[{"id":217,"title":"Change the way you publish - Research platforms/databases can take your country to newer heights","sha":"4b4e18522d1dd3b3104a75c8af7f2202","user_id":null,"state":"published","body":"JBI is quite an exciting platform to write and I intuitively relate it to my Twitter handle. But this article is much beyond how JBI or any other typical journal works. The idea that a country is making any headway in research and development (R\u0026D) or not is measured by the number of journal articles published from the region, their cumulative impact factors and h-index needs to be shown \"Red-flag\".\r\n\r\nThe original measure of the country's progress in R\u0026D could be estimated with the inception of countrywide research publication platforms which will publish articles after rigorous peer-review on various subject lines submitted from that country only. This way, every country gets one. \r\n\r\nSo what happens to the research coming out of multi-country collaboration? \r\nAll participating countries will share the due credit after it is published in the database/platform of lead corresponding author's country. Alternatively, it can get published in the database of the country which funded the research.\r\n\r\nWhat about ISSN numbers, Impact factors and Citations? \r\nEach platform will have an unique identifier number, receive world ranking (no more impact points, 1 is better than 2 here) and the top papers will be judged by the number of times they were cited.\r\n\r\nWho will run this?\r\nPreferably government through crowdsourcing. ","created_at":"2015-09-10T08:16:42.769Z","updated_at":"2016-05-14T05:26:20.959Z","zenodo_id":60859,"doi":"http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.30931","subject":null,"tags":["publishing","research","development","database","platform"],"vote_count":3,"view_count":1,"score":3.1,"deleted":false,"muted":false,"tweeted":false,"attachment_file_name":null,"attachment_content_type":null,"attachment_file_size":null,"attachment_updated_at":null},{"id":225,"title":"Evolution in genetic terms – Is it RNA world or DNA world or is it anything else?","sha":"69b03c4db6269df0798781ef07244e59","user_id":null,"state":"published","body":"\r\nThe RNA world concept that self-replicating ribonucleic acid (RNA) molecules are keys to all current forms of life on Earth and geticists could not go further down might have missed out on how evolution has actually happened in real genetic terms. \r\n\r\nOut of all hypothesis and proposals, one that stands strong in the debate of “RNA before DNA” is \u003cb\u003e “protein synthesis can occur in the absence of DNA but not in the absence of RNA” \u003c/b\u003e. To contest this hypothesis, one should take a close look on life of an RNA molecule and their early degeneration process. \r\n\r\nEarlier RNA-protein interaction systems are highly doubtful because RNA is never a long-time informational molecule and even if they are or they used to be, many such information might got lost. Assuming this kind of unstable molecule being the early days primary replication machinery, information contents might have significantly lost and this will again raise a question on how similar or same species maintains identity?\r\n\r\nTransferring information outside of the nucleus is only required when there is a nucleus.\r\n\r\nTaken together these concepts, \u003cb\u003ewe need to revisit the origin of life in newer genetic terms.\u003c/b\u003e\r\n","created_at":"2015-09-16T17:43:27.824Z","updated_at":"2015-09-18T06:00:54.818Z","zenodo_id":61235,"doi":"http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.31054","subject":null,"tags":["evolution","rna","dna","rna world","dna world","genetics"],"vote_count":1,"view_count":1,"score":1.1,"deleted":false,"muted":false,"tweeted":false,"attachment_file_name":null,"attachment_content_type":null,"attachment_file_size":null,"attachment_updated_at":null},{"id":232,"title":"A case for habitat-centric conservation strategy instead of flagship-species approach","sha":"0dbc3ce40ac708aecc6bcd8ab41ef049","user_id":null,"state":"published","body":"Massive conservation projects have relied around single flagship species and the surrounding ecological niche that supports it. Conservation of giant panda, tiger, and bald eagle are examples of such a species-centric or flagship-species strategy for conservation. While such flagship-species approaches have helped conserve other species that are part of the ecological niche, this strategy fails to address holistic problems of habitat conservation across the globe. In habitats with discontinuity of conserved areas or patchiness of species distribution in a contiguous habitat, focus on a single flagship species would end up being detrimental for the conservation of biodiversity. Flagship-species approach can be a sink for expenditure, where more land could be kept aside for conservation, if we were not focussed on a flagship-species. We are proposing a new approach for conservation based on preservation of large contiguous habitats. Our proposal does not preclude monitoring endangered species but we expect the list to be dynamically updated and not focussed on few relatable species that are “cute” by human standards.  This would allow conservation efforts to bear fruits for unnoticed but ecologically more significant microorganisms, flora and non-vertebrate animals, along with vertebrates that are usually the focus of current approaches. \r\n","created_at":"2015-09-17T07:17:08.247Z","updated_at":"2015-09-18T06:00:54.825Z","zenodo_id":61428,"doi":"http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.31118","subject":null,"tags":["conservation ecology","microbial ecology","conservation","conservation biology","project tiger","flagship-species","habitat-centric approach"],"vote_count":0,"view_count":1,"score":0.1,"deleted":false,"muted":false,"tweeted":false,"attachment_file_name":null,"attachment_content_type":null,"attachment_file_size":null,"attachment_updated_at":null},{"id":233,"title":"A proposal to increase effectiveness of electric fence","sha":"04837977ef27680106e0144557ff7158","user_id":null,"state":"published","body":"Electric fences have been used more successfully than non-electric fences in comparable settings for a variety of animals. The frequent breaking of electric fences by large mammals such as elephants that can pull a tree down on the fence, or rhinos that can run through fences with impunity, decrease the effectiveness of electric fences. Laying out a depressed region near the fence with the width more than the tallest tree, and filling it with sand would increase the effectiveness of electric fences. This would force the animal to run through sand which would significantly slow down the animal. The sand would also prevent the growth of vegetation that could support tall trees, which could be used to disrupt the fence. The sand clearing would also provide the ability to electrify the fences with solar power, utilising the clearing from foliage presented. 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