Abstract The influence of people on building performance is becoming increasingly significant. Including users’ perspective in decision-making and design processes could help to improve occupants’ well-being the feasibility interventions by providing more accurate information about heating preferences for energy models. Furthermore, understanding residents’ level thermal satisfaction enable app...

This studyutilized the mobile signaling data to conductthe impact analysis of jobs-housing spatial mismatch on commuting behavior, with eight typical employment centers of three categories selected as the research subjects. Based on the analysis of the characteristics and indictors including commuting distance, accessibilities from cumulative opportunity model etc., this study demonstrates that...

Considering animal welfare, animals should be kept in animal-appropriate and stress-free housing conditions all circumstances. To assure such conditions, not only basic needs must met, but also possibilities provided that allow captive care to express species-typical behaviors. Rack systems for snakes have become increasingly popular are widely used; however, from an welfare perspective, they n...

This paper proposes a model of booms and busts in housing and non-housing consumption driven by the interplay between relatively low interest rates and an expansion of credit, triggered by further decline in interest rates and relaxing collateral requirements. When credit becomes available, households would like to borrow in order to frontload consumption, and this increases demand for housing ...