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Urban Studies
Zhiyong Wang, Dick Ettema, Marco Helbich
Summary: This study examined the moderating effects of age and urbanicity on the associations between the neighborhood physical environment and the recreational and transportation walking of adults in the Netherlands. The results showed that age significantly modified the walking-environment associations and the moderating effects differed between weekdays and weekends. Interventions intended to stimulate walking should be tailored to specific places and age groups.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Shiyuan Zhang, Zhiyong Wang, Marco Helbich, Dick Ettema
Summary: This study examines the differences between runners' running environments and their residential environments, finding that urban and rural runners have diverse and distinct running environments. The results suggest the need for policies to promote running considering these differences.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Ecology
Jiakun Liu, Dick Ettema, Marco Helbich
Summary: This study investigates the associations between street view (SV) environmental features and pedestrians' walking duration in Amsterdam. Results indicate that associations differ between weekdays and weekends, with factors such as individual standing walls and address density influencing weekday walking, while factors such as street greenery, car presence, address density, land-use diversity, and distance to train stations affecting weekend walking. These findings suggest that SV environmental features can complement traditional built environmental measures in explaining pedestrian mobility.
LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING
(2023)
Article
Urban Studies
Xintong Ma, Chi Kwan Chau, Joseph Hung Kit Lai
Summary: Walking has been actively advocated to boost individuals' physical activity levels. Comfort is a major objective for many street design guidelines and walking audit tools. This study aimed to identify the major micro- and built environmental factors influencing pedestrian comfort for recreational walking. The results showed that pedestrian comfort is directly evaluated by satisfaction of built environment, thermal sensation, perceived air quality, and loudness.
Review
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Wenfei Yao, Fei Chen, San Wang, Xiaofeng Zhang
Summary: The research found that exposure to the natural environment has significant positive effects on human emotional well-being, including increasing positive affect and decreasing negative affect. However, there is substantial heterogeneity and risk of bias among studies, and factors such as study region, design, and sample characteristics can impact the results.
FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
(2021)
Article
Computer Science, Information Systems
Yifu Ge, Zhongyu He, Kai Shang
Summary: Exploring the relationship between leisure walking and the built environment can improve human health and well-being. By studying the association between the built environment and leisure walking at different scales, the most relevant scale for leisure walking was found to be 100 meters. The results showed that the actual paths were on average 24.97% longer than the shortest path, and the variables of the built environment were significantly associated with leisure walking.
ISPRS INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GEO-INFORMATION
(2023)
Article
Neurosciences
Isabella S. Bower, Aron T. Hill, Peter G. Enticott
Summary: Understanding the impact of design characteristics of the built environment on brain function is crucial for understanding cognitive processes and mental health. This study found that the scale and color of interior built environments can modulate brain connectivity, potentially affecting cognitive processes and mental health outcomes.
HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING
(2023)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Tracy Nau, Sean Perry, Billie Giles-Corti, William Bellew, Adrian Bauman, Ben J. Smith
Summary: This study evaluated state and territory laws in Australia and found that most jurisdictions do not have objectives in primary legislation to promote physical activity and integrated land use and transport planning. Only two jurisdictions addressed evidence-based standards and few fully met recommendations. Therefore, there is an opportunity to strengthen laws to promote more active environments.
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Seigo Mitsutake, Tatsuro Ishizaki, Yuri Yokoyama, Mariko Nishi, Mohammad Javad Koohsari, Koichiro Oka, Shohei Yano, Takumi Abe, Akihiko Kitamura
Summary: The study found that there is a certain association between neighborhood walkability and frailty as well as the need for long-term care insurance services among older adults. Older adults living in walkable areas have lower frailty rates, but their incidence of needing LTCI services is not significantly lower compared to those living in car-dependent areas.
Article
Economics
Haoran Yang, Qinran Zhang, Marco Helbich, Yi Lu, Dongsheng He, Dick Ettema, Long Chen
Summary: This study found that the built environment around workplaces is crucial for promoting walking behaviors and overall physical activity levels in the working population. Different built environment features have distinct associations with different domains of walking behaviors.
TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH PART A-POLICY AND PRACTICE
(2022)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Jingjing Li, Amy H. Auchincloss, Jana A. Hirsch, Steven J. Melly, Kari A. Moore, Adam Peterson, Brisa N. Sanchez
Summary: By employing a longitudinal distributed lag modeling approach, we systematically estimated the decay of associations between built environment features and transport walking as distance from home to destinations increased. Results showed that availability of walking destinations within specific distances were associated with transport walking, highlighting the need for flexible methods to estimate associations in different contexts. This new information will aid policymakers in understanding how different types of built environment destinations influence transport walking and guide interventions and facility placements.
