OBJECTIVES To examine the associations between objectively-assessed moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) and perceived/objective measures of neighbourhood recreational facilities categorized into indoor or outdoor, public, residential or commercial facilities. The associations between facility perceptions and objectively-assessed numbers of recreational facilities were also examined. ...

This paper presents an OSGi based service infrastructure for delivering, managing and developing context aware services in connected homes. An OSGicompliant residential gateway (RG) is deployed in connected homes to bridge the Internet and the home networks and devices. A device access system architecture has been embedded in RG and devices to facilitate device discovery, capability sharing and...

Losses in the market for private label residential mortgage backed securities (RMBS) were at the epicenter of the financial crisis from 2007-2009. Existing research has shown that a substantial portion of the poor performance of the loans securitized in this market was caused by fraudulent origination practices, and that these practices were misrepresented to investors who purchased securities ...

The last decade has seen a substantial growth in the development of residential care facilities (assisted living facilities). Evaluation of the quality of care in this service delivery sector has been hampered by the lack of a consensus definition of quality and the lack of reliable instruments to measure quality. Founded on extensive research on nursing home care quality, a field test of the R...

OBJECTIVE To assess patients' opinions on the perceived benefit of treatment delivered during their stay in a residential facility. METHOD We administered the Opinions on Curative Factors Questionnaire (OCFQ), which was developed from previous studies and assesses several treatment modalities and therapeutic factors, to a sample of 157 severely ill psychiatric patients admitted to a residenti...

http://www.jstor.org Infection Prevention and Control in Residential Facilities for Pediatric Patients and Their Families Author(s): Judith A. Guzman-Cottrill DO, Karen A. Ravin MD, Kristina A. Bryant MD, Danielle M. Zerr MD, Larry Kociolek MD and Jane D. Siegel MD Source: Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, Vol. 34, No. 10 (October 2013), pp. 10031041 Published by: on behalf of Cambri...

j Abstract After legislative changes in 1978, Italian psychiatry underwent a thorough overhaul, with the gradual closure of all Mental Hospitals. A nation-wide network of Departments of Mental Health now deliver outpatient and inpatient care, but also run semi-residential and residential facilities (the latter with 2.9 beds per 10,000 inhabitants). Hospital care is delivered through small psych...

The words “missing child” call to mind tragic and frightening kidnappings reported in the national news. But a child can be missing for many reasons, and the problem of missing children is far more complex than the headlines suggest. Getting a clear picture of how many children become missing—and why—is an important step in addressing the problem. This series of Bulletins provides that clear pi...

The words “missing child” call to mind tragic and frightening kidnappings reported in the national news. But a child can be missing for many reasons, and the problem of missing children is far more complex than the headlines suggest. Getting a clear picture of how many children become missing—and why—is an important step in addressing the problem. This series of Bulletins provides that clear pi...

This Bulletin provides policymakers with information that will help them to determine the appropriate space needed to accommodate the number of juvenile offenders expected to be placed in residential facilities. An overview of juvenile justice system policies and decisionmaking that affect the process of assessing future space needs is provided, and an analysis of the different projection model...