Residential Life Research Articles

Method for Improving Residential Living Rights of Residents in Apartments

오늘날 공동주택내에서 거주하는 입주민들의 쾌적한 주거생활을 위한 방안이 필요한 때이다. 최근에 공동주택 내에서 발생하는 각종 분쟁, 사건사고, 비리사고 등을 언론을 통하여 쉽게 접할 수 있는데 이는 이들이 이미 사회문제화되었다는 방증이다. 이러한 문제에 대한 해결책으로는 보다 근본적이고, 장기적인 방안이 필요한데 구체적인 해결방안을 모색하기 위하여 공동주택 내 입주민의 제반 권리를 통칭할 수 있는 헌법상 기본권으로서 “주거생활권”이라는 개념을 도출하고, 그 법적 성격을 종합적 기본권으로 판단하였다. 그러한 논의는 사회적 기본권성보다는 자유권적 기본권성이 권리구제측면에서 유리하기 때문에 실익이 있다고 하겠다. 구체적으로 입주민의 주거생활권을 향상시키기 위해서 커뮤니티를 활성화할 수 있는 방안이라든가, 공동주택 내 발생하고 있는 부정적인 요소 특히 각종 비리 등을 척결할 수 있는 방안을 제시하였다. 즉 공동주택 내 기관인 입주자대표회의와 관리주체의 상호 견제 및 균형이 상실되고 내부적인 감사기능을 상실한 현 시점에서 이런 제반 문제를 주민 자치적으로 해결할 수 없다고 판단하였다. 따라서 현 시점에서는 우선 주무관청의 체계를 향상시켜 각종 비리를 사전·사후적으로 예방하고, 장기적으로는 공동주택 내 기관들이 상호 통제, 감시, 견제할 수 있는 시스템 마련이 필요하다고 본다. 특히 국가적으로도 공동주택 내에서 발생하는 문제점에 대한 인식은 있으나 이에 대한 근본적이고 장기적인 방안을 제시하고 있지 못하고 있는 것이 현실이다. 따라서 앞으로 입주민의 쾌적한 주거생활을 통한 삶의 질 향상과 관련하여 헌법상 주거생활권의 개념 정의, 법적성격, 타 기본권과의 관계 특히 우월관계 등에 대한 깊은 논의가 필요하다고 보며, 실무적으로도 공동주택과 관련한 문제점들을 미연에 방지하고 사후적으로 해결하기 위하여 공동주택의 전문인력 관리제도 등의 도입이 필요하다고 하겠다.

Design of online platform and visualization system based on three-dimensional spatial information for occupant satisfaction with indoor environment quality

Prior evaluations of building energy performance have focused on quantitative performance based on mathematical models while overlooking the value of quality of residential life. The Post-Occupancy Evaluation (POE) method is regarded as an important component of the value judgment process for enhancing the quality of actual building performance. Accordingly, we developed a cost-effective open-source survey platform to collect data on occupant satisfaction. This study focuses on the evaluation indexes of indoor environment quality (IEQ) and conducted a pilot test. The difference of this platform compared with existing online survey systems is that the survey information is linked with the shape and spatial information of the building. This study’s online platform for surveying occupant satisfaction is expected to significantly reduce the time and costs required for conventional IEQ occupant satisfaction surveys. In addition, the collected survey responses are analyzed through a database and visualized as a prototype based on 3D spatial information, providing more intuitive feedback to the owner and occupants of the building.