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Byoung-Suk Kweon, Jody Rosenblatt-Naderi, Christopher D. Ellis, Woo-Hwa Shin, Blair H. Danies
Summary: The design of pedestrian environments, including sidewalks, buffer strips, and street trees, does impact parents' walking behavior, their perception of pedestrian safety, and their willingness to let their children walk to school. Parents are more cautious about their children's walking environments and safety than their own, and the effects of trees on parents' walking and perception of pedestrian safety are greater when there is a wide buffer.
Article
Construction & Building Technology
Gabriele Bernardini, Tiago Miguel Ferreira, Pilar Baquedano Julia, Rafael Ramirez Eudave, Enrico Quagliarini
Summary: This research offers a methodology for combined spatiotemporal flood risk assessment, considering hazard, physical vulnerability, user exposure, and vulnerability. It adopts a mesoscale approach and investigates indoor and outdoor users' exposure and vulnerability, using the Analytical Hierarchy Process to combine risk factors.
SUSTAINABLE CITIES AND SOCIETY
(2024)
Article
Ecology
Di Chen, Jie Yin, Chia-Pin Yu, Shengjing Sun, Charlotte Gabel, John D. Spengler
Summary: Observational and experimental studies have shown that exposure to greenness is beneficial for long-term health and well-being. However, more evidence is needed regarding the short-term health impacts of nearby nature in urban areas. This study used immersive virtual reality technology to investigate how transitions between built and natural environments affect urban residents. Results showed that transitioning from built to natural environments led to reductions in negative mood and transient anxiety, while transitions from natural to built environments had the opposite effect. Additionally, participants showed more emotional responses to nature through physiological measures. The study also highlighted the influence of contextual factors, such as physical health conditions, stress levels, experience with nature, and growth environments, on stress recovery. Overall, this study provides empirical evidence supporting the promotion of nearby nature in urban built environments.
LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING
(2024)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Barbara Metzler, Ricky Nathvani, Viktoriia Sharmanska, Wenjia Bai, Emily Muller, Simon Moulds, Charles Agyei-Asabere, Dina Adjei-Boadi, Elvis Kyere-Gyeabour, Jacob Doku Tetteh, George Owusu, Samuel Agyei-Mensah, Jill Baumgartner, Brian E. Robinson, Raphael E. Arku, Majid Ezzati
Summary: Cities in the developing world are experiencing rapid expansion and changes in their land use characteristics. This study presents a novel method using high-resolution satellite images to classify and characterize different urban environments. The results show that clusters obtained from the images accurately capture different phenotypes of the built and natural environment, as well as population characteristics. This approach provides a cost-effective and interpretable method for tracking sustainable urban development in areas with limited traditional data.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2023)
Article
Engineering, Civil
Zhiyong Wang, Sisi Zlatanova, Peter van Oosterom
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS
(2017)
Article
Computer Science, Information Systems
Zhiyong Wang, John Steenbruggen, Sisi Zlatanova
ISPRS INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GEO-INFORMATION
(2017)
Article
Chemistry, Analytical
Tessio Novack, Zhiyong Wang, Alexander Zipf
Article
Environmental Sciences
Xuke Hu, Hongchao Fan, Alexey Noskov, Alexander Zipf, Zhiyong Wang, Jianga Shang
Article
Engineering, Civil
Zhiyong Wang, Sisi Zlatanova
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS
(2020)
Article
Computer Science, Information Systems
Lei Niu, Zhiyong Wang, Yiquan Song, Yi Li
Summary: The efficiency of indoor evacuations depends heavily on the connectivity of navigation networks, with the proposed evaluation method providing a way to quickly identify vulnerable nodes and improve evacuation plans. Analysis shows a strong influence of spatial connectivity on evacuation efficiency in disaster situations.
ISPRS INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GEO-INFORMATION
(2021)
Article
Engineering, Civil
Zhiyong Wang, Tessio Novack, Yingwei Yan, Alexander Zipf
Summary: Noise pollution is a major stressor in urban environments, impacting people's quality of life and health. This paper focuses on estimating traffic noise and providing quiet routing services based on the estimated noise levels of roads. By combining various data sources and applying machine learning methods, the study demonstrates efficacy in generating quiet routes customized to pedestrian preferences.
