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Podcast: Saving wolves that aren’t really wolves, bird-human partnership, and our oldest common ancestor

Stories on birds that guide people to honey, genes left over from the last universal common ancestor, and what the nose knows about antibiotics, with Devi Shastri.  The Endangered Species Act—a 1973 U.S. law designed to protect animals in the country from extinction—may need a fresh look. The focus on “species” is the problem. This has become especially clear when it comes to wolves—recent genetic information has led to government agencies moving to delist the grey wolf. Robert Wayne helps untangle the wolf family tree and talks us through how a better understanding of wolf genetics may trouble their protected status.  [Image: Claire N. Spottiswoode/Music: Jeffrey Cook]




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Podcast: Why we murder, resurrecting extinct animals, and the latest on the three-parent baby

Daily news stories Should we bring animals back from extinction, three-parent baby announced, and the roots of human violence, with David Grimm.   From the magazine Our networked world gives us an unprecedented ability to monitor and respond to global happenings. Databases monitoring news stories can provide real-time information about events all over the world -- like conflicts or protests. However, the databases that now exist aren’t up to the task. Alexa Billow talks with Ryan Kennedy about his policy forum that addresses problems with global data collection and interpretation.   [Image: Stocktrek Images, Inc. / Alamy Stock Photo; Music: Jeffrey Cook]




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Why eggs have such weird shapes, doubly domesticated cats, and science balloons on the rise

This week we have stories on the new capabilities of science balloons, connections between deforestation and drug trafficking in Central America, and new insights into the role ancient Egypt had in taming cats with Online News Editor David Grimm. Sarah Crespi talks to Mary Caswell Stoddard about why bird eggs come in so many shapes and sizes. Listen to previous podcasts. [Image:; Music: Jeffrey Cook]




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Odorless calories for weight loss, building artificial intelligence researchers can trust, and can oily birds fly?

This week we have stories on the twisty tree of human ancestry, why mice shed weight when they can’t smell, and the damaging effects of even a small amount of oil on a bird’s feathers—with Online News Editor David Grimm.  Sarah Crespi talks to News Editor Tim Appenzeller about a special section on how artificial intelligence is changing the way we do science.  Listen to previous podcasts. [Image: © 2012 CERN, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE ALICE COLLABORATION; Music: Jeffrey Cook]




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Cosmic rays from beyond our galaxy, sleeping jellyfish, and counting a language’s words for colors

This week we hear stories on animal hoarding, how different languages have different numbers of colors, and how to tell a wakeful jellyfish from a sleeping one with Online News Editor Catherine Matacic, Brice Russ, and Sarah Crespi.   Andrew Wagner talks to Karl-Heinz Kampert about a long-term study of the cosmic rays blasting our planet. After analyzing 30,000 high-energy rays, it turns out some are coming from outside the Milky Way.   Listen to previous podcasts.    [Image: Doug Letterman/Flickr; Music: Jeffrey Cook]




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Unearthed letters reveal changes in Fields Medal awards, and predicting crime with computers is no easy feat

Freelance science writer Michael Price talks with Sarah Crespi about recently revealed deliberations for a coveted mathematics prize: the Fields Medal. Unearthed letters suggest early award committees favored promise and youth over star power. Sarah also interviews Julia Dressel about her Science Advances paper on predicting recidivism—the likelihood that a criminal defendant will commit another crime. It turns out computers aren’t better than people at these types of predictions, in fact—both are correct only about 65% of the time.   Jen Golbeck interviews Paul Shapiro about his book, Clean Meat: How Growing Meat Without Animals Will Revolutionize Dinner and the World, in our monthly books segment.   Listen to previous podcasts. [Image: Greg Chiasson/Flickr; Music: Jeffrey Cook]




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Spotting slavery from space, and using iPads for communication disorders

