Although community gardens provide numerous economic, environmental, and social benefits, some have been lost to other land uses due the lack of organized effective public support. Knowledge about people’s attitudes perceptions towards these landscapes is important achieve greater This study used a scene rating survey investigate four different groups (community gardeners, home non-gardeners) i...

Oman has made tremendous progress in the last four decades on the back of rising oil prices and this has led to substantial economic activity in oil, construction, industries and services sectors creating an unprecedented demand for labor ranging from professionals, technical experts, educators, highly skilled people in all vocations to low and semi-skilled people including cleaners, gardeners,...

The authors completed an 8-week practice placement at Thrive’s garden project in Battersea Park, London, as part of their occupational therapy degree programme. Thrive is a UK charity using social and therapeutic horticulture (STH) to enable disabled people to make positive changes to their own lives (Thrive 2008). STH is an emerging therapeutic movement, using horticulture-related activities t...

Waste collectors have a theoretical risk of Hepatitis A virus infection. The aim of the study was to assess the prevalence and risk factors of hepatitis A virus infection (HAV) among municipal solid waste workers (MSWWs) in a municipality of central Greece. A seroprevalence study of HAV was conducted among 208 employees (100 waste collectors and 108 municipal gardeners) of a municipality in ce...

in this paper, we give an analytical approximate solution for an integro- differential equation which describes the charged particle motion for certain configurations of oscillating magnetic fields is considered. the homotopy analysis method (ham) is used for solving this equation. several examples are given to reconfirm the efficiency of these algorithms. the results of applying this procedure...

Mobile services have rapidly become an important way for consumers to communicate, encounter services and exchange information. Marketers are increasingly using this channel for brand related advertising communications. However they have found that consumers are reluctant to try and adopt new mobile services and/or other products/services in response to advertising, unless the consumer has esta...

Users’ recommendation intention has drawn greater intention by both scholars and managers under the context of electronic commerce. Based on TAM (Technology Acceptance Model), this study aims to examine factors affecting users’ recommendation intention of Taxi-hailing apps in Chinese context. Structural equation model is used in this study. Data collected from 261 Taxi-hailing apps users. The r...