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Theoretical and practical research into excavation slope protection for agricultural geographical engineering in the Loess Plateau: A case study of China's Yangjuangou catchment

The Loess Plateau is one of the most vulnerable areas in the world as it is extremely susceptible to soil erosion and ecological destruction. Recently, the local government carried out the “Gully Land Consolidation Project” (GLCP) in the Loess Plateau region to increase farmland area, improve rural production and living conditions. Among all the GLCP engineering constructions, slope protection engineering plays an important role in ensuring the safety of the main project, residential lives and properties, although more theoretical and technical research on comprehensive protection of engineering slopes is required. In this study, a field experiment using 12 standard runoff plots (length 4m×width 2m) was performed in Yangjuangou catchment of Yan'an City, to compare and analyze the comprehensive benefit to vegetative growth, soil erosion and engineering benefit from four vegetation styles and three levels of slope gradient (45°, 53°,63°). Results show that under different slope gradient and vegetation styles, significant differences existed in the comprehensive benefit to slopes, as well as the levels of vegetative growth, soil erosion and engineering benefit. The comprehensive benefit of the 53° slope was significantly better than that of 45° and 63° slopes. In addition, the comprehensive benefit of slopes with one or more vegetation styles was better than that of non-vegetation covered slopes. With the increase in slope gradient, the vegetative growth and slope erosion indices of vegetation average height, species richness, vegetation coverage slope, runoff production and sediment yield, showed a remarkable declining trend. Conversely, the engineering benefit index including newly-increased farmland area and excavating earthwork volume, showed an increasing trend. Recently, agricultural geographical engineering (AGE) has become an indispensable method for ecological construction and agricultural development, resulting in an increase in research in the field of geography. These findings not only have theoretical significance and enrich our understanding of the influence of gradient and vegetation styles on excavation slope protection, but also have practical significance and provide a baseline for engineering parameters and suggestions for slope protection engineering strategies.

A Study on the Traditional Residential Living Patterns of Residents in Tibetan Agricultural Area Based on Natural Environment and Regional Culture

Tibet’s agricultural production area (referred to as agricultural area) is located in the average altitude of 3500 meters above the plateau. It is the region with the highest population density in Tibet, has one of the most representative types of residential buildings in Tibet. The plateau climate characteristics of this area, with cold and dry winter and large temperature difference between day and night, and the mode of production, which is mainly farming, supplemented by animal husbandry, together gave birth to a unique traditional architectural mode. Tibetan Buddhist culture and farming folk culture also produced direct impact on the architectural mode. The study is based on the investigation of the natural environment and the living and producing style, and the analysis of the impact of folk culture and religious culture on resident mode. The study summarizes the traditional residential living patterns of Tibetan residents from the aspects of building materials, construction technology, architectural form, building site selection, architectural function space and architectural decoration, in order to provide the basis for integrating renewable technologies into Tibetan residential buildings.

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An Implementation Coaching Framework to Support a Career and University Readiness Program for Underserved First-Year College Students

ABSTRACTIntervention research is replete with examples of finely crafted innovations showing initial efficacy in tightly controlled experimental contexts only to fail when they are implemented in typical use settings. While the reasons for such failures are broad, implementation science shows a targeted and judicious use of appropriate competency drivers, such as coaching to innovation providers, increases the likelihood that promising interventions can be used with effectiveness. This article discusses how an implementation coaching framework is used to implement a novel career and university readiness (CCR) program. The SELF CARE program utilizes university residential life community directors to implement a manualized social-emotional learning (SEL) and community and cultural wealth (CCW) curriculum with the purpose of enhancing the protective and thriving skills of growth mind-set, sense of belonging, self-management, self-advocacy, and community and cultural wealth (see Appendix A). SELF CARE targets underserved university students with the goal of supporting their thriving at a predominantly White institution (PWI).

Mission Alignment and Operationalization: The Case of the United World Colleges

This research study explored how a large, complex global educational organization operationalizes its mission and socializes its constituents to support its mission and values. The study’s unit of analysis was the United World Colleges (UWC), a group of complex international schools whose multi-campus and multinational structure shares a values-driven and activist-oriented mission. With an interest in exploring causation, the researcher employed case study methods to understand how this large organization brings its mission to life on a daily basis.Extensive interviews, observations and document analysis at five units of the organization led to eight themes consistent across all data collected. The research study revealed that the following factors play a significant role in mission operationalization and alignment: (1) The entrance and exit strategy for members of the organization; (2) selection of the organization’s members; (3) curricular choice and teaching methods; (4) use and structure of the physical space; (5) programming; (6) residential life; (7) reflection; and (8) simplicity and tangibility of the mission statement.The study has implications for international schools and organizations keen to create strategic alignment between their mission and daily operations. The findings in the study are generalizable and could inform international organizations in their attempt to implement best practices and make resource allocation decisions to maintain mission fidelity.

