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Wong, Yuen-man Candy. "Outsourcing inspection work of unauthorized building works in Hong Kong." Click to view the E-thesis via HKU Scholars Hub, 2004. http://lookup.lib.hku.hk/lookup/bib/B37934132.
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Chan, Po-keung, and 陳保強. "Project management of building services engineering work in Hong Kong building construction industry." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1989. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31251171.
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Pagaran, Lourdes N. (Lourdes Navaro) 1957. "Making decentralization work : building local institutions in Cambodia." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/8258.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2000."September 2001."
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This dissertation examines the dynamics of decentralization in a highly centralized, institutionally constrained, and externally resource-dependent environment. It uses a case study of Seila, a decentralization program in Cambodia, based on extensive fieldwork from 1996 to 1999. Initiated in 1996 by UNDP, the Seila program took a different path from other rural development programs by working through established provincial and local development structures on a pilot basis in five Cambodian provinces. It provided grants to target communes and selected sector along with the introduction of decentralized systems and mechanisms and the provision of capacity building at provincial and local levels. The findings of this study suggest that the Seila program has been able to establish decentralized systems and mechanisms to deliver local services and to influence macro level policy reforms on decentralization in three ways: by a delicate balancing act between process and output, by developing capacity and institutional networking at various levels, and by gaining support of various key institutional actors including provincial and local authorities, central government, donor agencies, and NGOs. The literature on fiscal federalism and on participatory and governance focuses on the primacy of either process or output. Contrary to these views, the close links between process and output have encouraged local communities to undertake collective action and have engendered accountability and responsiveness from provincial and local authorities.
(cont.) By building capacity and developing strategic partnerships, both at horizontal and vertical structures, provincial and local development committees have effectively managed local demand. Thus, these findings confirm the emerging literature on decentralization that developing effective local governments requires wholesale capacity building and establishing a broad spectrum of support networks. The support from key institutional actors, which enabled the Seila program to sustain its field-level initiatives and to buttress them through institutional and policy backing from central government, suggests that decentralization is indeed both a political decision and outcome of consensus building among politicians and decision makers.
by Lourdes N. Pagaran.
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Prynn, Barbara. "Family building in adoption." Thesis, University of East London, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.310615.
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Ceja, Jessica. "Building a better future for truant youth by building connections with parents and teachers| A grant proposal project." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1527897.
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The purpose of this project was to design a 1-year pilot program to reduce truancy at Stevenson Middle School in East Los Angeles, California. Identifying potential funding sources and writing a grant to fund the programs is part of this project. The proposed program uses a systems theory approach by involving truant youth, parents and teachers as the target population. The program offers parents and teachers workshops, as well as, students peer support groups. Attendance incentives are offered at the completion of the program. The actual submission and/or funding of the grant was not a requirement for the successful completion of this project.
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Lin, Jennifer Jen-Huey. "Work at home, home at work : building a bridge between private and public life." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/79963.
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Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1992.Includes bibliographical references (p. 114).
There is an increasing number of people who have chosen for one reason or another to work at home. The current trend toward working at home due to the advances of technology (computers, fax machines) and changing family structures (both parents working, single parenting) will change the architectural expression of a home and such a change will also affect the neighborhood the home resides in. The thesis work that has been undertaken during this semester is to determine just what those changes and effects might be. Three levels of design investigation were attempted: Single-Detached Unit, Duplex Unit, Multi-Unit Attached. These three were basic examples that represent the broad spectrum of existing housing types. The variation allowed the investigation to identify the differences and particular issues that went along with each type when it underwent the conversion to a home-office. Existing buildings on an existing site were used as the vehicle for the design investigations. The site is in Cambridgeport, MA on a residential block in a typical neighborhood setting. The three building types were clustered together to study what would happen when a substantial number of home-offices existed on the same block. Currently, home-offices are scattered throughout neighborhoods confined to their own property lines. The hypothesis was that the density of home-offices could help form a community-oriented space that would improve the quality of community life in the neighborhood.
by Jennifer Jen-Huey Lin.
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Bauer, Barry P. "Role expectation process in building a desirable work culture." Online version, 2001. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2001/2001bauerb.pdf.
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Hurt, Tom H. (Tom Hamilton). "Work, worship and performance : integrating the office building development." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/67382.
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Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1990.Includes bibliographical references (p. 103).
This thesis is the design of an office building which uses the air-rights to an existing church/performance hall. In the design, I try to acknowledge and express underlying economic relationships -- in particular, the funding of cultural facilities by revenue-generating office space. I give a form to each of the major partners of an economic venture and then I intersect and juxtapose them. In the resulting development, the forms integrate in a way that suggests interdependence of the parts. After describing the essential history of the church, the thesis takes the reader graphically through the design starting with the office building. It then describes the block of worker amenities, the shared church/performance hall and their lobby. Finally, it explains the coming together of all the parts on a prominent Boston street corner.
Tom H. Hurt.
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Bostock, Emma Louise. "Building physiological reserve in immobilisation : does nutritional supplementation work?" Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2015. http://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/688/.
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Introduction: Disuse models, such as limb immobilisation, result in profound changes in skeletal muscle morphology and function. Exercise prescription would be the recommended intervention to prevent immobilisation-induced atrophy and declines in maximal voluntary strength. Nutritional supplementation may stand as a viable intervention to combat muscle atrophy with disuse, when exercise is an unpractical therapeutic option. Aims: To (1) investigate the multifactorial effects of short-term upper limb sling immobilisation and (2) determine whether three potential protein-sparing modulators (essential amino acids (EAA), omega-3 (w-3) and vitamin D) would attenuate the anticipated deleterious effects of immobilisation. Methods: Measures of muscle and sub-cutaneous adipose thickness (Brightness mode ultrasonography), body composition (dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry), arm girth (anthropometry), isometric and isokinetic elbow torque (dynamometry), co-contraction (electromyography (EMG)), muscle fatigability (dynamometry and EMG), arterial blood flow (Doppler ultrasound) and endocrine profile (enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and colorimetry), were taken before and after arm immobilisation in a mixed sex population. Supplementation of EAA (n = 9 vs. placebo n = 7) during three weeks of immobilisation, w-3 (n = 8) or vitamin D (n = 8) during two weeks of immobilisation (placebo n = 8) and EAA for two weeks pre-immobilisation (n = 5 vs. placebo n = 5). Main findings: Immobilisation resulted in decreases in muscle thickness, arm girth, lean mass, isometric and isokinetic elbow torque, and an increase in sub-cutaneous adipose thickness. Muscle fatigability, resting arterial blood flow, EMG co-contraction and endocrine profile were unchanged. At the current dosage w-3 supplementation only attenuated the increase in sub-cutaneous adipose thickness. Despite some trends, neither w-3 nor vitamin D supplementation attenuated any other parameters. EAA supplementation during immobilisation impacted positively on the immobilisation-induced changes in the structural and functional characteristic of the remaining muscle. EAA supplementation before immobilisation did not attenuate the immobilisation-induced changes in muscle structure and function. Conclusion: Although EAA supplementation only showed some benefit to muscle size and function with immobilisation, it was confirmed that the sling immobilisation model used in the thesis, is a suitable model for observing the effects of relatively short-term immobilisation. The findings of the thesis are relevant to both sporting (e.g. off-season detraining modulation) as well as clinical (e.g. injury/illness induced short-term immobilisation/bed rest) populations. This relatively short-term sling immobilisation provides a model to be used to assess other supplements and treatments in future studies. The modest effect of supplementation suggests further research into either: a) more at risk populations (e.g. injury or ageing); b) larger doses of these supplements.
