Local governments play an increasingly important role in improving residents' access to healthful food and beverages to reduce obesity and chronic disease. Cities can use multiple strategies to improve community health through, for example, land use and zoning policies, city contracting and procurement practices, sponsorship of farmers markets and community gardens, and vending and concession p...

We analyzed information obtained from 1,192 patients with probable severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) reported in Hong Kong. Among them, 26.6% were hospital workers, 16.1% were members of the same household as SARS patients and had probable secondary infections, 14.3% were Amoy Gardens residents, 4.9% were inpatients, and 9.9% were contacts of SARS patients who were not family members. Th...

Considering that they have been visited by more than 750 million people each year (BGCI, 2023), botanical gardens can play an important role in solving the global problems we face such as climate change, food security, and loss of biodiversity. In order to achieve this, it is recommended strengthen educational gardens, review research results made so far this field, support new research. Within...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS The botanic gardens of the world are now unmatched ex situ collections of plant biodiversity. They mirror two biogeographical patterns (positive diversity-area and diversity-age relationships) but differ from nature with a positive latitudinal gradient in their richness. Whether these relationships can be explained by socio-economic factors is unknown. METHODS Species and ...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether exposure to lawn or garden chemicals was associated with an increased risk of transitional cell carcinoma (TCC) of the urinary bladder in Scottish Terriers. DESIGN Case-control study. ANIMALS 83 Scottish Terriers with TCC (cases) and 83 Scottish Terriers with other health-related conditions (controls). PROCEDURE Owners of study dogs completed a written quest...

Gardens of fungus-growing ants (Formicidae: Attini) traditionally have been thought to be free of microbial parasites, with the fungal mutualist maintained in nearly pure "monocultures." We conducted extensive isolations of "alien" (nonmutualistic) fungi from ant gardens of a phylogenetically representative collection of attine ants. Contrary to the long-standing assumption that gardens are mai...

The urban gardens are under transformation that results in the modification of function, activity, hardscape, softscape gardens. aim this paper is to analyse transitional process from productive function recreational purposes Kigali city, Rwanda. methodology research was designed qualitative methods such as interview, observation, photography, sketching, mapping, and graphical analysis. finding...

A variety of crops are grown in New York City community gardens. Although the production of many crops benefits from pollination by bees, little is known about bee abundance in urban community gardens or which crops are specifically dependent on bee pollination. In 2005, we compiled a list of crop plants grown within 19 community gardens in New York City and classified these plants according to...

A quantitative survey focusing on the geographical distribution of botanical gardens in Japan was conducted to clarify changes and factors evident between Meiji Heisei era（1868-2019）. 216 garden-related facilities were surveyed, these members Association Botanical Gardens, which is only garden organization Japan. The range more than doubled after World War II about 90% prefectures had 2005. com...

Can we move beyond simply networking creative individuals to establishing diverse communities of practice for innovation through discursive methods. Furthermore, can we digitise their creativity activities within an integrative socio-cultural collaborative technology platform that could then support distributed innovation. First, we consider the complexity of creative cultures from the perspect...