A research environment has been designed and constructed for;the experimental study of individual and social behavior over extended time periods within the context of a self-contained laboratory programmed for continuous residence by a small group of human volunteers. The environment is composed of several individual living units, a larger social living unit, and a work shop unit. Environmental...

this paper deals with the concept of “residential models” and the role it plays on human relations in residential complexes. it intends to; review the concept of residence; understand how a residential model takes form; the influence of a residential model on future human interactions. to this end, having reviewed comments and viewpoints, focused on “what is residence? which factors may create ...

reducing energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions have become a worldwide necessity. iran has the sixteenth ranking position of global greenhouse gas emissions and its rate of growth is above global average. built environments are responsible for about 40% of energy consumption and it is generally approved that the greatest portion of built environment is dedicated to residential land us...

At a hospital in the south of England there are two residential units, each with 15 beds, for emotionally disturbed children under 12?one a house in the town, and the other a bungalow in the grounds of the hospital. Children come to them from all parts of the country. The work of the unit is diagnostic, with comparatively short-term treatment. It covers a wide range of behaviour disturbances, i...

Inverse models are generally derived from empirical behavior and expressed in terms of one or more driving forces and a set of empirical parameters that are “identified” using measurements. Once identified, a model can be used for a variety purposes, including performance monitoring, diagnostics, retrofit analysis, measurement and verification of efficiency improvements, and on-line control opt...

BACKGROUND Many published reports on cost of counseling give a fixed cost per hour of service. These estimates may be flawed. AIMS OF THE STUDY The purpose of this study is to show, by way of an example, how cost of an hour of counseling depends on the nature of the patient, in general, and length of the patient s stay, in particular. Even though the health care professional provides the same...

The Continuing Care Linkage Study has been established to examine patterns of health service utilisation, including hospitalisation, domiciliary care, geriatric services and residential care, in persons with continuing disability. As part of this study the Data Linkage Unit of the Department of Health (WA) performed a linkage between clients from Silver Chain Nursing Association (SCNA, Western ...

like other economic markets, housing market is comprised of supply and demand dimensions and equality of supply and demand makes the housing market balanced. the aim of this paper is to investigate the characteristics of housing market of tehran city and some deficiencies of this market with fundamental – applied methodology. the variable studied here is the saleable residential unit with minim...

Previous studies on the price and time trade-off in real estate focused primarily on the real estate traded in the secondary market. This relation, however, depends rather critically on seller motivations. This study examines the price and time trade-off for new residential developments where developer motivations differ substantially from individual seller motivations. In addition, by using th...

Municipalities introduced unit-based pricing (UBP) with the aim of achieving a decrease in household waste generation and for the replacement of unsorted waste with recycling. Although many studies have shown that UBP has a short-run effect on recycling, few works have tackled the long-run effect on waste generation and recycling. By using panel data for 665 Japanese cities over 8 years, we exa...