The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the educational landscape of institutions higher education, which were predominantly face-to-face. In Malaysia, many universities converted their courses into online to keep up with challenges working from home during pandemic, using web technologies and blended learning approaches. However, there are in ensuring students’ attention retention rates maintain...

projects scheduling by the project portfolio selection, something that has its own complexity and its flexibility, can create different composition of the project portfolio. an integer programming model is formulated for the project portfolio selection and scheduling.two heuristic algorithms, genetic algorithm (ga) and simulated annealing (sa), are presented to solve the problem. results of cal...

The opposition to a deployed technology in large construction projects can grow step by when transferred from global level local project delivery. Large with specific implementations put pressure on public acceptance andcommunity involvement. This is management, how deal the issue of stakeholder before, during, and after execution. Hence, understanding project-specific reputation prove benefici...

dispute resolution procedures in contract construction: from iran’s legal and imamiyeh fiqh perspectives solmaz hadi [1] morteza haji pour [2] abstract in iranian civil law, in spite of the long tradition of using alternative dispute resolution (adr) methods, and existence of rules and regulation regarding conciliation and compromise, the use of adr methods were not welcomed by the conflicting ...

In a project funded by the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, MedEmerg facilitated the introduction of three new providers into six emergency departments. A managed change process that included team development was carried out. Increased team awareness and a higher acceptance of the provider roles were some of the key successes. Challenges included role confusion and the learning cu...

In late 2000, NOLA Computer Services, Inc. embarked on its first XP project with two developers and a project manager/ customer. The goal was to develop a Web-based J2EE application for commercial release. Over the next eighteen months, the project would grow to six developers and consist of over 650 Java classes, 80 Java Server Pages and 35 database tables. Our initial process was based on Ext...

With the aim to give an overview of most recent discoveries in field socially engaging interactive systems, present paper discusses features affecting users' acceptance virtual agents, robots, and chatbots. In addition, questionnaires exploited several investigations assess chatbots (voice only) are discussed reported Supplementary material make them available scientific community. These were d...

INTRODUCTION It is essential to organize private physicians in urban areas by developing urban family medicine in Iran. Acceptance of this project is currently low among physicians. The present research determined the factors affecting acceptability of the Urban Family Medicine Project among physicians working in the private sector of Mazandaran and Fars provinces in Iran. METHODS This descri...

Biases against women in the workplace have been documented in a variety of studies. This paper presents a large scale study on gender bias, where we compare acceptance rates of contributions frommen versus women in an open source software community. Surprisingly, our results show that women’s contributions tend to be accepted more often than men’s. However, for contributors who are outsiders to...