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Chemistry, Analytical
Jue Wang, Lirong Kou, Mei-Po Kwan, Rebecca Marie Shakespeare, Kangjae Lee, Yoo Min Park
Summary: This study proposes an individual environmental exposure assessment system that integrates objective real-time monitoring devices and subjective sensing tools to provide a composite way for individual-based environmental exposure data collection. With field test data collected in Chicago and Beijing, the study illustrates and discusses the advantages of the proposed system and the potential applications. The system provides relatively accurate measurements of individual exposure in a composite way, offers new opportunities for developing more sophisticated ways to measure individual environmental exposure, and helps mitigate uncertainties in environmental exposure assessment.
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Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Akinkunmi Paul Okekunle, Jeffery Osahon Asowata, Jung Eun Lee, Onoja Matthew Akpa
Summary: The study found that environmental tobacco smoke exposure was associated with higher odds of depression among females but not males. Additionally, the association between ETSE and depression was more significant among young adults compared to older adults.
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Ecology
Yijia Yang, Huiying Li
Summary: This study explores the spatiotemporal patterns and trends of eco-environmental quality and land-use carbon emissions (LCE) in Qingdao City, China from 2005 to 2019. The study finds that eco-environmental quality has been increasing, while LCE has also been on the rise. The study area exhibits different decoupling states, including weak decoupling, expansive negative decoupling, strong decoupling, and strong negative decoupling. Space management policies should be formulated based on these characteristics to achieve carbon emission reductions and high-quality development.
ECOLOGICAL INFORMATICS
(2023)
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Environmental Sciences
Xiangrui Meng, Kaili Pang, Ziyuan Yin, Xinpeng Xiang
Summary: Ozone pollution in China is increasing, with a need to characterize its spatiotemporal distribution. Statistical models based on machine learning offer improved accuracy, but data quality and fine scales can affect precision. Web-based environmental data shows promise in air quality modeling, especially at finer spatiotemporal scales.
ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION RESEARCH
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Shu-Qin Yang, Zheng-Gang Fang, Cai-Xia Lv, Shu-Yi An, Peng Guan, De-Sheng Huang, Wei Wu
Summary: This study identified spatial, temporal, and spatiotemporal clusters of COVID-19 cases in 366 cities in mainland China and explored the impact of imported risk and environmental factors on the aggregation, with significant influences from factors such as humidity and PM2.5. The findings can help health departments develop more effective prevention strategies for public health interventions.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
(2022)
Review
Health Care Sciences & Services
Timothy Charles Kariotis, Megan Prictor, Shanton Chang, Kathleen Gray
Summary: This paper conducted a scoping review to explore the impact of electronic health records (EHRs) on information practices in mental health contexts, as well as how sensitive information, data standardization, and therapeutic relationships are managed when using EHRs. The review included 40 articles and found that EHRs improved the documentation of information compared to paper, but mental health-related information was often missing, especially sensitive information. EHRs introduced standardized documentation practices that raised issues in the mental health context. EHRs also disrupted information workflows and had usability issues. The management of sensitive information in EHRs was problematic. The study highlighted the need for EHRs to better reflect the complexity and sensitivity of information practices and workflows in mental health contexts.
JOURNAL OF MEDICAL INTERNET RESEARCH
(2022)
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Psychology, Clinical
Suzanne Estrada, Dylan G. Gee, Ivana Bozic, Michelle Cinguina, Jutta Joormann, Arielle Baskin-Sommers
Summary: Childhood maltreatment and exposure to community violence have significant impacts on physical/mental health and psychosocial well-being. However, current research often overlooks the nuanced differences in individuals' exposure to both types of adversity. Identifying subgroups based on the amount of exposure to childhood maltreatment and community violence is crucial for understanding their specific effects on various domains and addressing the burden of childhood adversity more effectively.
