The maintenance of university hostels is found to be unsatisfactory due to budget constraint in general. Hence, the purpose of this study is to find out a solution to improve the building maintenance ...and students’ satisfaction within the budget allocation. The development of maintenance prioritisation framework through the association between conditions of building components and students’ satisfaction is done to achieve the purpose of this research. Seven main building components were listed after a thorough literature review. Then, a total of 415 valid questionnaire responses were analysed to measure the conditions of building components and to establish the relationship between the conditions of building components and students’ satisfaction. Moreover, semi-structured interviews were carried out to validate and further interpret the survey findings. The research findings confirmed that utilities and floor as the significant building components to be prioritised in maintenance. It is worthwhile to be served as a guide to other university hostels. Furthermore, it opens a research opportunity to cover other institution hostels. This research is informative to the university hostel managements in efforts to improve the maintenance efficiency within limited budget. This study proposes a solution to tackle the maintenance issues in university hostels.
Energy consumption is dependent on temperature, humidity, occupancy, occupant type, building area etc. All these factors collectively define the context of an energy meter. Once the context is known, ...the meters within the same context can be grouped and their behaviour can be analyzed together. This paper presents four heuristics, including one novel heuristic, to identify abnormal energy consumption. Using these heuristics, data collected from fifty smart meters deployed inside hostels of IIIT-Delhi was investigated for abnormal energy consumption detection. The anomalies and possible causes were discussed with IIIT-Delhi campus administrator. Energy consumption per occupant for one of the meters was found four times when compared to rest of the meters. The results demonstrated that the proposed heuristics successfully found abnormal energy consumption behaviour.
A presente dissertação versa sobre a tributação, em sede de Imposto sobre o Rendimento das Pessoas Singulares (IRS), dos proveitos resultantes do exercício da prestação de serviços de Alojamento ...Local auferidos por pessoas singulares não residentes.A elevada expansão dos estabelecimentos de Alojamento Local é um fenómeno global que, associado às facilidades de circulação entre países, implica que nem sempre o titular da exploração daqueles seja um sujeito passivo residente.O sistema fiscal não poderia ficar indiferente a este fenómeno, pelo que se pretende apurar, em concreto, as regras de tributação aplicáveis aos não residentes que aufiram rendimentos gerados pela exploração de um estabelecimento de Alojamento Local.Nesta perspetiva, importará comparar o regime aplicável aos residentes com o possível regime tributário a que os não residentes estão adstritos, averiguando se tal regime conflitua com as normas de Direito da União Europeia vigentes.
Worker hostels or dormitories are common in labour-intensive industries staffed largely by migrant labour, and have long been associated with exploitative practices. More recently, hostels have come ...under scrutiny because of accusations that they are used to restrict workers’ freedom in ways that are tantamount to modern slavery. Drawing on a qualitative study of a garment hub in South India where such claims have frequently arisen, we explore the conditions of freedom and unfreedom in worker hostels and how suppliers who run such hostels respond to competing expectations about worker freedom. Our findings show that hostels perform three interrelated functions: restriction, protection, and liberation, which together constitute a complex mix of freedom and unfreedom for migrant women workers that we term hybrid (un)freedom. As a result, we problematize the binary understandings of freedom and unfreedom that predominate in the modern slavery literature. We also develop a new way forward for examining freedom in the context of hostels that considers the system of relationships, traditions, and socio-economic arrangements that workers and employers are locked into and that prevent meaningful improvements in the freedom of women workers.
Autistic people appear to have a higher risk of becoming and remaining homeless than people without autism. This article is based on a wider research study exploring diverse homelessness experiences ...in Oxford, UK. Using life mapping, a visual research method, we gained verbal and visual accounts of participants' housing and homeless histories. These accounts support past evidence of higher than expected levels of autism among homeless people, while highlighting for the first time specific, additional risks of homelessness among autistic people. This group also appeared to have fewer means to reduce the risk of homelessness, and faced multiple challenges to resolving their homelessness. Our findings extend existing understandings of autism and homelessness, and of the disabling practices that autistic people may face within the diversity of homeless experiences, while adding valuable biographic detail to the factors leading to homelessness and attempts to exit homelessness. We also discuss potential policy interventions.
