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The pace and scope of digital innovation targeting the real estate industry has intensified over the past decade. This article is therefore concerned with the digitization of the residential real estate industry, and how critical housing scholars might shape a research agenda on this transformation. We set out platform logic, digital labor, and financialization as a conceptual vocabulary for studying new digital modalities of real estate practice. Platform logic highlights questions of power and politics relating to the data collection capacities potentially obscured by platforms' convenience and ease of use. Digital labor points to how platform real estate may change relationships among incumbent real estate professionals, investors and property owners, and tenants and residents. Financialization shifts the focus to how digital platforms participate in the contemporary political economy of housing. The article concludes with an agenda for critical housing research on digital real estate platforms.

The key to the future of the HIV epidemic is the intravenous drug user. In New York City the future has arrived--intravenous drug use is now the predominant risk factor among new cases of AIDS. Our limited knowledge of most facets of drug abuse prevention and treatment and the emotional polarity and politicalization of the issues surrounding AIDS have made control of its spread among intravenous drug users very difficult. Clearly new research efforts are needed better to decide how to reduce the further spread of HIV infection among this group. But efforts to stop the spread cannot await these results. Intense and immediate efforts should focus on five areas for potential control of the spread of HIV infection among drug users: education, treatment on demand, expanding support services, providing sterile equipment, and readjustment of some of society's moral judgments that currently block action. Let us hope that in 10 years we do not look back and realize that we did too little too late while it was still possible to make a difference.

Front Cover -- Multidisciplinary Medico-Legal Death Investigation -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- About the Authors -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Role of the Cardiac Electrophysiology Consultant -- Introduction -- Pacemakers -- Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators -- Risk to the Pathologist from ICD at Autopsy -- New Pacemaker and ICD Devices -- Other Implanted Cardiac Devices -- Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- References -- 2 Pediatric Consultation: the Value of a Clinical Perspective -- Introduction: The Role of the Pediatrician -- Child Death Review Teams -- Pediatrics and Prevention -- Death Scene Investigations -- Fall down a Flight of Steps -- Fall from a Balcony -- Fall off a Cliff -- Fall on the Kitchen Floor -- Failure to Thrive -- Failure to Thrive, Dehydration, and Drug Exposure -- Medical Neglect -- Leukemia and Prayer -- Asthma -- Morbid Obesity -- Substance Abuse -- Maternal Substance Abuse during Pregnancy -- Postnatal Substance Exposure: "SIDS" and Amphetamines -- Adolescent Alcohol Consumption -- Too Much Manischewitz -- Genetic Disorders -- Familial Neonatal Hemochromatosis -- Trauma -- Blunt Abdominal Trauma and Mother's Boyfriend -- Undetermined Deaths -- Case: Dating Rib Fractures -- Conclusion -- References -- 3 Role of the Consultant in Forensic Radiology -- History of Forensic Radiology for the Medical Examiner's Office of Los Angeles -- Common Reasons for Requests for Radiographic Consultation -- Identification -- Abuse -- Radiographic Infant/Child Skeletal Survey -- Child Abuse -- The Radiographic Signs of Bone Healing to Determine the Age of a Fracture -- Skull Fractures in Infant and Child -- Thoracic Injuries: Rib and Sternal Fractures -- Neglect, Starvation, Chronic Illness

ABSTRACTThe Isle of Wight water metering trial is one of twelve being conducted in England and Wales. The paper describes the consultations that were undertaken, leading up to the design of a metered tariff to meet local requirements. The trial was designed to investigate the problems which a large‐scale implementation of water metering would have and specifically examines meters placed either within a property or laid at the property boundary. The particular problems that arose are discussed, and the problems associated with electrical earthing are briefly described.The trial, which commenced in the autumn of 1988, involves installing a water meter in all 53 000 Island properties. Southern Water Services Ltd engaged Southern Projects (a sister company within the Southern Water Group) to organize the installation work.The paper outlines the principal activities of how the trial was planned and executed, with some thoughts on the problems arising during the installation phase.