This paper describes the development of a scale, the Community-Oriented Programs Environment Scale (COPES), which attempts to systematically assess the psychosocial environments of transitional community-oriented psychiatric treatment programs such as halfway houses, rehabilitation centers, day care centers, and community care homes. The psychometric characteristics of the scale are given, samp...

JANE CHRISTIE DAQUIN Vicarious Victimization: Examining the Effects of Witnessing Victimization While Incarcerated on Offender Reentry (Under the direction of DR. LEAH DAIGLE) Witnessing victimization in prison is a relatively new area of research. Prison victimization research focuses on direct experiences of victimization and its attending consequences; however, studies have not focused on th...

traditional houses enjoy an organizing with inner spaces based on religious and traditional notions of iranian families. space flexibility, readability, introversion, spatial hierarchy and family privacy have had a special status in architecture of iranian houses, replaced with an outward-oriented architecture. the traditional architecture which has had all the necessary spaces for any communic...

GENE_ARCH is a Generative Design System that combines Pareto Genetic Algorithms with an advanced energy simulation engine. This work explores its integration with a Shape Grammar, acting as GENE_ARCH’s shape generation module. The islamic patio house typology is readdressed in a contemporary context, by improving its energy-efficiency, and rethinking its role in the genesis of high-density urba...

Chagas disease, named after the Brazilian physician Carlos Chagas who first described it in 1909, exists only on the American Continent. It is caused by a flagellate protozoan parasite, Trypanosoma cruzi, transmitted to humans by triatomine insects. The geographical distribution extends from Mexico to the south of Argentina. The disease affects 1618 million people and some 120 million, i.e. abo...

Recently there has been a surge in the number of green roofs and façades (vegetation on the roofs & walls of a building) installed in the UK, with advocation of their use by policy-makers and claims that they are aesthetically pleasing and promote restoration. But these claims rely on generalisations from different landscapes, raising concerns about validity. The present study examined whether ...

To determine the effect of housing factors on infestation with Aedes aegypti (L.) and Aedes albopictus Skuse we conducted an entomological survey and inspection of 267 urban houses in Hanoi City, Vietnam. Two hundred ten pupae and 194 adult Ae. aegypti were collected from 19 and 88 houses, respectively. One hundred eighty-one pupae and 24 adult Ae. albopictus were collected from 21 and 14 house...

Department of Building Technology, Lagos State Polytechnic, Lagos, Nigeria. Corresponding Author: D.O Olanrewaju ________________________________________________________________________________________ Abstract The importance of decent housing has been well recognized, articulated and elucidated in the literature, yet a great proportion of the urban poor in Nigeria especially in Lagos State sti...

OBJECTIVE To study the burden and associated risk factors for elevated blood lead levels among pre-school children (15-24 months) in urban Vellore, and to study its effects on child cognition and anemia. DESIGN An investigative study through Mal-ED cohort. SETTING Eight adjacent urban slums in Vellore, Tamil Nadu. PARTICIPANTS 251 babies recruited through Mal-ED Network. OUTCOME MEASURE...

There have been a number of surveys of old people by doctors (Walker, 1947; Sheldon, 1948; Adams and Cheeseman, 1951; Simonds and Stewart, 1954), but no survey that we know of has attempted full medical examination of a sample in a localized community.* Early in 1952 we thought it would be a useful piece of work to determine accurately the diseases and disabilities of a sample of the men and wo...