The colonization of maize (Zea mays L.) and peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.) by the fungal pathogen Aspergillus flavus results in the contamination of kernels with carcinogenic mycotoxins known as aflatoxins leading to economic losses and potential health threats to humans. The regulation of aflatoxin biosynthesis in various Aspergillus spp. has been extensively studied, and has been shown to be r…
The biotrophic fungus Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici is the causal agent of the yellow rust in wheat. Between the years 2010–2013 a new strain of this pathogen (Warrior/Ambition),against which the present cultivated wheat varieties have no resistance, appeared and spread rapidly. It threatens cereal production in most of Europe. The search for sources of resistance to this strain is prop…
Plant phenomics has the potential to accelerate progress in understanding gene functions and environmental responses. Progress has been made in automating high-throughput plant phenotyping. However, few studies have investigated automated rice panicle counting. This paper describes a novel method for automatically and nonintrusively determining rice panicle numbers during the full heading stage…
Plant phenomics has the potential to accelerate progress in understanding gene functions and environmental responses. Progress has been made in automating high-throughput plant phenotyping. However, few studies have investigated automated rice panicle counting. This paper describes a novel method for automatically and nonintrusively determining rice panicle numbers during the full heading stage…
EST sequences of Mentha piperita available in the public domain (NCBI) were exploited to develop SSR markers. A total of 1316 ESTs were assembled into 155 contigs and 653 singletons and of these, 110 sequences were found to contain 130 SSRs, with a frequency of 1 SSR/3.4 kb. Dinucleotide repeat SSRs were most frequent (72.3%) with the AG/CT (43.8%) repeat motif followed by AT/AT (16.2%). Primer…
Conventional flat planting is commonly used for growing wheat in Pakistan and the crop is irrigated by flood irrigation, but it leads to ineffective use of applied nitrogen owing to poor aeration and leaching and volatilization losses. The practice also results in greater crop lodging, lower water use efficiency, and crusting of the soil surface. In contrast, bed planting of wheat not only save…
QTL IciMapping is freely available public software capable of building high-density linkage maps and mapping quantitative trait loci (QTL) in biparental populations. Eight functionalities are integrated in this software package: (1) BIN: binning of redundant markers;(2) MAP: construction of linkage maps in biparental populations; (3) CMP: consensus map construction from multiple linkage maps sh…
This research aims to determine the range of parameter value, baseflow index and the appropriate method for base flow separation. Seven (7) recursive-digital-filters (RDF) and two (2) graphical methods are used for this study. Discharge data from 8 watersheds in the administrative area of UPT PSDA Bondowoso in East Java were used to test the methods. Firstly, each method was calibrated using…
Sustainable agriculture production is a key on achieving food consumption adequacy in developing country but many farmers should struggle more in fulfilling production sustainability whilst keeping on with the economical target. The research was endeavored to seek a viable application on achieving agricultural sustainability and recognizing farmers and community biggest obstacles such as energy…
The aimed to improve the activity of SOD and reduce the levels of MDA, CRP, and IL-6 of atherosclerotic-rats using cardamomrhizome ethanolic-extract (CREE). A total of 28 Sprague-Dawley rats, aged 2-3 months, 180-250 g were injected with adrenaline, and given the egg-yolks for 3 weeks. The rats were divided into 4 groups, 7 rats each, I, were given CREE; II, statin;III, CREE+statin; and IV, fee…
Color considered as a main character to determine quality of agricultural products, especially fruit ripeness. Human eyes are excellent in differentiating color, however, human perception to color are often inconsistent, influence by their physical and psychological state. In this study, the ripeness of oil palm fresh fruits bunch (FFB) assessed using a portable and low-cost device,comprised of…
Water minimization in wet process of robusta coffee can improve coffee bean quality while reduce the volume of coffee wastewater. However, this process increases the concentration of organic material in wastewater up to 100% that requires specific handling. High organic matter content in wastewater has potential to be utilized as a source of renewable energy through anaerobic process. The obje…
