Business Intelligence in the Vineyard

The evolution that is nowadays taking place in the information and communication fields, namely in mobile computing and remote monitoring, constitutes a very interesting challenge to the agricultural sector. This reality places agronomic knowledge in centre stage as these technologies are dramatically improving data collection and storage capacities, challenging the farmers and the agricultural field experts to develop processes that efficiently transform data into information and knowledge and are able to support the everyday decision making at farm level. In this work we will present a demonstration project under way in a vineyard in Portugal where we are exploring the potential of the most recent technological innovations available in the market to build the i-Farm, the information and knowledge society intelligent farm. i-Farm (intelligent farm) applies at farm level the potential offered by using in an integrated way mobile solutions, sensor networks, wireless communication and digital imagery materialized in a information system that supports farmer real time decision making in the field and in the office. The i-Farm project creates a unique knowledge repository containing information from multiple sources (crop, environment, soil, operations, market, etc.) enabling accurate and timely decisions. For the project development a Business Intelligence approach is used. In the context of this paper this broad term is used to refer to the process of aggregating, processing and building rich and relevant information which is made available dynamically in real time to managers in an interactive way to support decisions and planning activitiesinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Studies on the association of the Quercus suber decline disease with Phytophthora cinnamomi in Portugal

En Portugal, la enfermedad de la “seca” se ha descrito en los Quercus de hoja perenne (Quercus suber L. and Q.ilex subsp. rotundifolia Lam.) desde el final del siglo XIX. La mortalidad de estas especies afecta, particularmente las regiones centrales y meridionales del país, siendo uno de los problemas forestales más graves. Phytophthora cinnamomi Rands es el principal patógeno responsable de la mortalidad de alcornoques y encinas en Portugal. Se han desarrollado varios estudios teniendo como objetivo una mejor comprensión del efecto de la acción de P. cinnamomi en el decaimiento de los Quercus. El actual trabajo describe resultados preliminares de algunos de estos estudios.___________________________________In Portugal, the decline disease has been described in evergreen oaks (Quercus suber L. and Q.ilex subsp. rotundifolia Lam.) since the end of the 19th century. The mortality of these species affects, particularly the central and southern regions of the country, being one of the most severe forest problems. Phytophthora cinnamomi Rands is the main pathogen responsible for the cork and holm oak mortality in Portugal. Several studies have been developed aiming at a better understanding of the effect of the P. cinnamomi action on the cork oak trees decline. The present work describes preliminary results of some of these studies

CARACTERIZAÇÃO DAS UNIDADES GEOAMBIENTAIS E CONDIÇÕES DE USO E COBERTURA DO ESTUÁRIO DO RIO ARACATIAÇU/CE

O ambiente estuarino é um ponto de encontro entre as águas continentais e marinhas, proporcionando assim um ambiente de intensas dinâmicas físico-químicas e biológicas. Este estudo teve por objetivo caracterizar, a partir da análise integrada, as condições geoambientais atuais e o uso e cobertura do estuário do rio Aracatiaçu, localizado no município de Amontada, na costa oeste do estado do Ceará

Robust optimization strategies for sheet metal springback compensation

.Sheet metal forming is a major industrial process, mainly due to its cost efficiency after the establishment of the processdesign. However, the process design from tools geometry to load conditions is not straightforward, as a consequence of the side effects associated with sheet metal forming. The emphas is in this area goes to the springback effect or elastic recovery,which is one of the main causes of part’s inaccuracy,demanding tool compensation.This work proposes to compare different robust opti-mization strategies to sheet metal forming springback compensation.The methodology adopted resorts to Response SurfaceMethod(RSM),as well as to Finite Element Model Updating (FEMU) strategies, to adjust the design variables.These include the tools’surfaces,which are parametrised with NURBS.These strategies are then compared using theU-Rail benchmark. The results achieved reveal a reduction of 99% on the geometrical error of the final piece for the best methodology

Aspects Related to Venous Ulcer Healing and its Influence on Quality of Life

Nowadays, the varicose ulcers (VUs) are one of the most worrying leg ulcers and are an important global health problem, with high costs related to the treatment and its complications. Moreover, the quality of life (QOL) of the patient could be affected by pain, sleep disorders, functional impairment, depression, and isolation. The VU patient care is complex, and it is necessary to know the aspects that contribute to the healing process for developing effective strategies. The members of the multidisciplinary health team should identify sociodemographic, clinical, and care aspects that interfere in tissue repair and therefore impacting the QOL. Self-efficacy, adherence to treatment, and self-esteem are other important aspects also related to healing and QOL, with implications for health care and the multidisciplinary team. To sum up, the use of multidisciplinary protocols allows the systematization of care for people with VUs in order to standardize therapeutic interventions with the aim to decrease the healing process time and, as a consequence, to improve the QOL

Soil biochemistry and microbial activity in vineyards under conventional and organic management at Northeast Brazil.

The São Francisco Submedium Valley is located at the Brazilian semiarid region and is an important center for irrigated fruit growing. This region is responsible for 97% of the national exportation of table grapes, including seedless grapes. Based on the fact that orgThe São Francisco Submedium Valley is located at the Brazilian semiarid region and is an important center for irrigated fruit growing. This region is responsible for 97% of the national exportation of table grapes, including seedless grapes. Based on the fact that organic fertilization can improve soil quality, we compared the effects of conventional and organic soil management on microbial activity and mycorrhization of seedless grape crops. We measured glomerospores number, most probable number (MPN) of propagules, richness of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) species, AMF root colonization, EE-BRSP production, carbon microbial biomass (C-MB), microbial respiration, fluorescein diacetate hydrolytic activity (FDA) and metabolic coefficient (qCO2). The organic management led to an increase in all variables with the exception of EE-BRSP and qCO2. Mycorrhizal colonization increased from 4.7% in conventional crops to 15.9% in organic crops. Spore number ranged from 4.1 to 12.4 per 50 g-1 soil in both management systems. The most probable number of AMF propagules increased from 79 cm-3 soil in the conventional system to 110 cm-3 soil in the organic system. Microbial carbon, CO2 emission, and FDA activity were increased by 100 to 200% in the organic crop. Thirteen species of AMF were identified, the majority in the organic cultivation system. Acaulospora excavata, Entrophospora infrequens, Glomus sp.3 and Scutellospora sp. were found only in the organically managed crop. S. gregaria was found only in the conventional crop. Organically managed vineyards increased mycorrhization and general soil microbial activity

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Variable Modified Chaplygin Gas in Anisotropic Universe with Kaluza-Klein Metric

In this work, we have consider Kaluza-Klein Cosmology for anisotropic universe where the universe is filled with variable modified chaplygin gas (VMCG). Here we find normal scalar field $\phi$ and the self interacting potential $V(\phi)$ to describe the VMCG Cosmology. Also we graphically analyzed the geometrical parameters named {\it statefinder parameters} in anisotropic Kaluza-Klein model. Next, we consider a Kaluza-Klein model of interacting VMCG with dark matter in the Einstein gravity framework. Here we construct the three dimensional autonomous dynamical system of equations for this interacting model with the assumption that the dark energy and the dark matter are interact between them and for that we also choose the interaction term. We convert that interaction terms to its dimensionless form and perform stability analysis and solve them numerically. We obtain a stable scaling solution of the equations in Kaluza-Klein model and graphically represent solutions.Comment: 11 pages, 13 figure