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Season 1 - Episode 13 - Act IV
Jay and Cerise walked to school together. It wasn't as warm as yesterday; it was really windy. Cerise kept her face buried in the collar of her jacket and never once looked up at Jay. When they got to school she started walking towards her stupid boyfriend who was with Karine. The way Karine worked her cigarettes was so hot. Jay was totally against smoking but he'd let her blow smoke in his face if that was what she was into.
Jay started walking into the school but Cerise stopped him.
"Wait, Jay. Come on, join us."
Us who? Terry Trebislimy? Gross. "No thanks," he frowned.
"Come on," Cerise went on. "I want you guys to be friends. Besides, it's a chance to bask in Karine's presence."
"Shut up," said Jay. She was right though. This was a unique opportunity to hang out with Karine without anyone else around. Usually she was with Erica Mackey or her jockstrap boyfriend.
Terry Dickichavsky put his slimy arm around Cerise when she joined him.
"That was pretty classic what you said to Erica the other day," he smarmed.
Cerise grinned. "Well she started it."
"And you finished it. I've never seen anyone give her shit like that."
"Except you, eh Terry?" said Karine.
"She fucking deserves it every time," he said.
"Yeah, I gotta admit it was pretty cool. It takes guts to take on Erica," said Karine, tossing away the butt of her cigarette.
Jay was half tempted to pick up the butt and lick it. Her scent would still be on it.
There was an awkward pause as they all stared at Jay like he had no right to be there. He had to say something.
"Yeah, I heard you were all like, you fat, you ugly. And Erica was all, doy. And you were all, talk to the hand, bitch. And she was all, duh. And you were all, and you shop at Village des Valeurs, pow!"
Karine laughed and even Terry Droolypuppy chuckled.
"Yeah that pretty much sums it up," Karine giggled. "Erica is totally begging for a serious bitch slapping."
"I'm glad we can all agree," grinned Cerise.
"And everything you said about her is totally true," said Karine.
"Did you tell her she smells like highlighters?" asked Jay. "'Cause I don't know what kind of perfume she uses but it's kinda rank."
Karine burst into laughter. "Oh my god! She does kinda smell like highlighters. I think it's all the product she uses for her hair."
"It looks like an oil slick," snarked Cerise.
"I know, it really does," nodded Karine.
"Fuck it's windy," whined Terry Bigbabyscaredofwindychavsky. "You wanna go in?"
Cerise nodded and walked into the school with the lumbering jackass. Jay watched Karine as she lit up another cigarette and placed her lips around it sensually. Her lips were so full, so red. He couldn't help imagining them curled around his penis.
"Ahh, ain't love grand?" she smiled.
What? How the hell did she know he was in love with her… oh, she was talking about Cerise and assface.
"You think they're in love?" he asked, not bothering to hide his disgust.
She chuckled. "No. Why, do you?"
"No. Do you?"
"I already said no," she said, looking bored and irritated.
"Oh, right. Sorry."
"But I do think he really digs her. He really, actually does."
"Yeah, it's kinda weird. He doesn't usually… I mean, I've never seen him like this before. I mean he bought her candy from the States and the shipping fees were retarded. He's like totally into her."
"I thought he was just…"
"What? Using her?"
"Yeah," Jay admitted.
"Yeah, me too. I mean we all did. But I don't think so anymore. I mean, why else would he bother? I mean, no offence but she's not exactly… um, super cool. He could have anyone but he wants her. He obviously really likes her."
"Yeah, I guess that makes sense."
"Yeah, so does she like him that much too?"
"I guess so," Jay shrugged, allowing himself to examine Karine's lips again.
"Right. I mean, who wouldn't?"
"Yeah, who wouldn't?" Jay drawled sarcastically.
Karine laughed and her mouth opened wide. So wide. "Oh come on, Jay. He's not so bad. I mean, I know we haven't always been so cool with you guys but… get over it. You gotta pull that stick out of your ass."
Holy shit! She knew his name! How awesome was that? "I don't have a stick up my ass."
"You sure?" she giggled and grabbed Jay's arm, twisting him around. She looked at his butt.
Jay squirmed in embarrassment, his face hot and probably bright red.
"Yeah, I guess you're right," she giggled. "Maybe one day I'll take a closer look. Just to be sure."
She tossed away her cigarette and winked at Jay before walking away. Jay stared after her. Holy fucking holy shitting holy hell! Karine Cavalière knew his name and she just winked at him. This was the best day of Jay's life.
Cerise and Terry entered homeroom and sat at Terry's desk, with Cerise in his lap. They kissed and Terry asked her to come over after school that night.
"What if we went out instead?"
"You don't wanna stay in?" asked Terry. "It's fun to stay in…" he trailed off, nibbling her neck.
Each time new classmates walked in they stared at Terry and Cerise before taking their seats.
Cerise giggled. "Yeah, but I was thinking maybe we could meet up with my friends and do stuff."
"God, don't look so horrified," she snarked.
"Sorry," he frowned.
"Look, I want you to be friends with my friends."
"I'm already friends with the Green Girls."
"Yeah, no but with Jay and the guys."
He looked at her hesitantly.
"Come on! I hang out with all your asshole friends! You don't even like Erica and yet I have to eat lunch with her every freaking day! And I'm not a big fan of Andrew either. And Christina totally ignores me, it's pretty awkward. Is it really such a big deal to spend one night with my friends? I'm not asking you to hang out with them every day, like I do with your friends…"
"Ok, ok, you've made your point."
"Ok then. We could go to a movie. That way you hardly even have to talk to them."
Terry chuckled. "Can Karine come too?"
"Yeah ok. But not the rest of them, right? I mean I'll invite the Greens but not Erica and Andrew…"
"Yeah, just Karine."
"Karine totally checked out my ass this morning," said Jay with a smile as he joined the boys in the caf at lunch.
They all looked at him in stunned confusion.
"I just…" Karl began. "I dunno. Does someone else wanna field this one?"
"She checked out your ass?" asked Vani incredulously.
"You don't even have an ass," said Willy.
"Karine thinks I do and she totally checked it out. She turned me around and she totally stared at my ass."
"Because she thought she might have lost her cell phone in there? I don't get it," frowned Vani.
"We were talking and she said I had a stick up my ass and I said I didn't and then she turned me around and checked out my ass. And then she said that one day she'd take a closer look and she winked at me."
"She winked at you?"
"You sure she didn't just have something in her eye?" asked Karl.
"Or maybe she was tired," suggested Willy.
"Yeah, like how Vani always starts winking when he's tired," nodded Karl.
"I don't wink when I'm tired."
"Except that you megatastically do," said Karl.
"You're a winker," agreed Willy.
"Stay on target, you guys! Karine was flirting with me!" said Jay a bit more loudly than he'd intended.
"Um, doubtful," said Vani. "Like, she just came up to you in the halls and groped your ass? Like why?"
"We were talking. I walked to school with Cerise and we joined her and Terry at the smoking wall."
"Oh, so it's Terry now!" said Vani with a grin. "Last I checked you were still referring to him as ass-breath."
"Hmm, you seem to have a thing with asses," mused Willy.
"Whatever," sighed Jay. "She's megatronly warming up to me."
"Yeah, she wants you," smirked Karl.
Cerise bounded into the caf and plunked herself down next to Jay. "So you guys wanna go see a movie tonight? And then hang out?"
"It's Friday," said Karl. "Gaming night."
"Oh come on. It's gonna be a whole thing. It's a chance to socialize with people who don't wear red shirts."
"Other peeps are gonna be there?" asked Vani with interest.
"Yeah, me and Terry, and the Green Girls…"
"Sarah?" asked Karl.
"Yup," confirmed Cerise. "And Karine too." She smiled at Jay knowingly.
"Really?" he asked.
"Maybe she'll check out your ass some more," smiled Willy.
"What?" asked Cerise, furrowing her brow.
"Karine's favourite new pastime is checking out Jay's ass," offered Vani.
"She's an ass-checker-outer," smiled Karl.
Jay told the guys to shut up while Cerise looked weirded out.
"People might see us," said Karine.
"Karine, don't be such a snob," said Terry with a sigh.
They were walking across the lawn slowly, taking their time to join the gang at the picnic tables.
"I don't wanna hang out with those nerds."
"I don't wanna hang out with them either but Cerise makes a good point. I mean she eats with us everyday even though Erica is totally bitchy to her all the time. But I never hang out with her loser friends."
"Yeah, because they're losers."
"Maybe they're not so bad."
"I'm pretty sure they are."
"Ok fine, don't come," Terry sighed.
Karine smiled sympathetically. "No, I'll come."
"Yeah, I can't let you face them alone. I know you need the moral support," she grinned.
He chuckled. "Thanks."
"Maybe it'll even be fun. I mean I guess that Jay guy isn't so bad."
"Really? I think he's the worst of them."
"I dunno. His hair freaks me out."
"Yeah, I guess it is a little scary."
"A little? He's a fucking circus freak!"
Karine giggled. "We'd just better hope Erica doesn't get wind of this."
"Oh, who cares if she does? What's she gonna do? Stop hanging out with us? What a tragedy that would be," he said while rolling his eyes.
"Yeah, but seriously, Terry. We make fun but she does wield a certain amount of power around here."
"Gimme a break! This isn't Section and she's not Madeleine."
"What, is that an Alias reference?"
"No, la Femme Nikita. The old one, not the new one. I've been watching it with Cerise. Madeleine is the shit."
"Um, ok. Roy Dupuis has a mullet in that show."
"He has a mullet in everything he does. Besides, you shouldn't talk, you pepper."
"I don't have French hair!" Karine exclaimed while Terry laughed. "Anyway! Erica will rip us a new one if she finds out we're hanging out with losers!"
"What's the worst she could do?" asked Terry, still chuckling.
"She could make my life hell. I've seen her work. Remember when Marla Fitzpatrick wasn't the biggest slut in school?"
"Oh dude, have you seen her blog?"
Karine raised her brow, looking at Terry like he was an idiot.
"Well whatever," Terry sighed. "I won't tell Bitchface if you don't."
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Prologue
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Act I
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Act II
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Act III
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Act V


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Killeen é uma cidade localizada no estado norte-americano de Texas, no Condado de Bell. A cidade foi fundada em 1881.

