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Study on the Thermal Expansion Behavior of Mg-3RE Alloys and Mg-3Y/SiCp Composites
The high coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) of magnesium alloys leads to poor thermal dimensional stability and limits its application in the electronic field. This work focused on understanding the effect...
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Open AccessA lower connection to nature is related to lower mental health benefits from nature contact
Increasing evidence demonstrates the psychological benefits of nature contact. However, the evidence is often established at the population level, and the individual differences in the psychological benefits g...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The Method of Designing Tri-Axial Vibration Test Profile for Spacecraft
Triaxial vibration test technology is one of the most advanced test technologies in recent years. By using the advanced triaxial vibration test technologies into the spacecraft’s field, the real launch environ...
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What types of green space disrupt a lonelygenic environment? A cohort study
Associations between green space type and social loneliness (a scarcity of people one feels they can depend on) were investigated in city-living participants in the Sax Institute’s 45 and Up Study.
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Open AccessNature experience from yards provide an important space for mental health during Covid-19
Urban dwellers’ use of public and private green spaces may have changed during the early years of the Covid-19 pandemic due to movement restriction. A survey was deployed in Brisbane and Sydney, Australia 1 ye...
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Open AccessDynamic chromatin regulatory programs during embryogenesis of hexaploid wheat
Plant and animal embryogenesis have conserved and distinct features. Cell fate transitions occur during embryogenesis in both plants and animals. The epigenomic processes regulating plant embryogenesis remain ...
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Open AccessHistone H2B.8 compacts flowering plant sperm through chromatin phase separation
Sperm chromatin is typically transformed by protamines into a compact and transcriptionally inactive state1,2. Sperm cells of flowering plants lack protamines, yet they have small, transcriptionally active nuclei...
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Open AccessThe nexus between urban green space, housing type, and mental health
Momentum for urban densification is increasing opportunities for apartment-living, but can result in reduced green space availability that negatively influences mental health. However, in contexts where apartm...
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Open AccessAssociation between built environments and weight status: evidence from longitudinal data of 9589 Australian children
No studies appear to examine potential associations between changes in built environments across childhood and the developmental trajectories of child weight status.
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Is prosocial behaviour a missing link between green space quality and child health-related outcomes?
This study aimed to investigate prosocial behaviour—those behaviours that benefit others or enhance relationships with others—as a mediator of the associations between green space quality and child health-rela...
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Open AccessDietary patterns and their associations with overweight/obesity among preschool children in Dongcheng District of Bei**g: a cross-sectional study
Few studies investigated the associations between dietary patterns and overweight/obesity among Chinese preschool children. Thus, the study aims to explore dietary patterns and their associations with overweig...
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Open AccessGeographic variation in cardiometabolic risk factor prevalence explained by area-level disadvantage in the Illawarra-Shoalhaven region of the NSW, Australia
Cardiometabolic risk factors (CMRFs) demonstrate significant geographic variation in their distribution. The study aims to quantify the general contextual effect of the areas on CMRFs; and the geographic varia...
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Ambient air pollution and risk of type 2 diabetes in the Chinese
We performed a time series analysis to investigate the potential association between exposure to ambient air pollution and type 2 diabetes (T2D) incidence in the Chinese population. Monthly time series data be...
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Open AccessDoes dissatisfaction with, or accurate perception of overweight status help people reduce weight? Longitudinal study of Australian adults
With studies around the world suggesting a large proportion of people do not recognise that they are overweight (or feel satisfied with being overweight), this fuels the view that such ‘misperceptions’ need to...
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Open AccessGeographic and area-level socioeconomic variation in cardiometabolic risk factor distribution: a systematic review of the literature
A growing number of publications report variation in the distribution of cardiometabolic risk factors (CMRFs) at different geographic scales. A review of these variations may help inform policy and health serv...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Research on Audio and Video Transmission Strategy for Android
The Android operating system provides MediaRecoder and MediaPlayer objects for application-layer developers to implement audio and video applications. Although focused on audio and video recording and playing,...
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Open AccessResidential green space quantity and quality and symptoms of psychological distress: a 15-year longitudinal study of 3897 women in postpartum
Experiments and large-scale epidemiological studies indicate the importance of green space for mental health. However, little research has been conducted to elucidate whether these mental health benefits are m...
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Sexual-lineage-specific DNA methylation regulates meiosis in Arabidopsis
DNA methylation regulates eukaryotic gene expression and is extensively reprogrammed during animal development. However, whether developmental methylation reprogramming during the sporophytic life cycle of flo...
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Open AccessA randomized controlled trial to evaluate the impact of a geo-specific poster compared to a general poster for effecting change in perceived threat and intention to avoid drowning ‘hotspots’ among children of migrant workers: evidence from Ningbo, China
Drowning among children of migrant workers is a major, though neglected public health issue in China.
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Open AccessDoes retirement mean more physical activity? A longitudinal study
Evidence on physical activity (PA) and transitions out of full-time employment in middle-to-older age is mainly cross-sectional and focused upon retirement. The purpose was to examine trajectories in PA before...
