scholarly journals Corona and Other Virus: Their Useful and Harmful Aspects

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Birhanu Gizaw ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Resource ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Physical World ◽  
Culture Collection ◽  
Conservation Strategy ◽  
Microbial Culture ◽  
Symbiotic Relationship ◽  
Biotechnological Application ◽  
Microbial World ◽  
Microbial Life

How the single virus is forceful and shakes the world is eye witness during this contemporary COVID19 pandemic time. People primarily think of viruses such as HIV, Ebola, Zika, Influenza, Tobacco mosaic virus or whatever new outbreak like SARS, Corona are all viruses worst and non-beneficial. However, not all viruses are detrimental and influential to human, animal and plant health. In fact some viruses have beneficial properties for their hosts in a symbiotic relationship and scientific research in many disciplines. Understanding the microbial world is very critical and crucial thing that they are driving force and governing the physical world and biosphere at all. The virus and other microbial life those of bacteria, fungi, prion, viroid, viron are requiring great attention and research to enhance their utilization from majority of useful aspects of microbial genetic resource. The secret behind of every industry, agriculture, health and environment are the application of microbes and their products are too high for human being and environment. Without microbes all life would be cease on earth. However some microbes are very dangerous like Corona virus, HIV, Ebola, Mycobacterium and others that destroy human life, but majority of microorganisms are too useful to promote development. Through building and strengthening microbial culture collection centers and through strong conservation strategy, it is possible to exploit more from the unseen microbial genetic resource. This paper will review the harmful and use full aspect of virus in respect with health, environment, agriculture and biotechnological application during this Covid19 pandemic time to raise awareness about virus at all.

scholarly journals COLMENA: A Culture Collection of Native Microorganisms for Harnessing the Agro-Biotechnological Potential in Soils and Contributing to Food Security

Diversity ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (8) ◽  
pp. 337
Author(s):  
Sergio de los Santos-Villalobos ◽  
Alondra María Díaz-Rodríguez ◽  
María Fernanda Ávila-Mascareño ◽  
Andrea Denisse Martínez-Vidales ◽  
Fannie Isela Parra-Cota
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Plant Growth ◽  
Field Trials ◽  
Culture Collection ◽  
Microbial Culture ◽  
Biotechnological Potential ◽  
Global Food Security ◽  
Beneficial Effects ◽  
Plant Growth Promoting

COLMENA is a microbial culture collection dedicated to the characterization, classification, preservation, and transferal of native microorganisms isolated from various agro-systems and other ecosystems in Mexico. This collection aims to protect microbial diversity, reducing soil degradation, but also exploiting its agro-biotechnological potential. So far, COLMENA has isolated and cryopreserved soil microorganisms from different crops in two major agricultural regions in Mexico, the Yaqui Valley, Sonora, and the Fuerte Valley, Sinaloa. COLMENA has specialized in the identification and characterization of microbial strains with metabolic capacities related to the promotion of plant growth and the biocontrol of phytopathogens. Thus, COLMENA has identified several promising plant growth-promoting microbial (PGPM) strains due to their metabolic and genetic potentials and their beneficial effects in vivo and field trials. These findings demonstrate the biotechnological potential of these strains for their future use in profitable agricultural alternatives focused on enhancing global food security. To share the knowledge and results of the COLMENA team’s scientific research, a virtual platform was created, where the database of the studied and preserved microorganisms is available to professionals, researchers, agricultural workers, and anyone who is interested.

Sustaining Development of Environmental Education in National Political and Curriculum Priorities

1992 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 115-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annette Greenall Gough
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Education ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Policy Formulation ◽  
Conservation Strategy ◽  
Resource Base ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
World Conservation ◽  
Environmental Education Policy

The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between national economic and political priorities and environmental education policy formulation and curriculum strategies. This relationship will be placed in the historical context of developments in environmental education in Australia from 1970 until the present and will be analysed in terms of the ideological and pedagogical stances implicit, and explicit, in the developments during this period. I will argue that the emphasis throughout the period has been to sustain the development of environmental education without any questioning of why, what and how this development should occur.‘Sustainable development’ has become a slogan for governments, industry and conservation groups in recent times. It was the subtitle for the World Conservation Strategy (IUCN 1980) and the National Conservation Strategy for Australia (DHAE 1984) - living resource conservation for sustainable development - and was popularised in the report of the World Commission on Environment and Development, more commonly known as the Brundtland Report or Our Common Future (WCED 1987). The definition of sustainable development given in the World Conservation Strategy (IUCN 1980: section 1.3) and repeated in the National Conservation Strategy for Australia (DHAE 1984: 12) is as follows:Development is…the modification of the biosphere and the application of human, financial, living and non-living resources to satisfy human needs and improve the quality of human life. For development to be sustainable it must take account of social and ecological factors, as well as economic ones; of the living and nonliving resource base; and of the long term as well as the short term advantages and disadvantages of alternative actions.

