cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.14455/isec.res.2018.30
title: IMPACT OF COVERING IRRIGATION CANALS ON EVAPORATION RATES IN ARID AREAS

description: Water is the essence of life
description: thus preserving enough quantities and good quality of water will elevate the standards of living and health of communities. Egyptian government approved Toshka New Valley project to help deal with the rapidly growing population of the country. The project entails building a series of canals
description: the main is Sheikh Zayed canal - to irrigate portions of the Western Desert of Egypt. It is expected that the recovered land will become home to three million residents by 2020 and cultivate about 550000 feddans. Toshka is a very arid area with high air temperatures
description: thus very high evaporation rate
description: about 3 billion m3 /year. Researches showed that in the near future Egypt will face scarcity of water. So saving water from Sheikh Zayed canal by reducing evaporation will provide additional source of water to the area. This research aim is to estimate evaporation rate from the canal and its main branches. Variable configurations and spacing of covering canals were chosen to reduce evaporation and at same time allow for re-aeration and other water quality parameters to meet their standards. It was found that full coverage calculated evaporation amount is about 9 million m3 /year which could drip irrigate 35000 feddans of wheat per year which is about 7% of the total area of the land intended to be cultivated in Toshka project.
DOI: 10.14455/isec.res.2018.31
title: IMPROVING CONSTRUCTION EDUCATION: THE ROLE OF COLLABORATIONS BETWEEN HIGHER INSTITUTIONS AND THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY

description: Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) are developmental hubs that contributes to a country's economic growth through knowledge generation, dissemination and skills diffusion among students. For HEIs to maintain their roles in fostering construction education to equip students for the industry, the current traditional pedagogical approaches are simply not enough to deliver on its mandate. One of the many ways through which HEIs can improve the quality of construction education today is through collaborations with the construction industry. Through a structured questionnaire survey, this paper identified the possible roles that collaboration between HEIs and the construction industry will play in fostering construction education. The sample for this study consisted of one hundred and twenty-six (126) respondents drawn from professionals in the Nigerian construction industry. The study revealed that exposing construction students to the world of work, strengthening universities in conducting quality and relevant research and creating and training students with key skills industry require, are among the benefits of collaboration between the HEIs and the construction industry. The study found that there is an increased need for HEIs to collaborate with the construction industry to be progressive, relevant and produce skilled graduates who will spur the activities of the construction industry. This study recommends that HEIs seek collaboration with the industry so as to address the shortcomings of higher education in Nigeria and Africa in general.
DOI: 10.14455/isec.res.2018.32
title: INFLUENCE OF BOUNDARY CONDITIONS VARIATION ON TOPOLOGY OPTIMIZATION OF LOAD-CARRYING PARTS

description: The paper discusses the problem of boundary conditions formulation in FEA-based design procedures of load-carrying parts driven by topology optimization. The emphasis is on the correct formulation of boundary conditions and the definition of corresponding load cases so that topology optimization will deliver a usable design. It demonstrates that inadequate preparation of load cases may lead to a result that seems to be reasonable, but may behave badly in practical application due to possible lack of robustness and reliability. To illustrate this, an example study is performed for a loadcarrying bracket that is fastened by four screws. Namely, in such situations it may quickly happen that one or more screws become at least slightly loose. This changes the stress fields in the part dramatically. If this is not captured correctly in the applied load cases, this means that the topology optimizer will deliver some design that might be extremely sensitive to a loose-screw situation. Such a design may fail very quickly during normal operation.
DOI: 10.14455/isec.res.2018.33
title: INFLUENCE OF COLLABORATIVE BEHAVIOR ON CLAIM NEGOTIATION

description: The high cost incurred by the resolution of conflicts is largely affected by the existing adversarial nature of the construction industry along with the use of non-efficient dispute resolution methods in construction projects. This paper studies opinion dynamics in the negotiation of construction disputes while trying to understand the behavior and extremism of each contractual party. The developed model uses an agent-based approach to show how each agent's attitude can influence the negotiation process when solving a dispute. It can also be used to highlight the importance of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) methods and the use of a mediator in helping parties initiate negotiation and decrease the number of negotiation cycles needed to converge. The results showed that negotiation is not only affected by the attitude and character of the agents involved but it is also influenced by the delivery method of the project and the level of intensity of each agent. It was found that when the project is delivered through an Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) method, parties are more flexible and cooperative and will reach agreement within few negotiation cycles.
DOI: 10.14455/isec.res.2018.34
title: INFORMATION MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGIES FOR IMPROVING EARNED VALUE QUANTIFICATION

