This paper examines the residential preferences of rural Nebraskans. Data from the 1998 Nebraska Rural Poll were analyzed at two levels. First, the residential preferences of rural Nebraskans were compared to those of the general population of the United States. Second, the relationships between the attributes of the respondents’ current community and their residential preferences were examined...

In recent years, public interest in aged apartment remodeling has come to rise in Korea with the government’s strict regulation to restrict apartment reconstruction. To meet the rising demands on apartment remodeling, we attempt in this paper to develop an analytical research and schematic application of extension types for domestic apartment building stocks. Our research adopts a typological a...

Motivated by recent increases in population density and changes in urban development patterns, I give an update to Schelling’s landmark spatial segregation model. Inspired by the rapid construction of high-rise condominiums and apartments, I show a correlation between population density and racial diversity in San Diego neighborhoods. Using this as a basis, I give a modified high-density versio...

Many patients lack the capacity to manage intense affects between therapy sessions, and as a result are caught in impasses as treatment becomes organized around fending off the next crisis or recovering from the last. Risk of suicide is often part of this presentation. Among the range of interventions that may help such patients emerge from impasse and treatment resistance is residential treatm...

In hep-th/0004063 Pilch and Warner (PW) constructed N = 2 supersymmetric RG flow corresponding to the mass deformation of the N = 4 SU(N) Yang-Mills theory. In this paper we present exact deformations of PW flow when the gauge theory 3-space is compactified on S 3. We consider also the case with the gauge theory world-volume being dS 4 instead of R 3,1. The solution is constructed in five-dimen...

The calculation of QCD corrections beyond the leading logarithmic approximation for the short-distance dominated rare decay K → πνν̄ is summarized. This analysis requires the complete O(αs) corrections to the top contribution to all orders in the top-quark mass and a two-loop renormalization group (RG) calculation for the charm contribution. The inclusion of these QCD corrections reduces conside...

This paper investigates some major changes in the wealth distribution in China using the data from two national household surveys conducted in 1995 and 2002. The surveys collected rich information on household wealth and its components, enabling a detailed analysis of changes in wealth distribution among Chinese households. Our analysis indicates that the wealth distribution in China as a whole...

Financially constrained borrowers have the incentive to influence the appraisal process in order to increase borrowing or reduce the interest rate. We document that the average valuation bias for residential refinance transactions is above 5%. The bias is larger for highly leveraged transactions, around critical leverage thresholds, and for transactions mediated through a broker. Mortgages with...