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Exploring the impact of community gardens and community kitchens on mental health: a scoping review

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Wellbeing Space and Society Pub Date : 2025-04-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.wss.2025.100263

Rade Zinaic , Tania Correa , Egbe Etowa , Raliat Owolabi , Yamini Bhatt , Josephine Pui-Hing Wong

{"title":"Exploring the impact of community gardens and community kitchens on mental health: a scoping review","authors":"Rade Zinaic , Tania Correa , Egbe Etowa , Raliat Owolabi , Yamini Bhatt , Josephine Pui-Hing Wong","doi":"10.1016/j.wss.2025.100263","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wss.2025.100263","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Participants engaged in community gardens (CGs) processes experience many positive outcomes, from social networking to intimacy with nature. Yet there exists a gap in the literature on CGs between their co-creative and co-participative practices and the impact of such collaborative social practices on mental health, especially as it relates to structurally marginalized populations. To this end, our scoping review explores what is known about the relationship between CGs and mental health benefits. Arksey and O’Malley’s scoping review method was used and supplemented by Levac, Colquhoun, and O’Brien’s emphasis on research and policy practice implications. Twenty-two studies met the inclusion criteria and they were conducted in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Spain, Portugal, Japan, and Singapore. Most of the studies used qualitative or mixed methods. The CGs in this review were situated in prisons, university campuses, a church, a shelter, urban rooftops, and urban and rural neighbourhoods. These CGs engaged diverse populations, including immigrants, refugees, newcomers, Indigenous peoples, women, seniors, students, youth, racialized peoples, and persons with disabilities and mental health issues. Our results reveal that the mental health of CG participants is inseparable from engagement processes like collaborative place-making labour that engender social connectedness, collaborative learning, empowerment, and a connection to nature. We gesture to the affinities between this co-creative and co-participative process and similar land and/or place-based practices with an eye to the potential for civic participation and/or awareness of human rights to advance mental health equity.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":52616,"journal":{"name":"Wellbeing Space and Society","volume":"8 ","pages":"Article 100263"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143855726","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Loneliness and social infrastructure in rural America: A cross-sectional analysis of existing relationships

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Wellbeing Space and Society Pub Date : 2025-04-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.wss.2025.100262

Danielle Rhubart, Yiping Li

{"title":"Loneliness and social infrastructure in rural America: A cross-sectional analysis of existing relationships","authors":"Danielle Rhubart, Yiping Li","doi":"10.1016/j.wss.2025.100262","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wss.2025.100262","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Loneliness can have deleterious effects on mental, physical and behavioral health. Growing research suggests the important role of social infrastructure in preventing and addressing loneliness. However, much of this work focuses on urban-based case studies, narrow definitions of social infrastructure, and crude measures of use. In addition, research in this area has not taken into account confounding factors that may be explaining this relationship. In this paper, we use a cross-sectional survey of a demographically representative sample (<em>N</em> = 1129) of working-age adults in rural America to examine if a relationship exists between loneliness and multiple types of social infrastructure utilization among rural working-age adults. We also determine if contact with family and friends (i.e. being less socially isolated) explains this relationship. We find that spending >10 min talking with others in coffee shops, diners, and cafes, salons and barbershops, and religious and spiritual organizations in an average week was associated with a significantly lower odds of screening positive for loneliness compared to those who do not go to these places, even after controlling for level of contact with family and friends and other sociodemographic covariates. This relationship was not present for those who use fast food outlets, fitness or recreation places, or libraries, civic organizations and community centers. Implications for future research and for community-level interventions to prevent loneliness are discussed.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":52616,"journal":{"name":"Wellbeing Space and Society","volume":"8 ","pages":"Article 100262"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143820945","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Inclusive streetscapes: Embedding disabled people's lived experience into street accessibility 包容性街道景观：将残疾人的生活经验融入街道无障碍环境中

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Wellbeing Space and Society Pub Date : 2025-04-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.wss.2025.100261