Demografia
Segundo o censo norte-americano de 2000, a sua população era de 86.911 habitantes.
Em 2006, foi estimada uma população de 102.003, um aumento de 15092 (17.4%).

Geografia
De acordo com o United States Census Bureau tem uma área de
91,6 km², dos quais 91,5 km² cobertos por terra e 0,1 km² cobertos por água. Killeen localiza-se a aproximadamente 252 m acima do nível do mar.

Localidades na vizinhança
O diagrama seguinte representa as localidades num raio de 28 km ao redor de Killeen.

Ligações externas

Condado de Bell (Texas)

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Going green: Kovsies plant 150 trees in 30 days
12 September 2019 | Story Valentino Ndaba | Photo Charl Devenish
To celebrate National Arbor Week the University of the Free State has embarked on a drive to plant 150 trees during the month of September
If you've wondered whether Arbor Month was important, you only have to look at the destruction and long-term damage that deforestation causes to the environment and the world's inhabitants. To observe National Arbor Month, the University of the Free State's has (UFS) kick-started a drive to plant 150 trees during the month of September.
To launch this initiative, the Rector and Vice-Chancellor, Prof Francis Petersen, alongside members of the rectorate, assisted the University Estates team in planting the first 10 of 100 trees at the Bloemfontein Campus on Wednesday 4 September 2019. A total of 50 trees will be planted on the Qwaqwa Campus.
Towards a sustainable future
"We have gone through periods of drought in the Free State that have severely impacted not only the plants but the trees on our campuses. The idea is to emphasise sustainability, and as a university, we believe that sustainability is important. As an education institution, we have to look at the generations that are still to come to our campuses," said Prof Petersen.
He urged the Kovsie community to ensure that all practices across the campuses are linked to global standards of sustainability. "As we develop over the next couple of months and years, we will get much closer alignment between what we are doing as a university and the Sustainable Development Goals."
Drought-resistant man-made forests
Clusters of mini forests across the campuses will be created with a variety of trees including the karee, white karee, white stinkwood, and wild olive. These indigenous trees can adapt well to different soils including those that are poorly drained.
Celebrating Arbor Week
This year's campaign was held under the theme Forests and Sustainable Cities. As part of the celebration, University Estates made a commitment to the environment by embarking on the green initiative which includes other project such as the upgrade of Red Square on the Bloemfontein Campus.
UFS gives clarity on disciplinary action against students
There seems to be some uncertainty about the course of the internal disciplinary steps the University of the Free State (UFS) is now taking against two current students in connection with the production of an extremely offensive and racist video which came to light last week.
Here is an explanation of the disciplinary steps:
The university's legal representatives yesterday informed the student's legal representatives that they are in the process of compiling a charge sheet against the two students. This was done in writing and no meetings took place between the lawyers.
The university's legal representatives are in the process of compiling a charge sheet. When this charge sheet is finalised, it will be made available to the students' legal representatives.
The Rector and Vice-Chancellor of the UFS, Prof. Frederick Fourie, is in the process of appointing a disciplinary committee.
Once the charge sheet has reached the students' legal representatives, a date for the hearing will be arranged.
The criminal charges against the four students will be dealt with by the South African Police Service (SAPS).
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iLO is the server management solution embedded in almost every HP servers for more than 10 years. It provides the features required by a system administrator to remotely manage a server without having to physically reach it. iLO4 (known to be used on the family of servers HP ProLiant Gen8 and ProLiant Gen9) runs on a dedicated ARM micro-processor embedded in the server, totally independent from the main processor. We performed an initial deep dive security study of HP iLO4 and covered the following topics: firmware unpacking and memory layout, embedded OS internals, vulnerability discovery and exploitation as well as full compromise of the host server operating system through DMA. One of the main outcome of our study was the discovery of a critical vulnerability in the web server component allowing an authentication bypass but also a remote code execution. Still, one question remains open, namely; are the iLO systems resilient against a long term compromise at firmware level. For this reason, this paper is focused on the update mechanism and how a motivated attacker can achieve long term persistence on the system; how a new/backdoored firmware can be crafted then installed, to offer an attacker a stealth and resilient backdoor in an environment which has been compromised.
AMI is now offering firmware for both BIOS and BMC on Intel customer reference boards (CRB) for the Intel Xeon® processor D-1500 product family and the 4th generation baseboard management controller (BMC) from Aspeed, the Aspeed AST2300 BMC. AMI has developed generic Redfish BIOS and BMC firmware support and has tested on the next generation AMD silicon. AMI's BIOS and BMC firmware are highly integrated, allowing data center administrators to simultaneously, remotely and securely manage a number of server platforms out-of-box. Other features include BIOS-level firmware configuration and firmware updating. BMC functionality is based on the open industry standard specification and schema from DMTF's Redfish™ API with the goal of creating seamless integration into existing tool chains.
Alex Hung of Canonlical has announced the release of FWTS (FirmWare Test Suite) version 15.11.00, the November 2015 quarterly release, with multiple changes to the UEFI and ACPI tools.
* Add in the notion of ACPI compliance tests.
I've not mentioned Arium's debugger yet. The Intel Tunnel Mountain UEFI dev board can be used with the Intel UDK Debugger Tool, a 2-system debugging solution that uses Windbg on Windows, GDB on Linux. If you want to trace into silicon, you need to buy some debugging hardware, and a debugger that works with that hardware. One solution is to use Arium's ITP widget and their debugger. It is EXPENSIVE, so you have to be well-funded to have one of these units, but I've heard it is powerful. They have products for ARM and Intel.
I'm waiting for Intel to release real information on their Innovation Engine.


