Variations in fruit development can aaect fruit composition, maturity, storage attributes and sensory properties. While these have major importance to the horticultural industry, there is a lack of suitable tools for discriminating between fruit. Visible-near infrared (VNIR) reeectance spectroscopy collects a large volume of data rapidly and non-destructively at any stage of development. The po...

introduction: the integration of behavioral and social sciences (bss) into the curriculum of medical students in order to equip them with the necessary knowledge, skills and attitudes is an essential issue, emphasized in many researches. our aim is to investigate the barriers to integrate bss into the general medicine curriculum as well as the recommended strategies to overcome such barriers th...

Drought stress is one of the main factors limiting horticultural crops, especially in environments such as Mediterranean basin, which often characterized by sub-optimal water availability [...]