MycoNews 2021: President’s message, IMA statutes, news, reports, awards, personalia, and book news by David L. Hawksworth

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Reflection in Practice as Source of Values: The Cross-cultural Creation of a Health-care Ethic in Post-Apartheid South Africa by Augustine Shutte

“…Such reflection, aimed as it is at the achievement of excellence in the practice concerned, can (if pursued with rigour and commitment), uncover values embedded in the practice which, however limited the practice (rugby, gardening), have a wider, even universal, scope. When the partners in dialogue have general recognition of one another (religions, countries, professional bodies, political parties), these values can provide materials for a Global Ethic (Parliament of the World’s Religions), that is constructed from the bottom up (the Oregon Plan), rather than by some public authority (the United Nations). …”
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Gestion des sols et des substrats pour la nature et l’agriculture urbaines à Strasbourg : vers un renouvellement des représentations et des pratiques des circulations de matière ?... by Adrien Baysse-Lainé, Laure Cormier, Kevin Gaulier

“…As a result, the in situ management of inherited soils remains limited to community gardens and a joint development zone (in French zone d’aménagement concerté or ZAC) due to economic reasons and emerging political constraints. …”
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Smart Agricultural Pest Detection Using I-YOLOv10-SC: An Improved Object Detection Framework by Wenxia Yuan, Lingfang Lan, Jiayi Xu, Tingting Sun, Xinghua Wang, Qiaomei Wang, Jingnan Hu, Baijuan Wang

“…The enhanced I-YOLOv10-SC network effectively addresses the challenges of detecting small and incomplete insect targets in tea plantations, offering high precision and recall rates, thus providing a solid technical foundation for intelligent pest monitoring and precise prevention in smart tea gardens.…”
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A Feasibility Randomised Controlled Trial of the New Orleans Intervention for Infant Mental Health: A Study Protocol by Rachel Pritchett, Bridie Fitzpatrick, Nicholas Watson, Richard Cotmore, Philip Wilson, Graham Bryce, Julia Donaldson, Kathleen Boyd, Charles Zeanah, John Norrie, Julie Taylor, Julie Larrieu, Martina Messow, Matt Forde, Fiona Turner, Susan Irving, Helen Minnis

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Extraction of Spatial Distribution Characteristics of Jiangnan Urban Landscape under the Influence of Geomorphology by Shuhua Wang, Anhua Qin

“…The construction of cities and ponds originated from political influence, environmental constraints, and architectural techniques; the landscape pattern of the combined shape and complementary potential originated from the creation of various types of gardens in various dynasties; the complementary planning of landscape, the traffic creation of the plain and water network, and the production factors of agriculture and sanitation influenced the construction of the countryside landscape; the traditional view of feng shui, poetry and painting, the eight scenes of the city and countryside, and other humanistic intentions influenced the overall situation of the town and the landscape. …”
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“A democratic art at a democratic price”: The American Celebrations of the Shakespeare Tercentenary, 1916 by Monika Smialkowska

“…A stunning range of large and small-scale Tercentenary projects were carried out across the country, including plays, masques, pageants, festivals, musical and dance tributes, lectures, sermons, exhibitions, courses, tableaux, planting of trees, and developing of Shakespeare gardens. This article demonstrates that public interest and participation extended beyond the narrow circles of Anglo-Protestant elites. …”
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Integrated Community-Based Nutrition Interventions Improve Diet Quality, Food, and Credit Access among Rural Women in Northern Ghana by Clement Kubreziga Kubuga, Gifty Sienso

“…The experimental group was provided with credit access and solar-powered irrigation facility for dry-season community gardening, while the control group had access to only credit. …”
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Biodiversity through Domestication by Wulf Schiefenhövel

“…Biodiversity was thus, by the gardening activities of ancestral Papuan peoples, increased in this part of the world. …”
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MycoNews 2023: Editorial, news, reports, awards, personalia, and book news by David L. Hawksworth

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La Montagne dans la poésie lyrique d’Andrew Marvell : variations sur une vision apocalyptique et le locus amoenus by Jean-Pierre Mouchon

