Review. Precision viticulture. Research topics, challenges and opportunities in site-specific vineyard management

Research Object Management: Opportunities and Challenges

While electronic papers have played and continue to play a primordial role in the dissemination of research results, researchers now recognize that papers are by no means sufficient to communicate and share research results. As a step in this direction, we present research objects as an abstraction for communicating, sharing and reusing research results. As well as the paper describing the cont...

Precision Viticulture: use of New Technologies to Improve Efficiency in Spray Applications in Vineyard

Two different spray application methods were compared in three vine varieties and different crop stages. A conventional spray application with a constant volume rate per unit ground area (l•ha1) was compared with a variable rate application method designed to compensate electronically measured variations of canopy dimensions. An air-blast sprayer with individual multi-nozzle spouts was fitted u...

Scalable Data Management in the Cloud: Research Challenges and Opportunities

Islam; Challenges and Opportunities

Undoubtedly Islamic Revolution of Iran has been the source of Islamic awakening in the middle-east. Therefore Islamic Republic of Iran plays the role of an example and a director of political developments in the region. Islamic awakening in Arab countries has been able to question the dominant discourse of dictators in the middle-east region and topple their regimes. These developments include ...

Kidney-Specific Drug Delivery: Review of Opportunities, Achievements, and Challenges

Kidneys are involved in essential complex procedures that maintain the body in equilibrium and preservethe interior environment necessary for life. Nephritis and nephrosis were ranked among the leading causes of death in all ages in the last global burden of disease assessment of the World Health Organization (WHO). Regarding kidney disease therapeutics, the unfavourable extra-target effects, t...