Suspended sediment transport plays a major role in many coastal, estuarine and offshore engineering applications. The transport of suspended sediment influences the constructions of harbours, constructions of coastal power stations and refineries, safety of offshore platforms and pipelines, erosion and accretion of beaches, quality of the water and many other applications. To understand the sus…
We relate sustainability to the wine industry and recognize that for practitioners in the wine industry, priority number one is leaving the land in better shape for the next generation. We show an overview of sustainable wine business practices around the world and five illustrative decision-focused case studies about sustainable wineries. Among those case studies, one presented “live” at t…
This study was performed to evaluate the effect of pomegranate peels powder at concentrations of 1%, 2% and 3% on keeping quality characteristics of prepared beef sausage during a storage period at (4 ±2 C) for 12 days. Chemical compositions, physical, physicochemical and chemical characteristics, microbiological criteria, cooking quality and sensory characteristics of different prepared beef…
The rurality index has been explored using Spatial Statistical Techniques, Multicriteria Decision Support System and Cluster Analysis to obtain areas with homogenous characteristics. The profile outlined is an effective tool to support decision-makers in defining actions aimed to the development of rural areas, in view of a global rationalization and optimization of resources.To check the consi…
Purpose – The globalization of the market economy and the technology revolution present multiple demands for education to meet the needs of the knowledge society. In this global context, work-based learning (WBL) has become increasingly valuable and critical for individuals and governments to enhance employability and to produce competitive workforces. Yet, the interdependence nature of globa…
Sorghum is an important staple food crop of Asian and African countries. As a “poor man's crop”, it provides dietary starch, protein, and some vitamins and minerals. Minerals are important for various physiological functions in the human body. As a major staple crop of central and southern Indian provinces, sorghum landraces are a source of supplementary micronutrients. Concentrations of mi…
Linking Europe and Central Asia, Romania is considered to be an important meeting point between different biogeographic regions and ecosystems. In this context, Romanian flora is truly an exceptional source of biological active phytocompounds,basis of new biopharmaceuticals. Data indicate that in Romania there are about 3600 higher plants (ferns and flowering plants)that grow wild and other 800…
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the teacher and pupil learning progress through the first implementation of a computer-based method called PrimarWebQuest in a primary school classroom. The study aimed at identifying cognitive and metacognitive skills that are needed to work successfully with the platform. To do so, this lesson study (LS) investigated the pupils’ strate…
The main purpose of this study was to identify effective factors on optimum agricultural water management based on opinions of farmers in Amlash, Guilan Province. The research design of the study was a descriptive study. The target population of this study was the farmers of Amlash in Guilan Province. The instrument used in this study was a questionnaire whose validity was confirmed by universi…
Two mutants with rolled leaves, temporally designated as rl3(t)-1 and rl3(t)-2, were served for exploring the mechanism underlying the rolled leaf characteristic. Except for having typical rolled leaves, the plant heights and panicle lengths of rl3(t)-1 and rl3(t)-2 significantly decreased, and the seed-setting rate also decreased when compared with wild type 93-11. Cytological analysis sugg…
Nowadays the higher occurrence of cereal insects is observed. Until recently it has been considered to be of little economic relevance. Today cereal insects develop better, thanks to the climate warming, simplification of agricultural techniques and extensive farming in large areas. One of the most pervasive species is leaf miners from the Agromyzidae family, which larvae feed on inner side of …
Abstract—Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most frequent cardiac arrhythmia seen in clinical practice. Several therapeutical approaches have been developed to terminate the AF and the effects are evaluated by the reduction of the wavelet number after the treatments. Most of the previous studies focus on modeling and analysis of the mechanism, and the characteristic of AF. But no one discusses a…
Abstract—The objective of this study was to compare the performance of base-level and meta-level classifiers on the task of physical activity recognition. Five wireless kinematic sensors were attached to each subject (n = 25) while they completed a range of basic physical activities in a controlled laboratory setting. Subjects were then asked to carry out similar self-annotated physical activ…
