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Wind environment evaluation in neighborhood residential areas in Malaysia:a case study of Johor Bahru metropolitan city [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
This paper discusses planning guidelines at the neighborhood residential areas in consideration of wind flow in Malaysia. It aims to reduce the energy consumption particularly from the usage of home air conditioners.
Ahmad, Supian, Tetsu, Kubota
core  

Understanding the Housing and Support Experience of People With Complex Disability in Australia: A Qualitative Analysis of Submissions to the Disability Royal Commission

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 2019, the Australian government established the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability (‘Disability Royal Commission’, DRC) to investigate widespread mistreatment of people with disability. Nearly 10,000 people with disability, their families and supporters engaged with the DRC.
Kate D'Cruz   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Confessions of a Poverty Researcher: My Journey Through the Foothills of Scholarship

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper describes the key events, experiences and ideas that influenced the author's career as a poverty researcher. He describes how his early disillusion with economics was replaced by a spark of interest in social issues and how his migration from the UK to Australia in the mid‐1970s provided the impetus to begin what became a lifetime ...
Peter Saunders
wiley   +1 more source

Analyzing the rent-to-price ratio for the housing market at the micro-spatial scale

open access: yesInternational Journal of Strategic Property Management, 2018
The rent-to-price ratio is one of the popular indicators for monitoring the property market. This study explores micro-scale spatial dynamics of the ratio for houses at the individual property level in Seoul, South Korea. We match the apartment unit sold
Changro Lee, Keyho Park
doaj   +1 more source

An Assessment Model for the Indoor Noise Environment of Aged Apartment Houses

open access: yes, 2014
Detached houses have been established as the traditional lifestyle of housing in Korea for thousands of years. However, apartment houses have been introduced in urban areas to meet the needs of industrialization since the 1970′s.
Y. Oh
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Failure of roof structure due to wind load [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
There are reported roof failure due to uplifting of the roof structures or roof sheeting during rainstorm has been causing damages to the buildings. Generally, failure occurred at the two points, either at the roof truss’s sheeting or at the truss to ...
Lee, Sid Hwa
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Design of Dwellings and Interior Family Space in China: Understanding the History of Change and Opportunities for Improved Sustainability Practices [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This paper reviews briefly the recent history of dwelling design in China. It notes the rapid changes that have taken place since the 1980s and identifies the way contemporary procurement processes leave out the final fit-out and decoration/refurbishment.
Gao, Yun, Pitts, Adrian
core   +2 more sources

‘Hurry Up and Get Me out of Here’: The Experience of People Under 65 Years (Still) Stuck in Aged Care

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Following the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety, the Australian Government set a target for no‐one under 65 years of age to be living in residential aged care (RAC) by 2025. The numbers of young people in residential aged care (YPIRAC) have significantly declined since the start of the targets.
Elroy Dearn   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

韓国と日本における居住様式に対する意識構造の比較考察 [PDF]

open access: yes, 1995
This study was undertaken to elucidate the consciousness of residential style in apartment houses in Korea and Japan.Statistical analyses (dematel analysis) and factor analysis were used based on data for questionnaire. The questionnaire was carried from
朴 貞淑
core   +1 more source

Adults With Intellectual Disability Moving out of the Family Home Using the National Disability Insurance Scheme: Family Members' Planning Experiences

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT For adults with intellectual disability and their families, future planning and moving out of the family home in Australia will increasingly occur within the context of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). As a market‐based, individualised funding system its impact on this transition remains largely unknown. This paper reports on a
I. Belperio   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

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