New Health Sciences Alerts at Science Alerts Social Network

Bangkok, Thailand (PRWEB) May 09, 2012

ScienceAlerts.com is a Health Sciences Social Network to discover and share scholarly content in in the basic and applied sciences of agriculture, biology, environment, forestry, geography and health. Up to now, 18,025 members have signed up and have actively contributed 1,077,022 articles to the site. The new Health Sciences category currently features 318,940 stories exclusively selected from 1,889 scientific geography publishing sources.

ScienceAlerts.com’s Health Sciences Category covers the effects of disease and medical treatment on the overall condition of organisms. It currently contains 318,940 stories selected from 1,889 scholarly health sciences journals. This category also provides an Health Sciences RSS feed which is one of the best and most popular ways of staying up to date with the latest news in this science discipline. One of the latest articles suggests that keeping current obesity rates level could save nearly $ 550 billion over the next two decades. This forecasting study found that 42 percent of the US population could be obese by 2030. The category also features new research about Facebook addiction. Researchers from Norway have developed the Bergen Facebook Addiction Scale as an instrument to measure Facebook addiction. As the site has become as ubiquitous as television in many people’s lives, it is becoming increasingly difficult for many to know if they are addicted to Facebook. The symptoms of addiction resemble those of drug addiction, alcohol addiction, and chemical substance addiction.

ScienceAlerts.com’s review process is partly automated and partly manual to rigorously ensure that only relevant content is featured on the site. Since new science content is discovered in real-time, the delay between original publication and appearance at ScienceAlerts.com is usually only minutes. ScienceAlerts.com includes a search feature to retrieve specific titles or keywords from its’ large database. In addition, it suggests up to ten related articles for each article selected. The site also maintains the new Twitter account @Science_Alerts.

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Science Alerts Featuring Multilingual Content From Today

Bangkok, Thailand (PRWEB) May 16, 2012

Science Alerts is a Sciences Social Network to discover and share scholarly content in in the basic and applied sciences of agriculture, biology, environment, forestry, geography and health. Up to now, 18,986 members have signed up and have actively contributed 1,078,966 articles to the site. Due to public demand the site now accepts submissions with multilingual content. This allows science articles authored in languages other than English to be submitted, accepted and included. The publishers expect a large number of submissions in French, Spanish, Chinese, Portuguese and German to be soon featured on the site.

One of Science Alerts’s major sections is the Health Sciences Category which covers the effects of disease and medical treatment on the overall condition of organisms. It currently contains 319,875 stories partly selected from 2,148 scholarly geography sciences journals. This category also provides an Health Sciences RSS feed which is one of the best and most popular ways of staying up to date with the latest news in this science discipline. One of the latest articles evaluates the relative suitability of plasma and serum for blood glucose determination. The authors compared fluoride plasma and Ethylene Diamine Tetra Acetic acid (EDTA) plasma with the serum of the same patient. Although serum gave lower values than fluoride plasma, serum may be used for blood glucose determination with only a small error. They conclude that blood glucose should be determined within as short a time as possible after drawing the blood. Another article highlights a token reinforcement program which was introduced in a residential therapeutic community for drug and alcohol rehabilitation. The authors conclude that a token reinforcement program can be an effective and acceptable means of improving behavior within a therapeutic community framework.

Science Alerts’s review process is partly automated and partly manual to rigorously ensure that only relevant content is featured on the site. Since new science content is discovered in real-time, the delay between original publication and appearance at Science Alerts is usually only minutes. Science Alerts includes a search feature to retrieve specific titles or keywords from its’ large database. In addition, it suggests up to ten related articles for each article selected. The site also maintains the new Twitter account @Science_Alerts.

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New Agricultural Sciences Content at Science Alerts Social Network

Bangkok, Thailand (PRWEB) June 21, 2012

ScienceAlerts.com is an Agricultural Sciences Social Network to discover and share scholarly content in in the basic and applied sciences of agriculture, biology, environment, forestry, geography and health. Up to now, 18,871 members have signed up and have actively contributed 1,142,673 articles to the site. The latest additions to the site are aggregated on the frontpage as well as in an ScienceAlerts RSS Feed. The new Agricultural Sciences category currently features 88,628 stories exclusively selected from 218 scientific geography publishing sources.

