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Key soil health indicators under humid grazing lands

open access: yesGrassland Research, EarlyView.
Soil health can be described using a few key soil health indicators that target a diversity of soil functions. This perspective article highlights how forage management affects these soil health indicators in humid‐zone grazing lands. Abstract Background Soil health describes critical soil functions influenced by land management. Although some key soil
Alan J. Franzluebbers
wiley   +1 more source

Web-Based Roadway Geometry Design Software for Transportation Education [PDF]

open access: yes
Traditionally, students use pencil and ruler to lay out lines and curves over contour maps for roadway geometry design. Numerous calculations of stopping sight distance, minimum turning radius, and curve alignments are required during the roadway design ...
Chen-Fu Liao, David Levinson
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Design of roundabout in Horsens (Denmark) and comparison of Danish and Czech approach to design [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Cílem této bakalářské práce je návrh okružní křižovatky v Dánsku ve spolupráci s dánskou univerzitou VIA University College v Horsens a porovnání různých přístupů k řešení jednotlivých prvků okružních křižovatek v České republice a Dánsku.
Pěknica, Martin
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Scheduling Bodyguards

open access: yesNaval Research Logistics (NRL), EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Security agencies around the world use bodyguards to protect government officials and public figures. In this paper, we consider a two‐person zero‐sum game between a defender who allocates such bodyguards to protect several targets and an attacker who chooses one target to attack.
Loe Schlicher, Kyle Y. Lin, Moshe Kress
wiley   +1 more source

Design principle and engineering practice of rock bolting to prevent coal bump from rib coal massive slippage

open access: yesMeitan kexue jishu
Rock burst is one of the disasters that seriously affect the safe and effective mining of coal in mine mining. It is of great significance and value to study the principle and technology of bolt anti-impact support to prevent and control the rock burst ...
Jun HAN   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Route Fatality Risk as a Measure of Travel Death Risk [PDF]

open access: yes, 1993
The authors examine the route fatality Risk of routes in Erie County, PA and show that some pose a disproportionately high-Risk to users. They argue that transportation safety could be greatly increased by relatively small expenditures and suggest that ...
Halperin, Kopl, Redman, Jim
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Asphalted parking lots are environmental filters for multiple propagule dispersal and pollination strategies

open access: yesNordic Journal of Botany, EarlyView.
Understanding community assembly for wild species in anthropogenic settings has become increasingly important as biodiversity and ecosystem services are threatened by development pressures. Urban hardscape habitats such as parking lots are widespread, extreme, terrestrial anthropogenic environments that influence plant community assembly by way of ...
Lauren J. Frazee   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Why Autonomous Vehicles Are Not Ready Yet: A Multi‐Disciplinary Review of Problems, Attempted Solutions, and Future Directions

open access: yesJournal of Field Robotics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Personal autonomous vehicles can sense their surrounding environment, plan their route, and drive with little or no involvement of human drivers. Despite the latest technological advancements and the hopeful announcements made by leading entrepreneurs, to date no personal vehicle is approved for road circulation in a “fully” or “semi ...
Xingshuai Dong   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Justification of the criteria for allocation of separate lanes for urban public transport

open access: yesTransport Technologies, 2020
The article is devoted to the methodology and research results of traffic flow parameters on the arterial streets, where different regimes of prioritizing urban public transport operate.
Yuriy Royko   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Fatally Injured Pedestrians and Bicyclists in the United States with High Blood Alcohol Concentrations [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
More than one-third of pedestrians and one-fifth of bicyclists killed in crashes in 2014 were impaired by alcohol, but scant attention has been paid to the problem.
Angela H. Eichelberger   +2 more
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