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News from the John W. Kluge Center: Applications Open April 15 for Kluge Fellowships

Applications open next Wednesday, April 15 for Kluge Fellowships at the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress.

Twelve Kluge Fellowships are awarded each year through a competitive selection process. Kluge Fellowships are offered for a period of four to eleven months.

Since the inception of the Kluge Center, dozens of Kluge Fellows have gone on to distinguished academic careers; many have made lasting contributions as public intellectuals. Interdisciplinary and cross-cultural research is particularly welcome in the Kluge Fellowship program. The fellowship is open to scholars in the humanities and social sciences with special consideration given to those whose projects demonstrate relevance to contemporary challenges.

You will be able to apply here. And in the meantime check the fellowship requirements and eligibility information here.

The application deadline is currently set for July 15, but we will be revisiting this deadline as the COVID-19 situation develops. Please email scholarly@loc.gov if you are currently applying or interested in applying for this fellowship and are having trouble meeting the deadline. Kluge staff will be in touch with you.




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News from the John W. Kluge Center:Applications are now open for Kluge Fellowships at the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress

Applications are now open for Kluge Fellowships at the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress.

Twelve Kluge Fellowships are awarded each year through a competitive selection process. Kluge Fellowships are offered for a period of four to eleven months.

Since the inception of the Kluge Center, dozens of Kluge Fellows have gone on to distinguished academic careers; many have made lasting contributions as public intellectuals. Interdisciplinary and cross-cultural research is particularly welcome in the Kluge Fellowship program. The fellowship is open to scholars in the humanities and social sciences with special consideration given to those whose projects demonstrate relevance to contemporary challenges.

Apply here. And check the fellowship requirements and eligibility information here.

The application deadline is currently set for July 15. Please email scholarly@loc.gov if you are applying for this fellowship and having trouble meeting the deadline due to the crisis surrounding the covid-19 epidemic. Kluge staff will be in touch with you.




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News from the John W. Kluge Center:Join us for a Conversation on the Future of Democracy with Yuval Levin

On May 13, join the John W. Kluge Center for the first in our Conversations on the Future of Democracy series featuring Yuval Levin, who will be discussing his new book, A Time to Build, a look at the critical importance of formative institutions in society, their deterioration in recent decades, and practical steps to begin addressing the problem.

Find the event on May 13 at the Library’s showcase for everything you can access while the doors are closed: Library of Congress: Engage!

And sign up for a free ticket to get a reminder when the event happens.

Yuval Levin is a distinguished scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, where he is the director of Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies. Levin is also the editor-in-chief of National Affairs.

Also, we’ve got a packed schedule of virtual events lined up, so stay tuned for more.




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'IPL is good for domestic cricketers'

UP batsman Suresh Raina on his successful outing in New Zealand and how the inaugural IPL put his career back on track.




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'IPL a stepping-stone for youngsters'

Ajinkya Rahane talks about his recent successes, the recent trip to the Rainbow Nation, interactions with Jonty Rhodes and Shaun Pollock and, of course, his idol Sachin Tendulkar.




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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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Hizbul Mujahideen chief Syed Salahuddin claims responsibility for Handwara attack, says 'India has upper hand' — Video

Almost five days after the encounter operation in Jammu and Kashmir's Handwara that claimed lives of five security personnel including a decorate officer, the Pakistan-based Hizbul Mujahideen, headed by Syed Salahuddin, has reportedly claimed the responsibility.




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Informality Revisited: Latin American Perspectives on Housing, the State and the Market


 

Informality Revisited offers an overview of recent debates about Latin American government programmes for the formalisation of informal settlements and housing provision in a neo-liberal context. Contributions from Latin American researchers analyse the contradictions in government actions and evaluate the consequences for urban poverty.



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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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Intervention Library: Finding Interventions and Resources for Students and Teachers (IL:FIRST v1.0)


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The second kind of impossible: the extraordinary quest for a new form of matter / Paul J. Steinhardt

Hayden Library - QC176.S76 2019




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Many-body methods for atoms and molecules / Rajat Kumar Chaudhuri, Sudip Kumar Chattopadhyay

Hayden Library - QC176.8.E4 C43 2017




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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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Quantum strangeness: wrestling with Bell's theorem and the ultimate nature of reality / George Greenstein ; foreword by David Kaiser

Hayden Library - QC174.12.G7325 2019




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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




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Practicing the correspondence principle in the old quantum theory: a transformation through implementation / Martin Jähnert

Online Resource




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General relativity: a concise introduction / Steven Carlip, The University of California at Davis

Hayden Library - QC173.55.C37 2019




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The future of fusion energy / Jason Parisi, University of Oxford, UK, Justin Ball, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland

Hayden Library - QC791.P37 2019




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Use of optical correlation techniques for characterizing scattering objects and media / Oleg V. Angelsky, Steen G. Hanson, Peter P. Maksimyak

Online Resource




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Nanoparticle design and characterization for catalytic applications in sustainable chemistry / edited by Rafael Luque and Pepijn Prinsen

Online Resource




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CERN and the Higgs boson: the global quest for the building blocks of reality / James Gillies

