| Whole blood test for toxoplasmosis is sensitive, specific
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 Transmission of toxoplasmosis from mother to fetus can lead to severe congenital problems and fetal death, and tests for the parasitic infection during pregnancy are critical. Now, researchers reporting in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases have showed the efficacy of a low-cost whole blood test for toxoplasmosis.
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| Super PACs In Canada? Liberals Wrestle With Politically-Active Charities After Court Ruling
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| OTTAWA — In an effort to prevent Canadian charities from becoming U.S.-style super PACs, HuffPost Canada has learned, the federal government may strip the status of some registered charities while it lifts all limits on the amount of non-partisan political activity institutions can engage in. Two officials, who would only speak on condition of anonymity, told HuffPost that the Liberal government may, for example, repeal Canada Without Poverty's status as it develops a new test to ensure that registered charities don't engage solely in political activism. That small charity shares ideas on ...
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| Why so few galaxies in this distant region of space?
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 Computer simulation of the distribution of matter in the universe. Orange regions contain galaxies, while blue structures are gas and dark matter. Astronomers have found that a large region of space contains far fewer galaxies than previously thought. Image via TNG Collaboration. Just as a typical galaxy contains billions of stars, there are also billions of galaxies in the universe overall. Those galaxies are not evenly distributed, however, and astronomers have found a large region of space that has far fewer galaxies than expected. As outlined in a new peer-reviewed paper published in The Astrophysical Journal on August 14, 2018, researchers can now use that information to better understand how the early universe, and the first galaxies, formed. In the early universe, about 12 billion years ago, gas pervading the otherwise empty space was, on average, more opaque than it is now. There was some variation from place to place, however, and astronomers were not sure why, but now they think they are ...
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| Faculty cannot pursue full time course while teaching; HC
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 Deprecating the practice of a teacher or professor pursuing a full time course while simultaneously working as a faculty member, the Madras High Court has made it clear that it cannot be permitted without prior permission from the university or college concerned "The university/institution and the recognition authorities must ensure that no teacher/professor is permitted to do the full time course without obtaining prior permission from the University/College. "Otherwise, that will give a wrong signal and that for the sake of convenience, the student may be asked to be a Professor for the purpose of showing the strength and the institution may get the approval/recognition from AICTE and simultaneously allow them to study full time course. This practise is deprecated," the court said Justice S Vaidyanathan stated this in his recent order while upholding the decision of the Controller of Examinations, who nullified all exams in which a woman faculty member of S A Polytechnic College ...
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| A novel method to synthesize stable nitrogen-rich polynitrobenzenes with π-stacking for high-energy-density energetic materials
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| Chem. Commun., 2018, Accepted Manuscript DOI: 10.1039/C8CC05413D, Communication Xiaoming Yang, Xinyu Lin, Li Yang, Tonglai Zhang Two nitrogen-rich energetic compounds with π-stacking, 1,1'-dichloro-2,2',3,3',6,6'-hexanitro-5,5'-dihydroxyazobenzene (1) and 8-(2,4,6-triazido-3,5-dinitrophenyl)-8H-[1,2,3]triazolo[4',5':5,6]benzo [1,2-c:3,4-c']bis([1,2,5]oxadiazole) 1,4-dioxide (2), were prepared by a novel synthesis method, and their structures were determined by single-crystal X-ray diffraction analysis....
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| Boosting Electrochemical Water Oxidation Reaction of Hierarchical Nanoarrays through NiFe-oxides/Ag Heterointerfaces
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| Chem. Commun., 2018, Accepted Manuscript DOI: 10.1039/C8CC06270F, Communication Bin Zhu, Qi Hu, Xiufang Liu, Guomin Li, Liangdong Fan, Qianling Zhang, Jianhong Liu, Chuanxin He Fabricating heterointerfaces with optimized electronic structure is a robust strategy to boost the activity of eletrocatalysts. Herein, for the first time, we demonstrate the heterointerfaces of metallic Ag and NiFe-oxides...
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