Information concerning the home and workplace of residents is the basis of analyzing the urban job-housing spatial relationship. Traditional methods conduct time-consuming user surveys to obtain personal job and housing location information. Some new methods define rules to detect personal places based on human mobility data. However, because the travel patterns of residents are variable, simpl...

When correcting policies to tackle rising housing inequality, certain principles of justice are necessary. Recently, the capability approach has attracted attention scholars, as promising guidance compensate for problems in conventional policy approaches. However, practicality its application remains uncertain. This article suggests how manage issues creating gaps between philosophy and practic...

The variation in default rates by region is quite substantial. Default rates in the Northcentral states were about five times as large as default rates in the Southeastern states. These differences reflect the credit rate risk associated with the real estate markets in each of the regions, the fortunes of the regional economies, and the loan-tovalue ratios and ages of the mortgages.” Quigley an...

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Many stimuli evoke short-term emotional reactions. These reactions may play an important role in assessing how a subject perceives a stimulus. Additionally, long-term mood may modulate the emotional reactions but it is still unclear in what way. The question seems to be important in terms of animal welfare, as a negative mood may taint emotional reactions. In the present study with sheep, we in...

This Briefing Paper describes the spatial pattern of housing association rents across England in the first year of the rent-restructuring regime. It examines the extent to which housing associations' current average rents for given property sizes differ within each local authority area; whether there is a geographical pattern in these differences across the country; whether rents within each pr...

PURPOSE To understand how adults living in a low-income, public housing community characterize meaningful activity (activity that gives life purpose) and if through short-term intervention, could overcome identified individual and environmental barriers to activity engagement. METHODS We used a mixed methods design where Phase 1 (qualitative) informed the development of Phase 2 (quantitative)...

Dividend relevance has been a subject of significant recent interest for academicians and researchers in the area of hospitality finance. The subject has attracted noticeable controversy, given the stringent or no-dividend payout policies observed in many hospitality firms. This study builds on existent dividend literature in hospitality finance by examining the relevance of cash dividends for ...

The communication which I venture to bring before you this evening has three objectives in view. First, to examine the statement frequently made and supported by statistics, that puerperal mortality is as high to-day as it was seventy years ago; second, to question the opinion, also widely held, that the bulk of this mortality is the result of instrumental and other interference with the course...