description: Real-time progress tracking of construction activities is critical for successful project monitoring and control. As such, the application of modern information technologies for progress tracking are proclaimed to overcome the limitations of manual approaches and hence contribute to the automated acquisition of onsite data for the computation of the earned value of progressed work. To this end, this paper presents a thorough review of 111 studies dealing with automated data collection and progress tracking on construction sites. The researched technologies were classified into four categories, namely: information technology, geo-spatial, imaging, and augmented reality (AR). It was found that research dealing with progress tracking using imaging technologies has been speedily growing over the years. The findings also revealed that the highest frequency (57) of reported technologies is found to be related to the AR category, with 74 percent of these studies having been published in the last eight years. Moreover, 63 percent of the studies were concerned with all kinds of project activities, with more specific areas of application reported to include concrete and steel elements, MEP elements, indoor and outdoor elements. The encountered technologies are reported to decrease labor hours and the time needed for progress monitoring, and automated data collection on construction activities progress is said to facilitate the generation of status reports and permit the early detection of deviations from the as-planned status.
DOI: 10.14455/isec.res.2018.35
title: INVESTIGATING SITE-RELATED NOTICES IN CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTS

description: Notices issued under the construction contract serve several purposes, the most significant of which is to facilitate the progression of the works. This is done through establishing necessary communications among the project participants by acting in accordance with the callings of the contract conditions. Through an in-depth examination of the notices stipulated under the standard conditions for the construction contract issued by the International Federation of Consulting Engineers (FIDIC), it was found that 43 out of 93 encountered notices deal with issues related to activities taking place on the construction site. The purpose of this paper is to present a detailed analysis of these notices and highlight their operability properties. The analysis focuses on the various characteristics pertaining to this vital group of notices, namely: their types, the participants involved in their administration, their related time bars, and the concerned aspects of the site activities. Results of the performed analysis are twofold: (1) the majority of these notices are found to be of the structured (complex composition) type
description: and (2) the contractor has the larger share in triggering their associated sub-clauses, and to do so, for the majority of these notices, within numerically stipulated time bars. The main contribution of the presented work is in providing a focused reference that can help contract administration practitioners, dealing with site-related matters, improve the current state of practice.
DOI: 10.15482/usda.adc/1439439
title: Anoplophora glabripennis genome assembly v1.0
DOI: 10.17632/8w2bhrh8vr.1
title: 1st Al-Si-Mg processed data

description: Simulation results of dendrite growth during solidification of Al-Si-Mg ternary alloy
DOI: 10.17632/9wdc3kkxsz.1
title: 1st Al-Si-Mg raw data

description: experiment results of directional solidification of Al-Si-Mg alloy
DOI: 10.17632/b8yxrp8d9p.1
title: Research Data for ‘Ground truthing the environmental benefits of a polygeneration system: when to combine heat and power?’

description: Foreground life cycle inventories for three alternative systems of providing heat, cooling, and electricity to a university campus, and other relevant background information for the related study. Data-file 1 provides inventories for three energy supply systems with 2015 average technology, and other background information and calculations for the study. Data-file 2 provides inventories for the three energy supply systems based on 2030 technology. Data-file 3 provides inventories for the two systems affected by allocation choices, with a sensitivity analysis whereby allocation is based on exergy content rather than energy content of products.
DOI: 10.17632/pcch8m27ty.1
title: TBK1 suppresses RIPK1-driven apoptosis and inflammation during development and in aging

description: This data-set is original uncropped blots for a manuscript that is under consideration for Cell.
DOI: 10.14455/isec.res.2018.36
title: INVESTIGATING THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY AS A SOLUTION FOR CONSTRUCTION WASTE: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES

description: The construction industry results in a large amount of material waste, most of which currently ends up in landfills. This study aims to find new ways to reuse waste materials captured as outputs of construction projects. First, the circular economy (CE) concept is explored. Second, the application of CE as a potential solution for minimizing material waste on construction projects is investigated. To achieve a healthy industrial metabolism, the paper illustrates how a complex industrial ecosystem is one that produces little or no waste and whose constituents can be interdependent. Output ratios from the construction industry are compared with previous literature on material waste, as a foundation to present a cycle of material reuse. Reformulating the traditional input-output system into a more circular concept presents a set of challenges
description: however, the opportunities and significant impacts to the material cycles and landfills have proven beneficial and some major cities are starting to employ this concept with great success.
DOI: 10.17632/7r8gh9hdnf.1
title: BCC Interstitial Defect Classification Code

