A major source of uncertainty in civil engineering projects arises from the geological and geotechnical variability at the project site.
At the provincial and lower levels, one reason officials support capital-intensive projects arises from the way such officials are measured by the central government in annual reports.
Since opening the office, Nora Guthrie, who is the folksinger's daughter, and her daughter, Anna Canoni, have become involved in new concert projects arising from the discovery during the past few years of thousands of pages of unpublished writings and song lyrics by Mr. Guthrie, best known for "This Land Is Your Land".
The main weakness in the proposal to use disguised unemployment for the construction of major social-overhead-capital projects arises from an inadequate consideration of the problem of providing the necessary subsistence fund to maintain the workers during what may be a considerably long waiting period before these projects yield consumable output.
I will discuss a selection of projects arising from these collaborations that involve inferring behavioral dynamics on a broad spectrum of scales; from risky behavior in a group of MIT freshman to population-level behavioral signatures, including cholera outbreaks in Rwanda and wealth in the UK.
In our experience, a diverse peer group of students, collaborating in a research team on projects arising from biology, is an effective means of cross-disciplinary skill transfer.
Discoveries in the sciences, as well as new art-science projects, arise from the inventive interplay of concepts and ideas; Art fires up imagination and perceptive modes of reflection within the flow of historic events--whereas the sciences operate within timeless concepts.
The research project arose from Kane's interest in how birds that are preyed upon evade their predators.
The Laramie Project arose from the murder of Matthew Shepard, a young gay man in Laramie, Wyoming in 1998.
That project arose from a small group of engineers who had been involved with building NASA communication systems for over 20 years.
