This paper evaluates the effect of development project aid from World Bank and China on firms' sales growth, using a large dataset 110864 firms, spanning 121 countries between 2001 2016. We find that, contrary to Bank, Chinese ODA projects increase, average, firm and, compared sector-specific, region-specific positively affect performance. Finally, we show that positive is stronger for firms la...

Emotional intelligence is considered to be important for project managers affect performance, but emotional does not always play an effective role. Based on conservation of resource theory, this article explores the impact managers’ performance. The results show that affects performance through mediating effect commitment, and complexity negatively moderates commitment. This provides practical ...

Soil property mapping is commonly done in two dimensions, and variation by depth is ignored. The only way to consider the vertical variation is mapping in 3D. In this paper, we present a method based on polynomial depth functions. The objective is determining the effectiveness of a simple polynomial to predict cone-index data by depth over a field. In order to study the performances of the prop...

rangeland plans as an management option is subject that by giving range to beneficiaries beneficiaries will be identified in the plans whit specific programs. the purpose of this study is to identify factors affecting the performance of rangelands schemes and consequently to rank the projects in razavi khorasan by identified factors. six original schemes in razavi khorasan were selected for thi...

Transient and steady-state multiphysics numerical simulations are performed to investigate the thermal and electrical performances of a thermoelectric generator (TEG) module placed between hot and cold blocks. Effects of heat radiation, leg length and Seebeck coefficient on the TEG thermal and electrical performances are identified. A new correlation for the Seebeck coefficient with temperature...

The construction industry is generally considered to have under performed compared to other industries. Not only that, the UK construction industry has been criticised for not performing at the same level as that of other developed countries. In relation to this, the UK working groups on Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) have identified ten parameters for benchmarking projects, in order to achi...

Finally I would like to thank my parents and my family for their sacrifices and unconditional support for my study.

With increasingly sophisticated Diffusion Weighted MRI acquisition methods and modeling techniques, very large sets of streamlines (fibers) are presently generated per imaged brain. These reconstructions of white matter architecture, which are important for human brain research and pre-surgical planning, require a large amount of storage and are often unwieldy and difficult to manipulate and an...

The project of building a bridge is a canonical example of what John Law (1987) has termed ‘heterogeneous engineering’, involving the arrangement of human and nonhuman elements into a stable artifact. This paper reports ethnographic research on the work of civil engineers engaged in designing a bridge scheduled for completion by the year 2004. My emphasis is on a view of bridge-building as pers...