نتایج جستجو برای: municipal parks

تعداد نتایج: 33095  

Journal: :Journal of physical activity & health 2008
Megan Kelly Cronan Kimberly J Shinew Ingrid Schneider Sonja A Wilhelm Stanis Deborah Chavez

BACKGROUND Centers for Disease Control (CDC) data suggest that Latinos are less likely to be physically active and more likely to be overweight and suffer from resulting complications than are Whites and that within the Latino population, Latina women are especially at risk. Therefore, promoting physical activity among Latinos, and understanding gender participation patterns within that populat...

2017
S J Dobbinson J Veitch J Salmon M Wakefield P K Staiger R J MacInnis J Simmons

INTRODUCTION Parks in disadvantaged suburbs often have low quality and few amenities, which is likely to result in them being underutilised for recreation and physical activity. Refurbishment of parks, including shade, walking paths and other amenities, may have broad health-related benefits. METHODS AND ANALYSIS The study design, methods and planned analyses for a natural experiment examinin...

Journal: :Social science & medicine 2012
Deborah A Cohen Bing Han Kathryn Pitkin Derose Stephanie Williamson Terry Marsh Jodi Rudick Thomas L McKenzie

A rich literature indicates that individuals of lower socio-economic status engage in less leisure time physical activity than individuals of higher socio-economic status. However, the source of the difference is believed to be, in part, due to differential access to resources that support physical activity. However, it has not been shown as to whether equal access to parks can mitigate differe...

Journal: :Risk analysis : an official publication of the Society for Risk Analysis 2008
Bonita L McFarlane David O T Watson

Western Canada is experiencing an unprecedented outbreak of the mountain pine beetle (MPB). The MPB has the potential to impact some of Canada's national parks by affecting park ecosystems and the visitor experience. Controls have been initiated in some parks to lessen the impacts and to prevent the beetle from spreading beyond park boundaries. We examine the perception of ecological risk assoc...

Journal: :Environmental microbiology 2017
Nan Hui Ari Jumpponen Gaia Francini D Johan Kotze Xinxin Liu Martin Romantschuk Rauni Strömmer Heikki Setälä

Soil microbes play a key role in controlling ecosystem functions and providing ecosystem services. Yet, microbial communities in urban green space soils remain poorly characterized. Here we compared soil microbial communities in 41 urban parks of (i) divergent plant functional types (evergreen trees, deciduous trees and lawn) and (ii) different ages (constructed 10, ∼50 and >100 years ago). The...

2016
Lincoln R. Larson Viniece Jennings Scott A. Cloutier

Sustainable development efforts in urban areas often focus on understanding and managing factors that influence all aspects of health and wellbeing. Research has shown that public parks and green space provide a variety of physical, psychological, and social benefits to urban residents, but few studies have examined the influence of parks on comprehensive measures of subjective wellbeing at the...

Journal: :Journal of physical activity & health 2009
Rodrigo Siqueira Reis Adriano Akira Ferreira Hino Alex Antonio Florindo Ciro Romélio Rodriguez Añez Marlos Rodrigues Domingues

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to analyze the relationship between adolescents' physical activity practice and their perception about the environment of urban parks. METHODS A school-based representative sample (n = 1,718; boys = 40.4%) of teenagers of Curitiba, Southern region of Brazil. A questionnaire was employed to identify perceived parks environmental features as well as phys...

2005
PUBLIC PARKS Rita Cucchiara Andrea Prati Luca Benini Elisabetta Farella

In this paper, we present joint research activities in computer vision and sensor networks for a distributed surveillance of urban parks. Distributed visual surveillance of urban environments is one of the most interesting scenario in Ambient Intelligence; in addition, the automated monitoring of public parks, often crowded by children and adults, is still a very difficult task due to the numbe...

2017

State parks are typically established to preserve natural or native habitats for wildlife while simultaneously providing recreational experiences for humans. However, because of their proximity to urban centers, the level of human visitation associated with state parks may be highly variable. Little information has been published regarding the eff ect of human visitation levels on wildlife esca...

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