Many research studies were carried out for effective utilization of fly ash and pond ash in building industry as it possess suitable pozzolanic properties .They are produced in large quantities during the combustion of coal for energy production and recognized as an environmental pollution. Fly ash and Pond ash utilization in building materials have many advantages like cost effectiveness, envi...

RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) recently has gained enormous attention in various industry sectors, the media, and in academic research. This paper focuses in early RFID applications in the retail supply chain. It takes a quick look at the available literature and then explains the technological issues including the need for standardization and the challenges on the data, network, and app...

Trends in real estate private equity Contents Introduction We often come across the word " disruption " ; so much so that it has outgrown the need for explanation. When people say that traditional media is being " disrupted " by social media platforms such as YouTube and Twitter, it is quite clear that the industry is not facing small-scale quaking, but rather off-the-charts seismic activity th...

ABSTRACT The Internet has transformed the nature of business-to-consumer transaction-making practices in many industries. Sellers now attract customers with innovative Internet-based selling mechanisms that can reveal or conceal market information. We define market transparency as the availability and accessibility of information about products and prices. Firms can influence market transparenc...

To what extent does having a Web presence reflect on an organization’s e-commerce operations? Will a mere brick-and-mortar organizational Web site guarantee online success? This case presents the experience of the New York Theatre Group (NYTG), a nonprofit performing arts organization, in integrating e-commerce in its business practices. The case begins with a very broad overview of the nonprof...

Traditional rural residential construction has the problems of high energy consumption and severe pollution. In general, with sustainable development in the construction industry, rural residential construction should be aimed towards low energy consumption and low carbon emissions. To help achieve this objective, in this paper, we evaluated four different possible building structures using AHP...

When Pharaoh refused to supply straw, productivity plummeted in the Egyptian brick industry. But Pharaoh had other concerns. Anyway, the costs fell on Israelites, not Egyptians. Productivity improvement in the health sector is similarly constrained by competing objectives, and by the distribution of resulting gains and losses. Furthermore, health services have value only insofar as they improve...

Quantitative cultural data on bacterial contamination in a distillery are difficult to obtain because ordinary methods will not distinguish between yeast and bacteria. Direct counts are unreliable because of the large number of grain particles which are difficult to distinguish from bacteria. This investigation was begun, therefore, in order to find a reliable cultural method for counting bacte...

How does arduous work affect child and adolescents’ psychological health well-being? This analysis of a unique four-country data set (915 children working in brick factories non-working comparison group 638 children) sought to understand the nature extent differences, if any, between two groups validate an instrument capable eliciting this information for use population-based surveys. The instr...