Frontiers In Animal Science Highlights From Its First Year

By 2050 the world's population is projected to grow by one-third, reaching between 9 and 10 billion. With globalization and expected growth in global affluence, a substantial increase in per capita meat, dairy, and fish consumption is also anticipated. The demand for calories from animal products will nearly double, highlighting the critical importance of the world's animal agriculture system. Meeting the nutritional needs of this population and its demand for animal products will require a significant investment of resources as well as policy changes that are supportive of agricultural production. Ensuring sustainable agricultural growth will be essential to addressing this global challenge to food security. Critical Role of Animal Science Research in Food Security and Sustainability identifies areas of research and development, technology, and resource needs for research in the field of animal agriculture, both nationally and internationally. This report assesses the global demand for products of animal origin in 2050 within the framework of ensuring global food security; evaluates how climate change and natural resource constraints may impact the ability to meet future global demand for animal products in sustainable production systems; and identifies factors that may impact the ability of the United States to meet demand for animal products, including the need for trained human capital, product safety and quality, and effective communication and adoption of new knowledge, information, and technologies. The agricultural sector worldwide faces numerous daunting challenges that will require innovations, new technologies, and new ways of approaching agriculture if the food, feed, and fiber needs of the global population are to be met. The recommendations of Critical Role of Animal Science Research in Food Security and Sustainability will inform a new roadmap for animal science research to meet the challenges of sustainable animal production in the 21st century.

"In this third volume of the successful Book of the Year series, produced by the World Association for Animal Production (WAAP) specialists in animal science inform you about the developments in the past year in livestock systems worldwide. The best authors available are chosen to express their competence and expertise on all the aspects considered relevant in each specific field of animal science. This volume, like its predecessors, is based on four sections. The first describes livestock industry and relative research developments in the geographical continents. The second includes efforts to describe the development of research in every discipline within the large ambit of animal science. The third section contains interesting articles on 'free subjects', of large interest for readers such as 'Science and Policy in Risk Assessment of Transgenic Animals', 'The impact of nano-scale technologies in animal management', 'New developments in amino acid research', etc. The last section presents detailed statistics of high relevance in animal industry. This book is generally recognized as one of the very few practical resources of comprehensive statistical information related to animal industry. The Book of the Year series is intended for libraries that wish to offer their readers high-quality, updated information. At the same time, this series is an indispensable resource for scientists, policy makers and scientific writers who wish to enhance their proficiency in their field. It provides a very current, complete picture of the animal industry and livestock science worldwide."

The International Space Station (ISS) is the largest man-made structure to orbit Earth and has been conducting research for close to a decade and a half. Yet it is only the latest in a long line of space stations and laboratories that have flown in orbit since the early 1970s. The histories of these earlier programs have been all but forgotten as the public focused on other, higher-profile adventures such as the Apollo moon landings. A vast trove of stories filled with excitement, danger, humor, sadness, failure, and success, Outposts on the Frontier reveals how the Soviets and the Americans combined strengths to build space stations over the past fifty years. At the heart of these scientific advances are people of both greatness and modesty. Jay Chladek documents the historical tapestry of the people, the early attempts at space station programs, and how astronauts and engineers have contributed to and shaped the ISS in surprising ways. Outposts on the Frontier delves into the intriguing stories behind the USAF Manned Orbiting Laboratory, the Almaz and Salyut programs, Skylab, the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, Spacelab, Mir station, Spacehab, and the ISS and gives past-due attention to Vladimir Chelomei, the Russian designer whose influence in space station development is as significant as Sergei Korolev's in rocketry. Outposts on the Frontier is an informative and dynamic history of humankind's first outposts on the frontier of space.

' The Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Food Hygiene, Agriculture and Animal Science provides an all-encompassing review of each contributor''s study in topics such as food hygiene, agriculture, animal science, animal histology and embryology, and livestock production systems. This book is not only a compilation and analysis of the existing theories and findings; it also places a strong emphasis on new investigations and experiments. Researchers, engineers, academics and industry professionals in the fields of agricultural science, food hygiene and animal science will find this book a valuable read and useful reference. Contents:Nutrition and Food Hygiene:Research on Construction of the Quality and Safety of Agricultural Products Traceability Based on Multisided Platform-taking Beef Quality and Safety Traceability in Xinjiang as an Example (Shihong Liu, Tao Ma)Effects of Hysterectomy on Ovarian Function in Patients with Retaining Uterine Blood Vessel (Hongxia Sun, Yufei Cai)Study on Correlations between Interleukin 23 and Bronchial Asthma (Xinhui Li, Hongxia Sun)Ferric Pyrophosphate: A Versatile and Alternative Iron Fortification Compound (Liuqin Ge, Meisheng Xia, Zhitong Yao, Qingping Sun)Adsorption of Pb2+ and Cd2+ onto Chestnut Shell Combined with 60Co-γ Irradiation (Renbang Zhao, Yaqing Zhang, Weihua Liu, Sha Li, Yang Wang, Mengying Sun, Yuanyuan Huang)Agriculture:Dynamic Variation of Groundwater Evaporation and Soil Temperature under Plastic Mulch with Openings (X G Xing, X Y Ma, W J Shi)The Influence of Biological Fertilizer on Crop Growth Research (Xiaonan Chi, Qing Li, Yu Fu, Shiwei Wu)Molecular Characteristics of L-galactose-1-phosphate Phosphatase in Cherry, a Key Enzyme Involved in Biosynthesis of AsA (Dong Liang, Ling Lin, Tingting Zhu, Hui Xia)Effects of Chlorcholinchlorid on the Ornamental and Physiological Characteristics of Blueberry (Mao-lan Yue, Xia Qiu, Bo-lei Jiao, Xun Wang)Animal Science:Land Covers and their Changes in the Amur Tiger Distribution Regions in China and Russia (Lingjun Meng, Limei Zhang, Yiqiu Li, Zhongke Feng)Experimental Study on Immune System of Schisandra Oral Liquid in Mice W Guo, X Liu, C M Wang, H Li, H X Sun, C Y Zhang, J G Chen, J H Sun)and other papers Readership: Researchers, engineers, academics and industry professionals in the fields of agricultural science, food hygiene and animal science. Key Features:Contains a large range of topics, including food hygiene, agriculture and animal scienceServes as a reference for readersAllows researchers to re-examine their research by comparing them with others presented in the bookKeywords:Food Hygiene;Agriculture;Animal Science'