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  • Article
  • Open Access
61 Citations
6,515 Views
24 Pages

18 January 2021

The open data (OD) performance expectancy is a critical factor for the user technology acceptance models for future implementation OD in Industry 4.0, and to have an impact in area of Society 5.0. The purpose of this article is identifying trends and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,366 Views
27 Pages

The Combined Effects of the Thermal Environment and Air Quality at Recreation Places on the Physiology and Psychology of People in Urban Parks

  • Yuxiang Lan,
  • Jingjing Wang,
  • Yaling Huang,
  • Yuanyang Tang,
  • Zhanhua Liu,
  • Jiahui Zheng,
  • Xiong Yao,
  • Zhipeng Zhu,
  • Jianwen Dong and
  • Ye Chen

17 September 2024

Urban forests, crucial to urban ecosystems, are increasingly threatened by the challenges of urbanization, such as deteriorating thermal environments and declining air quality. Despite their recognized benefits to city dwellers’ quality of life...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,724 Views
19 Pages

Investing in large-scale public infrastructures is vital for urban renewal and development, often relying on specific types of buildings to drive investment in municipal infrastructure and supporting service buildings. However, the complex interplay...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,550 Views
23 Pages

28 September 2024

In modern urban development, utilizing the space under overpasses (SUO) contributes to connecting the cityscape and facilitating the transformation of SUO into a public urban space. However, existing studies sometimes fail to properly take into accou...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,987 Views
23 Pages

Building Sustainable and Connected Communities by Addressing Public Transportation’s First-Mile Problem: Insights from a Stated Preference Survey in El Paso, Texas

  • Wei Li,
  • Chanam Lee,
  • Samuel D. Towne,
  • Sinan Zhong,
  • Jiahe Bian,
  • Hanwool Lee,
  • Sungmin Lee,
  • Xuemei Zhu,
  • Youngre Noh and
  • Marcia G. Ory
  • + 1 author

21 February 2024

Public transportation is an essential component of building sustainable communities. However, its ridership remains low in most cities in the United States. Among the major barriers is the long distance to the bus stops, called the first-mile problem...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
3,071 Views
13 Pages

7 January 2021

A reliable estimation of public bicycle trip characteristics, especially trip distribution and duration, can help decision-makers plan for the relevant transport infrastructures and assist operators in addressing issues related to bicycle imbalance....

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,635 Views
16 Pages

18 July 2022

The spatial layout of public service facilities (PSFs) markedly influences residents’ quality of life. Based on Baidu map data, spatial information on 27,552 PSFs across eight categories was collected for urban Dalian, China, and analyzed using...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,562 Views
17 Pages

Operational Challenges and Mega Sporting Events Legacy: The Case of BRT Systems in the Global South

  • Emma Ferranti,
  • Lauren Andres,
  • Stuart Paul Denoon-Stevens,
  • Lorena Melgaço,
  • Daniel Oberling and
  • Andrew Quinn

21 February 2020

This paper examines the bus rapid transit (BRT) legacies of mega sporting events (MSEs) held in the Global South cities of Cape Town and Rio de Janeiro. It discusses the extent to which these transport systems have been operationally sustainable, pos...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,166 Views
13 Pages

Obese Subjects without Eating Disorders Experience Binge Episodes Also Independently of Emotional Eating and Personality Traits among University Students of Southern Italy

  • Ines Villano,
  • Ciro Rosario Ilardi,
  • Stefania Arena,
  • Chiara Scuotto,
  • Maria Gloria Gleijeses,
  • Giovanni Messina,
  • Antonietta Messina,
  • Vincenzo Monda,
  • Marcellino Monda and
  • Marco La Marra
  • + 2 authors

29 August 2021

It is widely acknowledged that obesity is a growing public clinical issue involving both physical and psychological well-being. Nevertheless, the relationship between psychological features and weight gain is still unclear. Although emotional eating...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,783 Views
16 Pages

As the urbanization and industrialization of China’s urban agglomerations reach increasingly high levels, residents are voicing a growing demand for improved green public sport and recreational space. The coordination of ecological land restoration (...

