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Food Chemistry

Special Issue: ISO-FOOD: Isotopic techniques in food safety, quality and traceability

全文截稿: 2018-04-30

影响因子: 4.529

中科院JCR分区:

  • 大类 : 工程技术 - 2区

  • 小类 : 应用化学 - 2区

  • 小类 : 食品科技 - 1区

  • 小类 : 营养学 - 2区

网址: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/food-chemistry

The past few years has seen a resurgence in the need for and development of new methods and techniques for assuring the quality and safety of food.

Much of this comes on the back of major food scandals, continued globalization and complexity of the food supply chain, new threats (e.g., nanotechnology), advances in instrumentation (especially Mass Spectrometry) and a shifting definition of how we define food quality. The ERA Chair ISO-FOOD as guest editor of this special issue invites people to submit original research and critical reviews on the use of isotopic techniques relating to food safety and quality. Although ISO-FOOD has a bias towards the use of Isotope in authenticity and traceability we will consider submissions on essential and nonessential elements and their speciation, organic contaminant and important bioactive compounds in food and articles on the exploitation of big data in relation to food chemistry as long as they conform to the scope of FOOD Chemistry.

Interests: Isotopic techniques; Authenticity; Adulteration; Traceability; Safety, Mass spectrometry, NMR techniques; Chemometrics, Modeling

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Microbiological Research

Call for papers on Special Issue: Plant growth-promoting microorganisms

全文截稿: 2018-07-30

影响因子: 3.037

中科院JCR分区:

  • 大类 : 生物 - 3区

  • 小类 : 微生物学 - 3区

网址: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/microbiological-research

Sustainably improving agricultural production by plant growth-promoting microorganisms is a promising field of research. This special issue of Microbiological Research is dedicated to plant growth-promoting microorganisms, their identification, optimization, mode of action and application.

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Remote Sensing of Environment

Call for papers of special issue on “Earth Observation for the Sustainable Development Goals”

全文截稿: 2018-08-30

影响因子: 6.265

中科院JCR分区:

  • 大类 : 环境科学与生态学 - 1区

  • 小类 : 环境科学 - 1区

  • 小类 : 成像科学与照相技术 - 1区

  • 小类 : 遥感 - 1区

网址: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/remote-sensing-of-environment

Worldwide, countries are setting their national targets and determining indicators for monitoring advances towards the newly adopted Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which account for differing national realities, capacities and levels of development. Earth Observation (EO) systems have a definitive and preponderant role to play in supporting and tracking progress of the SDGs.

Remote sensing is progressively supporting ecosystems and land degradation mapping and monitoring. As well, policy-makers and practitioners are increasingly realising the potential of remote sensing technologies for planning land restoration and rehabilitation responses, especially in multifunctional landscapes.

This special issue welcomes contributions that showcase the application of EO systems to support countries in target setting of the SDGs, including baseline determination, as well as tracking progress of implementation, and informing sustainable development planning and decision making. This includes, but is not limited to:

- applications of EO in support of sub-national, national and/or regional policy and practice to protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial and marine ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss,

- assessment of forest and above ground carbon stocks,

- land productivity and vegetation trend analysis,

- land use/land cover change,

- soil organic carbon estimations,

- land degradation trends,

- agricultural monitoring,

- monitoring of water-related ecosystems

- mapping urban growth

- monitoring air quality

- monitoring marine ecosystem health and inshore water quality[GM1]

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Journal of Functional Foods

Special Issue - ‘Dairy Products as Probiotic, Prebiotic and Synbiotic Food: benefits to the health, technological and sensory aspects’

全文截稿: 2018-11-01

影响因子: 3.144

中科院JCR分区:

  • 大类 : 工程技术 - 2区

  • 小类 : 食品科技 - 1区

网址: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-functional-foods

There is an increasing demand for functional foods from health-conscious consumers. Among the several functional foods types, the probiotic, prebiotic and symbiotic play a significant role in human health and nutrition.

Probiotics are live microorganisms that when administered in adequate amounts and regularly confer benefit to the host's health, improving the intestinal microbiota balance and defenses against pathogenic microorganisms while prebiotics can be defined as non-digestible food ingredients, which are also given regularly and in appropriate amounts beneficially affect the host because they selectively stimulate the multiplication and / or activity of probiotic bacteria. Symbiotic means a “mixture" between probiotics and prebiotics, which is their synergistic combined action on human health.

