New Agricultural Sciences Alerts at ScienceAlerts.com

Mannheim, Germany (PRWEB) March 05, 2012

ScienceAlerts.com is a Web 2.0 social network to discover and share scholarly content in in the basic and applied sciences of agriculture, biology, environment, forestry, geography and health. While this new website has been operating on an on-invitation only basis for some time, it went fully online on Tuesday, February 28, 2012. 17,416 members have signed up and actively contributed content to the site. The new Agricultural Sciences category currently features 84,000 stories largely derived from over 240 scientific agriculture 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 83,996 stories partly derived from over 240 scholarly agriculture 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 quickly with the latest research in this applied science discipline. One of the latest articles provides an overview of striped catfish (Pangasianodon hypophthalmus, Sauvage, 1878) aquaculture in Bangladesh. While farming of the striped catfish is a major aquaculture activity in Bangladesh, particularly in the district of Mymensingh, farm management practices and the socio-economic impacts of pangasius farming systems in Mymensingh have not yet been adequately described in the literature. This article provides an overview of the present status and characteristics of pangasius culture in Bangladesh and the authors conclude that this aquaculture system has improved the economic and social status of a variety of stakeholders in communities where the fish is farmed. Another article presents molecular diagnosis of mango malformation disease and phylogeny of Fusarium mangiferae. Mango malformation disease (MMD) caused by various Fusaria, including the fungus Fusarium mangiferae, is difficult to diagnose and cannot be controlled effectively. The authors study a PCR diagnostic tool which was developed for detection of F. mangiferae by generating primers which flank fungus-specific sequences. They discovered relatively high genetic variation between various isolates of the pathogen based on amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) analyses.

Besides the Agricultural Sciences category, ScienceAlerts.com contains a Biological Sciences Category which covers life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, genetics, and distribution. ScienceAlerts.com’s Environmental Sciences Category covers the external physical conditions affecting growth, development, and survival of organisms, and their management while it’s Forestry Sciences Category covers the cultivation, maintenance, and development of forests. ScienceAlerts.com’s Geographical Sciences Category covers the physical characteristics of the earth including its surface features, and the distribution of life on earth, and that of the Health Sciences covers the effects of disease and medical treatment on the overall condition of organisms.

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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(PRWEB) March 14, 2012

ScienceAlerts.com is a Web 2.0 social network to discover and share scholarly content in in the basic and applied sciences of agriculture, biology, environment, forestry, geography and health. While this new website has been operating on an on-invitation only basis for some time, it went fully online on Tuesday, February 28, 2012. 17,428 members have signed up and actively contribute content to the site which is always accessible through several ScienceAlerts.com RSS feeds. The new Biological Sciences category currently features 516,830 stories largely derived from over 984 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 516,830 stories partly derived from nearly 1,000 scholarly biology 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 research in this science discipline. One of the latest articles states that hydrogenotrophic microbiota distinguish native Africans from African and European Americans. Reduced susceptibility to sporadic colorectal cancer in native Africans (NA) is correlated with low consumption of animal products and greater microbial production of colonic methane. Terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis of 16S rRNA genes and specific functional genes, combined with multivariate statistical analyses, revealed that NA harboured more diverse and different Archaea and MA populations than African Americans and European Americans. Another article reports the autochthonous existence of Vibrio cholerae in coastal waters of Iceland, a geothermally active country where cholera is absent and has never been reported. The authors collected seawater, mussel and macroalgae samples close to, and distant from, sites where geothermal activity causes a significant increase in water temperature during low tides. Vibrio cholerae was detected only at geothermal-influenced sites during low-tides. None of the V. cholerae isolates encoded cholera toxin (ctxAB) and all were non-O1/non-O139 serogroups. However, all isolates encoded other virulence factors that are associated with cholera as well as extra-intestinal V. cholerae infections.

Besides the Biological Sciences category, ScienceAlerts.com contains an Agricultural Sciences Category which deals with the cultivation and production of crops, raising of livestock, and postharvest processing of natural products. ScienceAlerts.com’s Environmental Sciences Category covers the external physical conditions affecting growth, development, and survival of organisms, and their management while it’s Forestry Sciences Category presents the cultivation, maintenance, and development of forests. ScienceAlerts.com’s Geographical Sciences Category covers the physical characteristics of the earth including its surface features, and the distribution of life on earth, and that of the Health Sciences aggregates the effects of disease and medical treatment on the overall condition of organisms.

