Residential mobility on skid row: Disaffiliation, powerlessness, and decision making

Homeless alcoholic women on skid row.

Studies of homeless alcoholic women remain rare. Women on Skid Row in New York City were sought out at the Women's Shelter for a study of homeless women alcoholics. The findings in this study of 31 homeless alcoholic women tend to confirm an earlier study by Garrett and Bahr in most respects. A major difference relates to the population's lack of homogeneity. A life-long pattern of marginality ...

Treatment of skid-row alcoholics with disulfiram.

The trial was both an early demonstration of the potential of disulfiram in the right circumstances and of sanctions contingent on (effectively) abstinence. This entry is our analysis of a study considered particularly relevant to improving outcomes from drug or alcohol interventions in the UK. The original study was not published by Findings; click Title to order a copy. Free reprints may be a...

Spatial Decision Support for Subsidized Housing Location and Residential Mobility

Re-thinking residential mobility

While researchers are increasingly re-conceptualizing international migration, far less attention has been devoted to re-thinking short-distance residential mobility and immobility. In this paper we harness the life course approach to propose a new conceptual framework for residential mobility research. We contend that residential mobility and immobility should be re-conceptualized as relationa...

Research on the Optimization Decision-Making Two Row-Sequencing-Pairs of Activities with Slacks

421 As a matter of fact, they are from 5 different cognate ternary pairs as listed above. According to the definition cognate and the tardiness theory of the normalized ternary pair, cognate ternary pairs have the same normalization result. Therefore, any five of different cognate ternary pairs can represent total 15 different standard ternary pairs. We can select the first one from each monolo...