SH/T3083-1997《石油化工钢储罐地基处理技术规范》的编制背景和内容简介

中国石油化工总公司批准发布的《石油化工钢储罐地基处理技术规范》自1998年3月1日起施行，本文作者作为主要编制工作负责人，在对该规范内容予以简要介绍的同时，对该规范的编制过程和特点进行了深入说明，以利其在石代储罐建设工程中发挥应有的效益。     

Construction Productivity Improvement

Construction productivity has been on the decline in the last decade. The results are presented on a survey of the Engineering News‐Record 400 largest contractors to obtain their views on where productivity improvements would most help and to compare the trends with a similar survey carried out in 1979. Data were collected on the general company characteristics of the responding contractors, and on the contractors' opinions on potential areas for productivity improvement in the office and in the field. Findings indicate that immediate research should concentrate on improving marketing practices, planning and scheduling, labor‐management relations, site supervision, industrialized building systems, equipment policy and engineering design; and that governmental regulations have lost the immediate urgency attached to them in 1979.It is also recommended that similar surveys be conducted every 3 to 4 years to identify new trends and to steer research in the appropriate direction.     

Award for distinguished contribution to education and training in psychology: Jill N. Reich.

Presents the citation, biography, and selected bibliography of Jill N. Reich, one of the 1993 recipients of the American Psychological Association's Award for Distinguished Contribution to Education and Training in Psychology. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

王怀臣谈四川水电开发

四川水电取得了长足的发展,要坚定不移地发展水电产业,不断完善水电产业发展的机制,抓好移民安置,正确处理好四个关系。     

Use of Warranties on Highway Projects: A Real Option Perspective

Since the introduction of warranty provisions in federal highway jobs, more and more state departments of transportation (DOTs) have considered the use of such provisions to protect their initial investment. This paper describes the pros and cons of warranty contracting in highway construction based on a survey of warranty practices in the United States. In particular, the need for state DOTs to buy a warranty for a well-built project is questioned. As an alternative, this paper introduces the warranty option, which gives the DOT the right to buy a warranty only if it becomes necessary at the end of construction. This option is exercised if the performance on site warrants it. This paper describes the mechanics of the warranty option and its advantages over the conventional warranty. A bid evaluation model is also developed for the warranty option approach.     

Handwriting versus wordprocessed print: an investigation into teachers' grading of English Language and Literature essay work at 16 +

Abstract Selections of English Language and Literature CSE (now GCSE) course work essays are graded by a total of 411 teachers in two forms: handwritten and wordprocessed. Mistakes in the original handwritten versions are not edited out. It is found that the wordprocessed English Language essays are, on average, marked up a grade. However, it is found that relatively high quality English Literature work is not affected. Results suggest:
— that the less directly pupil work is specifically related to an external referent (such as a work of literature), the more likely it is that computer-assisted methods of presentation will significantly enhance its apparent quality relative to handwritten work.
— that relatively lower quality work will tend to be enhanced more than relatively higher quality work.
The implications of the results for examination boards are also considered.     

Identifying a Design Management Package to Support Concurrent Design in Building Wafer Fabrication Facilities

Concurrent design is commonly used in building a semiconductor wafer fabrication facilities to shorten projects. Current practice in managing a design schedule involves preset milestones that represent percentages of completion. Such a simple control scheme does not provide sufficient information to support concurrent design. This study presents an analytical model that applies a cluster identification algorithm to separate the work of designing a multisystem project into management packages that support concurrent design. Tasks within a package have strong informational dependency relationships on each other, and are not suited for concurrent design. Tasks of different packages have weak dependency relationships on each other, and are suited for concurrent design. Tendering design work based on these packages may reduce the number of design interfaces between participating design firms. Possible application of the model includes the management of design schedule, design contract tendering, and design information flow.     

综合布线系统的设计、施工及测试

针对综合布线系统工程设计与施工中存在的问题作一简单的归纳，并提出相应的解决办法。其中解决的办法包括几点重要的内容：设计时注意用户的需求和系统的可扩展性，施工时严格按照规范施工，工程结束后要做出详细的测试方案。接地问题和线缆敷设管路的弯曲问题是在施工时很重要的。测试时应测试的内容有：远端串扰、近端串扰、综合近端串扰、结构回波损耗等。