HOBOKEN, New Jersey, Aug. 5 -- Advanced Synthesis and Catalysis, a peer-reviewed journal that says it features organic, organometallic and applied chemistry, published research articles, including the following topics, in its Aug. 4, 2020 edition: Reviews: * Double Carbonylation Reactions: Overview and Recent Advances * Recent Advances in Carbonylative Difunctionalization of Alkenes * Advances in the Catalytic Asymmetric Synthesis of Atropisomeric Hexatomic N-Heterobiaryls Communications:   more

HOBOKEN, New Jersey, Aug. 8 -- The American Journal of Industrial Medicine, a peer-reviewed journal that says it features occupational and environmental health and safety, published research articles on the following topics in its September 2020 edition: RESEARCH ARTICLES: * Benzene exposure-response and risk of lymphoid neoplasms in Chinese workers: A multicenter case-cohort study * Cancer and noncancer mortality among aluminum smelting workers in Badin, North Carolina * Associations betwe  more

MOUNT LAUREL, New Jersey, Aug. 4 -- The American Neurological Association issued the following news release: Allison Navis, MD, a 2018 ANA International Travel Outreach Scholarship (IOTS) recipient, recently had an article published in the Journal of the Neurological Sciences. The article is titled "Immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome in the central nervous system: Limitations for diagnosis in resource limited settings." Coauthors include Drs. Omar Siddiqi, Lorraine Chishimba, Stanley Z  more

HIGHLANDS, New Jersey, Aug. 5 -- Anticancer Research, a peer-reviewed journal that says it features experimental and clinical oncology from the International Institute of Anticancer Research, published research articles, including the following topics, in its August 2020 edition: Clinical Studies: * Detection and Oncologic Outcomes of Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Unknown Primary Origin * Secretin-induced Duodenal Aspirate of Pancreatic Juice (SIDA): Utility of Commercial Genetic   more

MOORESTOWN, New Jersey, Aug. 4 -- BAYADA Home Health Care issued the following news on Aug. 3: Today, the Business Intelligence Group named BAYADA Home Health Care as Organization of the Year in the Large Company category in their 2020 Sales and Marketing Technology Awards program, also known as The Sammys. The Sammys honor organizations and technologies helping to solve the challenges companies have connecting and collaborating with prospects and customers. BAYADA received the Sammy award in   more

BASEL, Switzerland, July 27 -- Biology, a peer-reviewed open access journal of biological sciences, published research articles, including the following topics, in its June 2020 edition: Reviews: * Mass Spectrometry to Study Chromatin Compaction * The Role of Mitochondria in Cardiovascular Diseases Articles: * Spectral Distribution of Ultra-Weak Photon Emission as a Response to Wounding in Plants: An In Vivo Study * Kinematic Sub-Populations in Bull Spermatozoa: A Comparison of Classical a  more

HOBOKEN, New Jersey, Aug. 4 -- BJS Open, a journal that says it features aspects of general surgery and related topics from the British Journal of Surgery Society, published research articles, including the following topics, in its August 2020 edition: Systematic reviews: * Early urinary catheter removal after rectal surgery: systematic review and meta-analysis * Liquid biopsy for cancer diagnosis using vibrational spectroscopy: systematic review * Anastomotic techniques for oesophagectomy f  more

NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey, Aug. 7 -- The Center for American Women and Politics issued the following news release: Women of color have set new records for congressional candidacies in the 2020 elections, both as a whole and within various racial identifications, according to an analysis of candidate filings for the 2020 elections from the Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP), a unit of the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University. This year, at least 267 (176D, 91R) women   more

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, Aug. 7 -- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia issued the following news: A team of researchers from New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have developed an algorithm through machine learning that helps predict sites of DNA methylation - a process that can change the activity of DNA without changing its overall structure - and could identify disease-causing mechanisms that would otherwise be missed by conventional scr  more

NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey, Aug. 7 -- The Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, a hospital operated by RWJBarnabas Health, issued the following news: Last month, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital (RWJUH) Clinical Care Technician Xavier Marshall had just finished helping a patient bathe and get ready for discharge from the hospital when he went to retrieve the patient's clothes. He noticed that the clothes had a moldy, foul odor likely because they were wet when the homeless patient arri  more

ENGLEWOOD, New Jersey, Aug. 6 -- Englewood Hospital and Medical Center issued the following news release: Englewood Health's Emergency Medical Services (EMS) team has once again received the American Heart Association's Mission: Lifeline(R) EMS Gold Plus Award for implementing quality improvement measures for the treatment of patients who experience life-threatening heart attacks. "Earning the American Heart Association's Mission: Lifeline(R) EMS Gold Plus Award for the fourth consecutive year  more

TRENTON, New Jersey, Aug. 6 -- Environment New Jersey issued the following news release on August 4: President Trump today signed the Great American Outdoors Act, which will permanently fund the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) at $900 million annually and provide $9.5 billion over five years to fix maintenance problems plaguing America's public lands. Environment America and Environment New Jersey has prioritized LWCF, America's best conservation and recreation program, for years. To   more

NEW YORK, Aug. 5 -- The Episcopal Relief and Development issued the following news release: Episcopal Relief & Development is supporting Episcopal dioceses and partners on the eastern coast of the United States as they prepare to respond to Tropical Storm Isaias. The organization's US Disaster Program is conducting coordination calls with bishops and church leaders from dioceses in Florida, Southeast Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, East Carolina, Virginia, Easton, Delaware, N  more

ATLANTIC CITY, New Jersey, Aug. 8 -- The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education issued the following news release on Aug. 7: A student at Stockton University is facing disciplinary charges for a political Facebook post and making his Zoom background a photo of President Donald Trump during class, causing other students to feel "taunted." Today, with the help of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, he's fighting back. "Like its Atlantic City neighbor, Stockton is doubling   more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 -- The Humane Society Legislative Fund issued the following news release on Aug. 6: Conservation groups filed a rulemaking petition today seeking additional ship-speed limits along the Atlantic coast to protect critically endangered North Atlantic right whales. In June a baby right whale was found dead off the coast of New Jersey, with propeller wounds across his head, chest and tail. The petition asks the National Marine Fisheries Service to expand the areas and times when   more

PISCATAWAY, New Jersey, Aug. 3 -- IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics, a peer-reviewed journal from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers that says it features articles that connects photovoltaic science and technology, published research articles, including the following topics, in its July 2020 edition: * Review of O&M Practices in PV Plants: Failures, Solutions, Remote Control, and Monitoring Tools * Effect of Superimposed DC Power on the Properties of Intrinsic Hydrogenated Amorp  more

PISCATAWAY, New Jersey, Aug. 7 -- IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, a journal that says it emphasizes on transistor-level design of integrated circuits from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, published research articles, including the following topics, in its August 2020 edition: * Capacitor-Coupled Offset-Canceled Sense Amplifier for DRAMs With Reduced Variation of Decision Threshold Voltage * Clockless, Continuous-Time Analog Correlator Using Time-Encoded Signal Proce  more

PISCATAWAY, New Jersey, Aug. 7 -- IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, a journal that says it provides insights on computation from the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, published research articles, including the following topics, in its August 2020 edition: * Data-Driven Parallel Scheduling Approach for Multiple Agile Earth Observation Satellites * Distributed Individuals for Multiple Peaks: A Novel Differential Evolution for Multimodal Optimization Problems * Distributed Pa  more

PISCATAWAY, New Jersey, Aug. 6 -- IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, a journal that says it features theory, design and application of fuzzy systems from the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, published research articles, including the following topics, in its August 2020 edition: * Adaptive Fuzzy Containment Control for Multiple Uncertain Euler-Lagrange Systems With an Event-Based Observer * Adaptive Fuzzy Output-Feedback Control for Switched Nonlinear Systems With Stable and Unstable   more

