The cost and effectiveness of two bed bug (Cimex lectularius L.) integrated pest management (IPM) programs were evaluated for 10 wk. Sixteen bed bug-infested apartments were chosen from a high-rise low-income apartment building. The apartments were randomly divided into two treatment groups: diatomaceous earth dust-based IPM (D-IPM) and chlorfenapyr spray-based IPM (S-IPM). The initial median (...

This study estimates and interprets the effects of macroeconomic and local housing market conditions on rents and occupancies in different segments of the multifamily rental housing market. The research uses longitudinal data from a nationally representative sample of apartments drawn from the American Housing Survey to determine whether apartments of different quality grades are differentially...

In each precinct, we identi ed addresses and apartments in which unregistered and misregistered citizens were likely to reside as follows. We rst collected the list of citizens registered at the precinct as of January 2011 and ordered it by address. Between May and September 2011, surveyors went to each address and wrote down names found on the mailboxes or on intercoms and the corresponding ap...

Let P be a non positively curved polygon of nite groups The group P acts on a contractible complex XP and we prove that this complex is a building if and only if the links have angular diameter When P has zero group theoretic curvature a geometric argument shows that the periodic apartments are dense in the set of all apartments

OBJECTIVE This study assessed renters' preferences for official smoking policies in their buildings and their practices concerning restricting tobacco smoking in their apartments. DESIGN Renters (n = 301) living in large apartment complexes in a suburb of Minneapolis, Minnesota, completed a mail survey. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES The survey asked about the official smoking policies in place in t...

AIMS An evaluation was made of the prevalence of Legionella species in hot water distribution systems in the city of Bologna (Italy) and their possible association with bacterial contamination (total counts and Pseudomonadaceae) and the chemical characteristics of the water (pH, Ca, Mg, Fe, Mn, Cu, Zn and Total Organic Carbon, TOC). METHODS AND RESULTS A total of 137 hot water samples were an...