Ruoyu Wang
Biographic Data
| ID | 3583544 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ruoyu Wang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ruoyu |
| FAMILY NAME | Wang |
| SIGNATURE | WANG R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sun Yat-sen University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7240-558X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 64 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 71 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 64 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Long-term follow-up of the public health impacts and co-benefits of an urban greenway intervention: A natural experiment evaluation
BACKGROUND: Evidence on the long-term impact of urban green and blue spaces (UGBS) interventions remains limited. This study is a 15-year evaluation of an urban greenway development in Belfast (United Kingdom), assessing the potential effects of this UGBS intervention on physical activity (PA), mental wellbeing and co-benefits. METHODS: Using natural experimental design, a repeated cross-sectional survey was conducted in 2010 (baseline), 2017 (po…
Changes in health inequalities before and after a major urban greenway intervention: Evidence from a 6-year follow-up in the UK
BACKGROUND: Evidence concerning health inequalities following urban green and blue space UGBS) interventions is limited. This study examined the changes in health inequalities after a major urban regeneration project, the Connswater Community Greenway (CCG), in Belfast, UK. METHOD: Cross-sectional household surveys were conducted in 2010/11 (baseline), 2017/18 (immediately after completion), and 2023/24 (long-term follow-up) with a sample of appr…
Does generative AI narrow or widen performance gaps? a stratified quasi-experiment on reading-based continuation writing in senior high school english
Ethnic Interaction and Cultural Integration: The Migration History of the Liuyang Kong Clan and the Construction of the Consciousness of the Community of the Chinese Nation
Taking the Liuyang branch of the Kong Clan in Hunan as a case study, this article examines how a migrant lineage associated with Confucian orthodoxy adapted to a heterogeneous local society and gradually transformed lineage identity into a broader sense of communal and national belonging. Drawing on fieldwork, genealogies, local gazetteers, temple inscriptions, and interviews, this study traces three connected processes. First, the clan used its …
Relationship between long-term exposure to sources of particulate matter, ambient air pollution and cognitive function in older adults
Long-term exposure to particulate matter with a diameter of less than 2.5 μm (PM 2.5 ) is associated with cognitive decline, but it is not clear whether the potential effects of PM 2.5 from different emission sources vary. This study aims to assess the association between PM 2.5 from different emission sources and cognitive function in older adults in Northern Ireland. Using data of the Northern Ireland Cohort of Longitudinal Ageing from wave 1 (…
Green space, life-course socioeconomic disparities and cognitive function in later life: A longitudinal analysis
There is evidence that green space may reduce socioeconomic disparities in health (‘equigenesis’). However, it is still unclear whether such a finding is also valid for cognitive function in older adults. Therefore, using data from the Northern Ireland Cohort for the Longitudinal Study of Ageing, this study examines whether exposure to green spaces reduces the effect of socioeconomic disparities in cognitive function in later life. It uses the No…
How Do Awareness, Perceptions, and Expectations of an Urban Greenway Influence Residents’ Visits and Recreational Physical Activity? Evidence From the Connswater Community Greenway, Belfast, Northern …
The development of an urban greenway as part of a major regeneration project may encourage usage and recreational physical activity (PA). However, how the awareness and perceptions of such a project influence the usage of the greenway and recreational PA after regeneration remains unclear. This study focused on these relationships in the context of a major urban regeneration project, the Connswater Community Greenway (CCG) in Belfast, Northern Ir…
Green space exposure and active transportation during the Covid-19 pandemic: A global analysis using Apple mobility data
INTRODUCTION: There is little evidence investigating the association between green space (exposure and inequality) and active transportation during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study focused on the spatial heterogeneity in trajectories of different transportation modes during the COVID-19 pandemic worldwide, as well as the association between green space exposure and inequality and active transportation during the COVID-19 pandemic from a global p…
Assessing accessibility to peri-urban parks considering supply, demand, and traffic conditions
Exploring the associations between street-view green space quantity and quality, and influenza in Guangzhou, China through machine learning and spatial regression: A socio-economic equity perspective
Existing studies have highlighted that green space is associated with non-communicable diseases. However, scant attention has been paid to the association between green space quantity and quality with communicable diseases. Here, we explore the relationships between green space and influenza cases in Guangzhou, China, using street-view green (SVG) space quantity and SVG-quality indicators, which offer a better assessment of urban green space than…
Is perceived safety a prerequisite for the relationship between green space availability, and the use and perceived comfort of green space
Examined the association among green space availability, perceived safety and use of green space. • Both remote sensing data and street view data were used in this study. • Perceived safety may be a prerequisite for the positive effect of street view green space. In recent years, many researchers have argued that both the availability of green space (GS) and perceived neighbourhood safety may be prerequisites for the use of GS, but empirical find…
The impact of carbon emissions trading policy on low-carbon economic development in China: An empirical analysis based on the environmental triple effect
Effects of city design on transport mode choice and exposure to health risks during and after a crisis: A retrospective observational analysis
Exploring the nonlinear effects of greenery on active travel among the ageing population
Future-proofing cities against negative city mobility and public health impacts of impending natural hazards: A System Dynamics Modelling Study
Hyperlocal heat stress around bus stops in Philadelphia: Insights from spatio-temporal microclimate modeling and explainable AI
The Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect significantly impacts public transit users, particularly those waiting at bus stops, where prolonged exposure to extreme heat poses health risks. Despite increasing attention to climate resilience, limited research has focused on hyperlocal, pedestrian-level thermal stress at bus stops or its relationship with the surrounding urban environment. To address this gap, we generated hourly 1-meter resolution Universa…
Urban planning in the age of large language models: Assessing OpenAI o1's performance and capabilities across 556 tasks
Green at eye level: Exploring the impacts of visible greenery on physical activity among university students
How to design a sustainable street network for neighbourhoods: An empirical study of China’s inner cities from the perspective of spatial configuration
When healthy aging meets Vitamin G: Assessing the associations between green space and heart health in older adults using street view and electrocardiography
