Showing posts with label Science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Science. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 17, 2016

Why should we care about the honey bee?


Without honey bees, foods like blueberries and apples would be incredibly difficult to grow. Honey bees are responsible for the pollination of flowering plants, many of which can't reproduce on their own. This includes 400 crops, which means the agricultural industry is also dependent on honey bees.

Gathering pollen and nectar from flowers is a process that takes a hive of honey bees the entire spring and summer, and is integral to the health of their colony.

But there are other factors affecting the health of honey bee hives, and they affect them in varying degrees. They include:

Parasites:

Organisms like the varroa mite are parasites that affect honey bees, and they can infect whole colonies. These mites can spread viruses and weaken individual honey bees as the mite feeds on their blood.

Nutrition:

The quality and quantity of pollen and nectar are both extremely important to honey bees. Without enough food sources near their hives, a honey bee colony will find it difficult to survive the winter.

Weather:

The European honey bee evolved in a warmer climate with milder winters than Canada. Due to the extreme cold in many parts of Canada, honey bee colonies can be susceptible to freezing and starvation.

Disease:

Just like with humans, honey bees can be affected by viruses and bacteria, many with no known cure. In many cases, infected hives have to be destroyed to keep the infection from spreading.

Pesticides:

Though pesticides used today are safer than they've ever been, whether they're used in the hive to control mites and disease or on the land to protect crops, if they're used improperly they can affect honey bee health.

To find out more information about honey bees and how to help them thrive, visit www.beesmatter.ca.

 Without honey bees, foods like blueberries and apples would be incredibly difficult to grow. Honey bees are responsible for the pollination of flowering plants, many of which can't reproduce on their own. This includes 400 crops, which means the agricultural industry is also dependent on honey bees.

Gathering pollen and nectar from flowers is a process that takes a hive of honey bees the entire spring and summer, and is integral to the health of their colony.

But there are other factors affecting the health of honey bee hives, and they affect them in varying degrees. 

They include:

Parasites:

Organisms like the varroa mite are parasites that affect honey bees, and they can infect whole colonies. These mites can spread viruses and weaken individual honey bees as the mite feeds on their blood.

 

 

 

 

Tuesday, August 16, 2016

Keeping farming eco-friendly


A healthy environment means everything to Canadian farmers who rely on the land for their livelihood. As stewards of the land, farmers do their very best to help protect it with a little help from tools and technologies like pesticides and biotech crops.

Here are just some of the ways Canadian farmers are keeping their farms eco-friendly.

Preserving biodiversity

With the help of pesticides and plant biotechnology, farmers can grow more without having to use more land. This helps preserve valuable green spaces and important wildlife habitats.

Reducing greenhouse gas emissions

Climate change is an ongoing concern. Pesticides and biotech crops have helped farmers adopt conservation tillage practices, which allow them to dramatically cut down on the number of times they need to drive over their fields with equipment to control weeds. The result has been a significant reduction in greenhouse gas emissions and fuel use.

Protecting soil

Conversation tillage has also allowed farmers to protect one of our most valuable natural resources – soil. By adopting conservation tillage practices, farmers can reduce soil erosion, improve soil structure and increase moisture penetration and retention. In Canada alone, conservation tillage on corn production has led to a 69 per cent reduction in soil erosion.

Proper recycling

CleanFARMS, a not-for-profit industry stewardship organization, gives Canadian farmers the opportunity to safely recycle empty pesticide containers and dispose of unwanted pesticides. Since the program began in 1989 farmers have returned more than 100 million empty pesticide containers for recycling.

A healthy environment means everything to Canadian farmers who rely on the land for their livelihood. As stewards of the land, farmers do their very best to help protect it with a little help from tools and technologies like pesticides and biotech crops.

Here are just some of the ways Canadian farmers are keeping their farms eco-friendly.

Preserving biodiversity

With the help of pesticides and plant biotechnology, farmers can grow more without having to use more land. This helps preserve valuable green spaces and important wildlife habitats.

Reducing greenhouse gas emissions

 

Climate change is an ongoing concern. Pesticides and biotech crops have helped farmers adopt conservation tillage practices, which allow them to dramatically cut down on the number of times they need to drive over their fields with equipment to control weeds. The result has been a significant reduction in greenhouse gas emissions and fuel use.

