HOBOKEN, New Jersey, May 13 -- 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 May 12, 2020 edition: * Catalytic Asymmetric Synthesis of Isochroman Derivatives * Silicon-Derived Singlet Nucleophilic Carbene Reagents in Organic Synthesis Communications: * The Enantioselective Synthesis of Chiral Carbocyclic Nucleosides via Palladium-Catalyzed Asym  more

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, May 16 -- The American Friends Service Committee issued the following news release: As dangerous, unsanitary conditions and protocols have caused COVID-19 to spread unchecked through the Elizabeth Detention Center (EDC), four people at imminent risk of serious illness and death from the virus have filed a class-action lawsuit demanding the immediate release of all immigrants locked up in EDC. The suit details the dangerous conditions faced by the people confined at   more

HOBOKEN, New Jersey, May 12 -- The American Journal of Hematology, a journal that says it provides coverage of experimental and clinical features of blood diseases in humans and in animal models of human disease, published research articles, including the following topics, in its June 2020 edition: * Bortezomib consolidation or maintenance following immunochemotherapy and autologous stem cell transplantation for mantle cell lymphoma: CALGB/Alliance 50403 * Frontline treatment with the combinat  more

HOBOKEN, New Jersey, May 10 -- 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 June 2020 edition: * Estimation of the number of workers exposed to respirable crystalline silica by industry: Analysis of OSHA compliance data (1979-2015) * Estimating the prevalence and spatial clusters of coal workers' pneumoconiosis cases using medicare claims da  more

RESTON, Virginia, May 15 -- The American Society of Civil Engineers issued the following news on May 14: Joe DiPompeo starts work these days with a new morning routine. "I walk into the office every single morning with a disinfectant wipe in my hand," said DiPompeo, P.E., F.SEI, F.ASCE, founder and president of Structural Workshop LLC, a structural engineering and building firm in Mountain Lakes, New Jersey, and president-elect of ASCE's Structural Engineering Institute. "I wipe the doorknob   more

HIGHLANDS, New Jersey, May 13 -- 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 May 2020 edition: * Skeletal Muscle Mass Change During Chemotherapy: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis * A Review of Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy in the Management of Oligometastatic Prostate Cancer * Endometriosis-associated   more

NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey, May 13 -- The Center for American Women and Politics issued the following news release: 490 women have filed as candidates for U.S. House seats, a new record high, according to the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University. This surpasses even the record-breaking 2018 midterm election, in which 476 women filed to run for House seats. In 14 states, filing deadlines have yet to pass. Much of the surge in candidate filings at this point in the 2020 cy  more

HOBOKEN, New Jersey, May 14 -- Clinical Transplantation, a journal that says it aims to serve as a channel for those involved in the care of patients who require, or have had, organ or tissue transplants (including kidney, intestine, liver, pancreas, islets, heart, heart valves, lung, bone marrow, cornea, skin, bone and cartilage), published research articles on the following topics in its April 2020 edition: * Economic impacts of alternative kidney transplant immunosuppression: A national coho  more

SOUTH PLAINFIELD, New Jersey, May 15 -- The Council on American-Islamic Relations issued the following news release: The New Jersey chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-NJ) applauded the tossing of a court case that put Islam on trial. The state convinced an appellate court to toss a jury decision that sided with a city landlord accused of discriminating against a Muslim woman who tried to rent an apartment. A three-judge panel on Wednesday ordered a new trial in the dis  more

PRINCETON, New Jersey, May 13 -- The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation issued the following news release: The Board of Trustees of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), the largest philanthropy dedicated to improving the health and health care of everyone in America, has elected David R. Williams, MPH, PhD as a Trustee. Williams is one of the world's preeminent scholars, whose research focuses on the complex ways in which health is affected by factors such as socioeconomic status, race, stre  more

WASHINGTON, May 16 -- Human Rights First issued the following news release: Nearly two dozen human rights, immigrant rights, and civil rights advocates and service providers, including Human Rights First, are coming together to seek the release of immigrants and asylum-seekers in detention. In the face of continued refusal by federal authorities to use discretion to release people from immigration detention, the groups will leverage the influence of their grassroots supporters to petition the   more

