INTRODUCTION We studied the impact of implementing a comprehensive smoke-free policy in multiunit housing in the Portland, Oregon metropolitan area. Among low-income tenants living in a subset of subsidized multiunit buildings, we evaluated cessation-related behaviors, policy knowledge and compliance, and secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure. METHODS We mailed a self-administered questionnaire to ...

Software Defined Networks (SDNs) have been recognized as the next-generation networking paradigm that decouples the network control plane from the data forwarding plane. A logically centralized controller is responsible for all the control decisions and communication among the forwarding switches. However, current traffic engineering techniques and state-of-the-art routing algorithms do not eff...

INTRODUCTION Cessation services have been recommended to complement smoke-free policies in subsidized multiunit housing, but little is known about smoking- and cessation-related characteristics among subsidized housing tenants. This study examined smoking behaviors and cessation-related interests in a population of subsidized housing tenants. METHODS A face-to-face survey was conducted in Aug...

Previous research focused on the conditions, awareness, and priorities of tenants for property maintenance in housing middle-class flats, so that simple flats have not received special attention related to issues. This study aims determine priority, reasons given by maintain flat, correlation between maintain. The method used was a survey distributing questionnaires. Property is divided into th...

This update focuses on the formation and current work of Autonomous Tenants Union Network / La Red de Sindicatos Inquilinos Autónomos (ATUN). A core function ATUN is providing resources spaces for tenants to reach common understandings strategies moment—a moment that characterized not only by financialization expansion global real estate capital, but also increasing mass tenant movements a righ...

Cloud computing providers today do not offer guarantees for the network bandwidth available in the cloud, preventing tenants from running their applications predictably. To provide guarantees, several recent research proposals offer tenants a virtual cluster abstraction, emulating physical networks. Whereas offering dedicated virtual network abstractions is a significant step in the right direc...

FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate arrays) have gained massive popularity today as accelerators for a variety of workloads, including big data analytics, and parallel and distributed computing. This has fueled the study of mechanisms to provision FPGAs among multiple tenants as general purpose computing resources on the cloud. Such mechanisms offer new challenges, such as ensuring IP protection and...

The database of multi-tenant Software as a Service (SaaS) applications has challenges in designing and developing a relational database for multi-tenant applications. In addition, combining relational tables and virtual relational tables to make them work together and act as one database for each single tenant is a hard and complex problem to solve. Based on our multitenant Elastic Extension Ta...

We consider a rent control regime where rent increases on, and eviction of, a sitting tenant are not allowed. However when an apartment becomes vacant the landlord is free to negotiate a new rent. We argue that this stylized system is a good (though polar) approximation for many rent control regimes existent today in several U.S. cities and the world over. Under such a regime, if inflation exis...

Tens of thousands of housing discrimination complaints are filed each year. Although there has been extensive study of discrimination in the rental market, discrimination in evictions has been largely overlooked. This is because determining whether discrimination exists in evictions presents several challenges. Not only do landlords typically have a non-discriminatory reason for evictions (e.g....