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Obesity and Urban Environments [PDF]
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2019 Obesity is a major public health issue, affecting both developed and developing societies. Obesity increases the risk for heart disease, stroke, some cancers, and type II diabetes. While individual behaviours are important risk factors, impacts on obesity and overweight of the urban physical and social environment have figured large in the recent ...
Peter Congdon
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Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being, 2022 The impact of environmental context on the psychological benefits derived from physical activity has attracted research attention in recent years. Previous reviews have compared effects of indoor versus outdoor exercise.
Claire Wicks +3 more
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Integrating Solar Energy and Nature-Based Solutions for Climate-Neutral Urban Environments
Solar, 2023 This study focuses on achieving climate neutrality in European cities by integrating solar energy technologies and nature-based solutions. Through an examination of current practices, emerging trends, and case examples, the study explores the benefits ...
Haiying Liu +4 more
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, 2023 AbstractUrbanization has dramatically changed Earth’s surface. This chapter starts with a qualitative look at the impact urban expansion has on the landscape, covering three existing urban classification schemes that have been created by other remote sensing scientists. We look at how these classifications can be used to quantify urban areas, and close
Michelle Stuhlmacher, Ran Goldblatt
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The negotiated public realm in the contemporary city: hybrid walkable urban networks of Hong Kong
City, Territory and Architecture, 2023 This paper focuses on the character of multi-level pedestrian accessibility and walkability within the public and quasi-public realm in Hong Kong, using the particular case of the redevelopment of Taikoo Place in Quarry Bay.
Hee Sun Choi +3 more
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A Review of End-to-End Autonomous Driving in Urban Environments
IEEE Access, 2022 Autonomous driving in urban environments requires intelligent systems that are able to deal with complex and unpredictable scenarios. Traditional modular approaches focus on dividing the driving task into standard modules, and then use rule-based methods
Daniel Coelho, Miguel Oliveira
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Frontiers in Built Environment, 2023 With the COVID-19 pandemic still ongoing, there is a need to ensure that people are not subjected to the risk of getting infected with the disease. Since COVID-19 is airborne, engineering controls must be provided to monitor and mitigate the spread of ...
Joshua C. Agar +9 more
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Scientific Reports, 2022 Environmental psychologists have established multiple psychological benefits of interaction with natural, compared to urban, environments on emotion, cognition, and attention.
P. Mavros +4 more
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Multi UAV Coverage Path Planning in Urban Environments
Italian National Conference on Sensors, 2021 Coverage path planning (CPP) is a field of study which objective is to find a path that covers every point of a certain area of interest. Recently, the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) has become more proficient in various applications such as ...
Javier Muñoz +5 more
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Rural to Urban Population Density Scaling of Crime and Property Transactions in English and Welsh Parliamentary Constituencies [PDF]
, 2016 Urban population scaling of resource use, creativity metrics, and human behaviors has been widely studied. These studies have not looked in detail at the full range of human environments which represent a continuum from the most rural to heavily urban ...
Hanley, QS, Lewis, D, Ribeiro, HV
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