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‘Guruvayur Devaswom donation subject to final outcome of cases’

Division Bench refers petition to Full Bench




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New Videos from the Library of Congress, Feb. 14

The American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress challenged musical artists to interpret material from its unparalleled archive of ethnographic recordings of traditional folk music. Artists were asked to put their own spin on these archival treasures, and to perform them at a special showcase during the Folk Alliance International conference in Kansas City in 2018.

 




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New Videos from the Library of Congress, Feb. 15

The American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress challenged musical artists to interpret material from its unparalleled archive of ethnographic recordings of traditional folk music. Artists were asked to put their own spin on these archival treasures, and to perform them at a special showcase during the Folk Alliance International conference in Montreal, Canada in 2019.

 




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TONIGHT: Garth Brooks & Trisha Yearwood with Librarian Carla Hayden

TONIGHT, Monday, March 2 beginning at 7pm ET

Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden will host a conversation with Grammy Award-winning country music singer and songwriter Garth Brooks. Brooks and Hayden will be joined by country music artist, actress, author, celebrity chef and wife of Brooks, Trisha Yearwood. They will discuss their success as a country music power couple, their careers as music industry changemakers and the humanitarian projects they devote their efforts to each year.

Brooks will receive the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song later that week on Wednesday, March 4. The country music titan and multiple hall of famer is the youngest recipient of the prestigious prize.

You can follow and join in on the #GershwinPrize conversation via Twitter.

Watch here on the Library's YouTube page.

Watch here on the Library's Facebook page.
Tune in to Facebook at 6:30 pm ET for a special edition of Garth Brooks' "Inside Studio G" Facebook program LIVE from the Library of Congress!

 

 




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New Videos from the Library of Congress, May 7

Watch these videos just added to the Library of Congress website.

How One Pandemic, SARS, Predicted Another, COVID-19
Author and journalist Karl Taro Greenfeld discusses his prescient book on the SARS epidemic, which foreshadowed the more devastating COVID-19 pandemic, with the chief of communications of the Library of Congress, Roswell Encina.

Dav Pilkey at Home
Take a break and watch author and illustrator Dav Pilkey in his ongoing video series for the Library, "Dav Pilkey at Home," where he draws and reads from his book series.

Write. Right. Rite. With Jason Reynolds
A new video from Jason Reynolds, seventh National Ambassador for Young People's Literature in his new series "Write. Right. Rite." as part of his "Grab the Mic: Tell Your Story" platform.

 




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Learn to live with coronavirus, says govt as cases cross 56,000

Over the last few days cases in India are rising at a much faster pace than before, raising serious concerns




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Govt in talks with industry on production of Gilead's remdesivir for trials

Checks with industry on when can production begin here for trials




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Additional manpower may be sought from Centre to give police rest: Uddhav

Uddhav also admitted that while the spread of the virus has been contained, the state has not succeeded in breaking the chain of infection yet




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Babri demolition case: SC fixes August 31 as new deadline for judgment

The top court asked special judge S K Yadav to control the proceedings in accordance with law so that inordinate delay that is beyond the time-frame is no longer breached




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DD, All India Radio prime bulletins to report weather of cities in PoK

The weather segment of the news bulletins on DD and AIR included the update on cities of Mirpur, Muzaffarabad and Gilgit in PoK




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16 migrant workers run over by goods train while sleeping on tracks

The Railways announced a comprehensive probe into the accident which occurred at 5.15 am near Karmad, around 30 km from Aurangabad city




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Pakistan rejects India's move to broadcast weather reports on PoK

Pakistan Foreign Office said that like the so-called "political maps" issued last year by India, this move is also legally void, contrary to reality, and in violation of the relevant UNSC Resolutions




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Long walk home ends in tragedy: Goods train mows down 16 migrants

Migrants fell asleep on railway track in Maharashtra




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Covid-19 crisis: Won't deploy Army in Mumbai, says Uddhav Thackeray

Thackeray said his government has requested for doctors from the Railways, port trust and other central departments for support




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World coronavirus dispatch: How the wealth management industry is changing

From US-China talks to end trade deadlock, to FDA nod for Moderna drug's Phase-II trials, and an Amsterdam restaurant with 'quarantine greenhouses' - read these and more in today's world dispatch




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Aarogya Setu most downloaded healthcare app in the world, says Amitabh Kant

Aarogya Setu is currently available on iOS and Android, and nearly 9 crore users have already downloaded the app




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Opposition leaders write to Prez expressing concern over workers' lives

In their letter to the President, the Opposition leaders raised the issue of labour laws being nullified and hard-won democratic rights of a vast majority of Indian people people being compromised




