U niversity professors have seasons that, in certain neighborhoods in the vicinity of large research campuses such as where I live, loom even larger than those dictated by our planet's journey around the sun. Right now we are deeply entrenched in the one I call hunting seasonjob hunting, that is. It starts ramping up in early fall with a surge in postings for faculty positions and pilgrimages ...

Singapore’s limited resources have caused severe labor shortage and brought adverse impact on the construction industry. Prefabrication, the crucial part of the integrated construction automation processes, has appeared to be the ideal and most practical way to sustain the long-standing strategy of reducing the reliance on labor resource. In this paper, the potential of prefabrication in resolv...

Sir,?With reference to Major Cornwall's letter in the February number of the Indian Medical Gazette, I would state that Hydrocyanic Gas has been used for some years to cleanse from bugs the sleeping carriages on the Cape Government Railways. Reference to this will be found in the report of the Government Entomologist of the Cape of Good Hope for the year 1901. The results were satisfactory and ...

In this paper, we discuss co-operative product development across firm boundaries. Firstly, we discuss reasons why innovation may beneficially be co-ordinated among firms, and we provide some empirical evidence for the existence and significance of the phenomenon. Secondly, we discuss the relevance of co-operative innovation for the construction industry which, at present, is characterised by l...

Visit analog.com/iot At present, a paradigm shift, referred to frequently as Industry 4.0—or Industrie 4.0 in Germany—is taking place. In international usage, terms like the (Industrial) Internet of Things, smart factory, or cyber physical (production) systems are often used interchangeably to refer to the same thing. Industry 4.0 refers to the global trend toward the digitization and networkin...

Real-time events extremely disrupt the integrity of project schedules. The presence and implementation of a predefined Dynamic Scheduling strategy to mitigate these disruptions is a must for the successful implementation of projects planning. Despite of the wide practical applications of dynamic scheduling in various industries, especially manufacturing and computer engineering, there is a gap ...

abstract airlines brands are getting new identities in the electronic age. because of growing new technologies like internet, there will be new strategic opportunities for airline companies to position their brand. on the other hand, religious tourism's industry has a sustainable market in iran, because of cultural issues. a lot of passengers prefer to do their religious travels with an ai...

Wood is a material that familiar to humans and environment-friendly, it used widely as building material. However, the dispute over housing defects have increased in Korea, various occurred timberwork become disputes. Notwithstanding, efforts analyze systematically reasonably solve problem are lacking. In this study, from complexes Korea were standardized, critical selected suggest method manag...