  • Article
  • Open Access
52 Citations
10,177 Views
18 Pages

Digital Skills as a Significant Factor of Human Resources Development

  • Jana Stofkova,
  • Adela Poliakova,
  • Katarina Repkova Stofkova,
  • Peter Malega,
  • Matej Krejnus,
  • Vladimira Binasova and
  • Naqibullah Daneshjo

13 October 2022

Digital technologies play a key role in reviving the world economy. The EU has pledged to combine recovery support with resilient digital transformation. The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the lack of digitization in Slovakia and the shortcomings of d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,477 Views
21 Pages

Public Health Concern on Sedentary Behavior and Cardiovascular Disease: A Bibliometric Analysis of Literature from 1990 to 2022

  • Zhen Yang,
  • Sitong Chen,
  • Ran Bao,
  • Ruizhe Li,
  • Kaiming Bao,
  • Renzhi Feng,
  • Ziyi Zhong and
  • Xuebin Wang

30 November 2022

Background and Objectives: Cardiovascular disease is a long-term threat to global public health security, while sedentary behavior is a modifiable behavior among cardiovascular risk factors. This study aimed to analyze the peer-reviewed literature pu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,741 Views
14 Pages

Research on the Design Strategies of Public Outdoor Spaces in Government Centers from a Health Perspective

  • Yilin Wang,
  • Wenjun Peng,
  • Yanyan Huang,
  • Tiancheng Yang,
  • Xinyu Du,
  • Xinyan Wang,
  • Zhengming Zhang and
  • Liang Zhu

This study delves into an investigation of urban public outdoor spaces (POSs) from a health-oriented perspective, recognizing varied health needs encompassing physical, psychological, social, and environmental aspects. In this study, POSs of two typi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,475 Views
13 Pages

Fitness Use Innovativeness, Usage Patterns and Revisit Intention: The Moderating Role of Other-Efficacy

  • Theeralak Satjawathee,
  • Stephen Donald Strombeck,
  • Shih-Tung Shu and
  • Ching-Hung Chang

4 April 2023

Extant research has confirmed the importance of consumer innovativeness toward innovation adoption, but relatively little is known about the relationship between fitness use innovativeness, post-adoption behavior and the moderating role of fitness co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,769 Views
12 Pages

9 October 2022

Oftentimes, an athletic coach is tasked with establishing a player–coach relationship that is built on trust, commitment, accountability, hard work, and a belief in process. More recently, however, head coach of the Phoenix Suns, Monty Williams...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,873 Views
18 Pages

Spatio-Temporal Patterns of Fitness Behavior in Beijing Based on Social Media Data

  • Bin Tian,
  • Bin Meng,
  • Juan Wang,
  • Guoqing Zhi,
  • Zhenyu Qi,
  • Siyu Chen and
  • Jian Liu

30 March 2022

Fitness is an important way to ensure the health of the population, and it is important to actively understand fitness behavior. Although social media Weibo data (the Chinese Tweeter) can provide multidimensional information in terms of objectivity a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,065 Views
10 Pages

18 June 2024

The aim of this study was to examine men’s body image confidence, social reflectivity, body image perceptions and external information sources influence regarding body assessments. Data were collected via a cross-sectional survey and found that...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,390 Views
20 Pages

Understanding Enablers and Barriers to the Implementation of Nutrition Standards in Publicly Funded Institutions in Victoria

  • Emalie Rosewarne,
  • Wai-Kwan Chislett,
  • Briar McKenzie,
  • Cliona Ni Mhurchu,
  • Tara Boelsen-Robinson,
  • Miranda Blake and
  • Jacqui Webster

24 June 2022

Effective implementation of nutrition standards in publicly funded institutions can facilitate healthy food and beverage consumption by communities and populations, which can enable improvements in dietary intake and reduce disease burden. This study...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,000 Views
15 Pages

24 May 2024

This study aims to investigate the influence of air pollution and physical exercise on residents’ health using data from the Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS) 2018. The research is based on the Grossman Health Production Function and employs...

  • Review
  • Open Access
125 Citations
22,308 Views
45 Pages

Autonomous Shuttle Bus for Public Transportation: A Review

  • Calin Iclodean,
  • Nicolae Cordos and
  • Bogdan Ovidiu Varga

6 June 2020

The rapid evolution of autonomous technology in the field of automotive and information technology (IT) has made it possible to implement autonomous vehicles (AVs) for public passenger transport. Although the shuttle bus transport capacities currentl...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,290 Views
11 Pages

29 September 2022

The European Union is investing in the areas of digital skills, digital infrastructures, digitisation of businesses, and public services to speed up numerous administrative processes and to facilitate access to citizens from member countries and neig...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
3,738 Views
15 Pages

Drivers and Frequency of Forest Visits: Results of a National Survey in the Czech Republic

  • Miroslava Šodková,
  • Ratna Chrismiari Purwestri,
  • Marcel Riedl,
  • Vilém Jarský and
  • Miroslav Hájek

