Fugitive tetrachloroethylene (PCE, perc) emissions from dry cleaners operating in apartment buildings can contaminate residential indoor air. In 1997, New York State and New York City adopted regulations to reduce and contain perc emissions from dry cleaners located in residential and other buildings. As part of a New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) study, indoor air perc levels were d...

The new locality of Argas reflexus in Warsaw, Poland is recorded. The ticks occur in the lof of apartment blocks, inhabited by pigeons. When the birds were removed by cleaning services, the ticks began to look for a new host and penetrate the flats. Some of the lodgers had been bitten by tick larvae and nymphs.

Name of Organization: Institute of Applied Physics (IAP) of the Russian Academy of Science (RAS). Principal Investigator: Oleg Antipov Full home address: 4 ”1” avenue Kazansky, apartment 23, Nizhny Novgorod, 603000 Russia; home telephone: +7(8312) 192642. Office address: 46 Uljanov St., Nizhny Novgorod, 603950 Russia, IAP RAS; office telephone: +7(8312) 384547; fax: +7(8312) 363792. E-mail: ant...

Many decisions involve conflicting objectives that cannot be optimized simultaneously. For example, in choosing an apartment, none of the available options typically has the best commute, is in the nicest neighborhood, and rents for the lowest price; in making a decision of this sort, we examine tradeoffs. How these tradeoffs are made depends on the decision process and preferences of the decis...

Modern telecommunications infrastructure is based on optical fibers for data transmission, due to their higher bandwidth and low attenuation. Today, optical fiber is starting to reach apartment buildings and even private homes, and delivers wideband services such as Triple Play (a Triple Play service bundles high-speed Internet access, television, and telephone service over a single broadband c...