The US construction industry has difficulty in attracting and recruiting personnel. Many who enter the industry are lacking management and leadership skills critical to success. Missouri University of Science and Technology conducted a study to determine what factors influence the decision of a college student to enter the construction industry. Experienced professionals were surveyed to determ...

Pelagic Fisheries and Ecosystems, CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, Castray Esplanade, Hobart 7000, Tasmania, Australia ; Center for Stock Assessment Research, Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics MS E-2, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA; Department of Biology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway; CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, Ecosciences Precinct, ...

* The authors thank Frank Mayadas and Gail Pesyna of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for supporting our research. They appreciate the comments by the participants of the Manhattan India Investment Roundtable and Harry Rowen on an earlier version. We thank the executives of the forty-six firms that consented to our interviews. The authors also thank, in alphabetical order, the Maharastra Industri...

Rapid growth rates seem to indicate that recently introduced free-floating car sharing (FFCS) can mean a breakthrough for the car sharing idea. Like other vehicle sharing systems, FFCS systems face significant regional demand fluctuations. Thus, providers might have to reposition empty vehicles to not lose potential customers. However, this aspect has been hardly examined in research and practi...

We develop an equilibrium job search model in which employees incur commuting costs, and residential relocation is costly. We demonstrate that firms partially compensate workers for the incurred relocation costs to avoid paying compensation for commuting costs when house prices do not fully compensate the commuting costs. Taxing reimbursement of relocation costs at a higher rate than reimbursem...

This paper analyses the impact of unilateral climate policy on firms’ international location strategies in emission-intensive sectors, when countries differ in terms of market size. The cases of partial and total relocation via foreign direct investment are separately considered. A simple international duopoly model highlights the differences between short-term and long-term effects. In the sho...

Sensor relocation protocols can be employed as a fault-tolerance approach to reduce or complement coverage loss caused by node failures. In this paper, we introduce a novel localized structure, information mesh, for publishing and retrieving distance-sensitive data like location information. Based on the concept of information mesh, we then propose a Meshbased Sensor Relocation Protocol (MSRP) ...

Twelve subjects relocated from aluminium potrooms due to work-related asthma were followed up for 2-27 months (median 23 months). Repeated post-relocation examinations (numbering 3-7, median 6) of methacholine challenge, forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV1), eosinophil cell count and respiratory symptoms were carried out at regular intervals. At the time of relocation, bronchial hyperr...

Fragmentation on dynamically reconfigurable FPGAs is a major obstacle to the efficient management of the logic space in reconfigurable systems. When resource allocation decisions have to be made at run-time a rearrangement may be necessary to release enough contiguous resources to implement incoming functions. The feasibility of run-time relocation depends on the processing time required to set...

Software today is often developed for deployment on different architectures, ranging from sequential machines via multicore and distributed architectures to the cloud. In order to apply formal methods, models of such systems must be able to capture different deployment scenarios. For this purpose, it is desirable to express aspects of low-level deployment at the abstraction level of the modelin...