Protecting soil

Conversation tillage has also allowed farmers to protect one of our most valuable natural resources – soil. By adopting conservation tillage practices, farmers can reduce soil erosion, improve soil structure and increase moisture penetration and retention. In Canada alone, conservation tillage on corn production has led to a 69 per cent reduction in soil erosion.

Proper recycling

CleanFARMS, a not-for-profit industry stewardship organization, gives Canadian farmers the opportunity to safely recycle empty pesticide containers and dispose of unwanted pesticides. Since the program began in 1989 farmers have returned more than 100 million empty pesticide containers for recycling.

 

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Sunday, August 14, 2016

Is pediatrics an ancient medical science?


Pediatrics is the branch of medicine related to medical care of infants, children, and adolescents up to 18 years of age. The origin of this medical science can be traced in Ancient India. During sixth century BC Sushruta Samhita an ayurvedic text described about pediatrics. In ancient India there were separate doctors for children's diseases and were called as kumara bhrtya. Now in modern days a medical practitioner who specializes in child medicine is called as pediatrician, or paediatrician. Due to the change in life styles of parents and pollution now child health care has become a global concern.

Pediatrics & Therapeutics an open access, peer reviewed, international journal focused on publishing recent discoveries and current advancements related to child health, treatment and medical care etc. The journal provides a platform for the doctors, scientists and researchers to publish their significant and innovative findings which help the aspiring pediatricians by providing the content online worldwide without any subscriptions charges.

Scientific articles regarding neonatology, pediatric psychiatry, pediatric allergy and dermatology, pediatric neurology, pediatric oncology, pediatric cardiology, pediatric ophthalmology, pulmonology, nephrology, infectious diseases in infants, neonatal critical care, neonatal nursing, medical and social aspects of breast feeding, neonatal jaundice Pediatric Surgery, Pediatric Obesity, Pediatric Neurology, Pediatric Immunology, Pediatric Critical Care etc. were also given high importance for the publication.

Articles with highly advanced scientific content are given high priority for publication, for example an article on Cranial Neurosurgery without Hair Removal has been published. The authors did Retrospective analysis of clinical records of children who had undergone cranial neurosurgery with "shampoo care". Their results showed that among 450 children 5.55% of them had a wound complication and two cases showed signs of infection (0.4%). They revised the available literature to assess the effectiveness of their protocol. They found that Wound complications and infections rates found were lower than those reported in patients treated with a standard trichotomy. The authors concluded that cranial neurosurgery without hair removal and "shampoo care" is an effective method for reducing infection rates and by this the stay in hospital will be shorter than the normal, and improves the self-esteem and quality of life when the child returns to family life and school.

To publish articles on the topics like Pediatric Medicine, Neonatal Medicine, Neonatology, neonatal oncology, neonatal surgery, Pediatric Cardiology etc.,Pediatrics & Therapeutics international journal is one of the best options.

Related Journals of Pediatric Medicine

Journals in Pediatrics, Pediatrics Journals, Pediatric Emergency care and medicine- Open Access, Pediatric Neurology and Medicine, Neonatal Medicine, Clinical Pediatrics: Open Access, Clinical Pediatrics, Iranian Journal of Pediatrics, Korean Journal of Pediatrics, Iranian Journal of Pediatrics

Friday, August 12, 2016

Playing Games With Higher Generation Particles


All of the normal matter that makes up you and me is comprised of ordinary boring atoms - neutrons, protons and electrons in various combinations. It would be nice if that were the be-all-and-end-all of things. Alas, our matter, you and me type matter, is just the First Generation of all things that matter. There's also a Second and indeed a Third Generation of matter which nobody can explain the existence or relevance of from first principles. However, since these additional generations exist, we might as well have a bit of "what if" fun with them. 

 

We are aware that for some totally unknown and unexplained reason, there are three generations of elementary particles * and thus presumably in theory there could be three generations of atoms, molecules, and related objects with structure and substance - like you and me **. However, there only seems to exist just the First Generation of atoms through to you and me and the rest of ordinary matter throughout the Cosmos. But, as a thought experiment, would you and me still be you and me if we were composed of Second or Third Generation particles?

 

But firstly, this raises an interesting question. Why isn't there a Fourth Generation of particles? I mean if there is no rhyme or reason for there to be three generations, then why not four (or more)? That would subtract nothing in terms of the rhyme or reason already noted.

