The ternary system of Portland cement-microsilica-limestone has been studied by investigating its set and strength behaviours. A number of different cementitious <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: #0...

Private road associations (PRAs) manage two thirds of the road network in Sweden. They manage the roads at less cost and with better results than the Government road agencies. In fact, the PRAs perform so well that some urban municipalities request the associations to manage the municipal roads which connect to the private roads. There are also PRAs that are responsible for ferry services, for ...

In this paper, we develop an efficient Legend...

This paper investigates a new variant of the consistent vehicle routing problem considering path consistency based on underlying road network (ConVRPRN). It is determining set paths for vehicles within certain period (e.g. week). We propose flexible strategy to achieve consistency, providing discount cost roads that are traversed every day. The objective minimize total travel costs paths’ parts...

1 Michael R. Graham, Llantarnam Research Academy, Newport Road, Llantarnam, Cwmbran, NP44 3AF, UK. 2 Bruce Davies, Health and Exercise Science Department, University of South Wales, CF37 1DL, UK 3 Julien S Baker, Director of Research, Institute of Clinical Exercise and Health Science, Exercise Science Research Laboratory, School of Science, University of the West of Scotland, Hamilton, Lanarksh...

People desire luxury products because they are highly valued by society, among other reasons, but little is known about how wearing luxury products influences consumers’ selfidentity and behavior. This research demonstrates that wearing luxury products can lead consumers to engage in behaviors that are highly valued by society. Study participants who wear or simply imagine themselves wearing lu...