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Porters at Jabalpur station face financial stress amid Covid-19 lockdown

Porters have been dependent on Ticket Collectors for their survival, as any aid from the government is yet to reach them




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Work on to neutralise remaining Styrene gas at LG Polymers' Vizag plant

The Chief Secretary said the gas leak resulted in 12 deaths, while 454 others had to be admitted to various hospitals




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OCI card holders' entry in India to remain suspended during lockdown: Govt

The government has kept in abeyance multiple-entry life-long visas given to OCI card holders till the time international travel resumes




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Lockdown 3.0: Odisha ups working hours to 12; staff to be paid for overtime

No female workers should be allowed or required to work in a factory between 7 pm and 6 am, unless specifically permitted by the government in this regard, the state govt order said




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Talks with experts: No strategy, only want to show the glimpses, says Rahul

According to Congress sources, in the series of Rahul Gandhi's talks with experts, the will be a conversation with German virologist and several personalities from other fields on Covid-19




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Karnataka govt allows restaurants, bars to sell liquor at retail prices

According to the latest update by the state health department, total number of coronavirus cases in Karnataka is 753




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Aurangabad train accident: Raised an alarm but to no avail, says eyewitness

As many as 16 migrant labourers were killed and five others injured when a freight train ran over them between Jalna and Aurangabad on Friday




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Lockdown impact: Fuel demand in India plunged to historic lows in April

In its latest report, the International Energy Agency has said India's annual fuel consumption will decline 5.6 per cent in 2020




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Advanced 96-microtiter plate based bioelectrochemical platform reveals molecular short cut of electron flow in cytochrome P450 enzyme

Lab Chip, 2020, 20,1449-1460
DOI: 10.1039/C9LC01220F, Paper
Ronny Frank, Christoph Prönnecke, Ronny Azendorf, Heinz-Georg Jahnke, Annette G. Beck-Sickinger, Andrea A. Robitzki
We developed a novel 96-well microtiter plate based bioelectrochemical platform with a vertical divided cell three-electrode architecture and a 96-multipotentiostat to perform fully parallelised bioelectrocatalytic screenings on redox enzymes.
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Monitoring tissue-level remodelling during inflammatory arthritis using a three-dimensional synovium-on-a-chip with non-invasive light scattering biosensing

Lab Chip, 2020, 20,1461-1471
DOI: 10.1039/C9LC01097A, Paper
Open Access
Mario Rothbauer, Gregor Höll, Christoph Eilenberger, Sebastian R. A. Kratz, Bilal Farooq, Patrick Schuller, Isabel Olmos Calvo, Ruth A. Byrne, Brigitte Meyer, Birgit Niederreiter, Seta Küpcü, Florian Sevelda, Johannes Holinka, Oliver Hayden, Sandro F. Tedde, Hans P. Kiener, Peter Ertl
We demonstrate that the integration of complex human synovial organ cultures in a lab-on-a-chip provides reproducible and reliable information on how systemic stress factors affect synovial tissue architectures using light scatter biosensing.
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Mathematical modeling and computational analysis of centrifugal microfluidic platforms: a review

Lab Chip, 2020, 20,1318-1357
DOI: 10.1039/C9LC00775J, Critical Review
Open Access
Masoud Madadelahi, Luis F. Acosta-Soto, Samira Hosseini, Sergio O. Martinez-Chapa, Marc J. Madou
This paper focuses on theory and computational modelling of lab-on-a-disc devices of relevance for novel applications discovery and optimal designs.
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Stretching DNA to twice the normal length with single-molecule hydrodynamic trapping

Lab Chip, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C9LC01028A, Paper
Open Access
Yan Jiang, Theodore Feldman, Julia A. M. Bakx, Darren Yang, Wesley P. Wong
High-speed hydrodynamic trapping enables combined surface-free force spectroscopy and fluorescence imaging of single DNA molecules at extreme forces.
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ECM-based microchannel for culturing in vitro vascular tissues with simultaneous perfusion and stretch

Lab Chip, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0LC00254B, Paper
Azusa Shimizu, Wei Huang Goh, Shun Itai, Michinao Hashimoto, Shigenori Miura, Hiroaki Onoe
A perfusable and stretchable gelatin-based microfluidic system that can apply both simultaneous fluidic shear stress and stretch stress to in vitro endothelial 3D tissues is presented.
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Development of two-photon polymerised scaffolds for optical interrogation and neurite guidance of human iPSC-derived cortical neuronal networks

