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Vitamin K content of Australian-grown horticultural commodities [PDF]
Food Chem. 452:139382 (2024)Vitamin K is emerging as a multi-function vitamin that plays a role in bone, brain and vascular health. Vitamin K composition data remain limited globally and Australia has lacked nationally representative data for vitamin K1 (phylloquinone, PK) in horticultural commodities.
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IoT Solution for Winter Survival of Indoor Plants [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 Not only does cold climate pose a problem for outdoor plants during winter in the northern hemisphere, but for indoor plants as well: low sunlight, low humidity, and simultaneous cold breezes from windows and heat from radiators all cause problems for indoor plants.
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No evidence of a rural‐urban divide in prioritizing agricultural policy goals
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.Abstract Rural‐urban divides have been found in various policy fields, but it remains unclear if they exist in agricultural policy. We analyzed the policy preferences of 1542 Swiss respondents, ranging from very rural to very urban. Respondents prioritized different pairs of conflicting goals, that is, two economic goals versus four conflicting agri ...
Nadja El Benni +4 more
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PointNetPGAP-SLC: A 3D LiDAR-based Place Recognition Approach with Segment-level Consistency Training for Mobile Robots in Horticulture [PDF]
3D LiDAR-based place recognition remains largely underexplored in horticultural environments, which present unique challenges due to their semi-permeable nature to laser beams. This characteristic often results in highly similar LiDAR scans from adjacent rows, leading to descriptor ambiguity and, consequently, compromised retrieval performance. In this
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Development of an updated, comprehensive food composition database for Australian-grown horticultural commodities [PDF]
Food Chem 463 (3): 141398 (2024)Australian agriculture supplies many horticultural commodities to domestic and international markets; however, food composition data for many commodities are outdated or unavailable. We produced an up-to-date, nationally representative dataset of up to 148 nutrients and related components in 92 Australian-grown fruit (fresh n=39, dried n=6), vegetables
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Design and Production of an Autonomous Rotary Composter Powered by Photovoltaic Energy [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 The problem of household waste management is becoming more and more acute with the growth of economic development that the country of Morocco has experienced. Moreover, the management of this waste is a burden for the municipalities, in view of its cost, which is increasing with time.
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Biotechnological Advancements for Improving Floral Attributes in Ornamental Plants
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2017 Developing new ornamental cultivars with improved floral attributes is a major goal in floriculture. Biotechnological approach together with classical breeding methods has been used to modify floral color, appearance as well as for increasing disease ...
Muhammad Aqeel +7 more
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AGRICULTURAL LAND AND ACTIVITIES IN MUREȘ COUNTY [PDF]
Analele Universităţii din Oradea: Seria Geografie, 2019 This study aims to analyse one of the most important land usages, that of agricultural land, which, in 2016, held 61.2% of the entire territory of Mureş County.
George-Bogdan TOFAN, Adrian NIŢĂ
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US employment exposure to domestic and foreign tariff changes under NAFTA
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.Abstract Literature examining the effects of changes in trade agreements and import competition on US employment and wages has focused primarily on non‐agricultural industries and changes in US import tariffs. We propose a method for measuring worker exposure to changes in agricultural tariffs using a newly developed county‐level dataset of employment ...
Diane E. Charlton +3 more
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Six Collective Challenges for Sustainability of Almería Greenhouse Horticulture
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2019 Globally, current food consumption and trade are placing unprecedented demand on agricultural systems and increasing pressure on natural resources, requiring tradeoffs between food security and environmental impacts especially given the tension between ...
A. Castro +19 more
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