This study was aimed to investigate water usage behavior on different group who residing in vicinity Harapan Rainforest. The qualitative and quantitative information was collected from 101 respondents by using semi-structure questionnaires. Respondent consist of three groups of people who residing in vicinity rainforest; indigenous people (Suku Anak Dalam), local people (Malay) and migrant (Jav…
Currently Indonesia has targeted to satisfy the national demand of maize by fulfilling its own production. The policy will benefit the social economy of the local farmers and communities and create a variety of jobs. Attempts in fulfilling demand should uphold production sustainability, even then many indication show declining capability of soil to have increased. Reducing the capability of soi…
Potassium solubilizing microorganisms (KSM) isolated from sugarcane rhizosphere and their capability on solubilization from some insoluble potassium were examined. Isolation of potassium solubilizer was carried out from three sugarcane plantations area, on Alexandrov’s agar medium. From the 41 isolated microorganisms were selected 15 isolates potassium solubilizing microorganisms which exhibi…
As in the previous editions, a significant amount of specific information is provided in tables and schemes. These data and examples serve to illustrate the issues that have been addressed in the text. Instructors who want to achieve a broad coverage, but without the level of detail found in the tables and schemes, may choose to advise students to focus on the main text. In most cases, the …
The twenty first century is a period of human history where natural resources are stretched to the limit, unprecedented levels of carbon emissions and a rapidly rising population, predicted to reach nine billion by 2050. It is indeed the opinion of some that we have excavated a hole so deep that there is now no turning back from catastrophe, however I believe that it is in human nature to …
This book examines the concept of advanced practice in the UK and shows how much it has developed in recent years. The advent of advanced practice, coupled with radical health service reforms has enabled senior and experienced nurses to develop and refine new clinical roles that share three key characteristics: professional maturity, the ability to challenge professional boundaries and to pione…
Sustainable food systems for food security and nutrition becomes international issue and also at Indonesia. There are many efforts to reach sustainable food but all activities just focus on cultivation aspect. Conversely, strategy approach that involving farmer Internal potential, called entrepreneurship has not been used as a supporting policy. The objective of this study is to disseminate a n…
Although there has been a high relationship between global climate and rainfall in Indonesia, but little evidence is available for relationship among global climate indices, rainfall and crop yield to determine cropping pattern. This study evaluates the relationships between global climate indices, which are representative by Southern Oscillation Index (SOI) and Sea Surface Temperature (SST) Ni…
Maximum information from the Multi-environment trials (MET) can be reached by seeking the best estimator of each genotype’s mean yield in a given environment. AMMI (additive main-effects and multiplicative interaction) is popular for analyzing MET data with fixed effect. When the environment included in MET is the sample of large environment, then environment effects regarded as random may be…
Generalized AMMI (GAMMI) model has been widely used to model the Genotype × Environment Interaction (GEI) with categorical (or in general, non-normal) response variables. It was developed by introduce the concept of Generalized Linear Model (GLM) into Additive Main Effect & Multiplicative Interaction (AMMI) model. GAMMI model will provide two major results (i) the stability analysis of some g…
We investigated the potential performance of air pollution removal by the green infrastructures and urban forests in the city of Florence, central Italy, with a focus on the two most detrimental pollutants for human health: particulate (PM10) and ozone (O3). The spatial distribution of green infrastructures was mapped using remote sensing data. A spatial modeling approach using vegetation indic…
The following paper highlights the enhancement and promotion of Campania region’s rural tourism plus the Green Building’s importance for a kind of sustainable and competitive one, providing ideas and valuable suggestions on how natural, environmental and cultural assets of the landscape should be properly exploited. Rural tourism is about values and traditions’ reaffirmation, but is mo…
TESLA (Transfering Energy Save Laid on Agroindustry) is a EU project pointing to the reduction of energy consumption and the improvement of energy efficiency in key agro-food sectors’ cooperatives, as those processing fruit and vegetables. After a general analysis of energy consumptions during the first phase of the project, the processes responsible for the higher energy consumptions in thes…
