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Rewilding Play: Design Build Interventions

open access: yesEducation Sciences, 2022
Research on physical interventions installed in outdoor environments and their impacts on children’s play and development is a growing area of study. This paper focuses on the design and installation of outdoor interventions at early childhood education ...
Susan Herrington   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Factors Influencing Seating Preferences in Semi-Outdoor Learning Spaces at Tropical Universities

open access: yesBuildings, 2023
Semi-outdoor learning spaces are becoming increasingly popular with both students and teachers at tropical universities; however, some of the seats are always vacant.
Yiqi Tao   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Senior Housing as a Living Environment That Supports Well-Being in Old Age

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health, 2021
Background: In different parts of the world new models of senior housing have rapidly appeared, which indicates that existing housing and care models are not fulfilling the hopes and needs of current and new generations of older people.Material and ...
Outi Hannele Jolanki   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Spatially varying associations between the built environment and older adults' propensity to walk

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health, 2022
Population aging has become a severe issue facing most nations and areas worldwide—with Hong Kong being no exception. For older adults, walking is among the most well-liked travel modes, boosting their overall health and wellbeing.
Chunmei Yang   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The phenomenon of diversity and the effective response to the physical environment: the formation of old traditional markets (Suq)

open access: yesConservation Science in Cultural Heritage, 2023
Many cities worldwide take pride in their traditional markets. This research aims to verify the importance of lessons learned from old traditional markets, characterized by the effective response to their physical environment. This main aim leads to many
Kabila Faris Hmood, Jawdat Goussous
doaj   +1 more source

The impact of the physical environment on depressive symptoms of older residents living in care homes : a mixed methods study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Background and Objectives: Forty percent of residents living in care homes in the United Kingdom have significant depressive symptoms. Care homes can appear to be depressing places, but whether the physical environment of homes directly affects ...
Cain, Rebecca   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Creating a suitable physical environment at the institutions of higher education considering the needs of students with disabilities / Aukštųjų mokyklų fizinės aplinkos pritaikymas neįgaliųjų reikmėms

open access: yesMokslas: Lietuvos Ateitis, 2011
The main purpose of this work is to develop a model for meas­uring the suitability of a physical environment at the institu­tions of higher education considering the needs of students with disabilities.
Dalė Pilipavičiūtė   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Analysis of Physical Environment and Preventive Behavior Determinants Toward Genesis Filariasis Cases in the Sub-district of Talang Kelapa and Sembawa, District of Banyuasin [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Background: Filariasisis an infection caused by a filarial worm through the intermediary of a mosquito that is chronic if untreated would give rise to permanent disability in the legs, arms, breasts and genitals.
Faisya, F. (Fickry)   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Environmental and anthropogenic drivers of watercress (Nasturtium officinale) communities in char-lands and water channels across the Swat River Basin: implication for conservation planning

open access: yesFrontiers in Plant Science, 2023
Recent anthropogenic sources and excess usage have immensely threatened the communities and habitat ecology of this region’s medicinally and economically significant crops.
Nasrullah Khan   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Building health: an epidemiological study of "sick building syndrome" in the Whitehall II study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Objectives: Sick building syndrome (SBS) is described as a group of symptoms attributed to the physical environment of specific buildings. Isolating particular environmental features responsible for the symptoms has proved difficult.
Eley, J.   +5 more
core   +1 more source

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