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Which Kind of Science Is Construction Management?
No full textIt is argued that the mainstream views on the nature of construction management are insufficient, and as one consequence of this, the relevance of construction management has been questioned. As a solution to this situation, construction management is suggested to be repositioned as a design science, rather than as an explanatory science. A historical consideration reveals that design science equals to one of the sciences proposed by Aristotle, however, the suggestion of Aristotle has been forgotten. Thus, there has been a long-standing neglect of the design science, which explains the present fragmentation of this field. It is argued that this redefinition of construction management will solve several problems plaguing this discipline, including the problem of relevance
E. M. Forster Revisited: Epistemic Disconnection, Otherness and Beyond, ed. by Gloria Lauri-Lucente, Francesco Marroni and Tania Zulli, Merope 61-62 (Gennaio-Luglio 2015)
No full textDrivers for Innovation in Production Management
No full textThe aim of this paper is to examine the effectiveness of innovative programmes in construction. The term 'best practice' is commonly used in industry in to describe and disseminate cases where high levels of performance have been achieved. Several terminologies are used to describe this phenomenon, the best practice being the most widely used term. Best practices usually stimulate a desire in other companies to achieve similar levels of performance or gains that have been obtained by those best practice companies. This desire for better performance commonly triggers an innovation adoption programme by other companies. However, there are two kinds of drivers to innovation adoption: one is usually started by normative pressures applied by customers, suppliers, regulators or senior management. This type of adoption is called push-driven. On the other hand, there is a pull-driven innovation adoption decision, which is triggered strictly by an internal need associated with a performance gap. Based on this background this paper explores the generation, development and adoption of innovative programmes by industry
Recurrent digital fibromatosis of childhood
No full textThe Author report on a case of recurrent digital fibromatosis in a chil
Täydennysosa väitöskirjaan "Tietokoneavusteinen oppiminen perustuen karttuviin sanastoihin, käsiteverkostoihin ja Wikipedian linkitykseen"
No full textA supplement to Lauri Lahti’s doctoral dissertation in 2015 "Computer-Assisted Learning Based on Cumulative Vocabularies, Conceptual Networks and Wikipedia Linkage" so that this supplement was referenced to by the original publication.Täydennysosa väitöskirjaan "Tietokoneavusteinen oppiminen perustuen karttuviin sanastoihin, käsiteverkostoihin ja Wikipedian linkitykseen"Not reviewe
G. Lauri e M. Malvicini, Dal sindacato "ispettivo" al sindacato "conoscitivo"?, in L. Gori, F. Pacini, E. Rossi (a cura di), Il Parlamento "interlocutore", Pisa, Pisa University Press, 2018, pp. 77-99.
No full textConstruction Physics
No full textAt the 14th annual conference in the International Group for Lean Construction in 2006 the authors presented the concept of construction as a process being fed by a number of flows out of which one is the critical one deciding the speed with which the process takes place. This contribution takes the idea further and sets out by discussing production in general and the underlying mental flow models associated with this understanding. It then suggests a new model for the understanding of the nature of project production with a focus on all the flows feeding this complex process. It continues by discussing the nature of the flows and at the same time looks at the impact of their variability at the project level. And finally it looks at the present tools for project management and their suitability in a process understanding of the project where particularly the nature of Last Planner is discussed
The triangular space of abiotic stress tolerance in woody species: a unified trade-off model
No full textTolerance of abiotic stress in woody plants is known to be constrained by biological trade-offs between different forms of stress, especially shade and drought. However, there is still considerable uncertainty on the relationship between tolerances and the limits on tolerance combinations.
Using the most extensive database available on shade, drought, waterlogging and cold tolerance for 799 northern hemisphere woody species, we determined the number of dimensions needed to summarise their tolerance combinations, and the best trade-off model among those currently available, for description of the interdependence between tolerances.
Two principal component analysis (PCA) dimensions summarised stress tolerance combinations. They defined a triangular stress tolerance space (STS). The first STS dimension reflected segregation between drought-tolerant and waterlogging-tolerant species. The second reflected shade tolerance, which is independent of the other tolerances. Cold tolerance scaled weakly with both dimensions. Tolerance combinations across the species in the database were limited by boundary-line trade-offs.
The STS reconciles all major theories about trade-offs between abiotic stress tolerances, providing a unified trade-off model and a set of coordinates that can be used to examine how other aspects of plant biology, such as plant functional traits, change within the limits of abiotic stress tolerance
L'intervento di Camitz nella sindrome del tunnel carpale
No full textL'intervento di Camitz nella sindrome del tunnel carpale
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