The purpose of this ethnographic study was to compare 12 settings in which housing, attendant assistance, and transportation were shared by clusters of young adults with physical disabilities during the early years of the independent living movement. The settings that were studied were (a) a demonstration independent living program established by a medical rehabilitation facility, (b) a univers...

Through a longitudinal survival analysis, this paper provides the first look into the long-term process of nest leaving, which is a pre-condition for natural household formation by young adults. Using the American Housing Survey (AHS) data to follow a group of young adults aged 25-34 who were living in parental homes in 1985, we found that nearly 23 percent still lived in parental homes by 1995...

We describe an efficient procedure for sampling representatives from a weighted set such that for any weightings S and T , the probability that the two choose the same sample is equal to the Jaccard similarity between them: Pr[sample(S) = sample(T )] = ∑ x min(S(x), T (x)) ∑ x max(S(x), T (x)) where sample(S) is a pair (x, y) with 0 < y ≤ S(x). The sampling process takes expected computation li...

This is a cross-sectional study that aims to identify the prevalence of lower independent living skills and their associations in 390 users of psychiatric community-based services in the state Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. For tracing the outcome it was used the "scale Independent Living Skills Survey", adopting a cut-off value lower than 2. The crude and adjusted analyses were conducted on binary...

The final goal of strategic management is to implement strategic plans, Therefore the alignment between corporate strategy and functional strategy is considerable. This study investigates the degree of alignment between HR strategy and corporate strategy of the national gas company. Data collection was conducted by questionnaire by 51 questions. The content validity of questionnaire was assesse...