OBJECTIVE To examine the impact of gardens and outdoor spaces on the mental and physical well-being of people with dementia who are resident in care homes and understand the views of people with dementia, their carers, and care home staff on the value of gardens and outdoor spaces. DESIGN Systematic review. METHODS Fourteen databases were searched from inception to February 2013. Forward an...

Urban nature, including residential gardens, can promote biodiversity and increase human wellbeing. Understanding factors that encourage the spread of gardening within cities may help planners facilitate healthier and more biodiverse urban communities. This study characterizes the spatial distribution and attributes of gardens found in easement areas of Ann Arbor, Michigan. Spatial analyses of ...

A new book of pictures by Robyn Stacey, one of Australia’s finest photographers, published by Cambridge University Press, is a first of its kind. Stacey, along with writer Ashley Hay, throws open the doors of the National Herbarium of New South Wales at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney, to reveal the secret history of Australia’s flora. Herbarium tells the stories about the nature of collectin...

it seems impossible to think of the persian art without mentioning the significant presence of gardens. they are present in miniature painting, architecture, and literature. one of the modern works of persian fiction in which gardens play a significant role is malakut (1961), a novella by the modern iranian fiction writer bahram sadeqi (1936-1984). the story of this novella begins in a “green g...

Gardens is an integrated programming language and system supporting parallel computation across networks of workstations. The Gardens language, Mianjin, is safe, provides abstraction, and yet does not sacriice performance of the underlying architecture. Included is a special language mechanism, called packers, that is particularly well-suited for the communication of irregular data structures a...

Dr. Lori Reynolds has an interest in therapeutic gardens and the creation of living spaces that promote wellbeing for older adults. Dr. Reynolds educates various stakeholders on the benefits of occupational therapy, including landscape architects and senior living administrators. Her advocacy to expand occupational therapy beyond its mainstream roles is infectious. She speaks passionately about...

The present work is a continuation of our research on the content of heavy metals in the soil of allotment gardens located in the area of . It presents results of the determination of bioavailable and total iron in the soil collected in two allotment gardens in the city. Iron was determined spectrophotometrically in the form of red-pink complex of Fe(II) and 2,2'-dipyridine. The method of deter...

This paper analyses several problems related to finding and counting ancestor and descendant states, as well as gardens of Eden (i.e., states without predecessors) in reaction systems. The focus is on the complexity of finding and counting preimages and ancestors that are minimal with respect to cardinality. It turns out that the problems concerning gardens of Eden seem to require the presence ...