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FINALLY! First Senior Bankers On The Planet Responsible For 2008 Collapse Jailed
Source:TheFreeThoughtProject.com
Matt Agorist
In April, Wells Fargo & Co admitted to defrauding the United States government for nearly an entire decade, which subsequently led to the housing market collapse — and the United States punished no one.
Bank of America Corp (BAC.N), Citigroup Inc (C.N), Deutsche Bank AG (DBKGn.DE) and JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM.N), have all previously made the same admission and settled similar federal lawsuits — again, with no one being held criminally responsible.
While low-level bankers have been thrown in jail as apparent scapegoats in places like Iceland, not a single high-level CEO or officer has faced punitive criminal action — until now.
On Friday, three senior Irish bankers were jailed for up to three-and-a-half years for their conspiracy to defraud investors, subsequently causing the economic collapse of 2008.
According to a report in Reuters, the trio will be among the first senior bankers globally to be jailed for their role in the collapse of a bank during the crisis.
Watching these criminal bankers use the governments of the world to fleece the taxpayers in a series of bailouts and scams to defraud the people has been infuriating.
As Reuters reports,
The lack of convictions until now has angered Irish taxpayers, who had to stump up 64 billion euros – almost 40 percent of annual economic output – after a property collapse forced the biggest state bank rescue in the euro zone.
The crash thrust Ireland into a three-year sovereign bailout in 2010 and the finance ministry said last month that it could take another 15 years to recover the funds pumped into the banks still operating.
Former Irish Life and Permanent Chief Executive Denis Casey was sentenced to two years and nine months following the 74-day criminal trial, Ireland's longest ever.
Willie McAteer, former finance director at the failed Anglo Irish Bank, and John Bowe, its ex-head of capital markets, were given sentences of 42 months and 24 months respectively.
Unlike the bankers who remain protected in America's legal system, the Irish have decided to lay down the law.
"By means that could be termed dishonest, deceitful and corrupt they manufactured 7.2 billion euros in deposits by obvious sham transactions," Judge Martin Nolan told the court, describing the conspiracy as a "very serious crime".
"The public is entitled to rely on the probity of blue chip firms. If we can't rely on the probity of these banks we lose all hope or trust in institutions," said Nolan.
In the United States, the people have been forced to file their own legal action against the criminal bankers as the government does absolutely nothing to stop their crimes.
Despite the bankers' best attempts at foiling the private actions against them, the people have pushed through.
A newly revived antitrust lawsuit, according to the appeals court, could be devastating to these 16 banks, including Deutsche Bank AG, Royal Bank of Canada, Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc, UBS AG, HSBC Holdings Plc, Barclays Plc, Credit Suisse Group AG, Bank of America Corp, Citigroup Inc., and JPMorgan Chase & Co.
"Requiring the banks to pay treble damages to every plaintiff who ended up on the wrong side of an independent Libor‐denominated derivative swap would, if appellants' allegations were proved at trial, not only bankrupt 16 of the world's most important financial institutions, but also vastly extend the potential scope of antitrust liability in myriad markets where derivative instruments have proliferated," the U.S. Court of Appeals in New York said in the ruling.
Until the people wake up to the atrocities being carried out against them by criminal bankers who control the government, this fleecing of the citizenry will continue. To all those who bank with any of these huge banks — pull your money out today, move it to a local bank, or find another alternative.
Failing to do so only sustains their criminal behavior. Please share this story with your friends and family as it will most assuredly be a mere blip on their televisions and deliberately easy to miss.
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Matt Agorist is an honorably discharged veteran of the USMC and former intelligence operator directly tasked by the NSA. This prior experience gives him unique insight into the world of government corruption and the American police state. Agorist has been an independent journalist for over a decade and has been featured on mainstream networks around the world. Follow @MattAgorist
Posted on August 5, 2016 August 5, 2016 Categories Big Banks, NewsTags Bank of America, Big Banks, Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, John Bowe, JP Morgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Willie McAteer1 Comment on FINALLY! First Senior Bankers On The Planet Responsible For 2008 Collapse Jailed
Criminal Bankers and Icelandic Justice – F. William Engdahl
Source: TheNewsDoctors.com
F. William Engdhal
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TND Guest Contributor: F. William Engdahl
On September 15, 2008, a former Goldman Sachs chairman, US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulsen, deliberately triggered a predictable global financial meltdown when he decided to break precedent and let Lehman Bros, the fourth-largest Wall Street investment bank, go bankrupt. The reasons for his decision are for another time. The fallout from that traumatic financial crisis remains very much with the world financial system to this day, more than seven years later. One of the little-noticed casualties of that Lehman Bros. debacle was the worst banking crisis in the history of one of the world's smallest countries, Iceland. How that country of 323,000 citizens chose to deal with the crisis is a model for the rest of the world. Instead of beatifying the criminal bankers responsible for worst world financial crisis in history, the people of Iceland did something quite different.
Iceland, a beautiful Nordic island in the far North Atlantic between Greenland and Norway, with active volcanoes, streams with some of the most delicious non-industrial and non-GMO wild salmon, self-sufficient in energy from thermal springs and hydroelectric power, got lured into the mad, greed-driven frenzy of the US sub-prime real estate crisis in a big way. In October 2008, amid the global financial Tsunami triggered by Paulsen's Lehman act, the Iceland government nationalized the three largest private banks, Glitnir, Landsbanki and Kaupthing, following depositor panic withdrawals. The three banks, in a few short years after they were privatized had managed to amass debts ten times Iceland's annual DGP.
When a group of sensible US economists proposed Paulsen nationalize the top Wall Street banks behind the crisis–JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs– to restore order and keep credit flowing to the real economy, he replied that would be "socialism. We don't do that in America." Instead, Paulsen's US Treasury used hundreds of billions of US taxpayer dollars to buy non-voting shares of the Wall Street banks, meaning the Government didn't demand any say in the banks' policies in return. That might be called bankers' socialism–privatize the profits and socialize the losses.
By November 2008 the UK and Dutch investors in a now-defunct savings scheme of Landsbanki, Icesave, found their hundreds of millions of Pounds of investments were, indeed, frozen like ice—their savings were frozen ice. When the British government demanded of the Iceland government the repayment of the deposits in the UK branches of the formerly private Landsbanki bank, an international dispute, known as the Icesave dispute, erupted. The British government invoked anti-terrorism legislation against Iceland in order to freeze the UK-based assets of Kaupthing, Iceland's biggest bank, bankrupting the bank. Iceland's government turned to the IMF for a $5 billion bailout, the first European country since Italy in 1976 to do so.
Citizen revolt
The Governor of the Iceland Central Bank, David Oddsson went against the government of Geir Haarde, who had been complicit in facilitating the private bankers's criminal Ponzi schemes, and stated on national TV, "Icelanders will not pay the debts of profligate financiers." In January 2009 Haarde's coalition was forced to resign following massive protests as unemployment soared from 1% before the crisis to over 9% in months. The IMF, as always, was demanding severe Greek-like austerity from the government as condition for its bailout. In September 2010, Haarde became the first Icelandic minister to be indicted for misconduct in office, and the only politician in the world to be charged with responsibility for the financial crisis. He stood trial before a special court for official offenses, the Landsdómur. He was convicted on one count.
The Haarde government had twice negotiated terms under which Iceland would repay the UK and the Netherlands governments, with interest, for the cost of bailing out Icesave savers. The IMF demanded it as condition for its money. And Parliament bowed. But Iceland's staunchly independent voters twice passed popular referenda rejecting the UK, Dutch and IMF demands.
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Q: Reciprocal-totient function, in term of the totient function? I've been looking at a function $\phi_{-1}:\mathbb N\mapsto\mathbb Q$, similar to Euler's totient function $\phi$, defined recursively as
$$\phi_{-1}(1):=1$$
$$\phi_{-1}(n):=\frac{1}{n}-\sum_{d|n, d\lt n}\phi_{-1}(d)$$
which can be contrasted with the recursive definition of the totient function:
$$\phi(n):=n-\sum_{d|n, d\lt n}\phi(d)$$
Some of its special values include
$$\phi_{-1}(p)=\frac{1-p}{p}, \space\space p\space\space\text{prime}$$
$$\phi_{-1}(p^m)=\frac{1-p}{p^m}, \space\space p\space\space\text{prime}$$
$$|\phi_{-1}(c)|=\frac{\phi(c)}{c},\space\space \text{if each prime factor of } c\space\space\text{has a multiplicity of 1}$$
I am looking for some other properties of this function, especially a representation of it in terms of other common number-theoretical function, or a formula for the sum
$$\sum_{d|n}\phi_{-1}(d)$$
I am also trying to find a rule about when $\phi_{-1}$ takes on positive values.
Any ideas?

A: If $\phi_{-1}:\mathbb{N}^*\to\mathbb{Q}$ is defined through $\phi_{-1}(1)=1$ and
$$ \phi_{-1}(n) = \frac{1}{n}-\sum_{\substack{d\mid n\\ d<n}}\phi_{-1}(d) $$
then $\sum_{d\mid n}\phi_{-1}(d)=\frac{1}{n}$. Since $\frac{1}{n}$ is a multiplicative function, by Moebius inversion it follows that $\phi_{-1}$ is a multiplicative function too. We know its values over prime powers, hence
$$ \phi_{-1}(n) = \prod_{p\mid n}\frac{1-p}{p^{\nu_p(n)}}=\frac{(-1)^{\omega(n)}}{n}\prod_{p\mid n}(p-1)=\color{red}{\frac{(-1)^{\omega(n)}\,\text{rad}(n)\,\varphi(n)}{n^2}} $$
here $\varphi(n)$ is the usual Euler's totient function, $\omega(n)$ is the number of distinct prime factors of $n$ and $\text{rad}(n)=\prod_{p\mid n}p$ is the square-free part of $n$.

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The two artists collaborated on a batch of vegan blueberry muffins.
The clip finds the two MCs in the kitchen, and together the pair whip up a batch of vegan blueberry muffins. Waka says of the final product, "it's like a Chick-Fil-A sandwich." Watch above.


For the past couple of years, I've taken part in the 30 Days of Lists Project. It's a fun way of "forcing yourself" to journal every day for a month, and you can spend as little or as much time as your schedule allows on each day's list.
Here are all of my previous lists, in case you're curious.
For this upcoming third go-round, which begins March 1, I've decided to be a sponsor! As part of the sponsorship, I have taken part in an affiliate program which earns me a small bit of the profits for anyone who signs up using my link (by clicking the image below, or the one in the sidebar).
If you're interested in joining, do! It's a really fun project. And let me know if you're taking part, regardless of whether you joined because I prompted it. I want to keep an eye out for your lists.
I'm so gutted it's next month - I really wanted to take part, but as I'll be travelling for the whole month I'll already be over-documenting life! Looking forward to seeing your lists.
Hi Mandy! I just signed up for the 30 Days of Lists and am now cruising through other participants blogs to say hello! Your blog is adorable (love your tagline). Looking forward to the project!
Welcome to C&CC, Callie! Thank you for stopping by and for the sweet words. I look forward to seeing your lists!


Jumat Sulaiman, and Mohammad Khatim Hasan, and Mohamed Othman, and Samsul Arifin Abdul Karim, (2013) Fourth order solutions of singularly perturbed boundary value problems by quarter-sweep iteration. In: 20th National Symposium on Mathematical Sciences (SKSM20), 18-20 December 2012, Palm Garden Hotel, Putrajaya, Malaysia.
In previous studies, the effectiveness of the second-order quarter-sweep finite difference approximation equations has been shown in solving singularly perturbed boundary value problems. In this paper, however, we investigate the application of the fourth-order quarter-sweep finite difference approximation equation based on the fourth-order standard central difference scheme. To solve the problems numerically, discretization of the singularly perturbed problems via second-order and fourth-order finite difference schemes is proposed to form the corresponding system of linear algebraic equations. For comparison purpose, we also discuss on how to derive the basic formulation and implementation for the family of Successive Over-Relaxation (SOR) iterative methods such as FSSOR, HSSOR and QSSOR in solving the corresponding linear systems generated from the fourth-order discretization schemes based on full, half- and quarter-sweep cases. Some numerical tests were conducted to show that the accuracy of fourth-order finite difference schemes via the corresponding GS methods is more accurate than second-order schemes.


