This paper undertakes a time series analysis of the Japanese divorce rate using annual data over the period 1964 to 2006. One of the key innovations of the paper is to use court decisions on divorce disputes to construct an index that seeks to measure how the probability of a success in a divorce suit has changed over time. The computed index suggests that if it the culpable party lodging the d...

Policy-makers in several countries are turning to income- and tenure-mixing strategies in an attempt to reverse decades of social and economic isolation in impoverished urban areas. In the US city of Chicago, all high-rise public housing developments across the city are being demolished, public housing residents are being dispersed throughout the metropolitan area and 10 new mixed-income develo...

Strong wind and heavy rain remain the two most important causes of large acreage wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) lodging in China. For research the influence of wind speed and rainfall-separately as well as together-on the extent and degree of lodging, five levels of the severity of lodging were defined based on a combination of the lodging area and the degree of tilting. Detailed meteorological i...

EMPIRICAL STUDIES OF REVENUE MANAGEMENT PRACTICES: UNDERSTAND YOUR COMPETITION AND CUSTOMERS Jun Li Gerard Cachon This dissertation empirically examines factors that challenge revenue management practices in travel industry — air-travel and lodging. In particular, it focuses on strategic interactions among firms and strategic interactions between firms and customers. While most traditional reve...

current world conditions require compressors to be both efficient and economical to manufacture. one means of improving efficiency in a rotary vane (or any) compressor is to use the lubricant as a heat transfer agent. A rotary vane refrigerator compressor was modified and instrumented for calorimeter testing so that the performance improvement could be identified. The changes and testing were c...

a full account of architectural science must include empirical findings about the social and psychological influences that housing have on their occupants. tall residential housing can have a myriad of such effects. this review summarizes the results of research on the influences of high-rise housing on residents’ experiences of the housing, satisfaction, preferences, social behavior, children,...

Public housing is the largest housing submarket in Singapore. There is also an active resale public housing market, where public housing dwellers are allowed to trade their houses after a time-bar of five years from the date of their purchase. This segment of resale HDB market is liken the private housing submarkets, where housing prices are more likely to fluctuate in accordance to the market ...

This paper describes a prototype spatial decision support system (SDSS) designed to assist Housing Choice Voucher Program clients, with the guidance of housing counselors, make better quality decisions about neighborhoods in which to search for rental housing and specific rental units to evaluate for occupancy. This application also serves as a marketing tool for public housing authorities (PHA...