Article
Plant Sciences
Bianca Lopez, Christopher Kennedy, Christopher Field, Timon McPhearson
Summary: The study found that most respondents were concerned about lack of social distancing and crowded urban green spaces, which made them less likely to visit these spaces and visit them less frequently than before the pandemic. Additionally, differences in concerns and important features of urban green spaces across gender, race, and ethnicity highlight the importance of considering specific community needs in design and management of these spaces.
URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING
(2021)
Review
Construction & Building Technology
Luis Valenca Pinto, Miguel Inacio, Carla Sofia Santos Ferreira, Antonio Dinis Ferreira, Paulo Pereira
Summary: Urban green spaces play a crucial role in providing ecosystem services and contributing to human wellbeing. This systematic review identified research gaps and future perspectives in understanding the ecosystem services and wellbeing dimensions provided by urban green spaces. Parks and gardens were the most investigated, while other types of urban green spaces received less attention. Health and good social relations were the most studied wellbeing dimensions, while food security received the least attention. Surveys and indicators were the most commonly used methodologies for studying the contribution of urban green spaces to human wellbeing.
SUSTAINABLE CITIES AND SOCIETY
(2022)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Michael J. Lomas, Eunice Ayodeji, Philip Brown
Summary: The study used qualitative interviews to explore the impact of urban regeneration projects on residents' mental wellbeing and place attachment. It identified three main themes - feelings of control, social and community relations, and understandings and definitions of place. These highlight the potential for regeneration activities to affect various aspects of the people-place relationship.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Longfeng Wu, Seung Kyum Kim, Chensong Lin
Summary: This study, based on a nationwide social survey, examined the availability of green spaces to different socioeconomic groups living in urban areas in China. The results showed that green spaces were not strongly discriminatory towards people's socioeconomic levels. Certain disadvantaged groups were sometimes provided with more green spaces. The study also found that residents in affordable housing estates and urban villages had higher rates of vegetation coverage.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Diogo Guedes Vidal, Ricardo Cunha Dias, Catarina Patoilo Teixeira, Claudia Oliveira Fernandes, Walter Leal Filho, Nelson Barros, Rui Leandro Maia
Summary: Public urban green spaces play a crucial role in enhancing the quality of urban environments, promoting sustainability, and improving the health and well-being of their users. However, the lack of data on these spaces poses challenges in terms of governance and effective intervention. This study identified clusters of ecosystem services potential in 25 public urban green spaces in Porto, Portugal, and proposed a typology that integrates socioeconomic and environmental characteristics to better qualify these spaces.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY
(2022)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Haiwei Li, Weijing Luo, Yongqi Hou, Yu Xia, Jing Yao, Ning Kang, Congshuang Deng, Hu Sun, Chongxian Chen
Summary: This study identified key factors influencing perceived health benefits and use behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic, including green space access, maintenance, soundscape, and sociodemographic characteristics. Additionally, UGS components were found to significantly predict place attachment, which in turn influenced perceived health benefits, visit frequency, and duration. These findings provide implications for policymakers and landscape planners in designing and managing UGSs to cope with pandemics effectively.
FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
(2021)
Article
Plant Sciences
Daria Sikorska, Magdalena Wojnowska-Heciak, Jakub Heciak, Joanna Bukowska, Edyta Laszkiewicz, Richard J. Hopkins, Piotr Sikorski
Summary: Based on a social preference survey in Warsaw, this study assesses people's preferences for changes in urban green spaces (UGS) to ensure safe recreation, examining how personal characteristics correlate with preferred changes. The findings suggest that vegetation density and overall share of vegetation are highly important factors in assessing images, while crowding has little effect. Respondents expressed a need for more wild and cultivated vegetation, as well as more places for spending time in UGS. Two major behavioral patterns were identified: those driven by fear of COVID-19 who preferred green spaces closer to their homes and required fewer alterations, and those frequent visitors of UGS who showed no fear of COVID-19 and preferred more wilderness. These findings highlight the importance of increasing UGS diversity.
URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING
(2023)
Article
Plant Sciences
Lydia Dede Adjetey, Stephen Appiah Takyi, Michael Osei Asibey, Owusu Amponsah
Summary: Globally, the loss of green spaces poses a threat to the sustainability of many cities. This study in Accra examines the impact of complex land ownership and management on park conditions, availability, and development. The findings indicate an unjust distribution of parks with most located in affluent neighborhoods. The study suggests improving existing practices to enhance park creation, availability, and conditions.
URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING
(2023)
Article
Environmental Studies
Fatemeh Hosseini, Hassan Sajadzadeh, Farshid Aram, Amir Mosavi
Summary: The study found that in the historically and culturally valuable residential areas of Hamadan City, local green spaces play a significant role in residents' social attachment. Results showed that among emotional bonds, functional bonds, social bonds, and spatial bonds, emotional bonds, functional bonds, social bonds, and spatial bonds have a direct and significant impact on place attachment.
Article
Environmental Studies
Magdalena Biernacka, Jakub Kronenberg, Edyta Laszkiewicz, Piotr Czembrowski, Vahid Amini Parsa, Daria Sikorska
Summary: Urban green space is a broad concept that includes not only urban parks but also other vegetated areas in cities, known as informal green spaces. These informal green spaces, although not officially recognized, provide similar ecosystem services as parks. Our study examines the different categories of urban green space and highlights the challenges in planning and managing these areas.
Review
Environmental Sciences
Yufang Zhang, Yang Zhang, Terry van Dijk, Yu Yang
Summary: Green spaces have a positive impact on people's health, but it is not solely determined by the material presence of green spaces. The ability of people to see, access, and enjoy green spaces also plays a crucial role. The relational dimension and psychological significance of green spaces are essential for better health outcomes.
ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH
(2022)
Review
Plant Sciences
Amir Reza Shahtahmassebi, Chenlu Li, Yifan Fan, Yani Wu, Yue Lin, Muye Gan, Ke Wang, Arunima Malik, George Alan Blackburn
Summary: Remote sensing technologies play an important role in analyzing urban green spaces, but a comprehensive evaluation of the current status, challenges and potential in this area is lacking. Studies have focused on mapping UGSs and classifying species, with fewer examples of non-tree species mapping, change detection, biomass mapping, and vegetation health assessment within UGSs.
URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING
(2021)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Vafa Dianati
Summary: Recent research on urban social sustainability has shifted focus to the importance of place-based theories and practices in achieving and maintaining social outcomes. This study in Tehran, Iran, utilized a place-based framework to examine the effects of soft densification on place attachment at the neighborhood level, finding that the temporal aspect of soft densification erodes place memory by resetting the time of the place. The research also showed that loss of place attachment due to urban densification often leads to passive responses such as lifestyle changes and relocation to adapt to the new socio-spatial order.
Review
Environmental Studies
Laura B. Cole, Sylvia Coleman, Leila Scannell
Summary: Despite little attention in research, the connection between green building design and place attachment is significant, with potential impacts on theory and practice. Four key green design strategies have been identified to support place attachment, potentially enhancing benefits and promoting pro-environmental behaviors within green buildings.
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Development Studies
Yiyang Pan, Patrick Brandful Cobbinah
Summary: This paper examines the association between urban regeneration and place attachment in Zhuanghe, China. Findings suggest that despite having strong place attachment, residents are willing to move for the regeneration program due to fear of losing social networks. The article advocates for an alternative approach to reduce the disruptive impacts on residents' place attachment.
HABITAT INTERNATIONAL
(2023)
Article
Engineering, Multidisciplinary
Jing Hua, Xingxiu Li, Jizhong Liu, Jianjun Tang, Jue Rao, Hong Deng
Summary: This paper proposes an arrhythmia classification scheme based on a modified HRNet and efficient channel attention (ECA), which can effectively improve the accuracy and efficiency of ECG signal classification. Experimental results show that the proposed scheme achieves an average accuracy superior to benchmarking methods.