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Mountains, waterfalls, beaches and some of the country's last uncharted wilderness. Yep, what Tasmania lacks in size, it more than makes up for in adventures.
Weekend at Burnie
As you enter Burnie on Tasmania's beautiful north coast, it comes across as just another industrial city. But industry and tourism happily coexist here, promising some unique experiences and a…
The road to Gordon Dam
The plan was to check out an incredible double arched dam wall near Strathgordon. But Tasmania's many diversions always have a way of keeping Kev Smith on the road that…
A Town Called Penguin
From paperbacks to polo shirts, the world's favourite flightless bird is far from unfamiliar with loaning out its name. Here, however, Kev Smith presents a lesser-known example; a stunning place…
Waratah: the town at the top of a waterfall
Waratah went from being Tasmania's most important town, to one of its most obscure. Only now is it being rediscovered for the fascinating destination that it is. For one thing,…
Short 'n' Deep: hiking in Leven Canyon
Leven Canyon is so close to Cradle Mountain that it's often missed. But if you like the idea of free camping among magical tree ferns, spotting unique wildlife and walking…
Cradle Mountain: a Tasmanian icon
Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park is a bushwalking paradise, boasting some of the best views to be found in Alpine Tasmania.
Alpine Tasmania: three stunning alternatives to Cradle Mountain
Cradle Mountain's lesser-known cousins have all of the wow factor, and none of the crowds.
For a taste of Eastern Tasmania's famous white beaches and extraordinary wildlife, you can't go past Bruny Island.
Taking in Tassie: six things you never knew about the Apple Isle
Jaclyn Riley-Smith
We spill the beans on a few secrets Tassie has been keeping from the rest of Australia
Tassie Beaches – Who Knew?
We have seen some incredible beaches in our travels. And Tasmanian beaches rank up there with the best. Yes, really.


