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The Cooling Effect of Plant Configuration on Urban Parks Green Space in Temperate Continental Climate Zones
In temperate continental climate zones with hot summers and significant diurnal temperature differences, the park green space construction is an effective way to increase park visitor comfort and mitigate urba...
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The multination colonial competition and hinterland expansion of ports in Bohai Bay of China (1860–1931)
Under the impact of colonial powers from capitalist nations, modern China has experienced significant transformations in its economic and geographic landscape. Coastal ports have emerged as crucial gateways fo...
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Open AccessThe Impact of Teleworking on Women’s Work–Life Balance and Life Satisfaction: a Longitudinal Study from Singapore
As teleworking gains widespread global acceptance as a prevalent work arrangement, it is crucial to understand its implications for life satisfaction. Despite the increasing adoption of teleworking, few studie...
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Early Warning of Vulnerability to Re-Poverty in China: Integrating Regional and Household Perspectives
The establishment of an accurate early warning and intervention mechanism for re-poverty (i.e., returning to poverty) is a valuable tool for consolidating the achievements of the Chinese government in poverty ...
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Transnational Judicial Practice in the People’s Republic of China: Resolution of Transmigrants’ Legal Disputes
Based on fieldwork in Fuzhou’s Changle county―an emigrant-sending region in the People’s Republic of China (PRC)―this paper analyzes transnational judicial practice as it pertains to resolution of transnational m...
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Open AccessPerceptions and attitudes toward COVID-19 vaccination among health professional students in Australia: a qualitative study
Using two qualitative data sources: free-text responses to an open-ended question of an online survey and subsequent interviews and focus groups, we explored perceptions and attitudes toward COVID-19 vaccinati...
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The Relationship Between Trust and Well-Being: A Meta-Analysis
An increasing number of studies emphasize that trust is most relevant to well-being. However, the results of this relationship remain inconclusive. This meta-analysis aims to synthesize the evidence on the ass...
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Open AccessComfort food for Generation Z: a case study in Taiwan
The Generation Z cohort, born between 1995 and 2010, represents a substantial portion of the global population, experiencing their formative years in an era characterized by pervasive globalization. Comfort fo...
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Unforgettable Food Experiences: A Model for Constructing Rural Tourism Cooking Experience Classrooms
The aim of this study is to establish the key factors for the development of cooking classes in Taiwan’s rural bed and breakfasts (B&Bs) to address the gaps in Taiwan’s research on this topic and contribute ne...
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Using Self-Directed Humor to Regulate Emotion: Effects Comparison of Self-Enhancing Humor and Self-Defeating Humor
Humor is an effective strategy in regulating emotion. Whereas most previous studies have investigated the correlational relationship between self-directed humor and mental health, it is largely unknown whether...
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A sco** review of determinants of indigenous health and health disparities in Taiwan: present evidence and paradigms
The literature on indigenous health and health disparities primarily focuses on Western countries such as Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States. Nonetheless, an emerging but dispersed corpus of...
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Open AccessThe Dynamics of Inequality and Poverty Among Children in Colombia During the COVID-19 Recession
This study examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the income, inequality, and poverty levels among Colombian children between 2019 and 2020, using data from the Luxembourg Income Study Database. The i...
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Open AccessRethinking the city resilience: COM-B model-based analysis of healthcare accessing behaviour changes affected by COVID-19
The global pandemic of COVID-19 has been influencing people’s lives and the cities. Not only people’s physical and mental health have been threatened, but also the city operation has been profoundly affected f...
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Housing Wellbeing and Settlement Intentions of Skilled Migrants in China: the Effects of Subjective Housing Feelings and Objective Housing Outcomes
Due to a shortage of qualified professionals, many international cities have implemented a range of policies to attract skilled migrants and retain them for permanent work in destination cities, aiming to take...
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Inter-Industry Wage Differentials in China: Evidence from a Correlated Random Effect Model
We specify a correlated random effect model to study inter-industry wage differentials using a small sample of Chinese firm level panel data. We find workers in real estate industry and computer and software i...
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Open AccessThe impact of negative gearing on the investment decisions of housing investors: the case of Greater Sydney
To date, no empirical study has examined the impact of negative gearing and other factors on residential investors’ decisions using quantitative analysis. We applied a structural vector autoregression framewor...
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Local Contact and Sense of Belonging to the Host Society Among Highly Educated Migrants
We investigated how the quality, quantity, and types of local contact are related to the sense of belonging to the host society among highly educated migrants in Hong Kong. Drawing from a data set collected in...
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Revealing the Influencing Mechanisms of Harsh Parenting on Loneliness: Evidence from school-aged Chinese Adolescents
Although a wealth of research demonstrated the link between parenting behaviors and adolescent emotional problems, previous literature has rarely investigated the mediation effects of parent–child attachment a...
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Economic Performance, Happiness, and Sustainable Development in OECD Countries
Economic progress has pushed human beings to pay greater attention on their happiness, and various indicators to measure it have been created with the OECD’s Better Life Index one of the most famous. This rese...
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Development Status and Prospects of Biodiversity Informatics in China
Driven by computer science, artificial intelligence and other technologies, biodiversity informatics has gradually developed into a data intensive scientific research paradigm. Internationally, biodiversity in...