Arun Ulahannan, Stewart Birrell, Paul Herriotts

{"title":"Inclusive streetscapes: Embedding disabled people's lived experience into street accessibility","authors":"Arun Ulahannan, Stewart Birrell, Paul Herriotts","doi":"10.1016/j.wss.2025.100261","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wss.2025.100261","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Disabled people face significant barriers in participating in society, reporting higher anxiety, limited access to education and lower employment prospects compared to non-disabled people. Central to these impacts is the failure of streetscape design to enable the independent movement of disabled people. However, to date, few studies have attempted to capture the lived experience of a disabled person using the streetscape. This empirical semi-structured interview study interviewed 26 people with lived experience of a disability (from around the UK) to define the streetscape barriers faced, the systemic reasons why these issues exist and propose a new path forward. After a standardised and rigorous thematic analysis; critical barriers in streetscape design were identified, the significant impacts on a disabled person were revealed and the reasons for the failure to address the issues were uncovered. This paper puts forward recommendations for streetscape design with direct relevance for local authorities, policy makers and designers in ensuring streetscapes become more accessible. The recommendations will be embedded into new cultures and poli of empowering disabled people in decision making. Future work must now assess the barriers raised in collaboration with disabled people, to prioritise actions and aim for an equitable streetscape for all.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":52616,"journal":{"name":"Wellbeing Space and Society","volume":"8 ","pages":"Article 100261"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143820943","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Placemaking for tenant wellbeing: Exploring the decision-making of public and community housing providers in Aotearoa New Zealand

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Wellbeing Space and Society Pub Date : 2025-03-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.wss.2025.100258

Karen Witten , Crystal Victoria Olin , Amber Logan , Elinor Chisholm , Edward Randal , Philippa Howden-Chapman , Lori Leigh

{"title":"Placemaking for tenant wellbeing: Exploring the decision-making of public and community housing providers in Aotearoa New Zealand","authors":"Karen Witten , Crystal Victoria Olin , Amber Logan , Elinor Chisholm , Edward Randal , Philippa Howden-Chapman , Lori Leigh","doi":"10.1016/j.wss.2025.100258","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wss.2025.100258","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In addition to housing tenants, many public and community housing providers engage in placemaking to foster tenants’ connections to people and place. This paper reports on the placemaking practices of four community housing providers and two urban regeneration programmes in Aotearoa New Zealand. Twenty-four semi-structured interviews were conducted with provider staff – including those leading strategy, community development, tenancy management, planning and design efforts – to investigate the placemaking strategies adopted by providers and the values, priorities and investment tensions that underpin their decision-making. Common placemaking strategies included site selection to secure tenants’ locational access to community services and amenities, and designing shared ‘bump spaces’ into housing complexes to encourage neighbourly encounters between tenants. Efforts to foster a sense of community through increased stability and diversity of households were hindered by a predominance of single-person units in older housing developments, and by funding and regulatory constraints. Māori, the Indigenous people of Aotearoa New Zealand, comprise approximately half of all public housing tenants and many have deep intergenerational connections to place. Where providers were engaging with Māori, early steps had been taken to incorporate cultural landscapes and values into placemaking initiatives; such practices were more evident in urban regeneration than community housing provider developments, enabled by longer-term planning horizons, broader development mandates and partnerships with iwi (Māori tribes) and local government. Nonetheless, placemaking aspirations of all providers were tethered to resource constraints and investment trade-offs, with any social infrastructure provision weighed up against the value of providing one more home instead.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":52616,"journal":{"name":"Wellbeing Space and Society","volume":"8 ","pages":"Article 100258"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143761195","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Luminous threats: The health impacts of artificial nighttime light on metabolic and mental health: A scoping review

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Wellbeing Space and Society Pub Date : 2025-03-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.wss.2025.100260

Daniel Jiménez , Laura Neira Arenas , Erwin Hernando Hernández Rincón , María José García Céspedes , Claudia Liliana Jaimes Peñuela

