This article describes an experimental investigation on a reinforced concrete bridge deck to compare half-cell potential measurements carried out from the under-side to those obtained from the upper-side of the deck. It was noted that the results are similar but are not identical. This particular situation is caused by the physical conditions of the upper-side and lower-side of the decks which,...

RÉSUMÉ Dans cet article, nous définissons un nouveau critère de cohésion thématique permettant de pondérer les termes d’un lexique thématique en fonction de leur pertinence. Le critère s’inspire des approches Web as corpus pour accumuler des connaissances exogènes sur un lexique. Ces connaissances sont ensuite modélisées sous forme de graphe et un algorithme de marche aléatoire est appliqué pou...

The “big idea” with knowledge management is that in a fast-moving and increasingly competitive world, a firm’s only enduring source of advantage is its knowledge – the knowledge of its individual employees, and the knowledge that gets built into its structures and systems. Consulting companies and R&D organisations have known this for years, but increasingly even “old economy” firms in oil, ste...

Much of the recent literature on improving education in the United States seeks to promote entrepreneurship as the solution to raising educational quality and equity. But, the historical record documenting substantial and sustained departure from conventional educational practices is scant despite numerous attempts at entrepreneurial innovation. This paper contends that the challenge of entrepr...