Building Information Modelling (BIM) is a key enabler to support integration of building data within the buildings life cycle (BLC) and an important aspect wide range use cases, related intelligent automation, navigation, energy efficiency, sustainability so forth. Open faces several challenges standardization, interdependency, access, security. In addition these technical challenges, there rem...

As social Q&A sites gain popularity, it is important to understand how users judge the authoritativeness of users and content, build reputation, and identify and promote high quality content. We conducted a study of emerging social Q&A site Quora. First, we describe user activity on Quora by analyzing data across 60 question topics and 3917 users. Then we provide a rich understanding of issues ...

As defined by Jordan (1992, 1993[1978]), authoritative knowledge motivates decision and action. Based on interviews with 22 white middle-class midwives in the United States conducted between 1992 and 1993, this article explores the inner knowing that constitutes a primary source of authoritative knowledge for homebirthers but is granted no authority in the realm of technomedicine. The purpose o...

While peer influences have often found to be a risk factor in terms of adolescent substance use, parental variables may continue to serve as an adaptive and protective function, although the role of parents is more latent and controversial. Therefore, the main goal of this paper was to investigate the role of authoritative parenting style and other family variables in adolescents' smoking and d...

Throughout the Federal Government, including the Department of Defense (DoD), there is a pervasive need to have current, reliable, and trusted data from what are termed Authoritative Data Sources (ADSs). This requirement has grown increasingly important as the military transforms. The transformation requires individual organizations, each using an array of independently developed stovepipe syst...