Mulches are relatively new landscape components and are becoming recognized for their environmental and aesthetic outcomes on urban landscapes especially in arid environments. However, the effects of mulches on landscape plants have not been extensively discussed. This study examined the effects of organic and inorganic mulches on the performance of a widely used herbaceous drought toleran...

In Malaysia, a substantial amount of money is spent yearly to maintain the public parks. However, there are still countless parks and open spaces that have been built with excellent facilities for but being unkempt, deteriorating into disrepair poorly maintained. Considering importance park community how this critical link landscape planning maintenance, need cost-efficiency study set forth str...

To what degree do conceptual systems reflect universal patterns of featural covariation in the world (similarity) or universal organizing principles of mind, and to what degree do they reflect specific goals, theories, and beliefs of the categorizer? This question was addressed in experiments concerned with categorization and reasoning among different types of tree experts (e.g., taxonomists, l...

Research on consumer, grower, and landscape manager perception of azalea lace bug, Stephanitis pyrioides (Scott), feeding and on plant productivity parameters, including gas exchange and growth, has increased our understanding of the nature of feeding injury. These studies made it possible to develop decision-making guidelines for cost-effective maintenance of aesthetically pleasing azaleas. Cr...

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is nothing new. Using SOA in the company’s IT-Landscape gives the ability to drive IT-Evolution through business and to enable better business operations through a more flexible, agile and low maintenance IT. Hence it’s amazing that an SOA landscape is quite rare in globally operating companies. IT-Landscapes of global companies are often historically grown a...