BACKGROUND Although melioidosis, is an important disease in many Southeast Asian countries and Australia, there is limited data on its prevalence and disease burden in India. However, an increase in case reports of melioidosis in recent years indicates its endemicity in India. AIMS AND METHODS A population-based cross-sectional seroprevalence study was undertaken to determine the seroprevalen...

Inshore marine resources play an important role in the livelihoods of Pacific Island coastal communities. However, such reliance can be detrimental to inshore marine ecosystems. Understanding the livelihoods of coastal communities is important for devising relevant and effective fisheries management strategies. Semi-structured household interviews were conducted with householders in Langalanga ...

The study discusses adaptation practices and the resilience of smallholder farmers to agriculture productivity. sampled 248 women in communities. Purposive sampling techniques were used gather data from farmers. findings indicate that drought, pest disease infestation, reduced rainfall, flooding climate change occurrences affect crop yields as record low productive output. also mixed cropping, ...

the main objective of this descriptive-survey research was to investigate the application of waste management operations in apple production in abhar county. the statistical population of the study consisted of 12971 apple growers of the two districts of markazi and soltanieh out of which 100 people were selected as sample using cochran formula. stratified proportionate random sampling techniqu...

Urban agriculture involves the production of food in space that is within and immediately surrounding cities. There are many motivations for this kind of production. These encompass environmental advantages (reducing ̳food miles‘ and the impact of ̳urban heat islands‘), social benefits (increasing food security and agricultural education of city-dwellers), and human health perks (eating fresher...

This article describes results from an investigation of the health impacts of community gardening, using Toronto, Ontario as a case study. According to community members and local service organizations, these gardens have a number of positive health benefits. However, few studies have explicitly focused on the health impacts of community gardens, and many of those did not ask community gardener...

BACKGROUND Physical activity is one of the leading health indicators. The objective was to study the prevalence and patterns of physical activity among young adults. METHODS 259 Medical students (Men: Women = 116:143) in the age group of 18-22 yrs were interviewed using the official English long version of the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ). The total level of physical a...

The natural abundance of 13C was used to estimate the turnover of the soil organic matter in a vertisol re-grassed with Digitaria decumbens (C4 plant) following intensive market gardening (C3 plants). In addition, the experimental design allowed us to determine the respective roles of roots and earthworms (Polypheretima elongata) in soil C stock restoration in D. decumbens pasture. The C stock ...

A 68-year-old male retired non-atopic school librarian was referred for suspected plant contact dermatitis. The patient had taken up gardening as a hobby when he retired from work: mowing the lawn, cutting hedges and weeding in his garden. For 6–10 years, he had suffered from transient dermatitis on his eyelids, which he attributed to a habit of wiping his eyelids with his hands during gardenin...

Reef restoration activities have proliferated in response to the need to mitigate coral declines and recover lost reef structure, function, and ecosystem services. Here, we describe the recent shift from costly and complex engineering solutions to recover degraded reef structure to more economical and efficient ecological approaches that focus on recovering the living components of reef communi...