ScienceAlerts.com’s Agricultural Sciences Category covers the cultivation and production of crops, raising of livestock, and postharvest processing of natural products. It currently contains 88,628 stories selected from 218 scholarly agricultural sciences journals. This category also provides an Agricultural Sciences RSS feed which is one of the best and most popular ways of staying up to date with the latest news in this science discipline. One of the latest articles assesses soil structure in the transition layer between topsoil and subsoil using the profil cultural method. The authors’ results show that the classification of cracking and the quantification of the number of earthworm burrows per square meter can explain observed root development in subsoil. They also observed that cracking and biological activity are closely related to root density in subsoil. The category also features an article which shows that ammonium enhances resistance to salinity stress in citrus plants. The author’s results suggest that NH4+ treatments induce a mild stress condition that primes the citrange Carrizo defense response by stress imprinting and confers protection against subsequent salt stress.

ScienceAlerts.com’s review process is partly automated and partly manual to rigorously ensure that only relevant content is featured on the site. Since new science content is discovered in real-time, the delay between original publication and appearance at ScienceAlerts.com is usually only minutes. ScienceAlerts.com includes a search feature to retrieve specific titles or keywords from its’ large database. In addition, it suggests up to ten related articles for each article selected. The site also maintains the new Twitter account @Science_Alerts.

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New Biological Sciences Content at Science Alerts Social Network

Bad Honnef, Germany (PRWEB) June 27, 2012

ScienceAlerts.com is an Biological Sciences Social Network to discover and share scholarly content in in the basic and applied sciences of agriculture, biology, environment, forestry, geography and health. Up to now, 19,836 members have signed up and have actively contributed 920,225 articles to the site. The latest additions to the site are aggregated on the frontpage as well as in an ScienceAlerts RSS Feed. The new Biological Sciences category currently features 383,937 stories exclusively selected from 997 scientific biology publishing sources.

ScienceAlerts.com’s Biological Sciences Category covers life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, genetics, and distribution. It currently contains 383,937 stories selected from 997 scholarly biological sciences journals. This category also provides an Biological Sciences RSS feed which is one of the best and most popular ways of staying up to date with the latest news in this science discipline. One of the latest articles assesses testing four candidate barcoding markers in temperate woody bamboos (Poaceae: Bambusoideae). The authors’ study is a first attempt to test the feasibility of four proposed DNA barcoding markers (matK, rbcL, trnH-psbA and ITS) in identifying 27 species of the temperate woody bamboos, i.e., Arundinarieae. They suggest that the combination of rbcL+ITS, which had the highest species identification power among all combinations, could be used as a potential DNA barcode in temperate woody bamboos. The category also features an article which predicts toxicity of the biofuel candidate 2,5-dimethylfuran in environmental and biological systems. 2,5-dimethylfuran (DMF) is a leading biofuel candidate, but was found to induce chromosomal damage in cultured murine cells, suggesting that it may be genotoxic. The authors consequently sought to prioritize the environmental and biological impacts of using DMF as a combustible biofuel. Although their results were inadequate for a stand-alone risk assessment of having associations with tumors and systemic diseases, the data suggest that DMF combustion intermediates pose a much broader range of hazards than DMF itself.

ScienceAlerts.com’s review process is partly automated and partly manual to rigorously ensure that only relevant content is featured on the site. Since new science content is discovered in real-time, the delay between original publication and appearance at ScienceAlerts.com is usually only minutes. ScienceAlerts.com includes a search feature to retrieve specific titles or keywords from its’ large database. In addition, it suggests up to ten related articles for each article selected. The site also maintains the new Twitter account @Science_Alerts.

