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Life-cycle costing and the procurement of new buildings: The future direction of the construction industry

proposed project with the government’s vision and guidelines of sustainable development. Their political forces will be something that cannot simply be ignored, and continued resistance would be detrimental ... building subject to environmental, political, economic and social forces and, furthermore, subject to the risk of obsolescence, volatile utility prices, deterioration and depreciation (Boussabaine & Kirkham

Lean construction

current construction philosophy (k oskela, l ., Vrijhoef, R., 2000) . k oskela and Vrijhoef (2000), suggest that the inherent nature in which we manage and deliver projects is responsible for fundamental ... , 1997) defined five key principles that are central to the core philosophy of lean construction and are essentially applicable to any organizational structure in regard to lean thinking. The principles

Taking it to the world: Exporting PPP expertise

their political, economic and legal environment more attractive to foreign investors. AUSTRALIAN ‘BEST VALUE’ REGIMES Public private partnership approaches have long been used in this country and ... particular national law, but inherent in the nature of each project will be a distinctive combination of construction, cultural, legal and political risks. TRANSIT NEW ZEALAND Australian expertise is being

Long-term ties: Managing PPP contracts

widely accepted philosophy of risk allocation is to allocate the risk to the party who is best able to manage it. This is usually referred to as the ?Abrahamson? principle. Under this principle, a party

Sebastian Fischer (1806–1871), Bavarian Physician-Naturalist in Egypt and Russia

first year after the university was moved from Landshut and reorganized. He enrolled as a candidate in philosophy to study natural sciences (von Kobell, 1872) but he soon changed to medicine, as noted in ... . He made no secret of his liberal political and religious attitudes. Letters in the von Baer correspondence at the University of Giessen indicate that Fischer had remained in touch with some of his St

Collecting and Processing Thoracican, Acrothoracican, and Rhizocephalan Cirripedes

arranged in natural families, with a description of some new species . Annals of Philosophy 10 : 97 - 107 . Hayat , M. A. 1978 . Introduction to Biological Scanning Electron Microscopy . University Park

Sanya Dojo , Nigerian Copepodologist and Statesman

fields of Burma and listening to eminent world statesmen declare that it was a natural birth right for colonial peoples to strive for and obtain political independence from foreign rule. . . . A University ... . . . struck, killing some of the country’s political leaders, . . . thereby inadvertently introducing into the fabric of Nigerian history the element of violence. As violence, by the order of nature

Gary Charles Beresford Poore Recipient of the Crustacean Society Excellence in Research Award

Philosophy in 1970 after completing a thesis entitled ‘‘The ecology of the New Zealand Haliotis species (Mollusca).’’ His first employment was as an ecologist (Senior Research Officer, Marine Studies Group

Professor Dr. Hans-Eckhard Gruner 15 May 1926–6 December 2006

Central European Isopoda. However, the East German administration refused to grant him his professor title for political reasons; Gruner never joined the Communist Party and limited his political

Joel W. Hedgpeth 29 September 1911-28 July 2006

assist him with some of these identifications, especially of the sea spiders in which Joel was specializing. Ed Ricketts was another polymath, with interests in music, literature, philosophy, and history ... Crossref Search ADS   Hedgpeth J. W. 1971 . Philosophy on Cannery Row. In, Steinbeck: The Man and His Work.   Oregon State University , Corvallis . Hedgpeth J. W. (ed

Recipient of the Crustacean Society Excellence in Research Award

Research, Dr. Felder’s administrative success must be mentioned. Using his abilities for fund raising and the making of political allies, he was influential in establishing two important research facilities

Francesca Gherardi (12 November 1955–14 February 2013)

and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 5: 87-99. Vannini, M., F. Gherardi, and M. Pirillo. 1983. Aggressive communication in Potamon fluviatile (Herbst) (Decapoda, Brachyura): role of size, colour, and

Use of Morphology in Criticizing Molecular Trees

dialogue will quickly degenerate into the sterile recriminations that are so characteristic of political polemics. This is not something to aspire to in science. Ferrari?s critique of REA is sandwiched

Oleg Grigor’evich Kussakin 1930–2001

Kussakin was an excellent pupil, equally interested in biology, astronomy, literature, philosophy, and history. Biology, however, was his first love, and in 1948 he passed exams and entered the Biological ... the other on etymology. He was a highly educated man and interested not only in biology but also in literature, philosophy, history, and ethnography. He was a person of encyclopedic knowledge, rather

Danièle Guinot Recipient of the Crustacean Society Excellence in Research Award

Tunisie 3 : 33 - 46 . --- . Examen des the?ories actuelles de la classification zoologique . History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 1 : 119 - 138 . --- . Donne? es nouvelles sur la morphologie, la

Isabel Pérez Farfante de Canet 24 June 1916–20 August 2009

political reasons, she was not given credit as the author of the book by the Cuban authorities. After her move to the United States in 1961, Isa concentrated on the systematics of penaeoid shrimp, with

Phylogenetic Relationships between Living and Fossil Spinicaudatan Taxa (Branchiopoda Spinicaudata): Reconsidering the Evidence

conversing with other Russian paleontologists it became apparent that taxa were over split due to political pressure: the former USSR put pressure on scientists to discover taxa within the USSR in order to

Paul Louis Illg 23 September 1914-10 May 1998

at the Smithsonian, under the sponsorship of another wellknown crustacean biologist, Waldo Schmitt, and received the Doctor of Philosophy degree from George Washington University in 1952. Collections

Thomas Elliot Bowman XIII (1918-1995)

accessible and familiar. Tom's philosophy of "complete but succinct" is a testament to his clarity of thought and disciplined organization, attributes which he appreciated in others and which he was more than

William Harold Leigh-Sharpe (1881–1950), Teacher and Copepodologist

to be sympathetic with one who had otherwise. He summarized his life-philosophy: At all events it is clear that, although a man may have gained riches, fame and honour, triumphed over his competitors