Contract Administration for Construction Professionals

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Replication of data has been used for enhancing its availability in the presence offailures in distributed systems. Data can be replicated with greater ease thangeneralized objects. We review some of the techniques used to replicate objects forresilience in distributed operating systems. Wediscuss the problems associated with the replication of objects and presentascheme...

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The evolution of the crack growthspeed in a thin, buckled strip delamina-tion is studied and two approximate solu-tions are presented. The quasi-dynamicanalysis assumes that the deflection ofthe delaminated layer is represented bythe static postbuckling solution for thecurrent delamination length. A refinedanalysis introduces an indeterminateamplitude functio...

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The Option to Change One Construction Contract for Another

The aim of this article is to propose a solution to the principal-agent problem arising in construction contracts. The inability to write complete and enforceable contracts gives the contractor the opportunity to earn by cheating. The ultimate method to deal with this problem is to design a contractual mechanism that would stop a self-interested contractor from taking benefit resulting from any...

The Psychological Contract Comparison between USA and Chinese IT Professionals

This study examine the perceived psychological contract from the perspectives of IT new recruits that are located in USA and China. Psychological contract emphasize the mutual exchange between employees and employers. The results of this exploratory study reveals that IT employees from China and USA hold many similar beliefs on the employer-employee obligations such as employer obligations to h...