30 resultados para Ornamental plants
em Consorci de Serveis Universitaris de Catalunya (CSUC), Spain
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RESUM Masjoan és una masia del segle XII on resideix la família Masferrer des del 1710. Actualment a Masjoan l’activitat principal és el cultiu i venta de plantes ornamentals, i l’explotació forestal per obtenir fusta. Pel que fa a l’aigua, tant per a la realització de l’activitat professional com per al subministrament de la casa, aquesta prové de mines d’aigua natural situades en la finca. L’objectiu d’aquest TFC ha estat dissenyar un sistema autònom per automatitzar el procés de derivació de l’aigua procedent d’una mina, i d’aquesta manera aprofitar millor els recursos naturals dels que és disposa. El desenvolupament d’aquest sistema, comprèn la selecció i configuració de sensors i actuadors, el disseny del circuit amb la realització de la placa, el disseny del sistema d’alimentació autònom, el software que controla el sistema, i dimensionar la resta d’elements de la instal•lació. Tot el sistema està controlat per un microcontrolador PIC16F876 i alimentat per un mòdul solar de 4W. En el disseny s’ha procurat, sobredimencionar les diferents etapes per possibles ampliacions o modificacions del sistema i que el circuit procures optimitzar el consum d’energia. Com a conclusions cal dir que s’han assolit els objectius proposats amb èxit. S’ha aconseguit un disseny funcional i estable que actualment es troba en funcionament.
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Pollen allergy has a remarkable clinical impact all over Europe, and there are evidences that the prevalence of allergic respiratory induced reactions by pollen in Europe has been increasing in recent decades. The presence of potentially allergenic ornamental species in the town of Tiana, representing 41% of total species recorded. Approximately 28% of these species are Platanus acerifolia. This study attempts to relate the effect it has on the people’s health, the presence of certain urban ornamental plants by identifying and locating the ornamental trees in the town.
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RESUM Masjoan és una masia del segle XII on resideix la família Masferrer des del 1710. Actualment a Masjoan l’activitat principal és el cultiu i venta de plantes ornamentals, i l’explotació forestal per obtenir fusta. Pel que fa a l’aigua, tant per a la realització de l’activitat professional com per al subministrament de la casa, aquesta prové de mines d’aigua natural situades en la finca. L’objectiu d’aquest TFC ha estat dissenyar un sistema autònom per automatitzar el procés de derivació de l’aigua procedent d’una mina, i d’aquesta manera aprofitar millor els recursos naturals dels que és disposa. El desenvolupament d’aquest sistema, comprèn la selecció i configuració de sensors i actuadors, el disseny del circuit amb la realització de la placa, el disseny del sistema d’alimentació autònom, el software que controla el sistema, i dimensionar la resta d’elements de la instal•lació. Tot el sistema està controlat per un microcontrolador PIC16F876 i alimentat per un mòdul solar de 4W. En el disseny s’ha procurat, sobredimencionar les diferents etapes per possibles ampliacions o modificacions del sistema i que el circuit procures optimitzar el consum d’energia. Com a conclusions cal dir que s’han assolit els objectius proposats amb èxit. S’ha aconseguit un disseny funcional i estable que actualment es troba en funcionament.
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In the ornamental plant production region of Girona (Spain), which is one of the largest of its kind in southern Europe, most of the surface is irrigated using wide blocked-end furrows. The objectives of this paper were: (1) to evaluate the irrigation scheduling methods used by ornamental plant producers; (2) to analyse different scenarios inorder to assess how they affect irrigation performance; (3) to evaluate the risk of deep percolation; and (4) to calculategross water productivity. A two-year study in a representative commercial field, planted with Prunus cerasifera ‘Nigra’, was carried out. The irrigation dose applied by the farmers was slightly smaller than the required water dose estimated by the use of two different methods: the first based on soil water content, and the second based on evapotranspiration. Distribution uniformity and application efficiency were high, with mean values above 87%. Soil water contentmeasurements revealed that even at the end of the furrow, where the infiltrated water depth was greatest, more than 90% of the infiltrated water was retained in the shallowest 40 cm of the soil; accordingly, the risk of water loss due to deep percolation was minimal. Gross water productivity for ornamental tree production was € 11.70 m–3, approximately 20 times higher than that obtained with maize in the same region
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An analysis is carried out in a sample of 738 industrial plants of the determining factors in the use of internal promotion of blue-collar workers to middle managers and skilled technicians as against their external recruitment. The use of internal promotion is positively correlated with variables indicative of the efforts made by plants to measure employees' skills, and to a lesser extent, with the level of specificity of investments in human capital made by blue-collar workers. Contrary to what was expected, variables related with the use and efficiency of other incentive systems have no significant influence on the increased or decreased use of internal promotion. These results are initial evidence that internal promotions are used to protect and favour specific investments, especially those made by firms in order to discover their workers' skills.