PSYCHOLOGICAL MEDICINE
(2023)
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Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Farah Qureshi, Ivonne P. M. Derks, Michelle A. Williams, Karestan C. Koenen, Henning Tiemeier, Laura D. Kubzansky
Summary: The study found that maternal experiences of negative intergroup contact are associated with poor mental health outcomes in children; both ethnic minority and majority children showed negative effects on problem behavior when their mothers experienced negative intergroup contact; these findings suggest that ethnically divisive social contexts may confer widespread risks to children's mental health.
SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE
(2021)
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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Dominik Bentler, Gizem Kadi, Guenter W. Maier
Summary: The aim of this study was to develop a novel cognitive dissonance intervention for enhancing pro-environmental behavior based on the action-based model. The study confirms the effect of cognitive dissonance intervention on fostering pro-environmental behavior through intraindividual feedback. Although the effects were lower in the work domain, the intervention's effect could be demonstrated in both home and work contexts, which can be explained by specific situational conditions. Autonomy for pro-environmental behavior moderates the effect of the cognitive dissonance intervention significantly, being lower in the work context than in the home context. This work provides important information on influencing pro-environmental behavior in different contexts and the significance of situational framework conditions for behavior-changing interventions.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Review
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Lia Ferschmann, Marieke G. N. Bos, Megan M. Herting, Kathryn L. Mills, Christian K. Tamnes
Summary: Individual differences in brain development are influenced by genetic and environmental factors, and research on the relationship between adolescent brain development and mental health is crucial.
CURRENT OPINION IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Review
Behavioral Sciences
Abraham Hernandez-Coro, Beatriz Eugenia Sanchez-Hernandez, Sergio Montes, Juan Carlos Martinez-Lazcano, Edith Gonzalez-Guevara, Francisca Perez-Severiano
Summary: Lead is a common pollutant that interacts with cells and tissues, causing behavioral and physiological alterations, as well as biochemical and epigenetic changes at a neurotransmitter level, leading to negative impacts on behavior and learning.
NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS
(2021)
Article
Engineering, Civil
Yaochen Li, Haochuan Hou, Zikun Dong, Yujie Zang, Ying Zhang, Yonghong Song
Summary: This paper proposes a new framework for spatiotemporal analysis of static and dynamic traffic elements from road scenes. It applies a hierarchical approach combined with hidden conditional random fields (HCRF) to analyze the static traffic elements, and a lightweight multi-stream 3DCNN network for the behavior classification of dynamic traffic elements. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed framework.
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS
(2023)
Article
Remote Sensing
Guangyuan Zhang, Stefan Poslad, Yonglei Fan, Xiaoping Rui
Summary: The increase in population density is associated with the spread of COVID-19, and quantitatively analyzing the impact of population density on the transmission of the disease can help us understand how to mitigate its spread.
GEO-SPATIAL INFORMATION SCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Hirukshi Bennett, Ben Allitt, Fahad Hanna
Summary: Mental health literacy (MHL) is crucial in improving mental health outcomes and reducing the impacts of mental illness among Australian youth. This study explores the scientific evidence on MHL levels, barriers to MHL, their effects on mental health, and interventions to overcome these barriers. Factors such as social determinants, culturally and linguistically diverse communities, help-seeking attitudes and behaviors are examined. The study also investigates MHL intervention programs and their relevance to the recent COVID-19 pandemic. Adequate levels of youth MHL enhance self-recognition of mental health status and the ability to provide peer support. Practical considerations, such as gender and culturally specific youth MHL programs, are recommended.
FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Yanzhe Yin, Andrew Grundstein, Deepak R. Mishra, Lakshmish Ramaswamy, Navid Hashemi Tonekaboni, John Dowd
Summary: The newly proposed Dynamic urban Thermal Exposure index (DTEx) combines human movement patterns and heat hazard patterns, successfully identifying areas with high heat exposure, providing crucial information for heat mitigation measures and risk communication in urban environments.
ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL
(2021)