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Krajden, Oren. "Building social capital after Hurricane Katrina." Thesis, McGill University, 2010. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=95039.
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Disaster response is a vital field in social work practice. Social workers commonly treat posttraumatic stress, assist in planning, logistics, and the protection of vulnerable populations. In 'complex disasters', where official sources of assistance have limited reach, social workers are called upon to adopt an increased coordination and networking role within the community. The case of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 is frequently studied because its protracted recovery illuminated the importance of community networks. However, although the social work literature analyzes efforts towards community development by local residents, there is a gap in the study of the efforts undertaken by social workers themselves. This study investigates the action of social workers in improving social networks during Hurricane Katrina. A case study of the hurricane was conducted using archives from the year 2005 to 2010. Reports of social worker activity in the aftermath of the disaster were analyzed using social capital theory for evidence of attempts to build social networks via bonding (homophilous), bridging (heterophilous) and linking (institutional) exchanges. Social workers were found to have facilitated bonding social capital between themselves and their clients, their own families, and within the social work profession. Bridging social capital was at times increased between geographic, cultural and racial communities, but social workers were not immune to prejudices which could impede this process. Linking social capital was very difficult to provide, as access to institutional sources of assistance could be sporadic and inconsistent. Nevertheless, there was evidence that linking capital was built between vulnerable populations and helping agencies, clinics, the military, as well as faith-based and other community organizations. The presence of the practitioner-client relationship presented distinct opportunities and obstacles and differentiated the social capital exchanges inL'intervention en cas de catastrophe est un domaine essentiel du travail social. Les travailleurs sociaux traitent souvent le stress post-traumatique, aident à la planification, à la logistique et à la protection des populations vulnérables. Dans des cas de « désastre complexe », où les sources officielles d'aide n'ont qu'une porteé limiteé, les travailleurs sociaux sont toutefois appelés à jouer davantage un rôle de coordination et de création de réseaux au sein de la communauté. Le cas de l'ouragan Katrina en 2005 est très étudié puisque le rétablissement retardé suite à la catastrophe permet de souligner l'importance des réseaux communautaires. Il existe de la documentation sur le travail social qui analyse les efforts de développement communautaire des résidents locaux, mais très peu sur les efforts des travailleurs sociaux. Cette étude examine les actions entreprises par les travailleurs sociaux pour améliorer les réseaux sociaux après l'ouragan Katrina. Une étude de cas sur l'ouragan a été réalisée à l'aide de documents d'archives datant de 2005 à 2010. Des rapports sur l'activité des travailleurs sociaux après la catastrophe ont été analysés selon la théorie du capital social afin de trouver des cas de création de liens sociaux d'attachement (homophilous), d'accointement (hétérophilous) ou instrumental (institutionnels). On constate que les travailleurs sociaux ont facilité la création de capital social d'attachement avec leurs clients, avec leurs propres familles et au sein de la profession du travail social. Il y a également eu, à certains moments, une hausse de capital social d'accointances entre les différentes communautés géographiques, raciales et culturelles mais les travailleurs sociaux ne sont pas eux-mêmes à l'abri de préjugés, ce qui a entravé le processus. Le capital social instrumental était difficile à créer puisque l'accè
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McCartney, Richard. "Community building through small groups." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2002. http://www.tren.com.
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Julião, Mariana Lopes. "Guidelines for scope of work in corporate office building design." Universidade de São Paulo, 2018. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/3/3153/tde-01032019-151600/.
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Project process\' hindrances over office architectural design production are common at civil construction sector, implying on schedule loss, reworks and higher costs. Many academic literature approaches to that hindrance resulted from failure in project process. Predominantly failures concern translating customer needs and expectations into design conditions. This research objectives to propose scope of work guidelines, securing customer satisfaction and avoiding unforeseen additional costs, reworks, schedule and project benefit loss. Additionally, for each guideline proposed, it is suggested an accountable for it (project manager, architect or client). The adopted methodology was the research and analysis of project methodologies from academic literatures, contenting responsibilities definitions and design criteria that should be considered on the approved scope of work. Furthermore, the creation and implementation of an interview plan with one Brazilian high concept corporative architecture firm and its three clients, in a way that it is possible to measure client\'s point of view over contracted project process. Results from the interviews identified scope definition and project process planning hindrances. Then, in comparison with academic literatures, main project and scope of work issues were identified and used as base to the scope of work development guidelines.A produção de projetos de arquitetura e engenharia no setor de construção civil apresenta entraves em seus processos de projeto, que implicam em perda de prazo, aumento de custos de projeto e retrabalhos. Diversos autores abordam falhas na gestão do processo de projeto, principalmente na interpretação das necessidades dos clientes e na definição dos critérios que o projeto deve seguir, alguns não previstos no escopo de contratação entre a empresa de arquitetura e o cliente. Esta pesquisa propõe diretrizes para que as empresas de arquitetura possam, junto ao gerente de projetos dos clientes, definir um escopo de serviços em que retrabalho, custos adicionais, atrasos e a insatisfação do cliente com o processo sejam reduzidos ou evitados. Para cada diretriz, há também a definição de quem é o responsável por executá-la (se o arquiteto ou o cliente). A metodologia utilizada para obtenção desse objetivo foi o levantamento e revisão de bibliografia sobre metodologias de projeto e de contratos de projetos, que auxiliem na definição de responsabilidades, atividades e critérios de projeto. Em acréscimo, foi formulado um roteiro de entrevista e eleita uma empresa de arquitetura corporativa com experiência de mercado no Brasil, assim como três clientes da mesma, de forma a mapear o ponto de vista do cliente sobre o processo empregado pela contratada. Com os resultados das entrevistas, fez-se uma análise comparativa entre os métodos de projeto empregados pela empresa de arquitetura e o encontrado em bibliografia, identificando os principais entraves no desenvolvimento e definição do escopo de serviços. Por fim, tais resultados foram utilizados como base para propor diretrizes para que o escopo de serviços entre arquitetos e clientes prevejam revisões de projeto, traduzam efetivamente as necessidades do cliente e atendam prazos e custos esperados.
