Watch: Morano on Fox News on ‘Green New Deal’ – Same ‘solution’, different env. scare – ‘It has very little to do with the env. or climate’

Marc Morano Appears on Fox Nation's 'My Take with Stuart Varney' to Discuss the Green New Deal. – Broadcast January 11, 2019    

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[ASAP] Deciphering the Rules for Amino Acid Co-Assembly Based on Interlayer Distances

ACS Nano

DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.8b07775

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[ASAP] Electron-Driven Transmission Electron Microscopy of 2D Transition Metal Dichalcogenides and Their 2D Heterostructures

ACS Nano

DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.8b08079

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[ASAP] Orientational Order in Self-Assembled Nanocrystal Superlattices

Journal of the American Chemical Society

DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b10752

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[ASAP] Photogenerated Spin-Entangled Qubit (Radical) Pairs in DNA Hairpins: Observation of Spin Delocalization and Coherence

Journal of the American Chemical Society

DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b13155

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[ASAP] Mimicking Active Biopolymer Networks with a Synthetic Hydrogel

Journal of the American Chemical Society

DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b10659

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[ASAP] Supramolecular Control of Azobenzene Switching on Nanoparticles

Journal of the American Chemical Society

DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b09638

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[ASAP] Million-fold Relaxation Time Enhancement across a Series of Phosphino-Supported Erbium Single-Molecule Magnets

Journal of the American Chemical Society

DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b13514

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[ASAP] Enantioselective Construction of Quaternary All-Carbon Centers via Copper-Catalyzed Arylation of Tertiary Carbon-Centered Radicals

Journal of the American Chemical Society

DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b13052

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[ASAP] Mechanical Stabilization of Helical Chirality in a Macrocyclic Oligothiophene

Journal of the American Chemical Society

DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b11797

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[ASAP] Multivariate Stratified Metal–Organic Frameworks: Diversification Using Domain Building Blocks

Journal of the American Chemical Society

DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b13502

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[ASAP] Cyclometalated Iridium–PhanePhos Complexes Are Active Catalysts in Enantioselective Allene–Fluoral Reductive Coupling and Related Alcohol-Mediated Carbonyl Additions That Form Acyclic Quaternary Carbon Stereocenters

Journal of the American Chemical Society

DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b11868

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[ASAP] Synthesis and Characterization of Oxygen-Embedded Quinoidal Pentacene and Nonacene

Journal of the American Chemical Society

DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b13884

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Causal correlation between energy use and carbon emissions in selected emerging economies—panel model approach

Abstract

Fossil fuels used in energy mix continues to dictate world heat usage. Demand for heat is considered as substantial contributor to carbon emissions and energy-related emissions equivalent to 12.5 Gt of carbon emissions. Data on heat is limited and therefore, a study on the causal correlation between energy use and emissions would provide policy guidance on how to decarbonize the heat sector to achieve Paris's Greenhouse Effect Treaty. Most empirical works aggregated energy consumption and ignore spatial dependence and heterogeneity in a panel dataset. Our study, however, disaggregated energy into renewable and non-renewable to find their distinct influence on emissions, which were tested for spatial dependence and heterogeneity and applied potential emissions as environmental impact. Using FGLS and PCSE estimators for the period 1971–2013, our findings revealed that the increase in renewable energy use and industrialization improves the ecological structure of emerging economies while the increase in population, economic expansion, and non-renewable energy use increases the carbon stock. We accordingly, investigated causation direction with pooled mean group estimator. Rising economic power states therefore encourage to ensure energy efficiency and replace fuel use with renewable source for heating to reduce carbon stock.

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Toxicological impact of oxyfluorfen 24% herbicide on the reproductive system, antioxidant enzymes, and endocrine disruption of Biomphalaria alexandrina (Ehrenberg, 1831) snails

Abstract

Oxyfluorfen (Goal 24%EC) herbicide is widely used in agriculture for weed control. Biomphalaria alexandrina snails can be used as bioindicator of the chemical pollution in the aquatic environment. The objective of this study was to evaluate the molluscicidal activity of this herbicide on Biomphalaria alexandrina snails and how it affected its biological system. The present study revealed a molluscicidal effect of oxyfluorfen 24%EC on these snails at LC₅₀ 5.9 mg/l. After exposure of snails to the sub-lethal concentrations (LC₀, LC₁₀, or LC₂₅) of this herbicide, the survival rates, reproductive rate (R₀), and fecundity (M_x) of adult B. alexandrina snails were significantly decreased in comparison with the control group. Also, levels of testosterone and estradiol were decreased significantly. It caused alterations in the antioxidant system, where exposure to sub-lethal concentration of this herbicide caused significant increases in levels of lipid peroxide malondialdehyde (MDA), catalase (CAT), and superoxide dismutase (SOD), while it significantly decreased glutathione transferase (GST). Histopathological changes in the digestive gland included severe damage in the digestive cells, where, they lost their tips and some were degenerated, while the secretory cells increased in number. Regarding the hermaphrodite gland, there were losses of the connective tissues, irregular sperms, and the eggs degenerated. These findings concluded that B. alexandrina snails can be used as a bioindicator for pollution with pesticide in the aquatic environment.

