Thinning of Organic Apple Production with Potassic Soap and Calcium Polysulfide at the North of Spain.

Asturias, in the North West coast of Spain, is a region with old tradition at cultivation of apple and its transformation to cider. The production of apple is mainly done under traditional uses and semi-extensive or semi-intensive system and with local cultivars. Thinning strategy is little practiced and the biennial bearing cycle is one of the main problems for the farmers. The production of apple under organic techniques in Asturias is still limited but increasing. Since 2005, experiments have been conducted on several cultivars (‘Raxao’, ‘Xuanina’ and ‘Gold-Rush’) to evaluate the effects of Potassic Soap (with or without olive oil) and Calcium Polysulfide as thinning products. We present here the first promising results of these experiments. With different concentrations of both products we have increased the apple production of two cultivars for the period 2006- 2007. There were positive effects on the vegetative growth of the trees and on the quality of apples. In the spring 2007 we initiated new experiments with other cultivars (‘Durona de Tresali’, ‘Solarina’, ‘Raxao’, ‘Regona’) in order to confirm our results. The new experiments also include the comparison of their effects with those of commonly used chemical products and with those of manual thinning techniques

Analysis of the economic efficiency of the research activity of public universities: proposal of a model for the evaluation of performance

The 26th International Conference on Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators, STI 2022, will be held September 7-9 2022. The conference is held in Granada (Spain) The search for methods that allow an optimal result and that is somehow measurable. Taking advantage of the huge amount of information that is produced every day from university institutions, which cannot be accepted initially, but needs to be processed. Observe how Critical Thinking and Research works, as an element for direct and indirect reflection

Cortadora relative clauses : a comparative analysis between Spanish, Portuguese and French

This paper focuses on cortadora relative clauses - or non-pronominal relative clauses -, a special type of relativization registered in Rio de la Plata Spanish varieties, in which the preposition is deleted or 'chopped' ('cortada'). This phenomenon is an example of preposition optionality and has been previously studied in Brazilian and European Portuguese, and French within the framework of generative grammar. The main goal of this paper is to show that this syntactic-discursive phenomenon is basically the same in all these three closely related Romance languages, following the works of Kato (2010), Valer (2008), and Tarallo (1983) for Portuguese, Bouchard (1981) for French, and Caviglia & Malcuori (2007) for Spanish. Only inherent prepositions (a, de, con, en, and por) can be deleted, and the position of the topic in Topic Phrases is the one relativised in cortadora relative clauses. The data used for Spanish examples come from the COLEM-Argentina and Uruguay corpora (COLEM: Corpus oral de la lengua española en Montreal)

La investigación científica en función de los costes de personal de los investigadores

Este estudio tienen como objetivo primario identificar los costes de personal del personal docente de la Universidad de Granada, establecer un coste total para cada profesor y unirlo a las publicaciones con Impacto y desde ahí llegar a identificar el precio de la unidad de publicación. En orden a su planificación, se desarrolla en dos etapas distintas y complementarias. En primer lugar, se ha utilizado como instrumento de apoyo la base de datos CIENTIFICA, del Vicerrectorado de Investigación desde donde se han extraído los datos relativos a las condiciones administrativas de cada profesor, unido a su producción científica. En un segundo lugar hemos introducido los costes añadidos de retribuciones de personal, las retribuciones por tramos de investigación, los costes añadidos de los contratos y proyectos de investigación, y los becarios atribuidos a los investigadores principales, para llegar a obtener una cantidad total de retribuciones en los cinco años del estudio 2005-2009. En conformidad con el análisis, se han puesto de manifiesto tres escenarios de dedicación temporal a la investigación, en un ámbito donde los limites y contenidos entre el docente y el investigador están poco definidos y reglados. A la producción científica de cada profesor se le atribuirán unos costes y podremos llegar a un promedio de coste por artículo científico. En nuestras recomendaciones principales subrayamos, la importancia de la continuidad de nuestros análisis, extendiéndolo al plano individual. Y poder plantear una definición sobre los tiempos dedicados a la docencia e investigación articulados desde los planes docentes de cada departamento

Data mining for the diagnosis of type 2 diabetes

Diabetes is the most common disease nowadays in all populations and in all age groups. diabetes contributing to heart disease, increases the risks of developing kidney disease, blindness, nerve damage, and blood vessel damage. Diabetes disease diagnosis via proper interpretation of the diabetes data is an important classification problem. Different techniques of artificial intelligence has been applied to diabetes problem. The purpose of this study is apply the artificial metaplasticity on multilayer perceptron (AMMLP) as a data mining (DM) technique for the diabetes disease diagnosis. The Pima Indians diabetes was used to test the proposed model AMMLP. The results obtained by AMMLP were compared with decision tree (DT), Bayesian classifier (BC) and other algorithms, recently proposed by other researchers, that were applied to the same database. The robustness of the algorithms are examined using classification accuracy, analysis of sensitivity and specificity, confusion matrix. The results obtained by AMMLP are superior to obtained by DT and BC

Connect Smart Cities and Heritage Through Augmented Reality

This chapter aims to connect the digital resources of knowledge with the historical and cultural heritage in the context of smart cities. Specifically, combining the joint intervention in the Real Sitio of El Pardo and Aranjuez, as well as the Foundation Square of the University of Alcalá, both in Spain. Through traditional historical research and the innovative use of new technologies like augmented reality (AR), a historical, biological and cultural heritage is conserved, consisting of forests, gardens, agricultural spaces, urban centers and palatial residences. Cultural and artistic heritage is a resource of the first magnitude for the sustainable development of smart cities. It evolves with time and society; it is this that determines what goods are to be conserved and protected for posterity, according to the values attributed to them. Hence, the importance of achieving an awareness in society plays an active part in the conservation, enjoyment and dissemination of heritage. In this context, the augmented reality is presented as a powerful tool for contextualizing and disseminating the heritage, as well as to make the resources created more accessible, making an innovative use of the new technologies applied to the transfer of knowledge and the enhancement of a country’s cultural and historical heritage