The article reveals the landscape diversity of historical garden and park – National Dendrological Park "Sofiyivka" Academy Sciences Ukraine in city Uman, Cherkasy region, founded 1796-1800. In classification gardening landscapes, developed by Ukrainian architect, doctor biological sciences Rubtsov L.I., 6 types landscapes are distinguished. NDP "Sofiyivka", as an object art, belongs to group a...

Gardens is a system which supports parallel computation across networks of workstations. This is achieved by over decomposing a program into more tasks than there are processors. Tasks have separate heaps which comprise partitions (segments) of a global address space. Gardens supports a modern object oriented programming language which requires garbage collection. Furthermore since tasks may be...

The context of urban rivers is one pollution their courses, the degradation riparian habitats, loss biodiversity, and marginalization human populations that live next to them. Due growth, hydrological dynamics in entire basins hydromorphology are changing. This situation increases flooding, decreases availability water for use, disconnects from city. Agroforestry integration cultural, wild, dom...

Severe leptospirosis (Weil Syndrome) was diagnosed in an otherwise healthy environmental worker in Baltimore alleys in late November 2010. He developed multiple organ failure but responded to antibiotic therapy and experienced a full recovery within 4 weeks. His diagnosis was confirmed by a rise in indirect hemagglutinin titer (acute 0, convalescent 400). The subject had close contact with Balt...

The range and use of ecosystem services provided by urban sacred sites has hardly been considered in studies of urban ecology, sustainability and human wellbeing. This paper examines the perceived ecosystem services supplied by green spaces or gardens associated with places of religious worship and appreciated by worshippers in a mid-sized town in South Africa. A questionnaire with open, closed...

OBJECTIVES To determine the prevalence and usage of food gardens in primary schools in three distinct climatic regions of north-eastern Australia. DESIGN Cross-sectional surveys combining quantitative and qualitative data collection. Two separate telephone questionnaires were developed and implemented, according to the presence or absence of a food garden within the school. Main outcome measu...

BACKGROUND Leaf-cutter ants use fresh plant material to grow a mutualistic fungus that serves as the ants' primary food source. Within fungus gardens, various plant compounds are metabolized and transformed into nutrients suitable for ant consumption. This symbiotic association produces a large amount of refuse consisting primarily of partly degraded plant material. A leaf-cutter ant colony is ...

Urban agriculture/community gardening in the Bronx has multiple roles, including health-promoting, economic, environmental, and cultural. These roles are particularly important in light of urban sustainability issues and environmental justice concerns, such as differential access to open space, recreation, and fresh produce in poorer communities and communities of color, as well as differential...