Start-Up Workshop �of the CORE Organic project “DOMINO”

The new Core-Organic Cofund Project Domino aims at increasing the resilience and sustainability of organic fruit growing systems in Europe by the development of new fertilization strategies based on recycled materials, increased biodiversity in the orchard and by the use of protected growing systems. The DOMINO workshop aims at the integration of ideas of the sector into the project and wants to create a possibility for networking of project participants and interested colleagues

Analizada la relación entre árbol y suelo en la X Jornada de fruticultura ecológica de Alfarràs

La Escuela Agraria de Alfarràs (Lleida) acogió la X Jornada de fruticultura ecológica, que en esta ocasión se centró en la relación existente entre el árbol frutal y el suelo.Davide Neri se centró en el funcionamiento de las raíces de los frutales y su interacción con los elementos del suelo, y explicó brevemente el proyecto DOMINO para la mejora del manejo del suelo en fincas de frutale

A measurement of the Earth's radius for high school students

In the Tuscan Archipelago (Italy) it's possible to make an approximate measurement of the Earth's radius from the Elba Island using the Pianosa Island as a ship that appears and disappears on the horizon depending on the observer's height above sea level. The necessary calculations require the mathematical skills of the first two years of high school. The measurement described here refers to a particular geographical location, but it can probably be repeated in similar situations around the world.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures, typos correcte

Light spectrum modifications under photo-selective hail-nets

The use of plastic nets is expanding to protect plants and production from hailstorms, excessive solar radiation damage and flying pests. It is under study the possibility to reduce the wetting due to rain with a progressive increase of the mesh to drive water out of the canopy and the use of photo-selective nets for higher photosynthesis and fruit quality, and growth contro

DOMINO: Dynamic sod mulching and use of recycled amendments to increase biodiversity, resilience and sustainability of intensive organic fruit orchards and vineyards

DOMINO: focuses on the interaction of fruit trees with different wild species, organic residues and microbioma and it intends to break the paradigm of monoculture in organic fruit growing, enhancing the ecosystem services

Scalability of Optical Interconnects Based on Microring Resonators

This letter investigates the use of optical microring resonators as switching elements (SEs) in large optical interconnection fabrics. We introduce a simple physical-layer model to assess scalability in crossbar- and Benes-based architectures.We also propose a new dilated SE that improves scalability to build fabrics of several terabits per second of aggregate capacit