The recent Egan report on the UK construction industry has concluded that “integrated construction process” holds the key to further improvement in efficiency and productivity. In the last decade or so, considerable R&D efforts have been devoted to the integration issues in numerous research initiatives. A range of technologies of different levels of maturity have emerged from these studies, in...

Perhaps it is no more timely than now to discuss Ekaterina Svetlova’s book on the impact of financial actors and their use models stability. We have just witnessed a power play between private investors hedge fund managers which has resulted in temporarily blocking amateur trading apps (BBC, 2021) despite living with major pandemic stock market values are rising, hinting at yet another bubble (...

Amadeo R. Rodriguez, MD Robert A. Egan, MD Jason J.S. Barton, MD, PhD, FRCPC In skew deviation, one eye is higher than the other, causing vertical diplopia. Skew deviation is a prenuclear disorder resulting from imbalance in otolith input to the oculomotor system, produced by unilateral lesions anywhere from the otoliths to the interstitial nucleus of Cajal in the rostral midbrain,1 and as such...

Robin K. Minor, Joseph A. Baur, Ana P. Gomes, Theresa M. Ward, Anna Csiszar, Evi M. Mercken, Kotb Abdelmohsen, Yu-Kyong Shin, Carles Canto, Morten Scheibye-Knudsen, Melissa Krawczyk, Pablo M. Irusta, Alejandro Martı́n-Montalvo, Basil P. Hubbard, Yongqing Zhang, Elin Lehrmann, Alexa A. White, Nathan L. Price, William R. Swindell, Kevin J. Pearson, Kevin G. Becker, Vilhelm A. Bohr, Myriam Gorospe,...

Gender identity is a central construct in many accounts of psychosocial development, yet it has been defined in diverse ways. Kohlberg (1966) and Zucker et al. (1993) viewed gender identity as knowing that one is a member of one sex rather than the other; Kagan (1964) regarded gender identity as the degree to which one perceives the self as conforming to cultural stereotypes for one's gender; B...

Recently, Governor Dewey treated a group of Northeastern Governors to the f ights a t Madison Square Garden af ter an in ter-Sta te food confab. When Dewey began introducing the visiting firemen to Lieut. Col. Edward P. Egan, Chairm a n of the State Athletic Commis sion, visiting Governor Colgate Darden, Jr. , of Virginia and the Colonel fell on each others' necks in a flurry of back-slapping a...

The mam concern of this paper is with longer term differences among individual manufacturing industries in the growth of labour productivity and how such differences are associated with relative movements in output, labour earnings, unit costs and prices Certain relationships between the movements of these variables m Irish manufacturing industries will be examined and the results compared with...