There is a growing demand for transparency along the agri-food chain, both from customers and governments.The adoption of blockchain technology to enable secure traceability for the management of the agri-food chain, provide information such as the provenance of a food product and prevent food fraud, is emerging rapidly, due to the inherent trust a
Abstract Background Canine babesiosis (or piroplasmosis) is endemic in northern Portugal, but molecularly confirmed cases of infection with small piroplasms have not been reported in the country.Three German shepherd dogs - a bitch and its 2-month old pup and an unrelated male - clinically suspected of piroplasmosis were assessed for babesial infec
Rapid infiltration and drainage in a free-draining weighing lysimeter are assessed with a viscous flow approach that is based on the concept of moving water films.The two parameters and of the film per unit volume of the permeable medium together with the rate and duration of water input Power Resistance suffice to quantify viscous flow at the Darc
Multi-tier aviary systems, where conveyor belts below the tiers remove the manure at regular intervals, are becoming more common in organic egg production.The area on the tiers can be included in the net area available to the hens (also referred to as usable area) when calculating maximum indoor stocking densities in organic systems within the EU.I
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is the base for many critical applications where a large number of nodes are deployed in the monitored field.Those nodes Bias Tools suffer from limited processing capabilities as well as energy.They are also required to live for a long time; sensors send their data to the sink node through multi-hop routing.The sink