7 April 2020

The general objective of the study was to assess the main drivers for visiting the forest and the frequency of the visits in the Czech Republic. A nationwide collection of data of the sociological research as part of The Market & Media & Life...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,139 Views
24 Pages

2 February 2025

Urban areas increasingly face complex challenges in achieving sustainability, particularly in balancing economic, social, cultural, and environmental needs. Despite their significant potential, multifunctional infrastructures remain underexplored, es...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,270 Views
16 Pages

Assessing the Acceptability of a Co-Produced Long COVID Intervention in an Underserved Community in the UK

  • Sally Fowler-Davis,
  • Rachel Young,
  • Tom Maden-Wilkinson,
  • Waqas Hameed,
  • Elizabeth Dracas,
  • Eleanor Hurrell,
  • Romila Bahl,
  • Elisabeth Kilcourse,
  • Rebecca Robinson and
  • Robert Copeland

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected people from more deprived communities. The experience of Long COVID is similarly distributed but very few investigations have concentrated on the needs of this population. The aim of t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,873 Views
22 Pages

19 August 2021

The amount of internet traffic generated during mass public events is significantly growing in a way that requires methods to increase the overall performance of the wireless network service. Recently, legacy methods in form of mobile cell sites, fre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,231 Views
17 Pages

31 January 2023

The dual-carbon target brings severe challenges to enterprise financing. Low-carbon supply chain financing has become a key measure by which enterprises break through the financing bottleneck. How to accurately evaluate and optimize the financial eff...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,909 Views
11 Pages

30 April 2022

In Taiwan’s forest environment, the type closest to people’s living area is the protection forest, which mainly has the aims of regulating, supplying, and supporting, in those of the ecosystem services (ES). In recent years, due to the pe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,032 Views
25 Pages

20 August 2024

In the post-pandemic era, outdoor jogging has become an increasingly popular form of exercise due to the growing emphasis on health. It is essential to comprehensively analyze the factors influencing the spatial distribution of outdoor jogging activi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,893 Views
23 Pages

Effects of Community Assets on Major Health Conditions in England: A Data Analytic Approach

  • Aristides Moustakas,
  • Linda J. M. Thomson,
  • Rabya Mughal and
  • Helen J. Chatterjee

12 August 2024

Introduction: The broader determinants of health including a wide range of community assets are extremely important in relation to public health outcomes. Multiple health conditions, multimorbidity, is a growing problem in many populations worldwide....

  • Brief Report
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,554 Views
7 Pages

COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake among US Adults According to Standard Occupational Groups

  • Itunu Sokale,
  • Juan Alvarez,
  • Omar Rosales,
  • Eric Bakota,
  • Christopher I. Amos,
  • Hoda Badr and
  • Abiodun O. Oluyomi

23 June 2022

This cross-sectional ecological study examined the relationship between neighborhood-level standard occupational groups in the USA and COVID-19 vaccine uptake using 774 census tract data, each consisting of approximately 1600 housing units. The neigh...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,959 Views
22 Pages

Attitudinal and Behavioral Loyalty: Do Psychological and Political Factors Matter in Tourism Development?

  • Ibtisam Al Abri,
  • Mariam Alkazemi,
  • Waed Abdeljalil,
  • Hala Al Harthi and
  • Fatema Al Maqbali

12 March 2023

The growth of tourism in the Middle East suffers from ongoing political unrest and conflicts across the region. While previous studies have discussed the impact of psychological factors and political unrest on the tourism industry in the Arab world a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
451 Views
28 Pages

15 December 2025

Urban waterfront spaces are key venues for residents’ physical activity, and their spatial environment significantly impacts usage efficiency. Existing studies predominantly employ linear models and focus on single waterfront types, making it d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
3,777 Views
14 Pages

An Integrated Control Plan in Primary Schools: Results of a Field Investigation on Nutritional and Hygienic Features in the Apulia Region (Southern Italy)

  • Vincenzo Marcotrigiano,
  • Giacomo Domenico Stingi,
  • Simona Fregnan,
  • Pantaleo Magarelli,
  • Pietro Pasquale,
  • Samuele Russo,
  • Giovanni Battista Orsi,
  • Maria Teresa Montagna,
  • Christian Napoli and
  • Christian Napoli

28 August 2021

Data concerning overweight and obesity in children and adolescent populations are alarming and represent one of the most serious public health problems of our time. Moreover, it is demonstrated that the school environment may play an important role i...

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