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11 August 2015      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports         Nature Publishing Group offers a free open access funding support service to enable authors to discover and apply for article processing charge funding available to them. Visit our website for further advice on the funding options available, and guidance in approaching funders and institutions, or email openaccess@nature.com for more information.            Earth & Environmental Sciences               Nationwide variation in the effects of temperature on infectious gastroenteritis incidence in Japan ▶     Daisuke Onozuka, Akihito Hagihara     Although several studies have investigated the effects of temperature on the incidence of infectious gastrointestinal disease in a single city or region, few have investigated …             Subalpine Pyrenees received higher nitrogen deposition than predicted by EMEP and CHIMERE chemistry-transport models ▶     Marion Boutin, Thierry Lamaze, Florian Couvidat et al.     Deposition of reactive nitrogen (N) from the atmosphere is expected to be the third greatest driver of biodiversity loss by the year 2100. Chemistry-transport models are …             Denitrifying capability and community dynamics of glycogen accumulating organisms during sludge granulation in an anaerobic-aerobic sequencing batch reactor ▶     Zhang Bin, Xue Bin, Qiu Zhigang et al.     Denitrifying capability of glycogen accumulating organisms (GAOs) has received great attention in environmental science and microbial ecology. Combining this ability with granule …             First Miocene rodent from Lebanon provides the 'missing link' between Asian and African gundis (Rodentia: Ctenodactylidae) ▶     Raquel López-Antoñanzas, Fabien Knoll, Sibelle Maksoud et al.     Ctenodactylinae (gundis) is a clade of rodents that experienced, in Miocene time, their greatest diversification and widest distribution. They expanded from the Far East, their …             Climate changes and solar cycles recorded at the Holocene Paraná Delta, and their impact on human population ▶     Juan Pablo Milana, Daniela Kröhling     The Paraná delta, growing at a rate of c. 2 km2 yr−1 since 6,000 yrs, is one of the most complete records of the Late Holocene in southern South America. The evolution of this …             Projecting excess emergency department visits and associated costs in Brisbane, Australia, under population growth and climate change scenarios ▶     Ghasem (Sam) Toloo, Wenbiao Hu, Gerry FitzGerald et al.     The direct and indirect health effects of increasingly warmer temperatures are likely to further burden the already overcrowded hospital emergency departments (EDs). Using …             Differences in the regeneration traits of Potamogeton crispus turions from macrophyte- and phytoplankton-dominated lakes ▶     Dong Xie, Hengjie Zhou, Hong Zhu et al.     Potamogeton crispus is widely used in submerged macrophyte restoration in China. Turions are an important means of reproduction in this species. To compare the regeneration …             Caustics and Rogue Waves in an Optical Sea ▶     Amaury Mathis, Luc Froehly, Shanti Toenger et al.     There are many examples in physics of systems showing rogue wave behaviour, the generation of high amplitude events at low probability. Although initially studied in …             Understanding complex biogeographic responses to climate change ▶     Rui Seabra, David S. Wethey, António M. Santos et al.     Predicting the extent and direction of species’ range shifts is a major priority for scientists and resource managers. Seminal studies have fostered the notion that biological …             The burden of ambient temperature on years of life lost in Guangzhou, China ▶     Jun Yang, Chun-Quan Ou, Yuming Guo et al.     Limited evidence is available on the association between temperature and years of life lost (YLL). We applied distributed lag non-linear model to assess the nonlinear and delayed …             Erratum: Plant growth improvement mediated by nitrate capture in co-composted biochar ▶     Claudia I. Kammann, Hans-Peter Schmidt, Nicole Messerschmidt et al.                 Photosensitized production of functionalized and unsaturated organic compounds at the air-sea interface ▶     Raluca Ciuraru, Ludovic Fine, Manuela van Pinxteren et al.     The sea-surface microlayer (SML) has different physical, chemical and biological properties compared to the subsurface water, with an enrichment of organic matter i.e., dissolved …             Morphological and community changes of turf algae in competition with corals ▶     Neidy P. Cetz-Navarro, Lizette I. Quan-Young, Julio Espinoza-Avalos     The morphological plasticity and community responses of algae competing with corals have not been assessed. We evaluated eight morphological characters of four species of …             Atlantic hurricane activity during the last millennium ▶     Michael J. Burn, Suzanne E. Palmer     Hurricanes are a persistent socio-economic hazard for countries situated in and around the Main Development Region (MDR) of Atlantic tropical cyclones. Climate-model simulations …             Effects of the interaction between TiO2 with different percentages of exposed {001} facets and Cu2+ on biotoxicity in Daphnia magna ▶     Lingling Liu, Wenhong Fan, Huiting Lu et al.     Anatase TiO2 nanosheets (NSs) with exposed {001} facets have been widely used because of their high activity and particular surface atomic configuration. However, investigations …             Glyphosate-based herbicides reduce the activity and reproduction of earthworms and lead to increased soil nutrient concentrations ▶     Mailin Gaupp-Berghausen, Martin Hofer, Boris Rewald et al.     Herbicide use is increasing worldwide both in agriculture and private gardens. However, our knowledge of potential side-effects on non-target soil organisms, even on such eminent …             Anomalous incident-angle and elliptical-polarization rotation of an elastically refracted P-wave ▶     Lin Fa, Yuxiao Fa, Yandong Zhang et al.     We report a newly discovered anomalous incident-angle of an elastically refracted P-wave, arising from a P-wave impinging on an interface between two VTI media with strong …             Corrigendum: Worldwide variations in artificial skyglow ▶     Christopher C. M. Kyba, Kai Pong Tong, Jonathan Bennie et al.                 When a 520 million-year-old Chengjiang fossil meets a modern micro-CT – a case study ▶     Yu Liu, Gerhard Scholtz, Xianguang Hou     The 520 million-year-old Chengjiang biota of China (UNESCO World Heritage) presents the earliest known evidence of the so-called Cambrian Explosion. Studies, however, have mainly …             Impacts of global warming on residential heating and cooling degree-days in the United States ▶     Yana Petri, Ken Caldeira     Climate change is expected to decrease heating demand and increase cooling demand for buildings and affect outdoor thermal comfort. Here, we project changes in residential …             Chlorophyll catalyse the photo-transformation of carcinogenic benzo[a]pyrene in water ▶     Lijuan Luo, Xueying Lai, Baowei Chen et al.     Algal blooms cause great damage to water quality and aquaculture. However, this study showed that dead algal cells and chlorophyll could accelerate the photo-transformation of …             The Fukushima Health Management Survey: estimation of external doses to residents in Fukushima Prefecture ▶     Tetsuo Ishikawa, Seiji Yasumura, Kotaro Ozasa et al.     The Fukushima Health Management Survey (including the Basic Survey for external dose estimation and four detailed surveys) was launched after the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power …                     • Careers & Jobs           naturejobs.com Science jobs of the week       Research Associate     University College London (UCL)            Post-doctoral Research Scholar     University of Miami            Investigator Scientist     Medical Research Council - Laboratory of Molecular Biology            Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Physical Geography     University of Glasgow            Doctoral Program Fellowships     Graduate School of Life Sciences (GSLS), University of Würzburg            Research Associate     The University of Warwick            Research Associate     Parkinson's Institute and Clinical Center            Research Associate in Mixed Methods     University of Bristol            Bioinformatician     The Genome Analysis Centre (TGAC)            Postdoctoral position(s)     INSERM - IMRB U955 - Team 10           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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