Elderly individuals benefit from frequently engaging in activities outside the home because such activities sustain the overall health and functioning of an aging body. However, environmental barriers can limit participation in activities outside the home by elderly individuals. The current study examined the factors that influence the frequency with which elderly individuals living in China en...

Colloquially termed the ‘man cave’, shed provides a conceptual lens for thinking about home’s ‘edges rather than its centres’. This paper explores implications energy demand arising from extension of existing and emerging technologies into these gendered ‘edges’ home. As well as considering sheds physical sites, draws on relational geographies social practice to understand peripheries property ...

Defensible space is the concept of creating spaces that include a series architectural guidelines are used when designing new urban residential area to promote both territorial claim groups their surroundings and ability conduct natural surveillance spaces. Constructing safe environments with vocabularies for enhancing well-being crucial achieving quality life in peace wartime. Warzone countrie...

the study deals with the possibility of information loss in web 2.0 due to the interaction between the overload and the real information. using gottesman and preskill method, this investigation has proposed a mechanism to calculate the amount of information transformation in web 2.0. in this proposal, there are three different hilbert spaces that belong to the degrees of freedom of outside, ins...

This study evaluated lead, arsenic, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) contamination in the residential communities adjacent to the Sydney, Nova Scotia, tar ponds, the area considered Canada's worst contaminated site. The tar pond remediation policy has been limited to the site and some residential properties. We compared background concentrations in 91 soil samples taken 5-20 km from th...

In recent years, many local governments have struggled to address the burdens that uncontrolled residential development imposes on municipal infrastructure and other public facilities. Some local jurisdictions have implemented growth management programs and innovative infrastructure financing methods to coordinate new residential growth with the timely provision of essential public facilities. ...

Much research attention has been devoted to community context and health. Communities are often defined as residential spaces, such as neighborhoods, or as social groupings, such as caste in India. Using data from a group of tea estates in South India, we attempt to address important methodological challenges in the identification of neighborhood effects on child health. We find significant nei...

With the fast development of information technology and increasingly prominent environmental problems, building comfort and energy management become the major tasks for an intelligent residential building system. According to statistical studies, people spend 80% of their lives in buildings. Hence it is not surprising that they constantly seek to improve comfort in their living spaces. This pap...