scholarly journals An Analysis of the Construction Industry Structure in India

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 166
Author(s):  
Syed Nihas ◽  
Kristen Barlish ◽  
Jacob Kashiwagi ◽  
Dean Kashiwagi
Keyword(s):  
Peer Review ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Poor Performance ◽  
Industry Structure ◽  
Research Unit ◽  
Structure Model ◽  
Deductive Logic ◽  
In The Beginning ◽  
And Control

The Indian construction industry has had poor performance delivering on time, with quality and within cost. Project cost and time deviations have been documented at 25%. The paper introduces the utilization of the Construction Industry Structure model to identify the problem, the solution, and how the paradigm of the Indian industry must be changed. Instead of using peer review to determine the validity of the explanation, the authors will use observable deductive logic to validate their proposal. The success of the explanation is not peer review, but Indian academic/research unit adopting the explanation and running research tests with the construction industry participants. The CIS proposal to the industry is to replace the management, direction  and control of personnel and vendors with a transparent system of metrics and utilizing the expertise of the experts in the beginning of the project.

scholarly journals The Impact of Culture on the Indian Construction Industry

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 153
Author(s):  
Syed Nihas ◽  
Kristen Barlish ◽  
Jacob Kashiwagi ◽  
Dean Kashiwagi
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Poor Performance ◽  
Industry Structure ◽  
Cultural Issues ◽  
Major Research ◽  
Indian Culture ◽  
Cost Overruns ◽  
Deductive Logic ◽  
Potential Impact ◽  
The Impact

The Indian construction industry has been characterized by poor performance. This paper analyzes the potential impact of the Indian culture on the poor performance. If the culture is a major cause in the construction industry subpar performance, can the cultural influence be overridden to minimize construction project delays and cost overruns. The authors propose to identify the  unique cultural issues, identify using the Construction Industry Structure (CIS) model the impact of the cultural issues on the construction industry, and identify a potential solution to the problem. The paper proposes to test the solution in actual tests with industry participants. What makes this research unique is the approach of using deductive logic to create a simple solution, and then convincing a major research client to test the proposal.

scholarly journals The Source of Degradation of the Construction Industry Performance

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dean Kashiwagi ◽  
Jacob Kashiwagi ◽  
Jake Smithwick ◽  
Isaac Kashiwagi ◽  
Abraham Kashiwagi
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Test Results ◽  
Repeated Testing ◽  
Project Risk ◽  
Potential Accuracy ◽  
The Past ◽  
Deductive Logic ◽  
Best Value ◽  
Industry Performance ◽  
And Control

The construction industry performance has been analyzed for the past 20 years. There has been no simple answer to the source of the construction industry problems. In 1991, the Construction Industry Structure (CIS) was formulated, and identified that the price based environment was more inefficient than the best value environment. Over the past 18 years, the analysis of the CIS has led to the hypothesis that the price based sector is inefficient because the buyer controls it. The hypothesis has been tested through case studies, and test results show that the owner is the biggest source of project risk and deviations. The dominant information was formed through repeated testing by moving the control to the vendor, and documenting all sources of project deviation. The studies have shown that the use of decision making, management, direction and control of the contractor by the owner increases the project risk. Two longitudinal studies are used to confirm the potential accuracy of the deductive logic. Key words: contractor control, owner releases control, contractor defined scope.

THE EFFECT OF PEER REVIEW STRATEGY ON THE STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT IN WRITING DESCRIPTIVE PARAGRAPH

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sri Agus Murniasih And I Wayan Dirgeyasa
Keyword(s):  
Peer Review ◽  
Experimental Research ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Alternative Hypothesis ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Class Viii ◽  
And Control ◽  
Essay Test ◽  
Experimental Group

This study was conducted to know the effect of applying Peer Review Strategy on the students’ achievement in writing descriptive paragraph. It was conducted by using experimental research method. This research design was conducted pre-test, post test in experimental and control group. The population of this research was the eight (VIII) grade students of SMP IT IQRA’ Medan. The sample of this research was taken by lottery technique. They were in class VIII-1 by experimental group and the class VIII-2 by control group. The experimental group was taught by using Peer Review Strategy while the control group was given no treatment. The instrument used to collect the data was writing essay test. The data were analyzed by using t-test formula. The result showed that the value of t-observed was higher than the value of t-table. (3,55 > 2,05 (a = 0.05)) with the degree of freedom (df) = 28. It means that there was a significant effect of applying Peer Review Strategy on the students’ achievement in writing descriptive paragraph. So, the alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted.