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Pfizer False Claims Case
Re: the Legality of Making False Safety & Efficacy Claims of the Pfizer Covid Injection
Dates: Jan 8, 2021 (filed)
Court: Eastern District of Texas, Beaumont Division
Case #: 1:21-cv-00008-MJT
Plaintiff: USA ex rel Brook Jackson
Plaintiff's Lawyer: Warner Mendenhall
Defendant: Ventavia Research Group, Llc; Pfizer Inc; Icon Plc
Trial Type: Federal False Claims Act
Verdict: TBD
*updated Aug 31, 2022
Brook Jackson is a Clinical Research Auditor turned whistleblower who worked for Ventavia company (a contractor for Pfizer) on the phase III clinical trial of Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine.
Jackson commenced her employment with Ventavia on 8th September 2020 as a Regional Director, supervising two of three trial sites involved in the clinical. Immediately after starting her work she observed several glaring quality outages in the way the trials were being performed, including the following:
– all trial participants had been unblinded from July to September 2020 in the in the randomised double blind trials, thus invalidating the protocol (1)
Ventavia staff were not following the patient informed consent procedure
Required signatures were not being obtained and sometimes being forged
Vaccines were not being stored under the specified low temperature conditions
A dominant culture of sloppiness, rushing the work and falsifying records existed in the company
Adverse events were not being properly recorded
Brook explains that when the unblinding error was discovered, Ventavia staff were asked to remove the evidence and lie to Pfizer about the unblinding.
Brook subsequently shared all her findings with Ventavia expecting that they would take corrective action. However since there was no action, she anonymously reported her findings to Pfizer, again without results. Finally on the morning of 25th September she informed the FDA.
I took it to a regulatory authority that I believed and trusted … was there to protect patient safety and look at the big picture.
Ventavia fired her 6 hours later giving as the only reason that she was not a good fit with the company.
Her lawyer, Warner Mendenhall said of her termination: This is really remarkable that the Federal government apparently has reached out to Pfizer and revealed / unblinded the whistleblower who has come forward. I mean, we actually do have a process to blind and protect whistleblowers in the country for a reason. Its so that this stuff can come forward and the information be shared with the Federal government and collected. . When I first started in the 90s I felt like the federal government was very protective of whistle blowers to preserve their anonymity and now, recently, I see the Federal government reaching out , in two instances recently, and unblinding the whistle blower which causes them to be fired and lose the capacity to continue to investigate. (2)
Even after being fired, Jackson had expected that following her whistleblowing action would at least result in an inspection of the Ventavia site by FDA auditors. However, after three months waiting for this without any action from the FDA, Jackson decided to file a false claims lawsuit against Pfizer and its associates Ventavia and ICON (3)
The lawsuit (4) was filed in Texas on Jan 8 2021. It was held under seal for 60 days during which Jackson could not talk publicly about the lawsuit. Jackson has actually said that she has been prevented from talking about the filing for a year (5).
First legal challenge in USA of Pfizers product safety and efficacy claims
Brook Jackson argues that Pfizer and its associates involved in the clinical trials are in breach of the False Claims Act because they knowingly brought the Covid-19 vaccine onto the market while making safety claims which could not be supported based on Jacksons observation of quality outages in the running of the clinical trials.
Pfizer, Ventavia and ICON have argued that the case should be dismissed because the government already knew about the fraud based on Jacksons whistleblowing actions. Therefore, they argue, a legal action under the False Claims Act is not supportable or appropriate. (5)
This case is ongoing
Read the Court Filing
Epoch Times Report – Aug 25 2022
Ventavia Unblinded Randomised Trial Participants -Aug 13 2021
source: Odysee/shortXXvids
Federal Gov. Revealed Jackson's Identity to Pfizer -Aug 13 2022
False Claims Act Lawsuit Filing -Aug 13 2022
False Claims Legal filing
CHD report
Brook Jackson, Clinical Trials, False Claims Act, Mendenhall, Pfizer, Safety, Vaccine, Ventavia, Whistleblower
Centrus Vaccine Civil Rights Case
Re: the Legality of forcing employees to take an experimental medical procedure as a condition to work
Files: Nov 17, 2021 (2)
Court: US District Court for the Southern District of Ohio Eastern Division
Case #: 2:21-cv-05336
Plaintiffs: Danny Shortridge, Craig Moore, Brenda Patton, Doug McLaughlin, Gary Entler, Dockie Tackett & Christine Buttermore
Plaintiff Attorneys: Thomas W Connors & Warner Mendenhall
Defendants: Centrus Energy Corp, Fluor-BWXT Portsmouth, LLC, Mid-American Conversion Services, LLC, and Portsmouth Mission Alliance, LLC
Trial Type:
Presiding Judge: Algenon Marbley [2]
Referring Judge: Elizabeth Preston Deavers [3]
* The information for this case was provided by the Plaintiffs Attorneys
On 11/17/2021 Shortridge filed a Civil Right – Employment Discrimination lawsuit against Centrus Energy Corp. This case was filed in U.S. District Courts, Ohio Southern District. The Judges overseeing this case are Algenon L. Marbley and Elizabeth Preston Deavers. [3]
The federal government offered Defendants cash payments in exchange for enforcing vaccine mandates and achieving a rate of 90% of vaccination among its workers.
This case challenges the Biden Administration's attempt to pay off companies in order to coerce their employees to undergo a medical treatment that violate their Constitutional and civil rights.
442 Civil Rights – Employment [2]
The Defendants' vaccine mandates are subject to First Amendment Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) of 1993. Defendants violated Title VII of Civil Rights Act of 1964 by failing to provide employees required medical or religious accommodation and instead Defendants threatened to terminate Plaintiffs if they did not get vaccinated. Defendants have violated the US Constitution by forcing the Plaints to choose to either take the vaccination at the expense of their religious beliefs or health, or losing their jobs. [1]
Biden's Executive Order authorized a Task Force to update vaccine mandate guidance on a continuing basis. The Task Force Guidance requires federal contractors and subcontractors to mandate "COVID-19 vaccination of covered contractor employees, except in limited circumstances. where an employee is legally entitled to an accommodation….[C]overed contractor employees are to be "fully vaccinated" by January 18, 2022
source: ….
[1] VERIFIED CLASS ACTION COMPLAINT FOR TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER, INJUNCTIVE RELIEF, AND DECLARATORY RELIEF
[2] pacermonitor case 42674314
[3] unicourt: Shortridge, et al. v. Centrus Energy Corp, et al.
USA, Shortridge, Centrus Energy Corp, Civil Rights, Employment Discrimination, U.S. District Courts, Ohio, Southern District, First Amendment Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) of 1993, Title VII, Civil Rights Act of 1964, Task Force, Biden, Executive Order, Mendenhall, Connors
UC Students v Vaccine Mandates Case
UC Students Vaccine Mandate Case
Re: Legality of Vaccine Mandates as a condition to study at the University of Cincinnati
aka: Benjamin Lipp, et al. v. University of Cincinnati
Dates: filed 12/10/2021
Location: Hamilton County, Ohio USA
Court: Common Pleas Civil Court
Case #: A 2104238
Plaintiff: Benjamin Lipp, et al.
Defendant: University of Cincinnati
Judge: Leslie Ghiz
Calling it a civil rights issue designed to check a university's abuse of power, Akron-based Mendenhall Law Group filed a lawsuit against the University of Cincinnati (UC) and its board of trustees over the school's COVID-19 vaccine mandate. (4)
The action was introduced in the Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas on Wednesday and includes four plaintiffs: students Benjamin Lipp, Danielle Seymore, Katelyn Verbarg and Nicholai Lekson. Warner Mendenhall and Kyle Wenning are representing the plaintiffs. (4)
The plaintiffs all were students at University of Cincinnati. Three of the plaintiffs had received exemptions from the school's vaccine mandates. One of the plaintiffs met the vaccination requirement but he objects to the University's mandatory vaccine policy and the possibility of having to receive a booster shot to stay in school. (1)
Multiple students told The Ohio Press Network (OPN) that they have received coercive emails from UC officials, and those who have questioned the mandate have been subject to derogatory remarks, including "you freedom people are annoying." (4)
Lipp, who is also a plaintiff, is 24 and a senior majoring in finance. He points out that the virus has a more than 99% survival rate for Ohioans in his age range and the vaccine does not prevent transmission or infection of the virus.
"Even as an unvaccinated student, I have low risk of dying from COVID, and I've had the virus, so that puts me in a different class because of my natural immunity," he explained. "If someone else is vaccinated, why do I need to be vaccinated?"
His personal opinion aside, Lipp said that he chose to join the lawsuit as a plaintiff because he believes university officials are violating his rights.
"You don't have to have an opinion on COVID-19 to agree with the lawsuit. It's not about whether or not masks and the vaccine works. It's about public officials not acting within legal authority," Lipp said. "If they can get away with this, what else will they try? This lawsuit is important because it is designed to hold them accountable."
In September, UC instituted a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for students, faculty and staff. Students were required to show proof of at least one dose of the shot by October 15 and two doses of the inoculation by November 15. (4)
The mandate applies to students and university employees who visit campus for class or work, and individuals who use campus facilities. Medical and religious exemptions to the vaccine requirement can be requested, according to the mandate. (4)
Students who do not comply by January 3 will be unenrolled from spring semester classes. Weekly testing is required between November 15 and January 3 for anyone not in compliance with the mandate. (4)
The website also includes: "The university will consider disciplinary measures in accordance with established policies for faculty and staff who are not fully vaccinated or have not been granted an exemption before the beginning of spring semester. Discipline for represented employees will proceed in accordance with agreed-upon processes currently being discussed with their collective bargaining units." (4)
OPN (the Ohio Press Network) was provided with numerous emails obtained by a public records request that show UC officials attempting to implement their COVID-19 vaccine mandate despite the passage of HB 244, which was signed into law by Gov. Mike DeWine and became effective on October 13. (4)
The legislation prohibits Ohio public schools from requiring vaccines not yet approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). HB 244 also says that public schools cannot discriminate against people not vaccinated by mandating that they perform different activities from their vaccinated counterparts. Schools covered by the bill include state colleges and universities along with public schools, joint vocational school districts, college-prep boarding schools and STEM schools. (4)
This case covers multiple issues including discrimination, abuse of power and government over reach, illegal mandates, sovereignty of their own bodies, and the veracity of the Covid and Inoculation narrative
According to the lawsuit filing, "this is a civil action for declaratory and injunctive relief involving the statutory and constitutional validity of UC's vaccination and health measure mandates effective Sept. 1, 2021.
"By reason of Ohio Revised Code 3709.212 and Ohio case law, the defendants lack authority to order those not diagnosed with a disease or have not come into direct contact with someone who has not been diagnosed with a disease to wear masks, undergo testing or limit their activities."
The filing adds that the mandate also violates Ohio Revised Code 3792.04 because UC is a state school of higher education and is "discriminating by requiring plaintiffs to engage in or refrain from engaging in activities or precautions that differ from the activities or precautions of an individual who has received a vaccine that has not been fully approved by the FDA."
The school's vaccine mandate violates revised code 3792.04. The mandate violates Article I, Section 1 of the Ohio Constitution in that it violates Plaintiffs' right to refuse medical treatment. The Mandate violates R.C. 2905.12 to the extent that it coerces Plaintiffs from taking or refraining from actions over which they should have legal freedom by choice, by taking, withholding or threatening to take or withhold official action. (1)
"One of the things we have seen across the country is exactly what we are pointing out in this lawsuit, that authorities are stepping outside the bounds of their authority," Mendenhall said. "That equals an abuse of power, and it's happening at federal, state and local level and at colleges and universities. Our lawsuit is designed to check the abuse of power."
"We have autonomy in our medical-decision making,"… "It is unprecedented that a university would require an experimental medical procedure on students or masking.
"We are waking up to the fact that the COVID-19 injection is not stopping spread," … "Those who get the shot do not provide protection to anyone else. It is absurd that people are mistreated because they choose to not get a shot." He noted that natural immunity is overlooked and it can be at least six times stronger than the vaccine.
"We would like [university officials] to end all mandates and not treat people differently,"
Read the original Case Complaint here:
IU students file lawsuit over vaccine mandate
source: WHAS11
Judge halts vaccine mandate in 10 states
Pfizer Vaccine Effectiveness Analyzed
source: Canadian Covid Care Alliance
Link to case as posted on Hamilton County Clerk of Court Website:
PDF of case shared on Ohio Stands Up website:
Plaintiffs' Attorney: Mendenhall Law Firm
Students file lawsuit against Univ of Cincinnati
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@@Xvhsc > About AMCHP > Newsletters > Pulse Newsletter > January/February 2017 > Child & Adolescent Health: Reflections on a Year of Collaboration and Improvement and a Look Ahead
By Kate Taft, Cori Floyd and Iliana White
Child and Adolescent Health Team, AMCHP
The past year has been a successful one for the Child and Adolescent Health team as we addressed emerging and existing needs of members related to adolescent and youth adult health, child health and children and youth with special health care needs. While the team developed many products and resources, collaborative learning and quality improvement were the focus of how we supported states in 2016 and plan to in 2017. Some highlights are below:
AMCHP's adolescent health efforts saw a productive and inspiring 2016. Through our partnership within the Adolescent and Young Adult Health National Resource Center, AMCHP has been working with the first cohort of states in the AYAH CoIIN to build their capacity in strategies and approaches to increase access to and the quality of preventive services for youth. Through multidisciplinary teams, the five states (Iowa, Mississippi, New Mexico, Texas and Vermont) have worked diligently to test and implement quality improvement activities both within clinical demonstration sites and the broader systems of public health and care, with the global aim to increase the receipt of annual adolescent well-visits. Each state team developed a specific action plan unique to their resources, current opportunities and the needs of the youth population in their communities.
Concurrently, CoIIN teams also contributed lessons learned and shared measurement data to the National Strategy Teams (NSTs) originally established to collaborate collectively on the following three strategies:
Improve access & uptake of preventive services.
Improve the quality of preventive services.
Improve state/systems-level policies and practices to assure access to high-quality preventive services.
Each NST worked to define specific goal statements and shared measures that would capture the scaled efforts of each participating state to a common set of goals. The NSTs have engaged in peer knowledge and resource sharing through virtual learning sessions and forums facilitated by AMCHP and the staff from the National Resource Center.
2016 also saw the launch of the AYAH Center Bulletin, a periodic e-newsletter to inform the greater Title V field and key partners about the Resource Center's collective efforts and issues affecting the health of adolescents and young adults.
Looking ahead, the AYAH-NRC will continue to assist with promising efforts of the first cohort of the CoIIN, as well as support a second cohort of state teams to work on improving preventive health services and systems for this population. AMCHP will also aid its other partner organizations within the AYAH Resource Center to launch its series of broader technical assistance learning forums (virtually) so states and other partners can learn and build capacity to advance AYAH through a variety of encouraging practices and approaches. Finally, to share updates on the CoIIN and other goals of the Resource Center with broader audiences in Title V and other stakeholders, the AYAH Center Bulletin will continue to be disseminated, with editions focusing on the following proposed themes: access to mental health services, confidentiality in practice and policy, Medicaid, equity, engagement, infusion of the well-visit in other initiatives and clinical service delivery for youth. Overall, AMCHP is committed to translating and disseminating lessons learned as well as creating resources to aid those states and territories that have selected NPM 10 and/or developed a state performance measure) related to the provision of health services for young people.
AMCHP participated on several exciting child health-related CoIINs and similar projects with partners, including child safety, early childhood comprehensive systems, healthy weight and newborn screening. AMCHP also led an effort with partners and state experts to provide recommended updates to the National Newborn Screening Contingency Plan, with a focus on addressing gaps in laboratory and clinical follow-up. AMCHP also works with the Association of Public Health Laboratories on NewSTEPs 360 and its efforts to help states improve systems related to timeliness of newborn screening.
The updates were submitted to federal partners and it is expected the new version will be released in time for a workshop at the AMCHP Annual Conference in March. Over the coming year, AMCHP looks forward to continuing those partnerships and engaging our members and partners in promoting child health through quality improvement and collaborative learning.
Last year, AMCHP was pleased to award Learn the Signs. Act Early. (LTSAE) State Systems Grants to 10 states and two territories: California, Florida, Georgia, Guam, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Montana, New Mexico, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and the Virgin Islands. The grantees will increase parent-engaged developmental monitoring through a wide range of early childhood systems, including Title V, home visiting, Head Start/Early Head Start, Help Me Grow, early childhood education partners and more. AMCHP promoted collaborative learning among the grantees to regular calls, technical assistance and coordination with the broader Act Early Network.
AMCHP engaged in several efforts to support state MCH and CYSHCN leaders in their response and planning to the emerging Zika virus. Related to child health, AMCHP held peer calls and a special session at the December MCHB Technical Assistance Partnership Meeting, which allowed members to share challenges, questions and strategies with each other related to ongoing monitoring and follow-up for infants and children affected by Zika. AMCHP plans a special session at the upcoming Annual Conference to continue those conversations as they relate to systems of care for these children.
Children & Youth with Special Health Care Needs (CYSHCN)
2016 proved to be a productive year for AMCHP's work to support CYSHCN programs, including those focused on autism spectrum disorders and other developmental disabilities (ASD/DD).
ASD/DD: Through our State Public Health Autism Resource Center (SPHARC), AMCHP provided many opportunities for collaborative learning through a range of mechanisms from technical assistance calls on Transition, Telehealth/Autism Awareness and Data Systems Integration to an in-person peer-to-peer exchange on addressing gaps in ASD/DD diagnosis.
In October, SPHARC, in partnership with HRSA, kicked-off an Autism Community of Learners for the new HRSA state autism grantees: Delaware, Rhode Island, Washington and Wisconsin. Following an in-person meeting, SPHARC has helped lay the groundwork for national partner and peer-to-peer support around grantee activities for the project period, which focus on implementation of three key evidence-based/informed strategies: shared resource, family navigator and telemedicine/telehealth. The community has access to a new team SharePoint site and is participating in monthly technical assistance calls that cater to grantee needs by providing access to experts and national partners, as well as a forum to discuss successes and best practices with one another. More information about the Community of Learners and state approaches is highlighted in a recent PULSE article. Information about SPHARC and recent resources can be found at the revamped webpage, which features a new interactive map and state spotlights, resource search engine and much more.
In the coming year, SPHARC will continue to the support the Community of Learners as they implement their evidence-based/informed strategies, with a focus on implementing quality improvement methods. SPHARC will also be creating resources and providing collaborative opportunities for the broader ASD/DD and Title V community.
Profile of CYSHCN State Programs: AMCHP has laid the groundwork for some exciting resources to come this year. In late 2015 to early 2016, AMCHP fielded a survey to capture data from CYSHCN programs about family engagement, life course theory, medical home and transition initiatives, quality improvement and financing. Forty-seven jurisdictions, including the District of Columbia and one territory, completed the profile, yielding a response rate of 94 percent. Analysis of survey data has been completed, and a report will be released in March, in conjunction with a workshop session at the AMCHP Annual Conference. This report will offer insight into CYSHCN programs and provide an opportunity for AMCHP to identify specific areas of technical assistance for CYSHCN directors.
National Consensus Framework for Improving Quality Systems of Care for CYSHCN: As part of phase III of the Standards project, AMCHP, in partnership with the National Academy for State Health Policy, continues to focus on increased outreach to Medicaid and health plans, provision of intensive technical assistance to states, and continued effort to condense and streamline the standards for ease of use. The team is nearing completion of the revised standards, which include the addition of new federal regulations and guidelines and reflect feedback from states that have previously implemented the standards. In July, AMCHP and NASHP convened a successful meeting of the National Standards Workgroup to provide input and guidance on these revisions. The team continues to embrace family leaders in the development and creation of the Standards.
The team continued to develop tools that will be piloted during conferences and this year's upcoming Action Learning Collaborative, such as organizational assessments, partnership and alignment tools and a crosswalk guide of the Standards document and National Committee for Quality Assurance regulations. AMCHP looks forward to continued work to support states on strengthening their state system of care for CYSHCN by using or adapting the national standards.


