Claims have a lot of space in construction projects, as they can considerable monetary value and thus negatively affect the final amount duration project. This study seeks to suggest building information modeling (BIM) approach reduce most root causes claims during design phase. Thus, be reduced project implementation A questionnaire form was designed distributed 28 experts obtain expert opinio...

As nuclear families have become increasingly less stable over the past quarter century, married couples have been faced with the difficult task of negotiating the terms by which marriage is ended. For parents, divorce involves questions revolving around the care and sustenance of children. In this paper we investigate whether observed divorce settlements indicate that parents make trade-offs in...

Theoretical studies on the e¤ect of life settlement market on consumer welfare show that it crucially depend on the reasons for the lapsation of life insurance policies: if lapsation is purely due to the loss of bequest motives by the policyholders, then life settlement is shown to be detrimental to consumer welfare in equilibrium; on the other hand, if lapsation results from liquidity shocks, ...

Building reserves for outstanding liabilities is an important issue in the financial statement of any insurance company. In this paper we present a new model for delay in claim settlement and to predict IBNR (incurred but not reported) claims. The modelling is based on a data set of a portfolio of car liability data, which describes the claim settlement of a car insurance portfolio. The data co...

This paper first analyzes the tilting reasons of a steel-concrete building in Zhangjiakou city in China. Then, a jacking rectification method which combines the pie-cutting method and the excavation of stress release trench was put forward. This analysis method uses the three-dimensional numerical simulation for soil settlement and vertical displacement and internal force of upper structure in ...

The early post-settlement stage is the most sensitive during the life history of reef building corals. However, few studies have examined the factors that influence coral mortality during this period. Here, the impact of fouling on the survival of newly settled coral spat of Acropora millepora was investigated by manipulating the extent of fouling cover on settlement tiles using non-toxic, wax ...

Power authorities are highly interested in figures that indicate the energy requirements and especially the heat requirements on a local, regional and country-wide level. Such numbers are needed for their planning of new sites of power plants or for planning alternative energy modes. Existing methods for estimating those requirements heavily rely on local sampling methods as well as on the use ...