Silver Nanoparticles Take Spectroscopy to New Dimension

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Silver Nanoparticles Take Spectroscopy to New Dimension

WASHINGTON, D.C., January 2, 2018 — As medicine and pharmacology investigate nanoscale processes, it has become increasingly important to identify and characterize different molecules. Raman spectroscopy, a technique that leverages the scattering of laser light to identify molecules, has a limited
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How to have a hauntingly good time at one of Newcastle's spookiest buildings

Writers Gail-Nina Anderson, Sean O'Brien and Shelley Day have penned new ghost stories for the event and they will read them at the Lit & Phil on Thursday, January 4 at 7pm. Gail is also a lecturer and cultural historian, Sean is a multi-award-winning poet and professor of creative writing at Newcastle
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LITERATURE, HISTORY, CREATIVE WRITING RESEARCH PAPERS

RESEARCH PAPERS IN LITERATURE, HISTORY, POLITICAL SCIENCE, AND CREATIVE WRITING AREAS NOT A WRITING SERVICE; I PERSONALLY DO ALL WORKDON'T SETTLE FOR HACK WRITING BECAUSE THERE ARE MANY OUT THEREMY…
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IMPEL relaunches as independent collecting society

The Independent Music Publishers e-Licensing (IMPEL) initiative is restructuring to operate as a standalone rights management organisation. The IMPEL board has announced a new company and governance structure that will see ownership and rights transitioning over from former parent company
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Book publicist Meryl Moss turns the page on 25 years in business

Five years ago, Moss began a third business endeavor with a concierge publishing service that enables clients to self-publish. “It's a very painstaking process to publish a book correctly,” she said. “We make sure the editing and proofreading is done to a very high level. It is a special service for those
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2017 Sales Slip: Here's One Store's $21K Drop-Off In Marvel Sales

Get comfortable for a few different threads to come together. The fireworks are starting early this year. You know how it's become a custom in recent years for retailers to link to their best sellers of the previous? It's January and it's started. The first one I've seen is from Challengers Comics + Conversation
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These were the top-grossing games on Steam in 2017

The overall top-sellers are listed in the “Platinum” category, and include blockbusters like Grand Theft Auto V, The Witcher 3 and Rocket League. And it definitely is no surprise to find a game like GTA V amongst the best-selling Steam games of 2017, given that Rockstar's game recently surpassed the 80
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Six young writers from Design Academy Eindhoven identify trends from Dutch Design Week

We asked six graduates on Design Academy Eindhoven's design writing masters course to give their opinion in essay form. Dezeen … “Life is meaningless,” said comedian, writer, and musician Tim Minchin upon collecting his honorary doctorate from the University of Western Australia in 2013. With a
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Locating the Precise Reaction Path: Methane Dissociation on Platinum

WASHINGTON, D.C., January 2, 2018 — Transition-metal catalysts, such as nickel and cobalt, are widely used in industry to produce hydrogen and other useful compounds from natural gas. Researchers achieve this transformation through steam reforming, which is the process of heating methane with
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Alabama newspaper publisher said to have spanked female staffers

As the #MeToo movement grows into its third month of seeking justice for sexual harassment and assault survivors, more women are coming forward to disclose perpetrators within their communities. On Monday, the Anniston Star, an Anniston, Alabama, newspaper, reported that Alabama media
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An Organ-On-A-Chip Device That Models Heart Disease

Now, researchers have built a new device that's especially good for modeling atherosclerosis — the constriction of blood vessels that's the leading cause of heart attacks and strokes. In a paper appearing this week in APL Bioengineering, from AIP Publishing, researchers illustrate how the new device
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Call of Duty: WWII Gets the Last Number 1 of 2017 in the UK

Call of Duty: WWII tops the United Kingdom charts in the last week of 2017. The shooter ends the year with an impressive run of nine weeks sitting at number one of the best-sellers list. That's the same amount of weeks that Modern Warfare 2 managed to spend at the top of the charts, and only two weeks
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Steam's best of 2017 sale offers up deals on the year's top titles

Called simply The Best of 2017 Sale, Valve has divided the most successful and influential titles across five categories. Even if your games budget is tapped out for the holidays, the exercise is a great look back on an exceptional year in PC gaming. Oddly enough, of the dozen top-sellers as measured by
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The Land Registry publishing data

The Society of Licensed Conveyancers (SLC) cautiously welcomes the Land Registry's decision to publish data in respect of requisitions. However, the Society is concerned that without context the information that the Land Registry is proposing to publish could be misleading. Firms that deal with new
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'Achtung Baby': Should we parent more like the Germans do?

The earlier part of this decade brought us best sellers including Bringing Up Bébé and Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, which focused on Americans raising children the French and Chinese way, respectively. But unlike many parenting books, Zaske's is not judgmental, prescriptive or didactic. For that
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Does The Post Give the Washington Post Too Much Credit? The New York Times Seems to Think So.

The docudrama, set in the summer of 1971, follows the Washington Post in its decision to publish excerpts from the top-secret Pentagon Papers, after an injunction restrained the New York Times, which first broke the story, from continuing to do so. It's told from the perspective of the scrappy D.C. paper's
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Alabama Newspaper Publisher Apologizes After Allegations He Spanked Female Employees

H. Brandt Ayers, the chairman of the company that publishes the Alabama newspaper the Anniston Star, has apologized after several women alleged Ayers assaulted them or their colleagues in the 1970s, when he was the publisher of the newspaper. Ayers, now 82, said in a statement Monday in the
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Ron Perry Officially Named Chairman and CEO of Columbia Records

Perry, 38, joins the label from SONGS Music Publishing, where he was president and a minority partner since its founding in 2004. On Dec. 8 the company, which is home to the publishing interests of The Weeknd, Lorde and Diplo, announced that it will sell its catalog to Kobalt Capital's fund for a price
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Worthing serial killer on the loose in new book

It is the brainchild of 17-year-old Ashley Evans from The Strand, Goring, who self-published his book via Kindle Direct Publishing on December 15 with … Since publishing the book, a reader asked Ashley to sign their copy and another, who is a police officer, offered to help him research his future novels.
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