Scientific Reports Earth Sciences Table of Contents e-alert: 17 February 2015

17 February 2015      • Visit Scientific Reports • Submit your manuscript to Scientific Reports     Welcome to your Table of Contents e-alert for Scientific Reports               Earth & Environmental Sciences               A Novel Protocol for Model Calibration in Biological Wastewater Treatment ▶     Ao Zhu, Jianhua Guo, Bing-Jie Ni et al.     Activated sludge models (ASMs) have been widely used for process design, operation and optimization in wastewater treatment plants. However, it is still a challenge to achieve an …             Temperature and solids retention time control microbial population dynamics and volatile fatty acid production in replicated anaerobic digesters ▶     Inka Vanwonterghem, Paul D. Jensen, Korneel Rabaey et al.     Anaerobic digestion is a widely used technology for waste stabilization and generation of biogas, and has recently emerged as a potentially important process for the production …             The Energy Metabolism in Caenorhabditis elegans under The Extremely Low-Frequency Electromagnetic Field Exposure ▶     Zhenhua Shi, Hui Yu, Yongyan Sun et al.     A literal mountain of documentation generated in the past five decades showing unmistakable health hazards associated with extremely low-frequency electromagnetic fields …             Muonium in Stishovite: Implications for the Possible Existence of Neutral Atomic Hydrogen in the Earth's Deep Mantle ▶     Nobumasa Funamori, Kenji M. Kojima, Daisuke Wakabayashi et al.     Hydrogen in the Earth's deep interior has been thought to exist as a hydroxyl group in high-pressure minerals. We present Muon Spin Rotation experiments on SiO2 stishovite, which …             Pangea breakup and northward drift of the Indian subcontinent reproduced by a numerical model of mantle convection ▶     Masaki Yoshida, Yozo Hamano     Since around 200 Ma, the most notable event in the process of the breakup of Pangea has been the high speed (up to 20 cm yr−1) of the northward drift of the Indian subcontinent. …             Future projection of radiocesium flux to the ocean from the largest river impacted by Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant ▶     Mochamad Adhiraga Pratama, Minoru Yoneda, Yoko Shimada et al.     Following the initial fall out from Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant (FDNPP), a significant amount of radiocesium has been discharged from Abukuma River into the Pacific …             Estimation of the parameters of ETAS models by Simulated Annealing ▶     Anna Maria Lombardi     This paper proposes a new algorithm to estimate the maximum likelihood parameters of an Epidemic Type Aftershock Sequences (ETAS) model. It is based on Simulated Annealing, a …             Worldwide variations in artificial skyglow ▶     Christopher C. M. Kyba, Kai Pong Tong, Jonathan Bennie et al.     Despite constituting a widespread and significant environmental change, understanding of artificial nighttime skyglow is extremely limited. Until now, published monitoring …             Climate change as an unexpected co-factor promoting coral eating seastar (Acanthaster planci) outbreaks ▶     S. Uthicke, M. Logan, M. Liddy et al.     Coral reefs face a crisis due to local and global anthropogenic stressors. A large proportion of the ~50% coral loss on the Great Barrier Reef has been attributed to outbreaks of …             Minimising hydrogen sulphide generation during steam assisted production of heavy oil ▶     Wren Montgomery, Mark A. Sephton, Jonathan S. Watson et al.     The majority of global petroleum is in the form of highly viscous heavy oil. Traditionally heavy oil in sands at shallow depths is accessed by large scale mining activities. …             Strong effects of ionizing radiation from Chernobyl on mutation rates ▶     Anders Pape Møller, Timothy A. Mousseau     In this paper we use a meta-analysis to examine the relationship between radiation and mutation rates in Chernobyl across 45 published studies, covering 30 species. Overall …             Earth's Phosphides in Levant and insights into the source of Archean prebiotic phosphorus ▶     Sergey N. Britvin, Michail N. Murashko, Yevgeny Vapnik et al.     Natural phosphides - the minerals containing phosphorus in a redox state lower than zero – are common constituents of meteorites but virtually unknown on the Earth. Herein we …             Prion Amplification and Hierarchical Bayesian Modeling Refine Detection of Prion Infection ▶     A. Christy Wyckoff, Nathan Galloway, Crystal Meyerett-Reid et al.     Prions are unique infectious agents that replicate without a genome and cause neurodegenerative diseases that include chronic wasting disease (CWD) of cervids. …                     • Careers & Jobs           naturejobs.com Science jobs of the week       Research Assistant     University of Kansas Medical Center (KUMC)            PhD Position - Developmental Neuroscience     Charite - Universitaetsmedizin Berlin            Postdoctoral Research Scientists     The Babraham Institute            Postdoctoral Research Fellow     University of Edinburgh            Postdoctoral Fellow     Stanford University School of Medicine            Scientific Research Assistant     Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg            Director of Research     Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research            Research Associate Position     Lady Davis Institute of Medical Research            Post Doctoral Research Assistant     Queen Mary University of London            PhD Studentship     University of Birmingham          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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