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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Capacity Reduction"”.
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Assessing the Effect of Traffic Incident Management Areas on Highway Capacity
… within TIMAs significantly impact roadway capacity, requiring an analysis of capacity reduction across different closure scenarios. This study examines the effects of one-lane, two-lane, and three-lane closures on traffic flow and capacity reduction. Data was collected from select locations …
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Roles of Background Compound Molecular Size and Adsorbent Pore Size Distribution in Competitive Adsorption on Activated Carbon
… the role of PSD on competitive adsorption. The capacity for CR adsorption correlated well with pore volume between 13 and 350 A. Atrazine adsorption capacity reduction caused by CR was similar for the four Norit PAC, but was significantly higher for Pellet II. Kinetic experiments showed that …
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The impact of Independent Power Producers on electricity generation capacity, tariff and access in Sub-Saharan Africa
… private investment, increase generation capacity, reduce electricity tariffs due to efficiency and competition and ultimately increase the rate of access to electricity by the general population for the region. This study examined the impact of IPPs on electricity generation growth, …
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Exploration of the reflective supervision relationship: Meaning making, communication, and transformative learning in educational environments
… Reflective supervision increases one’s capacity to become aware and manage the strong emotions that are inherent in direct service work and understand relational dynamics within families and between professionals and family members. Using the 3 central tenets of collaboration, reflection …
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Degradable airline scheduling : an approach to improve operational robustness and differentiate service quality
… effect, especially when an airport with a high capacity reduction in bad weather is affected by bad weather.
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Link State Relationships under Incident Conditions: Using a CTM-based Dynamic Traffic Assignment Model
… accepting inputs of incidents like duration and capacity reduction. Moreover, the proposed model is capable of handling multiple origin-destination (OD) pairs. By using this model, the temporal variation of flows over links can be readily evaluated. The visualized prediction of link density …
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From marginalized to optimized : re-envisioning urban highway corridors
… assumed relentless growth of vehicular traffic capacity. Yet today is an era of highway rationalization, aging facilities, strained finances, peak oil concerns, climate change, and urban regeneration. It is a prudent time to re-examine the place of highways within the urban fabric. The elevated …
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Optimal traffic control for a freeway corridor under incident conditions
… States. When severe incidents occur on freeways, capacity reduction due to lane blockages may cause an extremely high amount of traffic delay. In many cases, parallel surface arterials are available, and provide reasonably high speed and available capacity. In this scenario, to fully utilize the …
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Behavior of bolted connections during and after a fire
… significantly between 600°F and 1300°F. Strength reduction factors are recommended for practical design. Residual strength of A325 and A490 bolts after being exposed to elevated temperature were studied with single shear tests and hardness tests. Strength losses were found on both bolts when they …
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Optimizing School Operations
… and space, in the particular context of sudden capacity reduction caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Using a simple two-stage optimization framework, we explore the implications of hybrid in-person and online education on campus density and faculty teaching load. Our approach was used to create a …
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Quantification of prestressed concrete railway crosstie flexural response: Implications for mechanistic design
… a probabilistic design method for the flexural capacity of concrete crossties. I developed a design process based on structural reliability analysis concepts whereby target values for reliability indices (β) for new designs are obtained and compared with existing designs for further design …
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Processing, structure and thermo-mechanical properties of reclaimed nanoclay, and its application in polyamide 6 and low-density polyethylene nanocomposites.
… (in case of 7.5 and 10 wt%) decreased the heat capacity value by 33% and 17% in LDPE respectively. OBM slurry shows superior improvements in storage modulus, loss modulus and damping property (tan d) in LDPE matrix, compared to those of LDPE/MMT nanocomposites. However, the study shows a …
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Vulnerability of Coal- and Natural Gas-Fired Power Plants to Climate Change
… attain estimates of ∆η per 1°C increase. We find reductions in η with increased Tw (for open-loop plants) up to an order of magnitude less than previous estimates. We also find that changes in η associated with changes in Ta (open-loop plants) or Twb (closed-loop plants) are not only smaller than …
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Refrigerant flow distribution in vertical headers of reversible microchannel heat exchangers
… is developed to evaluate heat exchanger capacity reduction because of refrigerant maldistribution. The capacity degradation is up to 30% for R410A and 5% for R134a in a two-pass MCHX, compared to the uniform distribution case. The capacity degradation is related to the coefficient of …