“…Andrew Marvell, known as the metaphysical poet of 17th century landscape gardens, likes strolling about his microcosm, taking delight in transforming by the thought the surrounding landcape into a "locus amoenus" where he can enjoy nature and solitude, farfrom these "wild creatures called men" (Upon Appleton House, to my Lord Fairfax, XIII, 102) he learnt to distrust. …”
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Friendship, admiration, or hatred? The image of the united provinces in the travel diaries of the Czech nobility (1650-1750) by Jiří Kubeš

“…Admiration (and perhaps envy) was inspired by the enormous economic successes of the local traders and merchants, ports full of boats, stores full of luxurious goods, outstanding lawyers in Leiden, clean and tidy towns and houses, the landscape with its many canals, avenues of trees, and an abundance of gardens. Words of praise always tended to be directed at the aesthetic form of these things, rather than their creators and the lifestyle they led. …”
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Development of Pasta Products with Nonconventional Ingredients and Their Effect on Selected Quality Characteristics: A Brief Overview by R. A. T. Nilusha, J. M. J. K. Jayasinghe, O. D. A. N. Perera, P. I. P. Perera

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Haematological, Liver Function Parameters and Heavy Metal Assessment of KWMC Workers at Roadside and Mixed Waste Dumpsites in Kwara State, Nigeria by D.T. Ogundele, V.T. Olayemi, F.M. Folaranmi, O.E. Oludele, A.A. Oladejo

“… Allergic and health implications associated with gardening and waste-scavenging necessitated this study. …”
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Spatial Distribution and Pollution Assessment of Metals in Sediments of the Babon River, Central Java, Indonesia by Haeruddin Haeruddin, Agoes Soegianto, Frida Purwanti, Arif Rahman, Carolyn Melissa Payus, Hefni Effendi

“…The Babon River is one of the drainage channels in Semarang, Indonesia, that is used for drinking water, irrigated agriculture of paddy fields and gardens, fish farming media, and the disposal of industrial wastewater. …”
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Fruit and seed plumpness, germination and viability of rare plants in Yakutia by D. N. Androsova, N. S. Danilova, K. G. Tkachenko, N. E. Staroverov, A. Yu. Gryaznov

“…Collecting and studying natural flora species in botanical gardens helps to save biological resources of useful species and recommend them for urban landscaping.Materials and methods. …”
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Haematological, Liver Function Parameters and Heavy Metal Assessment of KWMC Workers at Roadside and Mixed Waste Dumpsites in Kwara State, Nigeria by D.T. Ogundele, V.T. Olayemi, F.M. Folaranmi, O.E. Oludele, A.A. Oladejo

“… Allergic and health implications associated with gardening and waste-scavenging necessitated this study. …”
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Biology of Blattodea and Dermaptera in the Continental Biogeographical Region and Adjacent Areas of European Russia by Victor V. Aleksanov, Alexander B. Ruchin, Nikolai V. Shulaev, Inessa O. Karmazina, Sergey V. Lukiyanov, Evgeniy A. Lobachev, Anna M. Nikolaeva, Mikhail N. Esin

“…In contrast, <i>F. auricularia</i> is associated with gardens, urban habitats, and some meadows. <i>Ectobius sylvestris</i> exhibits a more pronounced sexual dimorphism concerning the effectiveness of different sampling methods compared to <i>E. lapponicus</i>. …”
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Black currant cultivars, developed at the Polli Horticultural Research Center (Estonia), in Northwest Russia by O. A. Tikhonova, V. S. Popov

“…They are recommended for amateur gardens in Northwest Russia. Cv. ‘Karri’ (k-44172) is a promising source of such traits as good self-fertility, large fruit size, stable yield, well-balanced taste, high anthocyanin content in berries, and resistance to American powdery mildew and gall mite. …”
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Comparison of the evolution of physicochemical and microbial characteristics of the wastes, those most commonly generated in Algeria during composting by Derias Fatma Zohra, Mekakia Mehdi Mokhtaria, Lounis Zoubida, Fahrul Huyop, Ida Bagus Wayan Gunam

“…However, small waste and very small waste can also be used to amend green areas and public gardens. The results also showed that the concentration of pathogenic microorganisms such as Salmonella and Shigella did not exceed the NFU44-051 standard.Conclusion The findings support the industrialization of waste valorization by composting as an effective technique for waste reduction given the current situation and encourage investors and promote the industrialization of waste recovery by composting in Algeria.…”
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