The centre of Elizondo stands on both banks of the river Batzan and contains a great many noble buildings such as stately homes and small palaces. The most representative are the palace of Arizkunenea and the City Hall, as well as the beautiful neighbourhood of Beartzu.
Fortress towers are the most common structure in the valley as there were many border conflicts during the Lower Middle Ages. In Irurita there are lots of turreted ancestral homes and medieval towers, such as Dorrea or Jauregizuria. In Elbete there are the baroque palaces (17th century) of Jarola and Azkoa, while in Arizkun stands the tower of Ursua. The tour of the Baztan valley can continue on to Amaiur/Maya, a town of abundant ancestral homes such as Arretxea (16th century) and Arriada (17th century). A further two medieval towers, Zubiria and Jauregizar, in the town of Arraiotz, complete the defensive architecture of this Pyrenean valley.


First published on Forbes, Sept. 26, 2017.
Since August, two gigantic forces have dominated the news: Harvey and Irma. Every time we turn on our television, radio, or scroll through our favorite social media site, there they are. For those of us not directly impacted by the hurricanes, going to the office seems to bring a sense of normalcy, yet we still have an underlying feeling that we should do more.
For most, donations and humanitarian aid seem like things that employees should handle outside of work. Well, I'm here to tell you that that volunteerism and donations should be part of your work and can actually help improve it. While it is easy to dismiss these as "non-essential" to growing a business, you miss a large opportunity by not combining your business with your humanitarian efforts.
Giving back to those in need is not only good for your soul, it is good for your employees, your brand, and impacts how customers view your company.
There is a reason that employers plan field trips, team-building exercises, and projects beyond your day-to-day work. When your team is focused on a greater goal and can reach that goal together, they engage their creativity, social awareness, and innovative skills. Team-building exercises such as feeding the homeless or organizing a school supply drive get your employees out of their day-to-day behaviors, help them get to know each other, and demonstrate that the company is invested in the community.
Projects that focus on working together, collaboration, and communication simultaneously generate great team bonding and build skills that support business growth.
The way your employees see you as a brand is critical to your success. Your employment brand determines whether people decide to join, stay with, or leave your organization. When your employees love your company, it generates word-of-mouth buzz resulting in greater retention and productivity with current employees and reduces your recruiting expenses because the top talent has already heard about you from their friends. The greater and more engaged the talent, the better your bottom line.
When you provide community service-based activities, your employees build bonds with one another, feel happy that they've helped someone else, and take pride in their company. That pride engages and retains them as employees and gets them talking about how awesome their company is to friends and family.
Not only will these activities strengthen their relationship with each other, but you'd be surprised by how loyal employees become when their company pays them for a day of service to the community. People will go above and beyond for your company because you went above and beyond for the community.
Most businesses already donate money in some way, whether their customers know this or not, but by engaging in a project that involves your community, you connect your employees with the community in a way everyone can see. You create a story that resonates and that both your employees and customers can rally behind. Your employees feel pride in what they are doing and your community sees tangible effects of their work. An experience, unlike a check, is something you can share in together. The extra bonus? Pictures and videos of the day can be re-purposed for amazing and uplifting collateral you can share over direct mail marketing, through social media, or for internal campaigns.
Galek's first experience with "get out there and do something" happened right after Hurricane Katrina. Frustrated by the Red Cross' four-day mandatory training, she saw a need and answered it, organizing every aspect of a successful clothing drive. Days after, Oklahoma found itself devastated by tornadoes. She found ways to collect supplies, create care kits for both adults and kids, and get them to the people who needed them most.
Plan a volunteer trip for your employees to visit areas in immediate need to help put their society back together. While time is of the essence, planning a trip to help a few months from now will still be useful. Cities that have been through a hurricane or tornado need helps rebuilding for years.
Organize a hands-on activity such as a diaper drive or a day creating care kits such as the ones Galek put together.
Partner with a non-profit organization to create an ongoing way for employees to volunteer. For example, Habitat for Humanity offers companies days that foster an environment of engagement for employees and pride in community.
Create a business resource group around volunteering or humanitarian efforts.
Establish a matching donation opportunity.
Make giving to others a part of your budget, both in terms of paid days to volunteer together as a team as well as matching donations. You'll see this investment in your community pay off in increased customer recognition, easier recruiting, and better employee retention.
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26-year-old British-Nigerian entrepreneur, Silas Adekunle has signed a deal with Apple.
Adekunle who is the highest paid robotics engineer in the World, according to Forbes most recent "30 Under 30" for European technology, will see his Mekamon Mekamon robots not just fetch him more money but also gives Apple the rights to an exclusive distribution deal, which was signed last November, l after he spent some time in Cupertino and meeting Apple's retail executives.
Robots are already apart of every day life for some retailers and other industries, but they're now slowly making their way into our homes. Adekunle says he hopes his "anthropomorphised robot-spiders" will be as popular as iRobot's Roomba vacuum cleaner and Amazon's Alexa. That's not too far fetched of an idea thanks to people becoming increasingly more comfortable with artificial entities.
Adekunle is hoping to raise some more funds (he's already managed to raise $10 million for the company) and strike some licensing deals with entertainment companies in Asia. Eventually, Mekamon robots might start to come out with branded versions, picture a pokemon character. "The partnership with Apple has been fruitful," Adekunle says of his deal so far, and mentions he's looking to continue the relationship, "We have many more products to bring to market, it's a watch this space situation." So far he's sold about about 500 bots that have generated about $7.5 million!


