[1] On hillslopes the balance between soil transport and production determines local soil thickness and the age distribution of particles that comprise the soil (where age refers to the time elapsed since detachment from bedrock). The mean of this age distribution is defined as the residence time, and in a landscape with time-invariant topography (i.e., morphologic steady state), the spatial un...

Wireless networks are poised for tremendous growth in the near future [1,2], as consumers and businesses begin to demand increased mobility at a higher bandwidth. Likely, no single technology will be optimal for even one residence and a multiplicity of technologies will be employed by every residential user. Networking technologies will not only be heterogeneous, but the communicating devices t...

Alternatives to the traditional practice of patrilocal postmarital residence exist in modern day China and vary from urban to rural areas. Social and economic reforms that were instituted in postMao China had an influence on post-marital residence rules. These refonns include marriage laws, reproduction restrictions, the return to family fanns, and greater access to employment. Government refon...

Mortality differentials among urban residents who were classified by period of residence in a rapidly industrialized city were analysed for those aged 20 and over dying between April 1974 and March 1978. The highest mortality in the male population appeared in the group with under 5 years of residence, and this was attributed to the high age-specific death rates at age 50 and over. In females, ...

OBJECTIVE Various studies in the USA and Canada have consistently shown a positive association between length of residence of immigrants and obesity. Studies in European countries have obtained less consistent results. The present work assesses the influence of length of residence on the frequency of obesity in immigrants in the city of Madrid, Spain. DESIGN We studied a sample of 7155 person...

As a result of the spread malicious information and spam in Network, unauthorized access, disclosure, distortion, modification, destruction both personal data an individual user digital that make up infrastructure entire state are possible. Therefore, ensuring security is today one most important tasks society seeks to preserve current its territory residence conditions various external influen...

‘Malaysia My Second Home’ is an international retirement migration programme aimed at attracting the lucrative retiree market to choose Malaysia as their residence. This study implemented the concept of the Travel Career Ladder (TCL) (Pearce, 1991), with a purposeful sample of 30 participants who had retired to Malaysia. Questioning was directed towards their motives for selecting Malaysia and ...

The MonAMI project aims to investigate the feasibility of the deployment of open platforms for Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) services provision based on Ambient Intelligence (AmI) and to test user acceptance and the usability of the services. Services were designed to provide support in the areas of environmental control, security, well-being and leisure. These services were installed and evalu...

There has been considerable theorizing and research on the motivations of individuals who rescued Jews from the Nazi Holocaust. Participants in armed resistance movements, the other major form of active opposition within Nazidominated Europe, have attracted less scientific attention. The study reported here compared members of these two groups using a quantitative measure applied to their own p...

We determined the after-tax income required to finance basic needs for Canadian elders living with different circumstances in terms of age, gender, city of residence, household size, homeowner or renter status, means of transportation, and health status. Using 2001 as our base year, we priced the typical expenses for food, shelter, medical, transportation, miscellaneous basic living items and h...