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Studying deterrence with active residential burglars
Justice Quarterly, 1999Research designed to test deterrence/rational choice theory has contributed much to the knowledge of sanction threats, and the extent to which they are used in individuals' decision-making processes. The accumulation of knowledge about such perceptions among active and incarcerated offenders has surfaced only in recent years.
Alex Piquero, George F. Rengert
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Realized Savings from Residential Conservation Activity
The Energy Journal, 1985A variety of public and private incentives are currently used to encourage the adoption of conservation measures and practices. One economic justification for these programs is that the marginal cost of conserving energy through these incentives is lower than the corresponding incremental cost of providing energy through conventional means.
Frederick D. Sebold, Eric W. Fox
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Sustainable, assistive, residential architectural units for active ageing
2023 IEEE International Workshop on Metrology for Living Environment (MetroLivEnv), 2023With the demographic increasing of the elderly population and the different life and health perspectives underlying the principles of active ageing, there are new needs to respond with new architectural solutions. This work concerns the design of a center for self-sufficient elderly people in Catania (Italy), built with sustainable and assistive ...
Gibilisco, G +3 more
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Residential vs school neighborhoods: Associations with physical activity among adolescents
Health & Place, 2020Adolescents have the potential to be active in multiple places across weekdays and weekends. While the built environment features around home are known to be important for adolescents' physical activity, specific built environment features that facilitate physical activity outside the home neighbourhood are not well explored.
Loh, Venurs +6 more
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Analysis on Malicious Residential Hosts Activities Exploited by Residential IP Proxy Services
2020A residential IP Proxy is a proxy service that provides a traffic relay using hosts on residential networks. Although the service providers claim that hosts voluntarily participate in the service and use it for various high-quality applications, in fact, the service provides avoiding detection and blocking by pretending as apparently benign users, they
Akihiro Hanzawa, Hiroaki Kikuchi
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Metropolitan Residential Environments and Church Organizational Activities
Sociological Analysis, 1987This paper investigates the influence of the metropolitan residential environment on church organizational activities. Three major dimensions of organizational activity are evident among individual churches in the Seattle and Nashville regions: service toward the community, efforts to help individuals solve problems, and emphasis on religious activity ...
Avery M. Guest, Barrett A. Lee
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Residential or activity space walkability: What drives transportation physical activity?
Journal of Transport & Health, 2017Abstract Background The walkability of an individual's neighbourhood of residence is positively associated with their participation in physical activity. Reported associations between walkability and physical activity, however, are highly variable. One explanation is that many studies only assess individuals’ home environments and do not account for
Nicholas A. Howell +3 more
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Bird Activities in a Residential Back Garden
2024 32nd European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO)This work is based on an experimental setup for the collection of two-microphone passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) data and weather data in an urban recording location. The purpose of data collection is to investigate the connections and cause-and-effect links between environmental factors, human behavior, and animal vocalizations.
Härmä, Aki, Nazarenko, Evgeny
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Activity based energy demand modeling for residential buildings
2013 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference (ISGT), 2013Statistics reveal that almost one-fourth of the overall power consumption in the US is by residential buildings; this number is only increasing. In order to manage the growing demand for energy, there is a need for energy system optimization, which would require a realistic, high resolution energy-demand model.
R. Subbiah +3 more
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Residential mobility, neighborhood activism and neighborhood problems
Political Geography Quarterly, 1983Abstract A common idea in urban studies is that of a trade-off between relocation and locally based political activism as alternative means of coping with residential stress. This idea is evaluated empirically and then treated critically as an expression of more fundamental, less readily apparent social relations.
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