Computer data acquisition, automation, robotics and other advanced technologies are fundamental sources of competitive strategies in today's market. Construction, with frequent severe environmental conditions and its unique projects, has been slow to adopt automation technologies. However, internal and external trends are pushing some kinds of building construction into these technologies. This...

Despite a large literature on fertility and education there has been little research on how these joint decisions are affected by risks and shocks. This paper uses data on hurricanes in Guatemala combined with a household survey to analyse how households’ decisions on fertility and investments in education respond to both risk and shocks. The data on hurricanes cover the period 1880 to 1997 and...

In the current competitive world, organizations can reach competitive advantage which support entrepreneurship by providing the required tools. One of the most important tools for developing entrepreneurship which was neglected in previous studies is organizational knowledge management. The present paper aims to shed light on the role and importance of knowledge management in sport entreprene...

Comparative studies require a baseline reference and a documented process to capture new subject data. This paper combined with its principal reference [1] presents a definitive dataset in the context of snare drum performances along with a procedure for data acquisition, and a methodology for quantitative analysis. The multi-volume dataset contains video, audio, and discrete two dimensional mo...

Data Integration has become one of the most relevant research fields in data management for the last years. The problem of integrating data from diverse, heterogeneous data sources is ubiquitous and has been tackled by some different approaches. A recent one concerns Peer Data Management Systems (PDMS) which are characterized by their dynamicity. To help matters, semantic information like conte...

Knowledge management (KM), as one of the means to obtain better knowledge acquisition, is not new to educational organization. The existing KM applications play a role in student learning, however they are not consistently targeting the mission of efficient and effective learning needs. The purpose of this paper is to present an integrated view of “smooth and pleasant” combination of the KM and...

This study was conducted to analyze to what extent university students exhibit healthy lifestyles and which sociodemographic variables influence healthy lifestyles. 4809 university students randomly selected were measured by use of the Healthy Lifestyle Scale for University Students questionnaire. When controlling for the other variables, the total healthy lifestyles score was predicted by gend...

Calls for expanded university education are frequently based on arguments that more graduates will lead to faster growth. Empirical analysis does not, however, support this general proposition. Differences in cognitive skills—the knowledge capital of countries—can explain most of the differences in growth rates across countries, but just adding more years of schooling without increasing cogniti...

In this paper some of the important problems and issues such as human and communication errors in safety and civil aviation management are presented. The problems arise from misleading information from different sources. To avoid the above problems, a centralization of the information is proposed here. To centralize the information for Air Traffic Management (ATM), a mining data routing system ...

The relevance of the research problem is determined by the multidimensionality of educational environment, that is the system of business and interpersonal relationships of educational process subjects. The maintenance of these relations defines quality and nature of risks for teachers and their pupils. The article aims to identify and justify the contradictions between the existing methods, to...