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In 2014, Nick Hand a graphic designer and printer, and Robin Mather, a frame builder, built a bicycle to carry an Adana 8x5 printing press. The aim was to ride from Bristol, where Nick runs a letterpress print shop, to Mainz – the place where printing with moveable type originated.
At the beginning of this year, Nick mentioned that he was planning another trip on the bike, this time from Lands End to John O'Groats. The idea was to visit places along the way that are known for making one thing in particular, documenting the journey by printing en route. Nick asked if we would make a set of fabric covers and bags for the bike to replace the heavy plywood boxes that he had used to carry the paper, ink and type, as well as his own equipment, for the first trip.
Josh and I were really excited about the prospect of making a full set of bags for such a unique bike, but Adana Press covers aren't something we had much previous experience of making! We sat down with Nick and discussed the functional requirements of the bags, which then informed the size, features and fabric choices. We then made templates from the press and the bike to ensure that the bags and cover would fit to the bike once we'd made them.
We chose to use a combination of 18oz and 14oz canvas, finished with an emulsified wax to give the fabric additional waterproofing and rigidity. This finish can be re-applied to the fabric to top-up the weather protection for future trips. We used black veg-tanned leather and copper rivets for handles and closures, and stainless steel marine fixings to attach the cover underneath the plywood platform that supported the press. We kept everything quite low-key and understated – because Nick would be riding 50+ miles every day before setting up the bike to print, the focus was on practicalities.
Nick's returned from the Lands End to John O'Groats journey, and the printing bike and bags have been to several festivals over the summer. Hopefully they serve him well over many rides, both big and small, in the future.
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Deadly typhoon Morakot causes Taiwan's worst flooding and an uncounted number of landslides in 5 decades. Rivers have burst the banks, washing away buildings, roads and bridges, cutting power lines and flooding city streets as well as farmland. The death toll has reached 38, with 35 injured, and 62 people missing as of Tuesday morning. Following on from serious flooding in Southern Taiwan some areas are now also facing water shortages as turbidity rises.
Typhoon Morakot has devastated Taiwan's agriculture, causing more than NT$5 billion in damage. It also threw Taiwan's transportation system into chaos.


Sharon Sandin is a registered nurse, certified Alzheimer's 1&2 trainer, Department of Elder Affairs core trained and certified and American Heart Association BLS instructor.
Sharon comes with 16 years' experience working in assisted living and Skilled Nursing. She has worked in every position of the wellness department ultimately becoming a registered nurse. During her time working in the Assisted living Sharon enjoyed caring for elder residents and working as a medication technician, she perused in getting her licensed practical nurse license. Sharon quickly worked her way up to a resident service director position running the wellness department – her main function in this position was nursing regulatory compliance, staff recruiting, hiring, onboarding, and training. Communicating with resident families, physicians, and third-party vendors to ensure resident continuity of care from a holistic view. Sharon ultimately landed as a company mentor developing multi-state and multi-site experience focusing on training and ensuring community wellness department compliance.
Sharon Sandin was a partner in All Staff Training and Consultants creating power point training presentations to meet several senior housing companies to meet the needs of staff training in different ALF for regulatory compliance and state-mandated training. Completed regulatory audits for communities to meet assisted living regulations and provide recommendations to for the communities to meet state and company regulations.
The past 6 years in she has worked in skilled nursing as charge nurse and community supervisor of infection control preventist. Sharon has assisted in Skill Nursing specific regulatory compliance, assisted in admitting residents to the facility for skilled as well as long-term care and staff orientation and ongoing training. She worked has charge nurse supervising staff, communicating with residents, resident's families and Physicians. She received her certificate for infection control then became the infection control preventist for the facility. As the ICP she ensured resident decrease the risk for infections and in-service staff on various infection control prevention.


Mauro Pimentel / AFP | Venezuelans wait in a queue in front of the Brazil Federal Police Office in the Venezuela-Brazil border, at Pacaraima, Roraima, Brazil, on February 28, 2018.
Residents of the Brazilian border town of Pacaraima attacked Venezuelan immigrants on Saturday after a local storeowner was robbed, stabbed and beaten in an assault blamed on four migrants, authorities said.
Pacaraima, in the northern jungle state of Roraima, is a major border crossing with Venezuela, where economic and political turmoil has driven tens of thousands to cross into Brazil over the past few years.
After a rally held to protest the attack against the storeowner, groups of residents roamed the town hurling rocks at the immigrants and setting fire to their belongings.
Police said the storeowner, who was beaten and robbed on Friday night, has been hospitalized and is in stable condition.
The Roraima state government estimates that more than 50,000 Venezuelan refugees have crossed the border occupying already existing shelters or sleeping in tents. The influx was nearly equal to 10 percent of the state's population of 520,000 inhabitants.
Police said that to escape the violence, hundreds of immigrants crossed the border back into Venezuela.
On a video posted by the G1 news portal a man's voice is heard shouting "Get out. Get out. Go back to Venezuela."
Wandenberg Ribeiro Costa, one of the organizers of Saturday's rally, told the G1 news portal "we have expelled the Venezuelans."
Claudio Lamachia, president of the Brazilian Bar Association, said in a statement that the violence that took place in Pacaraima "exposed the humanitarian drama afflicting our neighbors ... who are trying to improve their lives and survive."
"The state of Roraima does not have the conditions to shelter all the immigrants," he said, adding that close to 800 Venezuelans enter Roraima every day.
Milene de Souza, a volunteer at an evangelical church, told the Associated Press by phone that the situation is desperate.
"The world has to see what is happening here, where no one knows what to do," she said, adding that every day she helps Venezuelan engineers, doctors, lawyers and other professionals who sleep on the streets "with their diplomas tucked under their pillows."


Congratulations Class of 2018! Each of our graduates has a story of accomplishments made in the past four years, dreams for the future, or obstacles they've overcome. We want to share several of their stories with you. Please share more stories with us on social media with the #ckhsgrads hashtag.
Tricia Ferrer was involved in nearly every theater production at Central Kitsap High School over the past four years. And she came to realize that underlying her love for theater was a passion for democratic discourse. So next fall, she'll head to Whitman College to study economics or history. She eventually wants to practice law.
Q: Do you have a favorite memory from CK Schools?
A: [She attended Cottonwood, Brownsville, Ridgetop, CK Middle and CK High.] It's been a blur. I think it was that really awkward transition [to high school]. The Class of 2018 was the first class to be freshman here in a while. That was just kind of like a jolt of, "Wow. OK. I'm actually in high school now instead of junior high." So it was exciting, but also kind of terrifying at the same time. But I think I needed that first year to really understand what high school was about, and then have two years to kind of really struggle and figure out what exactly I wanted. I can't imagine ever jumping into high school sophomore year.
Q: What advice do you have for next year's freshmen?
A: Don't lose your creativity. You're told to plan out everything in your future. It's fine to have a plan, but once you start to lose yourself, that's where it starts to go wrong.
Q: Is there a staff member who impacted you?
A: Ms. (Sarah) Fisher, undoubtedly. She already has a reputation around the school, and I was really excited going into AP World History (and later AP Government & Politics). She got me to think of the world in a different way. She's the kind of person that would look at things always from both sides. She would never shut someone out just because of their opinions.
That kind of made me realize I want to practice law in the future. It's also made me a better activist too for human rights.
Kidd Lee had a long journey of growth from a student who got in trouble to a young adult with a diploma. Once she decided that she needed to graduate, she had a lot of work ahead of her. With help, she took extra online classes while still volunteering weekly at church to support the homeless.
Q: Did you always think you were going to graduate from high school?
A: No. I came here, and I was so far behind in credits that I just didn't come for weeks and weeks. I restarted my ninth grade year and never came. I failed everything. And then, (I don't know if it was maturing or if it was the realization that I needed to graduate and get out of here) I just checked in, seeing what I could do. This year I did a lot. I did a lot of online classes. It's not that hard once you do it.
Q: A are there things along the way that stick out like turning points or people you talked to?
Q: What do you want people reading this to come away with?
A: You can do whatever you put your mind to. As deep of a hole as you are in, it's not that bad once you sit down and do it. I didn't think it was possible for a long time while I was doing it, but it's worth a shot.
Two years ago, Geoffrey Kabongo moved to Central Kitsap from the Democratic Republic of the Congo to live with his sisters. He had to learn to speak English as a third language (he understands five languages in all), while also navigating the other academic and social challenges of a new high school.
Q: Why did you move to this area?
When I'm done with high school, I'm probably going to go to OC for two years (before transferring to a Central Washington University), and I'm going to study business. My plan for the future is, I would like to be a manager when I'm done at a university.
Q: How many classes did you have to take?
A: I had to take almost all my credits in two years. Some of my credits transferred, like French and PE, but that was about it. I had to retake my math classes, like Geometry. And I had to take five English classes. Last year, I only took six classes. This year, my first semester I took six classes plus two online classes. This last semester, I took seven classes plus two online classes because I had a zero hour.
Q: What is some of the best advice you've gotten?
A: My counselor, Ms. Sotelo, when I moved here, she told me I didn't need to worry about anything. I just needed to focus on school. And if I could do it in the Congo, I could do it here.
As last year's ASB President, Treys Neptune was in the thick of school life. From organizing events to planning a mural, he was involved in many school life highlights. He plans to attend Olympic College for two years then transfer to the University of Washington. He hopes to study business or law.
Q: What was your favorite school activity?
A: ASB, definitely. You get to organize all the school activities. To me, this is really the time and moment that truly matters in people's lives. A lot of students don't really understand that. So I like trying to make them understand that this is the moment that really matters. Because after this, you have college, then your life, then you don't really have any more of the fun, group activity-type things.
Q: Is there a particular teacher or support staff member who has impacted you?
A: I feel like all of my teachers have really made an impact on me. That might sound stereotypical or something, but it's not just one teacher. I've learned something from every teacher I've had. So it all just builds up. Of course, I have my favorite teachers, but I've learned something from everyone, and I really appreciate that.
Q: What advice do you have for those starting high school?
A: Be active, don't be afraid to get involved. This year, I got more involved than in previous years. As a senior, I thought, "I wish I did this earlier. It's my last year, and I really want to do this again." But I can't unless I fail graduation. I'm tempted to [laughs].
Even if you don't like something, just try a little bit of everything. It's also super easy for people to make new clubs. If you don't see something you like, just make something yourself.