PISCATAWAY, New Jersey, Aug. 4 -- IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, a journal that says it emphasizes the common ground where there is overlap involving instrumentation, hardware, software, mathematics, physics, biology and medicine from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, published research articles, including the following topics, in its August 2020 edition: * Accurate Screening of COVID-19 Using Attention-Based Deep 3D Multiple Instance Learning * Deep Learning COVID-  more

PISCATAWAY, New Jersey, Aug. 7 -- IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, a journal that says it deals with the theory, design and applications of neural networks and learning systems from the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, published research articles, including the following topics, in its August 2020 edition: * Double-Variational Bayesian Framework in Random Fourier Features for Indefinite Kernels * Guest Editorial Special Issue on Recent Advances in Theory, Meth  more

HOBOKEN, New Jersey, Aug. 6 -- The Journal of Applied Toxicology, a peer-reviewed journal that says it publishes articles on mechanistic, fundamental and applied research on toxicity of drugs and chemicals at the molecular, cellular, tissue, target organ and whole body level, published research articles, including the following topics, in its September 2020 edition: REVIEW ARTICLE: * Extracellular vesicles in toxicological studies: key roles in communication between environmental stress and a  more

HOBOKEN, New Jersey, Aug. 7 -- The Journal of Biogeography, a peer-reviewed journal that says it features biology and geography, including ecological, evolutionary, genomic, geographic, empirical, theoretical - considering aspect of biogeography, from molecules to ecosystems and from microbes to plants and megafauna, published research articles, including the following topics, in its August 2020 edition: AND MORE ON ISLANDS: * Species richness and patterns of overdispersion, clustering and ran  more

PARSIPPANY, New Jersey, Aug. 7 -- The Journal of Clinical Outcomes Management, a peer-reviewed journal that says it offers evidence-based, practical information for improving the quality, safety and value of health care, published research articles on the following topics in its July 2020 edition: Outcomes Research in Review: * Remdesivir Reduces Time to Recovery in Adults Hospitalized With COVID-19: A Meaningful Step in Therapeutic Discovery * Oral Relugolix Yields Superior Testosterone Supp  more

BALTIMORE, Maryland, Aug. 4 -- The Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation issued the following news release: Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation (MAAF) has announced 39 grants through its 2020-2021 ArtsCONNECT touring program. The grants, awarded directly to the presenting organizations, will provide $240,000 in support of tours by nine performing artists and ensembles at 31 different performing arts presenters in the District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. Supported pr  more

WEST ORANGE, New Jersey, Aug. 3 -- RWJBarnabas Health issued the following news: Monmouth Medical Center and Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, two RWJBarnabas Health facilities, have been named to Newsweek's 2020 list of Best Maternity Care Hospitals. The distinction recognizes facilities that have excelled in providing care to mothers, newborns and their families, as verified by the 2019 Leapfrog Hospital Survey. Best Maternity Care Hospitals is part of Newsweek's Best Health Care series, pow  more

TRENTON, New Jersey, Aug. 8 -- The New Jersey State Chamber of Commerce issued the following statement by President and CEO Tom Bracken: The New Jersey Chamber of Commerce is proud to recognize our current Board Chair Linda Bowden's impending induction into the New Jersey Hall of Fame. We congratulate her on this huge and well deserved honor. During her business career, including her current role as regional president - New Jersey for PNC Bank, Linda has made enormous contributions to our stat  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 -- The North American Securities Administrators Association issued the following statement by President Christopher W. Gerold: * * * The following is a statement from Christopher W. Gerold, President of the North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA) and Chief of the New Jersey Bureau of Securities, on the confirmations by the U.S. Senate of Hester Peirce and Caroline Crenshaw to serve on the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission: "On behalf of state and  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 -- The National Community Reinvestment Coalition, an organization that works to uphold fair housing, fair lending and consumer protection laws, issued the following news release: Nonprofit housing counseling organizations responding to the COVID-19 pandemic in 15 states will receive unrestricted grants and resources from the National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC), thanks to funding from the Wells Fargo Foundation. The grants will provide financial support for techn  more

