The effectiveness of consultants in meeting the needs of clients in the built environment of a developing economy is influenced by their recognition and application of context-relevant competencies. This paper presents a model of the important competencies required of those providing current quantity surveying services and discusses the critical inputs expected of key role-players. A review of ...

The higher education environment in Pakistan has become very aggressive and universities have to struggle for recruiting highly intellectual students. The students have become consumerists due to increasing fees of higher education institutes. The primary focus of this study was to uncover the factors that students deem vital related to their choice of university and desired courses. Undergradu...

Thermo-diffusion effect on free convection heat and mass transfer from a vertical surface embedded in a liquid saturated thermally stratified non Darcy porous medium has been analyzed using a local non-similar procedure. The wall temperature and concentration are constant and the medium is linearly stratified in the vertical direction with respect to the thermal conditions. The fluid flow, temp...

Bibliometric measures for scientific journals such as journal impact factor, cited half-life, and article influence score are readily available through commercial companies such as Thomson Reuters, among others. These metrics were originally developed to help librarians in collection building and are based on the citation rates of published papers. Yet, they are increasingly being used, albeit ...

Situated in university science departments as potential science-education change agents, science faculty with education specialties (SFES) reported differences in the origin of their positions depending on the nature of their institution. For instance, SFES at PhD-granting institutions most commonly reported being hired to relieve other faculty from teaching and service burdens. At MS-granting ...

The present study used a stratified random sample of undergraduate students at a major Metropolitan University in the Gauteng province of South Africa to examine aspects of the contact hypothesis as originally formulated by Gordon Allport. Specifically, the study sought to examine the effects of two social settings, namely, educational and religious settings on students’ attitudes toward interr...

One popular solution to deal with large-scale relational networks is to derive a representative sample from huge relational networks. We expect this sample could represent the origin relational network well so that the sampled network can be used for simulations and further analysis instead of the origin one. In this paper, we propose a network stratified sampling algorithm using topologically ...

Through the monitoring network for cultivated land quality in county area, distribution and changing trend of the quality should be reflected. Besides, the quality of non-sampled locations should also be estimated with the data of sampling points. Due to the correlation among spatial samples, traditional methods such as simple random sampling, stratified sampling and systematic sampling are ine...

Multivariate statistical analysis is utilized to explore the association between firm strategies, contributions made by venture capitalists and incentives for owners and employees and three exporting variables in a stratified random sample of 147 management buyouts and buyins. Firms focusing upon a diversified product/ service range and/or advertising were significantly more likely to be export...