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MANAGEMENT
The Management of Sub-Contractors
The Management of Sub-Contractors
Introduction
The fast growing population of earth has facing many problems in almost all the fields of the life. One of those fields is the construction industry; the construction industry is expanding with time to fulfil the needs of the world's population. This has ...
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EIA
Environmental Impact Assessment
Environmental Impact Assessment
Introduction
The exhaustion of natural resources and environmental humiliation by human deeds has raised the concern and issues in the last decades. These issues and concerns made it clear for the authorities and environmentalists to work on the environmental effects of the large scale construction and development. ...
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FIREWALLS
Firewall Performance
Firewall Performance
Introduction
Firewalls are the most essential and important component in the network security set up of any organization. This is simply because they have a very important role to play in identifying and dealing with the threats of any attack from within and outside the network. The firewalls are ...
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IT Culture and Clusters
IT Culture and Clusters
Assumptions about IT and IT Clusters
There are five basic assumptions related to IT that greatly influences the IT executive status and also their functioning in any organization. These include control, centrality, IT skills value, and justification and beneficiaries assumptions. As far as control assumption ...
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Information Management Strategy, Principles and Models
Information Management Strategy, Principles and Models
IT Architecture - A key to align interests
The term 'IT Architecture' somewhat lacks universal acceptance and the terms architecture and infrastructure are quite commonly interchanged easily (Weill and Vitale, 2002). IT architecture is nothing but the reflection of firm's ...
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Information Strategy Conceptualizations
Information Strategy Conceptualizations
Introduction
We live today in a world that is increasingly complex and permeated by an abundance of information. Advances in science, technology and innovation give us a sense that the only constant thing is, paradoxically, the continuous changes.
Strategy for information is usually defined as the sum ...
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IT Governance and Infrastructure
IT Governance and Infrastructure
Introduction
The area of Management and Governance of Information Technology (IT) is related to the alignment of technology with business objectives, with the generation of business value, with risk management (reduction of costs, increase profits and efficiency internal) with resource management and performance measurement of ...
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FLOWS PAST A CIRCULAR CYLINDER
Flows Past a Circular Cylinder
Flows past a circular cylinder
Chapter 1: Introduction
External flows past objects have been studied extensively because of their many practical applications. For example, airfoils are made into streamline shapes in order to increase the lifts, and at the same time, ...
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Engineering Drawings: Inventions of Leonardo da Vinci
Engineering Drawings: Inventions of Leonardo da Vinci
Introduction
Leonardo da Vinci has been one of the greatest inventors of olden times (McCurdy, 2005); however he had a very diminutive influence on the technology of his age. da Vinci made diagrams and sketches of his inventions, which ...
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EARTHQUAKE-RESISTANT STRUCTURES
Earthquake-Resistant Structures
Earthquake-Resistant Structures
Introduction
The structures which are capable of withstanding the hazards and effects of various types of earthquakes are known as Earthquake-resistant structures (IAEE Manual, 2010, pp.1). The need of earthquake-resistant structures rose because, for ages people have been terrified of these natural, geological phenomena. Mainly, the catastrophe ...