannes S. Vrouwenvelder, Christopher A. Gorski, Bruce E. Logan
Electrochemical cells containing battery electrodes (battery deionization) can be effective in recovering and concentrating ammonium in wastewater with a low energy demand.
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Effect of antimicrobial washout from anaerobic digesters on microbial community composition

Environ. Sci.: Water Res. Technol., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0EW00094A, Paper
Anthony D. Kappell, Daniel E. Carey, Daniel H. Zitomer, Patrick J. McNamara
Differences in abundance of genera key to methanogenesis and anaerobic digestion persist after antimicrobial washout.
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Simultaneous ozonation of 90 organic micropollutants including illicit drugs and their metabolites in different water matrices

Environ. Sci.: Water Res. Technol., 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0EW00260G, Paper
Open Access
Garyfalia A. Zoumpouli, Fernanda Siqueira Souza, Bruce Petrie, Liliana Féris, Barbara Kasprzyk-Hordern, Jannis Wenk
The ozonation of 90 chemically diverse organic micropollutants (OMPs) including four classes of illicit drugs and their metabolites was studied in pure buffered water, tap water and wastewater effluent at...
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Degradation of organics with simultaneous recovery of silver in a simple visible-light responsive dual photoelectrode photocatalytic fuel cell

Environ. Sci.: Water Res. Technol., 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0EW00130A, Paper
Xu Zhao, Xia Li, Yan Wang, Jia Lin, Jie Liu, Huixin Shao
An efficient photocatalytic fuel cell system driven by visible-light using BiVO4 photoanode and Cu2O/CuO photocathode has been designed for phenol degradation and the simultaneous silver recovery. Using this system, 86.4%...
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Adsorption performance and mechanism of antibiotics from aqueous solution on porous boron-nitride-carbon nanosheets

Environ. Sci.: Water Res. Technol., 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0EW00117A, Paper
Gang Wang, Yunqi Zhang, Shiyong Wang, Yuwei Wang, Haoran Song, Sihao Lv, Changping Li
Antibiotics are a class of emerging contaminants with a potential threat to human and animal health. Chloramphenicol (CAP) and Roxithromycin (ROX) which are extensively used have been attracted attention recently....
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Molecular Mechanisms and Potential Applications for the Intrinsic Chemiluminescence Production from the Degradation of Haloaromatic Pollutants during Environmentally-Friendly Advanced Oxidation Processes

Environ. Sci.: Water Res. Technol., 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0EW00325E, Perspective
Li Mao, Hui-Ying Gao, Bo Shao, Chun-Hua Huang, Ben-Zhan Zhu
The ubiquitous distribution of halogenated aromatic compounds (XAr) coupled with their carcinogenicity has raised public concerns on their potential risks to both human health and our ecosystem. Recently, advanced oxidation...
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Emerging investigator series: membrane distillation and high salinity: analysis and implications

Environ. Sci.: Water Res. Technol., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C9EW01055F, Tutorial Review
Mukta Hardikar, Itzel Marquez, Andrea Achilli
In energy efficient membrane distillation, the low transmembrane temperature difference exacerbates salinity's effect on water flux and specific energy consumption.
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Recovery of ammonium and phosphate using battery deionization in a background electrolyte

Environ. Sci.: Water Res. Technol., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0EW00183J, Paper
Moon Son, Benjamin L. Aronson, Wulin Yang, Christopher A. Gorski, Bruce E. Logan
The electrochemical cell containing ammonium selective battery electrodes can be effective for recovering ammonium, but not phosphate, from solutions due to its high mass capacity for ammonium ions, with a low energy demand.
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Mechanisms and performance of calcium peroxide-enhanced Fe(II) coagulation for treatment of Microcystis aeruginosa-laden water

Environ. Sci.: Water Res. Technol., 2020, 6,1272-1285
DOI: 10.1039/D0EW00005A, Paper
Huaijia Xin, Shu Yang, Yulin Tang, Mengyi Wu, Yang Deng, Bin Xu, Naiyun Gao
Pre-oxidation has been extensively studied as a pre-treatment for enhancement of algae-laden water coagulation.
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Removal of organic micropollutants in anaerobic membrane bioreactors in wastewater treatment: critical review

