There is no place on the Earth, the planet we live on, where the natural background radiation level is zero. Since the birth and even in our fetal stage, we have been exposed to different sources of natural radiation. Life, in fact, evolved in a radiation environment that was much more harsh than today. Earth serves as a source of terrestrial radiation. Uranium, thorium, and radium are among th...

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This paper is a description of the Distributed Decision Islands sub-project of the Information/Society/Energy/System (ISES) project. It gives an introduction to, and a short overview of, the ISES project, a background to the Distributed Decision Islands subproject, and outlines activities, goals, and resources put into the sub-project. See [18] for more information about the ISES project and it...

work Implementing an HIS project: everyday features and practicalities of NHS project This article considers some of the everyday practicalities of delivering an electronic health record project within an NHS hospital trust. Using ethnographic, observational data we document how and in what ways the orderly character of project work is achieved against a background of battles and negotiations t...

project scheduling   net present value   we consider a project scheduling problem with permitted tardiness and discrete time/resource trade-offs under maximum net present value objective. in this problem, a project consists of a set of sequential phases such that each phase contains one or more sub-projects including activities interrelated by finish-start-type precedence relations with a time ...

the aim of this paper is to highlight the issue of managerial competencies and competency model in industrial enterprises. this paper builds upon the theory of knowledge processing and its role as a theoretical basis for knowledge development in the area of managerial competencies. managerial competencies are becoming one of the key building blocks of success in a company to achieve both the mi...

The article highlights the results of a theoretical study concept heutagogy, its foundations and principles. Heutagogy is based on humanistic theory approaches to learning, applying holistic approach development adult learners' abilities. It presents new an innovative model learning that meets current requirements time, complex dynamic changes define our lives are reflected in need for continuo...