This study tested the representativeness of four street segment sampling protocols using the Pedestrian Environment Data Scan (PEDS) in eleven neighborhoods surrounding public housing developments in Houston, TX. The following four street segment sampling protocols were used (1) all segments, both residential and arterial, contained within the 400 meter radius buffer from the center point of th...

The construction of new rural communities is an important measure to promote the integration of urban and rural areas. The environmental quality of new rural communities represents the residential suitability of the communities. The evaluation of the environmental quality can help promote the healthy development of new rural communities. The present study combines AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Proces...

Low-cost and high performance wireless technologies make it a reality to develop a wireless HVAC control system for multi-zone environmental control in residential houses to improve individual comfort and reduce energy consumption. The lack of understanding on signal transmission performance of wireless sensor network in residential houses limited the application of wireless sensor networks, es...

Over the past 15 years, the Australian tourism accommodation sector has seen a significant shift from motels and caravan parks to units in multi-owner tourism accommodation premises, i.e. serviced apartments and holiday flats. It is estimated that by the end of 2006, the number of guest nights in serviced apartment complexes will have exceeded those for motels and, in some destinations, even th...

Article history: Received 6 July 2016 Received in revised form 6 October 2016 Accepted 10 October 2016 Available online 22 October 2016 China haswitnessed a surge of rural-urbanmigrants over the past three decades. Although a plethora of literature has shed light on the low quality of migrants' lives, little research has been done to understand how migrants evaluate their own lives in host citi...

This paper presents 1) a new mathematical model improved from a conventional model that calculates a number of facility from an area and a population in a town and, 2) by using this model, a method to evaluate the enrichment (in other words, convenience or enough) of facilities in the town where many high-rise apartments have been built (the area is hereinafter referred to as the high-rise apar...

BACKGROUND Many people with dementia live in residential homes, but little is known about their quality of life. AIMS To compare the views of residents with dementia with the views of staff as to their quality of life, and to look at factors associated with these ratings. METHOD The Quality of Life in Alzheimer's Disease (QoL-AD) scale was used to rate residents' and staff's perceptions of ...

Activity recognition plays an important role in many areas such as smart environments by offering unprecedented opportunities for health monitoring, automation, security and energy efficiency. One challenge of activity recognition is the need for huge amounts of annotated data for each new physical setting. Our question is “how can we use activities learned in one space, e.g. home A, to recogni...

employees’ satisfaction based on their physical environment is an important factor that can improve employees’ performance, job satisfaction, and organizational productivity in office buildings. occupants’ environmental satisfaction are related to 10 different characteristics, including thermal comfort, air quality, lighting, acoustic quality, office layout, workspace furnishing, cleanliness an...