scholarly journals WFCC-MIRCEN: world data centre for microorganisms

2006 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 13
Author(s):  
Hideaki Sugawara
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Plan ◽  
Culture Collection ◽  
Microbial Culture ◽  
Culture Collections ◽  
World Data ◽  
Data Centre ◽  
The 1960S

In the 1960s, microbiology and culture collection experts met several times to develop a strategic plan to foster microbial culture collections. They quickly recognised that statistics on the activities of culture collections worldwide were not available and that there was a need for a ?world directory of collections of cultures of microorganisms? that accumulated information on culture collections. It was obvious also that a world data centre for microorganisms was required to develop and maintain the directory.

scholarly journals In Silico Comparison Shows that the Pan-Genome of a Dairy-Related Bacterial Culture Collection Covers Most Reactions Annotated to Human Microbiomes

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (7) ◽  
pp. 966 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Roder ◽  
Daniel Wüthrich ◽  
Cornelia Bär ◽  
Zahra Sattari ◽  
Ueli von Ah ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dietary Patterns ◽  
In Silico ◽  
Bacterial Culture ◽  
In Silico Analysis ◽  
Culture Collection ◽  
Microbial Culture ◽  
Enzymatic Reactions ◽  
Culture Collections ◽  
Pan Genome ◽  
Dairy Research

The diversity of the human microbiome is positively associated with human health. However, this diversity is endangered by Westernized dietary patterns that are characterized by a decreased nutrient variety. Diversity might potentially be improved by promoting dietary patterns rich in microbial strains. Various collections of bacterial cultures resulting from a century of dairy research are readily available worldwide, and could be exploited to contribute towards this end. We have conducted a functional in silico analysis of the metagenome of 24 strains, each representing one of the species in a bacterial culture collection composed of 626 sequenced strains, and compared the pathways potentially covered by this metagenome to the intestinal metagenome of four healthy, although overweight, humans. Remarkably, the pan-genome of the 24 strains covers 89% of the human gut microbiome’s annotated enzymatic reactions. Furthermore, the dairy microbial collection covers biological pathways, such as methylglyoxal degradation, sulfate reduction, γ-aminobutyric (GABA) acid degradation and salicylate degradation, which are differently covered among the four subjects and are involved in a range of cardiometabolic, intestinal, and neurological disorders. We conclude that microbial culture collections derived from dairy research have the genomic potential to complement and restore functional redundancy in human microbiomes.

Inhabiting modern landscape

1997 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Denis Cosgrove
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Decisive Role ◽  
Human Geography ◽  
Physical World ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Modern Landscape

Archaeology, anthropology, human geography: three disciplines born out of a nineteenth-century imperative among Europeans to apply a coherent model of understanding (Wissen-schaft) to varied forms of social life within a differentiated physical world; three disciplines stretched between the epistemology and methods of the natural sciences (Naturwissenschaften) which promised certainty, and the hermeneutic reflexivity and critical doubt of the Humanities (Geisteswissenschaften) which promised self-knowledge. Each of these disciplines is today in crisis, and for the same reason. Europe as the place of authoritative knowledge, of civilization, has been decentred upon a post-colonial globe; the white, bourgeois European male has been dethroned as the sovereign subject of a universal and progressive history. Thus, the enlightened intellectual project represented by archaeology, anthropology and human geography, whose findings were unconsciously designed to secure the essentially ideological claims of liberal Europeans, are obliged to renegotiate their most fundamental assumptions and concepts (Gregory, 1993). The linguistic turn in the social sciences and humanities which has so ruthlessly exposed the context-bound nature of their scientific claims — what Ton Lemaire refers to as a critical awareness of their inescapable cultural and historical mediation — forces a recognition that their central conceptual terms, such as ‘culture’, ‘nature’, ‘society’, and ‘landscape’, are far from being neutral scientific objects, open to disinterested examination through the objective and authoritative eye of scholarship. They are intellectual constructions which need to be understood in their emergence and evolution across quite specific histories. Ton Lemaire seeks to sketch something of the history of landscape as such a socially and historically mediated idea: as a mode of representing relations between land and human life, which has played a decisive role in the development of archaeology as a formal discipline. On the foundation of this history he develops a critique of the social and environmental characteristics and consequences of modernity, and seeks to relocate archaeological study within a reformed project of sensitive contemporary ‘dwelling’ on earth.

