The herbarium of Hans Sloane in the Natural History Museum’s Department of Botany is a cunning object: a book of colonial nature that contains ethnographic artefacts in the guise of natural specimens. The eight volumes of Sloane’s specimens from his Jamaican voyage of 1687–1689 hold both dried plants and sample foodstuffs, many together with the original drawings prepared for the engravings of ...

Understanding the scenarios of the orthodontic community in different countries may favor the political and administrative positioning of institutions involved with Orthodontics as a science. In the movie Being There (1979), Peter Sellers plays the gardener Chance. Living completely secluded in Washington D.C., what Chance knows about the world is what he sees on television. He entered into the...

Food security is a prerequisite for health. Availability and accessibility of food in rural areas is mainly achieved through subsistence production in which community members use local practices to produce and preserve food. Subsistence food production ensures self-sufficiency and reduction of poverty and hunger. The main emphasis with the present study is examining subsistence farming and coll...

Large-bodied frugivores are essential to the ecological function of rainforest communities. The southern cassowary (Casaurius casuarius johnsonii) is only large frugivore in tropical rainforests Australia. Here, we assessed whether cassowaries remain important native plant seed dispersal areas where highly fragmented, and exotic fruits abundant. To do this, developed a tri-axial acceleration lo...

biodiversity consists of wide range diversity such as genetic diversity, species diversity and ecosystem diversity. nowadays, agrobiodiversity conservation is one the most important aspects of sustainable agriculture. in this research, agrobiodiversity in farmlands, gardens and home garden systems was assessed and compared. in addition the role of home gardens as an effective strategy in in-sit...

Fungus-gardening insects are among the most complex organisms because of their extensive co-evolutionary histories with obligate fungal symbionts and other microbes. Some fungus-gardening insect lineages share fungal symbionts with other members of their lineage and thus exhibit diffuse co-evolutionary relationships, while others exhibit little or no symbiont sharing, resulting in host-fungus f...

– Chemical gardens consist of hollow silica fibers that form from silicate solution upon seeding with salt crystals or injection of salt solution. We investigate the outer radius of these tubes for steady and oscillatory growth dynamics. The radius increases with increasing injection rates and concentrations of cupric sulfate seed solution. For steady growth, we find that the tube radii are des...

BACKGROUND Childhood obesity is an epidemic. Strategies are needed to promote children's healthy habits related to diet and physical activity. School gardens have the potential to bolster children's physical activity and reduce time spent in sedentary activity; however little research has examined the effect of gardens on children's physical activity. This randomized controlled trial (RCT) exam...