Environ. Sci.: Water Res. Technol., 2020, 6,1230-1243
DOI: 10.1039/C9EW01058K, Critical Review
Michael Lim, Dominique Patureau, Marc Heran, Geoffroy Lesage, Jeonghwan Kim
The anaerobic membrane bioreactor (AnMBR) is a promising technology for achieving an energy-saving or even energy-positive wastewater treatment process as it produces high effluent quality and renewable energy in the form of methane.
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Fate of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) during hydrothermal liquefaction of municipal wastewater treatment sludge

Environ. Sci.: Water Res. Technol., 2020, 6,1388-1399
DOI: 10.1039/C9EW01139K, Paper
Jie Yu, Anastasia Nickerson, Yalin Li, Yida Fang, Timothy J. Strathmann
PFAS sorbed to sludge degrade to varying degrees when sludge is subjected to hydrothermal liquefaction for production of liquid fuel.
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Technoproductive evaluation of the energyless microbial-integrated diffusion dialysis technique for acid mine drainage valorization

Environ. Sci.: Water Res. Technol., 2020, 6,1217-1229
DOI: 10.1039/C9EW01020C, Critical Review
Hanaa M. Hegab, Ahmed ElMekawy, Christopher Saint, Fawzi Banat, Shadi W. Hasan, Deepak Pant
Acid mine drainage (AMD) presents severe ecological pollution challenges because of its extreme acidity and sulphate and toxic metal contents.
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Bacterial community structure correlates with Legionella pneumophila colonization of New York City high rise building premises plumbing systems

Environ. Sci.: Water Res. Technol., 2020, 6,1324-1335
DOI: 10.1039/C9EW01084J, Paper
Xiao Ma, David Pierre, Kyle Bibby, Janet E. Stout
Several bacterial taxa were found enriched in L. pneumophila culture positive water samples, demonstrating a potential association between Legionella colonization and the premises plumbing bacterial community.
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Removal and growth of microorganisms across treatment and simulated distribution at a pilot-scale direct potable reuse facility

Environ. Sci.: Water Res. Technol., 2020, 6,1370-1387
DOI: 10.1039/C9EW01087D, Paper
Scott E. Miller, Roberto A. Rodriguez, Kara L. Nelson
Multi-barrier advanced treatment trains are able to purify wastewater to drinking water standards, but improved methods are needed to better understand microbial concentrations, viability, and growth potential throughout treatment and distribution.
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Landfill leachate contributes per-/poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and pharmaceuticals to municipal wastewater

Environ. Sci.: Water Res. Technol., 2020, 6,1300-1311
DOI: 10.1039/D0EW00045K, Paper
Open Access
Jason R. Masoner, Dana W. Kolpin, Isabelle M. Cozzarelli, Kelly L. Smalling, Stephanie C. Bolyard, Jennifer A. Field, Edward T. Furlong, James L. Gray, Duncan Lozinski, Debra Reinhart, Alix Rodowa, Paul M. Bradley
Widespread disposal of landfill leachate to municipal sewer in the US calls for improved understanding of the relative organic-chemical contributions to the WWTP waste stream and associated surface-water discharge to receptors in the environment.
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Influence of activated carbon on performance and microbial communities in the treatment of solvent pollutant mixtures in a continuous stirred tank reactor

Environ. Sci.: Water Res. Technol., 2020, 6,1445-1455
DOI: 10.1039/D0EW00096E, Paper
Pablo Ferrero, Marta Izquierdo, Francisco Javier Álvarez-Hornos, Josep Manuel Penya-Roja, Vicente Martínez-Soria
Granular activated carbon addition could promote specific microorganisms which favour the anaerobic removal of non-readily biodegradable solvent compounds through their influence on the degradation (methanogenesis) of intermediates.
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Field testing of an onsite sanitation system on apartment building blackwater using biological treatment and electrochemical disinfection

Environ. Sci.: Water Res. Technol., 2020, 6,1400-1411
DOI: 10.1039/C9EW01106D, Paper
Open Access
  This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.
Siva Kumar Varigala, Meghan Hegarty-Craver, Srinivas Krishnaswamy, Prakash Madhavan, Milan Basil, Praveen Rosario, Antony Raj, Viswa Barani, Clement A. Cid, Sonia Grego, Michael Luettgen
Demonstration of an electrochemical toilet wastewater treatment and disinfection technology at the scale of an apartment building and translation of the system into a commercial product.
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Pilot-scale ozone/biological activated carbon treatment of reverse osmosis concentrate: potential for synergism between nitrate and contaminant removal and potable reuse

