a’ view of nature within the framework of garden and in relation with human needs and drives that satisfy theneed to be rooted has caused the representation of nature in garden to be regarded as cultural heritage. garden and garden designing are suitable cases for us to study cultural characteristics and traits. thus, human beings have searched their eternal interest in an ideal and unattainabl...

A garden-path sentence has temporary ambiguity that a reader or listener need to resolve. Prosody is well-known to have effects on sentence comprehension so it is expected that it will affect the interpretation of garden-path sentences. However, in an auditory comprehension test with natural speech, the garden-path effect may be unclear because a listener can typically resolve the ambiguity and...

This article deals with the history, names and uses of the garden cress in Indian Medicine.

This article summarizes a 2000 study of school garden programs and their variation and the impact of such variation on 427 third-grade students’ sense of responsibility and attitudes toward science and the environment. A teacher questionnaire was developed to gain insight into how teachers use school gardens with their students and in their curriculum. The information gathered from 28 third-gra...

An environmental assessment of six scenarios for handling of garden waste in the Municipality of Aarhus (Denmark) was performed from a life cycle perspective by means of the LCA-model EASEWASTE. In the first (baseline) scenario, the current garden waste management system based on windrow composting was assessed, while in the other five scenarios alternative solutions including incineration and ...

OBJECTIVE This study examines effects of a school garden intervention on elementary school children's physical activity (PA). METHOD Twelve schools in New York were randomly assigned to receive the school garden intervention (n=6) or to the waitlist control group that later received gardens (n=6). PA was measured by self-report survey (Girls Health Enrichment Multi-site Study Activity Questio...

The first is the Garden of Satisfaction. In this garden you get everything you want. The garden fulfills all your desires and it satisfies all your preferences. But there is a price: you don’t get the capacity of the will, and thus you cannot choose anything. In such a garden an important element of agency would be missing: you would be no more than a slave to your passions. The second garden i...

The ancient mutualism between fungus-growing ants and the fungi they cultivate for food is a textbook example of symbiosis. Fungus-growing ants' ability to cultivate fungi depends on protection of the garden from the aggressive microbes associated with the substrate added to the garden as well as from the specialized virulent garden parasite Escovopsis. We examined ants' ability to remove alien...