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Seasonal Roads
<p>Lynn Kimball Fay has been publishing for twenty-five years under the pen-name L. E. Kimball.<br />As a writer, I’m interested in the way Truth seems to me—intuitively—nonlinea. I’m interested in story cycles that examine Truth from different points of view, usually nonlinearly; and I’m …
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Roads and wildlife: a study of the effects of roads on mammals in roadside habitats
… of the road network on wildlife. The impacts of roads in the ecological landscape include habitat loss, habitat fragmentation and habitat degradation. These interrupt and modify natural processes, altering community structures and population dynamics. The large number of animal fatalities from …
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Glulam Timber Bridges for Local Roads
… type of bridges on South Dakota (SD) local roads are prestressed precast double-tee bridges. Currently, there is only one double-tee girder manufacturer in South Dakota (SD). In an attempt to provide more bridge type selection options for local governments, a study was performed at South …
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Optimal maintenance frequencies for unpaved roads
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil Engineering, 1988.
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The Psychology of Driving on Rural Roads
Rural roads constitute the most dangerous road category with regard to the number of fatal accidents. In order to increase traffic safety on rural roads it is necessary to take into account not only their inherent properties but also their effect on behaviour. Gert Weller develops a psychological …
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Roads and Routeways in County Durham: 1530-1730
Roads and routeways, whether engineered or created ad hoc, create a dynamic element to the lives of those who use them and facilitate many features of day to day life. As such they have been a fundamental and powerfully ideological part of human existence. This thesis shows the causes and effects …
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Ways of reducing accidents on South African roads
In order to reduce the number of road accidents, the causes must be identified and measures adopted to minimise these causes. Causes of road accidents can be categorised into human factors, vehicle factors and road factors. In South Africa, road accidents are primarily caused by human factors and …
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Unsettling Roads : Ethnographies of Dust across Rural Nepal
… with deployed methods of Road Building. Roads precede with expectations of stability and acceleration. In Nepal, and specifically Hatiya, they unsettle physically, atmospherically and metaphorically. The intrusion of the Mid-hill highway along the valley has lured the desires of …
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Automatic detection of roads in spot satellite images
… SPOT-images of urban areas automatically. The roads appear as linear features. However, most edge and line detectors are not effective in detecting roads in these images because of the low signal to noise ratio, low contrast and blur in the imagery. For the automatic recognition of roads, a new …
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An investigation of factors influencing the performance of State Owned Enterprises in Namibia: Comparative cases of Roads Construction Company and Roads Authority
… of SOEs. Thus, the researcher identified the Roads Authority as one of the well performing and successful SOEs with the Roads Construction Company representing the non performing SOEs. These SOEs were selected since they operate in the same industry but have been performing differently. The …
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Fragments of spaces along the roads: recycling deleted areas
“[...]Landscape” means an area, as perceived by people, whose character is the result of the action and interaction of natural and/or human factors; [...]Acknowledging that the landscape is an important part of the quality of life for people everywhere: in urban areas and in the countryside, in …
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Foundation Design of Low Volume Roads: Evaluation and Performance
<p>A majority of roads in the state of SD are low volume roads (LVRs). The SDDOT has developed simplified methods for LVR pavement thickness selection. These guides allow users to obtain recommended asphalt surfacing and base course layer thickness based on the subgrade support and the average …
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The Emergence of a Medical School in Hampton Roads
… the quality of medical education in the Hampton Roads area. Although attention is focused on the period 1959 to 1973, it is not strictly limited to this period of time.</p> <p>The methodology for this dissertation is based heavily upon oral research. As one historian pointed out, "What better way …
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Roads of the Past: The Autobiographical Route to Writing
Autobiographical writing.
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Resilient Based Flexible Pavement Design Procedure for Secondary Roads
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New priorities for old roads : re-thinking roadway preservation
Most of the roads built over the last century in the US were built assuming that efficient mobility for drivers was most important without considering impacts to the natural or built environment. Urban neighborhoods were severed, ecologically sensitive areas were disrupted, and pedestrian, bicycle …
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Selection of optimal investment strategies for low volume roads.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil Engineering. Thesis. 1972. M.S.
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