The current construction industry, which has a high accident rate and declining labor productivity, urgently requires efficient and practical management policies. Research has shown that social norms within informal groups have considerable influence...
This work was motivated by the premise that new competitive advantages in the international economy are increasingly enabled by the collaborative industrial system rather than working alone. Construction firms are transforming from contractors to int...
Inclusive computational practices are increasingly being employed to enrich knowledge and facilitate sensemaking in STEM education. Embedding computational activities in Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning environments can enhance students&rsqu...
12 November 2020
Previous research on antecedents to constructive deviance remains scattered and inclusive. Our study conceptualizes constructive deviance from the perspective of ethical decision making and explores its antecedents, mechanism, and conditions. Drawing...
The bidding price is one of the important factors for construction enterprises in winning a bid. In the context of public bidding in the construction industry, in the process of group competition, how to estimate the individual bids to calculate thei...
The multi-attribute and group-decision problem in the selection of a construction diversion scheme for large hydropower projects often involves multi-decision subjects and schemes. Each scheme includes multiple attributes, and the attribute values an...
The selection of suitable subcontractors for large construction companies is crucially important for the overall success of their projects. As the construction industry advances, a growing number of criteria need to be considered in the subcontractor...
With the rapid urbanization and increasing development of underground spaces, foundation pit groups in complex geological environments encounter considerable challenges in deformation control. These challenges are especially prominent in cases of adj...
Earthquake rescue priorities are often determined from incomplete evidence that is partly shared across information channels. Under such conditions, an apparently plausible mean score may conceal substantial directional conflict. This study investiga...
The construction sector is predominantly characterized by outdoor work, where workers are continuously exposed to environmental factors such as air pollution. Air pollutants, including particulate matter (PM10) and sulfur dioxide (SO2), are well know...
Agricultural infrastructure is a typical public good, and it plays an important role in rural development. The “participation of beneficiary groups (PBG)” system is encouraged by government to supply village level public goods in China. Based on micr...
Background/Objectives: As part of China’s efforts to build a high-quality and efficient integrated healthcare delivery system, tightly knit urban medical groups (TKUMGs) have emerged as a key model for promoting inter-institutional collaboratio...
The present study aims to investigate how the safety cognition bias of high-altitude workers in different age groups in the construction industry affects their unsafe behaviors. A theoretical framework involving safety cognition bias, risk-taking pro...
Since the early 20th century, dimensional analysis and similarity arguments have provided a critical tool for the analysis of scientific, engineering, and thermodynamic systems. Traditionally, the resulting dimensionless groups are categorized into t...
Forced ventilation or newly built vertical shafts are mainly used to solve ventilation problems in large underground cavern groups. However, it is impossible to increase air supply due to the size restriction of the construction roadway, resulting in...
11 November 2022
The fragmentation of protected areas is a common issue in global conservation, which means a new approach to planning and management needs to be explored. In this paper, we proposed the concept of a group of natural protected areas (GNPA) and studied...
This study explores the use of construction robots with collaborative path planning and coordination in complex building construction tasks. Current construction processes involving robots are often fragmented due to their single-task focus, with lim...
Throughout the long history of human development, a large number of activity relics have been left on the earth, among which settlements are important carriers for studying human construction activities. In the era without modern active environmental...
In the current global scenario, in which mobility has been strongly impacted, it is relevant to highlight certain mobility experiences of Indigenous Latin American peoples, in which new cultural and geographical elements justify revisiting this pheno...
The current research investigates cost overrun factors in structural projects, focusing on the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region using Egypt as a model. A systematic literature review was conducted, analyzing 405 research papers published be...
The purpose of POI group recommendation is to generate a recommendation list of locations for a group of users. Most of the current studies first conduct personal recommendation and then use recommendation strategies to integrate individual recommend...
In this paper, we investigate the co-amenability of compact quantum groups. Combining with some properties of regular C*-norms on algebraic compact quantum groups, we show that the quantum double of co-amenable compact quantum groups is unique. Based...
Effects of traditional training methods are not obvious when transferring competent knowledge to construction workers to allow them to deal with new technology and intelligent equipment. The purpose of this study was to explore knowledge transfer pat...
The ventilation effect has a direct influence on the efficiency and security of the construction of an underground cavern group. Traditional forced ventilation schemes may be ineffective and result in resource wastage. Based on the construction venti...
The creation of 3D models for cardiac mapping systems is time-consuming, and the models suffer from issues with repeatability among operators. The present study aimed to construct a double-shaped model composed of the left ventricle and left atrium....
