Nectar and pollen are floral resources that provide food for insect pollinators, so quantifying their supplies can help us to understand mitigate pollinator declines. However, most existing datasets of resource measurements focus on native plants found in rural landscapes, cannot be used effectively estimating urban green spaces, where non-native ornamental often predominate. We sampled nectar ...

Research on segregation has expanded beyond its traditional focus the residential demography of cities to explore how, why and with what consequences manifests within activity spaces outside home. As part this shift, researchers have become increasingly interested in time geography residents' everyday mobility practices. Building work, present paper explores role place identity dynamics shaping...

With very few exceptions since Ancient Greece, architecture has ignored for most of its history, its relation to power and politics, focusing instead on different ideals of beauty, perfection and purity of forms. It is no surprise then that architecture was used for political purposes mainly by people who are not architects, like Charles Fourier, Robert Owen, N.A. Miliutyn, to name just a few. ...

Growing food in urban areas could solve a multitude of social and environmental problems. These potential benefits have resulted in an increased demand for urban agriculture (UA), though quantitative data is lacking on the feasibility of conversion to large-scale practices. This study uses multiple land use scenarios to determine different spaces that could be allocated to vegetable production ...

the purpose of this study was to analyze the instruments of risk management in the industrial dairy cattle farms in uromieh and khoy counties. the industrial dairy cattle farms in uromieh and khoy counties (n= 84) altogether constituted the statistical population of the study. by use of simple sampling method, 50 cattle farmers were selected as sample. the research design was a survey method on...

This paper discusses the requirements of having healthy environment in the Jordanian residential buildings, in general, and in Amman particularly, considering the healthy problems and the consequences of deceases, shortage of comfort and difficulty in using the spaces. The study presents a real problematic case in Jordan because of norms and executive instruments which are rarely ensure the min...

This paper explores the method of assessing regional spatial ventilation performance for the design of residential building arrangements at an operational level. Three ventilation efficiency (VE) indices, Net Escape Velocity (NEV), Visitation Frequency (VF) and spatial-mean Velocity Magnitude (VM), are adopted to quantify the influence of design variation on VE within different regional spaces....

Content-based face image retrieval is concerned with computer retrieval of face images (of a given subject) based on the geometric or statistical features automatically derived from these images. It is well known that color spaces provide powerful information for image indexing and retrieval by means of color invariants, color histogram, color texture, etc.. This paper assesses comparatively th...

'Space and place are central to the strategies and meaning of protest’ (p. xi) reads the opening sentence of Katrina Navickas's latest study, Protest and the Politics of Space and Place 1789–1848. Written, in part, as a response to the 'spatial turn' in History, Navickas makes a cogent and persuasive argument for attending to the importance of the particularities of 'place' rather than the abst...

Many studies conducted during the last decade suggest the mental health benefits of green and blue spaces. We aimed to systematically review the available literature on the long-term mental health benefits of residential green and blue spaces by including studies that used standardized tools or objective measures of both the exposures and the outcomes of interest. We followed the PRISMA stateme...