Developing Countermeasure Model to Prevent Planned Lawsuit on Apartment Construction Defects

Will Saying "I'm Sorry" Prevent a Malpractice Lawsuit?

Investigating the Determinants of Physical Activity in Students in Order to Prevent Diabetes based on Planned Behavior Theory

Background and objective: diabetes is the most common endocrine glands disease. Among the factors contributing to increased incidence of diabetes in adolescents is lack of physical activity. Various studies indicate prevalence of sedentary lifestyle in children and adolescents. Therefore, in this research the factors affecting performing physical activity have been examined with the aim of prev...

Case- and Constraint-Based Project Planning for Apartment Construction

ment construction project network, Hyundai Engineering and Construction and Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology developed a caseand constraint-based project-planning expert system for an apartment domain. The system, FASTRAK-APT, is inspired by the use of previous cases by a human expert project planner for planning a new project and the modification of these cases by the project...

Developing P.P.P Model of Place Attachment for Evaluating Residential Environment (Cases Study: Open Space of Iranzamin and Ekbatan Apartment Buildings)

Since the quality of apartment buildings is noted, the way of increasing attachment and discovering its effective variables is challenging subjects for researchers in this field. Person, place and process (P.P.P) model of place attachment as the most precise model of them, evaluate attachment to three parts of person, place and process. What is going to be studied in this research is to evaluat...

A dynamic model of lawsuit joinder and settlement

Suppose that victim j employs a bandwagon strategy {δ, δ&j}. We will characterize victim i’s best response, beginning with period 2. If victim i filed suit in period 1, then he has no further action to take. Suppose that victim i did not file suit in period 1. If victim j filed suit in period 1, then victim j has no further action to take and nothing will change in the future; thus victim i wil...