adoption and diffusion of sustainable technologies in construction

... Storing ● Presentation ● Validating ● Creating Rollett (2003) ● Planning Creating Assessing Integrating Organising ● Transferring ● Maintaining ● ● ● Sharing Transferring ● Sharing ● Distributing ... outstanding scientific contributions to Building and Construction Engineering Dino Bouchlaghem is a Professor of Architectural Engineering at Loughborough University and Director of the Engineering ... is Professor and Head of the Department of Architectural Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University, USA His research interests include construction engineering, advanced engineering informatics,...

Ngày tải lên: 06/04/2017, 02:58

... examples of OSNs include Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and Linkedin OSNs dynamic updating, creating and uploading of content and interaction with other user’s Investigating the Adoption, Use and Diffusion ... explain and understand a review of the theories and models that focus upon adoption, usage and diffusion of technologies Then relevant Investigating the Adoption, Use and Diffusion of Online Social ... highlighted the importance of incorporating culture into the understanding of technology adoption in work and non-work settings In terms of novel technologies and the household and empirical, applied...

Ngày tải lên: 11/10/2014, 04:00

... Diffusion and Use of Genomic Innovations in Health and Medicine: Workshop Summary http://www.nap.edu/catalog/12148.html Diffusion and Use of Genomic Innovations in Health and Medicine workshop ... Health Diffusion and Use of Genomic Innovations in Health and Medicine: Workshop Summary http://www.nap.edu/catalog/12148.html  Diffusion and Use of Genomic Innovations in Health and Medicine: ... understanding of the role of technology and of organizational innovation in the broader economy and especially in health care If certain types of innovation can provide a solution to problems of...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 23:20

... scales and by conducting forest and land use mapping and field verification 21 Rubber in Laos The combination of these indicators results in the friction surface, one of the two inputs in the ... assessment Working on these state farms Introduction the smallholders received training in planting, maintaining and tapping the trees, which they could adopt later when planting rubber on their ... economy, and with high global coffee prices in the mid-1990s the area under coffee doubled within a few years only, resulting in a major change in the land use and land cover characteristics (Heinimann,...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 11:20

... suffuse the industry and highlight the implicit and explicit roles of farmer associations in accessing and sharing information (and therefore likely role in BMP adoption and implementation going forward) ... performance of BMPs in addressing social and environmental issues and overall sustainability of the catfish farming sector in the Mekong Delta On the basis of this study and the key findings and conclusions, ... showing differing levels of vertical and horizontal integration between catfish farming and processing sectors Table - Preliminary classifications of surveyed growout farmers and broader industry...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 04:20

... coordinator, hospital 3) In practice, internal dissemination is a combination of own initiative and obligation, of ‘bottom up’ and ‘top down’, and also of ‘what you want’ and ‘what can we offer’ ... (training and support), and meticulous monitoring of the impact of the change [23] and, secondly, on the categorisation of activities and components defining a quality-management system in its ... topics and working methods, reporting of progress, and measurement formats and instructions (Programme coordinator, hospital 7) The training offer depends on what people want It requires tailoring...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:23

... centre nurses' adoption of the decision support protocol following an implementation intervention and identify the factors influencing sustainable nursing practice changes within the call centre ... interview and focus group guides, survey) were designed to collect data on the adoption of the decision support protocol and factors influencing both the use of the protocol in practice and sustainable ... grouped into the following categories: experiences using the decision support protocol; barriers and facilitators to using the protocol in practice; factors influencing the sustainability Page of...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:22

Ngày tải lên: 27/03/2015, 14:55

... and porosity (Yaghi et al., 2003; Stein et al., 1993) Examples of organic and inorganic units are shown in Figure 1.1 Figure 1.1 Examples of organic and inorganic units forming carboxylate MOFs ... is also shown in Figure 2.3 The only nets with one kind of vertex are known as eta and etb The eta and etb nets contain helices of one hand and both hands, respectively Roswell and Yaghi (2006) ... (BPDC) and 1,4-benzenedicarboxylate (BDC) produce some MOFs with high surface area, porosity and pore volume (UMCM-2, MOF-177, MOF-180, MOF-200, MOF-205, MOF-210 and MOF-5 respectively) In addition...

Ngày tải lên: 15/09/2015, 21:13

... JI ZHIJUAN (M Sci NANKAI UNIVERSITY, CHINA) A THESIS SUBMITTED FOR DEGREE OF MASTER OF ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE 2005 DEDICATION Dedication to ... oxygen in the hypolimnion, leading to death in fish and plants Finally, the consumption of eutrophic water can pose a serious health threat since some of the cyanobacteria can release toxins, and ... dominated by a few dominant bacterial populations Still, these fingerprinting methods cannot provide information on the function of microbial communities and the functional genes involved in...

Ngày tải lên: 03/10/2015, 21:58

... -Absorbing daylight and so preventing or over surface excessive development of alga -Decreasing influence of air on the waste surface -Decreasing exchange between waste and air around -Transferring ... environment and develop sustainability in agriculture - Concrete objectives: + Investigate some chemical-physical index in waste water with Ludwigia + Investigate a growing capability of Ludwigia in waste ... of plant) + Measure an initially length of plants (35±2cm) + Count number of leafs on each of plant + Observe figure of plant (colour of leafs and body) Water experiment: + Mark water-level in...

