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16 June 2015      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports               Earth & Environmental Sciences               Bursts in discontinuous Aeolian saltation ▶     M. V. Carneiro, K. R. Rasmussen, H. J. Herrmann     Close to the onset of Aeolian particle transport through saltation we find in wind tunnel experiments a regime of discontinuous flux characterized by bursts of activity. Scaling …             Achieving waste to energy through sewage sludge gasification using hot slags: syngas production ▶     Yongqi Sun, Jinichiro Nakano, Lili Liu et al.     To relieve the environmental issues of sewage sludge (SS) disposal and greenhouse gas (GHG) emission in China, we proposed an integrated method for the first time to …             Processes driving nocturnal transpiration and implications for estimating land evapotranspiration ▶     Víctor Resco de Dios, Jacques Roy, Juan Pedro Ferrio et al.     Evapotranspiration is a major component of the water cycle, yet only daytime transpiration is currently considered in Earth system and agricultural sciences. This contrasts with …             Plasmonic silver quantum dots coupled with hierarchical TiO2 nanotube arrays photoelectrodes for efficient visible-light photoelectrocatalytic hydrogen evolution ▶     Zichao Lian, Wenchao Wang, Shuning Xiao et al.     A plasmonic Ag/TiO2 photocatalytic composite was designed by selecting Ag quantum dots (Ag QDs) to act as a surface plasmon resonance (SPR) photosensitizer for driving the …             On the formation of current ripples ▶     J. Bartholdy, V. B. Ernstsen, B. W. Flemming et al.     For grain sizes finer than coarse sand, the first flow-transverse bedforms to develop are current ripples. Although numerous studies have analysed different aspects of bedform …             Ultrasonic application to boost hydroxyl radical formation during Fenton oxidation and release organic matter from sludge ▶     Changxiu Gong, Jianguo Jiang, De’an Li et al.     We examined the effects of ultrasound and Fenton reagent on ultrasonic coupling Fenton oxidation (U+F) pre-treatment processes for the disintegration of wastewater treatment …             Perfluorooctanoic acid exposure for 28 days affects glucose homeostasis and induces insulin hypersensitivity in mice ▶     Shengmin Yan, Hongxia Zhang, Fei Zheng et al.     Perfluoroalkyl acids (PFAAs) are widely used in many applications due to their unique physical and chemical characteristics. Because of the increasing prevalence of metabolic …             Removal of ecotoxicity of 17α-ethinylestradiol using TAML/peroxide water treatment ▶     Matthew R. Mills, Karla Arias-Salazar, Alice Baynes et al.     17α-ethinylestradiol (EE2), a synthetic oestrogen in oral contraceptives, is one of many pharmaceuticals found in inland waterways worldwide as a result of human consumption and …             Diversity and functions of bacterial community in drinking water biofilms revealed by high-throughput sequencing ▶     Yuanqing Chao, Yanping Mao, Zhiping Wang et al.     The development of biofilms in drinking water (DW) systems may cause various problems to water quality. To investigate the community structure of biofilms on different pipe …             A composite annual-resolution stalagmite record of North Atlantic climate over the last three millennia ▶     Andy Baker, John C. Hellstrom, Bryce F. J. Kelly et al.     Annually laminated stalagmites can be used to construct a precise chronology, and variations in laminae thickness provide an annual growth-rate record that can be used as a proxy …             Heterogeneous distribution of plankton within the mixed layer and its implications for bloom formation in tropical seas ▶     Albert Calbet, Mette Dalgaard Agersted, Stein Kaartvedt et al.     Intensive sampling at the coastal waters of the central Red Sea during a period of thermal stratification, prior to the main seasonal bloom during winter, showed that vertical …             Social behaviour in mesopelagic jellyfish ▶     Stein Kaartvedt, Karl I. Ugland, Thor A. Klevjer et al.     Gelatinous organisms apparently play a central role in deep pelagic ecosystems, but lack of observational methodologies has restricted information on their behaviour. We made …             Room Temperature, Hybrid Sodium-Based Flow Batteries with Multi-Electron Transfer Redox Reactions ▶     Jack S. Shamie, Caihong Liu, Leon L. Shaw et al.     