This study uses a hedonic property price function to estimate the effects of flood hazards on residential property values. The study utilizes data from over 8,000 single-family residential home sales in Pitt County, North Carolina between 1992 and 2002. This area experienced significant flooding from Hurricane Floyd in September 1999. Results show that a house located within a floodplain has a ...

Randomized Ablation Strategies for the Treatment of Persistent Atrial Fibrillation: RASTA Study Sanjay Dixit, MD; Francis E. Marchlinski, MD; David Lin, MD; David J. Callans, MD; Rupa Bala, MD; Michael P. Riley, MD, PhD; Fermin C. Garcia, MD; Mathew D. Hutchinson, MD; Sarah J. Ratcliffe, PhD; Joshua M. Cooper, MD; Ralph J. Verdino, MD; Vickas V. Patel, MD, PhD; Erica S. Zado, PA; Nancy R. Cash,...

We show that a strong linear relationship exists between income and house price quantiles in Sydney (Australia), Houston, and the state of Texas. This suggests that the house price distribution is closely approximated by the income distribution after a location-scale transformation. The slope of the line changes over time in response to changes in the mortgage market. We argue that this finding...

The HEAT (Home Energy Assessment Technologies) pilot project is a FREE Geoweb mapping service, designed to empower the urban energy efficiency movement by allowing residents to visualize the amount and location of waste heat leaving their homes and communities as easily as clicking on their house in Google Maps. HEAT incorporates Geospatial solutions for residential waste heat monitoring using ...

Equity in the personal residence is the largest single asset in the investment portfolio of most households. Lenders also have keen interest in residential property values. Estimating the market value of an individual house through appraisal is quite challenging. Regression analysis based upon hedonic pricing theory using individual house characteristics ooers an attractive alternative. The ava...

Almost one-quarter of the world's population is infected with soil-transmitted helminths (STH). We conducted a study to determine the prevalence and location of STH-Ascaris, Trichuris, and hookworm spp.-egg contamination in soil within rural household plots in Kenya. Field staff collected soil samples from July to September 2014 from the house entrance and the latrine entrance of households in ...

FRED C. TENOVER,* ROBERT D. ARBEIT, RICHARD V. GOERING, PATRICIA A. MICKELSEN, BARBARA E. MURRAY, DAVID H. PERSING, AND BALA SWAMINATHAN National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333; Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts 02130; Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska 68178; Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford...