Much of the nation has experienced steep declines in housing prices in recent years. In Manhattan, however, apartment sales prices did not fall as sharply. A study of price-rent ratios in the New York City borough concludes that, while apartment rents are driven by supply and demand forces, apartment sales prices are driven in part by speculative factors, and they sometimes rise or fall to leve...

In recent years, public interest in aged apartment remodeling has come to rise in Korea with the government’s strict regulation to restrict apartment reconstruction. To meet the rising demands on apartment remodeling, we attempt in this paper to develop an analytical research and schematic application of extension types for domestic apartment building stocks. Our research adopts a typological a...

A mean residence time (MRT) is an important pharmacokinetic parameter. To the author's knowledge, however, a physiologically based structure of MRT (thereafter MRT structure) has not been published so far. Primarily this is because MRT structures cannot be identified by traditional pharmacokinetic methods used for the determination of MRT. Therefore, tools from the theory of linear dynamic syst...

Intercomparisons of hillslopes and catchments in different hydrogeomorphic settings are rare. Those comparison studies that have been completed have focused largely on bulk outflow and chemistry. Here, we present a new functional intercomparison of two well studied hillslopes: one in New Zealand at Maimai and one in Japan at Fudoji. Slope angle, slope length, soil depth, climate and vegetation ...

Abstract Noise has become one of the most critical problems to address in contemporary cities, and awareness consequences noise pollution been increasing lately. Road traffic exposure is considered a serious environmental health hazard, as excessive increases cardiovascular diseases anxiety. People spend their time residences where they tolerant noisy environments are unaware effects caused by ...

From May to June 2012, a waterborne outbreak of 124 cases of cryptosporidiosis occurred in the plumbing systems of an older high-rise apartment complex in Seoul, Republic of Korea. The residents of this apartment complex had symptoms of watery diarrhea and vomiting. Tap water samples in the apartment complex and its adjacent buildings were collected and tested for 57 parameters under the Korean...

Due to the limited land available, and increasingly expensive landed house prices, many new developers are developing vertical housing, one of which is apartments. An apartment a building that can be used as residence by dividing it into several rooms or groups separated partition (boundary). Apartments also most popular types especially among residents DKI Jakarta. Apartment developments built...

Apartment owners in The Netherlands are struggling to successfully reduce the energy consumption of their apartment buildings. The energetic quality of especially the apartment buildings that are managed by Associations of Owners is lagging. A literature study and interviews with experts are used to identify two sets of issues that currently withhold Associations of Owners from improving the en...

Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, human mobility is limited, and many activities, such as work or school, are relegated to home, including for apartment residents. As a result, this condition causes unpleasant feelings, which lead decline in physical mental health. The solution from improve room quality inside limited area units using biophilic design approach order create comfortable living sp...