The unilateral development of built environments in cities leads to imbalances climatic conditions and micro-climates, followed by indicators such as thermal comfort. Researchers identified the effect urban morphology’s geometry, shape, orientation, mass-space combination on climate change. Also, influential role greenspaces enhancing comfort has been studied. Some results show that strengtheni...

This paper intends to highlight one of the key concerns of housing designers i.e. the influence of open space on human satisfaction as well as their attachment to a particular place. Consequently, neighborhood open spaces with their meaningful layout seem to be constituent elements of residential complexes. Although, architects and designers try to create qualitative areas among buildings, the ...

BACKGROUND Given the documented links between body satisfaction, weight-related behaviors, and weight change in adolescents, we sought to examine the prevalence of poor body satisfaction in prepubescent girls and boys and its associations with body weight, socioeconomic factors, and rural residence. METHODS We obtained data from 4254 girls and boys participating in a population-based survey o...

The authors tested the feasibility and acceptability, and explored the outcomes, of 2 walking interventions based on ecological models among older adults living in retirement communities. An enhanced intervention (EI) was compared with a standard walking intervention (SI) among residents in 4 retirement facilities (N = 87 at baseline; mean age = 84.1 yr). All participants received a walking int...

Home attachment is positive emotional bond between home and its dwellers which may result in safety, solace and tranquility for them. To create this kind of relationship some physical and social prerequisites need to exist inside home. This article aims to answer the question "whether house outdoor environment features are also effective in developing home attachment or not?" Aiming to answer t...

the mail goal of the present paper is to study the influence of informal social networkssupport on job satisfaction of married women using the direct effect of social support anddurkheimian anomie theories and network analysis perspective. it has been performed usingsurvey method and questionnaire. statistical population is constituted of all working andmarried women (20-55) living in ardabil. ...