Sustainable water use is one of the greatest challenges of irrigated agricultural systems. This study presents the results related to the agronomic and physiological response to the deficit irrigation of almond trees (Prunus dulcis DA Webb Mill cv. Guara) under semiarid Mediterranean conditions in the Guadalquivir river basin (SW Spain). Two deficitirrigation strategies were tested: i) regulate...

background & aim: aloe vera is used in the food and pharmaceutical as an aid to effective treatment. the purpose of this study is to improve growth, increase production of valuable metabolites and increase the sugars in aloe vera gel with low cost and high efficiency under water stress conditions. experimental: in this study, aloe vera potted in greenhouse conditions with four levels of zeo...

AIM The aim of this study was to determine the effect of sodium bicarbonate irrigation versus normal saline irrigation in patients undergoing a laparoscopic cholecystectomy. BACKGROUND Pain in patients undergoing laparoscopic cholecystectomy is the most common complaint, especially in the abdomen, back, and shoulder region. PATIENTS AND METHODS In a double blind randomized clinical trial, 1...

Capital One has exploited an innovative approach to targeted marketing, based on customer profitability analysis, to achieve impressive performance as a leading credit card issuer. It is sustaining its advantage through investment in infrastructure and personnel, and through constantly improving its expertise through a practice known as test-and-learn. Moreover, it is attempting to generalize t...

In developing countries, supply chains are rapidly transforming. However, smallholder farmers, in particular, have experienced mixed impacts inclusion and exclusion from modern (MSC). Therefore, by taking Pakistan’s mandarin industry as a case, this study aims to analyze the farmers’ efficiency inclusiveness compare them across farm size categories, i.e., small, medium, large. For that purpose,...

according to the current challenges toward low water use efficiency in agriculture, paying attention to the role of public participation in order to improve irrigation efficiency and effectiveness with useful methods and tools is essential. hence, approaches such as participatory irrigation management has been proposed and applied. after the primary investigation in this study, experiences of i...

The success of seedling establishment of desert plants is determined by seedling emergence response to an unpredictable precipitation regime. Sand burial is a crucial and frequent environmental stress that impacts seedling establishment on sand dunes. However, little is known about the ecological role of seed mucilage in seedling emergence in arid sandy environments. We hypothesized that seed m...