The emerging Building Information Modeling (BIM) can better promote the development of building industrialization, with data integration between information-rich models and business processes. However, practical implementation BIM still faces barriers. Existing studies have discussed these barriers extensively, but research on to amid industrialization in China is inadequate. In this study, 23 ...

The relationship between industrialization and intergenerational mobility has been a topic of discussion for over forty years. In this article both total mobility and relative mobility chances are studied in the decades preceding industrialization and the decades during industrialization. A high-quality data set is used covering the male population of a region in the north of Sweden during the ...

While both volunteer computing and social networks have proved successful, the merging of these two models is a new field: Social Volunteer Computing. A Social Volunteer Computing system utilizes the relationships within a social network to determine how computational resources flow towards tasks that need to be completed, and the results of these computations are added back into the social net...

Industrialization, beside the agriculture, is the most important alternative to diversify of rural economy and generate income and employment opportunities, especially in Third World. Appropriate location allocation for rural industrialization is the most feature of industrial decentralization towards regional and rural development. It needs considering uncertain criteria and conditions, which ...

OBJECTIVES To discover the most effective mode of teaching from the perspective of medical students and to analyse their preferences for various pedagogical aids. METHODS The qualitative, descriptive survey designed as a cross-sectional study was conducted at the King Edward Medical University, Lahore, from April to June 2011. A 25-item questionnaire regarding perceptions towards teaching aid...

With China and Russia acting more assertively vis-à-vis Central Asia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan have gradually moved to the core of contemporary Eurasian geopolitics – albeit varying degrees. The European Union (EU) has purposefully sought promote its norms values in region for quite some time past. However, considering ongoing Western “polycrisis” exacerbated...

People empathize with fictional displays of behaviour, including those of cartoons and computer animations, even though the stimuli are obviously artificial. However, the extent to which other animals also may respond empathetically to animations has yet to be determined. Animations provide a potentially useful tool for exploring non-human behaviour, cognition and empathy because computer-gener...