In the Autumn 2021 issue, Philip Ringrose highlights importance of younger stratigraphy as we reimagine some geoscientific careers for energy transition. Cenozoic, and particularly Quaternary Anthropocene, deposits pose biggest hazards to today’s civil engineering projects. Knowledge these is invaluable keeping on track projects with design lives that are […]

To determine whether rapid HIV tests in public health centers might encourage voluntary HIV testing, a pilot project was conducted in four selected public health centers in Seoul, 2014. During the period April 10 to November 28 of pilot project, 3,356 rapid tests were performed, and 38 were confirmed as positive. The monthly average numbers of voluntary HIV tests and HIV-positive cases were up ...

This paper discusses the design and implementation of a citizen science pilot project, COMBER (Citizens' Network for the Observation of Marine BiodivERsity, http://www.comber.hcmr.gr), which has been initiated under the ViBRANT EU e-infrastructure. It is designed and implemented for divers and snorkelers who are interested in participating in marine biodiversity citizen science projects. It sho...

On average, by the time when 1% of the project costs are spent in the design phase, roughly 70% of the life-cycle cost of the building has been committed. Therefore, it is essential to integrate the multidisciplinary knowledge over the life-cycle of the building into design. Building Information Modelling (BIM) is one of the most important supporting factors for a successful integrated design. ...

BACKGROUND Methods for error analysis are suitable to increase patients' safety as well as staff satisfaction and may avoid, in a sense of process control, financial damage to the hospital. The aim of the presented pilot study was to establish and evaluate an incident reporting system as a first step towards a new safety culture. METHODS In June 2003 an incident reporting system was introduce...

are gratefully acknowledged, as well as the financial support of the European Union Human Capital and Mobility Program, Contract Nr. ERB4050PL930320. For the development of international scientific collaboration see among others Luukkonen et al. (1992).

The purpose of this paper is using the concepts of value engineering (VE) in evaluating the improvement caused by preventive maintenance (PM) systems in construction project. A real case is used to show how we can implement the proposed method. VE is the systematic application of recognized techniques by multi-disciplined teams that identifies the function of a product or service, establishes a...

Recently, privatization has become very popular worldwide as an efficient means of constructing and operating infrastructure facilities. Like many other countries, Japan also has adopted a policy in favor of privatization, and has privatized several industries. Now, the privatization of expressway projects has become a controversial issue as the Japanese government has begun considering it as o...

Low cost composite materials are widely used in civil and structural engineering applications. This project uses EPON to plasticize a commonly used resin, epoxy resin to lower the cost of the composite and to find out the mechanical and thermal properties of the plasticized epoxy resin to see if it is suitable for the said applications. Three point bending tests were carried out to evaluate the...