Abstract. Threshing floors are common cultural features of the Mediterranean agricultural landscape and have been used from antiquity until some decades ago to thresh grains. Therefore, they constitute an integral part our tangible intangible heritage as constructions that linked with complex relationships between crops, technology, folklore, local materials traditions ancestors. However, today...

The results of the Fornax Compact Object Survey (FCOS) are presented, complementing the first part of the FCOS described in Mieske et al. (2002). The FCOS aims at investigating the nature of the Ultra Compact Dwarf galaxies (UCDs) recently discovered in the center of the Fornax cluster (Drinkwater et al. 2000a). 280 unresolved objects with colours 0 < (V −I) < 1.5 mag in the magnitude space cov...

Farming is a physically arduous occupation that places farm workers' at potential risk of musculoskeletal disorders, which has been observed to impose a greater impact on their health. Each activity in agriculture brings about certain stress and strain on bones and muscles leading to work-related musculoskeletal disorders which can lead to several permanent diseases and disabilities. The purpos...

Harvesting and threshing are crucial processes that influence the quantity, quality, economic efficiency of rice production. Therefore, threshability varieties is an important agronomic trait for breeding programs. However, selection hardly standardized. With application improved meter, four local temperate japonica was determined during ripening phase (DAF 37–60) in three consecutive years. Pa...

Problems of obtaining high-quality crop products, which are a raw material for the food industry, distinguished by technological and environmental complexity. The combination plants natural characteristics, state soil climatic factors plays decisive role in grain, suitable its further processing. Research has been carried out on low-humus contaminated soil. influence fertilizers quality indicat...

The Sasakawa Africa Association (SAA) has been addressing the neglected post-harvest sector in Ethiopia through promoting improved storage facilities and introducing handheld motorized crop shelling threshing machines. However, technologies are poorly adopted by farmers although traditional methods often result high grain losses low-quality produces due to low awareness of service providers on ...

f rom $100 to $1000 depending on in the Thresher and in the faculty be composed of students, faculty, by Andy Kopplin In a two-fold effort to reduce crime and to clear unsolved cases, the Rice Campus Police are d e v e l o p i n g p l a n s f o r a "Crimestoppers" program to be modeled a f t e r the successful Crimestoppers efforts employed by the City of Houston and by New Mexico State Univers...