This article summarizes key messages from the 2015 Lancet Commission on Health and Climate Change, accompanied by ten underlying recommendations to accelerate action in the next 5 years.

Article about the Apollo 13 45th anniversary celebration hosted by Omega in Sugar Land, Texas.

This article uses the relativistic-pseudopotential correlation consistent approach (rp-ccCA) to determine the enthalpy of formation of 24 first row (3d) transition metal compounds.

This article summarizes the key transport steps involved in organic carbon and nitrogen compound partitioning, and discusses various transgenic approaches for directly manipulating key carbon and nitrogen transporters involved.

Article on the determination of Abraham model solute descriptors for the monomeric and dimeric forms of trans-cinnamic acid using measured solubilities from the Open Notebook Science Challenge.

Article on predicting Abraham model solvent coefficients.

Article on glyoxal oxidation mechanism and implications for the reactions HCO + O2 and OCHCHO + HO2.

Article discussing how we pay for scholarly publishing. Since at least the late 1970s, when stresses in the market for scholarly literature began to show, there have been calls to redistribute how the production and dissemination of scholarly literature are paid for. The motivations are addressing the "free rider problem" of institutions without presses and, more recently, increasing overall access to the literature. In particular, the last few years have seen schemes such as SCOAP3 and Knowledge Unlatched and proposals from K | N Consultants and a joint task force of the Association of Research Libraries and the American Association of Universities. These plans to establish new business models are summarized.

Article on a domestic proposal to revive the Hague Judgements Convention and how to stop worrying about streams, trickles, asymmetry, and a lack of reciprocity.

This article evaluates the properties of the chemically retted kenaf bast fiber impregnated with the inorganic nanoparticles.

Article describes a study examining novel graphene-based tunable plasmonic metamaterials featuring single and multiple transparency windows.

Article on the draft genome sequence of Cupriavidus sp. strain SK-4, a di-ortho-substituted biphenyl-utilizing bacterium isolated from polychlorinated biphenyl-contaminated sludge.

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Article introduces a special issue of the International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks.

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Since they were adopted in 1986, the US NRC’s Safety Goals have played a valuable role as a de facto risk acceptance criterion against which the predicted performance of a commercial nuclear power reactor can be evaluated and assessed. The current safety goals are cast in terms of risk metrics called quantitative health objectives (QHOs), limiting numerical values of the risks of the early and latent health effects of accidental releases of radioactivity to the offsite population. However, while demonstrating compliance with current safety goals has been an important step in assessing the acceptance of the risk posed by LWRs, new or somewhat different goals may be needed that go beyond the current early fatality and latent cancer fatality QHOs in assessing reactor risk. Natural phenomena such as hurricanes seem to be suitable candidates for establishing a background rate to derive a risk goal as their order of magnitude cost of damages is similar to those estimated in severe accident Level 3 PRAs done for nuclear power plants. This paper obtains a risk goal that could have a wider applicability, compared to the current QHOs, as a technology-neutral goal applicable to future reactors and multi-unit sites.

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Article on rate constant and branching fraction for the NH₂ + NO₂ reaction.

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