Abstract—We present color image processing methods for the analysis of images of dermatological lesions. The focus of this study is on the application of feature extraction and selection methods for classification and analysis of the tissue composition of skin lesions or ulcers, in terms of granulation (red), fibrin (yellow), necrotic (black), callous (white), and mixed tissue composition. Th…
Abstract—Disease outbreaks due to contaminated food are a major concern not only for the food-processing industry but also for the public at large. Techniques for automated detection and classification of microorganisms can be a great help in preventing outbreaks and maintaining the safety of the nation’s food supply. Identification and classification of foodborne pathogens using colony sca…
Abstract—We present a study on the feasibility of the automatic detection of atrial fibrillation (AF) from cardiac vibration signals (ballistocardiograms/BCGs) recorded by unobtrusive bedmounted sensors. The proposed system is intended as a screening and monitoring tool in home-healthcare applications and not as a replacement for ECG-based methods used in clinical environments. Based on the B…
Abstract—Finding the center of rotation is an essential step for accurate 3-D reconstruction in optical projection tomography. Unfortunately, current methods are not convenient since they require either prior scanning of a reference phantom, small structures of high intensity existing in the specimen, or active participation during the centering procedure. To solve these problems this paper …
Abstract—In this paper, a computational framework for patientspecific preoperative planning of robotics-assisted minimally invasive cardiac surgery (RAMICS) is presented. It is expected that the preoperative planning of RAMICS will improve the success rate by considering robot kinematics, patient-specific thoracic anatomy, and procedure-specific intraoperative conditions. Given the significan…
Our knowledge of design and management aspects of irrigation needs to be improved in regions where the availability of good quality water supply is limited. This contribution describes how potted weeping figs were grown in a greenhouse with one, two,or four emitters (1.2 L•h-1) per pot and irrigated with water of 3 dS•m-1 and two irrigation volumes (control or high). The aim was to determin…
On the basis of defining the Ocean Oil Spill Information Services and in order to improve the efficiency of disposal and command of more frequent ocean oil spill accidents, the SOA (service oriented architecture) and P2P (peer-to-peer) are utilized to design the physical framework and functional framework of the emergency ocean oil spill command information systems. The goal in this is to study…
Major focus of the research is to study the regional eco-hydrological changes over a period of time from 2000 to 2014 in terms of both quantity and quality to evolve sustainable pattern for protecting tank ecosystems and livelihoods of the community with IWRM perspectives. Various threats that deteriorate the conserved quantity and quality of water are assessed using primary and secondary data.…
Naked oat is a unique health food crop in China. Using 202 F2 individuals derived from a hybrid between the variety 578 and the landrace Sanfensan, we constructed a genetic linkage map consisting of 22 linkage groups covering 2070.50 cM and including 208 simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers. The minimum distance between adjacent markers was 0.01 cM and the average was 9.95 cM. Each linkage gro…
Purpose – The purpose of this work is to present a prototype of the system and the results from a technical evaluation and a study on possible effects of recordings with active camera control on the learner. An increasing number of higher education institutions have adopted the lecture recording technology in the past decade. Even though some solutions already show a very high degree of autom…
Purpose – This paper aims to delve deeply into the sometimes clashing interplays in English classrooms to explore the ways in which new media makes visible long-existing discourses and assumptions about the purpose of schools and the roles of teachers and students. Design/methodology/approach – This piece draws upon discourse analysis and utilizes the frame of strategies versus tactics (de …
Purpose – This Higher Education Academy funded study explored learning challenges faced by international students early in their post-graduate courses through the use of Participatory Lesson Study (PLS). The paper aims to discuss this issue. Design/methodology/approach – Two approaches to PLS were explored. Students were interviewed after “research lesson seminars” about their learning…
