Collaborative project delivery models were introduced in North Sea oil and gas projects. Recently, they have been successfully applied the context of construction infrastructure projects but their application industrial engineering has limited. We analyze empirically which type challenges there are applying collaborative practices two The key include divergent objectives actors that hamper comm...

this article concentrates on the role and the place of the middle east in the international system after the cold war. after reviewing different theories and vies on the nature of international system and politics after the cold war, the author considers the rise of a new industrial super bloc, the main development after the end of the cold war. this super block has a unified and definite polic...

Our goal as education researchers is to make a difference. We want to help students learn better, or perhaps we want them to learn just as well but at lower cost to our institutions. Decades of research tell us that it is difficult to make a significant difference with technology. This is especially true if we are trying to do the same things. The true value of new technology comes when it perm...

Industrial ecology introduced a new paradigm of principles and tools useful to academic analysis and decision support activities for industry and policymakers. This paper presents a view of the state of the art of industrial ecology, encompassing the four major theoretical traditions comprising the field, and emphasizing the relevance to practice. The principles of industrial ecology offer a ba...

health problem in China. The recently transformed industrial structure and expansion of the industrial labor force, accompanying the rapid industrialization and economic growth, pose both tremendous challenges and opportunities for occupational health policy and research. New occupational health problems are emerging, while the traditional occupational lung disease continued to occur. Simultane...