The unprecedented rate of urbanization across the world has led to increased demand for good, affordable housing. This research was conducted ascertain reasons and challenges on housing shortages in Gaborone, Botswana. focal point this study assess impact Thereafter recommended astute strategies desirable curb problem scarcity accommodation Gaborone. used a descriptive design distributed questi...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of nitroxin biofertilizer and chemical fertilizer on the growth, yield, and essential oil composition of dill. The experiment was conducted under field condition in randomized complete block design with three replications and two factors. RESULTS The first factor was the concentrations of nitroxin biofertilizer (0%, 50%, and 100%) o...

INTRODUCTION This is an epidemiologic study to compare allergic contact dermatitis patients in the private and subsidized clinics. PATIENTS AND METHODS All patients diagnosed to have allergic contact dermatitis in the National Skin Centre from January 1999 to June 1999 were studied retrospectively. RESULTS More private patients were evaluated for allergic contact dermatitis than subsidized ...

This paper explores situations where tenants in public houses, in a specific neighborhood, are given the legislated right to buy the houses they live in or can choose to remain in their houses and pay the regulated rent. This type of legislation has been passed in many European countries in the last 30–35 years (the U.K. Housing Act 1980 is a leading example). The main objective with this type ...

Compared to the traditional public housing program, the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program has been regarded as a better tool to ensure the quality of housing structure for subsidized households and the mixing of incomes in neighborhoods. Previous studies related to LIHTC developments have solely focused on the relationships between subsidized households and socioeconomic environment...

C urrently recommended N management in North Carolina and elsewhere in the humid southeastern USA is based on realistic yield expectations (RYE). In North Carolina, N recommendations based on RYE are made from a database of RYE by soil map unit or based on a grower's documented historic yields (the average of the best three yields during a 5-yr period; North Carolina Nutrient Management Workgro...

The current study concentrates on the influence of family background, labor-market conditions and existing tuition policies on tertiary-education choices. We explore the natural experiment of changes in tuition policies happened during 1995-2006 years in the Russian Federation (passage from state-subsidized education to mixed forms of tertiary education: on a state-subsidized and full-tuition b...

The Decision Support System for Agriculture (DSS4Ag) is an expert system being developed by the Site-Specific Technologies for Agriculture (SST4Ag) precision farming research project at the INEEL. DSS4Ag uses state-of-the-art artificial intelligence and computer science technologies to make spatially variable, site-specific, economically optimum decisions on fertilizer use. The DSS4Ag has an op...