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Predictive Analytics for Early-Stage Construction Costs Estimation

open access: yesBuildings, 2022
Low accuracy in the estimation of construction costs at early stages of projects has driven the research on alternative costing methods that take advantage of computing advances, however, direct implications in their use for practice is not clear.
Sergio Lautaro Castro Miranda   +3 more
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Towards Automated Construction Quantity Take-Off: An Integrated Approach to Information Extraction from Work Descriptions

open access: yesBuildings, 2022
Construction-oriented quantity take-off (QTO) refers to the process of determining the quantities for construction items or work packages in accordance with their descriptions. However, the current construction-oriented QTO practice relies on estimators’
Shengxian Tang   +5 more
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Cost Estimation in Engineer-to-Order Manufacturing

open access: yesOpen Engineering, 2016
In Engineer-to-Order (ETO) manufacturing the price of products must be defined during early stages of product design and during the bidding process, thus an overestimation of product development (PD) costs may lead to the loss of orders and an ...
Hooshmand Yousef   +2 more
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Degradation of Phenol via an Advanced Oxidation Process (AOP) with Immobilized Commercial Titanium Dioxide (TiO2) Photocatalysts

open access: yesNanomaterials, 2023
Four commercial titanium dioxide (TiO2) photocatalysts, namely P25, P90, PC105, and PC500, were immobilized onto steel plates using a sol-gel binder and investigated for phenol degradation under 365 nm UV-LED irradiation.
Michael Schwarze   +8 more
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Factors Affecting Construction Projects’ Cost Estimating. [PDF]

open access: yesFayoum University Journal of Engineering, 2022
A construction project's success depends on its planning, accurate cost estimat-ing is critical in both public and private enterprises. Public building projects in Saudi Arabia have been plagued by enormous overruns and delays over the previ-ous three ...
Amna Omar, Neama Omar
doaj   +1 more source

Earthquake Damage Repair Loss Estimation in New Zealand: What Other Variables Are Essential Based on Experts’ Opinions?

open access: yesBuildings, 2021
Major earthquakes can cause extensive damage to buildings and alter both the natural and built environments. Accurately estimating the financial impact from these events is complex, and the damage is not always visible to the naked eye.
Ravindu K. A. V. D. Kahandawa   +3 more
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Ensembling Artificial Bee Colony With Analogy-Based Estimation to Improve Software Development Effort Prediction

open access: yesIEEE Access, 2020
Analogy-Based Estimation (ABE) is one of the promising estimation models used for predicting the software development effort. Researchers proposed different variants of the ABE model, but still, the most suitable procedure could not be produced for ...
Muhammad Arif Shah   +5 more
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A study of inline chemical coagulation/precipitation-ceramic microfiltration and nanofiltration for reverse osmosis concentrate minimization and reuse in the textile industry

open access: yesWater Science and Technology, 2021
Reverse osmosis concentrate (ROC) is one of the major drawbacks in membrane treatment technologies specifically due to the scale-forming ions. It is important to remove these ions from ROC to enhance total water recovery and reuse in the textile industry
Mehtap Dursun Çelebi   +2 more
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Estimating the Economic Costs of Schizophrenia [PDF]

open access: yesSchizophrenia Bulletin, 1985
The economic costs of schizophrenia in New South Wales, Australia, were estimated using an incidence-based approach. The incidence of the disease was obtained from a case register. Direct treatment costs were calculated from length of stay data, the probability of readmission, and a direct costing of inpatient and outpatient care.
Hall, W.   +5 more
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Economic evaluation of postoperative hypofractionated radiation therapy in patients with breast cancer

open access: yesФармакоэкономика, 2018
Breast cancer remains the most common malignant neoplasm in women. According to the current standards, radiation therapy is one of the most important components of the multi-disciplinary treatment.
G. V. Afonin   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

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