Dragonfly/damselfly naiads have the potential to control mosquitoes, and indirectly the
diseases they carry, due to their extensive predation on mosquito larvae. Experimental …

The ecology of zoonotic, including vector-borne, diseases in urban social-ecological
systems is influenced by complex interactions among human and environmental factors …

Background There is an urgent need for cities to become more climate resilient; one of the
key strategies is to include more green spaces in the urban environment. Currently, there is …

The debate around the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has raised multiple and incompletely
answered questions regarding how zoonoses are transmitted from wild populations to …

From the perspective of landscape and human health, we use the Self-Rating Restoration
Scale (SRRS) as a tool to explore the mental health restoration benefits brought by a …

Safety is an indispensable condition of livable cities. Increasing fine-scaled understanding of
the relationship between physical characteristics and perceived safety can provide reliable …

In 1991 prominent scholars and professional leaders were invited to contribute to the first
edition of the Language Arts Handbook, which accomplished the goal of presenting a …

Background Childhood leukemia is the most common childhood cancer. To date, few risk
factors related to predisposition have been identified; therefore, new hypotheses should be …

People who take a walk in urban parks, including or adjacent to a water body such as a
river, a pond, or a lake, usually suffer from mosquito bites in summer and early autumn. The …

Background Mosquito-borne diseases are on the rise. While climatic factors have been
linked to disease occurrences, they do not explain the non-random spatial distribution in …