Recent surveys show that about half of preschool children and mothers in rural Bangladesh are undernourished. Households consume low-quality diets with little diversity because they lack the resources to grow or purchase micronutrient-rich foods. The low dietary intake of micronutrients has negative consequences for child growth and development and for women’s health and productivity. This chap...

English Summary Currently, urban agriculture has gotten a great attention as an effective prescription to solve serious urban problems such as “food desert” in inner city. Food self-sufficiency by urban agriculture is primary of importance in developing countries, since they consistently suffer from unstable market affected by rapid inflation and riots. This study identified the current status ...

The data from the analysis of samples returned by Hayabusa from asteroid 25143 Itokawa are used to constrain the preaccretion history, the geological activity that occurred after accretion, and the dynamical history of the asteroid from the main belt to near-Earth space. We synthesize existing data to pose hypotheses to be tested by dynamical modeling and the analyses of future samples returned...

This study explored the potential benefits of allotment gardening for healthy aging, focusing on the opportunities for outdoor physical activity, social support, and contact with nature that allotment gardening provides. Participants included 94 individuals aged between 50 and 88 years who were members of various indoor and outdoor activity groups. The participants completed physiological measu...

A case-control study was performed in South Australia to determine if L. longbeachae infection was associated with recent handling of commercial potting mix and to examine possible modes of transmission. Twenty-five laboratory-confirmed cases and 75 matched controls were enrolled between April 1997 and March 1999. Information on underlying illness, smoking, gardening exposures and behaviours wa...

INTRODUCTION The worldwide prevalence of overweight/obesity has continued to rise over the last decades. To reverse this trend, public health authorities are exploring cost-effective interventions, especially in high-income and middle-income countries. Community gardening offers a unique opportunity for individuals to enhance physical activity levels and improve their diet. However, synthesised...

(We have received a short note on the Hostel at The Old Rectory, Bath-wick Hill, Bath, from the Superintendent there. The Hostel was opened last January and promises very well.) The Old Rectory is for training high-grade mentally defective girls for domestic service; though in the short time they have been here we have found those girls who have been steadily improving in character in an instit...

Today’s artefacts, from small devices to buildings and cities, are, or are becoming, cyber-physical socio-technical systems, with tightly interwoven material and computational parts. Currently, we have to laboriously build such systems, component by component, and the results are often difficult to maintain, adapt, and reconfigure. Even “soft”ware is brittle and non-trivial to adapt and change....

With an ever-increasing urban population, promoting public health and well-being in towns and cities is a major challenge. Previous research has suggested that participating in allotment gardening delivers a wide range of health benefits. However, evidence from quantitative analyses is still scarce. Here, we quantify the effects, if any, of participating in allotment gardening on physical, psyc...

Modern coastal dune management is viewed largely through the prism of ecology. Achieving maximum biodiversity and preserving priority species are primary objectives based on interventions (grazing, mowing, burning, reseeding, artificial destabilisation) to achieve that purpose. Under non-managed conditions, vegetation tends evolve temporally following well-established succession patterns lead a...