We present certain duality results on comparative statics on competitive rent vectors in the rental housing market model. In the model, apartments as indivisible goods are classified into a finite number of categories, and are traded for one composite commodity. Our concern is about certain general properties of the behavior of rents with parameter changes. In particular, the rent changes are i...

Integrated sensor networks have been installed in apartments of residents at TigerPlace, a retirement community helping residents age in place. Motion and bed sensor events have been logged continuously for over two years in some apartments. Using data from the sensor network, we have been investigating potential correlations to health events, such as falls, emergency room visits, and hospitali...

Two process tracing techniques, explicit information search and verbal protocols, were used to examine the information processing strategies subjects use in reaching a decision. Subjects indicated preferences among apartments. The number of alternatives available and number of dimensions of information available was varied across sets of apartments. When faced with a two alternative situation, ...

Lighthouse Youth Services in Cincinnati, Ohio, began placing foster youth, ages sixteen to eighteen, in individual apartments and other living arrangements in 1981 as a way of preparing them for life after foster care. The program has assisted over thirteen hundred youth and their children using scattered-site apartments, shared homes, roommate situations, host homes, and subsidized housing. Th...

Multifamily buildings account for about half of all residential in Poland and 70% the urban population live them. Most them require thermal refurbishment. Evaluation a building’s energy performance with use correlation models has been very rarely used relation to Poland. This method is simple, fast can improve decision process on modernisation. It especially important at pre-design stage planne...

(Received on: 18-06-11; Accepted on: 30-06-11) -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ABSTRACT In this paper develop a mathematical framework aimed at analyzing repeat and near repeat effects in crime data. Parsing burglary data from Promoter Apartments, Chennai according to different countin...