Project alliancing involves the active collaboration of construction project owners and non owner participants (designer, contractors, and suppliers) to deliver projects in an atmosphere of shared responsibilities and ...

Two vertical curtains, having depths to cover the epilimnion thickness, were installed across the Terauchi Dam Reservoir in the western island of Japan to curtail the nutrient supply from nutrient-rich inflows to the ...

Recent studies have shown that culture has an effect on the choice of foreign investment venture structure. Cultural distance has been identified as a primary determinant in the selection of shared control over wholly ...

The objective of this research was to understand the mechanism of dynamic replacement (DR) with the view of identifying the attributes needed to effectively implement it. This was achieved by analytically modeling DR of ...

Backpropagation neural networks were used to predict the strength and slump of ready mixed concrete and high strength concrete, in which chemical admixtures and/or mineral additives were used. Although various data transforms ...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore information technology (IT) professionals’ perception towards shift-based work pattern used by globally distributed software development (GDSD) firms in Sri Lanka, in ...