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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Social Media
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a mental disorder where people experience intrusive thoughts and must practice rituals to relieve their discomfort. More specifically, it would be better to refer to them as obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders characterized by continuous mental or behavioral activity that fills most of the people’s time, with the aim of neutralizing invasive mental content. All these activities are always “ego-dystonic”, that is, they are repugnant or inconsistent with the person’s values.
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  • 29 Aug 2022
Topic Review
Climate Mitigation and Adaptation Concerns in Urban Areas
Urban areas continue to be the center of action for many countries due to their contribution to economic development. Many urban areas, through the urbanization process, have become vulnerable to climate risk, thereby making risk mitigation and adaptation essential components in urban planning. Climate change is highly attributed to anthropogenic activities, and this makes population growth in urban areas a factor of global warming. The numerous problems and vulnerabilities associated with the urbanization process place urban areas at the center of climate adaptation and mitigation. Massive efforts have been made by urban areas and cities in general to mitigate and adapt to climate change. As reported, many of the world’s urbanized areas have agreed on protocols that address climate change and push for urban actions that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and climate risks. Urban areas and cities’ mitigation and adaptation actions to climate risks are, thus, essential towards the reduction of vulnerabilities.
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  • 29 Aug 2022
Topic Review
The Geometric World of Fishes
Spatial orientation may be led by the distinctive geometry of an environment: fish can use metric and left-right direction to reach convenient locations, such as a foraging site. This remarkable capacity requires to handle the macrostructural characteristics of space, which are based on the Euclidean concepts of point, surface, and boundary.
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  • 29 Aug 2022
Topic Review Peer Reviewed
Evolutionary Perspective on Improving Mental Health
Mental issues are by many considered the main challenge for health authorities in industrialized nations. In this entry, I discuss an approach that may prove useful for ameliorating the situation and thereby improving quality of life. The analysis uses an understanding of the brain based on evolution and neurobiology, so consequently the ideas presented differ somewhat from traditional psychological thinking. Briefly, it appears likely that the problems with psychopathology are partly due to a lifestyle at odds with human nature. The key for finding preventive measures then is to identify the contributing mismatches. Based on the present perspective, therapeutic interventions can be construed as altering the brain by exercising functions that ought to be strengthened. By understanding brain plasticity, and the functions that are likely to need improvement in relation to mental health, we stand a better chance at devising interventions that work. 
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  • 26 Aug 2022
Topic Review
Group-Based Assessments to Improve the Job-Readiness
Group-based assessments have been recognized as one of the ways of developing work-ready attributes in project management graduates. Tasks should be based on a real-world context and be sufficiently challenging for students. The group should create a team charter to establish expectations and ground rules for group members. Group assessments should include team member peer evaluations and oral presentations to curb social loafing. Academics should be actively involved in giving regular feedback, training students about teamwork, and communicating their expectations to students. The research findings are useful to inform project management academics about the design and administration characteristics that need to be considered to achieve the ultimate purpose of group-based assessments in polishing the job-readiness attributes of project management graduates. 
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  • 26 Aug 2022
Topic Review
Urban Community Elderly Care Facility
How to deal with the aging population has become an essential issue for the whole world. With the development of the economy and technology, human beings are no longer satisfied with the increase in life expectancy; they are instead pursuing a high quality of life (QOL). Studies have shown that the elderly in centralized nursing facilities suffer from depression, high mortality rates, and low QOL. “Aging in place” is proposed to help the elderly age better. It refers to extending residence time and satisfying the preference of the elderly to age in a familiar environment, supported by the external environment of the community. As an essential link to ensure aging in place, community elderly care facilities (CECFs) have been studied in terms of facility functional setting and service supply, facility spatial distribution and accessibility, and facility service and financial security.
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Topic Review
The Interaction between Urban and Rural Areas
The relationships and interactions between rural and urban spaces have long been of interest to territorial sciences. However, approaches to these issues have evolved in line with the changing characteristics of the two types of territories, reflecting new relationships and structures. 
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  • 26 Aug 2022
Topic Review
Policy Effects of Talent Housing in Shanghai
Housing has become pivotal in attracting and retaining talent in first-tier cities. Although numerous cities are actively promoting the provision of talent housing in China, little is known about the talent’s evaluations of talent housing policies or the effect on their urban settlement intention. Binary logistic regression was employed to analyse the factors significantly contributing to the settlement intentions of the talent. Talent housing was confirmed to alleviate the talent’s housing pressures and further increase their urban settlement intention. The local hukou was determined to be crucial in accelerating the willingness of talent to settle in Shanghai. However, housing affordability (including school district housing) may jeopardise such positive effects. It is crucial to provide more choices of talent housing and increase the coverage of good-quality educational resources. In the long run, more talent can be attracted and retained in the locality under a broader coverage of the talent housing scheme.
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  • 25 Aug 2022
Topic Review
Traditional Ecological Knowledge versus Ecological Wisdom
A novel concept has emerged in the landscape planning and design field as a response to environmental sustainability, which is known as ecological wisdom (EW). EW is defined as the ability to make prudent actions in contextual ecological practices. On the other hand, Traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) has been developing for a long time and become a reference for environmental management. It refers to the evolving knowledge acquired by indigenous and local peoples over hundreds or thousands of years through direct contact with the environment. It is concerned with the relationship of living beings (including humans) with their traditional groups and environment. This study would like to search for evidence and define the distinction between both topics and find that they are distinct from their definition, agent, sources, and research scope. This study also found that TEK and EW could be similar when discussing the topic of indigenous culture capital, traditional knowledge, ecosystem services, and sustainability in the context of cultural landscape research. It also proposed a conceptual framework to help scholars to understanding the relationship between TEK and EW in the cultural landscape. Furthermore, states the potential areas for research improvement among TEK, EW, and its convergence.
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  • 24 Aug 2022
Topic Review
Family Language Policy
Family and its language are one of the most important domains when it comes to acquiring a language as a mother tongue. 
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  • 24 Aug 2022
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