Cropping Pattern Scenario based on Global Climate Indices and Rainfall in Ban…

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…

AMMI Model for Yield Estimation in Multi-Environment Trials: A Comparison to …

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…

On The Development of Statistical Modeling in Plant Breeding: An Approach of …

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…

Air pollution removal by green infrastructures and urban forests in the city …

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…

Green Building for a Green Tourism. A new model of eco-friendly agritourism

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…

Identifying strategies for energy consumption reduction and energy efficiency…

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…

Sustainability and food: a text analysis of the scientific literature

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…

The city and the territory system: towards the "New Humanism"paradigm

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…

Exploring the Italians' food habits and tendency towards a sustainable diet: …

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…

Hub agribusiness in the Center Italy: Simulation of the growth of a new "indu…

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…

Ecological Agro-ecosystem Sustainable Development in Relationship to Other Se…

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 …

Selected physical properties, texture and sensory characteristics of extruded…

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…

Pesticide spray characterisation using high speed imaging techniques

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.…

Analysis of energy-consumption of bioethanol production in agricultural disti…

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…

Practical deviation in sustainable pesticide application process

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…

Gainers and losers of the implementation of the new Common Agricultural Polic…

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…

Trajectory planning with obstacles on the example of tomato harvest

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 impact of structural and operational parameters of the centrifugal disc s…

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…

Applicability of MIKE SHE to Simulate Hydrology in Argesel River Catchment

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…

The Romanian External Trade in 2007 – 2013

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…

Molecular Detection of Resistance Genes to Leaf Rust Lr34 And Lr37 in Wheat G…

Leaf rust, caused by Puccinia triticina, is the most common rust disease of wheat. Using molecular markers technology, with a wide variety of approaches, can improve the efficiency of the selection strategies in wheat breeding programs. One of the most known resistance gene to leaf rust is Lr34, involved in adult plant resistance (APR) or „slow rusting” type. In order to obtain cultivars w…

Histopathological Study of Brain from Cattle with Nervous Symptomatology

This study aim the identification of morphopatological changes of the central nervous system in cattle with clinical nervous symptoms. Studied animals were represented by brain samples from cattle with clinical nervous signs, received in the Morphopathology Department for diagnosis of TSEs and other neurological diseases. Application of diagnostic protocol for cattle with nervous symptoms is ac…

The Role of Geometry on Livestock Facilities under Different Types of Actions

The objective of the paper is the investigation of the livestock facility response, in the specific conditions of seismicity of Romania. All buildings are designed for a particular use, and this is reflected in their shape, size and layout. The design and development of a traditional livestock facility can provide important information about agricultural or industrial practices in the past. Sma…

Results regarding Some Morphometric Features of Spermatozoa in Ram

It is well known nowadays that morphological type classification of spermatozoa is an important component of the modern semen evaluation. Meanwhile, current methods of analysis are subjective and highly diversified; they are also ones of the best tools for artificial insemination using cryogenic preserved semen for the contemporary livestock producer. The aim of the present study was to determi…

Study on the Influence of Average Daily Light Duration and Different Levels o…

In order to determine the effect of average daily lighting duration and battery cages level on the production performance of laying quails, an experiment on 500 quail hens of Balote

Relationships among Feed Intake, Blood Metabolites, Follicle Size and Progest…

The aim of this study was to determine the relationships among feed intake, blood metabolites, follicle size, and progesterone (P4) concentration in ewes that did or did not exhibit estrus after estrous synchronization. Sixteen cycling, Merino ewes were synchronized for 12 days with a controlled internal drug release (CIDR) devices (300 mg P4). Ewes were classified by estrous behavior as exhibi…

The study aims to explore farmers’ practice and constraints in organic vegetable farming as well as to identify farmers’ perception and their adaptability to move to or improve their organic vegetable farming. It also helps to select and determine factors influencing farmers’ perception and adaptation to uptake organic vegetable farming and to investigate if this in turn supports sustaina…

Evolution of Game Theory Application in Irrigation Systems

Agriculture is the largest consumer of water. Since water demand for irrigational purposes is expected to rise and given the fact that freshwater is not an unlimited resource, conflicts about the use of water and allocation issues are becoming more intense. The present paper examines the potential for water conflict when water consumption for irrigation takes place. In order to contribute to th…

