this experiment was conducted to study the effect of plastic mulch on the growth and some physiological characteristics of two strawberry cultivars (paros and queen elisa) under drought stress. a factorial experiment was performed based on randomized complete block design with four treatments, including mulch, without mulch, normal irrigation (control) and deficit irrigation (-10 bar) with thre...

Over 15 years ago, Ron Walls and colleagues launched the ational Emergency Airway Registry (NEAR), a multicenter effort o characterize airway management practices in United States US) Emergency Departments (ED).1,2 Data from NEAR helped o demonstrate the competence of emergency physicians in the ost advanced airway management techniques and to spotlight mergent airway management as a defining i...

The purpose of this study was to make a prototype for the packaging water in drums city Riobamba, Ecuador. It started with mechanical design and structural analysis drum structure using SolidWorks software, followed by selection elements construction prototype, automation process Siemens LOGO 8. Using free software SOFT from same line manufacturer, it proceeded elaborate programming blocks. Nex...

Personalization takes data management to a new frontier where each user is able to get a tailored service according to his/her personal preferences, behavior, and surrounding context. This special issue includes ten articles that address various aspects of personalization, namely, preference queries, context-aware data management, and recommender systems. The issue starts with two articles that...

Human–elephant conflict is a major problem leading to crop damage, human death by elephants and elephants being killed by people. The surveillance and tracking of elephant herds are difficult due to their size and nature of movement. Materials: In this article, we propose a four-wheeled quadruped robot to mitigate human–elephant conflict. The robot can detect movement of wild pachyderms in cert...