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The plant cell wall is a strong fibrillar network that gives each cell its stable shape. It is constituted by a network of cellulose microfibrils embedded in a matrix of polysaccharides, such as xyloglucans. To enlarge, cells selectively loosen this network. Moreover, there is a pectin-rich intercellular material, the middle lamella, cementing together the walls of adjacent plant cells. Xyloglucan endotransglucosylase/hydrolases (XTHs) are a group of enzymes involved in the reorganisation of the cellulose-xyloglucan framework by catalysing cleavage and re-ligation of the xyloglucan chains in the plant cell wall, and are considered cell wall loosening agents. In the laboratory, it has been isolated and characterised a XTH gene, ZmXTH1, from an elongation root cDNA library of maize. To address the cellular function of ZmXTH1, transgenic Arabidopsis thaliana plants over-expressing ZmXTH1 (under the control of the CaMV35S promoter) were generated. The aim of the work performed was therefore the characterisation of these transgenic plants at the ultrastructural level, by transmission electron microscopy (TEM).The detailed cellular phenotype of transgenic plants was investigated by comparing ultra-thin transverse sections of basal stem of 5-weeks old plants of wild type (Col 0) and 35S-ZmXTH1 Arabidopsis plants. Transgenic plants show modifications in the cell walls, particularly a thicker middle lamella layer with respect the wild type plants, supporting the idea that the overexpression of ZmXTH1 could imply a pronounced wall-loosening. In sum, the work carried out reinforces the idea that ZmXTH1 is involved in the cell wall loosening process in maize.
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En el momento de plantearnos la necesidad de abordar éste proyecto, partíamos de una situación en la que el Sector Ornamental contribuia de manera significativa a la economía agraria y comercial en España, ocupando una posición relevante en la horticultura española. Su valor económico alcanzó en 1998 el 4,4% de la Producción Vegetal Final, generando alrededor de 31.000 empleos y contribuyendo de manera significativa a la balanza comercial agraria vegetal (Gutiérrez, 1999 y datos facilitados por el M.A.P.A. y la FEPEX). La producción, el comercio y el consumo de los productos de la horticultura ornamental que en el año 2000 giraba en torno a la flor cortada, que representaba el 61% de su valor económico a nivel nacional (Arcas y Romero, 2000), se preveia que fuera evolucionando en los próximos años años a favor de la planta de maceta, tanto la de flor como la destinada a jardinería y/o restauración del paisaje. De hecho, la posición competitiva de España en el mercado comunitario es debido a algunas ventajas, como son: - Diferentes zonas de producción con distintas características edafoclimáticas. - La luminosidad y la T son factores que favorecen la producción. El espectacular incremento de las obras de jardinería y restauración paisajística de promoción tanto pública como privada en los años anteriores al planteamiento del proyecto, estaba suponiendo para el sector un aumento del volumen de negocio que, previsiblemente iba a continuar en años sucesivos. El objetivo general del proyecto era la domesticación de especies autóctonas de las regiones de clima mediterráneo de la Península Ibérica e Islas Baleares con la finalidad de favorecer la innovación y la diversificación de la oferta en las distintas utilizaciones ornamental y paisajística, contribuyendo a mantener la biodiversidad y sostenibilidad. Para argumentar el uso de nuestra flora autóctona se hacen necesarios estudios para la selección de los posibles ecotipos en función de su variabilidad morfológica y fenológica, para la optimización de su biología reproductiva y para la adaptación de la especie a los distintos aprovechamientos ornamentales y de restauración del paisaje.
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The aim of this book is to survey on different Land Use Planning and safety approaches in vicinity of industrial plants. As this research is associated with three broad fields of Land Use Planning, safety and security, the set principle is to avoid unnecessary and over detailed information, but including the useful ones to provide a comprehensive resource which can be applicable for several purposes. Besides, the proposed method, which is explained in Chapter 7, can initiate a new field for future of Land Use Planning in vicinity of industrial plants.
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El morrut de les palmeres, R. ferrugineus, està actualment considerat com la plaga més perjudicial de les palmeres ja que la seva infestació produeix, de forma comuna, la seva mort. Des de la seva instal·lació en els països de la conca mediterrània, en els últims anys, són milers les palmeres que han mort degut a la plaga. La ràpida dispersió que s’ha produït de l’insecte així com la difícil detecció en els períodes primerencs de les infestacions fa que el R. ferrugineus posi en perill ecosistemes naturals de palmeres així com hàbitats rurals i urbans amb un ús ornamental d’aquestes plantes. És necessari desenvolupar estudis que permetin un millor coneixement del comportament d’aquest insecte així com, aquelles característiques intrínseques de la palmeres i variables externes que afavoreixen la instauració del coleòpter i, per tant, noves metodologies pel seu control.
