Children are the risk group for toxocariasis because they often play in public parks which are easily contaminated and also because pica is common among children. In the current study, soil samples from 111 parks in Aydin, a city in western Turkey, were assessed. Out of 111, 21 (18.91%) were contaminated with Toxocara spp eggs. Our public parks showed a high toxocariasis risk in our city and th...

he people of the USA love their national parks. Approximately 300 million visits were recorded at national parks in 2000, the vast majority being domestic visitors. The love affair between U.S. citizens and national parks is so intense, in fact, that it is often stated that the parks are “being loved to death.” Of the many challenges facing the National Park Service (NPS) in the 21st century, e...

BACKGROUND Centers for Disease Control (CDC) data suggest that Latinos are less likely to be physically active and more likely to be overweight and suffer from resulting complications than are Whites and that within the Latino population, Latina women are especially at risk. Therefore, promoting physical activity among Latinos, and understanding gender participation patterns within that populat...

Soil is a vital parameter for planting design in urban green spaces especially in adverse climate conditions. In this study, the utilization of analytic hierarchy process (AHP) in surveying land suitability for urban green space from measured criteria like suitability indices, including physical (i.e. clay, silt, sand, bulk density, penetration resistance), chemical (i.e. electrical conductivit...

Recent institutional changes, marketization, and globalization have combined to bring about rapid economic growth in contemporary China. One of the direct outcomes is the rapid expansion of large cities and the recurring birth of new cities from small towns and rural villages. Clustered construction cranes are popular scenes in many Chinese cities. One of the noticeable city landmarks is the sp...

We consider the problem of assessing the sustainability of alternative designs (e.g., for an urban environment) that are assembled from multiple components (e.g., water supply, transportation system, shopping centers, commercial spaces, parks). We model the sustainability of a design in terms of a set of sustainability attributes. Given the (qualitative) preferences and tradeoffs of decision ma...

The Blue Mountains of New South Wales, Australia is a populated area that includes a world heritage listed area. There is concern about the impact on the national parks of the pollution that may result from stormwater runoff from the roads in the area. A rainfall simulation experiment was undertaken on two areas with paved and unpaved road segments. Water quality parameters were examined, inclu...

[1] We evaluated D/H ratios of soiland plant-extracted water during the 1997 growing season to assess the influence of temperature, humidity, and rainfall on water distribution in deciduous forests. Three state parks (Chicot in Arkansas; Natchez in Mississippi, and St. Bernard in Louisiana) were identified along a 13.5-cm precipitation gradient established during the studied growing season with...

Crawford, C.M., Moltschaniwskyj, N.A. &Willcox, S. 2011 (9:xii): Size and characteristics of aggregations of moon jellyfish (Aurelia sp.) in Tasmania, Australia. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society ofTasmania 145: 9-16. ISSN 0080-4703. Fisheries, Aquaculture & Coasts, Institute of Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, PO Box 49, Sandy Bay, Tasmania 7001, Australia. (CMC*...