Active school travel is in decline. An understanding of the potential determinants of health-enhancing physical activity during the school commute may help to inform interventions aimed at reversing these trends. The purpose of this study was to identify the physical environmental factors associated with health-enhancing physical activity during the school commute. Data were collected in 2009 o...

Erratum Following the publication of this article [1] it was brought to our attention that reference 12 was incomplete. Reference 12 currently reads: Chiumento A. A haven of greenspace. 2012. Reference 1. Ohly H, et al. A systematic review of the health and well-being impacts of school gardening: synthesis of quantitative and qualitative evidence. BMC permits unrestricted use, distribution, and...

Modelling walking distance enables the observation of non-linearities in hedonic property pricing accessibility to greenspace. We test a penalized spline spatial error model (PS-SEM), which has two distinctive features. First, PS-SEM controls for presence spatially autocorrelated term. Second, allows continuous non-linear decay price premium as function greenspaces. As result, compared with tra...

Given the important role of green environments playing in healthy cities, inequality urban greenspace exposure has aroused growing attentions. However, few comparative studies are available to quantify this phenomenon for cities with different population sizes across a country, especially those developing world. Besides, commonly used measures always hindered by conceptual simplification withou...

Evidence suggest that greenspace use can be associated with children’s physical, mental, social health and well-being. Accordingly, contemporary declining prompts a need to understand the factors affect frequency of use. Aiming determine what extent demographic, environmental predict for 6−15-year-old children in Denmark national survey was distributed. Responses from 3171 parents showed 49.5 %...

The complexity of operating a farm combine has increased dramatically in recent years with the introduction of features including automatic guidance, precision farming, and sophisticated implements with specialized controls. In this work, we describe the development of a virtual reality interface for use in operating a combine while harvesting virtual crops. Using the actual combine cab hardwar...

Abstract Public health measures during the COVID-19 pandemic provided researchers with a quasi-experimental situation to examine what happens when anthropogenic noise sources ( e.g. , traffic) are greatly reduced. This article combines noise-related calls Montreal’s 311 service (29,891 from 2014 2022) original survey data 240 residents collected in 2020 after lockdown and summer reopening. The ...

Alam Cipta Vol 6 (1) June 2013 ABSTRACT This document describes a conceptual methodology to investigate the dynamics of “bottom-up” green infrastructure (GI) investment in tropical urban areas. This approach seeks to develop a methodology of study to understand what policies may lead to more efficient investment policies that lead to a sustainable urban setting. Agent-based Modeling (ABM) was u...

Large old trees are disproportionate providers of structural elements (e.g. hollows, coarse woody debris), which are crucial habitat resources for many species. The decline of large old trees in modified landscapes is of global conservation concern. Once large old trees are removed, they are difficult to replace in the short term due to typically prolonged time periods needed for trees to matur...