a genuine movement of increased awareness and increased concern for animals that is occurring in many countries,” he said. “There are even signs of great ape movements in countries that have not traditionally shown concern for animals.” Singer, who wrote the 1975 book Animal Liberation, a rallying cry for rights and protection for animals, said that the animal rights movement has shifted away f...

N ature interpretation centers are a romantic expression of the desire to understand and experience nature without giving up the comforts of civilization. Advances in digital technologies let us collect and store masses of data about our natural environment, but we are more removed from it than ever. As a society, we find ourselves trading experience-based knowledge for comfort. Interpretation ...

Kieran Ferris / Liam Bannon Interaction Design Centre University of Limerick Ireland [email protected] [email protected] Abstract The Cardboard Box Garden (CBG) originated from a shared dissatisfaction with current computer technology as it is presented to children. This paper shall briefly review the process involved in the creation of this installation, from motivation through to design and...

this study was conducted to investigate the effect of different levels of sesame meal (sm) on performance and carcass characteristics of japanese quail. one hundred sixty day-old japanese quail chick were equally distributed into 16 cage pens and reared form 10 to 42 days of age. the treatments consisted of sm0, sm50, sm100 and sm150. the diet for sm0 treatment had no sm (control), while those ...

the effects of feeding diets containing salbutamol (0, 1, 3, 5 and 7 mg/kg diet) from 21 to 49 days of ageon growth performance and carcass characteristics in 180 male and 180 female japanese quails (coturnixjaponica) were studied using a factorial arrangement based on completely randomized design. gender hadsignificant effect on weight gain (pwere not statistically significant (p>0.05). salbut...

Urban green spaces can provide relaxation, exercise, social interaction, and many other benefits for their communities, towns, cities. However, in hot humid regions risk being underutilized by residents unless thermal environments are designed to be sufficiently comfortable. Understanding what conditions needed comfortable outdoor spaces, particularly how people feel regard environment, is vita...

Introduction The overall health status of workers of tea garden of Bangladesh is below the national standard. Also, almost nothing has been reported about status of hepatitis virus infection among these population and there is also a lack of consensus. Materials and methods Several health-related facts, especially those of liver diseases, were collected from 130 workers of tea garden via ques...

A botanic garden is essentially a museum of living plants. The word 'museum' is derived from the name of the Greek goddesses of learning and the arts; thus a museum is a place devoted to the pursuit of such studies. A botanic garden is primarily a place where plants are grown for scientific study. But a garden differs from a museum in the fact that the objects in it are living and growing, and ...

BACKGROUND Schools face increasing demands to provide education on healthy living and improve core academic performance. Although these appear to be competing concerns, they may interact beneficially. This article focuses on school garden programs and their effects on students' academic and dietary outcomes. METHODS Database searches in CABI, Web of Science, Web of Knowledge, PubMed, Educatio...

AIMS To test the relationship between greenery in gardens at residential facilities for older people and the self-perceived health of residents, mediated by experiences of being away and fascination when in the garden and the frequency of visitation there. To examine how these indirect effects vary with the number of physical barriers to visiting the garden. BACKGROUND Many older people in re...