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Road Stories
Road Stories is a collection of three novellas that explore the pull, allure, sanctuary, serendipity, and adventure of life on the open road. The novellas examine how for some, the road holds the promise of a new day, an improved life, a better opportunity, or a deeper love; while for others, it is …
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Road Noise
<p>Road Noise is a collection of fifty poems addressing the relationship between history and place. Specifically, the collection engages ways in which places become artifacts and ways in which artifacts become places in which to dwell, through forms representative of history and tradition as relics …
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Desolation Road
<p>Desolation Road is a novel-length, literary parody of “Desolation Row,” a song written and performed by Bob Dylan in 1965. Filled with surrealist imagery, historical and literary characters, as well as, graphic depictions of institutional decadence and decay, the haunting lyrics and rhythmic …
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Experiment Station Road
Experiment Station Road is an original work of fiction serving as a collection of short stories set in Hayford, Oregon and Las Vegas in 1962-1972. Each story presents the point of view of a resident in Hayford. The stories are written to function independently, but when read as a collection present …
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Road/Map/Canvas
… spaces evoke humor, promise and fear. The title "Road/Map/Canvas" unites the concept of places that are real and perceived, constructed and imagined. Apprehending real and imagined places alike through an artist’s eye, this thesis makes the case that places are not immutable givens. They are …
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Road to Delphi
Poetry
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Dirt Road Magic
… is based on and includes my short story, "Dirt Road Magic," which won the Writers of the Future award in 2019. That story was about a boy from the trailer park who finds out that the magic his mentor is teaching is addictive. </p>
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Road sign recognition
A method for recognizing road signs in street scene images is proposed. We first developed a fast region growing segmentation method, combined with a 1NN smoothing filter, to work on color and produce robust segmentation results even when the image is noisy. An effective color distance measurement …
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The road problem
Made available in DSpace on 2017-11-30T22:46:21Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 5956140.pdf: 6040866 bytes, checksum: 34031dd0be79d1f4a54d5b810bceca04 (MD5) license.txt: 4813 bytes, checksum: 715c4321821a960fa1a1e91d2ac7ebce (MD5) Previous issue date: 1893
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The impact of localized road accident information on road safety awareness
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimate that road traffic accidents represent the third leading cause of ‘death and disease’ worldwide. Many countries have, therefore, launched safety campaigns that are intended to reduce road traffic accidents by increasing public awareness. In almost every …
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Mechanistic-Empirical Evaluation of the Mn/ROAD Low-Volume Road Test Sections
… (IDOT) mechanistic-empirical procedures and Mn/ROAD low-volume road (LVR) data and information to verify/refine/modify analysis and design concepts and procedures for LVR flexible pavements. Laboratory test results, field distress measurements, and FWD test data were used to study the effect of …
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The determination of road sections by computer for use in road design
… resume of ,recent developments in the design of roads is given with special reference to the increasing part played by automated methods by means of which higher degrees of optimization may be achieved. Flow charts illustrating road design demonstrate the relative importance of the determination …
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Unconstrained Road Sign Recognition
There are many types of road signs, each of which carries a different meaning and function: some signs regulate traffic, others indicate the state of the road or guide and warn drivers and pedestrians. Existent image-based road sign recognition systems work well under ideal conditions, but …
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Triptych: Off Thresher Road
The following works of fiction are meant to demonstrate understanding of various fiction writing concepts, techniques, and considerations as learned by the author in the creative writing program. As with any work of fiction, the events are based on the experiences of the author to a greater or …
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