We introduce a new concept of hybrid Na-based flow batteries (HNFBs) with a molten Na alloy anode in conjunction with a flowing catholyte separated by a solid Na-ion exchange …             Selective stabilization of aliphatic organic carbon by iron oxide ▶     Dinesh Adhikari, Yu Yang     Stabilization of organic matter in soil is important for natural ecosystem to sequestrate carbon and mitigate greenhouse gas emission. It is largely unknown what factors govern …             Background fish feminization effects in European remote sites ▶     Sergio Jarque, Laia Quirós, Joan O. Grimalt et al.     Human activity has spread trace amounts of chemically stable endocrine-disrupting pollutants throughout the biosphere. These compounds have generated a background level of …             The footprint of urban heat island effect in China ▶     Decheng Zhou, Shuqing Zhao, Liangxia Zhang et al.     Urban heat island (UHI) is one major anthropogenic modification to the Earth system that transcends its physical boundary. Using MODIS data from 2003 to 2012, we showed that the …             The role of calcineurin signaling in microcystin-LR triggered neuronal toxicity ▶     Guangyu Li, Wei Yan, Yao Dang et al.     Microcystin-LR (MCLR) is a commonly acting potent hepatotoxin and has been pointed out of potentially causing neurotoxicity, but the exact mechanisms of action still remain …             CAN Canopy Addition of Nitrogen Better Illustrate the Effect of Atmospheric Nitrogen Deposition on Forest Ecosystem? ▶     Wei Zhang, Weijun Shen, Shidan Zhu et al.     Increasing atmospheric nitrogen (N) deposition could profoundly impact community structure and ecosystem functions in forests. However, conventional experiments with understory …             Solving the woolly mammoth conundrum: amino acid 15N-enrichment suggests a distinct forage or habitat ▶     Rachel Schwartz-Narbonne, Fred J. Longstaffe, Jessica Z. Metcalfe et al.     Understanding woolly mammoth ecology is key to understanding Pleistocene community dynamics and evaluating the roles of human hunting and climate change in late Quaternary …             Early Triassic wrinkle structures on land: stressed environments and oases for life ▶     Daoliang Chu, Jinnan Tong, Haijun Song et al.     Wrinkle structures in rocks younger than the Permian-Triassic (P-Tr) extinction have been reported repeatedly in marine strata, but rarely mentioned in rocks recording land. …             Real Time Tracking of Magmatic Intrusions by means of Ground Deformation Modeling during Volcanic Crises ▶     Flavio Cannavò, Antonio G. Camacho, Pablo J. González et al.     Volcano observatories provide near real-time information and, ultimately, forecasts about volcano activity. For this reason, multiple physical and chemical parameters are …             Plant growth improvement mediated by nitrate capture in co-composted biochar ▶     Claudia I. Kammann, Hans-Peter Schmidt, Nicole Messerschmidt et al.     Soil amendment with pyrogenic carbon (biochar) is discussed as strategy to improve soil fertility to enable economic plus environmental benefits. In temperate soils, however, the …             Effects of environmental and biotic factors on carbon isotopic fractionation during decomposition of soil organic matter ▶     Guoan Wang, Yufu Jia, Wei Li     Decomposition of soil organic matter (SOM) plays an important role in the global carbon cycle because the CO2 emitted from soil respiration is an important source of atmospheric …             Repeated, long-distance migrations by a philopatric predator targeting highly contrasting ecosystems ▶     James S. E. Lea, Bradley M. Wetherbee, Nuno Queiroz et al.     Long-distance movements of animals are an important driver of population spatial dynamics and determine the extent of overlap with area-focused human activities, such as fishing. …                     • Careers & Jobs           naturejobs.com Science jobs of the week       Staff Clinician     National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases            Tenure Track Opportunities     Wake Forest School of Medicine            Postdoctoral Scientist     John Innes Centre (JIC)            Postdoctoral Scientist     Medical Research Council            Post-Doc     UCLA            Principal Scientist I     F. 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