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08 April 2014      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports               Earth & Environmental Sciences               To what extent can zero tillage lead to a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from temperate soils? ▶     Shamsudheen Mangalassery, Sofie Sjgersten, Debbie L. Sparkes et al.     Soil tillage practices have a profound influence on the physical properties of soil and the greenhouse gas (GHG) balance. However there have been very few integrated studies on …             Discrete regenerative fuel cell reduces hysteresis for sustainable cycling of water ▶     Kiwon Park, Jungkoo Lee, Hyung-Man Kim et al.     The discrete regenerative fuel cell is being developed as a residential power control that synchronizes with a renewables load which fluctuates significantly with the time and …             Renewed soil erosion and remobilisation of radioactive sediment in Fukushima coastal rivers after the 2013 typhoons ▶     Olivier Evrard, Caroline Chartin, Yuichi Onda et al.     Summer typhoons and spring snowmelt led to the riverine spread of continental Fukushima fallout to the coastal plains of Northeastern Japan and the Pacific Ocean. Four fieldwork …             PFOS induced lipid metabolism disturbances in BALB/c mice through inhibition of low density lipoproteins excretion ▶     Ling Wang, Yu Wang, Yong Liang et al.     Male BALB/c mice fed with either a regular or high fat diet were exposed to 0, 5 or 20 mg/kg perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) for 14 days. Increased body weight, serum glucose, …             Indo-Pacific Warm Pool Area Expansion, Modoki Activity, and Tropical Cold-Point Tropopause Temperature Variations ▶     Fei Xie, Jianping Li, Wenshou Tian et al.     The tropical cold-point tropopause temperature (CPTT), a potentially important indicator of global climate change, is of particular importance for understanding changes in …             Network communities within and across borders ▶     Federica Cerina, Alessandro Chessa, Fabio Pammolli et al.     We investigate the impact of borders on the topology of spatially embedded networks. Indeed territorial subdivisions and geographical borders significantly hamper the geographical …             Reduced plant nutrition under elevated CO2 depresses the immunocompetence of cotton bollworm against its endoparasite ▶     Jin Yin, Yucheng Sun, Feng Ge     Estimating the immunocompetence of herbivore insects under elevated CO2 is an important step in understanding the effects of elevated CO2 on crop-herbivore-natural enemy …                     • Careers & Jobs           naturejobs.com Science jobs of the week       Postdoctoral Research Assistant     Birckbeck University of London            Research fellow     Thomas Jefferson University (TJU)            Postdoctoral Research Assistant     University of Oxford            PhD Researcher     KU Leuven            10 Research Fellowships     Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen            Research Associate I     University of Illinois            Postdoctoral Research Associate     University of Liverpool            Research Associates     University of Cambridge            Director-General position     CERN - European Organization for Nuclear Research            Postdoctoral Fellow     University of Virginia          No matter what your career stage, student, postdoc or senior scientist, you will find articles on naturejobs.com to help guide you in your science career. 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