description: Generals This code reads atomic coordination file formatted in '.contcar' and identify their interstitial defect structure. This codes can classify if the given structure is bridge dumbbell / bridge crowdion / &lt;111&gt; dumbbell / &lt;111&gt; crowdion based on their characteristic patterns in bond angle distribution. Restrictions 1. This code only works with bcc structures with 129 atoms that contains a interstitial atom. 2. The atom coordination file should be edited to feed. 3. This code cannot identify different defect types except defect types specified above. Descriptions of attached files 1. structureAnal: main function 2. dispAtomIndexing: preprocessing function (atom indexing) 3. rawDataReader: function that reads contcar files 4. rawData1001: example of raw data input file
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1251267
title: Raw Data For Figures Used In Manuscript - Highly Parallel Single-Molecule Identification Of Proteins In Zeptomole-Scale Mixtures

description: Raw Image files used for generating the figures (Fig 2, Fig3, Fig4, Fig5 and Fig6, Supplementary figures, files needed for background subtraction and image processing tutorial (docker image)) in the manuscript - Highly parallel single-molecule identification of proteins in zeptomole-scale mixtures

Use command tar xfz[v] *.tar.gz to retain the file structure.  

Docker image in image processing tutorial works on Linux platforms only.

File structure after un-compressing each *.tar.gz is as follows - 

1. acetylated_background_signalsFiles.tar.gz

    - Folders for the different experiments with the name expt[1..30]

             - *SIGNALS.pkl - Pickle file (python encoded) containing the information of the histogram of the peptide step-drops

     - acetylated_backgroundFiles_list.csv (file formatted for performing iterative_background.py)

     - README.txt (information on the contents and the use of the files in the directory)

2. fig2.tar.gz

     - fig2A/ (contains raw image folders, processed_results and README.txt)

     - fig2B/ (contains raw image folders, processed_results and README.txt)

2. fig3and4.tar.gz

     - acPeptide_label-2-5/ (contains raw image folders, processed_results)

     - bocPeptide_label-2-5/ (contains raw image folders, processed_results)

     - README.txt

3. fig5.tar.gz

     - fig5A_panel1/ (contains raw image folders, processed_results and README.txt)

     - fig5A_panel2/ (contains raw image folders, processed_results and README.txt)

     - fig5B_A2/ (contains raw image folders, processed_results and README.txt)

     - fig5B_A3/ (contains raw image folders, processed_results and README.txt)

     - fig5B_B1/ (contains raw image folders, processed_results and README.txt)

     - fig5B_B2/ (contains raw image folders, processed_results and README.txt)

     - fig5C/ (contains raw image folders, processed_results and README.txt)

     - fig5D/ (contains raw image folders, processed_results and README.txt)

5. fig6.tar.gz

     - fig6B_top/ (contains raw image folders, processed_results and README.txt)

     - fig6B_bottom/ (contains raw image folders, processed_results and README.txt)

6. fig_supplementary08.tar.gz

     - (contains raw image folders, processed_results and README.txt)

7. fig_supplementart12.tar.gz

     - supplementary_fig14A/ (contains raw image folders, processed_results and README.txt)

     - supplementary_fig14B/ (contains raw image folders, processed_results and README.txt)

8. imageProcessingTutorial.tar.gz

     - walkthrough_docker_image.tar.xz (contains the docker image with necessary code pre-installed. Includes small example dataset; Works only in linux docker and not macOS)

     - README.txt (information on the image processing tutorial).
description: Contact Jagannath Swaminathan ( jagannath[at]utexas[dot]com ) for information about the uploaded files
DOI: 10.14455/isec.res.2018.37
title: MANAGING DESIGN PROJECTS: METHODS AND POSSIBLE IMPROVEMENTS USING BIM

description: The planning and monitoring of the design phase is crucial to ensure the aimed time, cost, and quality performances of the project are met. In this context, monitoring the progress of design is tightly related to the way design is being planned. In other words, the measures taken into account while planning the development of design
description: whether time, cost or quality measures, are themselves used to monitor the progress of design throughout the project. In this regard, this study sheds light on the methods used to manage design projects, highlights their shortcomings, and suggests new ways to properly manage the progress of design using BIM as a data repository of design information and management decisions. The study reviews current methods used to plan and monitor design projects and suggests improvements in needed areas. Results show that the reviewed methods differ in the way they approach design management and they do not fully represent all design characteristics. Nonetheless, measures used in these methods can mislead managers in detecting the actual progress of design. In this regard, this study suggests a comprehensive framework that builds on existing methods to enhance the management of design and to better control its development.
DOI: 10.14455/isec.res.2018.38
title: MECHES HOUSE: THE IMPORTANCE OF CHOOSING THE RIGHT BENEFICIARY ON A POST DISASTER ALTERNATIVE CONSTRUCION