Ngày tải lên: 15/01/2016, 16:17

... proteins involved in salinity stress, including: betaine aldehyde dehydrogenase (BADH2) (1-the number of ESTs matched in GenBank, FJ228482-the accession number of genes of Fig The PCR products of ... positions and 10 following the initiation methionine The ‘non-full-length cDNA’ was that matching the amino acids extending beyond from the 11th amino acid following the initiation methionine (Qi ... role in osmoregulation in most higher plants, and betaine has been found to accumulate in many plant species in response to salinity (Rhodes and Hanson, 1993) In higher plants, glycine betaine...

Ngày tải lên: 11/11/2016, 15:59

... accounting for 71% of the area in mainland China), and includes eleven provinces and one municipality, but the population is relatively sparse (360 million, accounting for only 28% of the total China ... results of epidemiological studies from China [8, 9, 10] and the prevalence of myopia is higher in China, indicating that differences in ethnicity, regional and economical differences and development ... gender and school type affecting the prevalence of refractive errors Quality Assurance All investigators and staff involved in this research participated in an intensive two-day training Demographic...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:40

... ven bi^n t ınh Tra Vinh _ _ (Final report in 1999 and developing plans in 2000 of aquaculture in marsh areas of coastal zone in Tra Vinh province) Department of Fishery, Tra Vinh 20 pp unpublished ... Research in Vietnam, Including Current and Planned Activities In: Proceedings of the workshop on Towards Sustainable Shrimp Culture in Thailand and the Region, Hat Yai, Songkhla, Thailand, 28 ... Assessment of mangrove forest deterioration in Zamboanga Peninsula, Philippines, using Landsat MSS data In: Proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on Remote Sensing of the Environment Macintosh,...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2013, 14:15

... the beginning of leaching, decreased after a peak, and then increased and decreased again This behavior indicates that the initial leaching is like Na+ leaching, and the surplus Ca2+ is drained ... transport of salts such as cations (Na+, Ca2+, Mg2+ and K+) and Cl- in a column were investigated by using a tensiometer and a four-electrode sensor, and the amounts of these salts in soil and leachate ... runoff rate of salts The four-electrode sensor consisted of four stainless steel rods inserted in parallel into an acrylic column with an inner diameter of 50 mm, outer diameter of 60 mm, and...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 09:38

... conducting several benchmark studies [3, 4] In this paper, we consider the optimization of two engineering techniques to increase the sequestration efficiency and safety of GCS in saline aquifers In ... migration of CO2 [7], and (3) injection of brine into the aquifer with or after CO2 injection can accelerate the dissolution of CO2 and enhance its residual trapping by the enhanced convective mixing ... will increase in a semi-exponential fashion Therefore, during intermediate and late stage of CO2 injection, it is expected that CO2 injectivity should greatly improve, resulting in low injection...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 16:10

... contribution of other factors involved in speaking 1.3 Cultural factors in the teaching and learning of speaking skills in classrooms 1.3.1 What cultural factors influence on the teaching and the learning ... pre-determined results often with the minimum outlay of time, energy, or both.” Skills can be classified in two main types: domain-general and domain-specific For example, in the domain of studying, ... group; it is that part of learned behavior shared with others The concept include a group’s way of thinking, feeling, and acting, and fixed patterns for doing certain things According to Thompson (1990:132),...

Ngày tải lên: 07/09/2013, 13:00

... any • Condition and appraisal ratings of structure • Traffic data Material Usage and Condition of Existing Bridges in the U.S The coding guide assists bridge inspectors in preparing data for identification ... that of Reference The main purpose for creating and maintaining the NBI is to monitor the condition of bridges carrying public highways Therefore, for funding and reporting purposes, the FHWA ... replaced during reconstruction It is expected that any error introduced by reconstructed superstructures is minor Prior to introduction of legislation requiring the inventory and inspection of all...

Ngày tải lên: 20/12/2013, 20:15

... working this, who is he involving?) In customer teams, roles of CBD people in consumer and customer and centre of expertise teams and to a lesser extent role of marketing people in consumer and ... explicit It is working in Asda and in Boots In net, We want to have people excited about winning and delighted about what is in it for them They will then believe they should stay working for P&G because ... Have a training programme This is often why people joined P&G in the first place and this is currently perceived as missing Have a plan for each team and each function focused towards building capability...

Ngày tải lên: 25/01/2014, 00:20

... used in the model, the more representative the model output can be of land application at field scales The intent of introducing this approach is to encourage all involved in sustainable land ... analysis of the sample Each cleanup step is intended to eliminate interfering compounds by using physical or chemical properties that differ between interfering compounds and the analyte of interest ... affecting the USEPA’s interpretation of the results Exposure point concentration distributions were determined using source partition modeling of constituent releases, fate and transport modeling,...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 03:20