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Silva, Renata de Oliveira. "Building collaboration in humanitarian operations: the role of institutional work." reponame:Repositório Institucional do FGV, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10438/18449.
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Esta tese objetivou mostrar o valor de adotar o trabalho institucional como uma lente teórica para melhor compreender o processo de construção de colaboração em operações humanitárias. Estudar o trabalho institucional envolvido por operações humanitárias e orientadas para a colaboração entre organizações humanitárias não governamentais internacionais e organizações locais pode esclarecer as estratégias e práticas que podem potencializar colaborações em contextos complexos e arriscados. Nesse sentido, o objetivo desta pesquisa é responder a seguinte questão: como o trabalho institucional pode contribuir para melhorar nosso entendimento sobre a colaboração entre as IHNGOs e as organizações locais em operações humanitárias? Para explorar esta questão, convidei vários participantes para compartilhar suas experiências, dificuldades e ideias sobre como a colaboração surge entre a IHNGO e as organizações locais. Realizei 30 entrevistas em profundidade com trabalhadores humanitários das maiores e mais influentes organizações humanitárias internacionais, pessoas com grande experiência que participaram das operações humanitárias mais desafiadoras nos últimos 10 anos. As principais contribuições deste trabalho são fornecer um repertório de trabalhos institucionais humanitários e destacar as formas em que o poder e a confiança - dois elementos conceituais sugeridos pela revisão da literatura - são mobilizados por atores sociais para se envolverem em colaboração em operações humanitárias.
This study aims to show the value of adopting institutional work as a theoretical lens to better understand the process of collaboration building in humanitarian operations. Studying the institutional work engaged by humanitarian operations and oriented toward collaboration between International Humanitarian Non-Government Organization and local organizations can shed light on the strategies and practices that have a potential to improve collaborations in complex and risky contexts. In this sense, the objective of this research is to answer the following question: How institutional work might contribute to improve our understanding about collaboration between IHNGOs and local organizations in humanitarian operations? To explore this issue, I invited a number of participants to share their experience, difficulties and ideas on how collaboration emerges between IHNGO and local organizations. I conducted 30 in-depth interviews with humanitarian workers from the biggest and most influence international humanitarian organizations, people with great experience that participated in the most challenging humanitarian operations in the last 10 years. The main contributions of this work is to provide a repertory of humanitarian institutional works and to highlight the ways in which power and trust – two conceptual elements suggested by the literature review – are mobilized by social actors to engage in collaboration in humanitarian operations.
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Qubane, Awil Abdi. "Gender Roles in Peace Building Processes in Fragile States : A Case Study: Women’s Participation in Peace Building in Somalia." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Teologiska institutionen, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-423565.
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Women's participation in peacebuilding processes was greatly increased through 1325 resolution on women, peace, and security whereby all actors involved in the peacebuilding processes were recommended to increase their participation in all the United Nations Peace and Security efforts. The role of women in peacebuilding and reconciliation through their major contribution to peacebuilding participation process in different countries. This study focused on identifying the role of Somali women in peacebuilding. The study conducted as desk study and uses secondary data that collected other researchers. The research methodology used in this study is thematic analysis to interpret selected materials. The central theme of the study is empowering women and increase women's opportunity to make choices in life and to increase their power to be part of the negotiations that have an impact on their lives. The study focused on two research objectives which included: the extent to which women in Somalia participate in the peace building process and the major constraints affecting the women participation in the peace building process in Somalia. The study identified three major challenges affect the Somali women in the participation of peace building process, and they include: Norms and traditions, political hegemony, and lack of economic opportunities. The study found the women participation in peace building in Somalia has been more common and active in the post conflict period than in any other periods. Keywords Peacebuilding, Conflict, Gender, Empowerment, Inclusion, Exclusion,
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Serrato, Margaret Gilchrist. "Building based communication research." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/22994.
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Thompson, Milo. "Building godly men in the local church." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1994. http://www.tren.com.
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Fu, Lai-fan, and 傅麗芬. "Characterizing the discourse patterns of collaborative knowledge building." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10722/197113.
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This study aimed to develop a holistic understanding of knowledge-building discourse supported by Knowledge Forum among primary-and secondary-school students in Hong Kong. It is argued that prior studies of knowledge building did not adequately address the important question of how ideas are progressively improved because these studies employed cognitively oriented approaches that discarded the sequential, structural, and situational information about the process of group interactions. To better understand this question, the author applied methods from qualitative traditions to the study of knowledge-building discourse.
The study was part of a five-year professional development project, “Developing a teacher community for classroom innovation through knowledge building”. The author and other project members collaboratively analyzed more than hundreds of Knowledge Forum views to gain an initial understanding of productive group interactions. The selection of data set for the study utilized purposive sampling. The author evaluated the online discourses of several dozens of classes, with the criteria of productive group interactions. Three classes from different schools were selected: Grade 5 Science, Grade 10 Liberal Studies, and Grade 10 Visual Art. These classes offered diverse examples to enhance the transferability of the findings. The data set comprised 764 Knowledge Forum messages, which were examined in great detail by a four-stage qualitative method.
