15. Supplementary Notes Research performed in cooperation with Texas Department of Transportation and the U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration. Research Project Title: Emissions Due to Construction Equipment and Traffic Delays 16. Abstract Task 6 modeled an array of possible construction work zone projects with respect to facility demand (low, medium, and high aver...

Considerable research has been done in order to schedule tasks to a multiple processing systems. Some of the computation time of these tasks may, however, be imprecise due to the nature of the problem. In this paper, an imprecise task graph is used to model the problem where each node represents a task associated with its computation time. An algorithm, called rotation scheduling, is extended t...

Hospital operating rooms are experiencing higher costs and less available capacity, yet they typically generate the highest returns of all hospital departments. In the case study described in this paper, a process improvement team in a hospital Operating Room Department at aimed to address these issues by decreasing the turnaround time between surgical cases and increasing the percentage of fir...

Intervention: Both studies used a crossover design. Interns were randomly assigned to either a traditional or intervention call schedule. The traditional call schedule involved in-house call every 3 night with a limit of 30 hours of consecutive work. The intervention schedule involved call every 4 night with a limit of 16 hours of consecutive work. Interns recorded their sleep and work hours an...

Optimizing international oil exploration projects is one of the main challenges for oil companies in obtaining investment benefits. This paper establishes an integrated evaluation model to maximize investment benefits within the constraints of technical and economic factors, including geological factors, resource quality, geographic conditions, the investment environment, and oil contracts. The...

The components of the material structure that are important in calculating requirements iron because have a high value construction work. Iron such as reinforcing columns, beams, pile caps, sloofs, and others widely used for reinforcement. research aims to determine need stirrup reinforcement using method based on field data with Bar Bending Schedule (BBS) approach. BBS minimises waste so it on...