Lab Chip, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C9LC01209E, Paper
Open Access
  This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.
J. A. Crowe, A. El-Tamer, D. Nagel, A. V. Koroleva, J. Madrid-Wolff, O. E. Olarte, S. Sokolovsky, E. Estevez-Priego, A.-A. Ludl, J. Soriano, P. Loza-Alvarez, B. N. Chichkov, E. J. Hill, H. R. Parri, E. U. Rafailov
We identified photopolymers for 2-photon polymerisation with biocompatibility for human iPSC-derived neural network development. Generation of microscale scaffold topologies enabled neurite guidance, demonstrating use in reproducing aligned networks.
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SLOCK (sensor for circadian clock): passive sweat-based chronobiology tracker

Lab Chip, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0LC00134A, Paper
Sayali Upasham, Shalini Prasad
SLOCK is a sweat based platform for monitoring circadian relevant biomarkers-cortisol and DHEA, using electrochemical detection modality.
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A new microfluidic model that allows monitoring of complex vascular structures and cell interactions in a 3D biological matrix

Lab Chip, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0LC00059K, Paper
Open Access
Christian G. M. van Dijk, Maarten M. Brandt, Nikolaos Poulis, Jonas Anten, Matthijs van der Moolen, Liana Kramer, Erik F. G. A. Homburg, Laura Louzao-Martinez, Jiayi Pei, Merle M. Krebber, Bas W. M. van Balkom, Petra de Graaf, Dirk J. Duncker, Marianne C. Verhaar, Regina Luttge, Caroline Cheng
We present a microfluidic vascular device. Vascular cells in a 3D-ECM environment support hemodynamic flow and enable monocyte interaction.
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Current commercialization status of electrowetting-on-dielectric (EWOD) digital microfluidics

Lab Chip, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0LC00144A, Critical Review
Jia Li, Chang-Jin “CJ” Kim
Electrowetting on EWOD surface: a droplet beading or spreading (left) or translating (right) by electric signals. The EWOD technology made the once-obscure electrowetting phenomenon practical, leading to the host of commercial products today.
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In situ generation of plasma-activated aerosols via surface acoustic wave nebulization for portable spray-based surface bacterial inactivation

Lab Chip, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0LC00001A, Paper
Kiing S. Wong, William T. H. Lim, Chien W. Ooi, Leslie Y. Yeo, Ming K. Tan
We demonstrate an efficient technique for in situ production and application of plasma-activated aerosols for surface disinfection.
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A new polymer lab-on-a-chip (LOC) based on a microfluidic capillary flow assay (MCFA) for detecting unbound cortisol in saliva

Lab Chip, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0LC00071J, Paper
Vinitha T. U., Sthitodhi Ghosh, Alexander Milleman, Thinh Nguyen, Chong H. Ahn
A new polymer lab-on-a-chip with on-chip dried reagents for microfluidic capillary flow assay (MCFA) detection of unbound cortisol in saliva.
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Spatially isolated reactions in a complex array: using magnetic beads to purify and quantify nucleic acids with digital and quantitative real-time PCR in thousands of parallel microwells

Lab Chip, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0LC00069H, Paper
W. Hampton Henley, Nathan A. Siegfried, J. Michael Ramsey
Encoded beads carrying primer pairs for nucleic acid targets are used for sample preparation and multiplexed-in-space digital PCR quantification.
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Open sessile droplet viscometer with low sample consumption

Lab Chip, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0LC00248H, Paper
Matthias Hermann, Kyle Bachus, Graham T. T. Gibson, Richard D. Oleschuk
This paper reports a portable viscometer that requires less than 10 μL of sample for a measurement.
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Nanocrystal synthesis, μfluidic sample dilution and direct extraction of single emission linewidths in continuous flow

Lab Chip, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0LC00213E, Paper
Open Access
  This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.
Ioannis Lignos, Hendrik Utzat, Moungi G. Bawendi, Klavs F. Jensen
We present a flow-based system coupled with an optical interferometry setup for the extraction of single nanocrystal properties.
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Capacitive Sensing of Triglyceride Film Reactions: A Proof-of-Concept Demonstration for Sensing in Simulated Duodenal Contents with Gastrointestinal Targeting Capsule System

Lab Chip, 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0LC00133C, Paper
George Banis, Luke Beardslee, Justin Stine, Rajendra Mayavan Sathyam, Reza Ghodssi
Ingestible capsule systems continue evolving to overcome drawbacks associated with traditional gastrointestinal (GI) diagnostic and therapeutic processes, such as location restrictions or insufficient sensitivity measures when obtaining information on local...
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Catalytic exchange of hydrogen isotopes intensified by two-phase stratified flow in wettability designable microchannels

