The objective of fully mechanizing olive harvesting has been pursued since the 1970s to cope with labor shortages and increasing production costs. Only in last twenty years, after adopting super-intensive planting systems developing appropriate straddle machines, a solution seems have found. spread plantings, however, raises serious environmental social concerns, mainly because small number cul...

Asking children and adolescents directly about their experience of sexual victimization overcomes some of the methodological weaknesses inherent in other approaches. Yet complex legal, ethical, and methodological issues remain. This paper reviews the psychometric properties of those questions or instruments that have measured exposure to child sexual abuse directly. A search of four electronic ...

A best evidence topic in cardiac surgery was written according to a structured protocol. The question addressed was which method of tracheostomy had fewer complications, the surgical or percutaneous technique. A total of 264 papers were identified of which 13 provided the best evidence to answer the question. The author, journal, date and country of publication, patient group, relevant outcomes...