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ALTERNATIVE METHODS FOR CONTROL OF THE LONG HORNED BORER Niphona picticornismuls. (COLEOPTERA: CERAMBYCIDAE) IN GRAPE ORCHARDS. [PDF]

Journal of Plant Protection and Pathology, 2015
Trials were conducted in Nubaria district, Behaira Governorate, to evaluate the infestation reduction for the cerambycid borer Niphona picticornis, Muls.
Iman Imam
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J-measure based hybrid pruning for complexity reduction in classification rules [PDF]

, 2013
Prism is a modular classification rule generation method based on the ‘separate and conquer’ approach that is alternative to the rule induction approach using decision trees also known as ‘divide and conquer’.
Liu, Han, Stahl, Frederic, Gegov, Alexander   +2 more
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Deniers and Compliers: Unpacking the Heterogeneous Effectiveness of U.S. Stay‐at‐Home Mandates During the COVID‐19 Pandemic

Journal of Applied Econometrics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While existing work shows COVID‐19 stay‐at‐home (SAH) policies decreased mobility on average, we lack evidence regarding heterogeneity in policy effectiveness across US counties. To uncover potential heterogeneity, we implement a novel two‐stage approach.
James Sears, Sofia B. Villas‐Boas, Molly Sears, Carly Trachtman, Linlin Fan, Andrew W. Stevens   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Resilience‐as‐doing: A relational model for living practice

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Dominant frameworks treat resilience as a capacity to withstand disturbance and recover, something systems, communities or individuals either have or lack. This paper proposes a different understanding, grounded in relational onto‐epistemology and first‐person, practice‐based, autoethnographic inquiry situated within a household garden.
Katie Moon
wiley   +1 more source

Relational knowing as method and practice

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper seeks to contribute to (re)building the capacity for embodied, place‐based relational knowing, transforming how we know and thus what we know. What is known, or sought to be known, is relations. How we know these relations is by already being in it: breathing, sensing, moving, listening, responding, affecting and being affected ...
Katie Moon
wiley   +1 more source

Genomic insights into the local adaptation of spontaneous olive trees in the Mediterranean Basin highlight the need for conservation planning in the face of global change

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
The Mediterranean Basin, a major biodiversity hotspot, is highly vulnerable to climate and global changes. Wild olive trees form an essential part of this landscape and hold strong ecological, cultural and socio‐economic significance. By examining how these trees responded to past climatic conditions, this study shows adaptation of olive trees to local
Lison Zunino, Gautier Sarah, Lorenzo Rocchetti, Bénédicte Rhoné, Alexandre Soriano, Gaëtan Droc, Pierre Mournet, Ahmed El Bakkali, Evelyne Costes, Bouchaib Khadari, Philippe Cubry   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Summer pruning in apple trees is an advisable cultural practice that promotes bud differentiation and improves fruit quality: a literature review [PDF]

PeerJ
Apples (Malus domestica) are among the most widely cultivated and economically valuable fruit tree crops worldwide. Summer pruning, encompassing thinning, branch bending, and ring wounding, is a method of regulating apple production and is important to ...
Xiaoyu Qiu, Wenxi Xing, Youxiong Que, Guilong Lu   +3 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Valorization of Urban Street Tree Pruning Residues in Biorefineries by Steam Refining: Conversion Into Fibers, Emulsifiers, and Biogas

Frontiers in Chemistry, 2021
Street tree pruning residues are a widely available and currently undervalorized bioresource. Their utilization could help alleviate an increasing biomass shortage and offset costs of the pruning process for the municipalities.
Sebastian Hagel, Phillipp Lüssenhop, Steffen Walk, Satu Kirjoranta, Annalena Ritter, Carla Gabriela Bastidas Jurado, Kirsi S. Mikkonen, Kirsi S. Mikkonen, Maija Tenkanen, Maija Tenkanen, Ina Körner, Bodo Saake   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

Vegetative Growth, Yield, and Fruit Quality of Peach as Influenced by Dormant Pruning, Summer Pruning, and Summer Topping

Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science, 1985
Abstract Three peach [ Prunus persica (L.) Batsch] cultivars varying in age and vigor were dormant pruned, summer pruned, or summer topped for 2 or 3 years, depending on the cultivar.
openaire   +1 more source

Summer Mechanical Hedging to Prune Eight Cider Apple Cultivars

HortTechnology, 2022
Mechanical hedging was evaluated at Washington State University Northwestern Washington Research and Extension Center, Mount Vernon, WA, in 2019 and 2020 on eight cider apple ( Malus × domestica ) cultivars with four bearing habits: tip—Golden Russet ...
Aidan Kendall, Travis R. Alexander, Gabriel T. LaHue, Carol A. Miles   +3 more
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