Creating self-sufficiency for Limited Equity Housing Cooperative owners

As stated in the thesis project, "The purpose of this report is to document my experiences in preparing a plan that uses a Community Economic Development (CED) strategy for preserving and sustaining Limited Equity Housing Cooperatives (LEHC) as affordable housing for low-income people in the District of Columbia. It covers the following topics: - The Project Description describes how the project was designed - Background provides information about conditions that produced the problem addressed by this project - The Problem Statement gives a succinct definition of the problem and potential consequences - The Goal Statement offers the solution identified by the project - Statement of Objectives spells out the steps taken to accomplish the goal - Output Expectations and Input Expectations lists, planned activities and results - Problems Facing LEHC expresses the current status of LEHC - Lesson Learned provides evaluation of the lessons drawn from assessment of the project - Next Steps identifies future direction - Conclusion summarizes value and benefits of project In developing this project, the CED Program's course work gave me focus, clarification and direction. The majority of my classes applied directly to this project. Even though this report is a product of sixteen months of intense study of Community Economic Development, it represent only a fraction of the vast amount of knowledge and confidence I have gained from my participation in this program. It is my hope that this report will be useful to others who may be confronted with similar issues and concerns. This project was designed as a course of action to help ameliorate the harmful impact of government cut backs of affordable housing subsidies. It outlines a plan for creating an income generating business for subsidy dependent owners of Limited Equity Housing Cooperatives. This plan had two-phases to it: - Phase I - Research and design - Phase II - Funding and Implementation. This report summarizes my efforts in developing the first phase of this project. The core of the plan is captured in the attached business plan and funding inquiry." (Library-derived description)Leaks, L. (2000). Creating self-sufficiency for Limited Equity Housing Cooperative owners. Retrieved from http://academicarchive.snhu.eduMaster of Science (M.S.)School of Community Economic Developmen

Quantum Leaks

We show that eigenfunctions of the Laplacian on certain non-compact domains with finite area may localize at infinity--provided there is no extreme level clustering--and thus rule out quantum unique ergodicity for such systems. The construction is elementary and based on `bouncing ball' quasimodes whose discrepancy is proved to be significantly smaller than the mean level spacing

An optimisation approach to the location and sizing of multiple leaks in a duct

A single leak in a duct can be located, and its size predicted, by measuring the input impedance of the duct and then solving an inverse problem. However, extending this procedure to a duct containing several leaks is non-trivial, with the resulting mathematical expressions proving to be highly complex. In this paper, an optimisation approach to the location and sizing of multiple leaks in a duct is described. The approach employs a standard theoretical model of a duct that contains several leaks. The initial parameters of the duct model (e.g. duct radius, number of leaks, leak positions and sizes) are chosen arbitrarily. An optimisation function then adjusts the parameters of the model until its input impedance matches the measured impedance of the duct under investigation. Results are presented which demonstrate the success of this optimisation approach in both locating and sizing multiple leaks in a duct

Unidirectional endobronchial valves for management of persistent air-leaks. Results of a multicenter study

Background: To evaluate the efficacy of Endo-Bronchial Valves in the management of persistent air-leaks (PALs) and the procedural cost. Methods: It was a retrospective multicenter study including consecutive patients with PALs for alveolar pleural fistula (APF) undergoing valve treatment. We assessed the efficacy and the cost of the procedure. Results: Seventy-four patients with persistent air leaks due to various etiologies were included in the analysis. In all cases the air leaks were severe and refractory to standard treatments. Sixty-seven (91%) patients underwent valve treatment obtaining a complete resolution of air-leaks in 59 (88%) patients; a reduction of air-leaks in 6 (9%); and no benefits in 2 (3%). The comparison of data before and after valve treatment showed a significant reduction of air-leak duration (16.2±8.8 versus 5.0±1.7 days; P<0.0001); chest tube removal (16.2±8.8 versus 7.3±2.7 days; P<0.0001); and length of hospital stay (LOS) (16.2±8.8 versus 9.7±2.8 days; P=0.004). Seven patients not undergoing valve treatment underwent pneumo-peritoneum with pleurodesis (n=6) or only pleurodesis (n=1). In only 1 (14%) patient, the chest drainage was removed 23 days later while the remaining 6 (86%) were discharged with a domiciliary chest drainage removed after 157±41 days. No significant difference was found in health cost before and after endobronchial valve (EBV) implant (P=0.3). Conclusions: Valve treatment for persistent air leaks is an effective procedure. The reduction of hospitalization costs related to early resolution of air-leaks could overcome the procedural cost

