The paper examines the impact of the IT revolution on the design professions, especially that of architecture. It looks at the impacts of past technological revolutions on established methods, products, and practices, and examines the potential impacts of ubiquitous computing, telecommunication, mass-customization and embedded computing on methods of design and construction, and on the products...

We did collect information on occupation. We had twenty different occupations reported and the most common responses were homemaker, farmer, construction, clerk, nurse, and seller. These six professions accounted for about 75% of the subjects and none of these has an a priori likelihood of having high PAH exposures. We did plot 1-OHPG by job and found no suggestions of interesting results. Ther...

The study focuses on designing a Multicultural Competence Scale in Helping-Profession Students. The aim was to create an assessment tool of multicultural competence in students of helping professions as such a tool has been non-existent so far in the Central Europe. The scale construction was inspired by the four following instruments: CBMCS, MAKSS, MSPCCS and IIMCS. Through content validation,...

Well-educated and trained Chinese professionals immigrating to Canada face barriers in finding jobs. To understand this wastage of human capital, we see entry to the professions as mediated by frameworks. The social construction of careers influences the demand for labor. Human capital is a social construct defined by certification procedures in Canada and by the way Canadian employers perceive...

the purpose of this study is to examine different scenarios for implementing operations in the pre-construction phase of a project, based on several competing criteria with different importance levels in order to achieve a more efficient execution plan. this paper presents a new framework that integrates discrete event simulation (des) and data envelopment analysis (dea) to rank different scena...

With an over emphasis on rational knowledge, primarily acquired at the beginning of the education process, how do professionals learn to practice? In today’s society professions have gained in number, power and status and increased their reliance on knowledge gained in Higher Education. However, this is in contradiction to what professionals suggest is important to enable them to practice in th...