The first stage was a thematic analysis at the thread level to pre-process the online discourses for the subsequent analyses. The second stage was a qualitative coding at the action level to characterize the discourse components of the threads. The coding utilized 7 main codes that were adapted from van Aalst (2009): community, information, question, idea, linking, agency, and meta-discourse. This coding scheme formed a foundation of the data analysis, and this study extended the scheme in two ways. First, it gave the main codes a more theoretically solid foundation by conducting a literature review to further conceptualize or re-conceptualize the main codes. Second, it went beyond conducting the qualitative coding to seek for general patterns of interactions in the third-stage analysis. The third stage was a narrative analysis at the episode level to identify discourse patterns. Eleven patterns were identified to demonstrate productive and unproductive group interactions. The findings from the three stages of analysis were then interpreted to provide a comprehensive profile of the class discourses in the final-stage analysis. The relationship between the discourse profiles and idea improvement was explained. Finally, a validity check was conducted and the findings suggested that the discourse patterns could be used as a heuristic device to provide a basis for understanding other discourses.
The implications of this study are threefold. Methodologically, the study has identified eleven discourse patterns that can be conceived as an extensive classification scheme allowing researchers to understand different types of group interaction in asynchronous online discussion forums. Theoretically, the discourse patterns contribute to the literature concerning the process of computer-mediated group interactions. Pedagogically, it is hoped that the discourse patterns can be used as conceptual tools for scaffolding students toward productive group interaction and can be used in teacher professional development.published_or_final_version
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Lake, Robert T. "Body building the biblical way." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1986. http://www.tren.com.
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Chiok, Hengky. "Building a leadership support group." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1999. http://www.tren.com.
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Caldeira, Beatriz Martins de Jesus Machado. "Building information modeling." Master's thesis, Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Arquitetura, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/18054.
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Dissertação de Mestrado Integrado em Arquitetura, com a especialização em Arquitetura apresentada na Faculdade de Arquitetura da Universidade de Lisboa para obtenção do grau de Mestre.O Building Information Modeling (BIM) é considerado como o mais recente paradigma a adotar no exercício da Arquitetura, Engenharias e Construção (AEC) e Design. Um método de trabalho destacado como a aptidão a ter no futuro do setor mundial, onde todas as suas fases e dimensões validam o espírito de colaboração, partilha de informação, interajuda e otimização. Sendo já aplicado em diversos países como cariz obrigatório na profissão, desde 2016 como os Estados Unidos, Reino Unido e Singapura, a visão mundial a cerca desta ferramenta no ensino é ainda bastante elementar comparativamente com as suas imensas potencialidades, principalmente em Portugal. Ciente de que um profissional adquire conhecimentos e competências fulcrais à profissão numa fase anterior a este estatuto é de interesse geral que as habilitações que se adquirem com a metodologia BIM sejam ensinadas no curso de Arquitetura. Porém tal importância não se verifica, tendo como resultado um curso desajustado das novas necessidades da profissão. Perante o problema apresentado surgiu a motivação para o desenvolvimento de uma dissertação que apostasse numa proposta de um modelo curricular para o curso de Mestrado Integrado em Arquitetura que incorpore o Building Information Modeling.
ABSTRACT: The Building Information Modeling (BIM) it’s considered as the latest paradigm to be adopted in the exercise of Architecture, Engeneering, and Construction (AEC) and Design. A working method model highlighted as the ability to have in the future of the global sector, where all of its fases and dimensions validate the spirit of colaboration, sharing of information, mutual aid and optimization. Having already been aplied in several countries as required in the profession, since 2016 like the United States, United Kingdom and Singapore, the world vision about this tool in education it’s rader elementary compared to its immense potentialities, mainly in Portugal. Aware that a professional acquires knowledge and core competencies at a stage prior to this status is of general interest that the qualifications that are acquired with the BIM methodology are taught in the Architecture course. But such importance is not verified, resulting in a misfiting course face of the new needs of the profession. Faced with the presented problem, the motivation rised for the development of a dissertation that focused on a proposal of a curricular model for the Mestrado Integrado em Arquitetura course that incorporate Building Information Modeling.
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Tan, May Hwee Mian, and Yin-Leng Theng. "Building information literacy through project work: A case study in Singapore." School of Communication & Information, Nanyang Technological University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105759.
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In this paper, we described a study carried out to investigate whether the incorporation of information literacy standards explicitly in the learner outcomes of Project Work helped students build and achieve a high level of information literacy. In this study, the students self-assessed their acquisition and development of the information literacy competencies through the use of a five-scale Likert survey. Their reflections of the research experience were also analyzed. In addition, the teachers rated their stu-dentsâ achievement levels through the use of a rubric. Findings revealed that students attained a rela-tively good level of competency, extracted relevant information, synthesized the main ideas to construct new knowledge and seemed to concur with teachersâ perceptions of the studentsâ abilities to access, evaluate and use information more effectively.
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Karlbom, Malin, and Lovisa Hallman. "Geotechnical reinforcement work for foundation of extending an existing residential building." Thesis, KTH, Jord- och bergmekanik, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-278192.
