APPLYING LEAN THINKING IN CONSTRUCTION

Applying lean thinking in construction

The productivity of the construction industry worldwide has been declining over the past 40 years.One approach for improving the situation is using lean construction.Lean construction results from the application of a new form of production management to construction.Essential features of lean construction include a clear set of objectives for the

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Monitoring HOTTIP levels on extracellular vesicles for predicting recurrence in surgical non-small cell lung cancer patients

In resected non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), postsurgical recurrence is the major factor affecting long-term survival.The identification of biomarkers in extracellular vesicles (EV) obtained from serial blood samples after surgery could enhance early detection of relapse and improve NSCLC outcome.Since EV cargo contains long non-coding RNAs (lnc

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Demographic Dividends and Economic Growth in Latin America

The objective of this paper is to analyze the possibility of a low Polocrosse and middle-income trap for the Latin American countries due to demographic changes.Based on the use of a panel data from 16 countries during the period from 1970 to 2014, it is identified that the growth of GDP per capita is related with the Spin Mop first demographic div

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ERP evidence for different strategies in the processing of case markers in native speakers and non-native learners

Abstract Background The present experiments were designed to test how the linguistic feature of case is processed in Japanese by native and non-native listeners.We used a miniature version of Japanese as a model to compare sentence comprehension mechanisms in native speakers and non-native learners who had received training until they had mastered

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