Under economic globalization, synergy among cities has been actively promoted. Establishing inter–city networks and joint regional development could catalyze economic growth. The mode and pace of urban growth could be gauged by construction lan...
With the fast development of IoT and 5G technologies, opportunity social networks composed of portable mobile devices have become a hot research topic in recent years. However, arbitrary node movement in opportunity networks and the absence of end-to...
Energy storage pile foundations are being developed for storing renewable energy by utilizing compressed air energy storage technology. Previous studies on isolated piles indicate that compressed air can result in pressure and temperature fluctuation...
Efficient sign layouts play a crucial role in guiding driving in underground construction caverns and enhancing transportation safety. Previous studies have primarily focused on evaluating drivers’ gaze behavior in tunnels to optimize individua...
Safety climate and safety behavior have been proven to be critical for construction safety. However, few studies have systematically tested the influences of demographic characteristics on construction worker safety, especially in the background of C...
During the drastic changing process of the construction industry in China, construction program management has been given significant attention. Due to the complexity of construction programs, selecting competent managers is crucially important to it...
Smart meters play a significant role in power systems, but their condition assessment faces challenges such as inconsistent evaluation criteria and inaccurate assessment results. This paper proposes feature engineering including feature construction...
The multi-criteria group decision-making approach, rooted in fuzzy mathematics theory, is employed to address the globally significant issue of green construction in this paper. The construction industry is one of the most prominent contributors to c...
26 October 2023
Background: There is a lack of literature specifically examining the workplace bullying of apprentices and trainees in traditional, male-dominated sectors such as the Australian building and construction industry. Using social identity theory (SIT),...
Modular construction refers to the use of factory prefabricated integrated module units. The modular steel construction unit SHS (Square Hollow Section) group column is a structure composed of four independent steel column units. Due to its compositi...
To solve the problem encountered when the spraying robot has run out of medicine even though the spraying task on the field is not complete, we developed a spraying–dosing robot group and proposed a collaborative navigation system based on an o...
1 March 2020
Previous literature has recognized that workers’ unsafe behavior is the combined result of both isolated individual cognitive processes and their interaction with others. Based on the consideration of both individual cognitive factors and socia...
Pile construction projects cause significant time and expense overruns. The pile installation activity is the primary reason for project underperformance and uncertainties. Additionally, the risks associated with pile installation are mostly consider...
Unsafe behaviors among construction workers constitute a major contributing factor to construction accidents, making it critically important to explore their underlying mechanisms and temporal dynamics from a cognitive perspective. This study employe...
Due to the significant advantages of steel-concrete composite beams, they are widely used for accelerated bridge construction (ABC). However, there is still a lack of experimental research on the proper design of ABC, especially in the slip with a di...
In this article, we extend the original TODIM (Portuguese acronym for Interactive Multi-Criteria Decision Making) method to the 2-tuple linguistic neutrosophic fuzzy environment to propose the 2TLNNs TODIM method. In the extended method, we use 2-tup...
Scheduling is essential in managing projects. ‘Schedula Anima’ is a new software designed to provide a comprehensive view of schedules between early and late dates for construction project managers. Capturing the dynamic nature of project...
Pervasive collaborative computing within the Internet of Things (IoT) has progressed rapidly over the last decade. Nevertheless, emerging architectural models and their applications still suffer from limited capacity in areas like power, efficient co...
Workplace injuries are a significant issue in the construction industry. The efficiency and effectiveness of the OHS system can be analysed using safety indicators. This paper presents a methodological procedure for the selection and ranking of indic...
In many real-world scenarios, the importance of different factors may vary, making commutativity an unreasonable assumption for aggregation functions, such as overlaps or groupings. To address this issue, researchers have introduced pseudo-overlaps a...
Extensions of real numbers in more than two dimensions, in particular quaternions and octonions, are finding applications in physics due to the fact that they naturally capture symmetries of physical systems. However, in the conventional mathematical...
Infinite cyclic groups created by various objects belong to the class to the class basic algebraic structures. In this paper, we construct the infinite cyclic group of differential neurons which are modifications of artificial neurons in analogy to l...
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Continuous professional development refers to maintaining, enhancing, and broadening individuals’ knowledge, skills, and the personal qualities required in their professional lives. The present experimental study attempts to explore the way(s)...
This paper poses a major question regarding the choice of space group for scapolite mineral group members. An artificial boundary is typically drawn between space groups I4/m and P42/n when solving the structures of scapolites within the marialite&nd...
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