Nuclear Power Plants and Residential Housing Prices

Nuclear power plants can theoretically influence property values through a number of different channels. The public perception of risk associated with the potential hazard from the operation of a nuclear reactor and the storage of nuclear waste may lead to lower bids on properties in close proximity to the plant. In contrast, workers at the plant may be less concerned with any potential hazards, and may actually value being in proximity to the workplace. Hence, one cannot a priori sign the distance gradient of homes in the vicinity of a nuclear power plant. In this study, a hedonic model coupled with geographic information system (GIS) techniques is used to estimate housing price surfaces around two nuclear power plants in California. The use of GIS software allows more potential influences to housing prices to be accurately incorporated than previously included in hedonic studies. Based on the evidence from the plants chosen, these findings do not support the contention that negative imagery surrounding nuclear power plants or stored nuclear waste has a significant detrimental influence on residential home prices in the immediate vicinity of these facilities.     

The Impact of Airport Noise and Proximity on Residential Property Values

The hedonic price method is used to estimate the relationship between residential property values and airport noise and proximity to the airport in the Reno‐Sparks area. Empirical results suggest there is a statistically significant negative relationship between airport noise and residential property values, with the average home in areas where noise levels are 65 decibels or high selling for about $2400 less than equivalent homes in quieter areas. However, in direct contrast to the study by Tomkins et al.(1998) who found proximity to the Manchester airport to be an amenity, this study finds proximity to the Reno‐Sparks airport to have a significant negative value.     

Town versus Gown: The Effect of a College on Housing Prices and the Tax Base

The analysis reported here suggests that the presence of a college is associated with house prices that are about 2.7 percent higher. However, the effect is caused only by 4‐year colleges, and the primary source of the effect is the degree to which the college is residential. Interestingly, the size of the college as measured by enrollment has no effect on house prices. While the results indicate that municipalities with a community college have a tax base that is 11.6 percent higher, evidence to support the claim that colleges cause the tax base increase is weak. Finally, neither the size of the college (measured by enrollment) nor the degree to which the college is residential has an impact on the tax base.     

The Location and Suburbanization of Business and Professional Services in the Atlanta Area

Despite an increase of 200,000 jobs in business and professional services in the Atlanta metropolitan area between 1982 and 1997, the central city saw employment as a percentage of these services drop by approximately 20 percent. Most growth occurred in the northern suburbs, resulting in a dispersed distribution of business and professional services in Atlanta. To understand the spatial distribution and suburbanization of business and professional services in Atlanta, regression analysis was carried out for 1982 and 1992. Flexible female workers, corporate headquarters, well –educated professionals, and highway access turned out to be important location determinants, with the latter two being increasingly responsible for the suburbanization of business and professional services.     

The Transportation and Lifting Facilities in Chongqing and the Industrialised Housing

This article introduces that there are good basic conditions and big development space for the industrialized housing development in Chongqing Municipality-the biggest municipality in the country.And it introduces the capabilities of horizontal transportation by land or sea and vertical lifting in Chongqing. And it puts forward that is more economical, reliable and safer than which has the advantages of best weight lifting capacity, service radium. Lifting height and smallest site occupation and the assemble of bigger components even the whole industrialised house.     

农村土地房屋资产属性研究综述

农村土地房屋是农村经济发展的重要资源,是农民的宝贵财富。本文围绕农村土地房屋的基本属性：主体化、资产化和市场化,综合运用文献检索法和对比分析法,梳理和总结了学术界对我国农村土地房屋资产属性的研究成果。研究结果表明：（1）农村土地房屋资产化、主体化和市场化,受到经济学家高度关注,产生了丰富的研究成果;（2）有关研究成果表明,我国农村土地房屋主体化、资产化和市场化取得新的进展;（3）我国农村土地房屋主体化、资产化和市场化任重道远,必须坚持科学发展观,立足我国的基本国情,推进农村土地房屋资产管理。     

Bunts and smuts of wheat in North Africa and the Near East

Bunts [common bunt (Tilletia laevis and T. tritici) and dwarf bunt (T. controversa)] and smuts [loose smut (Ustilago tritici) and flag smut (Urocystis agropyri)] of wheat are important cereal diseases in most countries of north Africa and the Near East. There are no peculiarities in the occurrence of bunts and smuts, except for dwarf bunt, which is limited to high-altitude areas of Turkey, Iran and Iraq. Host adaptation, rather than topography, determines the distribution of the common bunt pathogens: T. laevis predominates in bread wheat, whereas T. tritici attacks both bread and durum wheat non-preferentially. Incidence of bunt- and smut-affected wheat heads is generally low, however the frequency of their occurrence in fields is high, indicating their potential threat. Some bunts and smuts occur on hosts other than wheat, for example, flag smut on Aegilops crassa, loose smut on Ae. geniculata and rye, and dwarf bunt on Hordeum and Aegilops spp. Genetic variability of the pathogens causing common bunt and loose smut was investigated. Chemical seed treatment is the most widely used control for bunts and smuts. Organic nutrients as seed treatments to control common bunt of wheat show considerable promise. Sources of resistance to loose smut, and common and dwarf bunts of wheat, are available in wheat and its wild relatives. Triticum boeoticum, T. dicoccoides, and Aegilops species represent excellent sources of resistance to common bunt. There are three major sources of resistance in durum wheats, Senatore Cappelli and Haurani, Jenneh Khetifa, and Mindum. Common bunt resistance genes Bt5, Bt6, Bt8, Bt9, Bt10, and Bt11, and several undescribed resistances remain effective in the screening field at ICARDA, Syria. This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

建国以来粮价变化与政策取向分析

2007年以来国内粮价出现大幅波动,并一度成为推高CPI指数不断走高的重要因素,食用油市场更是面临产业危机,对国家宏观调控形成压力。粮价乃百价之基,对于拥有8亿多农民的中国,粮价的波动更值得关注。     

On the Noise Analysing and Reducing for Refrigeratory compressors

This paper propose an approach to reduce the regular pulse noise from ofQD55A air flow refrigerator compressor.The Rource is analysed by spectral a nalyeis techiques.Thenoise level is droped 4dB via massive preduction testing verification,and a desirable result on noise reduction has been obtained.     