Hayden Library - QC793.16.G55 2018




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Michelson-Morley experiments: an enigma for physics and the history of science / Maurizio Consoli, Alessandro Pluchino

Hayden Library - QC173.52.C66 2019




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Einstein's unfinished revolution: the search for what lies beyond the quantum / Lee Smolin ; illustrations by Kaca Bradonjić

Hayden Library - QC174.13.S6545 2019




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Quantum space: loop quantum gravity and the search for the structure of space, time, and the universe / Jim Baggott

Hayden Library - QC178.B34 2018




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Understanding surface scatter phenomena: a linear systems formulation / James E. Harvey

Online Resource




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A mathematical introduction to electronic structure theory: iterative solution of symmetric quasi-definite linear systems / Lin Lin (University of California, Berkeley, California), Jianfeng Lu (Duke University, Durham, North Carolina)

Online Resource




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Lectures on the physics of extreme states of matter / Vladimir Fortov

Online Resource




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Si detectors and characterization for HEP and photon science experiment: how to design detectors by TCAD simulation / Ajay Kumar Srivastava

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The formative years of relativity: the history and meaning of Einstein's Princeton lectures: featuring Einstein's classic text The meaning of relativity in its historical context / Hanoch Gutfreund and Jürgen Renn

Hayden Library - QC173.6.G878 2017




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High-pressure rheology for quantitative elastohydrodynamics / P.E. Scott Bair

Online Resource




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Epistemic processes: a basis for statistics and quantum theory / Inge S. Helland

Hayden Library - QC174.12.H45 2018




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Multivariate data analysis for root cause analyses and time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry / Danica Heller-Krippendorf ; with a foreword by Carsten Engelhard

Online Resource




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Pocket guide to rheology: a concise overview and test prep for engineering students / Xian Wen Ng

Online Resource




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Using Mathematica for quantum mechanics: a Students Manual / Roman Schmied

Online Resource




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Quantum field theory: Batalin-Vilkovisky formalism and its applications / Pavel Mnev

Hayden Library - QC174.45.M635 2019




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Quantum information meets quantum matter: from quantum entanglement to topological phases of many-body systems / Bei Zeng, Xie Chen, Duan-Lu Zhou, Xiao-Gang Wen

Barker Library - QC173.454.Z46 2019




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Theory and experiment in gravitational physics / Clifford M. Will (University of Florida)

Hayden Library - QC178.W47 2018




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Categories for quantum theory: an introduction / Chris Heunen and Jamie Vicary, University of Edinburgh and University of Birmingham

Dewey Library - QC174.12.H476 2019




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Carbon nanotubes, graphene, and emerging 2D materials for electronic and photonic devices IX: 28-31 August 2016, San Diego, California, United States / Manijeh Razeghi [and three others], editors ; sponsored by SPIE

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Strongly Coupled Field Theories for Condensed Matter and Quantum Information Theory: proceedings, International Institute of Physics, Natal, Rn, Brazil, 2-21 August 2015 / Alvaro Ferraz, Kumar S. Gupta, Gordon Walter Semenoff, Pasquale Sodano, editors

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Theory and simulation methods for electronic and phononic transport in thermoelectric materials

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Moving forward on mergers

Bank consolidation needs supportive reform




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Cause for a pause

RBI would be justified in opting for continuity




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NITI Aayog suspends internship programme for three months

"Due to ongoing Covid-19 pandemic NITI Internship Programme is being suspended for three months from May- July, 2020," it said on its website. "New dates of opening NITI Internship Programme will be intimated later after reviewing the situation," the Aayog added.




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UK universities reach out to Indian students for COVID-19 support

Air India will operate 64 flights from May 7 to May 13 to bring back around 15,000 Indian nationals stranded abroad amid the COVID-19-induced lockdown, Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said in New Delhi on Tuesday.




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Reduced GATE score, lateral entry option for PM Research Fellowship applicants: HRD Ministry

The National Institutes of Technology (NITs) among the top 25 institutions as per NIRF ranking will also be eligible to grant the fellowship. The scheme announced in the 2018-19 Budget is aimed at improving the quality of research in various higher educational institutions in the country.




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Evaluation for class 10, 12 board exams to be done at home by teachers

Union HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank' said 1.5 crore answer sheets of already conducted class 10, 12 exams will be delivered to teachers. "From the 3,000 schools, these copies will go the evaluators and evaluation will begin tomorrow," he added.




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Part 2 – Ch33 – Supports For Meditation

These are the recordings of the complete collection of all the talks by Ajahn Chah that have been translated into English and are published in 'The Collected Teachings of Ajahn Chah', 2011. This was read by Ajahn Amaro during the winter of 2012

The post Part 2 – Ch33 – Supports For Meditation appeared first on Amaravati Buddhist Monastery.




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Modeling imprecision in perception, valuation and choice [electronic resource] / Michael Woodford

Cambridge, Mass. : National Bureau of Economic Research, 2019




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Did the war on terror ignite an opioid epidemic? [electronic resource] / Resul Cesur, Joseph J. Sabia, W. David Bradford

Cambridge, Mass. : National Bureau of Economic Research, 2019