On average, by the time when 1% of the project costs are spent in the design phase, roughly 70% of the life-cycle cost of the building has been committed. Therefore, it is essential to integrate the multidisciplinary knowledge over the life-cycle of the building into design. Building Information Modelling (BIM) is one of the most important supporting factors for a successful integrated design. ...

This article aims to highlight how Unconventional Food Plants – UFPs have constituted themselves as an interdisciplinary educational-investigative element in the courses offered at Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology, Serrinha campus, enabling rescue, re-signification construction knowledge based on tripod teaching-research-extension. To do so, a survey was carried out instit...

BACKGROUND Methods for error analysis are suitable to increase patients' safety as well as staff satisfaction and may avoid, in a sense of process control, financial damage to the hospital. The aim of the presented pilot study was to establish and evaluate an incident reporting system as a first step towards a new safety culture. METHODS In June 2003 an incident reporting system was introduce...

are gratefully acknowledged, as well as the financial support of the European Union Human Capital and Mobility Program, Contract Nr. ERB4050PL930320. For the development of international scientific collaboration see among others Luukkonen et al. (1992).

BACKGROUND In rural health and other health service development contexts, there is frustration with a reliance on pilot projects as a means of informing policy and service innovation. There is also an emerging recognition that existing research methods do not draw lessons from the failed sustainability that characterises many of these pilots and demonstration projects. DISCUSSION This article...

We describe the implementation of a pilot project to demonstrate the safety and feasibility of providing PrePex circumcision from a mobile clinic. We analyzed available project diary entries and staff meeting minutes to identify challenges encountered. The main challenges identified were (1) daily time constraints because of setting up procedures, (2) transportation logistics for clients when t...

An ecological pilot project for the control of Triatoma dimidiata allowed a new evaluation four and five years after environmental modifications in the peridomestic areas of 20 households. It was verified that the two groups of houses, 10 case-houses and 10 control-houses, were free of insects after those periods of time. In the first group, the owners started a chicken coop in the backyard and...

This game is meant to be extension of the overly-beaten pacman-style game (code-named"Yet Another Pacman 3D Adventures", or YAP3DAD) from the proposed ideas and other projects with advance visual and computer graphics features, including a-game-in-a-game approach. The project is an open-source project published on SourceForge.net for possible future development and extension.