The excessive amount of Green House Gas (GHG) emissions in the recent years has caused a major global warming problem. Although historically GHGs have been a natural source of warming in the atmosphere, yet in the past two decade or so, their adversarial effects have been more sensed and reported. Among the sources of these emissions, transportation is responsible for more than 50% of these rel...

Scale construction continues to be a popular activity among basic and applied personality researchers. We conducted a I'sycINFO search of English-language journal articles published during the past 55 years that (1) included the keywords test construction, scale developmetlt~ scale construction~ or measure development and (2) also included the keyword personality. Using these criteria, our sear...

BACKGROUND With increasing industrialization, the construction industry provides employment to a large number of skilled and nonskilled workers, many of them migrant workers. AIM This study was undertaken to provide epidemiological data regarding various dermatoses among migrant construction workers in India as currently there is a paucity of the same. METHODS One thousand construction work...

Aspect is undoubtedly the most capricious grammatical category of the Russian language. It has often been asserted as a mystery accessible only to native speakers, leaving all the others lost in its apparently infinite clutter. Recent work in cognitive linguistics has tried to bring order to the seeming chaos of the Russian aspectual system. But these approaches have not been operationalized so...

This paper presents a model of investment in projects that are characterized by uncertainty over both the construction costs and revenues. Both processes are modeled as spectrally negative Lévy jump-diffusions. The optimal stopping problem that determines the value of the project is solved under fairly general assumptions. It is found that the current value of the benefit-to-cost ratio (BCR) de...

With the beginning of the new millennium, the construction industry has entered into a new era. The concept of managing construction projects using web-based techniques seemed like a mirage just a decade ago, but now is much closer to reality. Contractual, organizational and informational integration in the process of construction can be achieved effectively by the use of Internet and related (...

Methods routinely utilized for detection of phenylalanine in new-born blood consist of enzymatic assays, lacking sensitivity and HPLC assays which are expensive and time-consuming to conduct. We, here, report for the first time, the construction of a phenylalanine sensitive electrode, on the basis of a selective molecularly imprinted polymer, offering sensitivity, economy and ease of use for th...

Abstract: At the last decade of the 20th century, Womack et. Al introduced Lean concept to the industrial world. Since 1990 up to now, existed studies mostly have focused on lean production in the step of manufacturing, but in this research leanness concept has developed in the plant life cycle. In this paper leanness concept will be described as elimination of wastes in the phases of investmen...

The impact of simulation methods for social research in the Information Systems (IS) research field remains low. A concern is our field is inadequately leveraging the unique strengths of simulation methods. Although this low impact is frequently attributed to methodological complexity, we offer an alternative explanation – the poor construction of research value. We argue a more intuitive value...

The paper examines in how far Construction Grammar is a useful foundation by which artificial agents can self-organise communication systems that are grounded in the real world through a sensori-motor embodiment and use grammar to express certain aspects of meaning. It proposes a particular computational formalism, Fluid Construction Grammar, and mechanisms by which constructions can be progres...