WASHINGTON, May 16 -- Human Rights Watch issued the following news release on May 15: Nearly two dozen human rights, immigrant rights, and civil rights advocates and service providers are coming together to seek the release of immigrants and asylum-seekers in detention. In the face of continued refusal by federal authorities to use discretion to release people from immigration detention, the groups will leverage the influence of their grassroots supporters to petition the governors of Californ  more

PISCATAWAY, New Jersey, May 15 -- 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 May 2020 edition: * Al-Doped ZnO Transparent Conducting Glass With an IGZO Buffer Layer for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells * Aluminum Oxide Passivating Tunneling Interlayers for Molybdenum Oxide Hole-Sele  more

PISCATAWAY, New Jersey, May 11 -- 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 May 2020 edition: * 20-32-GHz Quadrature Digital Transmitter Using Synthesized Impedance Variation Compensation * Code-Domain Multiplexing for Shared IF/LO Interfaces in Millimeter-Wave MIMO Arrays * Coupler-Based  more

PISCATAWAY, New Jersey, May 13 -- 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, including the following topics, in its May 2020 edition: * Accelerated Stimulated Raman Projection Tomography by Sparse Reconstruction From Sparse-View Data * Classification of Decompens  more

PISCATAWAY, New Jersey, May 12 -- IEEE Transactions on Computers, a journal from the IEEE Computer Society, published research articles on the following topics in its May 2020 edition: * Adaptive Model-Based Scheduling in Software Transactional Memory * All-Digital Control-Theoretic Scheme to Optimize Energy Budget and Allocation in Multi-Cores * Automated Performance Modeling of HPC Applications Using Machine Learning * Branch Prediction Attack on Blinded Scalar Multiplication * Crossbar-C  more

PISCATAWAY, New Jersey, May 15 -- 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 on the following topics in its May 2020 edition: * Active Incremental Feature Selection Using a Fuzzy-Rough-Set-Based Information Entropy * CoEvil: A Coevolutionary Model for Crime Inference Based on Fuzzy Rough Feature Selection * Distributed Feature Selection for Big  more

PISCATAWAY, New Jersey, May 13 -- 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 May 2020 edition: * 3D Shape Modeling and Analysis of Retinal Microvasculature in OCT-Angiography Images * Breast Cancer: Model Recon  more

PISCATAWAY, New Jersey, May 13 -- 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 May 2020 edition: * Deep Inception-Residual Laplacian Pyramid Networks for Accurate Single-Image Super-Resolution * Distributed Synchronization Control of Nonaffine Multiagent S  more

PISCATAWAY, New Jersey, May 14 -- The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers issued the following news release on May 13: IEEE, the world's largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for humanity, announced it has entered an Open Access Read and Publish agreement with the University of Illinois, one of the leading institutions for engineering research. This marks the first Read and Publish agreement for the University of Illinois with a major publis  more

ENGLEWOOD, New Jersey, May 12 -- Englewood Hospital and Medical Center issued the following news release: The Englewood Health Foundation has received a $500,000 donation from ZT Systems for its Power to Prepare Fund. Established in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the fund will help Englewood Health provide continuity of high-quality care for patients, obtain necessary supplies and equipment to aid in screening and treatment, and deliver much-needed support for caregivers on the front lines.  more

HOBOKEN, New Jersey, May 12 -- 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 June 2020 edition: * Biomarkers of exposure, effect, and susceptibility in occupational exposure to traffic-related air pollution: A review RESEARCH ARTI  more

ORADELL, New Jersey, May 14 -- The Journal of Interferon and Cytokine Research, a peer-reviewed journal that says it features therapeutic role of cytokines and Interferons from the International Cytokine and Interferon Society, published research articles, including the following topics, in its May 2020 edition: * Characterization of a Novel Interleukin-1 Receptor Antagonist from Sheep (Ovis aries) * Monocyte Chemotactic Protein-1 Regulates Proliferation and Contractility of Human Bladder Smoo  more

