Project management has incorporated sustainability concepts, but their relationship is still widely discussed. In this article, we research key practices for incorporating in project from the perspective of 919 Brazilian professionals with experience field. We used factor analysis to explore between 37 practices. The results showed that these can be grouped into five practices: environmental ef...

We describe adaptive Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods for sampling posterior distributions arising from Bayesian variable selection problems. Point mass mixture priors are commonly used in Bayesian variable selection problems in regression. However, for generalized linear and nonlinear models where the conditional densities cannot be obtained directly, the resulting mixture posterior may...

We have studied the influence of genetic polymorphisms in the xenobiotic-metabolizing genes GSTM1, GSTP1, GSTT1, EPHX1, NAT1 and NAT2 and the folate-metabolizing genes MTR and MTHFR on the frequencies of cells with chromosomal aberrations (CAs) in peripheral lymphocytes of Norwegian men. Log-linear Poisson regression models were applied on 357 subjects of whom data on all the polymorphisms exam...

In this paper, signal processing techniques to combat the adverse communications environment on power lines are addressed, so as to enable reliable high speed data communications over lowvoltage (LV) power distribution networks for Internet access and in-home/office networking. It is seen that multicarrier code division multiple access (MC-CDMA), multiuser detection (MUD), and turbo decoding, h...

The conventional wisdom is that government decentralization promotes policy innovation because it allows for several simultaneous experiments by local governments. However, this ignores a learning externality: successful policy experiments provide useful information for all governments. Local governments will ignore this externality, but a central government should take it into account. This pa...

Raw runner type peanuts were dried to moisture levels of 4.24 or 6.62 %. Each batch was oil roasted at 160°C in pure peanut oil for the amount of time determined to produce a surface color of 48 on the Hunter L scale. The surfaces of the cotyledons were examined by scanning electron microscopy. Escaping steam caused ruptures in the surfaces during the roasting process. The higher moisture sampl...

OBJECTIVE This multicenter study aims to assess long-term functional outcome, early and late (mesh-related) complications, and recurrences after laparoscopic ventral mesh rectopexy (LVR) for rectal prolapse syndromes in a large cohort of consecutive patients. BACKGROUND Long-term outcome data for prolapse repair are rare. A high incidence of mesh-related problems has been noted after transvag...

Overlapping Schwarz methods are considered for mixed finite element approximations of linear elasticity, with discontinuous pressure spaces, as well as for compressible elasticity approximated by standard conforming finite elements. The coarse components of the preconditioners are based on spaces, with a number of degrees of freedom per subdomain which is uniformly bounded, and which are simila...