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The last hundreds of years there has been a land elevation that causes an increased distance between the groundwater level and the buildings founded on wooden piles. When wooden piles are exposed to air, rot fungus occurs which causes the pile to lose its bearing capacity. With the critical problem of housing shortage, the demand can be met if an innovative solution is created by extending a superstructure on top of an existing building within the city center of Stockholm. The purpose of this thesis is to investigate whether it is profitable to extend an existing building with a superstructure when reinforcing an existing foundation. By an extensive literature survey, a model is created and exposed to several analyzes containing both analytical and numerical calculations. Based on the acquired knowledge, the model reflects the most common building built within the city center of Stockholm, that was founded on wooden piles, where the geological conditions consist of clay. A new foundation has been designed consisting of drilled end-bearing steel piles. For the two pile dimensions of RD220/12.5 and RD170/10, the possible load transfer methods of full niches, ground beam with half a niche, yoke beams and slab with half a niche are analyzed, respectively. These methods were combined differently to obtain the possible combinations performed in this building, that in turn, gives the difference in the amount of work and costs. An intended superstructure consisting of four storeys in wood is then applied on the existing building to once again, obtain the differences in amount of work and costs. Comparing these two cases, the profitability is determined. The study shows for the larger pile that the superstructure entails no difference in the required amount of piles and therefore, no difference in the total cost compared to the existing building. However, for the smaller pile, the superstructure entails a small increase in the required amount of piles and the cost. The study resulted that the larger pile provides the cheapest geotechnical reinforcement work, regardless if the superstructure is applied or not, compared to the smaller pile. The thesis show that it is profitable to extend an existing building when the existing foundation is strengthened, due to the great revenue of the superstructure, which entails that the profitability is a fact.Under de senaste hundra åren har det skett en landhöjning i Stockholm. Detta medför att byggnader som är grundlagda med träpålar får ett avstånd till grundvattennivån. Träpålarna utsätts då för luft som i sin tur leder till försämrad bärförmåga, vilket innebär att grundläggningen behöver förstärkas. En annan stor utmaning i Stockholm är bostadsbristen. En lösning för att kunna möta efterfrågan på bostäder är att bygga på höjden ovanpå en befintlig byggnad inom Stockholms innerstad. Detta kräver att grundläggningen klarar av att bära en påbyggnation, vilket leder till syftet för denna studie. Syftet med studien är att undersöka om det är lönsamt att bygga på en befintlig byggnad när man samtidigt grundförstärker byggnaden bestående av träpålar. För att besvara studiens syfte har två modeller skapats och analyserats ur fler perspektiv som därefter jämförts. Modellerna baseras på en omfattande litteraturundersökning och återspeglar en befintlig byggnad i form utav den vanligaste byggda byggnaden i Stockholms innerstad med en grundläggning av träpålar. Den första modellen innefattar endast den befintliga byggnaden och den andra modellen innefattar den befintliga byggnaden med en påbyggnation av fyra våningar bestående av trä. En ny grundläggning behövs, då det är svårt att kontrollera bärkapaciteten hos dessa befintliga träpålar. Den nya grundläggningen består utav borrande ändbärande stålpålar där två olika dimensioner undersöks, RD220/12.5 och RD170/10. För dessa två dimensioner har olika lastöverförings- metoder analyserats separat, varav de möjliga metoderna för denna typbyggnad är hela nischer, markbalk med anfang, ok-balk och platta på mark med anfang. Dessa metoder för respektive dimension har kombinerats för att erhålla det totala grundförstärkningsarbetet som i sin tur genererar en skillnad i både mängd arbete och kostnad för de två olika modellerna. Därefter bestäms lönsamheten genom en jämförelse mellan de två olika modellerna. Studien visar att en påbyggnation inte medför någon skillnad i varken erforderlig mängd arbete eller kostnad för den större dimensionen. För den mindre dimensionen erhölls en ökning i både arbete och kostnad. Studien resulterande i att den större dimensionen ger totalt det billigaste grundförstärkningsarbetet, oavsett om en påbyggnation sker eller inte, i jämförelse mot den mindre dimensionen. Vid en grundförstärkning visar studien att det är lönsamt att samtidigt utföra en påbyggnation ovanpå en befintlig byggnad.
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Escobedo, Ada Roxana. "Raising awareness: Towards building equal conditions in the IT work-field." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-23182.
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Once women were the pioneers within the tech industry, but during the past decades the number of women who choose a career within computer science has decreased rapidly. The imbalance raises the question if the tech industry has been adapted for a more masculine way. The lack of female participation in Information Technology (IT) education and professional work is a challenging and constant issue. This problematic is now a well-documented research area, but the causes and remedies remain puzzling and complex. A quantitative study and literature review aims to shed light on one of the possible underlying issues, which might be prevented men to acknowledge and to discuss gender imbalances, and be a part of the solution: the fear to lose all privileges the norm has historically provided them. Thus, this project aims to bring awareness to those hegemonic groups and urge them to improve conditions by using their power status as a firststep towards to fixing the system and a generation of equity conditions, so everybody could have access to the same opportunities to develop a satisfactory professional career within the IT field.
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Price, Andrew D. F. "An evaluation of production output for in situ concrete work." Thesis, Loughborough University, 1986. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/7285.
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The overall aim of this thesis is to develop reliable methods of measuring output levels for construction plant and labour, with a view to establishing realistic output rates for concreting operations. This thesis demonstrates that most of the variability in production rates can be quickly explained, leaving relatively constant levels of output f or individual construction operations (i.e. basic operation times). The primary factors in determining output rates were found to be work rate, delays and waiting caused by poor management, and poor motivation. The latter two items accounted f or more than fifty per cent of the available working time on many sites, whereas work rate varied only slightly. This last finding may be surprising, but the results indicated that when work was being done the effort applied appeared fairly constant to the observer. However, the time spent working was largely dependent upon the level of motivation induced through the payment system. Where a combination of good direct supervision and satisfactory financial incentives were present, high levels of motivation were observed, conversely, low motivation occurred on sites where minimum day-work payments were present. Investigations into several construction trades indicate that work study techniques can be modified to meet the requirements of most construction operations, sites and companies, whether the requirements be a complex synthesis of basic operation times or the more simple determination of site efficiency. The key to this portability lies in the isolation of basic operation times via the application of site efficiency factors. In this thesis, primary work study techniques are identified and discussed. The need for specific construction work study techniques is shown to be of paramount importance. The results from over seventy concrete pours are combined and statistically analysed to produce realistic output rates arid current levels of production. Site factors are combined and statistically analysed to produce a relationship between efficiency and level of remuneration. A comparison is drawn between: the production rates achieved on several sites; and the output rates currently being used in the planning and estimating processes.
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Hughes, Moreen Patricia. "A proposal for building effective relationships in women's ministries." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2004. http://www.tren.com.
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McBride, Kevin T. "Retaking the village green building strategic partnerships for evangelism that work in New England /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2001. http://www.tren.com.
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Kelly, Simon. "Making IT work and making do : a study of best practice, computing and routine work in building firms." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.420562.
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Ellis, Allison Marie. "Building Resources at Home and at Work: Day-Level Relationships between Job Crafting, Recovery Experiences, and Work Engagement." PDXScholar, 2015. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/2320.
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Work engagement is an increasingly popular construct in organizational and occupational health psychology. However, despite substantial advances in our understanding of work engagement at the between-person level, scholars have argued for increased investigation into what drives engagement on a daily level for individual employees. In the current study, a within-person, day-level design was employed to examine the relationships between nonwork mastery experiences, job crafting behaviors, and daily work engagement. Drawing on Conservation of Resources (Hobfoll, 1989) theory, nonwork mastery experiences and job crafting were operationalized as employee-driven, resource-building strategies that assist employees in generating important psychological and job resources that can be drawn upon in order to maintain high levels of work engagement during the day. Moreover, a reciprocal relationship between work engagement during the day and nonwork mastery experiences the same evening was tested. Employees from a U.S. technology firm provided responses in the morning, at lunchtime, and after work each day for five working days. Multilevel structural equation modeling was used to test the hypotheses in the current study. Findings revealed no support for the hypothesized model at the within-person level of analysis; however, ancillary analyses suggested support for an indirect relationship between job crafting and work engagement via increased positive affect. Moreover, nearly all the proposed relationships emerged at the between-person level of analysis providing some insight into the effects of resource building strategies and work engagement across participants. Finally, seeking structural resources was identified as a person-level factor that explained variance in employees' initial levels of work engagement at the start of the week, as well as the trajectory of engagement over the course of the week. The current findings contribute to our understanding of bottom-up, employee-driven behaviors that help to sustain engagement over time. Suggestions for future research and implications for practice are discussed.
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Swanson, David D. "Building a model for mentoring ministry in the local church." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1998. http://www.tren.com.
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Garriss, Timothy Paul. "Bridge-house : a new residential building typology for affordable work-centered housing." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/23173.
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Arend, Susanne. "Exploring contemporary work contexts : the influence of careers in building organisational commitment /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2005. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe18931.pdf.
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Halliwell, David C. "Building for Communities: Definitions, Conceptual Models, and Adaptations to Community Located Work." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1533052538144644.
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Xia, Ruoxi. "Building a Bridge Between Work-family Issues and Growth Intentions of Female Entrepreneurs." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/33403.
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Employing a sample of 116 female entrepreneurs, this study investigated how work-family issues, including work-family conflict and enrichment, relate to their intention to grow the business that they own or co-own. Results suggest that
family-to-work enrichment directly related to female entrepreneurs’ business growth intentions, and important family members seems highly salient to female entrepreneurs’ business growth decisions.
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Martin, Beth. "Building a home alone: the experiences of unaccompanied immigrants in Canada." Thesis, McGill University, 2011. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=104868.
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This multiple case study explored the experiences of adult immigrants who came to Canada alone, separated from those with whom they would normally share life transitions. Data were collected through individual interviews with eight participants, and analysed using an ecological framework to explore their migration experiences in the context of separation from family and friends. Key findings included negative experiences of emotional isolation, positive and negative reactions to social isolation, and changing self-identities. Separation also had implications for the relationships between participants and those from whom they had been separated. Findings were consistent with research done previously with specific refugee populations in the Canadian context, and with broader immigrant populations in different contexts. The findings have potential implications for practice with immigrants and Canadian immigration policy, and point to areas for further research.Cette étude de cas multiples a exploré les expériences d'immigrants adultes arrivés seuls au Canada, séparés de ceux avec lesquels ils auraient normalement partagé cette transition importante dans leurs vies. Les données ont été recueillies par le biais d'entrevues individuelles avec huit participants, et ont été analysées à partir d'un point de vue écologique. La perspective écologique a été utilisée afin d'explorer les expériences de migration dans le contexte de la séparation entre les immigrants et leurs familles et amis.Les résultats majeurs incluent la présence d'émotions négatives liées à l'isolement émotionnel, la présence de réactions négatives et positives face à l'isolement social, et des changements au niveau identitaire. La séparation a aussi eu des effets sur les relations entre les participants et ceux avec lesquels ils ont été séparés. Les résultats de cette recherche confirment les résultats d'études antérieures auprès d'immigrants dans le contexte Canadien, ainsi qu'avec d'autres populations dans d'autres contextes. Les résultats peuvent informer la pratique du travail social auprès des immigrants, influer sur les politiques sociales d'immigration, et indiquer de nouveaux champs de recherche.
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Lei, Chunlin, and 雷春林. "Fostering collaborative knowledge building through reflective assessment among Chinese tertiary students." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10722/197099.
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This study examines the design, processes and instructional effects of principle-based, student-directed reflective assessments on students’ conceptual understanding and collaborative inquiry in a computer-supported knowledge building environment. Premised on socio-constructivism, knowledge building and classroom learning theories, this study (1) designs a knowledge building environment, informed by knowledge building principles and reflective assessments, and evaluates its effects on students’ conceptual understanding, approaches to learning, and conceptions of collaboration; (2) investigates the role of engagement in Knowledge Forum on students’ conceptual understanding; (3) examines the role of portfolio assessment and other reflective assessment strategies in facilitating deep learning and knowledge building; and (4) characterizes the socio-cognitive dynamics of collaborative knowledge building.
Participants of the study were 60 first-year Chinese tertiary students enrolled in a Sino-British joint educational program at a university in Shanghai, China. In a quasi-experimental design, one group of students experienced a knowledge building environment which was informed by knowledge building principles and highlighted concurrent, transformative assessment (reflective assessment strategies). The other group was exposed to a technology-based environment without the mediation of knowledge building principles.
Multiple source of data were employed, including surveys, domain tests, academic performance assessments, Knowledge Forum engagement indices, e-portfolio notes, online inquiry threads, student classroom reflective presentations, and end-of-program interviews. Major findings include (1) students in the principle-based environment outperformed their peers in terms of conceptual understanding and deep approaches to learning; (2) student online participation and community connectedness increased over time, and contributed to students’ conceptual understanding over and above their prior domain knowledge; (3) qualitative e-portfolio analyses identified different kinds of student reflection strategies that were correlated with academic performance; (4) analysis of online inquiry threads showed students’ different levels of engagement with four knowledge building principles and suggested knowledge building might be manifested by meta-discourse; (5) Student reflective presentation and interview study further addressed the role of epistemic reflection and collective assessments in scaffolding collaborative knowledge building.
This study addresses the problem of aligning social-constructivist theories of learning and assessment. Assessment takes on a new meaning of both assessing and scaffolding group learning and knowledge building. This study may advance current literature on how socio-cognitive principles and social-constructivist assessment can be designed and aligned with learning, collaboration and instruction to promote conceptual understanding and knowledge building. This study also has pedagogical implications for how computer-supported knowledge building inquiry can be designed in the context of 21st century Chinese tertiary classrooms.published_or_final_version
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Assarsson, Jakob, and Mattias Eskilsson. "Arbetsberedningar och Egenkontroller i produktionen : Work preparations and quality controls in production." Thesis, Växjö University, School of Technology and Design, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:vxu:diva-5210.