Probiotic foods are estimated to comprise about 60 to 70% of the total functional food market in the near future. The global market for probiotics has been estimated at US $ 33.19 billion in 2015 and is projected to reach US $ 46.55 billion by 2020. The greatest growth has occurred in the last ten years, when products supplemented with probiotic cultures have come to assume scientific importance, since many probiotic researches have been carried out on fermented milks, yoghurts and other dairy products. Demand for prebiotics was $ 2.3 billion in 2012 and the market value is estimated at $ 4.5 billion in 2018, growing 11.4 percent per year between 2012 and 2018. Europe is the global leader in prebiotics and dominates demand for these products since inulin became available as an ingredient, accounting for over 40% of the global market in 2011.

Probiotics, Prebiotics and Synbiotics are an important topic in processed foods, due to recognized benefits proportionated by their continuing ingestions on consumers´ health. Among the probiotic and prebiotic food carriers, dairy foods matrices remain as the most traditional as well as the most popular option in delivering them to humans. Indeed, the dairy foods category (milk, fermented milks, cheese, dairy desserts, milk juice beverages, whey beverages and ice creams) are appreciated all over the world by different kinds of consumers regardless of gender, age and economical status and are associated with positive insights and reputation in the consumer’s mind. In this regard, it is important to evaluate the performance of probiotic and prebiotic in dairy foods regarding their technological advances and sensory characteristics, as well as to evaluate the positive effects in humans and animals.

The purpose of this special issue is to provide new and consolidated information to the readers with respect to the addition of probiotics, prebiotic ingredients, and their combinations on the technological characteristics of dairy food formulations submitted to traditional and non-conventional technologies. In addition, the effect on the different aspects of health covering animal and model studies as well as the aspects of sensory and consumer science related to probiotic, prebiotic and synbiotic dairy foods development are also welcome. We invite authors to submit their papers highlighting important contributions on different aspects of probiotic, prebiotic and symbiotic dairy foods for this special issue.

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Ocean & Coastal Management

Special issue on Understanding the Impact of Human Interventions on Estuarine Systems, Using Pearl River Delta as a Model System

全文截稿: 2018-12-31

影响因子: 1.861

中科院JCR分区:

  • 大类 : 环境科学与生态学 - 4区

  • 小类 : 海洋学 - 3区

  • 小类 : 水资源 - 3区

网址: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/ocean-and-coastal-management

The Pearl River Delta (PRD), located in the southern part of China, is the world’s largest urbanized area in both size and population, according to a World Bank report in 2015. Due to the intensive human interventions, e.g., dam constructions, sand excavation, land reclamation, dredging, bridge constructions etc., the hydrological regime of the Pearl River system has been substantially altered, making it one of the deltas most vulnerable to flooding in the world. For instance, the main morphological feature of the inner Pearl River Estuary, i.e. ‘three shoals and two channels’, has been changed tremendously owing to the substantial reduction of fluvial sediment load and local sand mining. Apparently, the impact of the human intervention has far exceeded that of the natural morphodynamic processes, and even lead to reverse of the natural dynamic trend (e.g., human-induced erosion/deposition regime shift of the estuarine system). Thus, the changes induced by human interventions can be categorized as ‘catastrophic shift’ in the estuarine system. The PRD is in urgent need of understanding the impact of these changes and looking for innovative management solutions, making it an ideal model system to explore the key questions related to sustainable delta management. As large-scale human interventions are widespread worldwide, the ‘catastrophic shift’ may not only affect PRD, but also impose great challenges to other deltas. The obtained knowledge from PRD can also serve other deltas under similar stresses.

Contributions from all disciplines around the topic of estuarine and coastal management in the Pearl River Delta are welcome, from hydrodynamics to morphodynamics, to ecosystem and water resources management. We invite estuarine scientists and experts to assess the potential anthropogenic impacts on the morphodynamics of the Pearl River system in order to reveal their implications for estuarine and coastal management.

Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:

- Assessing the impacts of human activities on the eco-geo-morphodynamics of estuarine system

- Coastal response to human interventions

- Integrated observation systems and modelling of eco-geo-morphodynamics of estuarine system

- Tide-river interaction and hydrodynamic changes

- Estuarine morphodynamics and sediment transport

- Coastal wetland vulnerability and nature-based coastal defence

- Innovative solutions towards a sustainable water management of estuarine systems considering impacts by intensive human interventions

- Learning lessons from other estuarine systems for sustainable and resilient estuaries and coasts

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