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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MUSA Technology Partners Teams with Nexsan for Data Storage for the Life Sciences

Cambridge, MA (PRWEB) February 23, 2010

MUSA Technology Partners, a leading technology consulting firm, announced today that it has teamed with Nexsan, a data storage system provider. This strategic relationship allows MUSA to distribute Nexsan’s exclusive data storage products and collaborate on technology support and solutions focused towards the life sciences industry.

“We at MUSA are thrilled to partner with a quality supplier like Nexsan,” stated Doug Lantigua, Principal of MUSA Technology Partners. “MUSA’s service offerings and solutions will benefit from access to Nexsan’s technologies. They truly are excellent at what they do, and this symbiotic relationship is designed to further the cutting-edge technology solutions and support MUSA is able to provide to the life sciences industry.”

Walter Palhetas, Senior Vice President for Americas at Nexsan, stated, “Nexsan is excited to work with MUSA Technology Partners. Together we are providing proven storage solutions that deliver true business value to a very important industry. Nexsan’s portfolio of storage products together with MUSA’s expert technology services will enable healthcare, biotech and pharmaceutical organizations to quickly realize measurable ROI on storage infrastructure and cost-effectively meet compliance requirements.”

MUSA’s technology consulting clients include multinational biotechnology and pharmaceutical firms in the Boston metropolitan area that will benefit from Nexsan’s storage systems, engineered to support the stringent GxP validation requirements of the life sciences industry. Nexsan’s secure and scalable storage solutions have helped differentiate itself in a very competitive market and make it a first-rate technology provider for the life sciences industry.

About MUSA Technology Partners

MUSA Technology Partners is a rapidly growing Cambridge, MA based technology consulting firm that excels in innovative solutions and support for firms in the Life Sciences industry. Our technology consultants and engineers have years of experience working with firms ranging from Enterprise sized multi-national companies to start-ups in the biotechnology, pharmaceutical and health care industries. MUSA’s focus on the life sciences differentiates us from other technology services firms because we understand the business and its technology needs. MUSA’s service offerings include disaster recovery and data protection for business continuance, server virtualization, enterprise support solutions, lab services and more. Our focus is on creating a quality and a value-driven delivery model for a mutually beneficial partnership geared towards long-term success. For more information, please visit musatechnology.com.

About Nexsan

Nexsan Corporation is a leading provider of energy-efficient, long-term storage systems. Nexsan delivers secure storage appliances and modular, capacity-optimized disk-storage systems for a broad range of applications including fixed-content storage and archiving, email, medical imaging, compliance and litigation support, disk-based backup, digital video security, and rich media. Nexsan’s solutions are the choice of small and medium-sized companies as well as large global enterprises and major governmental agencies around the world that are seeking cost-correct, high-density storage solutions. Founded in 1999 and based in Thousand Oaks, California, Nexsan sells its products exclusively through a select global network of VARs, OEMs and system integrators. For more information, please see the company’s website at nexsan.com.

For more information contact:

Warner Jones, Director of Partner Relations

MUSA Technology Partners

800-401-9123 x711

wjones(at)musatechnology(dot)com

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MUSA Technology Partners Teams with Nexsan for Data Storage for the Life Sciences

New Agricultural Sciences Alerts at ScienceAlerts.com

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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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.

New Forestry Sciences Alerts at ScienceAlerts.com

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.

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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University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences to Deploy Renovo Softwares Video Conference Scheduling Solution

(PRWEB) September 19, 2012

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) will utilize Renovo Softwares advanced video conference scheduling platform, Video Scheduler, to schedule, automate and manage their interactive video conferencing network. UAMSs video conferencing networkused for distance learning, telehealth, and collaborative purposesincludes some 1,000 endpoints, fourteen Cisco HD multipoint control units, and a Cisco telepresence content server cluster.

Renovos Video Scheduler will empower UAMS with a unique set of tools to advance the scheduling and management of their video conferencing network. UAMS will make extensive use of Video Schedulers advanced user and user group privilege management and endpoint approval capabilities. In addition to advanced privilege and scheduling tools, UAMS will use Video Scheduler to send automated notices, configure MCU load balancing, monitor and maintain live network usage, create reports, and more.

Video Scheduler will help to improve the efficiency of UAMSs video conferencing network by allowing users to schedule multiple instances of a reservation at irregular date and time intervals, schedule regularly recurring reservations, and even copy old or existing reservations. The scheduling process is streamlined further by providing administrators with the capability to set up custom time blocks and durations for recurring conferences. This powerful platform offers a remarkable amount of control, allowing users to edit individual instances within multiple and recurring reservations, or even add custom additional information fields to any reservation.

UAMS will also be deploying Renovos unique event offering module. Using event offering, UAMS can create and market events, classes, seminars, etc. to anyone across the network. Users within their network can then search, discuss, suggest, or sign up for the events. Events UAMS offers through Video Scheduler will be fully compatible with built in features such as the message board (listserv), email notifications, and RSS feeds.

About Renovo

Renovo Software is a leading developer of software solutions for the video communications industry. Renovo designs, develops and supports software solutions that schedule, automate and manage complex video conferencing networks. Renovos Video Scheduler is deployed in some of the worlds largest video conferencing networks, yet scales down to meet the needs of almost any network. Applications include video visitation, courtroom arraignment, distance learning, telemedicine and business videoconferencing.

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences to Deploy Renovo Softwares Video Conference Scheduling Solution