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Recent evidence suggests that people on the autism spectrum are more likely than people without autism to experience homelessness, and their homeless experiences may also be different
We asked people who were or recently had been homeless, to draw and talk about their housing and homeless histories, exploring a wide range of homeless experiences, including street homelessness, living in hostels, and temporary housing
We found an unexpectedly high number of autistic people in our sample, suggesting that people on the autism spectrum may be at higher risk of homelessness. Autistic people also had fewer means of avoiding homelessness, and faced particular challenges to resolving homelessness
Our findings can inform local councils and homelessness services about the barriers autistic people may face within these systems. We urge that policies and ways of working be made more autism-aware and so improve the lives of autistic homeless people
Poshtels have become the high-end version of the backpacker’s hostel, which is now combining the comfort and style of boutique hotels with the sensibilities and budge prices of a hostel. Current ...research has stated that the global market for hostels is $5.2 billion, with the smaller niche market of poshtels rapidly growing. As such, the authors set out to investigate which factors influence a Thai poshtel’s e-loyalty (eLOY). An analysis was conducted on the six hypotheses interrelationships between website quality (WQ), e-service quality (e-SQ), e-satisfaction (e-SAT), and social value (SV). Initial analysis was conducted by the use of confirmatory factor analysis CFA, followed by a structural equation model SEM path analysis using LISREL 9.1 on the study’s five latent variables. From the audited questionnaire sample of 405 poshtel guests, the factors affecting e-LOY were SV (TE = 0 . 81), e-SQ (TE = .59), WQ (TE=.28), and eSAT (TE). Additionally, all the model's variables influenced poshtel guest e-LOY as the combined influence of the factors (R2) was 75%. Although the ten poshtel websites used in the study showed very creative designs and a multitude of promotional features, the poshtel guests rated this as a moderate concern but elevated the social value that the poshtel brings to its guests as very important, with numerous reports backing this conclusion. Therefore, poshtel proprietors need to take great care in maximizing their guest online social experience by providing accommodations that are ‘picture perfect’ and exciting to the guest and smartphone camera’s eye. Moreover, although it might be expected that younger Millennials are in the majority of the guests (they were at 70.62%), it is also interesting to note that almost 30% were 31 years of age or older.
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•A CI engine was completely run on renewable based fuels.•Spent tea waste and waste cooking oil from an institute were used as feed stock for renewable energy production.•A ...significant improvement in BTE can be achieved at higher nozzle opening pressure (240 bar) and at 24.5°CAbTDC.
Currently reduce, reuse and recycle are the three attractive options for minimizing the disposal of solid waste generated in the world; and reducing the environmental pollution. Spent tea waste (STW) and waste cooking oil (WCO) are the two different organic wastes which are disposed into open land after their usage. A continuous accumulation of these wastes may increase anthropogenic activity and result in an increase in methane concentration into the atmosphere. Previous research works report that, biogas can be obtained from STW by anaerobic digestion and biodiesel can be produced from WCO by the transesterification processes. In this research work, an attempt was made to explore the possibility of using biodiesel from WCO and biogas obtained from STW as fuels to operate a compression ignition (CI) engine on a dual fuel mode (DFM). The feed stocks WCO and STW were collected from restaurants, and hostels situated in an educational institute. For experimentation, a 4.4 kW, single cylinder, naturally aspirated, DI diesel engine run at a constant speed of 1500 rpm was converted into a DFM to operate on biodiesel-biogas. Experiments were conducted in the DFM test engine to assess the performance, emission and combustion parameters when the dual fuel engine was operated to run on three different mass flow rates of biogas, three different injection timings, and three different nozzle opening pressures. The results obtained from the experimentation were analysed, compared with the diesel operation and presented in this paper.
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