谈房建混凝土浇筑的监理控制措施

文章结合某房建工程中引入混凝土质量控制的专项监理工作,从进场材料的质量监理、模板安装的质量监理、混凝土浇筑过程的质量监理、混凝土养护的质量监理等4个方面综述了房建混凝土浇筑的监理重点,并提出防止房建混凝土出现裂缝的关键措施。     

谈房建混凝土浇筑的监理控制措施

文章结合某房建工程中引入混凝土质量控制的专项监理工作,从进场材料的质量监理、模板安装的质量监理、混凝土浇筑过程的质量监理、混凝土养护的质量监理等4个方面综述了房建混凝土浇筑的监理重点,并提出防止房建混凝土出现裂缝的关键措施。     

在土建施工中进场主要材料抽样数量如何确定

为保证建筑工程质量，在施工过程中要对主要的建筑材料进行抽样化验，抽样的数量是根据各种进场材料的数量和批次来确定的，针对如何确定主要建筑材料抽样数量做如下阐述。     

论建筑材料检测的质量控制

在我国现代城市改造与扩建中,工程建设施工质量是施工企业、监理单位、检测单位共同关注的重点。针对现代建筑工程施工质量需求,我国加强了对建筑工程的检测。在建筑工程检测中,施工材料检测是检测工作的重点、是保障建筑工程施工质量的关键。针对建筑工程材料检测工作的重要性,检测企业应加强对建筑材料检测质量的控制与管理。通过取样、检测工作的开展,保障检测数据准确性、真实反映建筑材料性能,为保障建筑工程施工质量奠定基础。根据建筑材料质量检测工作的重要性,现就建筑材料检测的质量控制进行了分析与论述。     

应注意分析研究工程结算审计资料

一个建设项目竣工后，应由建设单位组织对工程进行验收。按照国家规定，建设工程竣工验收应具备下列条件：完成建设工程设计和合同约定的各项内容，有完整的施工档案和施工管理资料，有工程使用的主要建筑材料、建筑构配件和设备的进场试验报告，有勘察、设计、施工、工程监理等单位分别签署的质量合格文件，有施工单位签署的工程保修书。     

浅谈高速公路路面质量控制

针对高等级公路路面使用性能上存在的差异,对路面施工中监理人员在原材料购买、进场检测、力学试验、路面基层(底基层)、面层施工中等多方面需重点考虑的施工控制因素进行了分析探讨.介绍了高速公路沥青砼路面面层监理工作的质量控制要点.     

建筑材料施工现场管控探究

建筑材料是构成建筑工程的主要实体,占工程造价的60%左右,建筑材料的管理是工程项目管理的重要组成部分,与企业经济效益有着密切的关系;做好建筑材料施工现场管理的目标是以较好的性价比材料满足施工和生产的需要,把项目和产品的材料成本管控在消耗最小成本最优的点上从而为提升企业效益打好基础。本文从建筑材料的前期策划、进场验收、材料成本核算分析、消耗管理、存放领用、余料处置、资料建立等多方面管控阐述,具体地进行建筑材料的施工现场管控探究。     

监理对钢筋工程的质量控制

工程现场的土建监理工程师在监理工作中对钢筋工程质量控制方法和重点分析。①钢筋材料的质量控制,②钢筋加工的质量控制,⑧钢筋连接的质量控制,④钢筋安装的质量控制进行了表述。保证结构安全最主要的是钢筋分项工程,所以在整个建筑工程中对钢筋分项工程质量控制是必要的,对保证和提高建筑工程的质量具有重要的意义。身为工程现场的土建监理工程师,钢筋分项工程质量则是监理工作重要之一。     

建筑工程项目中的建筑材料管理与控制

当前时代背景下我国建筑领域得到了飞速发展,加快了现代化社会现代化进程。建筑工程项目工程所需工期较长,耗资巨大,必须要严格按照相关标准采购并使用材料,但据实际情况来看,部分施工企业在建筑材料管理方面存在着较大的不足,导致材料采购与使用不合理,进而会较大程度的影响工程质量。在建筑工程管理工作中,材料管理工作非常关键,文章提出材料的选择需严格遵照成本控制计划实施,尽可能选择质量更好、价格更低的材料,在保障施工企业经济效益的同时提高材料管理工作效率、质量。并分析了建筑材料监理中存在的问题及措施,以期推动我国建筑领域的发展。     