Heart health is important for the quality of life, especially for older adults. Awareness is mounting that green space possibly matters for promoting heart health. While most studies mainly focused on the relationship between green space and cardiovascular diseases among older adults, scant attention has been paid to general heart heat measures through electrocardiography (ECG). This study aims to systematically assess the association between com…
Interpretable spatial machine learning insights into urban sanitation challenges: A case study of human feces distribution in San Francisco
Urban sanitation is critical for public health, with the management of human feces presenting significant challenges in growing urban areas. While prior research has concentrated on the health impacts of fecal contaminants, the spatial distribution and determinants of open defecation in urban contexts have received less attention. To address these gaps, this study proposed an interpretable spatial machine learning framework integrating Geographic…
The contribution of urban green and blue spaces to the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals: An evidence gap map
Urban green and blue spaces (UGBS) have the potential to make a significant contribution to the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Research shows the need for UGBS to mitigate the adverse environmental impacts of urbanisation and provide equitable access to resources that reduce social and health inequalities. However, no previous review has attempted to consolidate this evidence within the context of the SDGs. The aim of this …
Disentangling the non-linear impacts of natural attributes of urban built environment on life satisfaction
It is widely acknowledged that urban nature could contribute positively to people's subjective life satisfaction . However, extant literature offers limited empirical evidence about the non-linear effects of various natural attributes of urban built environment on life satisfaction. This paper applies a machine learning approach, the gradient boosting decision trees model, to fill in this knowledge gap. Using Beijing as a case study , three key n…
Nonlinear associations between street-level greenery quantity and quality, physical activity, and sedentary behaviour in Chinese middle-aged and older adults: A socioeconomic equity perspective
Detecting older pedestrians and aging-friendly walkability using computer vision technology and street view imagery
Disentangling residential self-selection from impacts of built environment characteristics on travel behaviors for older adults
In the context of population ageing in many developed and developing countries, encouraging active transport behaviors of older adults, is a key public health priority. However, many cross-sectional studies assessing the impact of built environment characteristics on travel behavior fail to address residential self-selection bias, and hence the causal relationship is uncertain. A large-scale public housing scheme provided this study with a unique…
Exploring the linkage between greenness exposure and depression among Chinese people: Mediating roles of physical activity, stress and social cohesion and moderating role of urbanicity
Using street view data and machine learning to assess how perception of neighborhood safety influences urban residents’ mental health
Is lifestyle a bridge between urbanization and overweight in China
Ranking the importance of demographic, socioeconomic, and underlying health factors on US Covid-19 deaths: A geographical random forest approach
Neighbourhood greenspace quantity, quality and socioeconomic inequalities in mental health
Exploring the socioeconomic drivers of Covid-19 mortality across various spatial regimes
Identifying the socioeconomic drivers of COVID-19 deaths is essential for designing effective policies and health interventions. However, how the significance and impact of these factors varies across different spatial regimes has been scantly explored. In this ecological cross-sectional study, we apply the spatial lag by regimes regression model to examine how the socioeconomic and health determinants of COVID-19 death rate vary across (a) metro…
Future-proofing cities against negative city mobility and public health impacts of impending natural hazards: A System Dynamics Modelling Study
Green at eye level: Exploring the impacts of visible greenery on physical activity among university students
The contribution of urban green and blue spaces to the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals: An evidence gap map
Urban green and blue spaces (UGBS) have the potential to make a significant contribution to the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Research shows the need for UGBS to mitigate the adverse environmental impacts of urbanisation and provide equitable access to resources that reduce social and health inequalities. However, no previous review has attempted to consolidate this evidence within the context of the SDGs. The aim of this …
The inequalities of different dimensions of visible street urban green space provision: A machine learning approach
Relationship between neighbourhood social participation and depression among older adults: A longitudinal study in China
Previous research has found a negative linkage between neighbourhood social participation and depressive symptoms in Western countries, but the cross-sectional design of these studies limits the ability to infer causality. Little attention has been paid to socio-psychological pathways linking neighbourhood social participation to depressive symptoms among older adults in China. This study aimed to examine the impact of neighbourhood social partic…
The Relationship between Air Pollution and Depression in China: Is Neighbourhood Social Capital Protective
There is increasing evidence from the developed world that air pollution is significantly related to residents' depressive symptoms; however, the existence of such a relationship in developing countries such as China is still unclear. Furthermore, although neighbourhood social capital is beneficial for health, whether it is a protective factor in the relationship between health and environment pollution remains unclear. Consequently, we examined …
The relationship between urbanization and depression in China: The mediating role of neighborhood social capital
Urbanization supports mental health in the Chinese context, although it might undermine residents' mental health by reducing neighborhood social capital. The protective effect of neighborhood-level reciprocity and social group membership on mental health increased with urbanization
Perceptions of built environment and health outcomes for older Chinese in Beijing: A big data approach with street view images and deep learning technique
Using deep learning to examine street view green and blue spaces and their associations with geriatric depression in Beijing, China
BACKGROUND: Residential green and blue spaces may be therapeutic for the mental health. However, solid evidence on the linkage between exposure to green and blue spaces and mental health among the elderly in non-Western countries is scarce and limited to exposure metrics based on remote sensing images (i.e., land cover and vegetation indices). Such overhead-view measures may fail to capture how people perceive the environment on the site. OBJECTI…
Urban greenery and mental wellbeing in adults: Cross-sectional mediation analyses on multiple pathways across different greenery measures
The relationship between visual enclosure for neighbourhood street walkability and elders’ mental health in China: Using street view images
Neighbourhood greenness and mental wellbeing in Guangzhou, China: What are the pathways?