This paper presents an analysis of technical efficiency of fishery in the Chabahar region, Southern Iran. Chabahar is in the northern end of the Gulf of Oman, is an important case study, having access to 200 km of unspoiled long coastline rich in different varieties of marine life, and fishery is one of the most important economic activities in the region. A Cobb–Douglas stochastic production…
Most of the coastal regions are experiencing water related problems such as acute shortage of water, decline trend in water level and saltwater intrusion. Groundwater resource is becoming scarce, as is evidenced by the increasing demand on water, improper planning, poor agricultural practices, inefficient utilization, groundwater mining, peculiar soil characteristics, and steep slopes. Hence, t…
Sixteen faba bean genotypes were evaluated in 13 environments in Ethiopia during the main cropping season for three years (2009–2011). The objectives of the study were to evaluate the yield stability of the genotypes and the relative importance of different stability parameters for improving selection in faba bean. The study was conducted using a randomized complete block design with four rep…
Purpose – This study aims to present findings from an ongoing study in three rural schools in Denmark where videoconferences are used as part of the teaching at lower secondary level. The research focuses on how students learn from videoconferences that are both one-to-many and peer-to-peer. Videoconferencing, conceptualized by the schools in question as telepresence, is performed in a unique…
Abstract: - The large construction projects cause inevitable negative impact on the natural landscape of the exposed areas. Among these is the creation of disturbed surfaces with unsuitable soil material and gradients that imply the destruction of existing vegetation. On these surfaces the revegetation becomes both necessary and difficult. In the Egnatia Motorway and its vertical axes case w…
The main objective of this study was to determine canopy-air temperature differential, which can be used to quantify crop water stress index (CWSI) for grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.) grown with drip irrigation during the spring cultivation period of 2005. Specifically, crop response to water loss, atmospheric temperature and air vapor pressure deficit (VPD) in the soil–plant–atmosphere conti…
Purpose – This paper aims to report on a pilot research project designed to explore if new mobile augmented reality (AR) technologies have the potential to enhance the learning of clinical skills in the lab. Design/methodology/approach – An exploratory action-research-based pilot study was undertaken to explore an initial proof-of-concept design in using AR resources to supplement clinical…
Purpose – Lesson study has emerged as an approach to improving the quality of teaching in the USA. The purpose of this paper is to provide an investigation into teachers’ attitudes toward lesson study. Evidence suggests that lesson study may increase teachers’ content knowledge and their ability to anticipate student misconceptions during lessons. Nevertheless, certain issues have surface…
Organochlorine pesticides are persistent toxic substances of anthropogenic origin that affect biota. Hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH) isomers (α-, β-, and γ-), DDT and its metabolites (DDD and DDE) were detected in five individuals of fulmars Fulmarus glacialis Linnaeus, 1761 from the coast of Eastern Kamchatka and the Kuril Islands. The average amount of HCH isomers in the organs of fulmars rang…
One of the reasons for the highly subdued response of the catchments, even to rainfalls of very high daily intensity, in the wet tropical areas of the Western Ghats in Karnataka is their soil mantle, which is very thick, well drained and very stable. An attempt is made in this work to understand the factors leading to such features, through a field study of the hydrological properties of the so…
This study investigated bacterial strains with probiotic potential isolated from the middle portionof healthy hybrid surubim catfish foregut (Pseudoplatystoma reticulatum female × P. corruscans male).Twenty surubims weighing 1.5 ± 0.3 kg were used for bacterial isolation. In total, 41 strains of bacteriawere selected in vitro. Ten strains had inhibition zones >10 mm against Aeromonas hydrophi…
Purpose – The purpose of this work is to analyze the concept of self-regulated learning and applying it to a web-based interface for music teaching. Design/methodology/approach – This work starts from a systematic review about music education and self-regulation during learning processes. Then, the paper identifies those meta-cognitive strategies that music students should adopt during the…