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The audit committee assists the board in fulfilling its oversight responsibilities as described in the Code of Corporate Governance.
Keeping in view the requirement of the Clause (xxv) of the Code of Corporate Governance 2012 a Human Resource and Remuneration (HR & R) Committee was comprised in 2012. This committee consists of the above three members.
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Nanotechnology: Recent Trends, Emerging Issues and Future Directions
Nazrul Islam, PhD (Editor)
School of Management and Business, Aberystwyth University Office, Aberystwyth, UK
Series: Nanotechnology Science and Technology
BISAC: SCI050000
Technology-based innovations fuel the knowledge-based economy, as it creates new industries, makes existing ones globally competitive, and drives future economic growth. In order to reach technology-based economic growth, it is not only necessary to invest capital, intellect and time in technology-related research and development (R&D), but also to execute processes related to technology development trends, diffusion patterns, and the adoption and implementation of technology-based innovations.
Nanotechnology has contributed to remarkable advances in the field of science and technology in the past two decades, which have led to significant prospective applications in various technological domains including advanced materials, biotechnology and pharmacy, electronics, scientific tools and techniques, and industrial manufacturing processes. This ultra-small technology will drive a new technology-driven global economy, with revolutionary advances in almost all industry sectors through high utility and demands.
The book is written to provide an overview of the developments made in nanotechnology to date, the ongoing trends and the future prospects, together with the supply chain practices and environmental risk challenges involved, and finally, suggests the key issues to be focused on in the future with personal directions, finishing with managerial and policy recommendations.
For over a decade, Companies are faced with the challenge of harnessing the enormous potential of nanotechnologies, while also being attuned to potential environmental, health and safety issues, and social acceptability. The lack of investigations in these areas still poses a serious barrier to the commercialization of nanotechnology-based products. This book explains how nano-science, technology and technological progress are central to economic and social well-being, and why the creation and diffusion of nano-products with secure and safe development, along with an efficient supply chain are critical drivers of adopting this technology.
It is urgent to apply nanotechnology to solve legacy environmental problems, and to encourage the replacement of existing products with new nano-products that are more environmentally friendly throughout their life cycles. The authors confer to the industry's response to the pressures of the responsible development of nanotechnology, for making every reasonable effort to anticipate and mitigate the adverse implications or unintended consequences. The end users of nanotechnology, particularly the poor and developing countries, should be given opportunities to participate in the development of the technology, as the social factors are crucial in the adoption of nanotechnology.
One major goal of this book is to highlight the multifaceted issues surrounding nanotechnology on the basis of case studies, academic and theoretical articles, technology transfer, innovation, economics, management and policy. More than fifty experts spread in about fifteen countries with their respective understanding, perspectives and resources provide a very broad audience to accomplish the project with. This book will be a useful reference for academics, practitioners, policymakers, and professionals in the field of science, technology, engineering, innovation, management and economics. (Imprint: Nova)
Nanotechnology: Recent Trends, Emerging Issues and Future Directions quantity
ISBN: N/A Categories: Materials Science, Nanotechnology, Nanotechnology Science and Technology, Technology and Engineering Tags: 9781631175619, 9781631175671, nanotechnology
Chapter 1 – Nanotechnology: Technology Trends, Emerging Challenges and Implications (pp. 1-24)
Nazrul Islam (School of Management and Business, Aberystwyth University, UK)
Chapter 2 – Nano-Enabled Drug Delivery: Subsystems, Hot Topics and Future Innovation Pathways (pp. 25-44)
Xiao Zhou, Alan L. Porter, Douglas K. R. Robinson, Yi Zhang and Ying Guo (Beijing Institute of Technology, China and others)
Chapter 3 – Advances in Nanotechnology and the Future Prospects (pp. 45-64)
Sandeep Kumar Vashist (HSG-IMIT – Institut für Mikro- und Informationstechnik, Freiburg, Germany)
Chapter 4 – Seeking Out Paths of Responsible Development: Exploring the Wicked Problem Facing Industrial Actors (pp. 65-88)
Clare Shelley-Egan and Douglas K. R. Robinson (Law & Regulation, Department of Public Administration, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands and others)
Chapter 5 – Nanotechnology Supply Chain Management (pp. 89-114)
Subin Babu and Nazrul Islam (School of Management and Business, Aberystwyth University, UK)
Chapter 6 – Application of Nanotechnology in Civil Infrastructure: Current Status and Future Potential (pp. 115-126)
Salim Barbhuiya and Touseef Patel (Curtin University of Technolgy, Australia)
Chapter 7 – Dendrimer: A Promising Nanocarrier for Cancer Therapy (pp. 127-156)
I. Matai, A. Sachdev, S. Uday Kumar, P. Dubey, B. Bhushan and P. Gopinath (Nanobiotechnology Laboratory, Centre for Nanotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India)
Chapter 8 – Nano Visions and Challenges: The Case of Sub-Saharan Africa (pp. 157-174)
Trust Saidi and Esther Sigauke (Maastricht University, Department of Technology and Society Studies, The Netherlands)
Chapter 9 – Nanotechnologies and Nanosciences in Pacific Asia: A Comparative Study of China, Japan and South Korea Scientific Production (pp. 175-194)
Ugo Finardi (CNR-CERIS, National Research Council of Italy, Institute for Economic Research on Firms and Growth, Moncalieri, Italy)
Chapter 10 – Managing Business Risks in Nanotechnology (pp. 195-214)
Nagesh Munivenkatesh and Nazrul Islam (School of Management and Business, Aberystwyth University, UK)
Chapter 11 – Facilitating Nanobiotechnology Commercialization through Dynamic Ecosystem Development: Bridging Innovation Policy, Stakeholders and Knowledge (pp. 215-240)
Bhuvaneashwar Subramanian (Global Analytics, Corporate Strategy and Alliances, Hewlett Packard Company Bangalore, India)
Chapter 12 – Nanomaterials Formed by Green Nanotechnology for Bioapplication (pp. 241-310)
Kelvii Wei Guo (Department of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering, City University of Hong Kong)
Chapter 13 – Spintronics: The Realm of Nanotechnology (pp. 311-336)
S. Dwivedi (The LNM Institute of Information Technology, Jaipur, India)
Chapter 14 – Biomedical Applications of Graphene: Opportunities and Challenges (pp. 337-348)
Ranjita Shegokar (Department of Pharmaceutics, Biopharmaceutics and NutriCosmetics, Kelchstr, Free University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany)
Chapter 15 – Next Generation Nanocomposite Ultrafiltration Membranes for Water Purification (pp. 349-362)
Asim K. Ghosh and P. K. Tewari (Desalination Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Trombay, Mumbai, India)
Chapter 16 – Current Approaches for Drug Delivery Design (pp. 363-394)
Beatriz Clares Naveros and José Luis Arias Mediano (Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Technology Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Granada, Granada, Spain)
Chapter 17 – Nanoemulsion As a Vehicle in Drug Delivery (pp. 395-430)
Md. Faiyazuddin, Md. Akhlaquer Rahman and Farhan J. Ahmad (Faculty of Pharmacy, Integral University, Lucknow, and Department of Pharmaceutics, Faculty of Pharmacy, Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi, India)
Chapter 18 – Nanomedicine: The New Age of Therapeutics (pp. 431-460)
Luciano Sobrevals, Hanna Parkkola, Laura Vivero, Rafael Miñana and Judith Sendra (ENDOR Nanotechnologies, Barcelona Science Park, Barcelona, Spain)
Chapter 19 – Toxicity of Nanoparticles: Present Scenario and Future Scope (pp. 461-486)
Vineet Kumar, Sushil Kumar Kansal and S. K. Mehta (Department of Chemistry, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India)
First-Principle vs. Experimental Design of Nanomaterials
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