{"title":"Luminous threats: The health impacts of artificial nighttime light on metabolic and mental health: A scoping review","authors":"Daniel Jiménez , Laura Neira Arenas , Erwin Hernando Hernández Rincón , María José García Céspedes , Claudia Liliana Jaimes Peñuela","doi":"10.1016/j.wss.2025.100260","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wss.2025.100260","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Introduction</h3><div>Artificial light at night (ALAN) has been increasingly recognized as a potential disruptor of human health, affecting both metabolic and mental well-being. Growing evidence links ALAN exposure to conditions such as obesity, hypertension, type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and depression.</div></div><div><h3>Objective</h3><div>To conduct a scoping review of the available scientific literature up to September 2024, focusing on the impact of ALAN on metabolic and mental health outcomes. The review also aims to identify existing gaps in the research and provide recommendations for future studies and public health interventions.</div></div><div><h3>Material and Methods</h3><div>This review included studies from databases such as PubMed, Google Scholar, and Scopus. The inclusion criteria encompassed publications presenting empirical data and clinical trials in English and Spanish that assessed ALAN exposure and health outcomes.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>A total of 32 studies were reviewed, with a combined sample size exceeding 1.6 million participants. Study designs varied and included large-scale cohort studies, cross-sectional analyses, and randomized clinical trials. Associations between ALAN exposure and metabolic disorders (<em>n</em> = 14), hypertension (<em>n</em> = 6), T2DM (<em>n</em> = 5), and mental health disorders (<em>n</em> = 7) were identified. Findings consistently suggest that ALAN contributes to chronodisruption, impacting metabolic and psychological health.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>ALAN is a significant environmental factor contributing to adverse health outcomes, particularly metabolic disorders and mental health disturbances. While findings suggest actionable interventions, further longitudinal studies are required to confirm causality and explore preventative strategies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":52616,"journal":{"name":"Wellbeing Space and Society","volume":"8 ","pages":"Article 100260"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143761196","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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In neighbors we trust: A global perspective on how neighborhood trust shapes wellbeing

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Wellbeing Space and Society Pub Date : 2025-03-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.wss.2025.100259

Rababe Saadaoui , Deirdre Pfeiffer , Eric A. Morris

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Context matters: Geographic and age differences explain high heterogeneity in social isolation

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Wellbeing Space and Society Pub Date : 2025-03-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.wss.2025.100257

Fyzeen Ahmad , Adhvaith Sridhar , Steve Hoover , Carrie Henning-Smith

{"title":"Context matters: Geographic and age differences explain high heterogeneity in social isolation","authors":"Fyzeen Ahmad , Adhvaith Sridhar , Steve Hoover , Carrie Henning-Smith","doi":"10.1016/j.wss.2025.100257","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wss.2025.100257","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Many studies have examined social and health-related factors associated with social isolation. However, the degree to which contextual factors and social determinants such as geography, age, and race compare against health-related factors in explaining heterogeneity in population-level social isolation is not well understood. To address this gap, we analyzed data from the largest-known dataset on social isolation (<em>n</em> = 73,737) from adults in central Minnesota. Linear mixed effect modeling showed that ZIP code and age significantly explain variance in isolation levels among respondents, even after controlling for individual-level factors like health. Regions with lower median incomes or higher population densities were associated with increased levels of isolation. Disparities in levels of social isolation by race and sexual orientation were also present. We conclude that social contexts may modulate the way individuals interact with others and thus modulate the prevalence of social isolation. Therefore, interventions supporting social connections must be inclusive, intersectional, and malleable to the unique communities they are built for.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":52616,"journal":{"name":"Wellbeing Space and Society","volume":"8 ","pages":"Article 100257"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143697618","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Navigating water and sanitation environments in schools: Exploring health risk perceptions of children with physical disabilities using drawing

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Wellbeing Space and Society Pub Date : 2025-03-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.wss.2025.100255

Urbanus Wedaaba Azupogo , Ebenezer Dassah , Elijah Bisung

{"title":"Navigating water and sanitation environments in schools: Exploring health risk perceptions of children with physical disabilities using drawing","authors":"Urbanus Wedaaba Azupogo , Ebenezer Dassah , Elijah Bisung","doi":"10.1016/j.wss.2025.100255","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wss.2025.100255","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Ensuring universal access to safe water and sanitation remains a central goal of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, persons with physical disabilities continue to encounter numerous barriers—stemming from capacity, environmental, and personal constraints—when accessing these facilities. This study aimed to (i) explore how children with physical disabilities navigated water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) environments in primary schools in Ghana and (ii) investigate their perceived health risks associated with these environments. Children were given prompts to draw and write about their school WASH contexts, followed by interviews to discuss their drawings. A thematic analysis of their narratives and artwork revealed several barriers, including physically inaccessible facilities, poor maintenance, and limited peer support or mobility aids. Commonly reported health implications included dehydration from inadequate water intake, diarrhoea, increased vulnerability to abuse, and psychosocial stress. The findings further showed that the type and severity of disability influenced the extent of these challenges. To advance SDGs 6, 4, and 3, strategies must be implemented to create safe, inclusive school environments that address the diverse needs of all learners.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":52616,"journal":{"name":"Wellbeing Space and Society","volume":"8 ","pages":"Article 100255"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143738336","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Walking as socio-material micro-structures for new parents: Slow mobilities, puddles and the everyday