A human-machine adversarial scoring framework for urban perception assessment using street-view images
Though global-coverage urban perception datasets have been recently created using machine learning, their efficacy in accurately assessing local urban perceptions for other countries and regions remains a problem. Here we describe a human-machine adversarial scoring framework using a methodology that incorporates deep learning and iterative feedback with recommendation scores, which allows for the rapid and cost-effective assessment of the local …
Association between street greenery and walking behavior in older adults in Hong Kong
Residential exposure to natural outdoor environments and general health among older adults in Shanghai, China
Higher residential greenness and proximity to both green spaces and blue spaces were associated with better self-rated health, particularly for females, younger older adults, the low educated and non-local hukou holders. Our findings suggest that urban green spaces and urban blue spaces have different effects on health among Chinese older adults and that the assessment of exposure matters to the investigation of NOE-health relationships
Neighborhood social reciprocity and mental health among older adults in China: The mediating effects of physical activity, social interaction, and volunteering
In China, neighborhood social reciprocity influenced older adults' mental health directly and through the mechanisms of the frequencies of physical activity, social interaction with neighbors, and volunteering experience
Depressive symptoms among Chinese residents: How are the natural, built, and social environments correlated
Social environments moderate the relationship between the built environment and depression. As environments seem to interact with each other, we advise against relying on a single environment when examining associations with depressive symptoms
Exploring the linkage between greenness exposure and depression among Chinese people: Mediating roles of physical activity, stress and social cohesion and moderating role of urbanicity
Using street view data and machine learning to assess how perception of neighborhood safety influences urban residents’ mental health
Relationship between neighbourhood social participation and depression among older adults: A longitudinal study in China
Previous research has found a negative linkage between neighbourhood social participation and depressive symptoms in Western countries, but the cross-sectional design of these studies limits the ability to infer causality. Little attention has been paid to socio-psychological pathways linking neighbourhood social participation to depressive symptoms among older adults in China. This study aimed to examine the impact of neighbourhood social partic…
Disentangling residential self-selection from impacts of built environment characteristics on travel behaviors for older adults
In the context of population ageing in many developed and developing countries, encouraging active transport behaviors of older adults, is a key public health priority. However, many cross-sectional studies assessing the impact of built environment characteristics on travel behavior fail to address residential self-selection bias, and hence the causal relationship is uncertain. A large-scale public housing scheme provided this study with a unique…
Natural outdoor environment, neighbourhood social cohesion and mental health: Using multilevel structural equation modelling, streetscape and remote-sensing metrics
Estimating pedestrian volume using Street View images: A large-scale validation test
Relationship between eye-level greenness and cycling frequency around metro stations in Shenzhen, China: A big data approach
Global and local associations between urban greenery and travel propensity of older adults in Hong Kong
Is lifestyle a bridge between urbanization and overweight in China
Spatiotemporal distribution of human trafficking in China and predicting the locations of missing persons
Dynamic greenspace exposure and residents’ mental health in Guangzhou, China: From over-head to eye-level perspective, from quantity to quality
Mapping the geodemographics of racial, economic, health, and Covid-19 deaths inequalities in the conterminous US
The distribution of greenspace quantity and quality and their association with neighbourhood socioeconomic conditions in Guangzhou, China: A new approach using deep learning method and street view ima…
Geography (51 works) · Urban Green Space and Health (42 works) · Medicine (40 works) · Environmental health (30 works) · Psychology (28 works) · Urban Transport and Accessibility (26 works) · China (21 works) · Computer Science (19 works) · Sociology (19 works) · Engineering (17 works)