The replacement of locally-sourced wood frames with factory-milled lumber was the next most common house modification, followed by the laying of a concrete foundation.
Costs incurred by a wheelchair user are not negligible; wheelchair types (transit, electric, narrow, prescriptive), house modification, annual servicing, replacement, and caregiver for self-propelled wheelchairs all contribute to costs of care but were not considered in our analysis.
The strategies perceived as most helpful among this sample were community support services, such as disability parking, home help, taxi transportation assistance, appropriate housing, and home modifications.
For homeowners who failed to get a permanent modification under the federal government's Home Affordable Modification Program, only 14 percent managed to get an alternative in-house modification at Bank of America, compared with 31 percent at JPMorgan Chase, 27 percent at Citibank and 40 percent at Wells Fargo.
At present there are no data on the cost-effectiveness of improving the warmth of homes through housing modification.
This paper attempted to examine the behavioural adaptation in relation to the Malay culture namely the activity system, privacy and social interaction of the Malay families and terrace housing modification.
The standard for "disabled" is less stringent for someone requesting a housing modification than it is for someone trying to qualify for social security benefits, Dr. Sandel said.
Therefore, we evaluated an in-house modification of the manufacturer's protocol for the "large volume" kit with the addition of an external lysis step.
Statistics on image voxel values were extracted from automatically labelled cortical regions of interest using an in-house modification of the automated anatomic labelling atlas (Tzourio-Mazoyer et al., 2002).
We used six published CNV prediction programs (ExomeCNV, CONTRA, ExomeCopy, ExomeDepth, CoNIFER, XHMM) and an in-house modification to ExomeCopy and ExomeDepth (ExCopyDepth) for computational CNV prediction on 30 exomes from the 1000 genomes project and 9 exomes from primary immunodeficiency patients.
