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Showing 1 to 20 of 93 for “"design standards"”.
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An Interdisciplinary and Probabilistic Treatment of Contemporary Highway Design Standards
… compete. Compromises must be made in the design stage to produce a vehicle which caters to an appropriate audience. The first part of this work features two major contributions to bridge the gap between the dynamic and kinematic perspectives. One is the application of Design Envelopes that …
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lndoor recreational walking in semi-public spaces : assessing demand and design standards
… city planning and public health fields. Urban design guidelines have increasingly highlighted pedestrian transportation and recreation as important elements for community design. Although various techniques to increase walking such as crime prevention, traffic calming and streetscape …
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Minimum design standards strategies for specific urban locations with reference to India
… document seven selected sets of minimum housing design standards in two specific case locations, New Delhi and Madras, in India, and to evaluate criteria used for establishing these standards. A model of selected criteria from the different frameworks was then developed as part of an overall …
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A Meta-Analysis of Check-In/Check-Out: Effectiveness, Social Validity, and Design Standards
… that a large portion of studies did not meet design standards. Results are interpreted within the context of limitations and future directions.</p>
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Level of Service: Design Standards, Imposed Car Dependence, and the Production of Urban Space in the Capitalist State
… scholarship has become increasingly critical of design standards and engineering methods that promote car-dependent development patterns in American cities. Level of Service (LOS) is a design standard that has received scrutiny for its misapplication to urban streets, accommodating highway-like …
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Witness to the light : the evolution of church sanctuary design & standards of comfort in the last century in Harrison County, Iowa
… that have caused changes in church sanctuary design in Harrison County, Iowa in the last century, focusing on daylight and thermal qualities. Most of the churches in the county today were built in the Gothic and Romanesque Revival styles between 1880 and 1930, before the era of active climate …
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The Effects of Using Behavioral Skills Training in Teaching Non-ABA Professionals to Implement Discrete Trial Training: A Meta-Analysis
… methodological rigor of these studies using WWC design standards. Results indicate that BST produces large effects and the majority of studies either met design standards with reservations or met design standards. As a result, researchers and practitioners may be optimistic that BST is an …
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Durability specifications for structural concrete: an international comparison
… and improvements have recently been made in design standards and specifications, to include requirements that account for durable RC structures. This dissertation examines and compares such durability requirements in design standards and specifications developed in the United States of …
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Standard values : change in urban arterial street design
… progress and modern transport. Governance and standards in California heavily influenced other state highway organizations. This research traces the evolution of values in urban arterial street design and standards in the United States and California. For nearly 100 years, the design criteria …
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Perceptions of value: an analysis of New Jersey's public and private four-year colleges and universities to determine if adherence to recognized design principles increases the perceived value of their institution
… both public and private, adhere to general standards for home page layout and design. This study also looked to determine if adherence to proper design standards increase the perceived quality of the institution. Field experiment participants rated the home pages of six institutions chosen …
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Knowledge Based Approach to Checking Designs for Conformance With Standards
… community has been slow to develop intelligent standards processing methodologies. To pave the way for the advancement of automated standards processing systems, it is necessary to develop formalized models of design standards and of the peripheral knowledge used in the design and checking …
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Sustainable Manufacturing - A study of the business context and eco-efficiency practices in Chinese microelectronics firms
… is the implementation of sustainable standards in the Manufacture, Assembly, Disassembly and End-of-life (MADE) of the manufacturing process. The significance of environmental protection and sustainable development directly cause more and more organizations and firms to take …
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Electrical ship demand modeling for future generation warships
The design of future warships will require increased reliance on accurate prediction of electrical demand as the shipboard consumption continues to rise. Current US Navy policy, codified in design standards, dictates methods of calculating the average demand power. Using several modern sources of …
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Shear and Peel Stresses at the Interface between Hollowcore Slabs and the Topping Concrete
… load carrying capacity. However, North American design standards require intentional roughening of the hollowcore slab surface to consider such composite action. This requirement results in added cost that manufacturers are keen to avoid. This thesis presents a comprehensive experimental program …
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Performance-Based Analysis of Steel Buildings: Special Concentric Braced Frame
… concentric braced frame building based on the design standards in ASCE 7-05. A rectangular, six-story office building was evaluated using linear static, linear dynamic, nonlinear static, and nonlinear dynamic procedures. The results showed that the linear procedures underestimated damage …
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Application of porous pavements in stormwater management practice
… are classified and available information on design standards are presented. Realizing the lack of information on their hydrological characteristics, paver systems were tested at the Environmental Systems Laboratory of the College of Architecture and Urban Studies. Tentative coefficients of …
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Measurement and Modeling of Nitrate-Nitrogen Transport in Subsurface Bioreactors
… and consequently, the development of design standards and operating protocols for field-scale systems.
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Elastic buckling solutions for thin-walled metal columns with perforation patterns
… in a way for incorporation into governing design standards. Data to support these findings are available at http://hdl.handle.net/10919/23797
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Managing pavement in a busy urban highway network
… and maintain pavement conditions at acceptable design standards. The second model determines for some medium-range planning horizon, the sequence and timing of highway reconstruction, given some predetermined program of maintenance expenditures, lane expansion, and transportation demand …
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