Public green spaces are becoming crucial components of any sustainable community because their multiple ecological, economic and sociocultural benefits. More efforts being directed towards creating livelier spaces. Unfortunately, there is less adequate attention to long-term upkeep. Both research practice focus more on design aspects public parks than management. Realising the importance manage...

Toxocariasis has long been considered a parasitic disease affecting pet owners and children who often play in sandboxes at public parks. Recent cases of this animal-borne infection, however, indicate that its clinical manifestations and etiologies are changing. In this article, we will describe the critical characteristic features of toxocariasis alongside the contributions of Japanese research...

Anaplasma phagocytophilum DNA was detected by real-time PCR, which targeted the msp2 gene, in 2.9% of questing Ixodes ricinus ticks (adults and nymphs; n = 2,862), collected systematically from selected locations in Bavaria, Germany, in 2006. Prevalence was significantly higher in urban public parks in Munich than in natural forests.

Science parks provide an environmental setting for private venture development in the close proximity of universities and can be seen as an environment enabling private and public research units to collaborate. Science parks are assumed to be first and foremost knowledge catalysts aiming at high technology and knowledge intensive venture development through shared knowledge creation between uni...

public spaces, a central role in planning and urban development is major components of an urban environment is healthy and lively. qualitative and quantitative development of urban public spaces, when appropriate administrative process will be realized, the priority issues in the survey cities, based on modern theories of popular participation (user's perspective) and using the scientific ...

It has been observed empirically that each coe cient in a Parks-McClellan lter converges to a steady state value as the lter length increases. This suggests the possibility of obtaining lters that are near optimal while "re-using" lter coe cients from shorter lters in the design of longer lters. In the context of approximate processing this then allows a ltering operation to be done in stages. ...