When a migration crisis strikes, some of the migrants who reach EU territory are at heightened risk of being trafficked and/or exploited in domestic work, in the agricultural sector, or in the sex industry; some have already been victimized before the journey, while oth...

AbstractEpiphytic lichens are increasingly included in forest biodiversity monitoring schemes, but most of the standardized guidelines consider only lichens colonizing a small part of tree trunks (1·0–1·5 m) and overlook other important microhabitats, such as fallen bra...

Smart sensors and actuators, embedding learning and reasoning features and associated to everyday objects and locations, will soon densely populate our everyday environments. Being capable of understanding, reasoning, and reporting about what is happening (for sensors) ...

perceived benefits and drawbacks in managing a CSA farm, and whether CSA management perception varies in different countries. The research collected data from 35 farmers that were based in the United States (US) and Hungary (HU). Data elaboration includes a one-way Anov...

Assessing the spatial variation of soil and crop properties is the basis for site specific management of crop practices in precision agriculture applications. To this aim, proximal and remote spectral vegetation indices are increasingly replacing soil physical-chemical ...

One of the main objectives of the Juno mission is to unveil the interior structure of Jupiter estimating its gravity field from Juno orbit determination. Applying the dual-frequency plasma calibration scheme to Juno Doppler data an additional dispersive effect on the li...

Development of next generation Internet of Things ecosystems will require bringing in (semi-)autonomic behaviors. While the research on autonomic systems has a long tradition, the question arises, are there any “off-the-shelf” tools that can be used directly to implemen...

The upcoming Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission, projected for launch in 2021, will provide global measurements of water elevation for ocean and continental water bodies with unprecedented resolution and accuracy. This article describes how the variations...

ALADIN was a two-year project dedicated to precision irrigation. It integrates different systems for collecting information (monitoring of crop conditions in site, from drone and satellite), processing of responses (irrigation prescription maps) and implementation in th...

People with some occupational or recreational activities, such as hunters and veterinarians, may have increased risk to be infected by the hepatitis E virus (HEV). The aim of the present study was to establish whether forestry workers could be considered at a higher ris...