Changing the rules: Historical conjuncture and transition in Indonesia

After more than three decades of military authoritarian rule, President Suharto resigned from office in May of 1998 and peacefully handed power over to his vice‐president, B.J. Habibie. The ensuing period of transition can be characterised as a ‘critical historical conjuncture’, in that agents wielded a unusually large set of choices about the direction to take the country. This article explores this period, and examines both the roots of the historical conjuncture and its outcomes. It argues that long‐term factors laid the foundations for change, but short‐term factors shaped the timing and way the New Order would fall. It also argues that current outcomes attributable to the historical conjuncture include territorial resilience, a competitive electoral system, and paradoxically, elite entrenchment.     

The Development of Industrialised Housing Abroad and the Enlightenment to Us

With the trend of developing industrialised housing in China, based on analyzing and studying the development of industrialised housing abroad, this paper puts forward the enlightenment to us and the emphases, adopted approaches in the development process.     

Study on the Land Use Right in Urban Housing Dismantling and Moving

With the strengthening of constitutional protection that legal private property is not to be encroached upon and the land usufructs paid regime are further clear, the regime of urban housing dismantling and moving is facing a vigorous test. This paper analyzes three problems: the justice of the withdrawal of land use right, the legality of the alteration of the land use right and the rationality of the compensation of the land use right during the urban housing dismantling and moving. Finally, this paper tries to find some effective measures to solve the chain problems.     

A Study on Measurement and Countermeasure to the Personal Housing Mortgage Loan

This paper illustrates that the financial risk is the biggest barrier for development of personal housing mortgage. It discerns these financial risks and introduces two methods for measuring the risks. Finally, it presents the antidotes to the financial risks and gives some ideas for establishing management system of housing mortgage risk.     

Analysis on the Property Right of Housing in China and It''s Resolving Method

Through the detail analysis for the development of the housing property right and it's present situation, this paper points out the problems existed in the housing property right which will influence the development of Chinese housing industry. A constructive discussion on resolving these problems was made in this paper.     

区域棉花生产系统变化趋势分析与预测

利用棉花生产系统时间序列数据,分析江苏省区域棉花单产、种植面积和总产等生产指标的变化特征及趋势,结果表明除苏南外,棉花单产呈增加趋势,苏中棉花单产减少的可能性大于苏北;种植面积呈明显减少趋势;总产变化区域间差异较大,全省棉花总产呈现减少趋势,苏南、苏中为明显减少趋势,苏北表现为增长趋势。利用综合增长率或减少率法,分别建立悲观、一般、乐观条件下的棉花生产系统预测方案,并以实际生产指标值为基数,预测未来棉花的单产、种植面积和总产。     

区域粮食生产系统变化趋势分析与预测

利用浙江省区域粮食生产系统时间序列数据,分析粮食种植面积、总产和单产等生产指标的变化特征及趋势,结果表明各区种植面积呈大幅减少趋势,减少幅度浙北>浙中西>浙南;粮食总产呈显著减少趋势,减少幅度浙北>浙中西>浙南;粮食单产均呈增加趋势,增加的幅度浙南>浙北>浙中西,但增幅都较小。利用综合增长率或减少率法,分别建立悲观、一般、乐观条件下的粮食生产系统预测方案,并以实际生产指标值为基数,预测未来粮食的总产、种植面积和单产。     

Analysis and Countermeasures of the Power Noise During High Frequency PCB Design

The paper analyses many forms of power supply noise interference in the high frequency PCB and the relevant reasons. Combining several formulas with the relevant engineering experience, the authors bring forward a lot of related means; finally conclude the chief principle that controlling power noise should abide by.     

Analysis on the Deformation and Stress Control Measures of Metro Tunnel Near a Foundation Pit

It has become a very common phenomenon that the influence of pit excavation to the adjacent environment, what corresponding measures should be taken in design and construction to ensure the safety of construction in process and existing has become a key part. This Paper analyses the influence of pit construction to adjacent tunnel by using the finite element software plaxis. The analysis results show that strengthening the palisade structure stiffness and partitioning symmetric excavation can significantly control the deformation of the existing tunnel. The design and construction of the engineering can ensure the safety of the existing tunnel compared with the conventional construction methods, and it also shows that preliminary analysis of influence to the adjacent underground building before pit excavation is very necessary.     

Living Model Based on Changing Physical and Mental Characteristics and Needs of the Elders

The ageing of society has been considered as one of the three major social problems in the twentyfirst century. Since 2000, China has entered the ageing society formally, and become one of the earliest developing countries that witness the population ageing, and also the countries with the largest ageing population in the world. Problems for supporting the aged have become crucial social problems of China. This paper, on the basis of analyzing changing physical and mental characteristics and needs of the elders, proposed different living models such as living together, living alone, living close, and social nursing facilities.