Shum, Matthew, Sun, Wei, and Ye, Guangliang—Superstition and ‘‘lucky’’ apartments: Evidence from transaction-level data Using a sample of apartment transactions during 2004–2006 in Chengdu, China, we investigate the impact of superstitions in the Chinese real estate market. Numerology forms an important component of Chinese superstitious lore, with the numbers 8 and 6 signifying good luck, and ...

Understanding movement and dispersal of the common bed bug (Cimex lectularius L.) under field conditions is important in the control of infestations and for managing the spread of bed bugs to new locations. We investigated bed bug movement within and between apartments using mark-release-recapture (m-r-r) technique combined with apartment-wide monitoring using pitfall-style interceptors. Bed bu...

BACKGROUND Asthma prevalence is high in the inner city, and morbidity has been associated with cockroach and mouse allergens. OBJECTIVE To characterize the relationships among pests, allergens, pesticides, and asthma in New York City public housing. METHODS In 324 apartments, dust samples collected from beds and kitchens were analyzed for cockroach (Bla g 2) and mouse (mouse urinary protein...

Two studies examined feature matching in successive judgments. College students in both studies read about 2 apartments with shared positive and unique negative features, and 1 less globally positive apartment with all unique features. In the feature-cancellation condition, participants first saw the shared-features apartments together and then saw the all-unique apartment. In the no-cancellati...

Two experiments were conducted to evaluate the effects of various interventions on low-level bed bug, Cimex lectularius L., populations in occupied apartments. The first experiment was conducted in occupied apartments under three intervention conditions: never treated (Group I), recently treated with no further treatment (Group II), and recently treated with continued treatment (Group III). Eac...

Mechanical exhaust ventilation system is typical in apartment buildings in Finland. In most buildings the base floor between the first floor apartments and crawl space is not air tight. As the apartments have lower pressure than the crawl space due to ventilation, contaminated air may flow from the crawl space to the apartments. The object of this study was to find out whether a potential air f...

Let H be an infinite-dimensional complex Hilbert space and let L(H) be the logic formed by all closed subspaces of H. For every natural k we denote by Gk(H) the Grassmannian consisting of k-dimensional subspaces. An orthogonal apartment of Gk(H) is the set consisting of all k-dimensional subspaces spanned by subsets of a certain orthogonal base of H. Orthogonal apartments can be characterized a...

BACKGROUND Low-income apartment communities in the United States are suffering from disproportionally high bed bug, Cimex lectularius L., infestations owing to lack of effective monitoring and treatment. Studies examining the effectiveness of integrated pest management (IPM) for the control of bed bugs in affordable housing have been limited to small subsets of bed-bug-infested apartments, rath...

background: one of the new concepts that have found their true meaning with technological advancement and the industrialization of societies is leisure time and how it is spent. recreational sports and frequent leisure activities are the most relevant and essential types of spending leisure time. therefore, this study attempted to examine how faculty members of isfahan university of medical sci...