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Opportunistic sensing for road pavement monitoring [PDF]

, 2020
Road surface state monitoring is of main concern for road infrastructure owners. Hence dedicated measurement campaigns using laser scanning and image analysis are performed on a regular basis. Yet, this type of monitoring comes at a high labor cost
Botteldooren, Dick, David, Joachim, De Coensel, Bert, De Pessemier, Toon, Dekoninck, Luc, Filipan, Karlo, Joseph, Wout, Van Hauwermeiren, Wout   +7 more
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Back to the Mission. Revisiting Slack in Nonprofits and Introducing Tappable Slack

Nonprofit Management and Leadership, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article contributes to and develops the previous literature on excess resources (“slack”) in nonprofit organizations through a conceptual analysis of the implications that the organizational distinctiveness of nonprofits carries for our understanding of slack in these organizations.
Marta Reuter, Ebba Henrekson, Filip Wijkström   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Assessment of Maintenance Strategies and Performance Prediction for Urban Roads Using IRI and HDM-4 Models [PDF]

Journal of Rehabilitation in Civil Engineering
Globally emerging markets need a well distributed, safe, and efficient transportation system. Analyzing, pavement management and maintaining such a dense highway networks and transportation systems comes with its own complications.
Harinder D, Yugendar Poojari, Venkatesh Noolu, Vamsi Dachepalli   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Monogenic and syndromic obesity in children: Clinical recognition, genetics, and precision management

Pediatric Investigation, EarlyView.
Monogenic and syndromic obesity in children often arises from defects in the leptin–melanocortin pathway. Understanding these rare genetic causes not only clarifies mechanisms of appetite regulation but also enables precision therapies, offering hope beyond lifestyle interventions.
Hadel Khalil, Eugene Feigin, Hussein Zaitoon   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Enhancing sustainability for pavement maintenance decision-making through image processing-based distress detection

Innovative Infrastructure Solutions
Road maintenance sustainability entails implementing practices that reduce the impact of road accident. while simultaneously ensuring the durability and functionality of the road infrastructure.
Mohamed Mahmoud Fawzy, Ahmed shawky el shrakawy, A. Hassan, Yasser A. Khalifa   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

LTTP Data Analysis: Factors Affecting Pavement Roughness for the State of California [PDF]

, 2019
The contributions of pavement structure and features, rehabilitation techniques, climatic conditions, traffic levels, layer materials and properties, pavement distress, and other factors causing changes in pavement smoothness are not well documented.
KHANAL, Alisha, SOULIMAN, Mena, ZAVAGNA, Pedro Afonso   +2 more
core  

Traditional Chinese Medicine for lung cancer: Mechanisms, clinical evidence, and future perspectives

Precision Medical Sciences, EarlyView.
Graphical abstract represents the risk factors for lung cancer, TCM efficacy and clinical outcomes to future challenges. Abstract Lung cancer remains a leading cause of global cancer mortality. Despite advances in conventional treatments such as surgery, chemotherapy, targeted therapy, and immunotherapy, challenges including drug resistance, toxicity ...
Zhangdeng Chen, Liujun Bao
wiley   +1 more source

A Simplified Gaussian Approach for Asphalt Crack Detection based on Deep Learning and RGB images [PDF]

The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences
Monitoring pavement condition is a crucial aspect for pavement maintenance management systems (PMMS). There are several pavement characteristics that affect the pavement condition, Crack distress is a highly representative type of pavement distress and ...
W. Darwish, W. Darwish, W. Ahmed, W. Ahmed   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Public Perceptions of the Midwest’s Pavements - Wisconsin - Executive Summary [PDF]

, 2001
This report summarizes Wisconsin results of a five year, Pooled Fund study involving the Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota DOTs designed to 1) assess the public\u27s perceptions of the departments’ pavement improvement strategies and 2) to develop customer ...
Giese, James K., Griffin, Robert J., Kuemmel, David, Robinson, Richard, Sonntag, Ronald C.   +4 more
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Centering Care in Transformative Climate Change Education: A Theoretical Framework for Communal Learning Ecosystems

Science Education, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Research‐practice partnerships addressing climate change education face challenges navigating political resistance, epistemic tensions, and systemic inequities within schools and communities. Recent scholarship has outlined transformative climate change education (TCCE) as requiring the simultaneous transformation of curricula, pedagogies, and
Amal Ibourk, Deb L. Morrison
wiley   +1 more source