Rural Development is a priority in Europe and it is supported by specific, financial programmes. At the same time, sustainability is the key word for the European Union to construct programmes and policies for all human activities. However, measuring sustainability of rural areas is not easy, due to their particular features. The improvement of knowledge on sustainability in rural areas is impo...

This paper aims to understand the relationship between patterns of lean practice implementation, farm size and sustainable performance among fruit horticultural primary producers in South Africa. Utilizing a comprehensive framework, addressing 10 dimensions, authors collected data from sample 132 farming operations First, cluster analysis was applied identify distinct clusters farms with common...

background: schizophrenia is a devastating psychiatric disorder and its  positive and negative symptoms have negative effects on social functions. a combination of pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatments is considered more effective for this condition. the present study aimed to determine the effect of a group horticulture program on psychiatric symptoms in patients with chronic schi...

Laboratoire de Stress, Défenses et Reproduction des Plantes, Unité de Recherche Vignes et Vins de Champagne, UPRES EA 2069, UFR Sciences, Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, 51687 Reims Cedex 2, France; Agroscope FAW Wädenswil, Swiss Federal Research Institute for Fruit Production, Viticulture, and Horticulture, CH-8820 Wädenswil, Switzerland; and Department of Horticulture, Virginia Polytec...

Ioannis E. Tzanetakis and Anne B. Halgren, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis 97331; Karen E. Keller, Horticulture Crops Research Lab, USDA-ARS, Corvallis 97330; Stanley C. Hokanson, Department of Horticultural Science, University of Minnesota, St. Paul 55108; John L. Maas, USDAARS Fruit Lab, Beltsville 20705; Paul L. McCarthy and Robert R. Martin, Hort...

1 College of Life Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding 071002, P.R., China. 2 College of Biology, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, P.R., China. 3 School of Horticulture, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei 230036, P.R., China. 4 Key Laboratory of Genetic improvement and Ecophysiology of Horticultural Crop, AnHui Province (Institute of Horticulture, Anhui Academy of Agricultural Sciences), Hef...

A. G. Stone, Department of Horticulture, Oregon State University, Corvallis 97331; G. E. Vallad, Department of Plant Pathology, University of Wisconsin, Madison 53706; L. R. Cooperband and D. Rotenberg, Department of Soil Science, University of Wisconsin, Madison; H. M. Darby, Department of Horticulture, Oregon State University, Corvallis; and R. V. James, W. R. Stevenson, and R. M. Goodman, De...