The following report is the result of an extensive search into whole-house system interactions, definitions, as well as past and on-going programs that have embraced systems design for the home. The report also provides a collection of information regarding current home subsystems and home system definitions. Attachment A identifies and discusses government programs and trade publications, whil...

This paper studies the Homeowner Affordability Modification Program (HAMP), a 2009 federal program reducing delinquent homeowners mortgage payments to 31 percent of monthly income. To assess the program I propose and estimate a structural model of mortgage default using program results. The model allows for income, house prices, and exit preference shocks to induce default, and allows homeowner...

John Bowlby was a psychoanalyst (like Freud) and believed that mental health and behavioural problems could be attributed to early childhood. Bowlby's evolutionary theory of attachment suggests that children come into the world biologically pre-programmed to form attachments with others, because this will help them to survive. Bowlby was very much influenced by ethological theory in general, bu...

This document specifies mobility messages that allow transparent routing of IP datagrams to mobile nodes in the Internet. Each mobile node is always identified by its home address, regardless of its current point of attachment to the Internet. While situated away from its home, a mobile node is also associated with a care-of address, which provides information about its current point of attachm...

PURPOSE A quasi-experimental study was performed to investigate the effects of a home visiting discharge education program on the maternal self-esteem, attachment, postpartum depression and family function in 35 mothers of neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) infants. METHODS Twenty-three mothers in the intervention group received the home visiting discharge education while 12 mothers in the c...

PURPOSE This study was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of a mother/infant-toddler health program developed to enhance parenting knowledge, behavior and confidence in low income mothers and home environment. METHODS A one-group pretest-posttest quasi-experimental design was used. Sixty-nine dyads of mothers and infant-toddlers (aged 0-36 months) were provided with weekly intervention f...