OBJECTIVE The study examined changes in the use of shelters in New York City by mentally ill persons with a history of homelessness who received housing placements through the New York-New York (NY/NY) housing initiative between 1990 and 1999 and the impact of the initiative on the overall demand for shelter beds in the city. METHODS Computerized service records on housing, shelter use, and h...

The hazard of impacts by meteoroids, asteroids, and comets ranging in size from meters to kilometers should be a matter of practical concern to policy makers in many nations. At worst, the very unlikely case of a 3 km asteroid striking Earth could send civilization into a new Dark Age; this case – with a potential death toll of a billion or more – has an annualized fatality rate comparable to o...

In this study, we first analyze the specific dynamics of the shelter site location problem for an application in Turkey and develop a mixed integer linear programming based methodology which incorporates with their requirements of the Turkish Red Cresent and improve their current system. The mathematical model maximizes the minimum weight of open shelter areas while deciding on the location of ...

INTRODUCTION Intimate partner violence is a significant public health problem, with shelters offering the predominant community-based solution. Shelters in Canada are mandated to provide a safe place, protection planning, advocacy and counseling among other services. Recently it has been noted the role of the shelter was shifting from an inpatient to outpatient model with a focus on increased i...

Numerous scholars have offered labels and characterizations of contemporary young adults and compared these characterizations to those of previous generations. In this article, the author draws on findings from a study of a student-run homeless shelter that has been in operation for the past 27 years. Through interviews with current students volunteering at the homeless shelter as well as forme...

The universities of the 21st century are dedicated to three missions - education, science and advancement community. impact two major earthquakes in Croatia 2020 as well COVID 19 pandemic, led integration these topics into educational process at Faculty Civil Engineering Architecture Osijek (GRAFOS), Croatia. In this example, GRAFOS architecture students designed shelters for people left homele...

We aimed to examine sleep in shelter-analogue settings to determine the sleep and environmental conditions in evacuation shelters. A summer social/educational event was conducted in an elementary school, wherein children and their parents (n = 109) spent one night in the school gymnasium; a total of 15 children and 7 adults completed the study. Data were recording using wrist actigraphy and que...

This study investigated the effect of rain-shelter cultivation on the biosynthesis of flavonoids and volatiles in grapes, with an aim of determining whether rain-shelter application could help to improve the sensory attributes and quality of grapes. Vitis vinifera L. Chardonnay grapes, grown in the Huaizhuo basin region of northern China, were selected within two consecutive years. A rain-shelt...

The high loss of newly released hatchery-reared European lobster (Homarus gammarus) juveniles for stock enhancement is believed to be the result of maladaptive anti-predator behaviour connected to deprived stimuli in the hatchery environment. Our objective was to learn if an enriched hatchery environment enhances shelter-seeking behaviour and survival. In the "naïve" treatment, the juveniles we...

Rain-shelter cultivation is an effective cultural method to prevent rainfall damage during grape harvest and widely applied in the Chinese rainy regions. In this study we investigated the effect of rain-shelter cultivation on grape diseases and phenolic composition in the skins of Vitis vinifera cv. Cabernet Gernischet grape berries through the comparison with open-field cultivation at two vint...