The city is alive with dynamic systems, where parks and urban green spaces have high strategic importance which help to improve living conditions. Urban parks are used as visual landscape with so many benefits such as reducing stress, reducing air pollution and producing oxygen, creating opportunities for people to participate in physical activities, optimal environment for children and decreas...

every year, many accidents leading to physical injuries in kindergartens, indicates that a very large percentage of them are related to the safety concerns and lack of hygiene in these places. families, due to their busy life style and working hours and also children needs of preschool education, are searching to find most suitable kindergartens for their children. selecting a kindergarten with...

objective: environmental psychology as a science could be useful in understanding the dissociation between the man and the environment. the aim of this study was to compare mental health, job satisfaction and well-being of nurses who work in hospital environments with different designs. material: this was a quasi-experimental study, in which 250 nurses filled out the mental health, well-being a...

BACKGROUND The extent to which novel land-efficient neighborhood design can promote key health behaviors is examined, concentrating on communal outdoor space provision (COSP). OBJECTIVES To test whether a neighborhood (Accordia) with a higher ratio of communal to private outdoor space is associated with higher levels of resident's (a) self-reported local health behaviors and (b) observed enga...

Theoretical studies about the interrelation of bank runs and deposit insurance assume that depositors are perfectly informed about deposit insurance and its main features. This assumption is commonly made, but was hardly ever checked empirically. Taking German depositors as an example, we investigate the knowledge about existing deposit insurance systems and how the insurance levels of differen...