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Showing 1 to 20 of 46 for “"Detour"”.
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Work Zone Analysis Under Detour Settings
… is developed to understand the implications of detours. This method, unlike any of the previous methods, is based on the impacts within the transportation network and let users find the shortest paths which will eventually come to equilibrium. The total work zone cost consists of total delay …
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Detour : Los Angeles River Speed Cinema
We live in the culture of speed; everything is on its way to become a faster version of itself tomorrow if it is not already there today. Automobile and cinema are two inventions at the turn of the 20th Century that brought upon entirely new sensations through their unprecedented speed in both …
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Spiritual detour : the North Cascades Nature Retreat and Meditation Center
There are three elements in the list of basic needs: food, water and shelter. Architecture would obviously fall under the category of shelter, but how does this term "shelter" describe architecture. Shelter is defined as "a shielded or safe condition; protection" (Oxford University Press 2012). And …
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Detour to Otherness: Cultural Identity Discourse in Contemporary *American, Ukrainian, and Polish Literatures
"The comparison demonstrates that despite the extensive tradition of addressing diversity in the American literature, the horizontal lines of intercultural exchange or the non-hierarchical ""ethnorelativism of representation"" emerges in American writing only recently, in the works produced as …
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…of delay, hesitation and detour: Resisting the constitution of knowledge: Walter Benjamin, re-search and contemporary art
… star of the slowest revolution, the planet of detours and delays…” Through processes of suspension, obstruction and potentiality implied by ‘delay,’ ‘hesitation,’ and ‘detour’ as ‘methods’ of thinking through art, this thesis revisits aspects of Benjamin’s understanding of time, history, origin …
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Choosing Networks for Ride-Hailing Platforms
… that show the importance of two parameters: the detour factor and the fleet size. Second, we develop several approaches for selecting the networks. Third, we evaluate these approaches on empirical data. We find empirical support for the importance of the detour factor and the fleet size.
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Effects of Sex and Visual Cues on Behavior in Heterandria formosa
… how they influence decision-making. By using the detour test, I measured the completion times of male and female focal fish in response to same and opposite sex reward fish visual cues. If cognitive performance in H. formosa is influenced mainly through sexual selection, then treatments with …
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DEVELOPMENT OF A TRAFFIC INCIDENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR CONTENDING WITH NON-RECURRENT HIGHWAY CONGESTION
… for incident response units, and (2) design of a detour decision support model for control center staff to determine the necessity of detouring traffic. To achieve the second objective, an integer programming model has been developed from a new perspective of minimizing incident-induced delay, …
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Improvement of Conspicuity for Trailblazing Signs
… vehicle through a construction zone-related detour, and a survey questionnaire. The findings indicated that use of a color combination other than traditional black on orange will improve driver performance and safety when used for trailblazing during critical incidents. Based on the …
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On-Road Investigation of Fluorescent Sign Colors to Improve Conspicuity
… vehicle through a construction zone-related detour. Questionnaire data were also obtained. The independent variables of interest were sign color combination, age, and visibility condition. The findings of Phase II indicated that use of a color combination other than the traditional black on …
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Art for Life: A Spiritual Journey of Art and the Bonds of Community
… has a standard way of life without much detour to other possibilities. Sometimes this canonical does not seem quite right. The potential detour then becomes increasingly difficult to ignore because a disconnect of community runs rampant in the corners of our culture. My intuition …
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Art for Life: A Spiritual Journey of Art and the Bonds of Community
… has a standard way of life without much detour to other possibilities. Sometimes this canonical does not seem quite right. The potential detour then becomes increasingly difficult to ignore because a disconnect of community runs rampant in the corners of our culture. My intuition …
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Bending Gen(re)der: A Negotiation of Identity through Language in Helene Cixous and the Self
… of both gender and genre, this thesis makes a detour away from a traditional masters thesis and turns toward a more creative and explorative critical analysis.
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Bending Gen(re)der: A Negotiation of Identity through Language in Helene Cixous and the Self
… of both gender and genre, this thesis makes a detour away from a traditional masters thesis and turns toward a more creative and explorative critical analysis.
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An Exploration of Modern American Cultural History: An Undergraduate American Studies Course Proposal
… Hopper’s Nighthawks (1942), and the noir film Detour (1945). The second theme is Anxiety and Fear, which explores Abstract Expressionism and the first gestural drip paintings of Jackson Pollock (circa 1947), Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible (1953), an the Science Fiction film <em>Invasion of …
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How color and light change our perception of space, time and movement in architecture
… for sailing, concerts, and eating that detour off to one side or the other of the park's system of paths. The topography of the site is quite flat. Movement through the park is seemingly timeless as one walks parallel to the water, past unremarkable landmarks. The west end of the …
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A Computer Model to Estimate Commercial Aviation Fuel Consumption and Emissions in the Continental United States
… conditions like wind states, terminal area detour, cruise altitude and airport elevation are considered in the model. Emissions of HC, CO, NOx and SOx are computed inside the Landing/Take-off (LTO) cycle based on the fuel consumption estimate, while greenhouse gas of CO2 is calculated for …
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Using BCSA Cement to Repair Waterway Transportation Structures
… closures. These structures are not easy to detour and often require dewatering before repairs can be made, closures can cause delays and business-related losses which can have a large effect on the nation’s economy. Thus, it is advantageous to reduce the repair time for maritime structures. …
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Redress-un-dressed: Advocate Alice presents: R v JR 2010
… at the heart of this investigation. This brief detour outlines my personal motivation and interest in these strategies, or forms of redress, which lead me to juxtapose processes of what I have termed aesthetic redress against processes of judicial redress. I therefore stage the fictional case of …
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