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New Environmental Sciences Content at Science Alerts Social Network

Bad Honnef, Germany (PRWEB) July 04, 2012

ScienceAlerts.com is an Environmental Sciences Social Network to discover and share scholarly content in in the basic and applied sciences of agriculture, biology, environment, forestry, geography and health. Up to now, 19,235 members have signed up and have actively contributed 926,769 articles to the site. The latest additions to the site are aggregated on the frontpage as well as in an ScienceAlerts RSS Feed. The new Environmental Sciences category currently features 27,323 stories exclusively selected from 154 scientific biology publishing sources.

ScienceAlerts.com’s Environmental Sciences Category covers the external physical conditions affecting growth, development, and survival of organisms, and their management. It currently contains 27,323 stories selected from 154 scholarly environment sciences journals. This category also provides an Environmental Sciences RSS feed which is one of the best and most popular ways of staying up to date with the latest news in this science discipline. One of the latest articles compares the performance of anaerobic reactors for treatment of sago industry wastewater. Sago effluents from cassava starch production pose a serious threat to the environment and quality of life in rural areas of India. According the the article’s authors, anaerobic digestion has proved to be an effective method of treating the sago industry wastewater with simultaneous production of energy in the form of methane. Another newly included article presents a case study on conservation of socioculturally important local crop biodiversity in the Oromia region of Ethiopia. The authors surveyed diversity in a range of local crops in the Lume and Gimbichu districts of Ethiopia, combined with the knowledge of local people regarding crop uses, socio-economic importance, conservation, management and existing threats. Introduction of improved wheat varieties, pest infestation, shortage of land, low yield performance and climate variability were identified as the principal factors contributing to the loss or decline of crop biodiversity in this region of Ethiopia. The category also features an article which analyzes the relationship between a firms greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and its profitability in Japanese manufacturing. The authors conclude that although ISO 141 adoption is generally considered to be an indicator of a firms stance on environmental proactiveness, it does not provide a sufficient incentive to reduce emissions.

ScienceAlerts.com’s review process is partly automated and partly manual to rigorously ensure that only relevant content is featured on the site. Since new science content is discovered in real-time, the delay between original publication and appearance at ScienceAlerts.com is usually only minutes. ScienceAlerts.com includes a search feature to retrieve specific titles or keywords from its’ large database. In addition, it suggests up to ten related articles for each article selected. The site also maintains the new Twitter account @Science_Alerts.

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New Forestry Sciences Content at Science Alerts Social Network

Bad Honnef, Germany (PRWEB) July 25, 2012

ScienceAlerts.com is an Forestry Sciences Social Network to discover and share scholarly content in in the basic and applied sciences of agriculture, biology, environment, forestry, geography and health. Up to now, 19,853 members have signed up and have actively contributed 955,361 posts to the site. The latest additions to the site are aggregated on the frontpage as well as in an ScienceAlerts RSS Feed. The new Forestry Sciences category currently features 12,013 stories exclusively selected from 29 scientific forestry publishing sources.

ScienceAlerts.com’s Forestry Sciences Category covers the cultivation, maintenance, and development of forests. It currently contains 12,013 stories selected from 29 scholarly forestry sciences journals. This category also provides a Forestry Sciences RSS feed which is one of the best and most popular ways of staying up to date with the latest news in this science discipline. One of the latest articles investigates the genetic variation in seedlings of two Turkish Abies species. Seedling mortality was higher in Trojan fir (Abies equi-trojani) compared to Turkish fir (Abies bornmuelleriana) and mortality in both species varied by geographic origin, decreasing from west to east. Terminal and lateral branch bud break were also under strong genetic control. encouraging ongoing tree improvement efforts in North America and Europe to develop planting stock for the Christmas tree industry. Another newly included article presents results of a meta-analysis of consumer’s willingness-to-pay (WTP) premiums for certified wood products. These indicate that frequently purchased wood products and wood products with lower base prices tend to capture higher percentage premiums and that reported WTP estimates have, consequently, increased in recent years. The category also features an article analyzing actors’ power and interests affecting biodiversity in community forestry in Namibia. Following analysis of the biodiversity of 14 community forests in Namibia, the authors of this article conclude that biodiversity in community forestry depends on the interests of powerful actors who use their power to achieve a positive outcome for biodiversity.

