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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"road crossing"”.
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Visual attention in naturalistic scenes across the lifespan.
… such as throwing or catching a ball, cycling, crossing a road, or even maintaining stability when walking. Alongside this, children and older adults are among the most vulnerable groups in road crossing situations, with older adults accounting for almost 50% of road crossing fatalities in the …
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DNA-based hair sampling to identify road crossings and estimate population size of black bears in Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge, Virginia
… need to identify potential sites for wildlife crossings and estimate the size of the refuge's bear population. I collected black bear hair in order to collect DNA samples to estimate population size, density, and sex ratio, and determine road crossing locations for black bears (Ursus …
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Implementing real-time reactive systems from object-oriented design specifications
… of the design for a generalized rail-road crossing problem, a bench-mark case study in the real-time systems community.
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The effect of road crossings on stream-associated salamanders within Holly Springs National Forest
Road crossings have significant effects on wildlife, but there is limited information on how road crossings affect stream-associated salamanders. Stream-associated salamanders are vital to their ecological communities and are likely to experience the effect of roads more readily than other species …
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Using GIS and Land Use Data to Select Candidate Reference Sites for Stream Bioassessment
… using land use data sets. These included road and impoundment data from DLGs and Multi-Resolution Land use Consortium data. Land use impairment was measured as percentages of forest, urban, pasture, row crops, and barren area for both the entire catchment and for 10, 40, and 130-m riparian …
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Modelling pedestrians’ utilisation of crossing facilities, gap acceptance and crossing decision in urban area
A pedestrian intending to cross a roadway has to decide whether to use a crossing facility or to cross a street illegally. An incorrect decision made will expose the pedestrian to the risk of accident. Pedestrian crossing behaviour has been sighted in the focus in the last decades. In the past, …
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Barrier Effects Of Roads And Traffic On Animal Occurrence, Space Use, And Movements
… caused by linear infrastructure, including roads, railways, and power line corridors, are recognized as major threats to biodiversity around the world. Roads can act as barriers by impeding animal movement and restricting animal space use. An understanding of factors that influence barrier …
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Can run-of-river hydropower meet the needs of the north? A case analysis of the Albany River watershed
… assessment of a future all-season road crossing site on the upper Albany River was carried out using the RETScreen Expert small hydropower module and costs were compared with the literature and interview study feedback. Of 8 scenarios modeled, all configurations (head 5 m, 12m, 18 …
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Effects of grassland management on snake species diversity and habitat use, home range & movements of western fox snakes
… forest, grassland, agriculture fields, and roads. The active season for snakes extended from approximately mid-April to late-October. Males and females had similar activity levels throughout the active season. Average home ranges of males were larger than those of females. Average core …
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Effectiveness of Vehicle External Communication Toward Improving Vulnerable Road User Safe Behaviors: Considerations for Legacy Vehicles to Automated Vehicles of the Future
… the communication methods between AVs and other road users sharing the environment to prepare for this future. Currently, researchers are working to understand how different forms of external communication on the AVs will impact vulnerable road user (VRU) interaction. However, within the last 10 …