Determining the Optimum Night Length for Flower Development in a Modern Poinsettia Cultivar

The effect of night length (NL) on the flower development of poinsettia (Euphorbia pulcherrima Willd. ex Klotzsch) ‘Prestige Red’ was evaluated. Flower initiation occurred by subjecting plants to a 14-hour NL for 10 or 17 days, termed short-day (SD) treatments, and then transferring the plants to each of four NL treatments (11, 12, 13, or 14 hours) to observe the effects of NL on flower development. The plants grown continuously with the 14-h NL treatment were the control group. The timing of first color, visible bud, and anthesis were recorded during flower development, and bract and leaf data were collected at anthesis. Leaf number was unaffected by the SD or NL treatments, suggesting that flower initiation occurred during the 10-day SD treatment before the start of NL treatments; thus, the NL treatments only affected flower development. The timing of first color and visible bud were significantly delayed with the 10-day SD × 11-hour NL treatment relative to the 14-hour NL control; however, first color and visible bud were not delayed with the 17-day SD × 11-hour NL treatment. The 11-hour NL treatment resulted in fewer plants reaching anthesis, and these plants had fewer stem bracts and less bract color development compared with the 12-hour, 13-hour, and 14-hour NL treatments. Therefore, an 11-hour NL is suboptimal for flower development; nonetheless, significant development did occur. The 12-hour NL resulted in less color development than the 13-hour and 14-hour NL treatments in the lowest stem bract positions, but the plants had a commercially acceptable appearance. These results demonstrate that minimal differences in flower development occur with NL ≥12 hours, but that optimal development required NL ≥13 hours.

Marginalization of Pupils With Disabilities in Educational System

The educational development history of pupils with disabilities is characterized by a very slow change in the social awareness that their specialty and importance are not obstacles for successful inclusion in education and society. The obstacles to the full integration of these pupils into the educational process, as well as other segments of social life, are the result of the community's attitude towards people with disabilities, often based on their marginalization and extradition. However, when disability is viewed as only one of the personality specificities, through the adjustment of the environment, it influences the fact that the attitude of the society towards the person with disabilities is not an obstacle in the development of the personality and its socialization. In this sense, society as a whole plays an important role in the optimal development of each member, and therefore we will deal with the problem of inclusion and education as well as the importance of involving children with disabilities in the educational system.

UNICEF's 'The Necessity of Urban Green Space for Children's Optimal Development': A Discussion Paper

A review and discussion of UNICEF's report titled "The Necessity of Urban Green Space for Children's Optimal Development."

Nutrition in the first 6 months of life – current challenges

From the moment of birth, the diet must aim an optimal development of the full-term, healthy newborn, and the best known option until now is the breast milk. Studies have consistently highlighted the benefits of natural nutrition, emphasizing its nutritional qualities but also its role in developing immunity for the newborn. A curent challenge is the moment of initiating food diversification, with recommendations indicating ages between 4 and 6 months. Therefore, an analysis of existing recommendations should be linked to studies on the onset of food allergies with the initiation of diversification. There are also cases in which the natural diet cannot be achieved, in these situations the administration of milk formulas is required. Infant mill formulas have evolved a lot in terms of quality and composition, approaching the breast milk, but they can not be considered equal to it.

A Data-Centric Omnichannel Digital Platform for Configuring Subsea Field Developments

Subsea field development planning can be a complicated undertaking requiring the coordination and collaboration of multiple engineering and commercial disciplines with competing objectives. Thus, finding the optimal development solution can be challenging. To combat this, a data-centric omnichannel digital platform for configuring subsea field developments has been created. The study workflow orchestrated by the digital platform is detailed along with an overview of the data model, functionality, and deliverables. A case study is presented to demonstrate the value delivered using this digital platform. The digital platform is inherently collaborative as it orchestrates specialist engineering tools and their workflows around the same data for study teams to configure subsea development solutions. The platform is composed of: A web-based graphical user interface that allows discipline and product engineers to collaboratively configure the system, products, planning and costing for an entire subsea field development scenario, leveraging the same base data i.e., a single source of truth. A proprietary data model covering system, product (e.g., hardware or equipment), activity planning and costing breakdowns, and; Microservices that directly attach engineering tools and their workflows to the digital platform to automate product design and analysis. A case study is presented to demonstrate the use of the digital platform on a subsea field development prospect and a qualitative comparison with the conventional way of working is made. The case study illustrates the use of a digital hardware configurator (subsea tree system configuration) and the automated planning workflow for an EPCI (Engineering, Procurement, Construction, and Installation) prospect enabled by the digital platform. The results of the case study demonstrate the platform values and benefits the digital platform delivers. The benefits are underpinned by the automated data transfer, the versioning functionality, software logic, and the common base data used by the microservices. The benefits that have been found when compared with the conventional way of working include: Faster validation of alternative development scenarios, meaning that more concepts and sensitivities can be investigated in the same length of time; A reduction in the overall lead time and person hours required to configure and optimize a field development solution; Design risk reduction, and; Efficient and consistent transition of data via virtual handovers. This paper demonstrates a new approach for subsea field development planning using a data-centric omnichannel digital platform called Subsea Studio™ FD, which is shown to deliver benefits over the conventional document-centric way of working. The digital platform brings multiple engineering disciplines together to configure optimal development solutions, accounting for competing objectives. It initiates the digital thread through the project lifecycle and will ultimately culminate in a digital twin during project execution, which can be leveraged throughout the life-of-field to optimize operations.

Graphical user interface for the patterns detection in wine crops

Considering that our country has an important participation in the grape productive sector for this reason it is one of the crops with the best opportunity areas for the implementation of this technology type. In this paper the design and development of a Graphical User Interface (GUI) generated in the MATLAB programming environment is exposed, through which the pictures acquisition and process from interest information is carried out to implement patter recognition strategies in the wine crops agroindustrial sector to monitor and generate a timely diagnostic of its currently status. The GUI has a section than allows the pictures acquisition in real time to later capture the information to be processed and through the application of filters and color recognition techniques on the crop leaf (study object) it’s processed to establish a diagnostic, which will allow the user to apply the appropriate measures contributing in the best way to a crop optimal development.