天津滨海图书馆钢结构节点施工质量管理

钢结构框架节点决定着整个框架结构的刚度和强度,因此在施工过程中节点的质量控制尤为重要。钢结构不同于钢筋混凝土结构,由于钢材需要现场拼装,所以对材料性能和材料的连接有特殊要求。文章从材料的进场检验、焊接及高强螺栓施工的质量控制等方面,分析了天津滨海新区文化中心图书馆钢结构节点施工过程中质量控制措施,对类似工程具有借鉴作用。     

Development in Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Statistics at the Australian Bureau of Statistics

This paper outlines the ICT statistical developments that the ABS has undertaken over recent years. These developments have been on both the supply side (ICT industry) and the demand side (use of IT by sector). The content of ABS ICT surveys has changed significantly over the last few years and are expected to develop further in line with industry changes and emerging policy needs.
Recent developments in household collections have been the inclusion of IT use questions in the 2001 Census of Population and Housing and in various ABS social surveys such as Children's Participation in Culture and Leisure Activities. Annual business IT use surveys are now conducted and include topics such as Internet commerce and IT security. Biennial ICT industry surveys are conducted to provide data on ICT production, imports and exports, ICT industry employment, performance and structure information. An Internet activity survey is run every six months and provides regional Internet access details and infrastructure details on Internet service providers.
A major development for 2002–03 will be the compilation of an ICT satellite account. ABS intends to produce an ICT Information Development Plan to guide its future statistical development work in the ICT field.     

Incumplimiento del salario mínimo en Europa central y oriental

En este estudio se analiza el incumplimiento del salario mínimo durante el periodo 2003–2012 en diez países de Europa central y oriental con salario mínimo obligatorio nacional. A partir de los datos de EU‐SILC y la metodología propuesta por Bhorat, Kanbur y Mayet (2013), se cuantifica la incidencia y magnitud del incumplimiento. Se realizan análisis de regresión sobre determinantes individuales, laborales y macroeconómicos. Aunque la incidencia permanece relativamente baja, los trabajadores a los que se dirigen las políticas de salario mínimo parecen los más expuestos a su incumplimiento. Con el tiempo, una mayor incidencia se asocia a una razón más alta entre salario mínimo y salario medio.     

Value at Risk in the Suburbs: Eminent Domain and the Geographical Politics of the US Foreclosure Crisis

Several US counties and local governments have recently considered a novel solution to the foreclosure crisis. They plan to use eminent domain to compel the owners of mortgage debt—and specifically of private‐label mortgage‐backed securities—to sell the debt to the government at a price reflecting the loan's market value. The government would then restructure the debt and resell it to new investors. The plans are striking because—in contrast to both development‐driven eminent domain and the federal subprime bank bailout—they would force investors to assume asset devaluation and increased long‐term risk. Notably, the plans have emerged as an instance of financialization‐focused politics in suburbs and suburban cities of color, specifically majority‐black and ‐Latino/a suburbs. Local support for the plans, we argue, is rooted in the long‐term disinvestment of these ‘suburbs of exception', which became targets of subprime lending and eventually sites where the ‘financial exception' has been localized. But these demographic shifts, fragmentation and fiscal pressures have at the same time created a suburban political terrain in which the plans have gained their strongest political support.     

Towards a Theory of Serendipity: A Systematic Review and Conceptualization

Serendipity – the notion of making surprising and valuable discoveries – plays a major role in the success of individuals and organizations alike. Previous research has established the importance of serendipity and identified important individual- and organizational-level antecedents. However, the literature has been dispersed and the boundaries of the concept have been blurry, leading to a lack of conceptual clarity and structure, and thus limiting validity and managerial actionability. Based on a systematic literature review, I synthesize existing management-related research on serendipity and explicate the emergence and composition of serendipity in the organizational context. I first identify three necessary conditions that differentiate serendipity from related concepts such as luck or targeted innovation: agency, surprise, and value. Then, I draw from the literature on sensemaking, event-based theorizing, and quantum-based approaches to management to conceptualize the process of cultivating serendipity in the organizational context as a process of enabling potentiality and materialization, and develop a multi-level theory of (cultivating) serendipity. This conceptualization contributes to our collective understanding of how, why, and when (i.e., under what conditions) organizations can leverage the value in the unexpected, which opens up fruitful avenues for further research.     