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I byggproduktionen behövs noggranna förberedelser för att undvika störningar och kvalitetsfel. En form av styrnings- och planeringsverktyg är arbetsberedningar och egenkontroller som vi i detta examensarbete har undersökt. Syftet har varit att se hur de fungerar och att finna förbättringsmöjligheter för dem. I arbetet gjordes en intervjustudie som visade att anställda på Peab tycker att arbetsberedningarna är ett mycket bra hjälpmedel i produktionen och att användandet fungerar ganska bra i nuläget. Enligt medarbetarna finns det dock mycket som kan utvecklas och förbättras. På företaget tycker personalen även att egenkontrollerna är något bra men själva användandet fungerar inte särskilt bra ute i produktionen.
För att förbättra och utöka användandet av arbetsberedningarna krävs att tjänstemännen får en ökad förståelse och vilja att använda dem. När det gäller egenkontrollerna är det däremot hantverkarnas inställning som är bekymret, de ser inte kontrollen som något viktigt utan mer som ett moment som ödslar deras tid. Studien visar att egenkontrollen, om den används på rätt sätt, kan öka hantverkarnas engagemang och få dem att ta större ansvar för det de utför.
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Anderson, Michael L. "Building strong families in the local church through family enrichment." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1995. http://www.tren.com.
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Ward, Milton Hawkins. "A model for relationship building and maintaining tenure in the foreign work environment." Thesis, Imperial College London, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.261725.
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Yan, Mo-lan. "Knowledge building in project-based science learning." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2005. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B31598687.
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Patterson, William C. "Building a strong marriage biblical disciplines for a closer relationship /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2003. http://www.tren.com.
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Krantz, Frida. "Building Information Modeling : In the production phase of civil works." Thesis, KTH, Fastigheter och byggande, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-101091.
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Building Information Modeling, abbreviated BIM, is a process of information sharing which enhances communication and which helps in visualizing complex problems in the building industry. BIM has not been used in a larger extent in the production phase of civil works. The purpose of the study is therefore to investigate driving forces behind the use of BIM and the resistors against it and to investigate in what ways BIM could be used in the production phase. The theoretical framework is based on one licentiate thesis, two degree projects, three research papers and three books. A qualitative method with semi-structured interviews was used. The interviews were made with a calculator, a supervisor and a CAD planner from Skanska, a constructor and project manager from ELU, a Project Information Officer from Tyréns and a VDC coordinator and VDC business developer from Veidekke who all have been working with BIM. This was to get a good representation from different actors and people with different professional roles. The study shows that the driving forces behind a use of BIM are that it enhances collaboration and communication between the actors, it makes it easier to visualize the project and the scope, and it provides a higher degree of accuracy of coordination’s. BIM also makes the work more effective and results in fewer errors. Above all, BIM give a possibility for a shorter production phase, shorter total project duration and a lower total cost. The study also shows that the resistors against the use of BIM are employee’s negative attitude against administrative work, that it is hard to measure profitability of using BIM, the uncertainty of who has the legal ownership of the data, and who has the responsibility of the accuracy of it. 3 That the implementation cost and the design phase are more expensive is also a resistor against a use of BIM. BIM could be used in visualization with 3D models in collision controls and co-reviews in meetings, work preparations and at site. A workplace outline could also be printed from the 3D model to be placed on the site for visualization. 4D scheduling and 4D animations could be used for visualization in meetings, work preparations and at site. The study showed that quantity takeoff and cost estimation with 5D is only reconciled in the meetings in the production phase and that the programs for it are not needed in this phase. RFID tags could be used at site for logistics and tracking materials, and field verifications could be used to verify that a work task is executed according to exact coordination’s in the 3D model. Furthermore tablet computers could be used for bringing the technique of BIM to the site which enables a better understanding of complex work tasks for the workers. A BIM coordinator who understands the process of working with BIM and who could work as a bridge between the users and the technical development team is important in a successful implementation. The study also shows that the focus of BIM should lie on how to make use of the technique. The examples of how BIM could be used in the production phase of civil works have to be useful and meet the needs and demands of the users. The processes of using 3D models, 4D scheduling, 4D animations, RFID tags, field verifications and tablet computers should therefore be studied thoroughly to find how the technique could be applicable at site, in meetings and work preparations and how it could enhance the daily activities and work tasks. If the demands are met it will be accepted by both the user and the organization. Further research should therefore lie on how 3D models, 4D scheduling, 4D animations, RFID tags, field verifications and tablet computers could be useful in the production phase. These BIM techniques should then be tested on a real project to investigate how the processes could be useful at site, in meetings and in work preparations. Further research should also be made on how countries like Norway, Finland and USA have made use of BIM in the production of civil works.
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Anderson, Michael L. "Building strong families in the local church through family enrichment." Portland, Or. : Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2005.
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Zapf, Michael Kim. ""Location and knowledge-building: Exploring the fit of western social work with traditional knowledge"." School of Native Human Services, 1999. http://142.51.24.159/dspace/handle/10219/462.
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In many regions of Canada, particularly the North, human services grounded in a Western social work model exist alongside Indigenous healing practices rooted in local traditional knowledge. For a long time, traditional knowledge was the only working knowledge base for survival in harsh northern climates. The relatively recent imposition of a Western scientific knowledge base has resulted in efforts to integrate or incorporate aspects of local traditional knowledge. Based on direct experience with this process within my own discipline of social work, I have attempted to explore issues of compatibility of the two knowledge systems with particular attention to the impact of place or spatial location.
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Johnson, Melinda M. "Building Bridges: Church Women United and Social Reform Work Across the Mid-Twentieth Century." UKnowledge, 2015. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/history_etds/29.
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Church Women United incorporated in December 1941 as an interdenominational and interracial movement of liberal Protestant women committed to social reform. The one hundred organizers represented ten million Protestant women across the United States. They organized with the express purposes of helping to bring peace on Earth and to develop total equality within all humanity.
Church Women United was the bridge between the First and Second Wave of Feminism and the bridge between the Social Gospel and Social Justice Movements. Additionally they connected laterally with numerous social and religious groups across American society. As such, they exemplify the continuity and matrix of reform in American history. Because they worked to promote international peace, develop positive race relations, and advance women’s rights, their campaigns give us a model for how to rectify the social problems of today.
These women used communal prayer, politics, education, and hands-on labor to promote their ideas. They originated in collective prayer and continued this tool, but they added letter writing campaigns, public education forums, and lobbying politicians at all levels including the president to advance their goals. They held massive campaigns to collect needed items for war-torn countries and natural disaster areas as well as acting as counselors to the needy. They raised public awareness of issues facing migrant laborers, inner-city residents, Native Americans, Japanese internment detainees, and then worked hard to ameliorate the worst of these problems. They promoted literacy around the world, as well as new agricultural techniques to address human conditions that were known to lead to political and social unrest.
