urban parks have essential role in public welfare. their role could be observed in personal, socio-economic, environmental and mental wellbeing. provision of socio-mental needs of citizens and enhancement of social cohesion are contributed to the way of using urban open and green spaces which such issue requires elaborated planning and design. equal access to parks is an important issue in dist...

Urban parks provide amenities that support both human and animal communities. However, are often unevenly distributed within cities. One metric used to assess the distribution of public is termed Park Score. The Score an approach measure access, acreage, investment, amenities, designed understand a city’s needs for greenspace, with major focus on health. In addition issues related health, dispa...

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OBJECTIVE Parks are an important setting for physical activity and specific park features have been shown to be associated with park visitation and physical activity. Most park-based research has been conducted in urban settings with few studies examining rural parks. This study examined differences in features of parks in urban compared with rural areas. METHODS In 2009/10 a tool was develop...

This paper introduces an automated vision system for animal detection in trail-camera images taken from a field under the administration of Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. As traditional wildlife counting techniques are intrusive labor intensive to conduct, imaging is comparatively non-intrusive method capturing activity. However, given large volume produced trail-cameras, manual analysis ...

Abstract Wildlife feeding activities are growing as a trend in recent years, with wild ruminants (e.g. deer urban parks) receiving an increasingly unnatural diet result of public attention. The effects on the gastrointestinal tract have been established context animal agriculture, highly modified diets driving morphological changes rumen papillae. However, these dietary not widely explored that...

Indonesia is home to five species of porcupines, three which are island endemics. While all currently assessed as Least Concern by the IUCN Red List Threatened Species, impacts harvest and trade have not been factored in. To gain a fuller understanding porcupine in Indonesia, this study examines seizure data their parts derivatives from January 2013 June 2020. A total 39 incidents were obtained...

City parks, important environments built for physical activity, play critical roles in preventing chronic diseases and promoting public health. We used five commonly used park indicators to investigate the spatiotemporal trend of city parks in mainland China between 1981 and 2014 at three scales: national, provincial and city class. City parks in China increased significantly with a turning poi...

Current literatures on urban parks and green spaces showed that people’s preference for visiting urban parks in various group users is different. People visit parks for various motives and activities, leading to several patterns of park usability. However, the patterns in urban park use in majority of Iran cities are not yet known. This study presented the preference for activity in urban...