School gardens are, increasingly, an integral part of projects aiming to promote nutritional education and environmental sustainability in many countries throughout the world. In the late 1950s, FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization) and UNICEF (United Nations Children’s Fund) had already developed projects to improve the dietary intake and behavior through school and community gardens. Howeve...

The much-needed interest in promoting a healthy lifestyle among school-age students has found context for development: school gardens. There are numerous studies where using gardens as teaching–learning also improves students’ performance the experimental sciences. In this study, we proposed another that sets it apart and adds motivation: combining curricular mathematics with science content co...

Increased urbanization has resulted in water quality and flooding problems for many receiving waters in the United States. Bioretention, or rain gardens, is one of the most widely popular and effective best management practices in low impact development (LID), which strives to return a watershed to a predevelopment hydrologic regime. Many studies have evaluated large bioretention cells in resea...

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...

The oscillatory growth of chemical gardens is studied experimentally in the budding regime using a co-flow two reactant solutions within microfluidic reactor.

1. Introduction Since the advent of synthetic organic chemistry in the mid-19th century, chemists have frequently pointed out the creativity, imagination, and aesthetic inspiration required for chemical synthesis (Root-Bernstein 2003, Jacobs 2006, chaps. III.4-5). Most famously Marcelin Berthelot (1860) compared the chemo-synthetic work to that of the 'arts' because, like artists and unlike oth...