scholarly journals FEATURES OF FORMATION OF DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGICAL COMPETENCE BY MEANS OF 3D-MODELING

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (191) ◽  
pp. 170-175
Author(s):  
Maksym Khomutenko ◽  
◽  
Mykola Sadovyi ◽  
Olena Tryfonova ◽  
Halyna Kurnat ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Activity ◽  
3D Modeling ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Physical World ◽  
Modern Technology ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Design And Technology ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Professional Activities ◽  
Technological Competence

The modern world society is on the threshold of total digitalization of all spheres of human activity. As a result, the process of digitalization has become widespread at the beginning of the 21st century. Ukraine does not stand aside from these processes. She joined the process of digital transformation. The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine approved the Concept for the Development of the Digital Economy and Society of Ukraine for 2018–2020. Digitalization provides for the saturation of the physical world with electronic-digital devices, means, systems and the establishment of electronic communication between them. Readiness to use information and digital resources in professional activities over time becomes decisive for the industry. The number of jobs in Ukraine that require employees to have at least a basic understanding of information and communication and digital technologies is growing rapidly. The ability to use modern technology is becoming one of the main requirements for staff. There is a problem of reviewing the competencies that must be formed in students in accordance with the requirements of the time. One of such competencies is design and technology. Therefore, in the article we focused on the problem of forming project-technological competence in students by introducing 3D-modeling in the educational process of technical, physical-mathematical and natural sciences. 3D-modeling software allows you to transform ideas into models that can be used in teaching, design, architecture, cinema and many other areas of human life. Today, there are many programs used for 3D-modeling. They differ in the degree of complexity and the functionality required for the task. To ensure the formation of design and technological competence in the educational process, we propose to use the program Blender version 2.82a. We offered an example of practical work «Transparent vase and fabric simulation» performed using the Blender program. We have described in detail the stages of creating an object. We have developed elements of the methodology of formation of design and technological competence during the implementation of 3D-modeling. Its contribute to the renewal of the content of education and educational technologies, which aligns them with the modern needs of society. Total digitization of all areas of human activity outlines the prospects for further development in the direction of improving the organization of the educational process.

scholarly journals Description and Genome Analysis of Methylotetracoccus aquaticus sp. nov. , a Novel Tropical Wetland Methanotroph, with the Amended Description of Methylotetracoccus gen. nov.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monali Rahalkar ◽  
Kumal Khatri ◽  
Jyoti Mohite ◽  
Pranitha Pandit ◽  
Rahul Bahulikar
Keyword(s):  
Single Species ◽  
Morphological Characters ◽  
Culture Collection ◽  
Freshwater Wetland ◽  
Microbial Culture ◽  
Culture Collections ◽  
Genome Data ◽  
Fame Analysis ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Fame Profile

We enriched and isolated a novel gammproteobacterial methanotroph; strain FWC3, from tropical freshwater wetland, near Nagaon beach, Alibag, India. FWC3 is a coccoid, flesh pink/peach pigmented, non-motile methanotroph and the cells are present in pairs and as tetracocci. The culture can grow on methane (20%) as well as on a wide range of methanol from concentrations (0.02%-5%). Based on the comparison of genome data, FAME analysis, morphological characters and biochemical characters, FWC3 belongs to the tentatively and newly but not validly described genus ‘Methylotetracoccus’ of which only a single species strain was described, Methylotetracoccus oryzae C50C1. The ANI index between FWC3 and C50C1 strains is 94%, and the DDH value is 55.7%, less than the cut-off values 96% and 70%, respectively. The genome size of FWC3 is smaller (3.4 Mbp) compared to that of C50C1 (4.8 Mbp). Additionally, the FAME profile of FWC3 shows differences in cell wall fatty acid profiles compared to Methylotetracoccus oryzae C50C1. Also, there are other differences on the morphological, physiological and genomic levels. We propose FWC3 to be a member of a novel species of the genus Methylotetracoccus, for which the name Methylotetracoccus aquaticus is proposed. Also, an amended description of the genus Methylotetracoccus gen. nov. is given here. FWC3 is available in two international culture collections with the accession numbers: MCC 4198 (Microbial Culture collection, India) and JCM 33786 (Japan Collection of Microorganisms, Japan).

