BACKGROUND: Depression is common in nursing-home patients and is often of chronic nature. AIMS: To examine the prevalence, incidence and the persistence rates of clinically significant depressive symptoms, and their risk factors among nursing-home…
Papers in Construction
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In this paper, we provide a new (proportional) 2-tuple fuzzy linguistic representation model for computing with words (CW), which is based on the concept of "symbolic proportion." This concept motivates us to represent the linguistic information by…
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In this paper, we discuss ways that project managers can use measurement (using a tool such as the balanced scorecard) to improve the operational performance of their project teams. Project managers will see that attaching measures to outcomes…
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This paper proposes a new priorization procedure for Analytic Hierarchy Process Group Decision Making (AHP-GDM). Unlike the methods normally employed in AHP-GDM, this process does not require intermediate filters for the actors initial judgements.…
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The Internet has become a major component to health care and has important implications for the future of the health care system. One of the most notable aspects of the Web is its ability to provide efficient, interactive, and tailored content to…
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Intense competition forces companies to become involved in supply chain collaboration with their upstream and downstream partners. The key to ensuring that the participating members are progressing on the right track of creating the best-in-class…
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Construction waste is becoming a serious environmental problem in many large cities in theworld. In Malaysia, the construction industry generates lots of construction waste which caused significant impacts on the environment and aroused growing…
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Various aspects of recent sociophysics research are shortly reviewed: Schelling model as an example for lack of interdisciplinary cooperation, opinion dynamics, combat, and citation statistics as an example for strong interdisciplinarity.
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The purpose of this paper is to present a comprehensive bibliography of neural network application research in business during the period of 1994-1998. Our extensive literature searches have identified a total of 302 research articles. A…
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Purpose Managing the green (environmentally sustainable) supply chain is an important issue for industry. This paper aims to provide a framework to understand and appreciate the relationships of various research streams and topics in this field.…
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Research in human-computer interac-tion (HCI) has been spectacularly suc-cessful and has fundamentally changed computing. One example is the ubiqui-tous graphical interface used by Microsoft Windows 95, which is based on the Macintosh, which is…
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We survey the history of simulation up to 1981, with special emphasis on some of the critical advances in the field and some of the individuals who played leading roles in those advances.
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This essay introduces a forum that discusses the conceptual theory development approach within the context of the supply chain management discipline. The purpose of the forum is to provide guidance to both authors and reviewers concerning how to…
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Prior project management research has identified a wide variety of measures that describe the outcomes of a project and the input characteristics that impact outcomes. In practice however, project schedules are still used as the sole project…
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The paper outlines the role matrix technique (RMT) - a paper-based method for resourcing processes with identified human roles. It was developed in a number of field projects, where the aim was to explore alternative configurations of roles,…
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This paper describes an application of the Vee Model of Systems Engineering in developing a System Dynamics model of dryland salinity in the Murray Darling Basin. A modular approach was adopted. Simple modules of salt affected land were developed…
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Purpose To apply the concepts of lean and sustainability to higher education. Design/methodology/approach A questionnaire was developed, administered to 18 public and private universities and analyzed. Findings The focus in higher education is now…
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Research efforts have demonstrated that building information modeling (BIM) approaches hold significant potential for the construction industry. However, even though the advantages are generally acknowledged, they are far from becoming standard…
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A case-based reasoning model is proposed, where experience is included in all processes of construction cost estimating by the analytic hierarchy process. The model overcomes the difficulty of measuring experience for determining the weights of…
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Correctly identifying the mechanism responsible for a failure is a major step in failure analysis. Today, human experts normally perform this task. In the problem-solving process, human experts often recall similar cases to help identifying the…
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