The greatest challenge for agriculture is to reduce the trade-offs between productivity and long-term sustainability. Therefore, it is interesting to analyse organic agriculture which is a given set of farm practices that emphasise ecological sustainability. Organic agriculture can be characterised as being less driven by off-farm inputs and being better embedded in ecosystem functions. The lit...

Digital Agriculture is a Intelligent computer management and application system that includes many high new technologies, such as infomationization, digitization, network, automation and so on. On the basis of analyzing the main researching content and meaning of “Digital Agriculture”, this paper designs the system construction of “Digital Agriculture” based on Internet, and discusses the funct...

1 Department of Arid Land Agriculture, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, 2 Desert Agriculture Initiative, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, 3 Agriculture Genetic Engineering Research Institute, Agriculture Research Center, Giza, Egypt, 4 Department of Soil and Environmental Science, Muhammad Nawaz Shareef University of Agriculture, Multan, ...

Private rights in living objects have always been controversial. Agriculture provided the first wave in human civilization. Therefore, agriculture including plant breeding and agricultural methods pre-dated any form of IPR protection unlike industry and commerce. Traditionally, IPR was not applied to agriculture. In recent times, this position has changed and increasingly agriculture is seen as...

This study aimed to evaluate the efficiency of energy consumption and economic analysis of different watermelon cultivation systems in Fars Province of Iran. Watermelon production systems were classified into five systems, namely, custom tillage (group 1), conservation tillage (group 2), traditional planting (group3), semi mechanized planting (group 4), and mechanized planting (group 5). Data w...

BACKGROUND Suicidal digoxin intoxication is a rare clinical entity. Clinical suspicious remains of paramount importance as adequate interpretation of the electrocardiographic changes enable to readily initiate treatment. METHOD We describe a case of suicidal attempt after massive digoxin intake that was satisfactory managed with conservative management strategy that involved a close clinical ...

Agriculture has multiple functions to fulfill for the development of the Sub-Saharan Africa countries: a source of growth, an instrument for poverty reduction, and a contribution to the provision of environmental services. Yet, it is still used far below potential, with gains in land and labor productivity lagging below those of other regions. Successful use of agriculture for development will ...

Apparently, the buffering concept and the associated terminology are applicable if and only if the system under study has been structured in a particular way. Namely, the elements of a whole must be grouped into exactly two separate groups both of which can be condensed into a single function of a common variable. In the axiomatic definition of the signed probability measure t and the other thr...

Initial treatment of shoulder multidirectional instability (MDI) consists of nonoperative modalities of physical therapy and rehabilitation; if this fails, surgical treatment can become necessary. MDI of the shoulder can be challenging to manage in individuals who fail conservative management. Historically, surgical treatment for MDI has been open capsular plication; however, arthroscopic capsu...

Neurogenic claudication was first related to lumbar stenosis (Verbiest H, 1954). Since, decompressive surgery was indicated in patients who failed to respond to conservative therapy. It is followed by posterior fusion in cases where the motion segment showed instability or in case where a secondary instability is expected to develop after surgery. However, while many patients have benefited fro...