Sentence examples for built environmental characteristics from inspiring English sources

This paper addresses a methodological challenge in environment-behavior research: sampling respondents in relation to their built environmental characteristics.

Of course, speeding is a well-known factor of risk, but the originality of this paper is the proved link existing between built environmental characteristics and the speeding choice of the road user.

The present study investigates the influence of income, ethnicity, and built environmental characteristics on the percentages of workers who walk/bike as well as on pedestrian/cyclist crash rates.

A novel aspect of this study was the investigation of both objectively assessed and self-reported built environmental characteristics in relation to leisure-based screen time in adults.

Evidence suggests that transport-related PA (e.g., walking to work or to the grocery store) and leisure-time PA, such as jogging or waling in a park, are influenced by different built environmental characteristics (Brownson et al. 2009; Owen et al. 2007; Saelens and Handy 2008; Sallis et al. 2009a).

5 6 11–14 Among a large range of physical environmental characteristics studied, only two built environmental factors appear to be consistently associated with weight status: urban sprawl which is positively associated with obesity, and land use mix which is negatively associated.

These studies represent significant advancement of our understanding of the environmental influence on obesity (as well as the spatial composition and built environmental components of obesogenic environments); however, a knowledge gap still exist in terms of the strength of associations between a broad range of neighbourhood characteristics and cardiovascular diseases.

Childhood obesity is increasing worldwide and evidence suggests that it might be partially explained by environmental characteristics namely social and built features.

With respect to environmental characteristics, the oldest facility was built in 1930, and all had been restructured over the previous ten years.

"We want to make it easier for people, companies, organisations, and others to communicate their environmental characteristics, and make it easier for users to find this information".

Predictions about a species' geographic distribution are built using the correspondence between information about the presence of a species and the associated environmental characteristics from its known range, analyzed via computer algorithms [33] [34], [65].