Estimation of the conceptual costs in construction projects can be regarded as an important issue in feasibility studies. This estimation has a major impact on the success of construction projects. Indeed, this estimation supports the required information that can be employed in cost management and budgeting of these projects. The purpose of this paper is to introduce an intelligent model to im...

Background: Safety of contractors is one of the key safety challenges at construction. Safety training, as an essential prerequisite for achieving safety qualification certificates by contractors, could decrease accident rates in the construction. This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of training construction contractors in safety issues in minimizing occupational accidents in a five-ye...

The notion of indifferentiability, which is a stronger version of the classic notion of indistinguishability, was introduced by Maurer et al. in [MRH03]. Indifferentiability, among other things, gives us a way of “securely replacing” a random oracle of one type by a random oracle of a different type. Most indifferentiability proofs in the literature are very complicated, which makes them diffic...

We study the relationship between ADHM/Nahm construction and “solution generating technique” of BPS solitons in noncommutative gauge theories. ADHM/Nahm construction and “solution generating technique” are the most strong ways to construct exact BPS solitons. Localized solitons are the solitons which are generated by the “solution generating technique.” In “solution generating technique,” shift...

This paper deals with construction of confidence intervals for process capability index using bootstrap method (proposed by Chen and Pearn in Qual Reliab Eng Int 13(6):355–360, 1997) by applying simulation technique. It is assumed that the quality characteristic follows type-II generalized log-logistic distribution introduced by Rosaiah et al. in Int J Agric Stat Sci 4(2):283–292, (2008). Discu...