HOBOKEN, New Jersey, May 16 -- The Journal of Personality, a peer-reviewed journal that says it focuses on personality and behavior dynamics, development and individual differences in the cognitive, affective and interpersonal domains, published research articles on the following topics in its June 2020 edition: * Attention promotes accurate impression formation * Family and neighborhood socioeconomic status and temperament development from childhood to adolescence * Global sex differences in  more

HOBOKEN, New Jersey, May 13 -- The Journal of Phytopathology, a journal that says it features plant diseases induced by microbial pathogens, viruses and nematodes, published research articles on the following topics in its June 2020 edition: * Baseline sensitivities to azoxystrobin and tebuconazole in Sclerotinia sclerotiorum isolates from sunflower in Iran related to sensitivities to carbendazim and iprodione * Chemical components of essential oils as a base to control two grape pathogens: Sp  more

TRENTON, New Jersey, May 12 -- The New Jersey State Chamber of Commerce issued the following news release: New Jersey Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Tom Bracken and 15 members of the N.J. Chamber's Board of Directors, including Board Chair Linda Bowden, were among the business leaders named on Friday to serve on Gov. Phil Murphy's Restart and Recovery Advisory Council. Bracken and the 15 Board members will serve on six of the nine Advisory Council subcommittees with four serving on Tran  more

WASHINGTON, May 16 -- The National Association of Professional Insurance Agents issued the following news release: Andrew Harris, Jr., President of Liberty Insurance of Millstone Township, New Jersey, has been named the 2020 Professional Agent of the Year by the National Association of Professional Insurance Agents (PIA). "This award is PIA's highest honor," said PIA National President Dennis Kuhnke. "Andrew Harris, Jr. has distinguished himself as a leader in the agency business, and in PIA.   more

TRENTON, New Jersey, May 14 -- The National Day Laborer Organizing Network issued the following news release: On Wednesday morning, New Jersey immigrant day laborers, worker centers and allies led over 50 cars in a "COVID-safe car protest" demanding Governor Murphy and state leaders provide emergency assistance to immigrant workers and families. Encircling the statehouse with banners on their cars reading "What About Us? -- Y Nosotros Que?" the groups call on state lawmakers to reject and addre  more

TRENTON, New Jersey, May 13 -- The New Jersey School Boards Association issued the following news release: Dr. Lawrence S. Feinsod, New Jersey School Boards Association executive director, congratulated Dr. Lamont Repollet, state commissioner of education, on his appointment as president of Kean University. Repollet's appointment was approved last night by the university's board of trustees. He had been under consideration for the position for several months. "Dr. Repollet has consistently de  more

NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey, May 13 -- Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey issued the following news: Aiming to identify new therapeutic strategies for the aggressive hematological disease T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL), Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey resident researcher Daniel Herranz Benito, PhD, along with collaborators from Princeton University, found a new drug that has therapeutic effect against T-ALL by inhibiting SHMT and is complementary to standard-of-care treatm  more

NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey, May 13 -- RWJBarnabas Health issued the following news: Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Somerset, an RWJBarnabas Health facility, has earned an "A" Hospital Safety Score - the highest patient safety rating - fromThe Leapfrog Group, an independent hospital watchdog organization. It is the hospital's fourth consecutive "A" rating and tenth overall. "RWJUH Somerset is committed to achieving the highest levels of quality in the care we deliver to our community an  more

TRENTON, New Jersey, May 14 -- The New Jersey State Chamber of Commerce issued the following statement by President and CEO Tom Bracken: The New Jersey Chamber of Commerce supports many provisions in the proposed HEROES Act now under consideration in the U.S. House of Representatives. The N.J. Chamber especially supports the added financing to support small businesses and hospitals, as well as the funding of additional testing and monitoring for the coronavirus. The Chamber also supports the   more

PISCATAWAY, New Jersey, May 11 -- Transactions on Circuits and Systems, a journal from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, published research articles, including the following topics, in its May 2020 edition: * Approximate Memory Architecture for Energy Saving in Deep Learning Applications * Dark Count Rate Modeling in Single-Photon Avalanche Diodes * Design of D-Band Transformer-Based Gain-Boosting Class-AB Power Amplifiers in Silicon Technologies * In-Hardware Training C  more