Purpose: The purpose of the study is to examine impacts climate change on intermodal transport.
 Methodology: This adopted a desktop methodology. used secondary data from which include review existing literature already published studies and reports that was easily accessed through online journals libraries.
 Findings: impact transport associated with heavy rains, carbon dioxide emiss...

Repair mortar is commonly used to rehabilitate reinforced concrete structures or components that exhibit a relatively high level of distresses. Yet, the repair mortar can be contaminated by salt from its service environment. This work employs a two-dimensional finite element model to investigate the non-stationary transport behavior of ionic species in salt-contaminated and water-saturated repa...

An accurate and regular survey of the road surface distresses is a key factor for pavement rehabilitation design and management, allowing public managers to maximize the value of the continuously limited budgets for road improvements and maintenance. Manual pavement distress surveys are labor-intensive, expensive and unsafe for highly-trafficked highways. Over the years, automated surveys using...

Recently developed Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide (MEPDG) determines the probable total rutting by summing up the deformations of all layers of the trial pavement. If all distresses outcomes including rutting are within the specification the trial section is designed for construction. Therefore, vertical deformation (or strain) needs to be measured to validate the MEPDG for local c...

Energy can be considered both a resource and carbon intensive sector with the potential to promote adverse effects. One of these is climate change that distresses multiple dimensions of sustainability both on developed and emerging countries. Therefore, efforts to achieve energy sustainability should strive for emission reductions that promote impact decoupling, namely between energyrelated CO2...

BACKGROUND Breast and cervical cancer are the most common cancers affecting women. The symptom distresses experienced by cancer survivors are critical factors influencing their quality of life (QOL). This study investigated the QOL of breast and cervical cancer survivors, their physical, psychological and social conditions. METHODS The participants were older than 20 years, had been diagnosed...

The clinical case presented herein addresses the following 2 key issues: (1) the meaning and consequences of bypassing a major symptom or syndrome in a patient’s treatment to facilitate development and growth in other dimensions of her life that were being hindered due to their interrelations with the symptom; and (2) the therapeutic impact of incorporating strategic, cognitive, and behavioral ...

Rutting of flexible pavement is considered one of the major pavement distresses noted around the world and in Egypt. Many investigators showed at about 55 to 80% of rutting occurred in the surface layer. Rutting of asphalt surface layer may be due to many causes happened during construction phase and service phase. The main objectives of this research are to evaluate the impact of aggregate gra...

Pavement surface unevenness plays a pivotal role on roughness index of road which affects on riding comfort ability. Comfort ability refers to the degree of protection offered to vehicle occupants from uneven elements in the road surface. So, it is preferable to have a lower roughness index value for a better riding quality of road users. Roughness is generally defined as an expression of irreg...

Infertility is a life crisis which leads to serious psychological problems. The present study aims to investigate the effects of hope therapy as a psychological intervention on psychological distresses among infertile women. The present study was an experimental one. The study population included infertile women referring to gynecology clinics. Women who lived in Jahrom and could take part in p...