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Due to its complex nature, after-sales service support for systems such as aircraft engines is commonly outsourced to the vendor. A key input to contracting for such support is system reliability. When producttechnology is new, the vendor often knows more about reliability than the buyer, potentially leading to contractual inefficiencies. This paper examines the role of after-sales contracts as...

Purpose The construction industry has considerably evolved in the recent two decades due to emergence of sustainability, lean (LC) and building information modelling (BIM). Despite previous research efforts, there is still a gap concerning multidimensional nature their integration. Hence, this study aims fill mentioned knowledge through exploring comparing challenges, enablers, techniques as we...

This paper discusses how model checking, a technique used for the verification of behavioural requirements of dynamic systems, can be usefully deployed for the verification of contracts. A process view of agreements between parties is taken, whereby a contract is modelled as it evolves over time in terms of actions or more generally events that effect changes in its state. Modelling is done wit...

One influential approach to assessing the"goodness"of arguments is offered by the Pragma-Dialectical school (p-d) (Eemeren&Grootendorst 1992). This can be compared with Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) (Mann&Thompson 1988), an approach that originates in discourse analysis. In p-d terms an argument is good if it avoids committing a fallacy, whereas in RST terms an argument is good if it is coh...

Cancer is caused by aberrant genetic and epigenetic changes in genes expression. DNA methylation, histone modification, and microRNAs gene deregulation are the most known epigenetic changes in different stages of cancer. Since every tumor has its own specific epigenome, any abnormal pattern is a potential biomarker for classification of different types of tumors. Despite, tumorigenesis, abnorma...

background: despite its benefits and importance, clinical counseling affects the patient both psychosocially and socially. illness labeling not only leads to many problems for patient and his/her family but also it imposes high costs to health care system. among various factors, doctor-patient relationship has an important role in the clinical counseling and its medical approach. the goal of th...