Nursing boundaries, first addressed by Florence Nightingale, are referred to in the “Nightingale Pledge” used in pinning ceremonies throughout our country. Passages such as ”I will abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous...maintain and elevate the standard of my profession...will hold in confidence matters committed to my keeping...in the practice of my calling...and devote myself ...

This paper is a brief survey of the role of temples and holy places in nurturing the surrounding flora and its habitat. Eightysix kinds of plants in temple yards and gardens of orissa have been enlisted where they are cultivated and preserved for different temple rituals. These plants are seen rarely in wild but are saved from extinction by their association with temple rituals and ceremonies.

This paper describes an approach of how to support collaborative modelling tasks. The presented system, Cool Modes, implements the approach using “plug-in” reference frames encapsulating the semantics of the used models. Details on the extensibility of the system and the definition and interpretation of these reference frames and models in the framework are shown and the co-operation support us...