ARCHITECTURAL FAILURES‚ SAFETY MEASURES AND RISKS IN CONSTRUCTION - NIA 303 (2) Text of Paper presented to the NIAPPE preparatory seminar at Digital Bridge Institute on 6 March 2012 by Arc. J. O. Toluhi PART I – ARCHITECTURAL FAILURES The concept of architectural failures is better understood from the perspective of what architecture really is‚ criteria for architectural project success and what failure connotes. What architecture means Architecture is defined in various ways by architects and non-architects
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Synopsis: Star Trek Episode “The Measure of a Man” [1] Most of us are aware that the television series Star Trek was about a starship‚ the Enterprise‚ whose mission was to explore the galaxy. This ship was part of a larger organization known as Starfleet. Serving as a Lt. Commander on board the ship was an android named Data. Data was an extremely advanced and unique android even by the standards of 24th century science. He had a special processor known as a “positronic brain” that allowed him
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UNICEF summarized the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child as spelling out the “basic human rights that children everywhere have: the right to survival; to develop to the fullest; to protection from harmful influences‚ abuse and exploitation; and to participate fully in family‚ cultural and social life”. This convention is almost universally ratified. Despite this‚ child labour (something that in many cases violates at least three of the non-negotiable terms laid out in the Convention of the
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C. Passenger Oriented Measure Of Reliability The approach in this study is to directly deduce service reliability from observed passenger trajectories. The two proposed reliability indicators of this paper target passenger-oriented predictability (day to day variation) and punctuality (deviation from the schedule). The former considers day-to-day variations in travel experience‚ whilst the latter refers to the discrepancy from scheduled travel times. The measures are calculated at origin-destination
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12 Questions to Measure Employee Engagement Do your opinions seem to count? Does the mission/purpose of your company make you feel your job is important? Have you had opportunities at work to learn and grow? Comments 11 | Recommend 676 ive years ago‚ The Gallup Organization began creating a feedback system for employers that would identify and measure elements of worker engagement most tied to the bottom line--things such as sales growth‚ productivity and customer loyalty. After hundreds
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Global Warning‚ Pollution‚ Climate Change‚ Greenhouse effect are the terms familiar to us in relation to our environment and society; however what are the measures taken by our government to protect the environment. Environmental issues increasingly become important and closely tighten within our daily life therefore this paper attempts to look at the way from the Australian government protect the environment by using different method includes legislation; signing international agreement and financial
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Repeated measures design was used in this experiment because the condition using black words was used as a control against the condition using coloured words. Therefore‚ participants would have to have taken part in both conditions to act as a control variable as different participants would have different capacities‚ in terms of STM. A repeated measures design is when the same group of participants take part in both of the conditions of the study that is being carried out. The key variable within
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Introduction One of the pressing issues in medicine is that people do not go their primary care physicians proactively. As a result we have seen a continuous rise in health problems and a continuous decline in good health. Statistics confirm that the lack of resources available to people are a major contributing factor in this epidemic. This issue can not be ignored. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) had to take notice. They completed several studies to help determine where
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undertaken by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and is a more direct assessment of unemployment‚ rather than those who claim benefit. It is based on an interview of a sample of 60‚000 households (approximately 120‚000 people) and tries to measure ‘unemployment’ as a whole‚ rather than those simply claiming benefits. To be considered as being unemployed individuals must: Have been out of work for 4 weeks. Be able to start work in the next 2 weeks‚ so they must be readily available
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Running head: OUTCOME OF SLEEP DEPRIVATION ON COGNITION The Effects of Sleep Deprivation on Various Cognitive Measures The Effects of Sleep Deprivation on Cognitive Processes Sleep deprivation is a common occurrence in modern culture. Every day there seems to be twice as much work and half as much time to complete it in. This results in either extended periods of wakefulness or a decrease in sleep over an extended period of time. While some people may like to believe that they can train
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