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The District of Columbia shelter system currently operates on a continuum of care model that assumes all or most people with housing emergencies should enter shelters and move progressively through a series of fully subsidized residential programs, then on to independence. The federal government encouraged the development of this model, and it is one that predominates nationally. This approach,...

From a mobility biographies perspective, and in line with the habit discontinuities literature, consistency travel behaviours is context dependent as such, will be more amenable to change following changes that disrupt habitual behaviour. Using UK Household Longitudinal Study (UKHLS), large-scale, longitudinal, national survey, this study investigates associations between disruption (in form of...

In parallel computer systems with a number of processors, external fragmentation is caused by continuous allocation and deallocation of processors to tasks which require exclusive use of several contiguous processors. With this condition, the system may not be able to find contiguous processors to be allocated to an incoming task even with a sufficient number of free processors. Relocation is a...

The human dynamics of relocation , meanwhile, are more complex than in the past. With the prevalence of two-career families, relocation often affects not one but two careers. Recognizing the difficulty of relocating two-career couples, employers may consider single job candidates better suited for relocation. This myth, however, is rapidly exploding. Many single people now are reluctant to leav...