Intercropping is considered for increasing and stability of yield per unit. In order to study the effects of different intercropping arrangements on sorghum and mungbean yield and to find the land use advantage in the intercropping system, an experiment was carried out based on a randomized complete block design with seven treatments and three replications at the Research Farm, Faculty of Agric...

In order to reduce the cropping force and enhance the cropping cross-section quality, a new type of cropping machine is proposed in this paper. The basic structure and working principle of the cropping machine are introduced. Based on D'Alembert's principle, the vibration equations of the cropping machine along the Y direction, X direction and around X, Y, Z axis are built in detail and the mot...

Yield gap analyses of individual crops have been used to estimate opportunities for increasing crop production at local to global scales, thus providing information crucial to food security. However, increases in crop production can also be achieved by improving cropping system yield through modification of spatial and temporal arrangement of individual crops. In this paper we define the croppi...

Predicting the hydrologic consequences of biomass cropping systems requires an understanding of how different crops and management practices affect soil hydraulic properties across space and time. To inform such predictions, I investigated the impacts of five biomass cropping systems on the hydraulic properties of soils across a landscape gradient in wet, dry, and average rainfall years. I used...

Continuous cropping changes soil physiochemical parameters, enzymes and microorganism communities, causing "replant problem" in strawberry cultivation. We hypothesized that soil nematode community would reflect the changes in soil conditions caused by long-term continuous cropping, in ways that are consistent and predictable. To test this hypothesis, we studied the soil nematode communities and...

Diseases can greatly lower wheat yield and grain quality. Leaf rust, Stagnospora (Septoria) glume blotch, Septoria leaf blotch, and powdery mildew have historically been the most damaging diseases on wheat in Alabama. Stripe rust has recently emerged in the Deep South as a very destructive disease of wheat. Field cropping history, cultivar selection, and weather patterns all have a tremendous i...

Pakistan’s Irrigation system is more than a century old, the distribution system within any canal command is designed to distribute the canal water equitably ignoring rainfall patterns and underlying groundwater resources. Now, the groundwater contribution in meeting crop water requirement has even crossed the canal water supply in the existing scenario of increased cropping intensities. The un...

Facial micro-expressions contain signi cant information about how people feel, even when they are attempting to conceal their emotions. Previously, very little research has been done to detect and recognize micro-expressions using computer vision methods. In this paper, detection and classi cation of microexpressions from the Spontaneous Micro-Expression database were implemented, following pre...

Despite recent progress, computational visual aesthetic is still challenging. Image cropping, which refers to the removal of unwanted scene areas, is an important step to improve the aesthetic quality of an image. However, it is challenging to evaluate whether cropping leads to aesthetically pleasing results because the assessment is typically subjective. In this paper, we propose a novel casca...