Gardens integrates a programming language and system to support parallel computation over a network of workstations. Our goal is to develop extensions to Gardens allowing it to efficiently support clusters of SMP machines under a uniform programming model. Such support requires the implementation of high-performance shared memory message passing primitives as well as changes to the existing mod...

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 issues of development domestic horticulture through the use modern technologies, including digital ones, are considered. Innovative control systems “Smart Garden” based on artificial intelligence for industrial-type gardens have been presented by Michurinsk SAU, North Caucasian Federal Scientific Center Horticulture, Viticulture, Winemaking, Dokuchaev Soil Science Institute, Space Research ...

Twenty captive red wolves (Canis rufus), including 16 intended for release into Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Cades Cove, Tennessee (USA), and four housed at Knoxville Zoological Gardens, Inc., Knoxville, Tennessee, were evaluated for immunologic response to vaccination between June 1994 and April 1995. Wolves were vaccinated with modified-live (MLV) canine distemper virus (CDV) and cani...

extended abstract 1.introduction today the role and the importance of open and green spaces are significantly increasing in the environment and the quality of building complex. therefore, open and green spaces are considered as intrinsic, parts of land use planning decision in most countries. the gardens in the city of jahrom are the indexes of iranian thought and creativity and also the climat...

We profiled the microfungal communities in gardens of fungus-growing ants to evaluate possible species-specific ant-microfungal associations and to assess the potential dependencies of microfungal diversity on ant foraging behavior. In a 1-year survey, we isolated microfungi from nests of Cyphomyrmex wheeleri, Trachymyrmex septentrionalis and Atta texana in Central Texas. Microfungal prevalence...

In agroecosystems, local and landscape features, as well as natural enemy abundance and richness, are significant predictors of predation services that may result in biological control of pests. Despite the increasing importance of urban gardening for provisioning of food to urban populations, most urban gardeners suffer from high pest problems, and have little knowledge about how to manage the...

Fungus-growing (attine) ants and their fungal symbionts passed through several evolutionary transitions during their 50 million year old evolutionary history. The basal attine lineages often shifted between two main cultivar clades, whereas the derived higher-attine lineages maintained an association with a monophyletic clade of specialized symbionts. In conjunction with the transition to speci...