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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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Chlorine/UV treatment of anatoxin-a by activation of the secondary amine functional group

Environ. Sci.: Water Res. Technol., 2020, 6,1412-1420
DOI: 10.1039/C9EW01112A, Paper
Moshan Chen, Ernest R. Blatchley
A UV treatment process with prechlorination promotes the direct UV photodegradation of anatoxin-a by forming an N–Cl bond on the amine group.
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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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Stable immobilized amine sorbents for heavy metal and REE removal from industrial wastewaters

Environ. Sci.: Water Res. Technol., 2020, 6,1286-1299
DOI: 10.1039/C9EW00915A, Paper
Walter Christopher Wilfong, Brian W. Kail, Qiuming Wang, Fan Shi, Greg Shipley, Thomas J. Tarka, McMahan L. Gray
Stable and immobilized amine sorbents can simultaneously remove/recover cationic and oxyanionic toxic metals plus valuable rare earth elements from industrial and mining effluents prior to discharging into environmental water systems.
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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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Molecular level characterisation of ion-exchange water treatment coupled to ceramic membrane filtration

Environ. Sci.: Water Res. Technol., 2020, 6,1495-1504
DOI: 10.1039/C9EW01042D, Paper
Open Access
  This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.
Alan J. R. Smith, Graeme Moore, Andrea J. C. Semiao, Dušan Uhrín
Preferential removal of highly oxygenated larger aromatic and condensed aromatic molecules through ceramic membrane based water treatment.
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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: Don’t miss out: 30 Years Since the Fall of the Berlin Wall

Get your free tickets here.


This week, on Thursday, December 5, at 4pm in room LJ-119 of the Thomas Jefferson Building, the John W. Kluge Center will hold a discussion marking the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.


Hope M. Harrison and Constanze Stelzenmüller will take part in a discussion moderated by Kluge Center Director John Haskell on the history of the wall itself, why it fell, and how German reunification impacts today’s politics and the future of democracy.


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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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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Sub-Inspector, 4 Naxals killed in encounter in Chhattisgarh; 1 AK-47 rifle, 1 SLR weapon seized

One Chhattisgarh Police Sub Inspector (SI) lost his life and 4 banned CPI-M Maoists were killed in an encounter near Pardhoni village under Manpur police station limits on Saturday.




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NHRC issues notice to Maharashtra govt over deaths of migrant workers in Aurangabad train mishap, seeks details

Taking suo motu cognizance of media reports, the Commission has directed State Chief Secretary and District Magistrate of Aurangabad to submit a detailed report within four weeks.




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No hike in school fees in academic year 2020-21: Maharashtra Education Department

Giving a big relief to parents during the coronavirus COVID-19 crisis, the Maharashtra Education Department has announced that there will be no hike in school fees in the academic year 2020-21.




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Protests in Visakhapatnam over gas leak incident, locals demand closure of LG Polymers chemical plant

The incident took place even as state Director General of Police DG Sawang was inspecting the vapour leak spot and talking to the management on the measures taken to restore normalcy.




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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 Left that Dares to Speak Its Name: 34 Untimely Interventions


 

With irrepressible humor, Slavoj Žižek dissects our current political and social climate, discussing everything from Jordan Peterson and sex “unicorns” to Greta Thunberg and Chairman Mao. Taking aim at his enemies on the Left, Right, and Center, he argues that contemporary society can only be properly understood from a communist standpoint.

Why communism? The greater the triumph of global capitalism, the more its dangerous antagonisms multiply: climate



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A Left that Dares to Speak Its Name: 34 Untimely Interventions


 

With irrepressible humor, Slavoj Žižek dissects our current political and social climate, discussing everything from Jordan Peterson and sex “unicorns” to Greta Thunberg and Chairman Mao. Taking aim at his enemies on the Left, Right, and Center, he argues that contemporary society can only be properly understood from a communist standpoint.

Why communism? The greater the triumph of global capitalism, the more its dangerous antagonisms multiply: climate



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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 New Rules of Marketing and PR: How to Use Content Marketing, Podcasting, Social Media, AI, Live Video, and Newsjacking to Reach Buyers Directly, 7th Edition


 

The seventh edition of the pioneering guide to generating attention for your idea or business, packed with new and updated information

In the Digital Age, marketing tactics seem to change on a day-to-day basis. As the ways we communicate continue to evolve, keeping pace with the latest trends in social media, the newest online videos, the latest mobile apps, and all the other high-tech influences can seem an almost impossible task. How can you keep



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The reality of time flow: local becoming in modern physics / Richard T.W. Arthur

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Thermodynamics in the quantum regime: fundamental aspects and new directions / Felix Binder, Luis A. Correa, Christian Gogolin, Janet Anders, Gerardo Adesso, editors

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Optics using MATLAB / Scott W. Teare

Barker Library - QC355.3.T43 2017




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

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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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The Quantum Mechanics Solver: How to Apply Quantum Theory to Modern Physics / by Jean-Louis Basdevant, Jean Dalibard

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The age of innocence: nuclear physics between the First and Second World Wars / Roger H. Stuewer

Hayden Library - QC773.S78 2018




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George Placzek: a nuclear physicist's odyssey / Aleš Gottvald (Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic), Misha Shifman (University of Minnesota, USA)

Hayden Library - QC774.P53 G65 2018




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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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Ether and modernity: the recalcitrance of an epistemic object in the early twentieth century / edited by Jaume Navarro (University of the Basque Country, Spain)

Hayden Library - QC177.E74 2018




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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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Engineering optics with MATLAB / Ting-Chung Poon, Virginia Tech, USA, Taegeun Kim, Sejong University, South Korea

Barker Library - QC454.F7 P66 2018




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Symmetry breaking in the standard model: a non-perturbative outlook / Franco Strocchi

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

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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)

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Defocusing nonlinear Schrödinger equations / Benjamin Dodson (The Johns Hopkins University)

Hayden Library - QC174.26.W28 D63 2019




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Many worlds?: everett, realism, and quantum mechanics / edited by Simon Saunders [and others]

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Astronomical Polarisation from the Infrared to Gamma Rays Roberto Mignani, Andrew Shearer, Agnieszka Słowikowska, Silvia Zane, editors

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The meaning of the wave function: in search of the ontology of quantum mechanics / Shan Gao, Shanxi University

Hayden Library - QC174.26.W3 G36 2017




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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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Statistical physics of non equilibrium quantum phenomena Yves Pomeau, Minh-Binh Tran

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Atomicity through fractal measure theory: mathematical and physical fundamentals with applications / Alina Gavriluţ, Ioan Mercheş, Maricel Agop

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ATLAS: a 25-year insider story of the LHC experiment / by the ATLAS Collaboration

Hayden Library - QC787.P73 A85 2019




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Something deeply hidden: quantum worlds and the emergence of spacetime / Sean Carroll

Hayden Library - QC174.12.C365 2019




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Semilinear Schrödinger equations / Thierry Cazenave

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Holographic quantum matter / Sean A. Hartnoll, Andrew Lucas, and Subir Sachdev

Barker Library - QC173.457.H65 H37 2018