Accountability of NGOs in Bangladesh A critical overview

NGOs in Bangladesh have been recognized as effective change agents in the socio-economic arena throughout the world. Their contributions in micro credit, non-formal education and primary health care are widely known. NGOs play a significant role in society. NGO accountability, as a result, has become a critical issue. NGO accountability in Bangladesh has been examined here in relation to patrons, clients and themselves. Of the three relationships only accountability to patrons is in a near satisfactory state. Accountability to clients is handicapped by lack of opportunities of beneficiaries to participate meaningfully in NGO policy making. Accountability to themselves is adversely affected due to the adherence to a strictly hierarchical system and the influence of founding and charismatic NGO leaders.     

Cultural Economy Planning in Creative Cities: Discourse and Practice

While a growing body of research analyses the functional mechanisms of the cultural or creative economy, there has been little attention devoted to understanding how local governments translate this work into policy. Moreover, research in this vein focuses predominately on Richard Florida's creative class thesis rather than considering the wider body of work that may influence policy. This article seeks to develop a deeper understanding of how municipalities conceptualize and plan for the cultural economy through the lens of two cities held up as model ‘creative cities’ — Austin, Texas and Toronto, Ontario. The work pays particular attention to how the cities adopt and adapt leading theories, strategies and discourses of the cultural economy. While policy documents indicate that the cities embrace the creative city model, in practice agencies tend to adapt conventional economic development strategies for cultural economy activity and appropriate the language of the creative city for multiple purposes.     

Input/output ranges and performance: an examination of US machine tool producers

Despite the establishment of high-tech multinational enterprises (MNEs) in Ireland since the late 1950s, the country did not succeed in closing the technological gap with most of its EU counterparts. The weak National System of Innovation (NSI), and in particular low business and government R&D levels, combined with a lack of research and technology linkages between MNEs and indigenous firms, explain these poor results. However, the Shannon region in the West of the country presents some specific institutional characteristics that could theoretically make the region a strong technological enclave. The various actors in the region - i.e. the administrative, financial, political and research institutions, as well as the business organizations - have indeed infused a new type of economic development. After a brief review of the available concepts and models articulated around these actors and their interrelationships, the paper analyses whether the Shannon region, taken as an illustrative example, mirrors a specific economic and technological localized setting. The study is based on a survey of indigenous and foreign firms.     

Sixty years of discrimination and diversity research in human resource management: A review with suggestions for future research directions

This article reviews discrimination and diversity research published in Human Resource Management (HRM) over the past 60 years. While discrimination and diversity are very different constructs, it is often informative to study them together, because when people recognize each other's diversity, this can result in bias, stereotyping, and discrimination. We conducted bibliographic searches for terms related to discrimination and diversity as well as a manual search through every title and abstract published in HRM over the last 60 years to assess article relevance. The search resulted in 135 research articles with 136 unique studies (i.e., samples) which are reviewed in this article. Sex and race are the demographics that have been examined the most in HRM, while religion has been examined the least. Moreover, the number of studies examining lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) employees in the workplace in HRM has grown quickly within the past 10 years, culminating in a recent meta‐analysis. Our review looks at some of the earliest research published, the most recent research published, and the overall trends we identified in the research over the years for both discrimination and diversity articles. We then make future research suggestions and recommendations to advance the study of discrimination and diversity in the coming years.     

Towards an Asian model of human resource management? A comparative analysis of China,Japan and South Korea

There has been much discussion regarding the possible decline and weakening of national systems of human resource management (HRM). Yet, culture and institutions are often cited as the major stumbling blocks to this outcome. Such constraints may dissipate in the analysis, particularly if ‘regional clusters’ are considered where geographic and cultural closeness and ‘openness’ to similar economic pressures exist. In such cases, it might be postulated that convergence in HRM will occur. We argue that China, Japan and South Korea represent such a cluster. This article examines these countries, to see if a degree of convergence is taking place and if it is towards an identifiable ‘Asian’ model of HRM. A model of change is presented that distinguishes between levels of occurrence and acceptance. Details of the development and practice of HRM in each country are then set out. The article ends with a discussion and implications section and a brief conclusion.     

The Early History of the Cumulants and the Gram-Charlier Series

The early history of the Gram-Charlier series is discussed from three points of view: (1) a generalization of Laplace's central limit theorem, (2) a least squares approximation to a continuous function by means of Chebyshev-Hermite polynomials, (3) a generalization of Gauss's normal distribution to a system of skew distributions. Thiele defined the cumulants in terms of the moments, first by a recursion formula and later by an expansion of the logarithm of the moment generating function. He devised a differential operator which adjusts any cumulant to a desired value. His little known 1899 paper in Danish on the properties of the cumulants is translated into English in the Appendix.