Recently, households have begun to adopt networking technologies to interconnect devices within the home. Yet little is known about the consequences for households of setting up and living with these complex networks, nor the impact of such technologies on the routines of the home. In this paper, we report findings from an empirical study of households containing complex networks of computer an...

Background City is a complex of objects of different nature, spatial extension and hierarchical rank. Land parcels, buildings, street segments, firms, public institutions, and householders can be considered as “atomic” objects, while social and economic groups, neighborhoods, and the city as a whole can be considered as ensembles of atomic objects, and their properties are mostly determined by ...

in this study, the attitudes of 150 nurses about smoking in tehran faculties of medical sciences belong to ministry of health and medical education has been investigated. samples were selected based on random sampling and data collection tool was questionnaire about the cognitive , emotional and behavioral attitudes . research findings showed that the majority of subjects have positive attitude...

Households constitute one of the most widespread forms of organisation yet their nature as an information system is essentially unstudied and thus ill-defined. As individuals and householders we have all experienced the phenomenon and frustration of ‘losing’ information without necessarily knowing how we came to lose it. Preliminary findings from the Household Information Practices Study reveal...

Despite a growing desire to create smart homes, we know little about how networked technologies interact with a house’s infrastructure. In this paper, we begin to close this gap by presenting findings from a study that examined the relationship between home networking and the house itself—and the work that results for householders as a consequence of this interaction. We discuss four themes tha...

Since the early 1990s, the Department of Transport, Local Government and the Regions (DTLR) and local authorities in East Midlands have been promoting mixed-use developments as part of their strategies for revitalizing town centers. A number of studies recognize the positive contribution made by mixed-use schemes towards increasing the vitality and attractions of town centres and improving hous...

BACKGROUND Chagas disease transmission by Triatoma dimidiata persists in Guatemala and elsewhere in Central America under undefined ecological, biological and social (eco-bio-social) conditions. METHODOLOGY Eco-bio-social risk factors associated with persistent domiciliary infestation were identified by a cross-sectional survey and qualitative participatory methods. Quantitative and qualitati...