HOUSING HISTORIES OVER THE LIFE COURSE AND HEALTH AT OLDER AGES: RESULTS FROM SHARE

Studies have linked home ownership with health at older ages, but few studies have summarized entire housing histories and tested their links to health at older ages. This paper uses residential life history data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) with annual housing information from age 15 up until age 60 (renting or owning in a rural or urban region) for more than 10,000 older men and women. We use sequence analyses to identify types of previous housing histories and investigate their links to health functioning (physical, affective and cognitive functioning). Findings suggest that the positive association between home ownership and health is restricted to urban regions, and that it is more pronounced for individuals who acquired a home after an episode of renting. We discuss potential explanations, specifically, the role of housing histories for later socioeconomic circumstances.

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Intervention strategies in residential immersive life skills programs for youth with disabilities: a study of active ingredients and program fidelity

ABSTRACTObjective: To examine intervention strategy use in residential immersive life skills (RILS) programs.Methods: The Service Provider Strategies-Checklist was used to record the strategies used in 100 activity settings across two summers at three RILS program sites. Activity settings were categorized by activity type and session format. Relative occurrence of the strategies was examined using percentages.Results: Socially mediated strategies (listening, engaging youth) and teaching/learning techniques (verbal cues, verbal instruction) were used in over 75% of the settings. Strategy use was highly contextualized, with different strategy patterns observed for different types of activity settings.Conclusion: The findings suggest that RILS programs be characterized by their use of socially mediated strategies and teaching/learning techniques, with socially mediated and non-intrusive strategies appearing to be program hallmarks. Strategy use was aligned with the types of sessions offered, providing evidence of program fidelity and indicating that RILS programs are complex in their formats, activities, and strategy use.

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Disentangling reproductive biology of the Patagonian toothfish Dissostichus eleginoides: skipped vs obligatory annual spawning, foraging migration vs residential life style

Patagonian toothfish Dissostichus eleginoides Smitt 1898, is an important commercially targeted Notothenioid species in South-Atlantic waters. In this study we aimed to clarify several aspects of reproductive biology of Patagonian toothfish in the Falkland Islands waters. Histological examination of female gonads indicates that with the beginning of maturation females maintain at least two populations of oocytes, suggesting that toothfish requires up to two years for oocytes development. Females become mature at an average size of 79.1 cm indicating a decrease of first maturity size if toothfish females in the Falkland Island waters. The majority of females spawn at the size from 101 to 130 cm total length. Distribution of reproductive phases shows an increase of females at developing stage in December and March prior to the spawning peaks in May and August respectively. However, the majority of the toothfish population consist of non-spawning individuals remaining in regressing phase (55.8 to 85.6%) including the spawning period. The skip-spawning for toothfish has been defined as reabsorbing non-reproductive and resting types. The abbreviation of oocytes development in the gonads was observed from 1 to 22.1% of females which omitted the spawning season. Most likely females which remain in the spawning area have the opportunity to spawn more often, whereas females which undergo foraging migration toward Northern parts of the Falklands waters return to the spawning ground less often. Females remain Northern area longer to accumulate necessary amount of energy. This hypnotise is supported by the presence of females in immature, developing and regressing phase throughout surrounding Falkland Islands waters. Presence of post-spawning females in regressing stage throughout the Falklands waters suggest that toothfish may undertake irregular spawning/foraging migration when favourable for spawning condition occur.

