Household structure has been recognized as an important element of residential location choice. The aim this work is to understand how the spatial configuration resulting from these choices could cause differentials in terms urban life and opportunities. To do so, a weighted gravitational accessibility index applied São Paulo Metropolitan Area investigate differences among household structures ...

To efficiently fuse multi-spectral (MS) and panchromatic (PAN) images acquired from THEOS satellite, the authors offer proper parameters to improve IHS fusion technique based on its spectral responsivity. This concept was originally contributed by Tu et al., applied to IKONOS image fusion. Red and NIR bands of THEOS imagery with lower response were adjusted to be higher and close to the respons...

In order to broaden the research on household consumption patterns, this paper aims to determine how and why consumer purchasing of grocery and household products varies. Several variables, such as shopping frequency, overall satisfaction with the stores and demographic characteristics of the household and the buyer have been examined. An ad-hoc survey has been used to test the influence of the...

While both public and private financial agencies supply asset markets with large amounts of information, they do not generally disclose all assetrelated information to the general public. This observation leads us to ask what principles might govern the optimal disclosure policy for an asset manager or financial regulator. To investigate this question, we study the properties of a dynamic econo...