COVID-19 IN KERALA: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF COMPARTMENTAL MODELS AND SOCIAL NETWORK-BASED ANALYSIS AND THE CURRENT PERFORMANCE OF THE STATE

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 2549-2559
Author(s):  
K.R. Kumar ◽  
E.N. Satheesh ◽  
V.R. Pravitha
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Poor Performance ◽  
Compartmental Models ◽  
The State ◽  
Southern State ◽  
Prediction And Control ◽  
Kerala State ◽  
Control And Management ◽  
And Control

Kerala, a southern state of India, has shown better performance in the initial months of the spread of the disease. But in the last few months, the spread of the disease in the state has grown breaking all controls and the control and management system has shown very poor performance. Mathematical modeling of the spread of the disease is effectively is being used in the prediction and control of the disease world over. In this paper, we make a comparative study of the research conducted on this subject based on the compartmental models and social network analysis based models giving special emphasis to Kerala state. We also point out the drawbacks of the current studies in comparison with the intensity of the actual spread of disease.

scholarly journals Nicholas Urfe’s Masculine Trap or the Construction of Manhood, its Ambivalences and Limitations in John Fowles’s The Magus

2017 ◽  
pp. 73-86
Author(s):  
Irina Strout
Keyword(s):  
Western Society ◽  
The Novel ◽  
John Fowles ◽  
Lone Wolf ◽  
Male Characters ◽  
Power And Control ◽  
Male Power ◽  
Personal Level ◽  
In The Beginning ◽  
And Control

Western society and its fiction faces the overwhelming problem of masculinity and its modeling. The era of war, capitalism, the challenges of feminism affect the ideology within which men are constructed both as individuals and as a social group. John Fowles’s fi ction tackles the crucial issue of male power and control as masculinity is put to test and trial in his 1965 novel The Magus. The defi nition of manhood, male virility and social respectability of the period shape the 20th century male characters in Fowles’s fi ction. This paper aims to explore how John Fowles investigates the role of masculinity and power myths on the personal level of relationship and a wider scale of war and capitalism in The Magus. Notions of masculinity off er the protagonist, Nicholas Urfe, a sense of a superiority and power over women in the course of the novel. Among the goals of the project is to examine the mythical journey of Nicholas, which becomes a testing ground of his masculinity and maturity, as well his trial and ‘disintoxication,’ which is intended to help him to reevaluate his life and his relationships with women. One of the issues posed is whether Nicholas Urfe is reborn as a new man at the end of his search for redemption or if he remains the same egotistic, ‘lone wolf’ as he appears in the beginning of the novel.

scholarly journals Effect of Soccer Foot Pressure on Pressure Distributions

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (6) ◽  
pp. 70
Author(s):  
Ahmet Uzun ◽  
Latif Aydos ◽  
Metin Kaya ◽  
H. Ahmet Pekel ◽  
Ulunay Kanatli
Keyword(s):  
Study Groups ◽  
Foot Pressure ◽  
Pressure Distributions ◽  
Professional Soccer ◽  
Grand Total ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Analysis System ◽  
The Right ◽  
In The Beginning ◽  
And Control

The aim of this research is to investigate the effect of playing soccer for a long time in for professional soccer players regarding sole pressure. Despite the increasing prevalence of new methods developed in the footpad pressure measurement in recent years, our knowledge about pressure distribution of the footplate is still insufficient, especially for sportsmen (Ford et al., 2006). Plantar pressure analysis system (EMED-SF) was used in the study. Statistically significant differences between the study groups were examined using the non-parametric Mann-Whitney U test. According to the results of the research, there was no statistical difference between the experimental and control groups in terms of physical characteristics. However, significant results were found at (0.01-0.05) level in the beginning and grand total of heel medial, heel lateral, 1,2,3,4,5 metatars in the maximal force comparisons applied to the right and left foot contact area and the floor.

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