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Copyright Charges: A Library's Approach to Reducing its Copyright Fees
(2018-03-28)Medical Sciences Library (MSL) at Texas A&M University offers ILL services to its affiliates free of charge. Like many other libraries, ILL staff first try to borrow from free libraries to keep the borrowing fees as low ... -
Connecting Market Sizing to Business Intelligence Resources
(2018-03-27)Both for entrepreneurs and businesses, the need to effectively take in, judge, and make timely and effective decisions is paramount to success. While seasoned decision makers in their areas of expertise may have internalized ... -
Critical Business Collections: Examining Key Issues Using a Social Justice Lens
(2018-03-27)All academic librarians perform a balancing act between the needs of patrons, licensing restrictions, and the missions of our libraries. As part of the work to develop our campus collections, academic business librarians ... -
A Model for Measuring Ambulatory Access to Care Recovery after Disasters
(J American Board of Family Medicine, 2018-03)Introduction: Although little research has examined impacts of disasters on scheduled ambulatory care services, routine care delivery is important for emergency planning and response because missed or delayed care can ... -
On the Interfacial Phase Growth and Vacancy Evolution during Accelerated Electromigration in Cu/Sn/Cu Microjoints
(2018-03-20)In this work, we integrate different computational tools based on multi-phase-field simulations to account for the evolution of morphologies and crystallographic defects of Cu/Sn/Cu sandwich interconnect structures that ... -
Multivariate Calibration and Experimental Validation of a 3D Finite ElementThermal Model for Laser Powder-Bed Fusion Metal Additive Manufacturing
(2018-03-19)Metal additive manufacturing (AM) typically suffers from high degree of variability in the properties/performanceof the fabricated parts, particularly due to the lack of understanding and control over the physical mechanisms ... -
Assessing the Active Living Impacts of Urban Design Improvements: Brenham TX Main Street Program
(2018-03-16)Literature search indicates that Main Street Program (MSP) is considered to be successful in achieving the goals of ‘preferred place to live’ and ‘increased active living’. The four point approach of MSP, (organization, ... -
Guidelines to Address Challenges Faced by Last Planner Users and Implementers at Organizational and Project Levels
(2018-03-15)Plan unreliability is a crucial problem in construction industry. As the industry is fragmented and every project is unique, schedule delay is common phenomenon in the industry. Ballard and Howell proposed that shielding ... -
Framework for Understanding the Relationship between Lean and Safety in Construction
(2018-03-15)Safety and lean aim at similar goals in making the construction process faster, better and safer (Main et al. 2008). This research intends to answer the basic question: “Is there a relationship between lean and safety ... -
BSRI (Building Sustainability Rating Index) for Building Construction
(2018-03-15)Sustainability has been defined by various institutions as “meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs”. This is a soft qualitative definition. It has ... -
A seminal case study on application of last planner system with cash flow data for improvement in construction management practices
(2018-03-15)A major challenge faced by project managers is balancing the variables of scope, cost, and schedule. Changes in scope usually result in cost/schedule overruns. Variance in either or both of them creates disorder (typically ... -
Trends in pursuing LEED certification credit points
(2018-03-15)Conservation of energy and protecting the environment has becoming a rapidly increasing global concern. To address these concerns, initiatives are being taken worldwide and specifically by the construction industry. One ... -
Reflective Practitioner: Grounding the Use of Instructional Technology in Principles, Teaching Philosophy, Course Goals and Disciplinary Values
(2018-03-15)Necessity, when assigned to teach a large introductory class in Construction Science, required I learn quickly the requisite instructional technology and its application. The title, “Reflective Practitioner” is an anachronism ... -
MORTALITY RATE IN THE USA CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY (2004 – 2014)
(2018-03-15)Safety remains a major challenge in the construction industry throughout the world. Recent government statistics have revealed a high rate of fatalities in the U.S. construction industry. This study investigates the root ... -
The Content and Visibility of Green Building Practices on Commercial Construction Company Websites
(2018-03-15)The number of buildings being erected using sustainable principles has risen, in part due, to environmentally conscious consumers and government incentives. For construction companies wanting to provide green building ... -
Comparative Analysis of Lean and Six Sigma in Building Construction: Benefits, Obstacles and Opportunities
(2018-03-15)Lean and Six Sigma have been recognized as innovative strategies that can be used to transform a firm’s management practices to a newer level. However, there is little guidance, or evidence indicating whether Lean or Six ... -
Is building construction, as a social project organization and production system, complicated or complex?
(2018-03-15)A recent study of chaos in construction as a project production process and system has raised a valid question: Is construction production really complex or just complicated? More importantly, how do we know which one is ... -
A STRUCTURED LITERATURE REVIEW: VALUE STREAM MAPPING (VSM) IN CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY
(2018-03-15)For the past few years, almost every sector of the manufacturing and service industries have applied some form of lean methodology. Likewise, lean-based tools have been applied to simple and complex construction projects. ... -
Structured Literature Review of Design-Build/Bridging, Design-Bid-Build & Design-Build
(2018-03-15)This paper is a systematic literature review of journal papers and articles on the three project delivery systems (PDS), design-build/bridging (bridging), design-bid-build (DBB) and design-build (DB). Mean estimated project ... -
DOES DESIGN-BUILD (DB) OUTPERFORM CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT AT RISK (CMAR)? A COST AND SCHEDULE COMPARATIVE STUDY OF DB PROJECTS AND CMAR PROJECTS
(2018-03-15)Design-Build (DB) and Construction Management at Risk (CMAR) are two widely used alternative project delivery systems in the construction industry. Previous studies have found inconclusive results on which of the two has ...
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