forest roads are directions in natural habitats that used to transport wood products, secondary forest products and recreation. constructing forest roads causes trees clearing with specified width thus lead to direct or indirect changes in forest ecosystems and forest environment. this study aims to assess the changes of diversity and richness indices in main and secondary forest roads in a par...

Urban green spaces (public gardens, parks, urban and peri-urban forests) offer multiple-use opportunities for recreational activities played a key role in supporting mental physical health of dwellers during covid-19 pandemic, being ones few places where outdoor social allowed. This study was conducted Brașov city (also known as Kronstadt, by its German name), the second largest metropolitan ar...

AIMS This claims data-based study compares the intensity of diabetes care in community dwellers and nursing home residents with dementia. METHODS Delivery of diabetes-related medical examinations (DRMEs) was compared via logistic regression in 1,604 community dwellers and 1,010 nursing home residents with dementia. The intra-individual effect of nursing home transfer was evaluated within mixe...

The Klang Valley Region is the most urbanized region of Malaysia. As such the region has experienced much increased in the intensity and frequency of environmental hazards affecting the major environmental subsystems. Deterioration of environmental parameters could be observed within the air, water, land and biological components of the environment. Deterioration of environmental quality is clo...

Sometimes academic books must not be evaluated only according to their conclusions or arguments, but also for the meanings they carry in themselves. That is, to paraphrase Marshall McLuhan, sometimes the book is the message. I am specifically thinking about studies regarding the lifeworlds and actions of people who suffer from and struggle against the consequences of social inequality, such as ...

In the Pacific island region, the progress towards achieving the global Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target 7D, improving the lives of a hundred million slum dwellers, is fraught with many challenges. Out of all the MDG targets, minimal support has been provided to improving the quality of life of residents living in squatter and informal settlements in Pacific towns and cities. In this co...

Anthropology, a specific subfield of ethology, because it deals specifically with our own species, tends to be characterized by a more emotional approach than is common in other ethological fields. This may explain why standard methods that are commonly used in ethology, such as comparative biology, are remarkably rare in anthropology and especially palaeoanthropology. Anthropologists tend to v...

The rate of unplanned urbanization has increased with modern industrialization and the increase in migration from rural to urban areas, as a result, people have been exposed environmental problems (decrease natural resources, noise, pollution, etc.). With deteriorations such irreversible problems, loss mental physical health city-dwellers decrease productivity business life difficulties sociali...