TRENTON, New Jersey, April 11 -- Environment New Jersey issued the following news release: The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection published a rule that it will apply one of its strongest clean water protections to 600 miles of rivers and streams throughout the state. The new Category One designations are the first made in over a decade and set strict limits on pollution and development for parts of the Salem River in South Jersey; the South Branch of the Raritan and Lamington Riv  more

WASHINGTON, April 4 -- The American Civil Liberties Union, a 501(c)3 non-profit that works to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed by the Constitution and laws of the U.S., issued the following news release: The American Civil Liberties Union sent a letter to the Department of Homeland Security demanding that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) temporarily suspend civil immigration enforcement and release those in civil detention for the duration of the COVID  more

HOBOKEN, New Jersey, April 9 -- 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 April 8, 2020 edition: * C-H Functionalization of Aromatic Amides * Donor-Acceptor Cyclopropanes as an Expedient Building Block Towards the Construction of Nitrogen-Containing Molecules: AnUpdate Communications: * Sequential Cleavage of Lignin Systems by Nitrogen Monox  more

HIGHLANDS, New Jersey, April 6 -- 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 April 2020 edition: * Pathogenesis and Treatment of Pancreatic Cancer Related Pain * Association Between BMI and DNA Methylation in Blood or Normal Adult Breast Tissue: A Systematic Review * Evolving Role of Magseed in Wireless Localiza  more

FREEHOLD, New Jersey, April 9 -- CentraState Healthcare System issued the following news: A number of CentraState Healthcare System medical practices are now offering convenient virtual healthcare services, allowing current and new patients to access the services of our board-certified primary care and specialty physicians from the comfort of their homes and reducing their risk of exposure to coronavirus. CentraState's telemedicine service was designed to enable CentraState providers to engage  more

LONDON, England, April 10 -- Community, Work and Family, a peer-reviewed journal that says it provides a forum for social scientists and practitioners to share experiences and ideas and debate issues and controversies, published research articles on the following topics in its April 2020 edition: * Tick-tock sounds different for women working in IT areas * Bonding time: low-income mothers and New Jersey's family leave insurance program Parental Leave: * Paid paternity leave-taking in the Un  more

WASHINGTON, April 9 -- The Food and Water Watch issued the following statement: Governor Murphy announced an executive order stopping non-essential construction work around the state in response to the COVID-19 epidemic. In response, Food & Water Action New Jersey State Director Matt Smith released the following statement: "Governor Murphy's order must include bringing a halt to work on fossil fuel expansion projects, including active construction on the New Jersey Natural Gas SRL pipeline th  more

HOBOKEN, New Jersey, April 9 -- Freshwater Biology, a journal that focuses on the ecology of inland surface waters, including connected ground waters, flood plains and freshwater wetlands, micro-organisms, algae and macrophytes, published research articles on the following topics in its May 2020 edition: * Survival and migration patterns of naturally and hatchery-reared Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) smolts in a Lake Ontario tributary using acoustic telemetry * Constraining invader dominance: E  more

HOBOKEN, New Jersey, April 9 -- Global Change Biology Bioenergy, a journal that says it promotes understanding of the interface between biological and environmental sciences and the production of fuels directly from plants, algae and waste, published research articles, including the following topics, in its April 2020 edition: * Engineering of Klebsiella oxytoca for production of 2,3-butanediol using mixed sugars derived from lignocellulosic hydrolysates * Simulation of sorghum introduction an  more

HOBOKEN, New Jersey, April 9 -- Global Change Biology-Bioenergy, a journal that focuses on the understanding of the interface between biological and environmental sciences and the production of fuels from plants, algae and waste, published research articles, including the following topics, in its April 2020 edition: * Engineering of Klebsiella oxytoca for production of 2,3-butanediol using mixed sugars derived from lignocellulosic hydrolysates * Simulation of sorghum introduction and its impac  more

PISCATAWAY, New Jersey, April 6 -- 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 April 2020 edition: * CMOS Temperature Stabilized 2-D Mechanical Stress Sensor With 11-bit Resolution * Continuous-Time Zoom ADC for Low-Power Audio Applications * Energy-Efficient Comparator With Dynamic Floatin  more

PISCATAWAY, New Jersey, April 7 -- IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, a peer-reviewed journal that says it features biomedical applications to experimental and clinical investigations with engineering contributions from the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, published research articles on the following topics in its April 2020 edition: * 2-D Cell Layer Study on Synergistic Combinations of High-Voltage and Low-Voltage Irreversible Electroporation Pulses * Analysis-Synth  more

PISCATAWAY, New Jersey, April 6 -- IEEE Transactions on Computers, a journal from the IEEE Computer Society, published research articles on the following topics in its April 2020 edition: * Approximate Restoring Dividers Using Inexact Cells and Estimation From Partial Remainders * Arithmetic Approaches for Rigorous Design of Reliable Fixed-Point LTI Filters * Bufferless Network-on-Chips With Bridged Multiple Subnetworks for Deflection Reduction and Energy Savings * Exploiting Asymmetric Erro  more

