• Theodore White’s reporting of famine in Henan saved lives 

  Yarrow, Richard (The China Project, 2022-03-31)

  This week marks the anniversary of journalist Theodore White’s reporting on the 1942-44 famine in Henan, which helped spur greater relief for people in this inland province.

• Opportunities for optimism in contended main-memory multicore transactions 

  Huang, Yihe; Qian, William; Kohler, Edward; Liskov, Barbara; Shrira, Liuba (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2022-01-11)

  Main-memory multicore transactional systems have achieved excellent performance using single-version optimistic concurrency control (OCC), especially on uncontended workloads. Nevertheless, systems based on other concurrency ...

• A High Potential, Low Capacity Fade Rate Iron Complex Posolyte for Aqueous Organic Flow Batteries 

  Gao, Jinxu; Amini, Kiana; George, Thomas Y.; Jing, Yan; Tsukamoto, Tatsuhiro; Xi, Dawei; Gordon, Roy G.; Aziz, Michael (Wiley, 2022-10-07)

  An iron complex, tris(4,4′‐bis(hydroxymethyl)‐2,2′‐bipyridine) iron dichloride is reported, which operates at near‐neutral pH with a redox potential of 0.985 V versus SHE. This high potential compound is employed in the ...

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