TRENTON, New Jersey, Aug. 8 -- The New Jersey School Boards Association issued the following news release: The latest additions to NJSBA's School Restart Resource Center include the state's response to questions about school reopening, research on safely providing classes in music and the performing arts, and a caution about a state-required sign-off on district reopening plans. School Reopening Frequently Asked Questions (https://nj.gov/education/reopening/faqs/index.shtml) In a new document,  more

ENGLEWOOD, New Jersey, Aug. 5 -- Englewood Hospital and Medical Center issued the following news release: Obstetrician-gynecologists Marina Jacobson, MD, and Inna Santkovsky, MD, have joined the Englewood Health Physician Network. Their primary clinical interests are obstetrical care; gynecologic care for women of all ages; adolescent gynecology; cervical cancer prevention, detection, and treatment; menopause; uterine fibroids; and minimally invasive gynecologic surgery. They welcome new patien  more

HOBOKEN, New Jersey, Aug. 8 -- Pediatric Pulmonology, a journal that says it features research on pathological anatomy, developmental issues and pathophysiology to infectious disease, asthma, cystic fibrosis and airborne toxins, published research articles, including the following topics, in its September 2020 edition: ORIGINAL ARTICLES: * Associations of Helicobacter pylori seropositivity and gastric inflammation with pediatric asthma * Nasal mask vs binasal prongs for nasal continuous posit  more

NEWARK, New Jersey, Aug. 5 -- Public Funds Public Schools issued the following news: The plaintiffs in McEwen v. Lee, a case challenging Tennessee's unconstitutional Education Savings Account voucher law passed in 2019, have filed an amicus curiae (friend of the court) brief in an appeal of a companion challenge to the law. In Metropolitan Government of Nashville & Davidson County v. Tennessee Department of Education, Shelby and Davidson Counties - the two counties targeted by the voucher law   more

WEST ORANGE, New Jersey, Aug. 4 -- RWJBarnabas Health issued the following news on Aug. 3: As frontline workers and communities across New Jersey and the country continue the battle against the COVID-19 pandemic, RWJBarnabas Health, in collaboration with the New Jersey Devils, today announced the annualRWJBarnabas Health "Running with the Devils 5K Run and Walk" will transition to a virtual format, with multiple opportunities to participate from October 1-25, 2020. This event supports the comm  more

EATONTOWN, New Jersey, Aug. 8 -- RWJBarnabas Health issued the following news: RWJBarnabas Health is proud to announce Eric Carney, President and CEO of Monmouth Medical Center, has been additionally appointed as President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for Monmouth Medical Center Southern Campus in Lakewood. Additionally, Philip Passes, DO, Vice President of Practice Integration, RWJBarnabas Health Southern Region, will assume the role of Chief Administrative Officer for both Monmouth Medic  more

NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey, Aug. 5 -- RWJBarnabas Health issued the following news: Marking a major milestone in what has become a standard of care in prostate cancer surgery, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey Urologic Oncology Chief Isaac Yi Kim, MD, PhD, has completed his 2,000th robotic prostatectomy at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, an RWJBarnabas Health facility and one of the few hospitals in the state designated to teach surgeons about this technique. Dr. Kim, who is also   more

NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey, Aug. 5 -- Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey issued the following news: Marking a major milestone in what has become a standard of care in prostate cancer surgery, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey Urologic Oncology Chief Isaac Yi Kim, MD, PhD, has completed his 2,000th robotic prostatectomy at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, an RWJBarnabas Health facility and one of the few hospitals in the state designated to teach surgeons about this technique. D  more

PISCATAWAY, New Jersey, Aug. 7 -- Transactions on Circuits and Systems, a journal from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, published research articles, including the following topics, in its August 2020 edition: * 12-Bit 100-MS/s Pipelined-SAR ADC With PVT-Insensitive and Gain-Folding Dynamic Amplifier * Clockless Temperature-Compensated Nanowatt Analog Front-End for Wake-Up Radios Based on a Band-Pass Envelope Detector * High Efficiency Doherty Power Amplifier Using Dual-A  more