Design and implementation of health-promoting community interventions can advance public health and community well-being; however, realization of such programs is often challenging. Even more challenging is the implementation of ecologic interventions to revitalize built urban environments. A structured intervention entitled ;Intersection Repair; was devised in Portland, Oregon, by a non-profit...

Urban agriculture/community gardening in the Bronx has multiple roles, including health-promoting, economic, environmental, and cultural. These roles are particularly important in light of urban sustainability issues and environmental justice concerns, such as differential access to open space, recreation, and fresh produce in poorer communities and communities of color, as well as differential...

BACKGROUND Leaf-cutter ants use fresh plant material to grow a mutualistic fungus that serves as the ants' primary food source. Within fungus gardens, various plant compounds are metabolized and transformed into nutrients suitable for ant consumption. This symbiotic association produces a large amount of refuse consisting primarily of partly degraded plant material. A leaf-cutter ant colony is ...

Japan garden tourism registration system is an intents to create attractive experiences and exchanges by managing diverse gardens, parks, other facilities that link the public private sectors. This study aimed gain insights into future public-private gardens collaboration in park management understanding effectiveness characteristics of practical activities included registered plans. The organi...

Under the guidance of new policy urban renewal, concept community garden is gaining popularity in theory and practice today’s increasingly tense environment. This paper a review research on gardens. Based visualization system CiteSpace software, it focuses analysis 42 important studies In China abroad, covering their keywords, methodology main findings. Through analysis, this study mainly curre...

Gardens integrates a programming language and system to support parallel computation over a network of workstations. Our goal is to develop extensions to Gardens allowing it to efficiently support clusters of SMP machines under a uniform programming model. Such support requires the implementation of high-performance shared memory message passing primitives as well as changes to the existing mod...

As in many countries, as a result of the rapid population growth Turkey, distorted urbanization occurs cities. Due to this process, people city are becoming deprived nature day by day. For urban who want find opportunities meet need for recreation but cannot it living spaces, residential gardens, children playgrounds, parks, botanical gardens and such places located outdoor green area systems, ...

A 62-year-old man presented to our tertiary hospital’s emergency department with a 4-week history of fever associated with lethargy and constitutional symptoms. For 9 days before admission, he had been vomiting two to three times per day. He had longstanding diabetes and hypertension and worked for the local city council as a truck driver, transporting water to local gardens and public areas. A...

Endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDC) are compounds that alter the normal functioning of the endocrine system of both wildlife and humans. A huge number of chemicals have been identified as endocrine disruptors, among them several pesticides. Pesticides are used to kill unwanted organisms in crops, public areas, homes and gardens, and parasites in medicine. Human are exposed to pesticides due to...