The paper analyses the evolution of the research debate related to sustainability and to the relation between food and sustainability. A number of text analysis techniques were combined for the investigation of scientific papers. The results stress how discourse analysis of sustainability in the pre-Rio period is mostly associated with agriculture and with a vision where the ecological and env…
In this time of great transformations (increasing urbanization, climate change, biodiversity loss, growing disparities etc) we are searching a new development model, able to better satisfy the needs of all people. The "revised" traditional city model, (that is linked to a specific territory, to localism, to recognize the local identities that make the differences with their specific Heritage,ba…
Abstract: Cardiovascular diseases are the leading causes of mortality in hemodialysis patients. Uremia induced hypertriglyceridemia; increased levels of lipoprotein remnants and low high-density lipoprotein are the main features of cardiovascular risk factors. Also, elevated oxidative stress and inflammation are the main contributors of endothelial dysfunction. Even statin based interventional …
Abstract: We aimed to compare automated peritoneal dialysis (APD) and continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) therapy with regard to patients’ excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) and quality of life (QOL). EDS was assessed with the Epworth Sleepiness Scale (ESS) and QOL with the Medical Outcomes Study 36-Item Short Form (SF-36) health survey. We included 59 patients (CAPD/APD, 30/2…
Abstract: Aim: To compare levator defect, loss of tenting, change in biometric measurements of the levator ani and genital hiatus according to the mode of delivery, length of the labor, Bishop score, birthweight and head circumference immediately after delivery. Methods: One hundred and seventy-one primiparous women who delivered either by vaginal delivery or cesarean were prospectively evalu…
Abstract: Anti-neutrophilic cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA) positivity is seen in some systemic necrotizing vasculitides. Wegener’s granulomatosis and microscopic polyangiitis are among the ANCA-associated systemic vasculitides (AASV) and mortality is very high when renal failure occurs together with alveolar hemorrhage. The role of plasmapheresis in the treatment of these diseases has been studi…
ABSTRACT: Specific regions of otherwise oligotrophic oceans seem to attract fish spawning and sustain significant abundances of fish larvae. The Sargasso Sea in the North Atlantic subtropical gyre is known as the spawning area of the Atlantic eels, but numerous other fish species also spawn in the area. In order to evaluate spatial variability of larval fish in the region, we examined species…
Abstract: It was envisaged that the inclusion of treated distiller’s spent grain (DSG) to yam flour might increase its nutritional value, with the aim of reducing nutritional diseases in communities consuming yam as a staple. Hence, yam flour was fortified with DSG at 5–35%. The effects of this fortification on the nutritional, chemical, and functional properties of yam flour were investi…
Abstract: The effect of storage on the chemical, microbiological, and sensory properties of cassava starch-based custard powder (CbCP) blends as mixture of yellow-fleshed cassava root starch (YfCRS) (90–98%) and whole egg powder (WEP) (2–10%) was investigated. These were prepared using central composite rotatable design, and separately packaged in polyvinyl chloride plastic can and stored…
Abstract: Two questions remain widely open when it comes to global financial markets. First, what is the raison d’^etre of open global markets? Second, is it possible to foster open markets without an international governance structure supervising them? Post-crisis regulatory reform presents an acute paradox. While the content of international financial regulation is changing rapidly, the re…
Over the last few years, the Mediterranean diet has received growing attention as it represents a sustainable diet in which nutrition, local food production, biodiversity, culture and sustainability are strongly interconnected, with a low impact on the environment. By using repeated cross-sections of the ISTAT “Aspects of daily-life” survey over the period 1997-2012, we assess prevailing f…
The province of Rieti has provided for the drafting of "master plan" able to harmonize local development goals with the financial opportunities of the programming period 2014-2020. Lazio Region through resolution number 1 of 2006 are driving the process of reorganization of industrial Agribusiness theorizing the start up of a single HUB between Lazio (Guidonia-CAR) and Abruzzo (Pescara -Agribus…
