Does it actually make sense to further increase the size of Ultra Large Container Ships from shipping line’s perspective? Is possibly opposite what growth in is supposed achieve experienced with current ship sizes? These questions are followed up on basis some fundamental geometric and physical considerations, whereby focus effects longer port stays ever larger ships. Based proportionalities a ...

In this paper, the author has studied the private sector participation in road projects being developed as a part of the National Highways Development Programme (NHDP). Our data set is by far the largest and covers all of road projects that have been taken up for up gradation under various phases of the NHDP so far. We have discussed various issues related to the PPP policy and its limited succ...

UNLABELLED There is a growing need in the research community to apply the molecular evolutionary genetics analysis (MEGA) software tool for batch processing a large number of datasets and to integrate it into analysis workflows. Therefore, we now make available the computing core of the MEGA software as a stand-alone executable (MEGA-CC), along with an analysis prototyper (MEGA-Proto). MEGA-CC ...

Mega infrastructure projects (MIPs) are exposed to numerous interdependent risks of various natures which pose difficulties in risk management. Thus far, the research on interactions MIPs has been focused developing static networks within a single category risks, at certain stages project. It is essential understand identify key and relationships that jeopardise their success. This especially r...