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS
(2021)
Article
Computer Science, Information Systems
Zhiyong Wang, Wei Huang
Article
Environmental Sciences
Muqiu Hu, Xin Zhao, Jinghan Gu, Lulu Qian, Zhiqing Wang, Yuanyuan Nie, Xiaoyu Han, Long An, Haiqiang Jiang
Summary: Due to its simple process, environmental friendliness, and low operating costs, biometallurgy has become a popular technology for metals recovering from low-grade ores and tailings. An optimized agar was used to isolate and grow functional bacteria, resulting in the successful isolation of six functional stains. These strains were further tested for their ability to leach metals from polymetallic sulfide tailings, with significant improvements observed when the strains were mixed together. The selection of leaching process should be based on tailings composition and target metals.
ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH
(2024)
Review
Environmental Sciences
Saqib Hassan, Aswin Thacharodi, Anshu Priya, R. Meenatchi, Thanushree A. Hegde, R. Thangamani, Ht Nguyen, Arivalagan Pugazhendhi
Summary: An Endocrine Disrupting Chemical (EDC) is a compound that disrupts the function of the endocrine system and is found in the environment. EDCs, such as Bisphenol A and pesticides, have been shown to have negative effects on the female reproductive system. Understanding the relationship between EDCs and women's health is crucial for developing strategies to protect reproductive health and informing public policy decisions.
ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH
(2024)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Lichang Zhou, Zhaoling Li, Boyi Cheng, Jinqi Jiang, Xinqi Bi, Zongping Wang, Guanghao Chen, Gang Guo
Summary: Thiosulfate can promote sulfur-mediated bacterial activity, inhibit glycogen accumulating organisms, and enhance denitrification efficiency. After the carbon source is reduced, the competitive ability of glycogen accumulating organisms increases, resulting in reduced sulfate reduction.
ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH
(2024)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Claire E. Campbell, Devyn L. Cotter, Katherine L. Bottenhorn, Elisabeth Burnor, Hedyeh Ahmadi, W. James Gauderman, Carlos Cardenas-Iniguez, Daniel Hackman, Rob McConnell, Kiros Berhane, Joel Schwartz, Jiu-Chiuan Chen, Megan M. Herting
Summary: Recent studies have found a connection between air pollution and increased risk for behavioral problems during development. However, more longitudinal studies are needed to investigate how exposure during the transition to adolescence may affect emotional behaviors.
ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH
(2024)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Jing-hong Liang, Ru-yu Yang, Mei-ling Liu, Ying-qi Pu, Wen-wen Bao, Yu Zhao, Li-xin Hu, Yu-shan Zhang, Shan Huang, Nan Jiang, Xue-ya Pu, Shao-yi Huang, Guang-hui Dong, Ya-jun Chen
Summary: This study examines the association between urban Green and blue spaces (GBS) exposure and Emotion and behavior problems (EBP) in youth populations. The findings suggest that higher exposure to GBS, particularly green spaces (GS) and blue spaces (BS), is associated with a decrease in the risk of developing total difficulties in young individuals. The joint effect of GS and BS may also contribute to the decrease in EBPs.
ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH
(2024)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Diego Ruiz-Sobremazas, Mario Ruiz Coca, Miguel Morales-Navas, Rocio Rodulfo-Cardenas, Caridad Lopez-Granero, Maria Teresa Colomina, Cristian Perez-Fernandez, Fernando Sanchez-Santed
Summary: Air pollution is associated with a range of health issues and gestational exposure to environmental pollutants may be linked to neurodevelopmental disorders. This study investigated the effects of oral gestational exposure to particulate matter (PM) on ultrasonic vocalizations (USV). The findings suggest that this exposure may lead to social deficits and abnormal gene expression related to neurotransmitter systems. Further research is needed to better understand the effects of air pollution on neurodevelopmental disorders and the neurotransmission systems involved.
ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH
(2024)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Yagmur Kabakci, Sadiye Kosar, Ozgur Dogan, Fehmi Gorkem Uctug, Osman Atilla Arikan
Summary: This study investigated the effect of electrohydrolysis pretreatment on municipal solid waste. The results showed that applying electrohydrolysis pretreatment increased methane production and reduced the time required for hydrolysis, suggesting it is a promising method to improve anaerobic digestion efficiency.
ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH
(2024)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Chuanwu Zhao, Yaozhong Pan, Hanyi Wu, Yu Zhu
Summary: This study analyzed the impact of industrial zones on urban heat islands using remote sensing images and a novel spectral index. The research found that the contraction or expansion of industrial zones has a significant effect on land surface temperature. The results are valuable for environmental assessment and fine management of industrial cities.
ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH
(2024)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Bang Du, Zhongzhong Wang, Piet N. L. Lens, Xinmin Zhan, Guangxue Wu
Summary: This study investigated the performance, syntrophic relationships, microbial communities, and metabolic pathways of ethanol-fed reactors with different operational modes and solids retention times. The results showed that different microorganisms were enriched under different SRT conditions, and syntrophic bacteria related to methane production could be enriched under low SRT conditions.
ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH
(2024)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Gokulan Ravindiran, Sivarethinamohan Rajamanickam, Muralikrishnan Ramalingam, Gasim Hayder, Balamurugan Karupaiya Sathaiah, Madhava Krishna Reddy Gaddam, Senthil Kumar Muniasamy, Priya Arunkumar
Summary: The present study investigated the sustainable approach for wastewater treatment using waste algal blooms. The biochar produced by the marine algae Ulva reticulata was used to remove chromium, nickel, and zinc from aqueous solutions. The study examined the adsorbents' properties and stability using SEM/EDX, FTIR, and XRD. The results showed that the biochar had high removal efficiency for the toxic metals, and the packed bed column effectively removed the heavy metal ions. The Thomas and Adams-Bohart models were found to best fit the regression values, and desorption studies were conducted to understand the sorption and elution processes.
ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH
(2024)
Review
Environmental Sciences
Vignesh Vinayagam, Kavitha Nagarasampatti Palani, Sudha Ganesh, Siddharth Rajesh, Vedha Varshini Akula, Ramapriyan Avoodaiappan, Omkar Singh Kushwaha, Arivalagan Pugazhendhi
Summary: The presence of pollutants in water contributes to global pollution and poses significant threats to humans and wildlife. Finding effective wastewater treatment techniques is crucial for reducing pollutant accumulation in the environment. This paper highlights recent advances in the electrochemical advanced oxidation method and other processes for treating pharmaceuticals, dyes, and pesticide-polluted effluents.
ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH
(2024)
Article
Environmental Sciences
M. M. M. Ahmed, Kai-Yue Chen, Fang-Yu Tsao, Yi-Cheng Hsieh, Yu-Ting Liu, Min Tzou
Summary: This study investigated the sorption of citric acid onto humic acid-iron hydr(o)xide coprecipitate (HAFHCP) and the reciprocal effects of citric acid and P sorption on HAFHCP. The results showed that citric acid could increase P availability and have an impact on P sorption.
ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH
(2024)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Xibo Xu, Zeqiang Wang, Xiaoning Song, Wenjie Zhan, Shuting Yang
Summary: The selection of predictor variables is crucial in building a digital mapping model for potentially toxic elements (PTEs) in soil. Traditionally, spatial and spectral parameters have been used as predictor variables, but the temporal dimension is often overlooked. This study demonstrates the value of incorporating temporal indices in the model, leading to significant performance improvements. The temporal-spatial-spectral covariate combinations used in a random forest (RF) algorithm achieve satisfactory mapping accuracy and outperform other methods.
ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH
(2024)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Yan Pei, Xun Liu, Mengbo Cao, Zijun Wang, Hongbing Yang
Summary: Heteroatom doping can reconfigure the electronic structure of heterogeneous catalysts, leading to the development of advanced oxidation water purification materials with superior performance and stability. In this study, a series of catalysts with different elemental doping were prepared using a simple and environmentally friendly method. The S-doped NiCo2O4 catalyst showed excellent catalytic performance for the removal of Tetracycline, with significantly increased kinetic constant and high oxidation and mineralization efficiency in a wide pH range. The degradation process was dominated by non-radical oxidation pathway after S doping, and the overall process moved towards low toxicity.
ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH
(2024)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Srivalli Thimmarayan, Harshavardhan Mohan, Gaddapara Manasa, Karthi Natesan, Shanmugam Mahendran, Pavithra Muthukumar Sathya, Byung-Taek Oh, R. Ravi Kumar, Rangasamy Sigamani Gandhimathi, Arul Jayaprakash, Kamala-Kannan Seralathan
Summary: This study investigated the bacterial degradation of naphthalene (NPT) isolated from crude oil-contaminated soil. Bacillus sp. GN 3.4, a potential bacteria for NPT biodegradation, was isolated and the optimal conditions for NPT degradation were determined. The study suggests that Bacillus sp. GN 3.4 could potentially aid in bioremediation by eliminating NPT from the soil.
ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH
(2024)