The growth of Arthrocnemum macrostachyum and Halimione portulacoides in an ex…

The marine halophytes Arthrocnemum macrostachyum and Halimione portulacoides are found growing naturally in saltmarshes within Greece creating an aesthetically pleasing groundcover that also reflects the changing of seasons. The potential use of these species in an extensive green roof system in coastal areas would lead to additional benefits such as preserving and enhancing the local landscap…

Agricultural irrigation canals in southern France and new urban territorial u…

Agricultural irrigation canals are widespread across southern France, where they cover a large portion of the Provençal region. While they are still extensively used in productive farming, part of the irrigated area is gradually being taken over by peri-urban habitat and business and industrial parks. As a result, some parts of the canal network have now been abandoned, either built over or tu…

Internal (the consumer itself) and external factors influence the consumer to buy a product. It is these factors that can affect the length of time the consumer to buy a product. Time-to-event data analysis is the method to analyze the data when the response of interest is the time until some event occurs. The data to be analyzed is in the form of time, also called failure time or survival time…

Marketing Strategy Based on Marketing Mix Influence on Purchasing Decisions o…

The aim of this research was to know the influences of 7P marketing mix variables, which consists of product, price, promotion,place, people, physical evidence and process on purchasing decision of consumers in determining appropriate marketing strategy of Malang apples at Giant MOG. The result analysis showed that the most influential marketing mix variable was price with the odd pricing as th…

Positivity of an explicit Runge–Kutta method

This paper deals with the numerical solution of initial value problems (IVPs), for systems of ordinary differential equations (ODEs), by an explicit fourth-order Runge–Kutta method (we will refer to it as the classical fourth-order method) with special nonlinear stability property indicated by the positivity. Stepsize conditions, guaranteeing this property based on general theory,have been st…

Comparative study of PEM fuel cell parameter extraction using Genetic Algorithm

In this paper, a new formulation based on the derivative of maximum power with respect to current is proposed for fuel cell parameter extraction. Compared to conventional extraction methods, the proposed method has various features such as faster convergence, higher efficiency and accuracy. In this work, the problem of parameter extraction is formulated as an optimization task and it is solved …

A new analytical technique for strongly nonlinear damped forced systems

Combining the general Struble’s technique and homotopy perturbation method, an analytical technique has been presented to determine approximate solutions of strongly nonlinear differential systems with severe damping effect in the presence of an external force. The method is illustrated by examples. The approximate solutions show a good coincidence with corresponding numerical solution (consi…

Meshless method for the numerical solution of the Fokker–Planck equation

In this paper numerical meshless method for solving Fokker–Planck equation is considered. This meshless method is based on multiquadric radial basis function and collocation method to approximate the solution. Here we apply h-weighted finite difference method. The stability analysis of the method is dealt with, using a linearized stability method. Numerical examples illustrate the validity an…

Dynamic control modeling and simulation of a UPFC–SMES compensator in power…

Flexible AC Transmission Systems (FACTS) is granting a new group of advanced power electronic devices emerging for the enhancement of the power system performance. Unified Power Flow Controller (UPFC) is a recent version of FACTS devices for power system applications. The back-up energy supply system incorporated with UPFC is providing a complete control of real and reactive power at the same t…

Analytical modeling of threshold voltage for Cylindrical Gate All Around (CGA…

In this paper, an analytical threshold voltage model is proposed for a cylindrical gate-allaround (CGAA) MOSFET by solving the 2-D Poisson’s equation in the cylindrical coordinate system. A comparison is made for both the center and the surface potential model of CGAA MOSFET. This paper claims that the calculation of threshold voltage using center potential is more accurate rather than the ca…

Evolution of informal settlements upgrading strategies in Egypt: From neglige…

The issue of informal settlements represents a key challenge not only in Egypt, but also worldwide. A review of informal settlements upgrading policies shows that governments have moved away from eradication policies to provision, enabling and participatory policies. This shift was motivated by the recognition that informal settlements were not a problem but a solution stimulated by the society…

