Housing quality is particularly important for the elderly. Age increases the risk of impairments that can inhibit walking, climbing stairs, and cooking (Pollack and Newcomer 1986; Soldo 1986). Since many of these activities are affected by housing quality, the reduction of functional capacity is thought to place a higher importance on the quality of a housing unit (Carp, 1986; Wethington 1996; ...

Ce document est un fac-similé de l'édition imprimée. Espace Populations Sociétés est mis à disposition selon les termes de la licence Creative Commons Attribution-Pas d'Utilisation Commerciale-Pas de Modification 4.0 International. Residence Status and Housing in Urban China – the Case of Beijing Housing is one of the key resources separating the haves from the have-nots in urban China. As rece...

A test of nonfinancial measures used as part of a management-incentive program by a U.S.-based, full-service hotel chain found that improvements in the nonfinancial measures were followed shortly by increases in revenue and profit. The two nonfinancial measures are customer satisfaction as measured by guests’ comment card indications of likelihood to return and level of complaints. The lag betw...

BACKGROUND Housing sheep in insulated, warm buildings, which is common in Norway, involves high buildings costs, but has not been reported to improve health and performance. Few studies have dealt with the association between housing and management and reproductive performance.Data on housing and management during the indoor period from a questionnaire were merged with herd level data from the ...

Nitrogen excreted in dairy manure can be potentially transformed and emitted as NH, which can create livestock and human respiratory problems and be an indirect source of NO. The objectives of this study were to: (i) investigate environmental factors influencing NH emissions from dairy housing; and (ii) identify key explanatory variables in the NH emissions prediction from dairy housing using a...

Air pollution due to PM2.5 is of public concern in Korea. Ambient PM2.5 can penetrate indoors through the building envelope, affecting the indoor PM2.5 concentrations. Most people stay indoors for approximately 80% of every day, implying that their primary exposure to PM2.5 could be determined by the indoor air. This study aims to investigate the infiltration of ambient PM2.5 through the buildi...

In recent years, many local governments have struggled to address the burdens that uncontrolled residential development imposes on municipal infrastructure and other public facilities. Some local jurisdictions have implemented growth management programs and innovative infrastructure financing methods to coordinate new residential growth with the timely provision of essential public facilities. ...