Discussion based on the adaptability design for the construction of rural tourism for the revival of villages in China

Tourist development has been an increasingly popular part in rural construction in contemporary China, and has become a juncture of rural renewal and revival. Taking the three perspectives of rural physical form, rural culture, human action and activities, this article summarizes the problems and conflicts created by Chinese rural tourism, and analyzes the root reason for the conflicts. We try to generalize valuable experience learned from Chinese New Village experimental base so far from different aspects such as architectural forms, spatial scales, ecological environment, arts and culture and residential life, integrated with notion of ‘adaptability design’ in the theoretical system of sustainable development, and then deduct a strategy for designing rural sustainable development, under the intervention of tourism. Lastly, the example of a Chinese village - Fenshui Village is chosen to practice, and construction conception is raised accordingly.

Sanity and Friendship: The Therapeutic Element of Residential Living

In this article, I set out to describe my 7-year apprenticeship with R. D. Laing in London, between 1973 and 1980, 4 of those year which comprised my living in one of Laing’s post-Kingsley Hall houses, Portland Road. My goal is to use the metaphor of friendship to explain how living in a house with no ostensible treatment or therapy can engender a healing experience for the people living in that house, many of whom would be diagnosed as schizophrenic if admitted to mental hospital. Though this particular example of this concept is located in a residential living situation, I believe that it holds much broader application, including individual psychotherapy.

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An optimization portfolio decision model of life cycle activity-based costing with carbon footprint constraints for hybrid green power strategies

A stable electricity supply is indispensable for both economic development and residential life. Social economic growth has caused a significant deficiency of conventional energy; hence, reducing the use of energy and developing new electricity sources are topics that have attracted wide attention from both academia and industries. In a green electric power system, reasonable costs and benefit controls, as well as carbon footprint computations, are considered to be the key barriers encountered. This study focuses on the total cost, feed-in tariff price, and carbon footprint of a power system, and proposes a 0–1 mixed integer linear programming (MILP) decision model for achieving an optimization portfolio of green electric power systems, using activity-based cost (ABC) and lifecycle assessment (LCA) approaches. The major contributions of this study are, as follows: (1) the integrated model can help green power suppliers to more accurately understand how to allocate resources and funding for energy-saving activities to each green electric power system through appropriate cost drivers; (2) the proposed model provides cost and benefit analysis information, which will assist management in planning clean energy production systems; and (3) the obtained portfolio shows that the maximum profits for green power planning contribute to the development of a national energy policy in Taiwan.

국내외 중 · 고등학교 보건교과서에서의 환경보건 내용분석

The purpose of this study was to analyze environmental health related contents in the health textbooks of middle and high schools at domestic and foreign countries. Ten textbooks(foreign; 4, domestics; 6) adopted as middle and high school textbooks were analyzed for content on environmental health. The environmental health content frequency analysis shows that the highest rates in health textbooks foreign and domestic countries were ‘substance abuse and smoking’, and that the lowest frequency were ‘food safety’ and ‘residential life’ in korea textbooks. The level of contents connection between middle and high school health textbooks identified less than two gaps in the foreign nations (USA and Singapore), and one to five gaps in korea, respectively. There is a need for the domestic health textbooks should contain essential environmental contents connectively.

The study of residential life support environment system to initiate policy on sustainable simple housing

This study aims to initiate sustainable simple housing system based on low CO2 emissions at Griya Martubung I Housing Medan, Indonesia. Since it was built in 1995, between 2007 until 2016 approximately 89 percent of houses have been doing various home renewal such as restoration, renovation, or reconstruction. Qualitative research conducted in order to obtain insights into the behavior of complex relationship between various components of residential life support environment that relates to CO2 emissions. Each component is studied by conducting in-depth interviews, observation of the 128 residents. The study used Likert Scale to measure residents’ perception about components. The study concludes with a synthesis describing principles for a sustainable simple housing standard that recognizes the whole characteristics of components. This study offers a means for initiating the practice of sustainable simple housing developments and efforts to manage growth and preserve the environment without violating social, economics, and ecology.