Delay of interim payment remains a chronic problem in the Malaysian construction industry and has relatively increased number recent years. Other than causing conflict among contracting parties, impacts it brings could shatter entire delivery chain. Thus, unfavorable contractual behavior client is matter great concern that should be addressed by all parties involved to ensure satisfactory proje...

Pilot projects appear in many forms in policy making and management. In an effort to understand the nature and use of pilot projects and improve their effectiveness, we undertake a practicebased and theoretical study of the pilot project phenomenon. First, we examine the roles assigned to pilot projects in the policy development literature and explore their use in a Dutch water innovation platf...

one category of sokuks is “sokuk estesna’”. they are issued, offered and transferred, based upon a contract of estesna’ in construction of a specified property and/or its completion or in civil construction projects. “sokuk estesna” are divided and analyzed into two categories: the plain ones (direct and indirect) based upon a credit instrument; and complex (pursuant to a directive). the legal ...

1. Auriculotherapy was effective in relieving the symptoms of constipation and improving quality of life for elderly people. 2. Auriculotherapy had a significant time effect in relieving symptoms of constipation, a greater reduction in scores for symptoms of constipation and quality of life, and an increased number of bowel movements per week, compared with controls. 3. The methodology of this ...

In a city like Dubai, where one of the biggest and fastest growing construction markets in the world exists, the need to estimate the cost of quality in the construction projects becomes a vital task. This research used the prevention–appraisal–failure (PAF) model to evaluate the cost of quality (CoQ) and to determine its optimum value – the level of quality that minimizes the total CoQ – for t...

This chapter presents a mobile Web 2.0 framework for pedagogical change based upon the implementation of over 30 mobile learning (m-learning) projects between 2006 and 2011. These projects explored the potential of m-learning as a catalyst for pedagogical change within architecture, product design, landscape architecture, contemporary music, computing, graphics design, performing and screen art...

The Essentials of Baccalaureate Education for Professional Nursing Practice provides a framework for building the baccalaureate education for the twenty-first century. One of the exemplars included in the essentials toolkit includes student participation in an actual root cause analysis (RCA) or failure mode effects analysis. To align with this exemplar, faculty at the University of Michigan Sc...

In recent years, agile methods have become a subject of great interest for civil servants. Not only does their use facilitate the deeper involvement of product owners, but it also encourages the early appropriation of many benefits. Since governments are nonprofit organizations, the success of software projects in the public sector relies mostly on the evaluation of the intangible benefits they...

BACKGROUND For 20 years, China has participated in 267 international cooperation projects against the HIV/AIDS epidemic and received ∼526 million USD from over 40 international organizations. These projects have played an important role by complementing national efforts in the fight against HIV/AIDS in China. METHODS The diverse characteristics of these projects followed three phases over 20 ...