MEASUREMENT SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Pharmacology & Pharmacy
Yang-Feng Lv, Zhi-Qiang Deng, Qiu-Chen Bi, Jian-Jun Tang, Hong Chen, Chuan-Sheng Xie, Qing-Rong Liang, Yu-Hua Xu, Rong-Guang Luo, Qun Tang
Summary: This study proposes a new method for treating hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) using transarterial chemoembolization (TACE), called DOX-TASE. By modulating the chemo-environment with sevelamer, a polymeric phosphate binder, intratumoral inorganic phosphate (Pi) starvation is induced, resulting in increased accumulation and retention of the chemotherapy drug doxorubicin (DOX) in the tumor. This new approach induces more severe tumor necrosis compared to conventional TACE and drug-eluting bead TACE.
Article
Pharmacology & Pharmacy
Qiu-Chen Bi, Jian-Jun Tang, Jun Zhao, Yang-Feng Lv, Zhi-Qiang Deng, Hong Chen, Yu-Hua Xu, Chuan-Sheng Xie, Qing-Rong Liang, Rong-Guang Luo, Qun Tang
Summary: Sevelamer arsenite nanoparticle is a promising drug delivery system for the treatment of solid tumors. Its unique Pi-responsive properties enable enhanced tumor necrosis compared to arsenic trioxide, and in-vitro tests have shown that it can enhance the anticancer effect of arsenic trioxide.
Article
Automation & Control Systems
Junhao Geng, Xinyang Zhao, Zhenxin Guo, Shangan Zhang, Jianjun Tang, Yiming Rong, Yongsheng Ma
Summary: This paper proposes a marker-less monocular vision point positioning method for vision-assisted manual operation in industrial environments. The method accurately locates the target point of operation using constraint minimization even in the absence of visual features. Experimental results demonstrate its superior accuracy and robustness compared to traditional methods.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ADVANCED MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Ecology
Jian-Jun Tang, Xing-Ping Liu, Hai-Min He, Li-Li Huang, Shao-Hui Wu, Fang-Sen Xue
Summary: The life cycle of the cabbage beetle in southeastern China is complex due to multiple options for adult development. This study provides detailed information on the multi-year emergence patterns of diapausing individuals and explores the influence of temperature and photoperiod on diapause duration. The findings suggest that the cabbage beetle adopts a multi-year dormancy strategy to survive local environmental conditions and unpredictable risks.
ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
(2022)
Article
Pediatrics
Jing Sun, Ru Zhang, Jianjun Tang, Xuedong Wu, Lu Zhu, Haiying Huang, Huimin Chen, Minhua Xiao, Hongfeng Luo, Haiqing Zheng, Jiaqi Chen
Summary: This study investigated the relationship between obesity and short-term outcomes in children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). The results showed that obesity affects the outcome of ALL patients, with higher BMI being associated with increased minimal residual disease (MRD). In addition, higher BMI was also associated with increased leptin levels at diagnosis.
FRONTIERS IN PEDIATRICS
(2022)
Article
Biochemical Research Methods
Ying Liang, Yanan Wu, Zequn Zhang, Niannian Liu, Jun Peng, Jianjun Tang
Summary: The study proposes a flexible deep learning-based framework called Hyb4mC for predicting 4mC sites. It adopts the DNA2vec method for sequence embedding and uses two different subnets for further analysis. The experimental results show that Hyb4mC can significantly enhance the performance of predicting 4mC sites.
BMC BIOINFORMATICS
(2022)
Article
Physics, Multidisciplinary
Jing Hua, Jue Rao, Yingqiong Peng, Jizhong Liu, Jianjun Tang
Summary: This paper proposes a deep compressive-sensing scheme for ECG signals based on a modified Inception block and LSTM. Experimental results on the MIT-BIH Arrhythmia Database and Non-Invasive Fetal ECG Arrhythmia Database demonstrate that the proposed scheme significantly improves the reconstruction performance and has good recovering quality in noisy data.
