A consideration of occupation and space is outlined to advance non-representational thinking about human-landscape relation. Empirical findings are presented from a research project based on data from the Mass Observation Archive (1) relevant to gardens and gardening. This data is analysed to explore how ‘ordinary’ people (who have contributed to this Archive) express and experience issues conc...

BACKGROUND Community gardens can reduce public health disparities through promoting physical activity and healthy eating, growing food for underserved populations, and accelerating healing from injury or disease. Despite their potential to contribute to comprehensive patient care, no prior studies have investigated the prevalence of community gardens affiliated with US healthcare institutions, ...

To the Editor: In southern Eu-rope, zoonotic visceral leishmaniasis caused by Leishmania infantum used to be considered a rural disease, but it is becoming more prevalent in urban areas. Outbreaks in urban/periur-ban settings are associated with the urbanization of natural zoonotic foci (1). The presence of a high number of stray dogs in urban/periurban settlements may contribute to the spread ...

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...

Because of its potential role in providing ecosystem services and private benefits (food security), the concern about the loss of agrobiodiversity has grown. We explore the links between agrobiodiversity and farm financial benefits in small-scale agroecosystems. We measured crop diversity in a subsistence-oriented agricultural production system: home gardens (n=250) in the Iberian Peninsula. We...

This study aims to determine the effect of service quality and facilities on satisfaction domestic tourists in tourist attraction "Eka Karya" Botanical Gardens Bali. The sampling technique this was taken by accidental with a sample size 100 respondents, respondents research were who visiting or had visited Meanwhile, is quantitative nature using method multiple linear regression analysis as dat...

Domestic gardens provide residents with immediate access to landscape amenities and numerous ecological provisions. These provisions have been proven be largely determined by greenspace composition landscape, but the fragmentation heterogeneity of garden environments present challenges mapping. Here, we first developed a recognition method create parcel data set in medieval Leuven city Belgium,...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether exposure to lawn or garden chemicals was associated with an increased risk of transitional cell carcinoma (TCC) of the urinary bladder in Scottish Terriers. DESIGN Case-control study. ANIMALS 83 Scottish Terriers with TCC (cases) and 83 Scottish Terriers with other health-related conditions (controls). PROCEDURE Owners of study dogs completed a written quest...

Gardens of fungus-growing ants (Formicidae: Attini) traditionally have been thought to be free of microbial parasites, with the fungal mutualist maintained in nearly pure "monocultures." We conducted extensive isolations of "alien" (nonmutualistic) fungi from ant gardens of a phylogenetically representative collection of attine ants. Contrary to the long-standing assumption that gardens are mai...

The use of insect viruses as biological control agents started in the early 1960s in China. To date, more than 32 viruses have been used to control insect pests in agriculture, forestry, pastures, and domestic gardens in China. In 2014, 57 products from 11 viruses were authorized as commercial viral insecticides by the Ministry of Agriculture of China. Approximately 1600 tons of viral insectici...