In our first segment from the annual meeting of AAAS (Science’s publisher) in Washington, D.C., host Sarah Crespi talks with Cathy Binger of University of New Mexico in Albuquerque about her session on the role of modern technology, such as iPads and apps, in helping people with communication disorders. It turns out that there’s no killer app, but some devices do help normalize assistive technology for kids. Also this week, freelance journalist Sarah Scoles joins Sarah Crespi to talk about bringing together satellite imaging, machine learning, and nonprofits to put a stop to modern-day slavery. In our monthly books segment, books editor Valerie Thompson talks with Judy Grisel about her book Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction, including discussions of Gisel’s personal experience with addiction and how it has informed her research as a neuroscientist. This week’s episode was edited by Podigy. Download the transcript (PDF) Listen to previous podcasts. About the Science Podcast [Image: ILO in Asia and the Pacific/Flickr; Music: Jeffrey Cook]




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The point of pointing, and using seabirds to track ocean health

You can learn a lot about ocean health from seabirds. For example, breeding failures among certain birds have been linked to the later collapse of some fisheries. Enriqueta Velarde of the Institute of Marine Sciences and Fisheries at the University of Veracruz in Xalapa, Mexico, joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about what these long-lived fliers can tell us about the ocean and its inhabitants. Also this week, Sarah and Cathal O’Madagain of the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris discuss pointing—a universal human gesture common to almost all children before age 1. They discuss why pointing matters, and how this simple gesture may underlie humans’ amazing ability to collaborate and coordinate. This week’s episode was edited by Podigy. Ads on the show: Kiwico.com Listen to previous podcasts. About the Science Podcast [Image: C. O’Madagain et al., Science Advances 2019; Music: Jeffrey Cook]




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Cooling Earth with asteroid dust, and 3 billion missing birds

On this week’s show, science journalist Josh Sokol talks about a global cooling event sparked by space dust that lead to a huge shift in animal and plant diversity 466 million years ago. (Read the related research article in Science Advances.) And I talk with Kenneth Rosenberg, an applied conservation scientist at Cornell University, about steep declines in bird abundance in the United States and Canada. His team estimates about 3 billion birds have gone missing since the 1970s. This week’s episode was edited by Podigy. Ads on this week’s show: MOVA Globes; KiwiCo.com Download the transcript (PDF) Listen to previous podcasts. About the Science Podcast [Image: Public domain; Music: Jeffrey Cook]




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An app for eye disease, and planting memories in songbirds

Host Sarah Crespi talks with undergraduate student Micheal Munson from Baylor University in Waco, Texas, about a smartphone app that scans photos in the phone’s library for eye disease in kids.  And Sarah talks with Todd Roberts of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas, about incepting memories into zebra finches to study how they learn their songs. Using a technique called optogenetics—in which specific neurons can be controlled by pulses of light—the researchers introduced false song memories by turning on neurons in different patterns, with longer or shorter note durations than typical zebra finch songs. This week’s episode was edited by Podigy. Ads on this week’s show: MOVA Globes; KiwiCo.com Download a transcript (PDF) Listen to previous podcasts. About the Science Podcast  




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Colour and the Optical Properties of Materials, 3rd Edition


 

The updated third edition of the only textbook on colour

The revised third edition of Colour and the Optical Properties of Materials focuses on the ways that colour is produced, both in the natural world and in a wide range of applications. The expert author offers an introduction to the science underlying colour and optics and explores many of the most recent applications. The text is divided into three main sections: behaviour of light in homogeneous



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Crystallography and Crystal Defects, 3rd Edition


 

The classic book that presents a unified approach to crystallography and the defects found within crystals, revised and updated

This new edition of Crystallography and Crystal Defectsexplains the modern concepts of crystallography in a clear, succinct manner and shows how to apply these concepts in the analyses of point, line and planar defects in crystalline materials. 

Fully revised and updated, this book now includes:



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Social Movements: An Introduction, 3rd Edition


 

A new, fully-revised and updated edition of the leading introduction to social movements and collective action –covers a broad range of approaches in the social sciences.

Now in its third edition, Social Movements is the market-leading introductory text on collective action in contemporary society. The text draws from theory-driven, systematic empirical research from across the social sciences to address central questions and concepts in the field.



