Delays are unique one in every of the largest issues construction companies are facing today. Delays will result in several negative effects like lawsuits between house owners and contractors, exaggerated prices, loss of productivity and revenue, and contract termination. Thus, comprehensive study on delays in construction projects is important. Present study works on identification and ranking...

BACKGROUND Despite increased awareness of the importance of early treatment in acute myocardial infarction (AMI), the delay from symptom onset to hospital arrival is still too long and rehospitalisations are frequent. Little is known about how health-related quality of life (HRQL) affects delay time and the frequency of readmissions. METHOD We used quality registers to investigate whether pat...

OBJECTIVE To measure patients' and providers' delays in the presentation and treatment of newly diagnosed pulmonary tuberculosis. DESIGN Retrospective study using structured questionnaires. SETTING Tuberculosis and Chest Service, Centre of Health Protection, Department of Health. PARTICIPANTS Tuberculosis patients notified to the Department of Health, selected by systematic sampling of al...

Chip Interconnect delay and power is a primary criterion in the design of an Integrated Circuit because of its close connection to the speed of IC. Interconnect Buffers in VLSI circuits is the most widespread procedure used to decrease power and delay but they outcome in high Delay and power dissipation, thereby degrading the performance (i.e.) operating speed of an integrated circuit. Use of b...

In this study, we investigated the effects of organic waste and moisture superabsorbent on the amount of available water and delay in moisture equivalent of permanent wilting point (PWP) in soil. In the first phase (soil incubation phase), 12 treatments were studied in a completely randomized design at the Soil Science Laboratory of Science and Research Branch, Tehran. The treatments c...

Abstract – Neural sensorimotor systems have unavoidable delay in the processing. In this paper, we investigate the influence of the delay on control performance in numerical experiment with simple networks. Obtained results suggest not only the fact that the delay degrades control performance of reflex motion in proportion to the amount of the delay, but also the possibility that it influences ...

The lithography used for 32 nanometers and smaller VLSI process technologies restricts the admissible interconnect widths and spaces to very few discrete values with some interdependencies, making traditional interconnect sizing by continuous-variable optimization techniques impossible. Single-net bottom-up power-delay optimization for discrete wire widths has been solved and got a lot of atten...

We describe a methodology for designing the optimal gain profiles for gain-based, tunable, broadband, slow-light pulse delay devices based on stimulated Brillouin scattering. Optimal gain profiles are obtained under system constraints such as distortion, total pump power, and maximum gain. The delay performance of three candidate systems: Gaussian noise pump broadened (GNPB), optimal gain-only,...

We consider a closed Nutrient-Phytoplankton-Zooplankton (NPZ) model that allows for a delay in the nutrient recycling. A delay-dependent conservation law allows us to quantify the total biomass in the system. With this, we can investigate how a planktonic ecosystem is affected by the quantity of biomass it contains and by the properties of the delay distribution. The quantity of biomass and the...