The Answer Garden supports knowledge sharing in two intertwined ways: by making relevant information retrievable and by mediating access to people with knowledge. We present a case study in which the Answer Garden approach was applied to encourage knowledge sharing in maintenance engineering of a steel mill. The results show that the sheer amount of drawings and the long history of changing cla...

The purpose of this study is to review representative cases of green space development in order to compare the Garden City concept and Green Belt concept as applied and to examine its direction in major Asian and Oceanic cities. The results of previous studies and this study show that there are two major directions in such green-oriented city planning. One direction is toward Multi-Regional Dev...

Constructing houses in the form of garden-house became popular among Statesmen and the privileged class in Naseri period. Iranian traditional houses which used to be formed around a central courtyard, now were organized around a garden. So the transition from houses with courtyard to garden-houses created a new order of relationships between spaces, resulted in redefining spaces and their forms...

The existence of monoecious and dioecious populations within plant species is rare. This limits opportunities to investigate the ecological mechanisms responsible for the evolution and maintenance of these contrasting sexual systems. In Sagittaria latifolia, an aquatic flowering plant, monoecious and dioecious populations exist in close geographic proximity but occupy distinct wetland habitats ...

Attine ants engage in a quadripartite symbiosis with fungi they cultivate for food, specialized garden parasites, and parasite-inhibiting bacteria. Molecular phylogenetic evidence supports an ancient host-pathogen association between the ant-cultivar mutualism and the garden parasite. Here we show that ants rear the antibiotic-producing bacteria in elaborate cuticular crypts, supported by uniqu...

Vivek Kumar Chandra Shekhar Yadav Sudip Kumar Datta Satyender Singh Rafat S. Ahmed Sanjay Goel Sanjay Gupta Md. Mustafa Rajesh Kumar Grover and Basu Dev Banerjeea,∗ Environmental Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Laboratory, Department of Biochemistry, University College of Medical Sciences and GTB Hospital, University of Delhi, Dilshad Garden, Delhi, India Department of Surgery, University Co...

this study compares differences between japan and austria as regarding outdoor activities. we conducted a survey with respect to the utility patterns of kairakuen garden in mito city, ibaraki prefecture, which is one of the three major historical gardens in japan noted for its beauty. this paper compares the results of our survey with a study of the recreational and spatial utility of the hist...

This study aims to determine the population and diversity of infauna microarthropoda (Acari Collembola) found in karst area abandoned gardens Central Buton Regency. research is an explorative conducted on land garden that temporarily cultivated (Station 1) has been for 10 years 2), each station consists 4 sampling plots. Soil done by using Ring Sampler with a diameter 7.5 cm length cm. samples ...