Sustainable agriculture is the major economic sector (i.e. about 30% of Global economy) with the industrial and trading system in the world’s economy. It is important to understand why the sustainable development is very important to the point of improving of human life and reducing the poverty. Additionally, we need to sustain our natural resources to be replenished and continue support our …
Directly expanded breakfast cereals were processed with a single screw extrusion-cooker TS-45 with L:D=16:1 at screw speed 120 rpm, shaped on the circular open die 2 mm in diameter. Wholegrain wheat flour in amount of 50, 60 and 70% of total mass was the basic raw material, additionally corn grit, rice flour, cocoa and sugar were used. The initial moisture content of raw materials was set to 1…
Spray droplet characteristics are important features of an agricultural spray. The objective of this study is to measure the droplet size for different types of hydraulic spray nozzles using a developed backlighted image acquisition system and image processing technique. An in-focus droplet criterion was established to decide whether a droplet is in focus and can be measured in an accurate way.…
The paper analyses the process and impact of selected factors on energy efficiency of potato-derived ethyl alcohol production process in Poland. Data from a variety of agricultural distilleries in Poland were used, and 10 selected indices of the process were taken into account. The research involved using sophisticated tools such as cluster analysis, sensitivity analysis and artificial neural n…
Using agrochemicals becomes essential practice of modern farming but in the same time it puts risk to human, animal health and the environment. The initial actions to create balance between this negative impact and the necessity to use the pesticides concerning the environment, people's living conditions and the economic, those factors are defined as the sustainable development. In this paper t…
The new Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) defined in 2013 is implemented since 2015. It offers several options to the Member States/Regions. This paper describes the choices which have been made in Wallonia and their consequences on direct payments. It appears that 42% of the farmers will lose between 2014 and 2019, while 44% will gain and a quasi-status quo is observed for the remaining 14%. Fi…
The paper presents the PR-APT method (Planning Rectilinear-Arc Polynomial Trajectory) for planning a trajectory of the manipulator end-effector. In the described method, a path consists of two rectilinear segments of intersecting directions combined with the blending arc of a set radius. The arc can make a fragment of an avoidable obstacle. he algorithm and the implemented method on the exampl…
The objective of this study was to specify the impact of structural and operational parameters of the centrifugal disc spreader on the spatial distribution of fertilizer varied in terms of physical properties (urea, ammonium sulfate, nitrochalk). The spatial distribution was characterized by parameters of the stationary spread pattern in the polar coordinate system: average angle and average ra…
A fully distributed, physically-based hydrologic modelling system, MIKE SHE, was used in this study to simulate surface flow as runoff and subsurface flow drainage routed through tile drainage infrastructure within the Argesel River watershed. MIKE SHE,Système Hydrologique Européen, is a sub-model under the collection of models within the MIKE framework from the Danish Hydraulic Institute (DH…
In this paper we have focused on the Romanian external trade during the period 2007 - 2013. Using statistical indicators it has been analyzed the Romanian imports and exports at the global level, data available from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. After the study we could find scarce products that we import in large quantities, so we can cover the needs of food,like meat, sug…
Abstract Considerable research has been undertaken by historians to understand the meanings of prostitution as it evolved in the nineteenth century. Initially, commercial sex was considered in terms of criminality and deviance. Later studies, influenced by the seminal work of Walkowitz (1980), explored the role of local economies in shaping the lived experiences of prostitutes. This article in…
Abstract This article examines jurors’ views on sentencing from trials returning guilty verdicts where the offender has been sentenced to a wholly suspended sentence or where jurors have suggested a wholly suspended sentence as the most appropriate sentencing outcome. It challenges the poor public image of suspended sentences and provides further evidence that informed judgement on sentenci…
Abstract Although public assessments of the police have become the focal concern of a substantial amount of research efforts since the 1970s, a very small number of studies have analysed public opinions on the Taiwan police. Using survey data collected from three cities and two counties in 2010, this study expands the existing literature by assessing whether Taiwan residents’ perceptions ar…