A GIGANTIC EARTHWORK IN NEW MEXICO

A new approach for automation of location-based earthwork scheduling in road construction projects

a r t i c l e i n f o Accurate information of working locations is vital for efficient resource planning, safety of the construction site and monitoring the weekly progress of earthworks, which is missing in the existing linear scheduling methods. Construction managers have to depend on the subjective decisions for resources allocation and progress monitoring from location aspects. This has cau...

Child safety restraints: a new law in New Mexico.

New Mexico Sentencing Commission

Variably called bias-based policing, racial profiling, or Driving While Black or Brown, the phenomenon of apparent disparate treatment of minorities by police has received considerable attention from the media, academics, politicians, and government organizations in recent years. A common contention is that the history of racial discrimination in the U.S. combined with practices employed by loc...

Earthmover-Simulation Tool for Earthwork Planning

This paper presents EarthMover, a discrete-event special-purpose simulation modeling tool for earthwork planning geared towards practitioners. The paper explores the capabilities of the system by modeling an earth moving operation of moderate complexity. The operation is initially modeled with default parameters and is sucessively improved based on insights obtained from the static and dynamic ...

New Euphorbiaceae from Mexico

This article conta ined descriptions of five new taxa of Mexican Euphorbiaceae. Euphorbia (sub g. Agaloma) na yarensis is endemic to pine-oak woodland in the mount ains of central Nayarit. It appears related to E. so ob yi but differs by possessing linear to linear-ovate leaves. Croton varelae is also endemic to central Nayarit. A key was provided to distinguish this spec ies. a member of sect....