 

* The three generations of elementary particles are as follows:

 

First Generation with +2/3rds electric charge:

- Up Quarks

Second Generation with +2/3rds electric charge:

- Charm Quarks

Third Generation with +2/3rds electric charge:

- Top Quarks

 

First Generation with -1/3rd electric charge:

- Down Quarks

Second Generation with -1/3rd electric charge:

- Strange Quarks

Third Generation with -1/3rd electric charge:

- Bottom Quarks

 

A First Generation Proton:

- Two Up Quarks plus one Down Quark

A Second Generation Pseudo-'Proton':

- Two Charm Quarks plus one Strange Quark

A Third Generation Pseudo-'Proton':

- Two Top Quarks plus one Bottom Quark

 

A First Generation Neutron:

- Two Down Quarks plus one Up Quark

A Second Generation Pseudo-'Neutron':

- Two Strange Quarks plus one Charm Quark

A Third Generation Pseudo-'Neutron':

- Two Bottom Quarks plus one Top Quark

 

First Generation with a -1 electric charge:

- Electron

Second Generation with a -1 electric charge:

- Muon

Third Generation with a -1 electric charge:

- Tau particle

 

First Generation with no electric charge:

- Electron Neutrino

Second Generation with no electric charge:

- Muon Neutrino

Third Generation with no electric charge:

- Tau Neutrino

 

One should note here that as one goes from First to Second to Third Generation particles, the particles in question get ever more massive. So a Muon for example is way more massive than an Electron and a Tau particle is more massive than a Muon even though all three have an identical electric charge. The same mass increases are observed in the Quarks and in the Neutrinos.

 

Now one can play games here and replace Electrons with Second Generation Muons or Third Generation Tau particles; replace Up and Down Quarks with Second Generation Charm and Strange Quarks or with Third Generation Top and Bottom Quarks. However, I've yet to see this 'game' played out in the literature. But one could ask what kind of atoms with what kind of chemistry would second or third generation particles make **? Would you still have carbon or pseudo-'carbon'?

 

A Second Generation Pseudo-'Carbon' Atom would be...

- Six Muons 'orbiting' six Pseudo-'Protons' composed of two Charm Quarks plus one Strange Quark and six Pseudo-'Neutrons' composed of two Bottom Quarks plus one Top Quark.

 

A Third Generation Pseudo-'Carbon' Atom would be...

- Six Tau particles 'orbiting' six Pseudo-'Protons' composed of two Top Quarks plus one Bottom Quark and six Pseudo-'Neutrons' composed of two Strange Quarks plus one Charm Quark.

 

One must note here that any Second or Third Generation Pseudo-'Carbon' atom would be way heavier than the standard First Generation Carbon atom that makes up a nice percentage of you and me.

 

To further complicate things, all of these three generations have an equal and opposite counterpart of antimatter, so you have an anti-Electron (a Positron) and an anti-Muon and an anti-Tau. There really could be a First Generation antimatter version of you and me, but you really wouldn't then want to meet and greet your First Generation antimatter opposite. You both would annihilate each other in a might burst of pure energy. In a similar vein, there could be a Second and Third Generation antimatter version of you (or maybe not) **. An interesting question is, what if a normal matter First Generation version of you met a Second or Third antimatter Generation version of you. Would that pose an annihilation problem?

 

Now another interesting question is would a Positron annihilate with a Muon (as it would with an Electron)? Would an anti-Tau particle annihilate with an Electron or a Muon? Probably not because although the electric charges are equal and opposite, the masses are different which suggests that equal but opposite electric charges are not the be-all-and-end-all of matter - antimatter annihilations. The proof of that pudding is that within First Generation particles, an electron (-) meeting and greeting a proton (+) won't annihilate each other into pure energy. 

 

** You might not be able to have Second and Third Generation atoms and so on up the line or scale of increasing complexity to you and me, but you should have Second and Third Generation nucleons - Pseudo-'Protons' and Pseudo-''Neutrons' composed of Second Generation Charm and Strange Quarks and Third Generation Top and Bottom Quarks respectively. First Generation nucleons, the atomic nuclei that ultimately make us up, are composed of Up and Down Quarks.

 

One probable reason for the lack of Second and Third Generation atoms is that Muons and Tau particles decay in quick-smart fashion so they don't stick around long enough to make stable Second or Third Generation atoms, molecules and associated chemistry. The Muon rapidly decays into an Electron as well as two different types of Neutrinos; the Tau particle has about eight different decay options (which is an oddity in and of itself), with one universal being given off that you can count on - a Tau Neutrino.