In order to ensure an adequate service to the population, Emergency Medical Services (EMS) rely on a given number of ambulances strategically located over the territory they serve. The arrival of calls to EMS being highly uncertain and evolving throughout the day, it may happen that at some point, the vehicles available to respond to these calls no longer cover properly all regions, even if the...

BACKGROUND Relocation following a disaster can impact the psychological well-being of evacuees. This study investigated the associations between residence-related factors and psychological distress among evacuees living in temporary housing after the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident. METHODS Data from 525 participants living in temporary housing were collected. Associations betw...

Purpose: Investigations of health and wellness in later life tend to be through a lens of dependency with the primary focus on deficits, loss and decline. Much less attention has been focused on the creative, adaptive and proactive aspects of aging and health within the context of residential relocation. This study explores the extent to which older adults employ proactive strategies to enhance...

In recent years, car-sharing systems have been announced as a way to increase mobility and to decrease the number of single-occupant vehicles, congestion, and air pollution in many parts of the world. This study presents a linear programming model to optimize one-way car-sharing systems for electric cars considering the depreciation costs of chargers and vehicles as well as relocation cost of v...

In 2008, Atlanta was the first city in the United States to completely eliminate its highrise public housing projects. Georgia State University professors Drs. Ruel, Oakley, and Reid undertook a three-year study to determine the health, behavior, and attitudes of residents both before and after relocation. This study sought to determine whether residents’ self-esteem and self-efficacy improved ...

OBJECTIVES China's economic reforms have led to millions of citizens being relocated to support infrastructure development, reduce poverty, and address ecological, disaster-related and other concerns. This study expands on previous research on the implications of relocation in China by examining the impact of rural elders' relocation on the perceived availability of emotional, instrumental, and...

In this work, we propose a new mining-based file caching scheme for a hybrid storage disk system. In particular, we focus our efforts on reducing the latency of launching applications. The proposed scheme identifies correlated file accesses in a file access sequence via sequential pattern mining algorithm. Our scheme caches correlated files together to maximize the caching efficiency. The corre...

Regulatory mechanisms of chondrocyte differentiation in the growth plate are incompletely understood. Here, we find that histone deacetylase 4 (HDAC4) is located in the nucleus of chondrocytes in the proliferation zone and relocates to the cytoplasm of chondrocytes in the prehypertrophic zone in vivo. This suggests that the relocation of HDAC4 from the nucleus to the cytoplasm may play a role d...

BACKGROUND With greater numbers of older adults relocating to independent living communities (ILCs), there is an increasing need to determine whether factors such as self-efficacy can facilitate relocation adjustment. However, no relocation self-efficacy instrument is available. OBJECTIVES To develop and test an instrument measuring older adults' self-efficacy to relocate to an ILC. METHOD ...

Land use patterns are key determinants of traffic conditions, as well as energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. This work describes the modeling of year-2030 land use patterns of the Austin, Texas region using UrbanSim, an open-source model for microscopic simulation of land development, location choices and land values, at fine spatial resolution (typically 150 m x 150 m grid cells)....