The paper outlines the findings of an investigation into the use of dayworks sheets by a UK National Management Contractor. The investigation was carried out using interview techniques and ethnographic research to gain an insight into how practicing quantity surveyors conceived of the use of dayworks sheets. The use of dayworks sheets in construction contracting is both widespread and widely ac...

Perceptual indicators of multimedia quality have to be taken into account in order to build the truly end-toend communication architectures of the future. This paper investigates the perceptual impact of differing multimedia presentation frame rates on user information assimilation and level of satisfaction. We apply the Quality of Perception (QoP) concept, which encompasses not only a user’s a...

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We investigate colors and mass-to-light ratios (M/Ls) of the bulges and disks for 28 nearby spiral galaxies with various morphological types of Sab to Scd, using images in optical and near-infrared (V , I, and J) bands and published rotation curves. It is shown that the observed colors and M/Ls generally agree with the galaxy formation model with an exponentially declining star formation rate a...

This paper demonstrates ETLMR, a novel dimensional Extract– Transform–Load (ETL) programming framework that uses MapReduce to achieve scalability. ETLMR has built-in native support of data warehouse (DW) specific constructs such as star schemas, snowflake schemas, and slowly changing dimensions (SCDs). This makes it possible to build MapReduce-based dimensional ETL flows very easily. The ETL pr...

Abstract In recent decades, because of the vast socio-cultural changes which occurred in Iran, Iranian women have experienced new values and identities and they have achieved more advanced education and consciousness, so that they oppose the gender stereotypes which attribute inferior characteristics to women and cause inequalities and limitations in their everyday life. Although gender stereo...