Our findings demonstrate that the rural holds potential to function as a therapeutic landscape for stroke survivors, especially through its enabling natural and social characteristics.
As an abstract mathematical function, a landscape applies to widely different complex systems, for example, fitness landscapes in evolutionary biology for defining populations and species.
Here we build on a classic concept of the structure function as a way of describing the landscape of a biological control agent from the agent's perspective.
Because temporary wetlands function as integral landscape components, not singly as isolated entities, their cumulative loss is ecologically detrimental yet not currently part of the conservation calculus.
When used for maximization (seeking the largest value of a fitness function), the fitness surface is imagined as a landscape where higher values (peaks) are better.
The example of the politically and linguistically-loaded contexts of Quebec and Vancouver indicates that the linguistic landscape can function as a powerful educational instrument.
When used in this way, these will no longer be a nuisance in the landscape, and their function as a more or less natural power plant will give new life to the old mines.
The key concept in constructing the adaptive landscape is of potential function as a scalar function.
They function as topograms – tiny landscape poems, folded up inside verbs and nouns.
This article examines how remote detention facilities on islands function as transnational landscapes of sedimentation.
