The main purpose of this research is the calculation of implicit prices of the environmental level of air quality in the city of Moscow on the basis of housing property prices. The database used contains records of approximately 20 thousand apartments and has been provided by a leading real estate agency operating in Russia. The explanatory variables include physical characteristics of the hous...

Micro-housing means living in substandard conditions, housing units that are very small size. Such apartments usually have only the most basic contents, such as rooms for rest, kitchens and bathrooms, they do not meet all functionality aspects, because users consciously choose to forego certain needs order live a location or lower maintenance costs. The research considers characteristic example...

Bed bug (Cimex lectularius L.) infestations are becoming increasingly common in low-income communities. Once they are introduced, elimination is very difficult. As part of the efforts to develop effective and safe bed bug management programs, we conducted a laboratory study evaluating the efficacy of a reduced-risk insecticide-Alpine aerosol (0.5% dinotefuran). We then conducted a field evaluat...

Dengue is a serious public health problem in Malaysia. The aim of this study was to compare the vertical infestation of Aedes population in 2 apartments in Kuala Lumpur with different status of dengue incidence (i.e., high-dengue-incidence area and area with no reported dengue cases). The study was also conducted to assess the relationship between environmental factors such as rainfall, tempera...

It is widely believed that people have preferences in relation to the colour of their interior environment. With development global small apartment industry, it important understand well people's preference for apartments. This study investigated (N = 958) and arousal level measured as heart rate variability 70 young Chinese 21 colours. The findings indicate (22-27 years age) prefer light red...

This study attempted to identify where residents of public rental housing in Seoul want move from now on and analyze factors which could affect their choices. To this end, the choices were classified into maintenance, other housing, private except apartments order them basis current desired types moving. The main findings are as follows. First, it was confirmed that most considered moving diffe...

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...

Packet filtering firewall is one of the most important mechanisms used by corporations to enforce their security policy. Recent years have seen a lot of research in the area of firewall management. Typically, firewalls use a large number of low-level filtering rules which are configured using vendor-specific tools. System administrators start off by writing rules which implement the security po...