Article
Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
Jianjun Tang, Zhihong Wu, Jia He, Qingdan Hu, Jun Yao, Lin Hu, Shenghua Zhou, Mingxian Chen
Summary: A 46-year-old woman admitted to the cardiovascular department due to palpitations and exertional dyspnea was diagnosed with a large atrial septal defect and anomalous pulmonary venous drainage. The patient underwent successful surgical repair and became asymptomatic before discharge.
FRONTIERS IN CARDIOVASCULAR MEDICINE
(2022)
Article
Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
Yishu Wang, Yanchao Xiao, Jianjun Tang, Yutao Liu, Hui Li, Zengjin Peng, Danyan Xu, Li Shen
Summary: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of phase 1 cardiac rehabilitation on cardiac function and hemodynamic changes in patients with coronary heart disease and acute heart failure. The results showed that phase 1 cardiac rehabilitation combined with routine medication can improve cardiac function and hemodynamic characteristics in these patients.
FRONTIERS IN CARDIOVASCULAR MEDICINE
(2022)
Article
Pediatrics
Xingxing Qiao, Liping Wu, Jianjun Tang, Rong Xiang, Liangliang Fan, Hao Huang, Yaqin Chen
Summary: Campomelic dysplasia (CD) is an autosomal dominant skeletal dysplasia syndrome characterized by shortness and bowing of lower extremities, often accompanied by XY sex reversal. SOX9 variants and rearrangement involving chromosome 17 are the causes of CD. However, the pathogenesis of SOX9 haploinsufficiency is still insufficiently understood. This study identified a novel SOX9 variant (p.Q417*) in a Chinese family with CD, supporting the role of reduced transactivation of SOX9 in the pathogenicity of CD.
FRONTIERS IN PEDIATRICS
(2023)
Article
Entomology
Shu Fu, Lili Huang, Haimin He, Jianjun Tang, Shaohui Wu, Fangsen Xue
Summary: This study examines the differences in life history traits between non-diapausing and diapausing individuals of the Asian corn borer along a latitudinal gradient, revealing significant variations in developmental patterns between different latitudes.
Article
Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
Zhihong Wu, Jianjun Tang, Qingyi Zhu, Lin Hu, Zhenjiang Liu, Xuping Li, Qiming Liu, Shenghua Zhou, Mingxian Chen
Summary: This case report describes the loss of right ventricular lead pacing in a patient with acute coronary syndrome caused by a left circumflex thrombus.
FRONTIERS IN CARDIOVASCULAR MEDICINE
(2022)
Article
Entomology
Li-Li Huang, Fang-Sen Xue, Jian-Chun Wan, Jian-Jun Tang, Yu-Yong Liang, Hai-Min He
Summary: The fall armyworm has invaded Jiangxi Province in Southeast China for the past 3 years. This study investigated the effects of different host plants on the life-history traits of the fall armyworm and found that corn leaves provide the most nutritious diet for the pest. These findings may help understand why the fall armyworm mainly infests corn plants.
JOURNAL OF APPLIED ENTOMOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Cell & Tissue Engineering
Haoxi Ni, Jianbo Xi, Jianjun Tang, Yongmin Yan, Ying Chu, Jing Zhou
Summary: Wound healing in chronic wounds is a complex problem. Traditional methods have poor treatment results and cause psychological stress to patients and economic burden to society. Stem cell-derived extracellular vesicles (SC-EVs) have shown potential in accelerating chronic wound repair due to their ability to inhibit inflammation, induce angiogenesis, promote re-epithelization, and reduce scar formation. This study summarizes the pathological factors hindering wound healing, discusses the mechanisms of how SC-EVs accelerate chronic wound repair, compares the advantages and disadvantages of different SC-EVs for chronic wound treatment, and provides new insights for future SC-EVs research in chronic wound treatment.
STEM CELL REVIEWS AND REPORTS
(2023)