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El morrut de les palmeres, R. ferrugineus, està actualment considerat com la plaga més perjudicial de les palmeres ja que la seva infestació produeix, de forma comuna, la seva mort. Des de la seva instal·lació en els països de la conca mediterrània, en els últims anys, són milers les palmeres que han mort degut a la plaga. La ràpida dispersió que s’ha produït de l’insecte així com la difícil detecció en els períodes primerencs de les infestacions fa que el R. ferrugineus posi en perill ecosistemes naturals de palmeres així com hàbitats rurals i urbans amb un ús ornamental d’aquestes plantes. És necessari desenvolupar estudis que permetin un millor coneixement del comportament d’aquest insecte així com, aquelles característiques intrínseques de la palmeres i variables externes que afavoreixen la instauració del coleòpter i, per tant, noves metodologies pel seu control.
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L’objectiu principal és presentar un nou prototipus d’eina per al disseny de les plantes de tractament d’aigües residuals utilitzant models mecànics dinàmics quantificant la incertesa
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Estudi de les plantes ornamentals conreades al sector esquerra de les ribes del Ter al seu pas per Girona, incidint en les espècies no autòctones i elaboració d’una cartografia digital dels arbres i arbusts de la zona de Sant Ponç (Girona)
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The control and prediction of wastewater treatment plants poses an important goal: to avoid breaking the environmental balance by always keeping the system in stable operating conditions. It is known that qualitative information — coming from microscopic examinations and subjective remarks — has a deep influence on the activated sludge process. In particular, on the total amount of effluent suspended solids, one of the measures of overall plant performance. The search for an input–output model of this variable and the prediction of sudden increases (bulking episodes) is thus a central concern to ensure the fulfillment of current discharge limitations. Unfortunately, the strong interrelationbetween variables, their heterogeneity and the very high amount of missing information makes the use of traditional techniques difficult, or even impossible. Through the combined use of several methods — rough set theory and artificial neural networks, mainly — reasonable prediction models are found, which also serve to show the different importance of variables and provide insight into the process dynamics
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This paper presents a case study that explores the advantages that can be derived from the use of a design support system during the design of wastewater treatment plants (WWTP). With this objective in mind a simplified but plausible WWTP design case study has been generated with KBDS, a computer-based support system that maintains a historical record of the design process. The study shows how, by employing such a historical record, it is possible to: (1) rank different design proposals responding to a design problem; (2) study the influence of changing the weight of the arguments used in the selection of the most adequate proposal; (3) take advantage of keywords to assist the designer in the search of specific items within the historical records; (4) evaluate automatically thecompliance of alternative design proposals with respect to the design objectives; (5) verify the validity of previous decisions after the modification of the current constraints or specifications; (6) re-use the design records when upgrading an existing WWTP or when designing similar facilities; (7) generate documentation of the decision making process; and (8) associate a variety of documents as annotations to any component in the design history. The paper also shows one possible future role of design support systems as they outgrow their current reactive role as repositories of historical information and start to proactively support the generation of new knowledge during the design process
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Palaeobotany applied to freshwater plants is an emerging field of palaeontology. Hydrophytic plants reveal evolutionary trends of their own, clearly distinct from those of the terrestrial and marine flora. During the Precambrian, two groups stand out in the fossil record of freshwater plants: the Cyanobacteria (stromatolites) in benthic environments and the prasinophytes (leiosphaeridian acritarchs) in transitional planktonic environments. During the Palaeozoic, green algae (Chlorococcales, Zygnematales, charophytes and some extinct groups) radiated and developed the widest range of morphostructural patterns known for these groups. Between the Permian and Early Cretaceous, charophytes dominated macrophytic associations, with the consequence that over tens of millions of years, freshwater flora bypassed the dominance of vascular plants on land. During the Early Cretaceous, global extension of the freshwater environments is associated with diversification of the flora, including new charophyte families and the appearance of aquatic angiosperms and ferns for the first time. Mesozoic planktonic assemblages retained their ancestral composition that was dominated by coenobial Chlorococcales, until the appearance of freshwater dinoflagellates in the Early Cretaceous. In the Late Cretaceous, freshwater angiosperms dominated almost all macrophytic communities worldwide. The Tertiary was characterised by the diversification of additional angiosperm and aquatic fern lineages, which resulted in the first differentiation of aquatic plant biogeoprovinces. Phytoplankton also diversified during the Eocene with the development of freshwater diatoms and chrysophytes. Diatoms, which were exclusively marine during tens of millions of years, were dominant over the Chlorococcales during Neogene and in later assemblages. During the Quaternary, aquatic plant communities suffered from the effects of eutrophication, paludification and acidification, which were the result of the combined impact of glaciation and anthropogenic disturbance.