This dissertation covers the mid-twentieth century while being predominately focused on the years 1941-1968. This study is built upon multiple archives across the United States and oral histories of movement leaders. It is one of the first interdenominational studies focused on the work of women in social reform work. This dissertation enlarges our knowledge of feminism and social reform work.
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Paskins, J. F. "The social experience of building construction work in and around Paris during the 1960s." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2012. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1338988/.
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My thesis explores the social experience of building construction work in and around Paris during the 1960s. My examination of construction sites shifts the focus of architectural history away from the personality of the architect by considering the wider public discourses of urban development. Building sites became spaces that expressed preoccupations about economic growth, labour immigration and the demolition of working-class districts. Drawing on media archives and rarely examined trade union material, my research reveals voices of publics usually excluded from narratives of the production of the city. My thesis contributes to a history of the experience of urban change. My first chapter considers building sites from an international perspective, and explores discourses of French national identity with regards to urban transformation. I analyse debates about economic productivity, technology and labour immigration. Chapter Two examines media representation of building sites, and in particular considers how state television helped contribute to a discourse of Gaullist nationalism. Chapter Three explores the living conditions of construction workers. I analyse the existence of bidonvilles on the edge of Paris in the context of modernist architectural and urban theory. I examine how the popular press made an explicit connection between immigrant workers and crime, and I chart the attempts to improve living conditions for construction workers in France. Chapter Four investigates how state urban development overlooked the social impact of construction projects on existing communities. I analyse how local residents protested against the construction of suburban housing estates, roads and airports, and explore how community groups proposed alternative solutions. Finally, in Chapter Five I analyse how the French media and building workers’ unions used the phenomenon of construction accidents to push their respective political and social agendas. Interpreted by different parties for differing reasons, construction disasters became the centre of debates about the social implications of modernising Paris.
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Kenealy, Graham J. J. "Understanding the temporal sensitivity of enforced accelerated work pace : a grounded theory building approach." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.629436.
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By extending thinking beyond the prescriptive perspectives of current change literature, the organisational principle of rapid change is challenged by the virtues of paced and scheduled change. The research explores how a large UK government organisation copes with radical structural change over time and provides an insight into the temporal effects of 'Enforced Accelerated Work Pace' on behaviour and receptivity within an organisational context. More specifically the research focuses on the negative response behaviour of change, particularly when the change includes radical structural modifications. It considers the effects of time-pacing and scheduling of change initiatives on behaviour; and the failure risk of change initiatives in human terms as a consequence of negative response behaviour borne out of pace and scheduling mismanagement. Change justification and content are well researched, rehearsed and accepted but the temporal and situational aspects of change have largely been ignored by the researchers of the past. Furthermore, there is a distinct absence of strong social and psychological theorising in respect of change receptivity linked to the pace and rate of change, a view well documented by Pettigrew et al. (2001). This research, in the main is not one of understanding cause and effect or starting with a priori hypothesis relating to existing theory. It is the interpretation of human behaviours within a specific context with the explicit aim of developing theories and concepts in the substantive area. Therefore the underlying logic of the research is grounded theory building, a general method that works well with qualitative data collection approaches which involves inducting insights from field based, case data. The emerging insight linked fatigue with poorly managed change rather than just the levels or indeed the type of change as was originally expected. More importantly there is great emphasis on the temporal effects of 'Enforced Accelerated Work Pace' . 'Temporal Sensitivity', the duration of the changes to work patterns played a big part in behavioural responses contributing to the development of the Coping Reflex Stage model. The research also led to the development of the 'Adverse Effect Index' (AEI); a model that brings together the main elements that appear to contribute to the sense of weariness, brought on by 'Enforced Accelerated Work Pace' and presents them in a meaningful way. The development of the model provides for an effective indicator of individuals suffering the effects of change fatigue. Developing perspectives on work pace measurement is difficult particularly when the work output is not easily quantifiable, nevertheless an extension to the AEI model led to developing perspectives on work pace measurement. Termed the' Apparent Work Pace' (A WP) the measure is presented as a real number between 1.0 and 2.0 to represent a moderately slow pace to a much faster pace respectively.
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Lee, Yeung-chun Eddy. "Assessing and fostering collaborative knowledge building among Chinese high-school students." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2009. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B43944358.
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Deane, Christopher Hugh. "Building a special needs ministry in Crowfield Baptist Church." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2005. http://www.tren.com.
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Park, Jong Hyun. "A study on "the construction of the church building" for church growth with special reference to the case of the construction of Daeshin Church's building /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2003. http://www.tren.com.
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Ellames, Lorraine. "Dementia care training for residential care workers : building residential care workers' own views into a conceptual model." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2018. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/76639/.
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This thesis is the result of research that investigated the views of residential care workers (RCWs) working with people with dementia about their perceptions of training for their dementia care role with older people. Using a constructivist ontology and an interpretivist epistemology, the research investigates how care workers perceive their training and how they feel it can be applied to their working environment. RCWs were asked what they saw as the specific needs of residents with dementia, what training they had received, how useful they perceived the training to be, and what training they felt was still needed. Previous studies had put forward topics for inclusion into dementia care training, but very little research had asked RCWs themselves about their dementia training needs. Nineteen semi-structured interviews were carried out across three care home organisations during the summer of 2013 in the East of England. Findings from thematic analysis showed that the care workers interviewed had very limited or no dementia training or assessment they could remember, and that training had generally been a negative experience. Dementia care trainers were not considered helpful or knowledgeable enough and RCWs identified that their learning needs had not been taken into consideration. The learning environment was viewed as unsuitable, usually a lounge or a bedroom where it was very cramped and RCWs were pulled out of training when there were limited staff numbers. Many challenges specific to caring with people with dementia were also identified: challenging behaviour, lack of time and resources, poor teamwork and communication and lack of organisational support all inhibited the development of person-centred care and training transfer into practice. A conceptual model of the training and learning cycle is proposed as a way forward for dementia training. This model illustrates the training process from course creation through to satisfactory completion. Learning into practice is measured by care workers' knowledge, confidence, and competence. This assessment is a two-way process between the learner and the mentor to ensure RCWs feel fully supported and recognised. Although this conceptual model has not been tested empirically, such a process is seen as a possible next step.