This study compares the likelihood of admission to high-mortality hospitals for black and white Medicare patients in 118 health care markets, and whether admission patterns vary if residential racial segregation is greater in the area. Risk of admission to high-mortality hospitals was 35 percent higher for blacks than for whites in markets with high residential segregation. Moreover, blacks wer...

Objectives: This study identified specific personal factors and homeand community-based services (HCBS) that predict older adults’ residential transitions between community and institutional settings. Method: Logistic regression of interview data from 5294 participants in the Second Longitudinal Study of Aging identified predictors of three residential transition patterns and of frequency and d...

In order to improve the utilization of the residential electricity consumption data which contains the information on the user’s electricity consumption habits, a residential electricity consumption behaviors mining algorithm model is constructed. Firstly, according to the attribute, the collected data can be divided into the global data and the phase data, then the appropriate global variables...

Electricity demand response refers to consumer actions that change the utility load profile in a way that reduces costs or improves grid security. Residential demand response (RDR) can be treated as an energy resource which can be assessed and commercially developed. RDR prospectors require more detailed information about usage patterns and penetration for specific electrical appliances during ...

BACKGROUND The major objective of the present study was to determine the severity of nonfatal injuries sustained by children (<16 years old) when a motor vehicle rolls over them. We also sought to determine whether younger children (<24 months old) demonstrated different patterns of injury and/or a worse outcome, compared with older children (>24 months old). METHODS We reviewed the medical r...

The identification of energy consumption patterns contributes for the tailoring of energy efficiency solutions. This paper contributes to this issue by addressing the characterization of electricity consumption data with 15 min sampling of twenty two households, in Lisbon. The consumers have been segmented according to: social class, contracted power, number of rooms, family size and type of ta...

Earlier research on residential mobility has demonstrated a tendency for the young old of the 55+-population to prefer peripheral locations, whereas older age groups choose central locations. Here, we present survey results indicating that such late-adulthood differences in preferences are supported by age–related shifts corresponding to differences in housing preferences expressed by individua...

A mathematical model is proposed which describes the dynamics and the spatial distributions of two population groups, where migration is driven by considerations of socioeconomic status. The model associates segregation with instabilities of spatially uniform mixed population states. These instabilities lead to a wide range of segregation forms including: (a) variable (weak) segregation where t...

Residential segregation is an explicitly spatial phenomenon that emerges from the interaction of many individuals and displays markedly different global patterns depending on specific socioeconomic contexts. This paper presents a generative model of socioeconomic segregation that reproduces regular macro-level patterns of the phenomenon through the specification of a minimal set of parameters t...