Environ. Sci.: Water Res. Technol., 2020, 6,1421-1431
DOI: 10.1039/D0EW00013B, Paper
Zhong Zhang, Jacob F. King, Aleksandra Szczuka, Yi-Hsueh Chuang, William A. Mitch
Reverse osmosis treatment for potable reuse can reduce the cost for removing nitrate and contaminants from wastewater prior to discharge.
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Mechanisms for degradation and transformation of β-blocker atenolol via electrocoagulation, electro-Fenton, and electro-Fenton-like processes

Environ. Sci.: Water Res. Technol., 2020, 6,1465-1481
DOI: 10.1039/D0EW00114G, Paper
Kadarkarai Govindan, Vimukthi D. W. Sumanasekara, Am Jang
This study investigated the mechanism of atenolol degradation and transformation through ˙OH-based electro-Fenton (EF), SO4˙-based EF-like, and electrocoagulation (EC) processes.
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Editorial Perspectives: 2019 novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2): what is its fate in urban water cycle and how can the water research community respond?

Environ. Sci.: Water Res. Technol., 2020, 6,1213-1216
DOI: 10.1039/D0EW90015J, Editorial
Vincenzo Naddeo, Haizhou Liu
Vincenzo Naddeo and Haizhou Liu present an ‘Editorial Perspective’ on coronavirus in wastewater and discuss the water research needs to combat viral outbreaks.
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Insight into ferrihydrite effects on methanogenesis in UASB reactors treating high sulfate wastewater: reactor performance and microbial community

Environ. Sci.: Water Res. Technol., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0EW00154F, Paper
Zhen Jin, Zhiqiang Zhao, Yaobin Zhang
Ferrihydrite supplemented to establish DIET between iron-reducing bacteria and methanogens with Fe oxides in anaerobic digestion.
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Emerging investigator series: activated sludge upon antibiotic shock loading: mechanistic description of functional stability and microbial community dynamics

Environ. Sci.: Water Res. Technol., 2020, 6,1262-1271
DOI: 10.1039/D0EW00069H, Paper
Seungdae Oh, Donggeon Choi
Elucidating the functional stability upon environmental stressors is of great practical importance for managing the system performance of various environmental biological processes (e.g., activated sludge).
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Emerging investigator series: phosphorus recovery from municipal wastewater by adsorption on steelmaking slag preceding forward osmosis: an integrated process

Environ. Sci.: Water Res. Technol., 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0EW00187B, Paper
Biplob Kumar Pramanik, Md. Aminul Islam, Muhammad Bilal Asif, Rajeev Roychand, Sagor Kumar Pramanik, Kalpit Shah, Muhammed Bhuiyan, Faisal Hai
Phosphorus is a critical non-renewable mineral essential for sustainable crop production.
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News from the John W. Kluge Center: You are invited to an Author Salon with Danielle Allen

The John W. Kluge Center invites you to an Author Salon with Danielle Allen

Get your free tickets here.

Please join us for an event in which Danielle Allen will discuss the meaning of the text of the Declaration of Independence. She is the author of Our Declaration (2015), which makes the case that the Declaration of Independence was intended to ensure equality as much as it was intended to secure freedom.

The event will be held at noon on November 12, in Room LJ-119 of the Library’s Thomas Jefferson Building.

Allen is the Director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University as well as the author of several books, including Education and Equality (2016) and Cuz: The Life and Times of Michael A. (2017).

Tickets are recommended, but not required, and are free.

Register for a ticket here.

Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis. Request ADA accommodations five days in advance at (202) 707-6362 or ada@loc.gov.

Questions? Please contact (202) 707-9219 or scholarly@loc.gov

 




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News from the John W. Kluge Center: Happening This Week: 100 Years of Women Voting

Get your free tickets here.

This Thursday, November 21, at 4pm in the Thomas Jefferson Building’s Coolidge Auditorium, the John W. Kluge Center will hold a discussion of the 100 years of women voting since the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution.

Assistant Deputy Librarian Colleen Shogan will lead a panel featuring two leading scholars on women and voting: Christina Wolbrecht of the University of Notre Dame, and Jane Junn of the University of Southern California. Wolbrecht is the co-author of the forthcoming book A Century of Votes for Women: American Elections Since Suffrage.

This event will highlight the recently opened LOC exhibit, “Shall Not Be Denied: Women Fight for the Vote,” which will be open for viewing after the event.

The event is free, but due to expected demand, tickets are recommended. Tickets are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Visit the event ticketing site for more information and to secure your ticket. Entry is not guaranteed.

Register for a ticket here.

