This study assesses whether multifunctional edible landscaping business models provide a sufficient business case at enterprise and city scales to justify widespread implementation. First, semi-structured interviews were conducted with four landscaping entrepreneurs, and the information obtained from the interviews was utilized to carry out a business model comparison with the Business Model Ca...

How well do you know your favorite computational model of cognition? Most likely your knowledge of its behavior has accrued from tests of its ability to mimic human data, what we call local analyses because performance is assessed in a speciÞc testing situation. Global model analysis by landscaping is an approach that “sketches” out the performance of a model at all of its parameter values, cre...

Submitted: Sep 29, 2013; Accepted: Nov 2, 2013; Published: Nov 8, 2013 Abstract: The article describes a model and forecasting algorithm of landscaping state in a small town for a specified period of time. The model describes the stages of tree growth milestones from planting of saplings to plant loss. The theory of probabilistic finite-state automatons is used to form the model. Expert evaluat...

Background Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) accumulate in urban soils, and PAH contamination can change soil microbial community composition. Environmental microbiota is associated with human commensal microbiota, immune system and health. Therefore, studies investigating the degradation of PAHs, and the consequences of soil pollution on microbial communities in urban landscaping materia...

In the broad area of life sciences Landscaping can minimize the visual and physical impact of a building or development through masking the bulk and scale, and affect the microclimate, such as reducing the heat of the summer sun and absorbing storm water. A good understanding of the site and its surrounds is essential for a successful landscape design. Site analysis puts the site in its context...

Die Einführung mobiler Technologien in Unternehmen erfolgt häufig technikgetrieben und ohne genaue Kenntnis der konkreten, zu realisierenden Nutzenpotenziale. Es wird deshalb ein Vorgehensmodell vorgestellt, mit dem das Mobilitätspotenzial von Geschäftsprozessen systematisch analysiert werden kann. Im Vordergrund steht dabei die Verteilungsstruktur der Geschäftsprozesse. Ein weiterer wichtiger ...

Most theories of how decisions are made assume that the accumulation of evidence from the environment is a noisy process. Recently, models have been proposed which do not have this micro-variability, and as a result are simple in the sense of being analytically tractable. We use a global model analysis method called landscaping to show that in terms of flexibility, simply removing micro-variabi...

Well-planted and maintained landscaping can help reduce driving stress, provide better visual quality, and decrease over speeding, thus improving roadway safety. Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) Standard Index (SI-546) is one of the more demanding standards in the U.S. for landscaping design criteria at highway medians near intersections. The purposes of this study were to (1) empiri...