Lyα\alpha Leaks and Reionization

Ly$\alpha$ absorption spectra of QSOs at redshifts $z\simeq6$ show complete Gunn-Peterson absorption troughs (dark gaps) separated by tiny leaks. The dark gaps are from the intergalactic medium (IGM) where the density of neutral hydrogen are high enough to produce almost saturated absorptions, however, where the transmitted leaks come from is still unclear so far. We demonstrate that leaking can originate from the lowest density voids in the IGM as well as the ionized patches around ionizing sources using semi-analytical simulations. If leaks were produced in lowest density voids, the IGM might already be highly ionized, and the ionizing background should be almost uniform; in contrast, if leaks come from ionized patches, the neutral fraction of IGM would be still high, and the ionizing background is significantly inhomogeneous. Therefore, the origin of leaking is crucial to determining the epoch of inhomogeneous-to-uniform transition of the the ionizing photon background. We show that the origin could be studied with the statistical features of leaks. Actually, Ly$\alpha$ leaks can be well defined and described by the equivalent width $W$ and the full width of half area $W_{\rm H}$, both of which are less contaminated by instrumental resolution and noise. It is found that the distribution of $W$ and $W_{\rm H}$ of Ly$\alpha$ leaks are sensitive to the modeling of the ionizing background. We consider four representative reionization models. It is concluded that the leak statistics provides an effective tool to probe the evolutionary history of reionization at $z\simeq5-6.5$. Similar statistics would also be applicable to the reionization of He II at $z \simeq 3$(Abridged)Comment: 11 pages including 10 figures, accepted for publication in MNRA

Reliable method for testing gross leaks in semiconductor component packages

Simple, reliable, inexpensive method for gross-leak testing has been devised, based upon the conventional fine-leak technique. The sensitivity ranges from the detection of very large leaks down to leaks of 10 to the minus seven cc helium per sec

Chylous Leak During Posterior Approach to Juvenile Scoliosis Surgery: A Case Report.

CaseWe report the first documented case of chylous leak recognized intraoperatively during posterior spinal instrumentation and fusion for juvenile scoliosis in a female patient with a history of thoracotomy and decortication for an empyema.ConclusionsThoracic duct injury can lead to severe morbidity and mortality because of chylothorax formation. Although chylous leaks are a well-documented complication of the anterior approach to spine surgery, leaks during the posterior approach are rarely reported. When these chylous leaks are recognized intraoperatively, the likelihood of serious complications may be minimized by drain placement before closure

Capacitive system detects and locates fluid leaks

Electronic monitoring system automatically detects and locates minute leaks in seams of large fluid storage tanks and pipelines covered with thermal insulation. The system uses a capacitive tape-sensing element that is adhesively bonded over seams where fluid leaks are likely to occur

Preventing High-Pressure Injection Injury: A Hazard of Hydraulics and Pneumatics

[Excerpt] A high-pressure injection injury involves air, fluid, or solids forced into the skin by high pressure. Typically these occur when we feel for leaks with our fingers, such as when air or hot hydraulic fluid is forced into the skin by high pressure from a leak in a high-pressure line. Another example is the painter using a paint gun with so high of a pneumatic pressure that it twisted around in his hand and injected paint and solvents into his abdomen. So many of these injuries happen in the hands and fingers when feeling for leaks, but there have been cases such as someone searching for leaks with the tongue (ouch!), or listening for leaks producing an injury into the side of the face, or being struck by a detached hydraulic hose whipping around in the air

I know what leaked in your pocket: uncovering privacy leaks on Android Apps with Static Taint Analysis

Android applications may leak privacy data carelessly or maliciously. In this work we perform inter-component data-flow analysis to detect privacy leaks between components of Android applications. Unlike all current approaches, our tool, called IccTA, propagates the context between the components, which improves the precision of the analysis. IccTA outperforms all other available tools by reaching a precision of 95.0% and a recall of 82.6% on DroidBench. Our approach detects 147 inter-component based privacy leaks in 14 applications in a set of 3000 real-world applications with a precision of 88.4%. With the help of ApkCombiner, our approach is able to detect inter-app based privacy leaks