Questions? Please contact (202) 707-9219 or scholarly@loc.gov




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News from the John W. Kluge Center: Happening TOMORROW: Fergus Bordewich on Congress at War

Tomorrow, join the John W. Kluge Center for an Author Salon with Fergus M. Bordewich on Congress at War: How Republican Reformers Fought the Civil War, Defied Lincoln, Ended Slavery, and Remade America.

Get your free tickets here.

On Tuesday, March 10, 2020, at 4pm in room LJ-119 of the Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Fergus M. Bordewich will be interviewed by Becky Brasington Clark, director of the Library of Congress Publishing Office about the role of Congress during the Civil War.

A reception will follow the discussion.

Get your free tickets here.

The event is free, but tickets are recommended. Visit the event ticketing site for more information and to secure your ticket. Entry is not guaranteed.

Questions? Please contact (202) 707-9219 or scholarly@loc.gov






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Excise duty on liquor increased by 25%: Assam Industries and Commerce Minister

The Assam government has taken several crucial decisions in its Cabinet meeting including increasing the excise duty on liquor by 25 percent."In the Cabinet, we took several decisions which included increasing the excise duty on liquor by 25 percent.




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Two held in Shamli for 'objectionable' WhatsApp post against PM Narendra Modi, Sonia Gandhi

A case was registered against the two men under Sections 67 and 67A of the Information Technology Act and Indian Penal Code Sections 500




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The Wiley Handbook of Healthcare Treatment Engagement: Theory, Research, and Clinical Practice


 

Against a global backdrop of problematic adherence to medical treatment, this volume addresses and provides practical solutions to the simple question: “Why don’t patients take treatments that could save their lives?”

The Wiley handbook of Healthcare Treatment Engagementoffers a guide to the theory, research and clinical practice of promoting patient engagement in healthcare treatment at individual, organizational and systems levels. The concept of



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A Companion to Adorno


 

A definitive contribution to scholarship on Adorno, bringing together the foremost experts in the field

As one of the leading continental philosophers of the last century, and one of the pioneering members of the Frankfurt School, Theodor W. Adorno is the author of numerous influential—and at times quite radical—works on diverse topics in aesthetics, social theory, moral philosophy, and the history of modern philosophy, all of which concern the contradictions



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The World's Construction Mechanism: Trajectories, Imbalances, and the Future of Societies


 

The interdisciplinarity between the biological and human sciences is here to serve a daring objective: to decipher, by means of a logical chain, the explanatory factors of human trajectories and imbalances between societies and nations. To do this, The World’s Construction Mechanism is based on an unprecedented analysis of the dynamics of the human species, combining the contributions of anthropology, archeology, biology, climatology, economics, geography



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Essentials of the California Verbal Learning Test: CVLT-C, CVLT-2, & CVLT3


 

Part of Wiley's Essentials of Psychological Assessment series, this book covers the administration, scoring, and interpretation of the CVLT-C, CVLT-II, and CVLT-3. Additionally, readers will find a discussion of the strengths and weaknesses of the assessment, a review of the CVLT's performance in clinical populations, and illustrative case reports. Each chapter ends with a Test Yourself section for enhanced learning.



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Companion to Women's and Gender Studies


 

A comprehensive overview of the interdisciplinary field of Women's and Gender Studies, featuring original contributions from leading experts from around the world

The Companion to Women's and Gender Studies is a comprehensive resource for students and scholars alike, exploring the central concepts, theories, themes, debates, and events in this dynamic field. Contributions from leading scholars and researchers cover a wide range of topics while providing



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Elements of photoionization quantum dynamics methods / Lampros A.A. Nikolopoulos

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Particles, fields, quanta: from quantum mechanics to the standard model of particle physics / Gerhard Ecker

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Quantum Brownian Motion Revisited: Extensions and Applications.

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Quantum mechanics and the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead / by Michael Epperson

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Proceedings of the National Conference on Recent Advances in Condensed Matter Physics: RACMP-2018: conference date, 12-13 October 2018: location, Kurukshetra, India / editors, R. K. Moudgil, Annu Sharma and Manish K. Kashyap

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What is real?: the unfinished quest for the meaning of quantum physics / Adam Becker

Hayden Library - QC173.98.B43 2018




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Tensor-valued random fields for continuum physics / Anatoliy Malyarenko (Mälardalens Högskola, Sweden), Martin Ostoja-Starzewski (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

Hayden Library - QC793.3.F5 M35 2019