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Tsumori Chisato
\"The first book on the work of Tsumori Chisato, a fashion designer who has gained a cult following for her uncanny ability to create clothes with a manga-bohemian charm. Tsumo ri Chisato scaled the commanding heights of Japanese and international fashion in the 1990s with color as the critical virtue. Reacting to the somber minimalism that is even now conjured by any mention of \"serious\" Japanese fashion in the West, this new world is playful, unabashedly romantic in its femininity, and awash in vivid color. By turns streetwise and homespun, Tsumori's latest collections eloquently convey the maturation of a style, one that has grown since her days of apprenticing with Issey Miyake and designing for the highly successful Issey Sport Line. Most recently applauded for a stylistic and thematic repertoire that has drawn upon Nordic, nautical, and 1970s style, her collections occupy an interstice between function and gesture. Conceived as the first comprehensive document of Tsumori Chisato's work, this book opens a door to her inner life and aspirations, giving readers a one-way ticket to destinations that exist only in Tsumori's mind. Visually stunning, this book is filled with dozens of the designer's signature illustrations and sketches, playful anecdotes, and essays by fashion critics and curators, perfectly capturing Tsumori's brilliant balance of fantasy and reality\"--Publisher's description.
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Phase transition in a single VO2 nano-crystal: potential femtosecond tunable opto-electronic nano-gating
The first-order semiconductor–metal Mott transition in single nano-crystal of VO
2
has been observed using scanning tunneling spectroscopy. The variation of the band gap
E
g
with an external thermal stimulus on a single VO
2
nano-crystal in the temperature range of 293.5–361.0 K is reported for the first time. The corresponding tuneable
I
–
V
characteristics versus temperature could be applied in thermally or optically tunable electronic nano-gating in the femtosecond regime in view of the ultrafast dynamic in VO
2
.
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The taiga syndrome
\"A fairy tale run amok, THE TAIGA SYNDROME follows an unnamed female Ex-Detective as she searches for a couple who has fled to the far reaches of the earth. A betrayed husband is convinced by a brief telegram that his second ex-wife wants him to track her down--that she wants to be found. He hires the Ex-Detective, who sets out with a translator into a snowy, hostile forest where strange things happen and translation betrays both sense and one's senses. Tales of Hansel and Gretel and Little Red Riding Hood haunt the Ex-Detective's quest, though the lessons of her journey are more experiential than moral: that just as love can fly away, sometimes unloving flies away as well. That sometimes leaving everything behind is the only thing left to do.\"--Amazon.com.
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Experimental and theoretical studies of linear and non-linear optical properties of novel fused-triazine derivatives for advanced technological applications
Controlling photophysical properties is critical for the continued development of electroluminescent devices and luminescent materials. The preparation and study of novel molecules suitable as luminescent for the development of optoelectrical devices have recently received a lot of attention. Even though the as-triazine unit is a good building block for organic active substances, it is rarely used in this context. We created here novel bis-triazine derivative dyes in the far UV–Vis range by alkylation of triazine-thione derivatives with appropriate dibromo compounds. At the B3LYP/6-311**G(d,p) basis set, their optimal molecular structures were obtained. DFT technique confirmed that the new triazine derivatives are in noncoplanar with one of the two phenyl rings and the triazine plane rotating out by 102.09. Also, depending on the energy gap difference between HOMO and LUMO, some important parameters including chemical potential (π), electronegativity (χ), and chemical hardness (η) were calculated. The compounds may be readily polarized and have significant NLO characteristics, as seen by the tiny HOMO–LUMO energy gap. The calculated values for the polarizability (α) of the two new triazine derivatives have the range 6.09–10.75 × 10
–24
(esu). The emission peaks seemed to move to the long-wavelength (redshift), with a rise in the fluorescence band, suggesting that the singlet excited state is more polar than the ground state. The influence of solvent polarity and the intermolecular charge transfer (ICT) processes are reflected in the photophysical properties of new fused triazine derivatives. These properties such as extinction coefficient, absorption and emission cross-sections, fluorescence quantum yield, fluorescence lifetime, oscillator strength, the dipole moment, radiative decay rate constant, the energy yield of fluorescence, and the attenuation length were assessed and discussed.
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Hierarchical single-crystal-to-single-crystal transformations of a monomer to a 1D-polymer and then to a 2D-polymer
Designing and synthesizing flawless two-dimensional polymers (2D-Ps) via meticulous molecular preorganization presents an intriguing yet challenging frontier in research. We report here the single-crystal-to-single-crystal (SCSC) synthesis of a
2D-P
via thermally induced topochemical azide-alkyne cycloaddition (TAAC) reaction. A designed monomer incorporating two azide and two alkyne units is synthesized. The azide and alkyne groups are preorganized in the monomer crystal in reactive geometries for polymerizations in two orthogonal directions. On heating, the polymerizations proceed in a hierarchical manner; at first, the monomer reacts regiospecifically in a SCSC fashion to form a 1,5-triazolyl-linked 1D polymer (
1D-P
), which upon further heating undergoes another SCSC polymerization to a
2D-P
through a second regiospecific TAAC reaction forming 1,4-triazolyl-linkages. Two different linkages in orthogonal directions make this an architecturally attractive
2D-P
, as determined, at atomic resolution, by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. The
2D-P
reported here is thermally stable in view of the robust triazole-linkages and can be exfoliated as 2D-sheets.
