Pyrethroids are the active ingredients in most insecticides available to consumers for residential use in the United States. Yet despite their dominance in the marketplace, there has been no attempt to analyze for most of these compounds in watercourses draining residential areas. Roseville, California was selected as a typical suburban development, and several creeks that drain subdivisions of...

We have investigated and compared various aspects of the storage of multimedia content at residential gateways (RG) in the home or at caches in the public network. From qualitative analyses of Personal Video Recording and Content Delivery Networking techniques, we conclude that service architectures incorporating storage on the RG as well as in the public network are viable options for the near...

This report provides an evaluation of the architecture, empirical foundation, and applications of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) residential energy use model. A particular effort is made to identify the strengths and shortcomings of the model for alternative uses, and to identify areas where model structure and empirical support could be upgraded. Concrete suggestions are made for imp...

CONTEXT Environmental exposure to herbicides has been hypothesized to contribute to the long-term increase in non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL). OBJECTIVE To estimate the effects of residential herbicide exposure on NHL risk. DESIGN Population-based case-control study. SETTING Iowa and metropolitan Detroit, Los Angeles, and Seattle, 1998 to 2000. PARTICIPANTS NHL patients ages 20 to 74 years a...

Data relating to the use of hypnotic medicines from a descriptive epidemiological study of drug use in 55 residential homes for elderly people were analysed. Of the 1888 residents included in the study, 435 (23.0%) were receiving a total of 448 hypnotic medicines. There was preferential prescribing of short-acting benzodiazepines but long-acting benzodiazepines represented 31.7% of all hypnotic...

Supporting sustainable resource use in the home requires a range of feedback techniques to enable informed decision-making. These techniques can include traditional screen-based interfaces, but these tools often require too much effort and attention from already-busy residents. An alternative approach is the provision of ambient and artistic visualizations integrated into the domestic environme...

As a part of BC Hydro’s Advanced Metering Initiative (AMI), a time of use rate pilot project involving some 2,000 residential customers was implemented for winter 2006/07 and winter 2007/08. Customers participating in the project had an advanced meter installed at their house, and they also received information on how they could save energy during the peak period and shift load from the peak pe...

This article presents a study of residential parcel design and surface heat island formation in a major metropolitan region of the southeastern United States. Through the integration of high-resolution multispectral data (10m) with property tax records for over 100,000 single-family residential parcels in the Atlanta, Georgia, metropolitan region, the influence of the size and material composit...

Previous studies have linked non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) with occupational exposure to insecticides, but residential use is largely unexplored. In this population-based case-control study, we examined NHL risk and use of insecticides in the home and garden. We identified NHL cases, uninfected with HIV, diagnosed between 1998 and 2000 among women and men ages 20 to 74 years in Iowa and the metr...

Tree-shade alters building cooling and heating loads by reducing incident solar radiation. Estimates of the magnitude of this effect, and how it is in¯uenced by urban forest structure (e.g. tree size and location), are dif®cult due to the complexity inherent in tree±sun±building interactions. The objective of this paper is to present a simpli®ed method for making these estimates appropriate for...