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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Klong Luang, Thailand (PRWEB) March 29, 2012

ScienceAlerts.com is a Web 2.0 social network to discover and share scholarly content in in the basic and applied sciences of agriculture, biology, environment, forestry, geography and health. While this new website has been operating on an on-invitation only basis for some time, it went fully online on Tuesday, February 28, 2012. 17,468 members have signed up and actively contribute content to the site which is also accessible through several ScienceAlerts.com RSS feeds. The new Agricultural Sciences category currently features 84,737 stories largely derived from over 240 scientific agriculture 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 84,737 stories partly derived from over 240 scholarly agriculture 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 research in this science discipline. One of the latest articles presents effects of low and medium levels of red alga Nori (Porphyra yezoensis Ueda) in the diets on growth, feed utilization and metabolism in intensively fed Nile tilapia, Oreochromis niloticus (L.). The authors conducted a ten-week feeding experiment in a respirometric system to evaluate the suitability of red alga Nori (Porphyra yezoensis) as a partial replacement for fish meal in intensively fed Nile tilapia. No statistically significant differences in growth or feed utilization between the control diet and either Nori diet were found showing that a low replacement level (15%) of fish meal with Nori improves growth and feed utilization while oxygen consumption and amount of oxygen consumed per gram protein gain are significantly decreased. Another article presents result of studies into primary and secondary infection processes by Plasmodiophora brassicae on canola. The authors investigated the early stages of infection of canola roots by the clubroot pathogen Plasmodiophora brassicae indicating that primary zoospores can directly cause secondary infection when the host is under primary infection, helping to understand the relationship and relative importance of the two infection stages of P. brassicae.

Besides the Agricultural Sciences category, ScienceAlerts.com contains a Biological Sciences Category which deals with life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, genetics, and distribution. ScienceAlerts.com’s Environmental Sciences Category covers the external physical conditions affecting growth, development, and survival of organisms, and their management while it’s Forestry Sciences Category presents the cultivation, maintenance, and development of forests. ScienceAlerts.com’s Geographical Sciences Category covers the physical characteristics of the earth including its surface features, and the distribution of life on earth, and that of the Health Sciences aggregates the effects of disease and medical treatment on the overall condition of organisms.

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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Bangkok, Thailand (PRWEB) April 19, 2012

ScienceAlerts.com is a Web 2.0 social network to discover and share scholarly content in in the basic and applied sciences of agriculture, biology, environment, forestry, geography and health. While this new website has been operating on an on-invitation only basis for some time, it went fully online on Tuesday, February 28, 2012. 17,757 members have signed up and actively contribute content to the site which is also accessible through several ScienceAlerts.com RSS feeds. The new Environmental Sciences category currently features 34,807 stories largely derived from 98 scientific environment 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 34,807 stories partly derived from 98 scholarly environment 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 research in this science discipline. One of the latest articles examines methods for analyzing allocation in life cycle assessment (LCA). While presenting the state of the debate on the topic and some hypothetical examples for illustration, the authors conclude that the allocation procedure has to be selected on a case-by-case basis and no single approach is suitable for every situation. The option of economic allocation should, however, be considered, e.g., whenever the prices of co-products and co-services differ widely. Another article presents a systematic review and harmonization of life cycle assessment (LCA) literature of nuclear electricity generation technologies to determine causes of variability in estimates of life cycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to clarify the state of knowledge and inform decision making. The authors screened 274 references yielded 27 that reported 99 independent estimates of life cycle GHG emissions from light water reactors (LWRs). The published median, interquartile range (IQR), and range for the pool of LWR life cycle GHG emission estimates were 13, 23, and 220 grams of carbon dioxide equivalent per kilowatt-hour (g CO2-eq/kWh) and depending on conditions, median life cycle GHG emissions could be 9 to 110 g CO2-eq/kWh by 2050.

Besides the Environmental Sciences category, ScienceAlerts.com contains an Agricultural Sciences Category which covers the cultivation and production of crops, raising of livestock, and postharvest processing of natural products. ScienceAlerts.com’s Biological Sciences Category covers life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, genetics, and distribution while it’s Forestry Sciences Category presents the cultivation, maintenance, and development of forests. ScienceAlerts.com’s Geographical Sciences Category covers the physical characteristics of the earth including its surface features, and the distribution of life on earth, and that of the Health Sciences aggregates the effects of disease and medical treatment on the overall condition of organisms.

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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ScienceAlerts.com Back Online: Agriculture, Biology, Environment, Forestry, Geography and Health

Bangkok, Thailand (PRWEB) April 23, 2012

ScienceAlerts.com is a natural 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, 76,018 members have signed up and actively contribute this content. The review process is partly automated and partly manual to ensure that only relevant content will be approved and 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 within minutes.

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 36,667 stories partly derived from over 220 scholarly agriculture journals. The latest article covers volatiles to protect brassicaceous crops against the cabbage root fly, Delia radicum. The author’s results confirmed the role of dimethyl disulfide (DMDS) in reducing D. radicum egg numbers on broccoli plants and revealed that (Z)-3-hexenyl acetate, a green leaf volatile released by recently damaged plants, strongly stimulated fly oviposition.

ScienceAlerts.com’s Biological Sciences Category covers life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, genetics, and distribution. This category currently contains over 85,008 stories partly derived from over 400 scholarly biology journals. The latest article covers development of sandwich enzyme linked immunosorbant assay for the detection of Cronobacter muytjensii. It demonstrates that the developed method was able to detect all the strains of C. muytjensii and that ELISA technique has potent application for the rapid and accurate detection of C. muytjensii in dietary foods.

