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Is it what you say, or how you say it? An experimental analysis of the effects of invitation wording for online

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Spine interpolation for demographic variables: the monotonicity problem

The Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development currently uses empirical “book ” values in the overlay thickness design. This can lead to errors since the values do not necessarily represent actual field conditions. The objective of this study was to establish an overlay thickness design method for flexible pavement in Louisiana based on in-situ pavement conditions and non-destructive test methods. Four overlay rehabilitation projects with different soil subgrade types and traffic levels were selected for this study. On each pavement section, nondestructive deflection tests (NDT) including Falling Weight Deflectometer (FWD) and Dynaflect were performed at a 0.1-mile interval, and a detail condition survey data including cracking, rut depth, International Roughness Index (IRI), mid-depth temperature, and pavement thickness was also collected. Four NDT-based overlay design methods were investigated and

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Objectives: Despite the benefits accrued from the practice of gratitude, there are mixed findings concerning the effectiveness of gratitude interventions. Thus, the study examined a commonly used gratitude-based intervention (‘count-your-blessings’) in promoting physical and psychological well

This study presents a surrogate approach for safety analysis of freeway facilities using automated trajectory collection and behavioural analysis from surrogate measures of safety (in particular time to collision). This methodology is proposed as a potential alternative or complement to the classical approach based on historical accident data, particularly suited for evaluating the microscopic safety effects of road treatments for which there is a lack of traffic and accident data. A short theoretical discussion of traffic conflicts is followed by a proposed methodology illustrated using as a small sample of freeway ramps as an application environment. From this sample, video data is obtained as part of a safety study to investigate the effectiveness of the “one-way lane-change closure ” treatment near urban freeway ramps in Montreal, Canada. To illustrate the applicability of our methodology, two comparative examples are presented: (1) a cross-sectional study and (2) a before-after study involving two sites, one of which had video data available before and after the implementation of the treatment. Various methods of aggregating the data, spatially and temporally, are explored in the applications. KEYWORDS:

if this implies that this central word “assumes an importance that may not be so evident for other policy areas such as defence, taxation or industrial policy ” (International Journal of Cultural Policy, Vol. 16, No. 2, p. 218). The definition itself is obviously a hardship everyone has to manage, but may

and exceedingly responsible business it is quite some trick to remain cheerful; yet, what could be more necessary than cheerfulness? Nothing succeeds without high spirits … Any means will do, every case is a stroke of luck. Above all war. ” (Nietzsche, 1998, p.3) Whenever I feel at a loss for words, I am