Cost certainty and time certainty are major concerns to both clients and contractors, as they have a direct impact on resources. An international study of contractors’ cost certainty and time certainty is presented. Based on the performance and practice of contractors in Japan, the UK and the US, the multiple regression analysis reveals cost certainty to be influenced by time certainty and its ...

Uncertainty is a state of lack of certainty, where having incomplete knowledge can make it impossible to describe the outcome. There are many challenges that occur due to uncertainty. Uncertainty in events can cause losses of data, providing inaccurate data, noisy output. Thus the need to handle uncertainty is essential. This paper represents an outline of various methods through which the unce...

Purpose: Satisfaction is the result of a process; to assess satisfaction, the care recipients’ experiences of the services received should be understood and efforts should be made to understand how these experiences have formed that satisfaction.The purpose was to understand the processes of satisfaction with nursing care in parents of hospitalized children.Methods: The present grounded theory ...

In the financial world, the only thing, which is certain, is uncertainty. While it is possible to make long term statements about likely range and direction of variables like equities and interest rates, no-one without insider information can make a definite prediction about whether a market rate will go up or down on any particular day. This lack of certainty has led to a prudent approach of d...

Is the issue addressed in this volume a question like "What time is it?" or a quest-ion like "What is time?" I argue that it is a quest-ion that requires professional chaplaincy to quest for an answer although it will always have blurred edges that lack succinctness, clarity, and certainty. The challenge posed by the quest-ion means that we must transform the dilemma into a higher synthesis tha...

the aim of this study includes investigation into the impact of education based on gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences (mi) on educational achievement of high school students (grade ii) in mathematics from garmsar city. the current study is of applied type in terms of nature since research is seeking for testing of some theoretical concepts in real and live situations. whereas the presen...