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Central Plains irrigation conference proceedings

, 2004
Presented at the Central Plains irrigation conference on February 17-18, 2004 in Kearney Nebraska.Center pivot design and evaluation -- Using CPNOZZLE for sprinkler package selection -- Corn production as related to irrigation capacity -- Irrigation ...
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Syphilis and ‘Sons of Empire’: The ‘Prostitute’ and Britain's Fighting Arm in Nineteenth ̵ Century Colonial Punjab

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The British army in India took great care to provide European troops with facilities for sexual relations while anxiously managing venereal disease. Examining archival evidence, political debates and medical discourse from the nineteenth century, this article examines the colonial military enterprise of regulated prostitution in colonial ...
Sameera Chauhan
wiley   +1 more source

AGRICULTURE IN A SOCIALIST CITY: Towards an Alter‐Urban Political Ecology

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Urban political ecology has developed as a critique of capitalist urbanization. This article develops the concept of alter‐urban political ecology to define urban environments emerging not from capitalist urbanization but from efforts to transform it. Drawing on archival research and ethnographic fieldwork in five urban farms in socialist Cuba,
Gustav Cederlöf
wiley   +1 more source

THE VIOLENCE OF FULL COST RECOVERY: Financing Water Infrastructure, and the History and Future of Perpetual Crisis in Mombasa

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Foregrounding the role of finance, this article examines the historical production and future trajectory of the urban water crisis in Mombasa. Drawing on archival research and contemporary fieldwork, it traces how principles of full cost recovery—institutionalized during the colonial period and later reworked through postcolonial ...
Joe Williams
wiley   +1 more source

Optimizing irrigation scheduling in apple orchards: soil moisture thresholds balance yield, fruit quality, and water use efficiency. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Nazir N, Nissar M, Nemali K, Malik AR, Malik A, Bhat R, Kumar A, Banday SA, Siddiqi NJ, Bisht C, Rasool S, Shah IA, Wani AW, Bhat TA.   +13 more
europepmc   +1 more source

GOVERNING THE CLOUD: Infrastructural Statecraft and the Political Ecology of Digital Expansion in Oregon

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Oregon's wave of data center and semiconductor projects shows how cloud capitalism reorganizes resource systems and territorial governance. Examining Amazon, Google, and Intel, the article traces how fiscal incentives, utility programs, and land‐use instruments are recalibrated to secure hyperscale loads.
Justin Kollar
wiley   +1 more source

Bridging the Divide Between Agricultural Economics and the Sustainability Sciences

Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article is based on several decades of experience engaging in interdisciplinary research and teaching involving agronomists, climate scientists, ecologists, hydrologists and geographers, focused on ensuring the long run sustainability of local and global food systems.
Thomas W. Hertel
wiley   +1 more source

Deficit irrigation in a young, super high-density hedgerow olive orchard (cv. Arbosana): effects on physiological, vegetative, and productive parameters. [PDF]

Front Plant Sci
Gentili L, Tivani M, Mastio V, Capraro F, Contreras C, Torres M, Maestri D, Pierantozzi P.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Russian wheat aphid: a model for genomic plasticity and a challenge to breeders

Insect Science, EarlyView.
Invasive foundress finds suitable habitat and reproduces through pathogenesis. Wingless females produce life offspring quickly, which leads to high population densities. High population densities result in competition, which may induce epigenetic changes and wing development for dispersal.
Astrid Jankielsohn, Vicky L. Tolmay, Marlon‐Schylor Luke le Roux, Lintle Mohase, Mpho S. Mafa, Vittorio F. Nicolis, Eduard Venter, Nicolaas Francois Visser Burger, Anna‐Maria Botha   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Modulating the Chemical and Sensory Profile of Avgoustiatis Grapes (<i>Vitis Vinifera</i> L.) and Wines: The Impact of Irrigation and Post-Harvest Dehydration Under Extreme Mediterranean Thermal Stress. [PDF]

Foods
Lola D, Karadimou C, Gkrimpizis T, Miliordos DE, Nikolakis K, Theocharis S, Proxenia N, Koundouras S, Kotseridis Y.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source