Performance analysis of Arithmetic Mean method in determining peak junction t…

High reliability users of microelectronic devices have been derating junction temperature and other critical stress parameters to improve device reliability and extend operating life. The reliability of a semiconductor is determined by junction temperature. This paper gives a useful analysis on mathematical approach which can be implemented to predict temperature of a silicon die. The problem c…

Physical model study for mitigating local scour downstream of clear over-fall…

Local scouring action downstream of clear over-fall weirs associated with three-dimensional turbulent flow field is a common morphological problem in mobile channel bed. The objective of this study was to assess and quantify the impact of hydraulic structural measures (double lines water jets) on minimizing the scour-hole dimensions downstream of a Fayoum type weir. Ninety runs were conducted c…

A hybrid DE–PS algorithm for load frequency control under deregulated power…

In this paper, a Modified Integral Derivative (MID) controller is proposed for Load Frequency Control (LFC) of multi-area multi-source power system in deregulated environment. The multi-source power system is having different sources of power generation such as thermal,hydro, wind and diesel generating units considering boiler dynamics for thermal plants,Generation Rate Constraint (GRC) and Gov…

An experimental investigation on flexural behaviour of fibre-reinforced pond …

The flexural behaviour of plain and fibre-reinforced pond ash concrete (FRC) beams under monotonic loading condition was analysed. Sixteen beams reinforced with top and bottom longitudinal deformed steel bars and transverse steel stirrups were tested. The beams were cast using three different percentages of pond ash, namely, 10%, 20% and 30% by weight of cement. Grooved type steel fibres were i…

Analysis of resistive SFCL in a test-bed microgrid

This paper tests and analyzes the working capability of a resistive superconducting fault current limiter (SFCL) in a microgrid. The microgrid is a test-bed, consisting of a conventional power plant, two renewable energy sources in the form of wind-farm and solar-farm as two distributed generation (DG) units and five loads (i.e., industrial and domestic). Utilization of DG in mainstream is incr…

A new MATLAB/Simulink model of triple-junction solar cell and MPPT based on a…

This paper presents a new Matlab/Simulink model of a PV module and a maximum power point tracking (MPPT) system for high efficiency InGaP/InGaAs/Ge triple-junction solar cell. The proposed technique is based on Artificial Neural Network. The equivalent circuit model of the triple-junction solar cell includes the parameters of each sub-cell. It is also include the effect of the temperature varia…

Automated space allocation using mathematical techniques

This paper presents a systematic pathway for the floor plan design when given the shape of required floor plan, the list of spaces, the dimensions of each space and the weighted matrix of required adjacencies between the spaces. The first step is to partition the given shape into say k possible rectangles. Then using the given adjacencies, divide the given spaces into k groups. Next is to cons…

Submerged vane-attached to the abutment as scour countermeasure

Over the past few decades, the cause of many bridge failures has been reported to be abutment scour. A large number of studies have been conducted to develop countermeasures to ensure the safety of existing bridges. A submerged vane is a measure that has recently been studied and found to be a promising scour mitigation technique for river bank erosion. Therefore, the main purpose of this study…

Interactive approach for determination of salinity concentration in tidal riv…

In this research, a perceptron artificial neural network is trained and validated by a number of observed data. Inputs of artificial neural network (ANN) are distance from upstream, discharge of freshwater at upstream and tidal height at downstream and its output is salinity concentration. Because of shortage of observed data especially in extreme conditions, a numerical model was developed. Th…

New and improved hydraulic radius for channels of the second kind

The Manning’s equation is commonly used to calculate discharge and mean velocity of the uniform flows. According to experimental data, Manning’s equation with constant Manning’s coefficient overestimates the discharge of second-kind channels (channels with a closing top-width),under the partially full flow. This problem can be solved by altering the Manning’s coefficient depending on th…

Reactive power planning with FACTS devices using gravitational search algorithm

In this paper, Gravitational Search Algorithm (GSA) is used as optimization method in reactive power planning using FACTS (Flexible AC transmission system) devices. The planning problem is formulated as a single objective optimization problem where the real power loss and bus voltage deviations are minimized under different loading conditions. GSA based optimization algorithm and particle swarm…