This paper presents the results of a game study, comparing Powersaver Game including competition feature versus same excluding with respect to energy conservation in household. In pretest–posttest design, we tested whether change attitude, knowledge and behavior household was different for participants playing or without competition. All activities that application provides (e.g., washing cloth...

UK Households’ Carbon Footprint: A Comparison of the Association between Household Characteristics and Emissions from Home Energy, Transport and Other Goods and Services Does the association between household characteristics and household CO2 emissions differ for different areas such as home energy, transport, indirect and total emissions in the UK? Specific types of households might be more li...

Almost three decades of controversy have surrounded the concept of'expressed emotion'. This fascinating saga has been carefully chronicled in the recent book by Leff and Vaughn, Expressed Emotion in Families (1985). The original work derived from the unexpected finding that long-stay patients survived longer in community settings and maintained better social functioning when they were discharge...

This paper examines retirement behaviour and household income for older persons in Chile. It pays close attention to the sources of household income, income inequalities, and the economic vulnerability of older persons. This is important in order to evaluate whether labour market and social security reform in Latin America will improve the welfare of older groups, and especially their vulnerabi...

This paper examines retirement behaviour and household income for older persons in Chile. It pays close attention to the sources of household income, income inequalities, and the economic vulnerability of older persons. This is important in order to evaluate whether labour market and social security reform in Latin America will improve the welfare of older groups, and especially their vulnerabi...

Hybrid PV/Wind power system can be used to generate electricity consumed in household. This paper presents the design of a stand-alone Hybrid PV/Wind energy system for a household in University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) in Eastern Nigeria with a daily load of 5.2kwh/d. Solar and wind resources for the design of the system were obtained from the NASA Surface Meteorology and solar energy website a...

In recent years the household compressor manufacturers have reduced the energy losses inside the compressors resulting in a positive effect on the energy consumption in the cabinets. In the following, N-butane, which is a natural and non ozone depletion refrigerant, is compared to refrigerants presently used in household compressors.