Recent advances in pervasive computing foster automated systems to support household energy management. Smart devices can be used to monitor both the consumption of household appliances and the presence and activity of people in the household. Based on monitoring results, intelligent feedback to residents and intelligent control of appliances is possible. In this paper we present a service-orie...

Despite the large amount of private and public resources spent on foreign education, there is no systematic evidence that foreign educated individuals foster democracy in their home countries. Using a unique panel dataset on foreign students starting from 1950, I show that foreigneducated individuals promote democracy in their home country, but only if the foreign education is acquired in democ...

In Place of Parents. A study of foster care. By Gordon Trasler. Routledge 6? Kegan Paul. 25s. In making this study the author was able to work closely with the staff of the Devon Children's Department, the area in which his research was carried out and he has clearly gained a great deal from close collaboration with its caseworkers. Trasler took as his study sample all those children in the car...

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Child welfare Domestic violence Foster home care Review There is emerging evidence to suggest that children who come to the attention of child protective authorities are more likely to experience out-of-home placement if their families are affected by domestic violence than other reasons for investigation. To develop a better understanding of child welfare-involv...

This report presents the results of a study that uses state administrative data to analyze employment, earnings, and public assistance receipt among former Wisconsin foster youth who exited outof-home care between January 1, 1992, and December 31, 1998, and who were at least 17 years old at the time of their exit. Our results suggest that former foster youth who had aged out of care or had been...

This study among 168 couples of dual-earner parents uses insights from previous work-family conflict and crossover research to propose an integrative model delineating how job demands experienced by men and women carry over to the home domain. The authors hypothesized that for both men and women, job demands foster their own work-family conflict (WFC), which in turn contributes to their partner...

OBJECTIVE Although prior population-based studies have found that children in foster care use more mental health services than their Medicaid peers, less is known about how different experiences in foster care impact the likelihood of mental health service use. The primary aim of this study is to test the hypothesis that instability of foster care placements is associated with higher costs for ...

FamilY reunification is a central strategy for family preservation. Although child welfare services have arguably relied too heavily on family reunification to preserve families-and should more often prevent any separation of parent and child with in-home services-the incidence of children with a first entry into foster care has recently reached levels equivalent to those a decade earlier (Goer...

Despite the best efforts of child welfare agencies, community agencies, and individuals, some children are not safe in their homes and must be placed in substitute care settings by child welfare authorities. Increasingly, as this article points out, child welfare agencies are placing children in the homes of their relatives rather than in traditional foster family homes (31% of all children in ...

When risky child and family circumstances cannot be resolved at home, (temporary) 24-h out-of-home placement of the child may be an alternative strategy. To identify specific placement risks and needs, care professionals must have information about the child and his or her family, care history, and social-cultural characteristics at admission to out-of-home care. However, to date information on...