Lab Chip, 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0LC00250J, Paper
Yuexiao Song, Feng Xin, Yongsheng Xu
This work develops a reliable method to achieve stratified flow in squared cross-section microchannels by endowing the four channel walls with very different wettabilities. The gas–liquid flows are studied experimentally...
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Auto-affitech: an automated ligand binding affinity evaluation platform using digital microfluidics with a bidirectional magnetic separation method

Lab Chip, 2020, 20,1577-1585
DOI: 10.1039/D0LC00024H, Paper
Jingjing Guo, Li Lin, Kaifeng Zhao, Yanling Song, Mengjiao Huang, Zhi Zhu, Leiji Zhou, Chaoyong Yang
An automated ligand binding affinity evaluation platform using digital microfluidics with a bidirectional magnetic separation method that reduces the bead loss.
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Microfluidic device to study flow-free chemotaxis of swimming cells

Lab Chip, 2020, 20,1639-1647
DOI: 10.1039/D0LC00045K, Paper
Nicolas Garcia-Seyda, Laurene Aoun, Victoria Tishkova, Valentine Seveau, Martine Biarnes-Pelicot, Marc Bajénoff, Marie-Pierre Valignat, Olivier Theodoly
Permeable agarose barriers allow flow-free gradient generation, applicable to adherent and non-adherent (swimming) cells, as well as co-culture experiments.
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Quantitatively controllable fluid flows with ballpoint-pen-printed patterns for programmable photo-paper-based microfluidic devices

Lab Chip, 2020, 20,1601-1611
DOI: 10.1039/D0LC00115E, Paper
Veasna Soum, Sooyong Park, Albertus Ivan Brilian, Jae-Youl Choi, Yongwoo Lee, Wonjung Kim, Oh-Sun Kwon, Kwanwoo Shin
A precise, simple, and inexpensive method for controlling fluid flow in a photo-paper-based microfluidic device was reported.
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Monitoring the two-dimensional concentration profile of toluene vapors by using polymer-stabilized nematic liquid crystals in microchannels

Lab Chip, 2020, 20,1687-1693
DOI: 10.1039/C9LC01021A, Paper
Zongdai Liu, Dan Luo, Kun-Lin Yang
The concentration of toluene vapor is obtained based on polymer-stabilized liquid crystals by viewing a colourful gamut under a polarized optical microscope.
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Electrostatically gated nanofluidic membrane for ultra-low power controlled drug delivery

Lab Chip, 2020, 20,1562-1576
DOI: 10.1039/D0LC00121J, Paper
Open Access
Nicola Di Trani, Antonia Silvestri, Antons Sizovs, Yu Wang, Donald R. Erm, Danilo Demarchi, Xuewu Liu, Alessandro Grattoni
Control of molecular diffusion through nanofluidic channels using electrostatic gating.
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In-flow measurement of cell–cell adhesion using oscillatory inertial microfluidics

Lab Chip, 2020, 20,1612-1620
DOI: 10.1039/D0LC00089B, Paper
Baris R. Mutlu, Taronish Dubash, Claudius Dietsche, Avanish Mishra, Arzu Ozbey, Kevin Keim, Jon F. Edd, Daniel A. Haber, Shyamala Maheswaran, Mehmet Toner
Cell–cell adhesion strength of freely suspended cell clusters can be measured using an oscillatory inertial microfluidic system.
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3-Step flow focusing enables multidirectional imaging of bioparticles for imaging flow cytometry

Lab Chip, 2020, 20,1676-1686
DOI: 10.1039/D0LC00244E, Paper
Open Access
  This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.
Andreas Kleiber, Anuradha Ramoji, Günter Mayer, Ute Neugebauer, Jürgen Popp, Thomas Henkel
The control of the focus plane allows multi-directional imaging flow cytometry.
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Smartphone-based multiplex 30-minute nucleic acid test of live virus from nasal swab extract

Lab Chip, 2020, 20,1621-1627
DOI: 10.1039/D0LC00304B, Paper
Fu Sun, Anurup Ganguli, Judy Nguyen, Ryan Brisbin, Krithika Shanmugam, David L. Hirschberg, Matthew B. Wheeler, Rashid Bashir, David M. Nash, Brian T. Cunningham
A 30-minute nucleic acid test for equine respiratory virus from nasal swab material, detected with a smartphone.
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Particle/cell separation using sheath-free deterministic lateral displacement arrays with inertially focused single straight input

Lab Chip, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0LC00354A, Paper
Naotomo Tottori, Takasi Nisisako
We propose sheath-free microfluidic deterministic lateral displacement devices with inertially focused single straight input.
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