Despite efforts to promote diversity in the biomedical workforce, there remains a lower rate
of funding of National Institutes of Health R01 applications submitted by African-American/…

This letter provides a first-order estimate of conventional air pollutant emissions, and the
monetary value of the associated environmental and health damages, from the extraction of …

The development of natural gas resources in the Marcellus Shale formation has progressed
rapidly in the last several years, particularly in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. These …

Two 13 C-labeled isomers of the formal Diels−Alder adduct of acetylmethyloxirene to tetramethyl
1,2,4,5-benzenetetracarboxylate have been synthesized. Flash vacuum thermolysis of …

Biomass is an increasingly important source of electricity, heat, and liquid fuel. One near-term
option for using biomass to generate electricity is to cofire biomass in coal-fired electricity …

Defense activity in Hawaii may account for a significant portion of Hawaiis economic activity,
but the extent of this association has not been assessed since the publication in 1963 of a …

Several studies have suggested that women in science are less productive than men, and
that this gap contributes to their under-representation in the ranks of senior researchers. …

The mechanisms of perphenylbutenyne reactivity are examined through B3LYP and
multireference ab initio calculations on model systems. Calculations for the formation of a …

With calls to increase federal funding in the physical sciences, in particular for sustainable
energy technology (SET), there is a need to better understand the relationship between …

This report summarizes the views of 55 leading researchers in the United States, the European
Union, Switzerland, and Russia regarding the competitiveness of Japanese research in …