ScienceAlerts.com’s review process is partly automated and partly manual to rigorously ensure that only relevant content is featured on the site. Since new science content is discovered in real-time, the delay between original publication and appearance at ScienceAlerts.com is usually only minutes. ScienceAlerts.com includes a search feature to retrieve specific titles or keywords from its’ database. In addition, it suggests up to ten related articles for each article selected. The site also maintains the new Twitter account @Science_Alerts.

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New Geography Sciences Content at Science Alerts Social Network

Bad Honnef, Germany (PRWEB) August 02, 2012

ScienceAlerts.com is an Geography Sciences Social Network to discover and share scholarly content in in the basic and applied sciences of agriculture, biology, environment, forestry, geography and health. Up to now, 20,951 members have signed up and have actively contributed 963,157 posts to the site. The latest additions to the site are aggregated on the frontpage as well as in a ScienceAlerts RSS Feed. The new Geography Sciences category currently features 66,773 stories exclusively selected from 424 scientific geography publishing sources.

ScienceAlerts.com’s Geography Sciences Category covers the physical characteristics of the earth including its surface features, and the distribution of life on earth. It currently contains 66,773 stories selected from 424 scholarly geography sciences journals. This category also provides a Geography Sciences RSS feed which is one of the best and most popular ways of staying up to date with the latest news in this science discipline. One of the latest articles incorporates spatial dynamics and temporal dependency in land use change models. It formulates an empirical discrete land use model within a spatially explicit economic structural framework for land use change decisions, using the City of Austin parcel-level land use database. The estimation results indicate that proximity to highways and other roadways, distance from floodplains, parcel location in the context of existing development, and distance from schools are important determinants of land use. The authors suggest that major highways may not only physically partition regions, but may also act as social barriers for didactic interactions among individuals. Another newly included article investigates factors governing the distribution and fish-community associations of the round goby (Neogobius melanostomus) in Michigan tributaries of the Laurentian Great Lakes. Round goby sites were larger, had lower channel slopes, less large wood, and less canopy cover than round non-gobyt sites, suggesting that these attributes may promote round goby establishment. The authors’ results indicate that round goby are widespread in eastern Michigan tributaries to the Great Lakes, present in streams with a range of physical habitat characteristics, and that this presence is associated with certain fish species. Mottled sculpin, cyprinids, brook stickleback, white sucker and rainbow trout were associated with goby absence while centrarchids, percids, yellow bullhead, and mud minnow were associated round goby presence. The category also features an article analyzing the 3-D lithospheric structure and regional/residual Bouguer anomalies in the ArabiaEurasia collision (Iran). The authors’ results indicate that Moho depth varies from 42 km at the MesopotamianPersian Gulf foreland basin to 6 km below the High Zagros. The lithosphere is thicker beneath the foreland basin (2 km) and thinner underneath the High Zagros and Central Iran (14 km).

ScienceAlerts.com’s review process is partly automated and partly manual to rigorously ensure that only relevant content is featured on the site. Since new science content is discovered in real-time, the delay between original publication and appearance at ScienceAlerts.com is usually only minutes. ScienceAlerts.com includes a search feature to retrieve specific titles or keywords from its’ database. In addition, it suggests up to ten related articles for each article selected. The site also maintains the new Twitter account @Science_Alerts.

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Emerson Network Power Enables Science Center to Amplify the Power of Interactive Learning

Huntsville, AL (PRWEB) August 07, 2012

Emerson Network Power, a business of Emerson and a global leader in maximizing availability, capacity and efficiency of critical infrastructure, today announced that the Sci-Quest Hands-on Science Center is using the Avocent

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New Health Sciences Content at Science Alerts Social Network

Bad Honnef, Germany (PRWEB) September 03, 2012

ScienceAlerts.com is an Health Sciences Social Network to discover and share scholarly content in in the basic and applied sciences of agriculture, biology, environment, forestry, geography and health. Up to now, 21,171 members have signed up and have actively contributed 1,007,529 posts to the site. The latest additions to the site are aggregated on the frontpage as well as in a ScienceAlerts RSS Feed. The new Health Sciences category currently features 413,908 posts exclusively selected from 3,504 scientific health publishing sources.