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A bimetallic PtPd hybrid nanostructure-amplified enzyme-free conductometric immunoassay for lipocalin-2 in renal cell carcinoma on an interdigitated micro-comb electrode

Anal. Methods, 2020, 12,1988-1994
DOI: 10.1039/C9AY02525A, Paper
Chaoqun Huang, Fengling Zhang, Qingshui Wang, Yao Lin, Jiyi Huang
A new enzyme-free conductometric immunoassay based on bimetallic PtPd hybrid nanostructures was developed for the sensitive determination of lipocalin-2 in renal cell carcinoma.
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Molecular analysis of edible bird’s nest and rapid authentication of Aerodramus fuciphagus from its subspecies by PCR-RFLP based on the cytb gene

Anal. Methods, 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C9AY02548K, Paper
Kunfeng Liu, Maoyong Wu, Xuemei Lin, Piyanuch Lonan, Sitai Chen, Yina Wu, Xiaoping Lai, Liangwen Yu, Xiaoming Zhou, Geng Li
Edible bird's nest (EBN), for its great nutritional value, is widely used around the world, especially in China and Singapore. EBNs of different origins and types may vary in price...
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Correction: Towards simultaneous quantification of protease inhibitors and inflammatory biomarkers in serum for people living with HIV

Anal. Methods, 2020, 12,2196-2196
DOI: 10.1039/D0AY90050H, Correction
Open Access
  This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.
Pengyi Wang, Charles S. Venuto, Raymond Cha, Benjamin L. Miller
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The Canada-US border in the 21st century [electronic resource] : trade, immigration and security in the age of Trump / John B. Sutcliffe and William P. Anderson.

Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2019.




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North American borders in comparative perspective [electronic resource] / edited by Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera and Victor Konrad.

Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 2020.




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The Oxford handbook of ancient Anatolia, 10,000-323 B.C.E. [electronic resource] / edited by Sharon R. Steadman and Gregory McMahon.

New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011.




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The Oxford handbook of Anglo-Saxon archaeology [electronic resource] / edited by Helena Hamerow, David A. Hinton and Sally Crawford.

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011.




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The Oxford handbook of Roman Egypt [electronic resource] / edited by Christina Riggs.

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.




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Nabard refinances close to Rs 13,000 crore to state co-op banks and RRBs to assit farmers deal on-going lockdown

The loan has been disbursed under a refinance scheme by Nabard from its own resources and was given this week. "An amount of Rs 12,767 crore has been disbursed this week to StCBs and RRBs across the country in a bid to augment their resources during the ongoing lockdown conditions for extending credit to farmers," Nabard said.




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Govt to gain Rs 1.6 lakh cr this fiscal from record excise duty hike on petrol, diesel

The cash-strapped government will gain close to Rs 1.6 lakh crore in additional revenues this fiscal from a record increase in excise duty on petrol and diesel, that will help make up for revenue it lost in a slowing economy and shutting down of businesses due to coronavirus lockdown.




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Record excise duty hike unlikely to help bridge fiscal gap: Report

Following the record hike in excise duty on petrol and diesel, the total incidence of taxation on auto fuels jumped to 70 per cent of the retail price. But the retail prices are not impacted as the hike completely wipes out the fall in crude prices.




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Statistical Analysis of Network Data with R [electronic resource] / by Eric D. Kolaczyk, Gábor Csárdi

New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2014




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Stochastic Differential Equations, Backward SDEs, Partial Differential Equations [electronic resource] / by Etienne Pardoux, Aurel Rӑşcanu

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014




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The Work of Raymond J. Carroll [electronic resource] : The Impact and Influence of a Statistician / edited by Marie Davidian, Xihong Lin, Jeffrey S. Morris, Leonard A. Stefanski

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014




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General Pontryagin-Type Stochastic Maximum Principle and Backward Stochastic Evolution Equations in Infinite Dimensions [electronic resource] / by Qi Lü, Xu Zhang

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014




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New Perspectives on Approximation and Sampling Theory [electronic resource] : Festschrift in Honor of Paul Butzer's 85th Birthday / edited by Ahmed I. Zayed, Gerhard Schmeisser

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Birkhäuser, 2014




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Basics of Modern Mathematical Statistics [electronic resource] : Exercises and Solutions / by Wolfgang Karl Härdle, Vladimir Spokoiny, Vladimir Panov, Weining Wang

Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2014




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Applied Statistical Inference [electronic resource] : Likelihood and Bayes / by Leonhard Held, Daniel Sabanés Bové

Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2014




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An Introduction to Bartlett Correction and Bias Reduction [electronic resource] / by Gauss M. Cordeiro, Francisco Cribari-Neto

Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2014




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Matematica Numerica [electronic resource] / by Alfio Quarteroni, Riccardo Sacco, Fausto Saleri, Paola Gervasio

Milano : Springer Milan : Imprint: Springer, 2014




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Game audio implementation : a practical guide using the unreal engine / Richard Stevens and Dave Raybould

Stevens, Richard 1971- author




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Interdisciplinary approaches to information systems and software engineering / Alok Bhushan Mukherjee, Akhouri Pramod Krishna, [editors]




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C++ programming : an object-oriented approach / Behrouz A. Forouzan, Richard F. Gilberg

Forouzan, Behrouz A., author




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Amazon Web Services in action / Michael Wittig, Andreas Wittig ; foreword by Ben Whaley

Wittig, Michael, 1987- author




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Advances in computer graphics : 36th Computer Graphics International Conference, CGI 2019, Calgary, AB, Canada, June 17-20, 2019 : proceedings / Marina Gavrilova, Jian Chang, Nadia Magnenat Thalmann, Eckhard Hitzer, Hiroshi Ishikawa (eds.)

Computer Graphics International (36th : 2019 : Calgary, Alta)




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Neural network PC tools : a practical guide / edited by Russell C. Eberhart and Roy W. Dobbins ; with a foreword by Bernard Widrow




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Advances in internet, data and web technologies : the 7th International Conference on Emerging Internet, Data and Web Technologies (EIDWT-2019) / Leonard Barolli, Fatos Xhafa, Zahoor Ali Khan, Hamad Odhabi, editors

International Conference on Emerging Internet, Data and Web Technologies (7th : 2019 : United Arab Emirates)




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Advances in network-based information systems : the 21st International Conference on Network-Based Information Systems (NBiS-2018) / Leonard Barolli, Natalia Kryvinska, Tomoya Enokido, Makoto Takizawa, editors

NBiS (Conference) (21st : 2018 : Bratislava, Slovakia)




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Infra spending, MSME package on the cards: Nitin Gadkari

The minister said he has suggested providing low-cost capital to MSMEs through NBFCs and called for speedy payment of their outstanding dues.




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Vascular tone and angiogenesis modulation by catecholamine coordinated to ruthenium

RSC Med. Chem., 2020, 11,497-510
DOI: 10.1039/C9MD00573K, Research Article
Jacqueline Querino Alves, Laena Pernomian, Cássia Dias Silva, Mayara Santos Gomes, Ana Maria de Oliveira, Roberto Santana da Silva
The interaction of catecholamine site to receptors drives the proangiogenic to antiangiogenic character.
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Recent progress in selective estrogen receptor downregulators (SERDs) for the treatment of breast cancer

RSC Med. Chem., 2020, 11,438-454
DOI: 10.1039/C9MD00570F, Review Article
Shagufta, Irshad Ahmad, Shimy Mathew, Sofia Rahman
This article reviews the current progress in the development of SERDs as anti-breast cancer agents.
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After net neutrality: a new deal for the digital age / Victor Pickard and David Elliot Berman

Dewey Library - HE7645.P535 2019




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Internet of vehicles: technologies and services toward smart cities: 6th International Conference, IOV 2019, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, November 18-21, 2019, Proceedings / Ching-Hsien Hsu, Sondès Kallel, Kun-Chan Lan, Zibin Zheng (eds.)

Online Resource




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Rütteldruckverdichtung als Plastodynamisches Problem: Deep vibration compaction as plastodynamic problem / W. Fellin

Online Resource




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Reinventing business models: how firms cope with disruption / Henk Volberda, Frans van den Bosch, Kevin Heij

Dewey Library - HD30.28.V66 2018




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Design of concrete bridge beams prestressed with CFRP systems / Abdeldjelil Belardi, Mina Dawood, Prakash Poudel [and five others]

Barker Library - TE7.N275 no.907




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Global aspects of reputation and strategic management / editied by David L. Deephouse, Naomi A. Gardberg, and William Newburry

Dewey Library - HD30.28.G56 2019