Scholars have identified that learning in an authentic environment with quality contextual and procedural supports can engage students in thorough observations and knowledge construction. Moreover, the target is that students are able to experience and make sense of all of the learning activities in the real-world environment with meaningful supports, such that their learning motivation can be ...

RHIC ended successfully its second year of operation in January 2002 after a six month run with gold ions and two months of polarized proton collisions. I will review the machine performance and accomplishments, that include reaching design energy (100 GeV/u) and design luminosity during the gold run, and the first high energy (100 GeV) polarized proton collisions. I will also discuss the machi...

In a similar manner, alert managers do more than recognize expected patterns in sales cycles, movements in supply chains, or yields in manufacturing. Successful managers are skillful at spotting exceptional events, identifying emerging fashions, and noticing what is missing. When problems develop, they take prompt action to keep plans on schedule. When novel trends emerge, they change plans to ...

S unnybrook Health Science Centre in Toronto recently conducted an extensive cost-benefit analysis to evaluate the merits of implementing an Electronic Patient Record System. The following describes some of the calculations which were essential to the decision-making process. As a first step, the organization underwent a rigorous strategic planning process. The resulting plan identified a numbe...

Time to market or project duration has increasing significance for commercial software development. We report on a longitudinal study of a project at a leading international software organisation. The focus of this study was schedule behaviour, however, we explored a range of factors including planned versus actual progress, resource allocation and functionality delivered. In the course of the ...

We suggest a novel approach to modelling and solving production planning (PP) problems in make-to-order production environments. This approach unifies the capacity and the material flow oriented aspects of PP. Orders are modelled as projects that compete for limited resources. The projects consist of networks of variable-intensity activities which may require several resources at the same time....

Perencanaan yang salah adalah alasan utama kegagalan proyek, sedangkan perencanaan baik dapat meningkatkan kemungkinan keberhasilan proyek. Untuk itu, kami harus mengidentifikasi keterlibatan manajer proyek dalam konstruksi melalui intensitas usahanya dari bidang PMBOK. Kegiatan penelitian ini dilakukan dengan menyebarkan kuesioner kepada di perusahaan kontraktor pengalaman selama tahun 1997 sa...

Communication plans are intrinsic to project management. However, the time and cost effects of communication plan choices have largely been overlooked. Herein, we study the impact of three types of communications plans that implement collaborative information technologies (CITs) (i.e., asynchronous, synchronous and both) on the key project metrics of communication cost and project schedule perf...