Wenfei Yao

• Qingdao University of Technology

Research has demonstrated the positive effect of natural environment on human restoration and well-being. Time spent in nature can often alleviate both physiological and psychological stress. However, few studies have discussed the environmental health effects of the nature’s components and characteristics. Sixty volunteers were recruited and one m...

Negative air ions (NAIs) are important in improving air quality and developing new materials and clinical medicine. NAI concentrations are higher in urban forests than in other areas, which is good for public health. The Hualou Scenic Area in Qingdao Laoshan National Forest Park was the study site in this paper. Ten plant communities’ ecological he...

Aim Given the current aging population, the demand on medical facilities, facilities for elderly care, and even their high prevalence, it is crucial to investigate the advantages of older people. The purpose of our study was to systematically review the existing literature on the health effects of horticultural therapy as a treatment option for the...

Urban parks play a distinctive and important role in satisfying residents’ demands on leisure and recreation, and thus have become the focus of research in the field of urban planning and sustainable development. The measurement of the equity of the spatial pattern of urban park plays an important role in optimizing the construction of urban parks....

Given the current aging population, the demand on medical facilities, facilities for elderly care, and even their high prevalence, it is crucial to investigate the advantages of older people. The amount of scholarly literature examining natural factor-related activities to enhance older people’s health status has steadily risen over the last few de...

With the development of the urban park, people's cognition of the relationship between the environment and public health has been improved, and higher requirements for the living environment have been put forward. As an important group of park users, youths often have different needs regarding the health benefits brought by urban parks. To explore...

Research suggests that exposure to natural environments can be beneficial for health, such as reducing physical illness and improving mood and cognitive ability. The potential benefits of nature have come into focus at a time when mental health issues are growing globally. Here, we have selected 24 studies from four databases for meta-analysis to e...

There is increasing evidence that the natural environment provides substantial benefits to human emotional well-being. The current study synthesized this body of research using the meta-analysis and assessed the positive and negative effects of exposure to both the natural and built environments. We searched four databases and 20 studies were inclu...

There is an increasing evidence that natural environment provides substantial human health benefits. One mechanism underlying this relationship is the experience of stress. However, no formal statistical assessment has been conducted to test this statement. A meta-analysis was used in our study to conduct a comprehensive systematic review for the e...

Cold stratification of Tilia miqueliana M. seeds with different pretreatments of gibberellic acid (GA3) and (or) magnetically treated water (MTW) to break the dormancy and obtain higher and more uniform germination has been studied well. However, there is no complete and uniform theory explaining the effects of MTW or the interaction between MTW an...

Based on preliminary experiments, the speed of germination was in general increased for Pinus taeda L. seeds treated with a static magnetic field (SMF, B=150 mT) for 10, 30 and 60 min. Negative impact was obtained for seeds treated with SMF for 24 h and 48 h. Mean germination time (MGT), the speed of germination (SG) and time required to obtain 10,...