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Sound and Soundscape in Restorative Natural Environments: A Narrative Literature Review
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Acoustic experiences of nature represent a growing area in restorative environments research and are explored in this narrative literature review. First, the work surveyed indicates that nature is broadly characterized by the sounds of birdsong, wind ...
Eleanor Ratcliffe
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Forests, 2023 Green cultural heritage is an important form of natural space in cities. Only a few studies have conducted restorative studies in a historical environment as most have focused on natural environments. Moreover, few studies on cultural ecosystem services (
Jing Xie +7 more
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Recurrent Video Restoration Transformer with Guided Deformable Attention [PDF]
Neural Information Processing Systems, 2022 Video restoration aims at restoring multiple high-quality frames from multiple low-quality frames. Existing video restoration methods generally fall into two extreme cases, i.e., they either restore all frames in parallel or restore the video frame by ...
Jingyun Liang +9 more
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Impacts of urban green infrastructure on attentional functioning: insights from an fMRI study
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 Multiple studies using various measures, technologies, and participant groups have found that exposure to urban green infrastructure can help alleviate the daily attentional fatigue that human experience.
Xiangrong Jiang +4 more
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Dynamic Attentive Graph Learning for Image Restoration [PDF]
2021 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2021 Non-local self-similarity in natural images has been verified to be an effective prior for image restoration. However, most existing deep non-local methods assign a fixed number of neighbors for each query item, neglecting the dynamics of non-local correlations. Moreover, the non-local correlations are usually based on pixels, prone to be biased due to
Chong Mou, Jian Zhang 0018, Zhuoyuan Wu
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Health-Promoting Nature-Based Paradigms in Urban Planning
Encyclopedia, 2023 Since the 19th century, urban planning has largely been guided by ambitions to improve the population’s wellbeing and living conditions. Parks and green areas have played a significant role in this work.
Patrik Grahn +3 more
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The influence of natural environments on creativity
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2022 This study investigated the effects of different natural environments on attention restoration and creativity. To compare the restorative benefits based on the degrees of perceived naturalness in urban areas, this study categorized environments into ...
Chin-Wen Yeh +2 more
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The relationship between students’ perceptions of the University of Pretoria’s on-campus green spaces and attention restoration [PDF]
Human Geographies: Journal of Studies and Research in Human Geography, 2017 Previous research has suggested that natural green areas provide several psychological benefits to individuals. One such benefit is the restoration of attention capacities, an advantage that is of particular importance to university students. The present
Ruth M Liprini, Nicoleen Coetzee
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Behavioral Sciences, 2014 Physical settings can play a role in coping with stress; in particular experimental research has found strong evidence between exposure to natural environments and recovery from physiological stress and mental fatigue, giving support to both Stress ...
Rita Berto
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Influence of Consumer Landscape on Place Attachment in Agritourism—The Case of Huatung, Taiwan
Agriculture, 2022 The offerings and demand for agritourism have increased in the past four decades as farms seek to expand and diversify their income and urban dwellers pursue a slower pace during travel.
Ching-Cheng Shen +2 more
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