PISCATAWAY, New Jersey, April 6 -- IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, a journal that says it provides insights on computation from the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, published research articles on the following topics in its April 2020 edition: * Decomposition-Based Interactive Evolutionary Algorithm for Multiple Objective Optimization * Efficient Generalized Surrogate-Assisted Evolutionary Algorithm for High-Dimensional Expensive Problems * Enhancing Decomposition-Based  more

PISCATAWAY, New Jersey, April 10 -- 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 April 2020 edition: * Adaptive Fuzzy Recurrent Neural Network for Solving the Nonrepetitive Motion Problem of Redundant Robot Manipulators * Chaotic Type-2 Transient-Fuzzy Deep Neuro-Oscillatory Network (CT2TFDNN) for Worldwide   more

PISCATAWAY, New Jersey, April 6 -- 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 April 2020 edition: * 3D Spatially Weighted Network for Segmentation of Brain Tissue From MRI * Analytic Determination of Rectangula  more

PISCATAWAY, New Jersey, April 6 -- IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, a journal from the IEEE Computer Society, published research articles on the following topics in its April 2020 edition: * Automated Video Face Labelling for Films and TV Material * Baselines Extraction from Curved Document Images via Slope Fields Recovery * Deep Self-Evolution Clustering * Denoising Autoencoders for Overgeneralization in Neural Networks * Efficient and Robust Approximate Near  more

PRINCETON, New Jersey, April 8 -- The Institute for Advanced Study issued the following news release: The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded the Institute for Advanced Study a three-year grant of $350,000 to complete digitization of one of the world's largest squeeze collections. The project will establish worldwide open access for more than 30,000 paper squeezes--the physical imprints of stone inscriptions--that are crucial to an understanding of the ancient world. "The i  more

PISCATAWAY, New Jersey, April 8 -- The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers issued the following news release: IEEE, the world's largest technical professional organization advancing technology for humanity, is committed to supporting the global response to COVID-19. The organization is providing free, direct access to a collection of various COVID-19 related research articles and standards to help researchers understand, manage and combat the different aspects of the pandemic. IE  more

PARSIPPANY, New Jersey, April 6 -- 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 March 2020 edition: * Pembrolizumab Plus Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy Improves Pathologic Complete Response Rates in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer * Geriatric Assessment and Collaborative Medication Review for Older Adult  more

MANASQUAN, New Jersey, April 7 -- The National Conference of Insurance Legislators issued the following news release: The National Council of Insurance Legislators (NCOIL), announced its opposition to a piece of federal insurance legislation, while supporting an unrelated disaster mitigation bill. Commissioner Tom Considine, NCOIL CEO, wrote to Rep. Rashida Tlaib opposing H.R. 1756, the Preventing Credit Score Discrimination in Auto Insurance Act, as well as to Rep. Mike Thompson, Chair of the   more

TRENTON, New Jersey, April 8 -- The New Jersey School Boards Association issued the following news release: U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos on April 6 announced a streamlined process for providing states funding flexibility to best meet the needs of students and educators during the COVID-19 national emergency. The new flexibility, authorized under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, allows schools to re-purpose existing K-12 education funds for technology i  more

WASHINGTON, April 10 -- Power to Decide issued the following news release: According to data released by Power to Decide, an estimated 369,960 New Jersey women of reproductive age (13-44) in need of publicly funded contraception live in counties impacted by the implementation of the Title X Family Planning Program "domestic gag rule." According to the same data, nearly three-quarters (71%) of New Jersey's counties have lost Title X resources. The domestic gag rule requires health providers rec  more

PRINCETON, New Jersey, April 8 -- The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation issued the following news release: The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) will provide $50 million in immediate short-term relief to several national and community organizations to help some of the families and communities feeling the greatest strain under the COVID-19 health emergency. This includes $5 million for relief efforts in RWJF's home state of New Jersey, hit particularly hard by the virus. As the nation's large  more

PISCATAWAY, New Jersey, April 6 -- Transactions on Circuits and Systems, a journal from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, published research articles, including the following topics, in its April 2020 edition: * Aging Compensation With Dynamic Computation Approximation * Analysis of Start-Up Response in a Digitally Controlled Boost Converter With Constant Power Load and Mitigation of Inrush Current Problems * Analytical Study of the Impacts of Stochastic Load Fluctuation   more

TRENTON, New Jersey, April 11 -- The New Jersey School Boards Association issued the following news release: On April 7, the Warren County School Boards Association held the first-ever virtual county association meeting. The meeting drew more than 40 participants. Mike McClure, NJSBA president, and Dr. Lawrence S. Feinsod, addressed the digitally-assembled group at the start of the meeting. "Welcome to a historic event for New Jersey's local school boards," said Feinsod, "I want to convey my   more