ScienceAlerts.com’s Environmental Sciences Category covers the external physical conditions affecting growth, development, and survival of organisms, and their management. It currently contains 157,518 stories partly derived from almost 780 scholarly environment journals. The latest article presents potential contaminant pathways from hydraulically fractured shale to aquifers. The rapid expansion of hydraulic fracturing requires that monitoring systems be employed to track the movement of contaminants and that gas wells have a reasonable offset from faults.

ScienceAlerts.com’s Forestry Sciences Category covers the cultivation, maintenance, and development of forests. This category currently contains over 28,000 stories partly derived from 170 scholarly forestry journals. The latest article attempts to model spatial patterns of fire occurrence in Mediterranean Europe using Multiple Regression and Random Forest. The Random Forest model showed a higher predictive ability than Multiple Linear Regression. Furthermore, the analysis of the residuals also indicated a better performance of the Random Forest model, indicating that this method has potentiality to be applied in the assessment of fire-related phenomena at a broad scale.

ScienceAlerts.com’s Geographical Sciences Category covers the physical characteristics of the earth including its surface features, and the distribution of life on earth. It currently contains over 36,700 stories partly derived from almost 250 scholarly geography journals. The latest article covers ostracod palaeoecology and environmental change in the Laptev and Kara seas (Siberian Arctic) during the last 18,000 years. The study suggests that euryhaline species are largely sea-ice- and/or iceberg-rafted and may therefore provide evidence for a climate cooling trend.

ScienceAlerts.com’s Health Sciences Category covers the effects of disease and medical treatment on the overall condition of organisms. It currently contains over 14,100 stories partly derived from nearly 150 scholarly health journals. The latest article shows that healthier home food preparation methods and youth and caregiver psychosocial factors are associated with lower body mass index (BMI) in African American youth. In this study, adolescent children of caregivers who used healthier cooking methods were more likely to use healthy cooking methods themselves.

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 Alerts at ScienceAlerts.com

Bangkok, Thailand (PRWEB) April 25, 2012

ScienceAlerts.com is a 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, 17,821 members have signed up and have actively contributed 1,073,064 articles to the site. The new Forestry Sciences category currently features 27,413 stories largely derived from 26 scientific forestry publishing sources.

ScienceAlerts.com’s Forestry Sciences Category covers the cultivation, maintenance, and development of forests. It currently contains 27,413 stories partly derived from 26 scholarly forestry sciences journals. This category also provides an Forestry Sciences RSS feed which is one of the best and most popular ways of staying up to date with the latest research in this science discipline. One of the latest articles models spatial patterns of fire occurrence in Mediterranean Europe using multiple regression and random forest. The authors present and compare the results of the application of two different methods to identify the main structural factors that explain the likelihood of fire occurrence at European scale. They applied two different methods for the analysis including traditional multiple linear regression and “Random Forest” which is a non-parametric alternative based on an ensemble of classification and regression trees. The “Random Forest” model showed higher predictive ability than multiple linear regression and could, therefore, be applied in the assessment of fire-related phenomena at a broad scale. Both models indicate that the spatial distribution of fire occurrence likelihood is highly variable in Mediterranean Europe with highest fire likelihood in the northwest region of the Iberian Peninsula and southern Italy, and low fire likelihood in northern France, northeast Italy and north of Greece. Another article associates spatiotemporal variability of tree growth with climate over Northwest China.

Using rotated principal component analysis and hierarchical clustering analysis, the authors found that tree growth was mainly determined by the climate. Most of the tree-ring chronologies in Northwest China showed high correlations with moisture conditions in the current and previous growing seasons. They conclude that climate plays a more important role in determining tree growth in extreme climate conditions relative to non-climate factors.

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 Geographical Sciences Alerts at ScienceAlerts.com

Bangkok, Thailand (PRWEB) May 02, 2012

ScienceAlerts.com is a Geographical 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, 17,906 members have signed up and have actively contributed 1,075,151 articles to the site. The new Forestry Sciences category currently features 60,904 stories partly selected from 258 scientific geography publishing sources.

ScienceAlerts.com’s Geographical Sciences Category covers the physical characteristics of the earth including its surface features, and the distribution of life on earth. It currently contains 60,904 stories partly selected from 258 scholarly geography sciences journals. This category also provides an Geographical 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 analyzes predator assemblage structure and temporal variability of species richness and abundance in forests of high tree diversity. The authors studied spatial and temporal variability of spider assemblages in tree species-rich subtropical forests in China. Their results indicate that indicate that woody plant richness and theory predicting increasing predator diversity with increasing plant diversity do not necessarily play a major role for spatial and temporal dynamics of predator assemblages in such plant species-rich forests. Their study study highlights the importance of overall environmental heterogeneity in shaping spider assemblages as a crucial factor for biodiversity conservation at a regional scale in these subtropical forests. Another article highlights the implications for conservation of low primate diversity and abundance in Northern Amazonia. The authors found that large areas of the Rio Negro basin in Amazonia are covered by continuous tracts of tropical forest but have only few primate species. They conclude that parks and reserves in northwestern Amazonia will have to be very large to maintain viable populations of most primates and their ecological interactions, and that very broad habitat categories are not sufficient to make predictions about actual and future suitability of areas for primate conservation.

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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