Climate change and its associated consequences pose an increasing risk to public lands in the western United States. High-level mandates currently require federal agencies to begin planning for adaptation, but the extent to which these mandates have resulted in policies being implemented that affect on the ground practices is unclear. To examine the status of adaptation efforts, we conducted an...

   This paper aims at providing a new model based on Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to prioritize project risks. It is clear that the large amounts of involved capitals, the long term of infrastructure projects’ implementation, and the project management problems in on-time completion of projects indicate the necessity of paying particular attention to this issue and conducting applied researc...

One of the common questions in all projects, is "How much would be the final cost of the project?" or "How much would be the completion duration of the project?". Earned Value Management presents a method for estimation of these results. In general methods and formula of Earned Value Management, future trend of project, are anticipated completely based on its previous trend, and changes in envi...

Abstract The infrastructural and economic development of a country merely depends on the construction industry its growth. There are many risk factors involved with during planning, execution commissioning projects. Dealing in have been known as crucial management process order to achieve overall objectives terms cost, time, safety, quality environmental sustainability. This report is related f...

BACKGROUND Chronic stress affects many Americans. Stress management programs may be prohibitively expensive or have limited access. PURPOSE This study aims to determine feasibility of an 8-week Internet-based stress management program (ISM) based on mindfulness principles in reducing stress in a 12-week, parallel, randomized, controlled trial. METHODS Participants were randomly allocated to...

Emerging information technology (EIT), characterized by intelligence, digitization, and automation, can facilitate activities such as stakeholder cooperation, management, construction management to enhance the overall performance in prefabricated building projects (PBPs). A variety of EITs are currently being used PBPs, but their development is relatively sluggish still infancy stage. Previous ...