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...

Road Traffic injuries are known as the most prevalent childhood injury and besides being the greatest cause of child mortality, place an extraordinary burden on health care system. Children’s limitation in cognitive, physical and social development makes them more vulnerable in road traffic injuries than adults. Their small structure cause challenges to see and be seen and their risk taki...

Despite of the advances in construction planning and scheduling software, construction managers and planners are still facing problems in achieving accurate planning, scheduling and costing due to the one-off nature of the construction projects and the inherently uncertain site conditions and soil characteristics. The aim of the research presented in this paper is to introduce a new methodology...

Land price contains the comprehensive characteristics of urban space, representing the social and economic features of the city. Accordingly, land price can be utilized as an indicator, which can identify the changes of spatial structure and socioeconomic variations caused by urban development. This study attempted to explore the changes in land price by a new road construction. Methodologicall...

Using a Web-based portfolio assessment system to elevate project-based learning performances Chi-Cheng Chang a & Kuo-Hung Tseng b a Department of Industrial Technology Education, National Taiwan Normal University, No. 162, Section 1, He-Ping E. Road, Taipei, Taiwan, 106 b Graduate Institute of Business Management, Meiho Institute of Technology, No. 23, Ping Kuang Road, Neipu Hsiang, Pingtung, T...

Translating R&D and inventive efforts into a market product is characterized by significant financial skills, and the ability to overcome technical and instititonal barriers. Research into and translation of new technologies such as biotechnology products to the market requires even greater resources. This paper aims to understand the key factors that foster or hinder the complex process of tra...

Die Informationslogistik erforscht intelligente Systeme zur bedarfsgerechten Informationsversorgung. Die Anwender erwarten die richtigen Informationen zur richtigen Zeit am richtigen Ort in einer geeigneten Präsentation. In diesem Papier beschreiben wir ein informationslogistisches Framework, mit dessen Hilfe informationslogistische Anwendungen und insbesondere die Informationsversorgung eines ...

Geh ort zum Antragsabschnitt: 14.6 Prosodische Etikettierung Die vorliegende Arbeit wurde im Rahmen des Verbundvorhabens Verbmobil vom Bundesministerium f ur Bildung, Wissenschaft, Forschung und Technologie (BMBF) unter dem F orderkennzeichen 01 IV 101 N0 gef ordert. Die Verantwortung f ur den Inhalt dieser Arbeit liegt bei dem Autor.