Construction industry in India is vast and complex involving modern technology as well the workforce. Annually construction alone contributes 24.2 % (on an average 38 people per day) fatalities out of estimated 48000 fatal occupational accidents occurred India. As government megaprojects are progress, incidence injuries also rose among workers Uttarakhand. This study aims to present a profile v...

This study uncovered inhibiting factors to cost performance in large construction projects of Malaysia. Questionnaire survey was conducted among clients and consultants involved in large construction projects. In the questionnaire, a total of 35 inhibiting factors grouped in 7 categories were presented to the respondents for rating significant level of each factor. A total of 300 questionnaire ...

In this paper, I argue that German shows a phenomenon formally akin to an ergative split. While transitive verbs as in (1a) show a NOM/ACC case pattern with the external argument marked nominative and the internal argument marked accusative (cf. 1b), it can be shown that with reflexively marked anticausatives as in (2a) the nominative theme is base-generated in a position c-commanded by the acc...

Since stock cultures of organisms that have been passaged many times in the laboratory may undergo changes in their pathogenicity, concern was expressed as to whether antimicrobial sensitivity tests performed in vitro accurately reflect the clinical responses one might expect in treating patients. Dr. Feeley believed that various strains of the Lyme disease spirochete are stable in vitro, but c...

The launching of the JOT provides a welcome opportunity to resume the Eiffel column that ran for many years in JOOP from 1998 (edited first by Rock Howard from whom I took over in 1998). It will run pretty much like its predecessor, with a mix of contributions by guest columnists and by me, and a mix of topics — from language matters to methodological issues of object-oriented software construc...