ScienceAlerts.com’s Health Sciences Category covers the effects of disease and medical treatment on the overall condition of organisms. It currently contains 413,908 posts selected from 3,504 scholarly health sciences journals. This category also provides a Health Sciences RSS feed which is one of the best and most popular ways of staying up to date with the latest news in this science discipline. One of the latest articles presents a multilevel analysis identifying the socioeconomic status and tobacco consumption among adolescents in Argentina. Students attending schools receiving social assistance were more likely to smoke and to purchase loose cigarettes, whereas school poverty was significantly associated with secondhand smoke exposure. Unfavorable contextual school characteristics are associated with tobacco consumption and related measures among youth in Argentina. Another article on tobacco use highlights smokeless tobacco and its relation to panic disorder, major depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder in American Indians. Although approximately 30% of American Indian tribal members were lifetime users of smokeless tobacco, the association with lifetime psychiatric disorders was not as strong as those observed with cigarette smoking. The category also features an article on how exposure to acute electromagnetic radiation of mobile phone alters transiently skin homeostasis. The authors investigated the effects of mobile phone exposure on a model of pigmented skin. Their results indicate that exposure to 900 MHz frequency induces a transient alteration of epidermal homoeostasis, which may alter the protective capacity of the skin against external factors.

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San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) December 20, 2012 Gild, which brings meritocracy to HR through innovative recruiting technologies, today announced that Vivienne Ming, Ph.D., has joined the company as Chief Data Scientist. Dr. Vivienne Ming joins Gild tasked with applying the latest advances in human behavioral analytics and neuropsychology to improve recruiting processes for hiring organizations and jobseekers alike. For over a decade, Dr. Ming has focused on human perception and cognition models, and has become a hugely influential proponent of the use of technology to gain insight into the minds of individuals, said Sheeroy Desai, co-founder and CEO of Gild. She has led an array of breakthrough social science initiatives, including the creation of unique equations to understand how people present themselves digitally and engage online. Dr. Ming is the founder of Socos, an educational technology and data mining company that makes people fundamentally smarter by combining machine learning and learning sciences. In her role at Gild, she will lead data mining, analytics design and algorithm development for Gild Source, the organizations flagship recruiting technology for identifying and profiling developer candidates. Her objective will be to dramatically expand the reach, precision and effectiveness of Gild Source as a talent identification, skills measurement and candidate engagement platform. Dr. Ming earned her doctorate in Psychology and Computational Neuroscience from Carnegie Mellon University and the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition researching information theoretic models of sensory and attentional processing. She earned a B.S. in Cognitive Neuroscience with honors at UCSD working on developing an algorithm for reading human facial expressions from video, with additional application as attention monitors for automated tutoring systems. Every recruiter wants a search tool that can automatically tailor itself to the specific needs of their client, said Dr. Ming. And while the Internet is rich with data about job-seekers, one of the most fundamental challenges to Human Resources lies in qualifying a potential candidates skill-set and organizational value. By combining analytics and data mining, Gild will be able to dramatically improve the process of accurately identifying, presenting and reaching out to candidates with employment opportunities that best match their unique skill sets with an organizations needs, added Dr. Ming. Previously, Dr. Ming worked as a research fellow at Stanford’s Mind, Brain & Computation center and at UC Berkeley’s Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, where she remains a visiting scholar. She has developed novel and influential models of human perception and attention, and has been published in prestigious scientific journals including Nature and Neural Computation. For more information on Gild, visit: http://www.gild.com/company/press/ About Gild HR and recruiting have been begging for innovation. Thats why Gild is here. Gild exists to bring meritocracy to the professional world by providing hiring solutions that illuminate whos talented. Companies use Gilds patent-pending hiring solutions to find and engage the best candidates out there. Unlike professional networks and job boards, Gilds solutions tell companies how good different prospects are, and provide the social insights hiring teams need to engage prospects effectively. Launched in 2011, Gild is backed by Globespan Capital Partners and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA. For press inquires contact: Merredith Branscombe for Gild Leap! Public Relations phone: 720.235.7363 email: merredith@ (at) leappr (dot) com Twitter: @Merredith Jennifer Shanks for Gild Leap! Public Relations phone: 408-827-8033 mobile: 831-334-0489 email: Jennifer (at) leappr (dot) com Twitter: @Jenshanks Gild Names Acclaimed Human Data Science Pioneer Dr. Vivienne Ming Chief Scientist