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Relationship among pollution concerns, attitudes toward social problems, and environmental perceptions in abandoned sites using Bayesian inferential analysis

Abstract

How do local community perceive pollution risk and social problems in abandoned areas? Which factors affect these risk perceptions? Among several factors affecting environmental perceptions, familiarity to places has long been known to positively affect landscape perception, but is this also true for abandoned area with scruffy vegetation and industrial remnants? Will long-term residents eventually adapt to and accept these neglected landscapes? In the past, efforts have largely been devoted to the cleanup of large, highly polluted areas. This left many smaller, less polluted sites, often in urban or suburban areas, relatively neglected. These areas, which typically consist of small abandoned industrial and commercial sites and vacant lots in neighborhoods, are problematic since people living nearby continue to suffer from urban blight. Recently, there has been a shift in the focus of brownfield programs from highly polluted post-industrial cleanup to local brownfield reuse. In this new environment, a participatory planning process that engages the community seems to have become more important. In order to better understand factors affecting community people's risk perception and effectively engage community support for the better management of derelict sites, this study investigated the factors on local community perceptions of abandoned landscapes including the effect of familiarity (the length of residency) and other sociodemographic (gender and age). For the study, the 200 study participants in eight neighborhoods along the Rail Corridor Revitalization Project in the city of Roanoke, VA, were asked to participate in survey and evaluate scenes of three types of abandoned landscapes focusing on two aspects, preference and pollution concerns. The results of scene ratings showed that lower scene preferences were associated with scene concerns related to higher pollution. However, although age and gender were associated with participants' preference ratings and attitudes toward social problems and pollution, there was no significant effect for the length of residency.

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Health damage assessment of particulate matter pollution in Jing-Jin-Ji region of China

Abstract

Jing-Jin-Ji is the largest and most dynamic economic region in northern China, and its air pollution has attracted much public attention. Scientific evaluation of health losses caused by air pollution can provide decision-making basis for formulation and improvement of pollution reduction policies in the Jing-Jin-Ji region. This paper estimated the adverse effects of particulate matter pollution on health in the Jing-Jin-Ji region in 2016 by using logarithmic linear exposure-response function, and monetized the health effects by adjusting human capital method and disease cost method. The results show non-ignorable health hazards and economic impacts caused by atmospheric particulate pollution. The economic losses relevant to health hazards by PM2.5 in the Jing-Jin-Ji region are 122.40 billion yuan, and those relevant to PM10 are 118.34 billion yuan, accounting for 1.62% and 1.56% of the region's GDP, respectively. Similar evaluations previously conducted in other countries yielded figures within the same order of magnitude. Considering the difference in economic losses per unit among disease types, the economic losses caused by air pollution in the Jing-Jin-Ji region mainly come from premature deaths. Infants and elderly people are the main victims of particulate matter. Affected by population, pollutant concentration, industrial structure, and other factors, the economic losses of particulate matter pollution in Beijing, Tianjin, Shijiazhuang, Tangshan, and Baoding are large. In order to reduce health hazards and economic impacts caused by particulate matter pollution, this paper put forward to guide the urban population diversion, reduce the outgoing frequency of susceptible groups such as infants and the elderly in haze weather, adopt high-efficiency particulate matter air purifier indoors, and develop public transportation to reduce motor vehicle exhaust emissions. In Tianjin and Hebei, promoting cleaner production in industries such as steel and cement and reducing coal use in the power industry are also suggested.

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Nongreen revolution: a case study of wild-grown edible mushroom

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Mushroom's biological content has a positive effect on human welfare which is called "nongreen revolution". It has an economic and social component that provides long-term food nutrition, environmental conservation, and regeneration of valuable resources. This article provides evidence that mushrooms can be a healthy food alternative to meat. In this study, analyzed data was collected from Marmara region of Turkey using a survey method. A survey questionnaire was prepared and distributed to a total sample size of 408 participants. Linear regression model y = α + β1×1+β2×2 was administered to determine the relationship of the variables. Secondary data were also used for the literature of the study. The study revealed that the consumption of mushroom accounts for 13.2% of the consumption of meat at the time of mushroom collection period. Consequently, it showed also that for every 1% increase in consumption of two species of mushrooms (Lactarius semisanguifluus and Macrolepiota procera var.) meat consumption decreases (−4.39, −2.97%).

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Claim: Climate Change Concern is Surging – But Nobody wants to Pay More Taxes

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Why do people say they are concerned about climate change, but refuse to pay more taxes to fix the problem? The Unprecedented Surge in Fear About Climate Change More Americans than ever are worried about climate change, but they're not willing to pay much to stop it. ROBINSON MEYER JAN…

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Solvent-assisted synthesis of shape-persistent chiral polyaza gigantocycle characterized by a very large internal cavity and extraordinarily high amplitude of the ECD exciton couplet

Chem. Commun., 2019, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C8CC10184A, Communication

Mikołaj Zgorzelak, Jakub Grajewski, Jacek Gawronski, Marcin Kwit
A giant, chiral square-shaped octaimine macrocycle has been obtained in a controlled manner from readily available and inexpensive substrates: 9,10-diphenylanthracene-based dialdehyde and trans-1,2-diaminocyclohexane. Reduction of the polyimine led to chiral...
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