This paper reports the development of a research project that aimed to collect as much information as possible about the civil construction sector for an already existing socioeconomic observatory, in the improvement ...

Time and cost overruns in highway construction are usual in Colombia. Contractors regularly fail in cost estimation and construction scheduling. An analysis of important factors on time and cost overruns in highway ...

The aim of the paper is to investigate, based on the theoretical premises of Traugott and Trousdale's (2013) constructional approach and Bybee's (2010) cognitive-functional approach, the verbal-noun (VN) constructions with ...

The idea of carrying out this work arose from the perception that new technologies and software take time to be used by the construction sector. And, as the sector generates a large amount of data (materials purchased and ...

The construction of differential cross sections as a function of excitation energy for systems with a collection of low- and high-lying intrinsic vibrational modes has been attempted in the past. A prescription is proposed ...

Leaf cutting ants of the genus Atta build long lasting physical trails to exploit the vegetation around their nest. In this paper we investigated the dynamics of physical trail construction and usage in the leaf-cutting ...

In the context of the construction industry today, it is noted that there are a lot of accidents at work, making it thus very dangerous. In order to minimize the consequences of these accidents occurred and the quantities ...

This paper aims to analyze part of the worker's memory construction process Santo Dias da Silva since the incorporation of the Fund Santo Dias collection located in the Center of Memory and Documentation of UNESP (CEDEM). ...