In this work we evaluated the effects of a) rice cultivation under flooding conditions and b) seasonal flooding (May- October) without cultivation, on the pore size distribution of a SiL soil. Soil cores were collected from two different depth intervals (0-15 cm and 15-30 cm). After two years under flooding conditions, textural porosity increased at the expense of structural porosity. A perc…
The concentrations of heavy metals in the bottom sediments (fraction b0.1 mm) of streams of the Sikhote-Alin Nature Reserve and streams draining the mines of the protective and transit zone of the reserve, as well as in the tailing material, was examined. The background ranges of the Fe, Cu, Ni, Zn, and Cd concentrations in bottom sediments of streams of the eastern and central Sikhote-Alin wer…
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a model for supporting and increasing teachers’reflection process. Design/methodology/approach – The model is grounded in two concepts from variation theory: critical aspects and dimensions of variation. Those concepts are related to the concepts of reflection in-,on- and for-action. Analysis of data allows for determination of what kind …
The present study evaluated the production of Litopenaeus vannamei in a high density biofloc-dominatedsystem using two commercial feeds; a less expensive feed (US$0.99 kg−1) formulated for semi-intensivesystems and the more expensive (US$1.75 kg−1) which was designed for hyper-intensive systems. A67-days study was conducted in six 40 m3lined with Ethylene Propylene Diene Monomer membranerac…
Purpose – This study aims to draw from overlapping scholarship in critical policy studies and governmentality studies to examine how recent standards-based education policies mark a pivotal shift in the aims and governance of English education. Design/methodology/approach – The author traces this shift through a comparative analysis of the past two standards projects in the USA: the 1996 IR…
Soil organic matter (SOM) content is one of the most important indicators of the sustainability of soil. To maintain sustainable soil utilization and management in fragile Hani terraced field, it is meaningful to investigate the effects of topography and land use type on SOM content. Descriptive statistics and geostatistics were used to analyze the data and the kriging method was applied to map…
Environmental damage caused by heavy metals will be difficult to recover naturally and require remediation efforts. The use of plants to absorb and remove contaminants from soil organic and inorganic forms and convert them into non-toxic forms known as Phytoremediation. A number of soybean are grown in pot along with the accumulator plants (Sarcotheca celebica and Melastoma malabathricum) were …
Agricultural higher education institutions have a significant role in development of the agriculture sector and the effectiveness of higher education is dependent on the quality of teaching offered by its faculty members. The purpose of this study was to determine and classify factors related to teaching quality by members of a scientific board. The method of evaluation for this research was by…
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to propose a social semiotic approach to analysing objects of learning in terms of their critical aspects. Design/methodology/approach – The design for this paper focuses on how the semiotic resources – including language, equations, and diagrams – that are commonly used in physics teaching realise the critical aspects of a common physics object o…
Litchi (Litchi chinensis Sonn. cv. Hong Huay) is one of the most economically important fruit products in Thailand, especially in the highlands of Chiang Mai where litchi can have natural off-season flowering even during the rainy season (June to August). The off-season production of litchi is not a common practice in the region because the physiological responses of litchi trees to flower ind…
Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) markers are ideal for the validation of maternal inheritance and the iden-tification of brood-stock in aquaculture breeding programs. The complete mitochondrial genomes of 11species of grouper are currently available at the GenBank. This study was directed towards the charac-terization of mtDNA loci which can be applied for identification of interspecific F1 hybrids de…
In view of the growing awareness about ecofriendly organic farming and biotechnology,coirpith and cowdung natural sources were used to produce vermicompost which showed enhanced growth promoting effect in the crop Cyamopsis tetragonaloba. Initially, neutral detergent fibre, acid detergent fibre, lignin, cellulose and hemicellulose contents were determined in three different grades of coirpith a…
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of creative activity and storytelling in assisting development of students’ reflective ability and critical thinking. Design/methodology/approach – Eight biomedical science students undertaking year-long work-based placements took part in this action research study. A coding scheme was designed to assess students’ reflection…