The design and synthesis of two-dimensional polymers (2D-Ps) via molecular preorganization presents an intriguing yet challenging frontier in research. Here, the authors report the single-crystal-to-single-crystal synthesis of a 2D-P via thermally induced topochemical azide-alkyne cycloaddition reaction.
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SEX CRIMES AND PROGRESSIVE PROSECUTION
As progressive efforts to reform the U.S. criminal legal system continue to take form, one category of crime has been consistently overlooked: sex offenses. While the carceral system is often condemned for its excessive punitiveness, severe punishments for sex offenders remain largely unchallenged and even popular. A primary example of these punishments is sex offender registration and notification (SORN) laws, which significantly constrain the lives of sex offenders after they have served their time in prison. Though subject to decades of empirical criticism from scholars, much of which has found that SORN laws have no significant impact on sex offender recidivism, these laws have remained a fixture of the American legal system since their nationwide introduction in the 1990s. This note seeks to understand the persistence of the SORN framework and ultimately argues that progressive prosecutors, through a rich normative model of prosecution, should target the SORN framework as an area ripe for reform.
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Sex Crimes and Progressive Prosecution: Reimagining Sex Offenses and SORN Laws as an Opportunity for Criminal Justice Reform
As progressive efforts to reform the U.S. criminal legal system continue to take form, one category of crime has been consistently overlooked: sex offenses. While the carceral system is often condemned for its excessive punitiveness, severe punishments for sex offenders remain largely unchallenged and even popular. A primary example of these punishments is sex offender registration and notification (SORN) laws, which significantly constrain the lives of sex offenders after they have served their time in prison. Though subject to decades of empirical criticism from scholars, much of which has found that SORN laws have no significant impact on sex offender recidivism, these laws have remained a fixture of the American legal system since their nationwide introduction in the 1990s. This note seeks to understand the persistence of the SORN framework and ultimately argues that progressive prosecutors, through a rich normative model of prosecution, should target the SORNframework as an area ripe for reform.
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Impact of Various Metallic Oxide Nanoparticles on Ethanol Production by Saccharomyces cerevisiae BY4743: Screening, Kinetic Study and Validation on Potato Waste
This study investigates the impact of nine (9) metallic oxide nanoparticles (NPs) on ethanol production by
Saccharomyces cerevisiae
BY4743. Ethanol concentrations decreased at higher NPs (above 0.02 wt%) for all the NPs studied. Ethanol production was mainly enhanced by Fe
3
O
4
NPs with a maximum ethanol yield of 0.26 g/g, glucose utilization of 99.95%, 0.22 g/L/h ethanol productivity and 51% fermentation efficiency at 0.01 wt%. The logistic and modified Gompertz kinetic models gave
R
2
values ≥ 0.88. The highest maximum specific growth rate (
μ
max
), potential maximum ethanol concentration (
P
m
) and maximum production rate of 0.80 h
−1
, 5.24 g/L and 0.72 g/L/h were obtained with 0.01 wt% NiO NPs and Fe–Ag NPs respectively. Nano inclusion in a simultaneous saccharification and fermentation (NISSF) process enhanced ethanol production from potato peels by 1.60-fold and 1.13-fold using NiO and Fe
3
O
4
NPs respectively. These findings demonstrated the suitability of NiO and Fe
3
O
4
NPs biocatalyst for their application in bioethanol production from agro waste such as potato peels.
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Key bacterial taxa and metabolic pathways affecting gut short-chain fatty acid profiles in early life
Infant gut microbiota development affects the host physiology throughout life, and short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs) are promising key metabolites mediating microbiota-host relationships. Here, we investigated dense longitudinally collected faecal samples from 12 subjects during the first 2 years (
n
= 1048) to identify early life gut SCFA patterns and their relationships with the microbiota. Our results revealed three distinct phases of progression in the SCFA profiles: early phase characterised by low acetate and high succinate, middle-phase characterised by high lactate and formate and late-phase characterised by high propionate and butyrate. Assessment of the SCFA–microbiota relationships revealed that faecal butyrate is associated with increased Clostridiales and breastfeeding cessation, and that diverse and personalised assemblage of Clostridiales species possessing the acetyl-CoA pathway play major roles in gut butyrate production. We also found an association between gut formate and some infant-type bifidobacterial species, and that human milk oligosaccharides (HMO)-derived fucose is the substrate for formate production during breastfeeding. We identified genes upregulated in fucose and fucosylated HMO utilisation in infant-type bifidobacteria. Notably, bifidobacteria showed interspecific and intraspecific variation in the gene repertoires, and cross-feeding of fucose contributed to gut formate production. This study provides an insight into early life SCFA–microbiota relationships, which is an important step for developing strategies for modulating lifelong health.
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