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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"residential environments"”.
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Human interaction in residential environments
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Human interaction in residential environments
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Safety practices of older adults in residential environments
… older adults in preventing accidents in their residential environment and to examine the relationship between these safety practices and selected demographic characteristics of older adults. A personal interview schedule was developed and administered to a random sample of 50 members of the …
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Human response to railway vibration in residential environments : exposure-response relationships and modifying factors
… the knowledge of human response to vibration inresidential environments and identify factors of primary importance whenconsidering exposure-response relationships from railway vibration. It has previouslybeen shown that annoyance increases with vibration magnitude. However, thesecorrelations …
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Spatiotemporal Composition of Pest Ant Species in the Residential Environments of Santa Isabel, Puerto Rico
… dynamics of pest ant species in tropical urban environments. Pest ant community dynamics were examined within three Puerto Rican housing developments. Housing developments (one, four, and eight years old), representing different stages of urban succession were sampled to determine which species …
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Noxious odor in residential environments : Coping in reactive and proactive ways in three New Jersey communities
… noxious odor on residents' lives in three residential communities in northern New Jersey: West Caldwell, Newark's North Ward and Garfield- Lafayette in Jersey City. The research examines the coping process residents adopt to deal with this environmental annoyance. In this study I explore …
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Residential Preference at Transit-oriented Development: A Visual Choice Experiment
Insufficient knowledge of residential preferences represents a major obstacle to achieving residential satisfaction and quality of life. This obstacle is even greater in the case of transit-oriented developments (TODs), as their success depends, in part, on the degree to which people's preferences …
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Low cost housing : an evaluation of its adequacy in relation to the Coloured group in Cape Town
… constitutes 'adequate' and 'inadequate' urban residential environments". Whilst housing presents a universal problem, it assumes special importance and significance for South Africa. In this country, Non-Whites constitute 81 per cent of the total population and the large majority of them, who …
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The perception of elderly respondents to the interior features of sheltered housing
… to understand their perceptions of the interior environments they inhabit. Moreover, the purpose of the study is to determine the relative importance that the elderly attach to the various key interior elements and spatial areas within a sheltered housing scheme, in order to facilitate an …
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Empowering Energy Conservation: Low-Cost Interventions for Commercial and Residential Settings
… promoting energy conservation in commercial and residential environments. The first chapter employs social norms to design and analyze three behavioral change programs in a large biopharmaceutical company, with a focus on reducing electricity consumption and plastic waste. The second chapter …
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Level of satisfaction of resident students based on hall size, hall type, and gender
Research shows residential students have varying perceptions of satisfaction with their residential environments. It has also been shown that levels of satisfaction may differ between students based on variables such as hall size, organization, gender, or class standing. This study examined …
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East of the Tracks: Grassroots Environmentalism in South Mississippi
… regarding the quality of life associated with residential environments among communities of color. Recent disasters, such as hurricane Katrina, the Tennessee coal sludge disaster (December 2008), and the BP Oil Spill (2010) have garnered visibility for environmental issues, particularly in the …
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Higher Education Housing Professionals and Disability: A Grounded Theory Exploration of Resident Directors’ Understandings of Disability
<p>The residential experiences of students with disabilities in higher education play a pivotal role in their overall campus education. However, little is known about the ways in which the staff who manage and support these residential environments understand and work with issues and concepts of …
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Residential fabric as a memorable city form : a study of West London and Bath
… monuments. On a map, it is the imprint of the residential squares of West London that is legible. Texture and monument are defined in the context of the ideas of Rossi, Rowe and Smithson. A definition of the intermediate order was proposed as one wherein a primarily residential fabric provides …
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Community spaces in elderly housing: a study of design research communication
… of various settings. Designers of large-scale environments find it necessary to turn to others professionals for guidance in designing more responsive settings for daily living. Existing misfits between behavioral needs of the elderly and the community spaces in planned residential environments …
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Safety practices of older women in three Korean apartment complexes
… of this study was to identify whether the residential environments of Korean women age 65 and older living in apartments were safe for them. In order to accomplish the purpose, this study focused on the safety practices of older Korean women in their daily activities. The sample of 90 older …
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Remembering where we’re from: Community and individual predictors of college students’ White privilege awareness
… variable, though evidence suggests that residential environments may also influence racial attitudes (Brittian Loyd & Gaither, 2018; Glaser, 1994; Hagerman, 2020). In this study, we combine survey and U.S. Census data to explore both individual- and community-level predictors of White …
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Reassessing the role of tradition in architecture
… between traditional and contemporary built environments, and seeks to understand the process which led from the one to the other. And in so doing, it attempts to identify the continuities that remained and the changes that occurred. The study begins with the conviction that traditions still …
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Residential Satisfaction with Home Location: Examination of the Relationship Between Location-Embedded Benefits and Risk Perception
… to determine factors that contribute to their residential satisfaction, to identify residents' behavioral adjustment to perceived dissatisfactions with their residential environments, to understand their preferences for location-related features, to gauge their awareness of location-related …
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Aging in place: functional environments: a survey and case study in Floyd County, Virginia
… study was: What home modifications are made to residential environments to meet the functional capabilities of the aging in place audience? The study was conducted in two phases. In Phase I 102 Floyd County, Virginia, adults 65 years of age or older were interviewed in order to identify their …
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