description: More than a year ago, Ecuador suffered a 7.8 Mw Earthquake that was devastating, the automatic response was to rush to the affected areas and rebuild. Mecheดs House is an alternative: the crisis as an opportunity to experiment and consolidate popular construction systems based on an endogenous and holistic approach. This study evaluates two different methodologies (Mutualista Pichinchaดs Casa Lista and Mecheดs House) of the selection process for the beneficiaries on a reconstruction post-disaster building program contrasting each case and its needs by analyzing its approaches to the reconstruction procedures: one automatic, non-reflexive and product-based, and one analytic and process-based. Founded on experience and how different processes need different beneficiaries this study will raise some questions about the effectiveness, pros, cons, and perspectives of different approaches to make the correct choice of beneficiary for the reconstruction process after a natural disaster.
DOI: 10.14455/isec.res.2018.39
title: MEDIATION TACTICS AND EFFECTIVENESS IN DISPUTE RESOLUTION

description: Dispute occurrence on construction projects is almost inevitable. If not addressed adequately, disputes can cause contract termination and loss of benefits for all parties involved. Among various dispute resolution methods, mediation is gaining popularity in the construction industry as it satisfies the desired degree of control of both parties among other factors (e.g., time, cost). Mediation is a cooperative problem-solving method that benefits from the expertise of a neutral third party known as the mediator. Well-defined tactics such as creating trust atmosphere, tackling the core of dispute, and using advanced integrative approach for solution determination are essential to reduce the gap between disputants and ensure effective discussions. The aim of this paper is two-fold. First, it investigates common mediator tactics and relates them to the likelihood of having a successful mediation. The San-Ramos Channel case study is used to illustrate the efficiency of mediator tactics. Second, this paper takes a closer look into the use of mediation in Lebanon as an example of a country with minimal regulations on mediation. Barriers for an effective implementation of mediation such as the role and the influence of the engineer on the construction process and the mediator's lack of technical expertise are discussed and recommendations are derived.
DOI: 10.14455/isec.res.2018.40
title: MULTI-METHOD MODEL FOR INFRASTRUCTURE PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT

description: Management practices have a direct impact on the cost of capital used for financing the operations and maintenance of existing infrastructure on a concurrent basis with planning and constructing new projects. This paper identifies best management practices that can improve credit rating, which in-turn theoretically lowers the interest paid on debt. As a result, these best management practices lower the weighted average cost of capital used to maintain existing assets on a concurrent basis with the construction of new infrastructure. As a practical example, this paper identifies the best management practices from the perspective of municipal credit rating agencies in the United States. The current research then constructs a deterministic integer programming model based on these best management practices. The deterministic model is part of multi-method model that will be mathematically embedded into a system dynamics model that can then be used as a facilities management plan. The facilities management plan aims at lowering the weighted average cost of capital for maintaining existing assets while planning and constructing new infrastructure. While the multi-method model is based on municipal credit rating in the U.S., the research goal is to nevertheless show how a system dynamics model is used to implement best management practices that are generally accepted as economically sustainable worldwide.
DOI: 10.15472/nsbiwf
title: Lista de especies de fauna y flora en áreas con cultivos de palma de aceite en el norte y oriente de Colombia

description: Contiene 1907 nombres de especímenes de plantas, anfibios, reptiles, aves y mamíferos tomados de información secundaria e inventarios biológicos llevados a cabo en las zonas palmeras beneficiarias del proyecto GEF "Paisaje Palmero Biodiverso", gestionado por FEDEPALMA, ubicadas en áreas con cultivo de palma aceitera en el norte y oriente del país, departamentos del Magdalena, Cesar, Meta y Cundinamarca. Este conjunto de datos se ha estructurado y publicado gracias a la financiación del programa de contrapartidas a proyectos de cooperación internacional de la AGENCIA PRESIDENCIAL DE COOPERACIÓN INTERNACIONAL DE COLOMBIA APC-COLOMBIA.
DOI: 10.14455/isec.res.2018.41
title: NONLINEAR FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS OF TRANSVERSELY PRESTRESSED CONCRETE DECK SLABS

description: This paper describes the modeling and analysis procedure of a 3D, solid, nonlinear finite element (FE) model of a bridge developed in the finite element analysis software package TNO DIANA to study the structural behavior in punching shear of transversely prestressed concrete deck slabs cast between flanges of long, pretensioned girders, and compressive membrane action. The numerical research was part of a broad project involving laboratory experiments carried out on a 1:2 scale model of such a bridge in Delft University of Technology. Both the experimental and numerical results showed much higher capacities than expected and this was attributed to the development of compressive membrane action in the plane of the slab. The numerical results were then compared with the experimentally found ultimate loads of eight basic test cases and it was discovered that the nonlinear FE models can predict the load carrying capacity quite accurately with a coefficient of variation of only 11%. It was concluded that punching shear failures can be reasonably modeled with non-linear finite element analysis of 3D solid models. Furthermore, using composed elements can lead to the determination of compressive membrane forces developed in a laterally restrained slab, which was previously difficult to determine using analytical techniques.