San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) December 20, 2012

Gild, which brings meritocracy to HR through innovative recruiting technologies, today announced that Vivienne Ming, Ph.D., has joined the company as Chief Data Scientist.

Dr. Vivienne Ming joins Gild tasked with applying the latest advances in human behavioral analytics and neuropsychology to improve recruiting processes for hiring organizations and jobseekers alike.

For over a decade, Dr. Ming has focused on human perception and cognition models, and has become a hugely influential proponent of the use of technology to gain insight into the minds of individuals, said Sheeroy Desai, co-founder and CEO of Gild. She has led an array of breakthrough social science initiatives, including the creation of unique equations to understand how people present themselves digitally and engage online.

Dr. Ming is the founder of Socos, an educational technology and data mining company that makes people fundamentally smarter by combining machine learning and learning sciences.

In her role at Gild, she will lead data mining, analytics design and algorithm development for Gild Source, the organizations flagship recruiting technology for identifying and profiling developer candidates. Her objective will be to dramatically expand the reach, precision and effectiveness of Gild Source as a talent identification, skills measurement and candidate engagement platform.

Dr. Ming earned her doctorate in Psychology and Computational Neuroscience from Carnegie Mellon University and the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition researching information theoretic models of sensory and attentional processing. She earned a B.S. in Cognitive Neuroscience with honors at UCSD working on developing an algorithm for reading human facial expressions from video, with additional application as attention monitors for automated tutoring systems.

Every recruiter wants a search tool that can automatically tailor itself to the specific needs of their client, said Dr. Ming. And while the Internet is rich with data about job-seekers, one of the most fundamental challenges to Human Resources lies in qualifying a potential candidates skill-set and organizational value.

By combining analytics and data mining, Gild will be able to dramatically improve the process of accurately identifying, presenting and reaching out to candidates with employment opportunities that best match their unique skill sets with an organizations needs, added Dr. Ming.

Previously, Dr. Ming worked as a research fellow at Stanford’s Mind, Brain & Computation center and at UC Berkeley’s Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, where she remains a visiting scholar. She has developed novel and influential models of human perception and attention, and has been published in prestigious scientific journals including Nature and Neural Computation.

For more information on Gild, visit: http://www.gild.com/company/press/

About Gild

HR and recruiting have been begging for innovation. Thats why Gild is here. Gild exists to bring meritocracy to the professional world by providing hiring solutions that illuminate whos talented. Companies use Gilds patent-pending hiring solutions to find and engage the best candidates out there. Unlike professional networks and job boards, Gilds solutions tell companies how good different prospects are, and provide the social insights hiring teams need to engage prospects effectively. Launched in 2011, Gild is backed by Globespan Capital Partners and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

For press inquires contact:

Merredith Branscombe for Gild

Leap! Public Relations

phone: 720.235.7363

email: merredith@ (at) leappr (dot) com

Twitter: @Merredith

Jennifer Shanks for Gild

Leap! Public Relations

phone: 408-827-8033

mobile: 831-334-0489

email: Jennifer (at) leappr (dot) com

Twitter: @Jenshanks

Gild Names Acclaimed Human Data Science Pioneer Dr. Vivienne Ming Chief Scientist