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Wellbeing Space and Society Pub Date : 2025-03-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.wss.2025.100256

Dr Eva Neely (Senior Lecturer) , Dr Mirjam Schindler (Senior Lecturer)

{"title":"Walking as socio-material micro-structures for new parents: Slow mobilities, puddles and the everyday","authors":"Dr Eva Neely (Senior Lecturer) , Dr Mirjam Schindler (Senior Lecturer)","doi":"10.1016/j.wss.2025.100256","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wss.2025.100256","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>New parenthood is a time of change and upheaval in which a reorientation in/to/with place occurs. Local mobility poses a promising avenue of inquiry with potential to articulate place-based parent-centred health promotion strategies. We aimed to explore the affective, sensory and socio-material encounters of new parents on their walks in their local neighbourhoods, and their role in health and wellbeing. Through walking and photo-elicitation interviews with 22 parents of young children in Aotearoa New Zealand, we experienced diverse relationalities with their local neighbourhoods. Our inquiry taught us that parents use local walking as a tool in a range of different ways that impacts their health and wellbeing. We learnt that parents encounter (1) more-than-green-spaces in their walks, and that even small, not-noticeable and mundane aspects of the neighbourhood can affectively coagulate with parent-baby-walking-assemblages. In encountering how walks (2) nourished-minds-and-bodies we learnt the varied ways in which walking was a tool for affective release, emotion regulation and physical activity. Lastly, walking provided (3) unstructured-wandering-time for parents that slowed down, enmeshed, and transversed time. Our findings suggest that further inquiry into the health-promoting capacity of parental mobility in sub/urban neighbourhoods is promising. We propose that learning about the relationalities of socio-material micro-structures in parent-baby-assemblages can create localised health-promotion opportunities for new parents. We seek to raise the visibility of everyday place-based parental needs to inform policy and systems change.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":52616,"journal":{"name":"Wellbeing Space and Society","volume":"8 ","pages":"Article 100256"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143686237","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Reconnecting people to nature through virtual reality: A mixed-methods field study in the context of public engagement events

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Wellbeing Space and Society Pub Date : 2025-03-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.wss.2025.100254

Giovanna Calogiuri , Elena Brambilla , Ole E. Flaten , Fred Fröhlich , Sigbjørn Litleskare

{"title":"Reconnecting people to nature through virtual reality: A mixed-methods field study in the context of public engagement events","authors":"Giovanna Calogiuri , Elena Brambilla , Ole E. Flaten , Fred Fröhlich , Sigbjørn Litleskare","doi":"10.1016/j.wss.2025.100254","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wss.2025.100254","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Nature connectedness, a person's sense of belonging with the natural world, has received increasing attention as a psychological construct associated with environmental commitment and well-being. Immersive Virtual Nature (IVN) emerged as a promising medium to promote this connection, though its applicability in real-world settings is largely under-researched. This field study explored user experience and nature connectedness outcomes in the context of public engagement events featuring two types of IVN installations. A mixed-methods approach was employed, with data collected through surveys and field observations during events in two middle schools and three university campuses. In total, 209 IVN experiences were recorded, involving students, teaching/administrative staff, and other campus dwellers (age: 13–73; gender: 55 % women, 44 % men, 1 % other). The participants experienced high levels of presence, playful engagement, and positive emotions, though cybersickness and technical issues were also reported. Statistically significant increases in nature connectedness were found, with a more pronounced effect among participants who initially reported lower levels of connection. Accordingly, qualitative reports highlighted how the IVN experiences prompted participants to reflect on their relationship with nature, fostering their sense of connectedness and interest in nature-based activities. The two IVN installations proposed were associated with different user experience, though no differences emerged with respect to nature connectedness outcomes. This study corroborates and extends the current understanding of IVN as a medium for the proportion of nature connectedness, underscoring the potential of public engagement events as an accessible approach to engage diverse groups with IVN experiences.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":52616,"journal":{"name":"Wellbeing Space and Society","volume":"8 ","pages":"Article 100254"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143686236","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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