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A technical review of BIM based cost estimating in UK quantity surveying practice, standards and tools [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
In light of recent technological advancements over the decades especially with Information Technology (IT), the ‘Building Information Modelling’ (BIM) is one of those advancements that have attracted significant attentions in UK construction industry ...
Wood, Gerard   +12 more
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Sustaining Significance of Confessional Form: Taking Foucault to Attitudinal Research

open access: yesFoucault Studies, 2023
This paper offers a conceptual reconstruction and empirical case study of an often-eclipsed concept of Michel Foucault’s genealogical project, confession.
Krystof Dolezal
doaj   +1 more source

Evaluation of the Stability of the Darbandikhan Dam after the 12 November 2017 Mw 7.3 Sarpol-e Zahab (Iran–Iraq Border) Earthquake

open access: yesRemote Sensing, 2018
We used a global positioning system (GPS), levelling, and Sentinel-1 data to evaluate the stability of the Darbandikhan dam in northeast Iraq after the 2017 Mw 7.3 Sarpol-e Zahab earthquake. GPS and levelling datasets collected in March and November 2017
Yasir Al-Husseinawi   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Quantitative Assessment of LIDAR Data Accuracy

open access: yesRemote Sensing, 2023
Airborne laser scanning sensors are impressive in their ability to collect a large number of topographic points in three dimensions in a very short time thus providing a high-resolution depiction of complex objects in the scanned areas.
Ahmed Elaksher   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Optimizing survey timing for detecting a declining aerial insectivore, the Black Swift ( Cypseloides niger borealis )

open access: yesAvian Conservation and Ecology, 2023
Much of the biology of Black Swifts ( Cypseloides niger ) is poorly known due to the species’ mostly aerial existence and cryptic nesting habitat. Important aspects of the biology of the northern subspecies of Black Swift ( C. n.
Paul G Levesque   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Surveying clinical surveys [PDF]

open access: yesBJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, 2009
Abstract Is the objective clearly stated? Yes YesIs the design of the study stated? Yes YesIs the study setting well described? No YesIs the survey population described? Yes YesIs the response rate reported? No YesAre the outcome measures identified? No YesAre the main results clearly reported? Yes YesAre the conclusions appropriate? Yes YesIntroduction
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Improving Cut and Fill Operations in Construction using Drone Technology and Aerial Analytics [PDF]

open access: yesE3S Web of Conferences, 2023
The construction industry is always looking for new, creative ways to increase the effectiveness and precision of its operations. The use of drones for cut-and-fill operations in construction is one area where great progress has been made.
Jain Sameer, Jagtap Dhairyasheel
doaj   +1 more source

A survey of transformers

open access: yesAI Open, 2022
Transformers have achieved great success in many artificial intelligence fields, such as natural language processing, computer vision, and audio processing. Therefore, it is natural to attract lots of interest from academic and industry researchers. Up to the present, a great variety of Transformer variants (a.k.a.
Tianyang Lin   +3 more
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Construction and Application of a Knowledge Graph

open access: yesRemote Sensing, 2021
With the development and improvement of modern surveying and remote-sensing technology, data in the fields of surveying and remote sensing have grown rapidly.
Xuejie Hao   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Survey incentives, survey effort, and survey costs [PDF]

open access: yesFinance and Economics Discussion Series, 2014
This paper uses the 2007 and 2010 waves of the Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF) to investigate how monetary incentives affect the time and effort that interviewers expend during the survey field period, and how these incentives affect effort expended by the survey respondent.
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