Rework adversely impacts the performance of building projects. In this study, data were analyzed from 788 construction incidents in 40 Spanish building projects to determine the influence of project and managerial characteristics on rework costs. Finally, regression analysis was used to understand the relationship between the contributing factors, and to determine a model for rework prediction....

Extracting incompatible values in the best-sellers current in ELT markets is a real concern. In this study, the researchers tried to bring some claims/counterclaims for hidden ideologies regarding two imported English language teaching coursebooks-Four Corners and Impact Values Series, which are commonly taught within Iranian English language institutes. The main intention was that they might t...

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the e-voting systems implementation experience in Europe (and the world) and the necessity and possibility to implement the effective Out of Country Voting (OCV) for Moldova. This paper is aimed also to start a discussion on different aspects of information system “Elections” to be built in Moldova.

For Potrace, a bitmap of size w × h is embedded in a cartesian coordinate system where each pixel takes up the space of one unit square. The pixels are positioned so that the corners of pixels (and not their centers) lie at points with integer coordinates, as illustrated in Figure 1. The origin of the coordinate system is at the lower left corner of the bitmap. The four corners of the bitmaps h...

Alan J. Tessier* and Carla E. Cáceres W.K. Kellogg Biological Station and Department of Zoology, Michigan State University, Hickory Corners, MI 49060, USA School of Integrative Biology, University of Illinois, 515 Morrill Hall, Urbana, IL 61801, USA *Correspondence: E-mail: [email protected] Abstract Dormancy is an ecological strategy by which organisms avoid stressful environments, but it al...

Within a framework of reasoning with respect to clausal definitions of atoms, four forms of judgement are distinguished: Direct and indirect assertion, and direct and indirect denial. Whereas direct assertion and direct denial are established by directly applying a definitional clause (“definitional closure”), indirect assertion and indirect denial result from showing that all possible premisse...

Four experiments were conducted with rats in order to determine whether being placed on a platform in one corner of a rectangular swimming pool results in latent spatial learning. Rats in Experiments 1-3 received four trials a day of being placed on the platform. During a subsequent test trial, in which they were released into the pool without the platform, the rats exhibited a preference for s...

Abstract We discuss some bulk-surface gapped Hamiltonians on a lattice with corners and propose periodic table for topological invariants related to corner states aimed at studies of higher-order insulators. Our is based four things: (1) the definition invariants, (2) proof their relation states, (3) computations K -groups (4) construction explicit examples.