BACKGROUND Studies of neighborhood context on health behavior have not considered that the health benefits of context may be 'capitalized' into, or included in, higher housing values. This study examines the associations of better neighborhood context with neighborhood housing values. METHODS We use the third wave of Add Health (2000-2001) to estimate the association of neighborhood contextua...

Objectives The objective of this research is to characterize biological, physical and chemical soil quality parameters and monitor their changes over time in minimum tillage and no-till seeding systems as affected by tillage, crop species and management systems to identify soil quality attributes that can be used in the development of best management practices for conserving soil quality and en...

Most formal assessment and evaluation techniques and standards assume that software can be analysed like any physical item. In safety-critical systems, software is an important component providing functionality. Often it is also the most difficult component to assess. Balanced use of process assessment and product evaluation methods is needed, because lack of transparency in software must be co...

Class cohesion is an important object-oriented software quality attributes, and it refers to the degree of relatedness of class attributes and methods. Several class cohesion measures are proposed in the literature, and the impact of considering the special methods (i.e., constructors, destructors, and access and delegation methods) in cohesion calculation is not thoroughly theoretically studie...

Tupling of function results is a well-known technique in functional programming to avoid multiple traversals over the same data. When expressing these programs as attribute grammars, function results are expressed as shared attributes for which tupling is done automatically. In this paper we show how we can get tupling for free by using attribute grammars as an intermediate language. We evaluat...

This study is designed to explain how restaurant healthy food quality is related to repeat patronage intention. The results indicate that perceived value mediates the positive relationship between the restaurant healthy food and revisit intent. In other words, restaurant healthy food quality increases perceived value in the diner’s mind, which in turn results in a higher level of revisit intent...

Open space protection and the new ‘Smart Growth’ movement have to date been policy slogans lacking any formal analysis and evaluation. Evaluation of land protection policies requires a structural model for land markets with spatial delineation so that the impacts of policy on locational attributes can be described. This paper uses estimates for household preferences derived from a locational eq...

The nature of system properties, sometimes called the new “ilities” are discussed, and defined, with particular attention to the differences between the ilities, formalized specification for the ilities, as well as relationships between the ilities. Examples are given including generalized statements about the “ility” of a system, as well as specification statements for requirements definition ...

ODe of the essential problems in natural language production and understanding is the problem of processing referential relations. In this paper I describe a model for representing and processing referential relations: referential nets with attributes. Both processes (analyzing and generating referential expressions) are controlled by attributes. There are two types of attributes, on one hand, ...