scholarly journals The Problem of the Subject in Artificial Nature

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 22-28
Author(s):  
Nesterov Alexander Yu. ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Intelligent Agents ◽  
Philosophy Of Technology ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Physical World ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Second Nature ◽  
The Third ◽  
Technological Singularity ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Artificial Nature

The article discusses the situation with the subject and subjectivity that arises in the conditions of scientific and technological progress. The concept of the subject is introduced through the distinction between reflex (natural) and reflexive (artificial) processes of self-awareness, the subject is understood as a way of connecting “worlds” in the sense of K. R. Popper. The forms of reflection that create subjectivity are introduced as philosophical inventions in the sense of I. I. Lapshin as an aphorism, dialogue and system. The research methodology is of a general semiotic and neo-Kantian character: the function of subjectivity for artificial environments of human life is considered as a reflexive basis for constructing theories and carrying out technical activities, the performance of this function leads to a consistent transformation of nature due to the accumulation of artifacts in the sensually accessible physical world (the first artificial nature), in the rational world of logical-grammatical forms (the second artificial nature), in the world of reason or intellectual reflection (the third artificial nature). Based on the analysis of subjectivity in the first, second and third artificial nature, we conclude that the crisis of the subject and human subjectivity observed in the information society, expressed in the models of the subject-free objectivity of the technosphere or technological singularity is evidence of the exhaustion of the methodological resources of the subject’s analysis. The third artificial nature, i. e. a man-made technical environment that includes intellectual artifacts, autonomous intelligent agents of making socially significant decisions, needs a new philosophical invention that allows for self-awareness procedures. In the conclusion, the assumption is formulated that as such a new philosophical invention, the “environment” can be discussed that removes the “system” in the same sense in which the “system” removes the “dialogue”, and the latter – “aphorism”. Keywords: subject, technology, philosophy of technology, artificial nature, second nature, third nature, technological singularity

scholarly journals An Analysis of English Language Orthography, Typography and Grammar used by Millennial on Social Media Platforms

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-35
Author(s):  
Alia Khan ◽  
Prof. Mohammad Rizwan Khan
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Education System ◽  
English Language ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Physical World ◽  
Negative Influence ◽  
Profound Influence ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Media Platforms

Social media is a term with which most of the people around the world are well acquainted. The advancement of technology has provided a new medium through which we can propose, deliver, swap, and share our ideas without moving a single inch. It is a new avenue for conveying information and a trend which is now-a-days in vogue. From infants to adults, everyone is somehow in contact with the social media. Similarly, education system too has a profound influence of social media. From placement institutes, school authority, teachers, learners, to parents in fact every stakeholder of education system is somehow tied to social media. Jeff Bezos, CEO at Amazon.com once described the power of social media by asserting that “If you make customers unhappy in the physical world, they might each tell 6 friends. If you make customers unhappy on the Internet, they can each tell 6,000 friends” (Pencak 2019). Thus, we can assume the potency and status of social media in our life. Though social media is affecting many significant areas of human life, but the area which itself is considered as a ‘systematic means of communication’ (that is ‘Language’) is too being swayed by this virtual medium. Social media has exceedingly affected English language skills. The paper explores how the social media has influenced linguistics habits of millennial, whether it has affected upcoming academicians in a positive or negative way, and what should be done in order to protect their linguistic habits from the negative influence of social media.

scholarly journals Three faces of biofilms: a microbial lifestyle, a nascent multicellular organism, and an incubator for diversity

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anahit Penesyan ◽  
Ian T. Paulsen ◽  
Staffan Kjelleberg ◽  
Michael R. Gillings
Keyword(s):  
Multicellular Organism ◽  
Main Mode ◽  
Microbial World ◽  
Biofilm Growth ◽  
Microbial Cells ◽  
Microbial Life

AbstractBiofilms are organised heterogeneous assemblages of microbial cells that are encased within a self-produced matrix. Current estimates suggest that up to 80% of bacterial and archaeal cells reside in biofilms. Since biofilms are the main mode of microbial life, understanding their biology and functions is critical, especially as controlling biofilm growth is essential in industrial, infrastructure and medical contexts. Here we discuss biofilms both as collections of individual cells, and as multicellular biological individuals, and introduce the concept of biofilms as unique incubators of diversity for the microbial world.

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