in this paper, surface roughness of ht29 cancerous is determined using topography images obtained by atimic force microscopy (afm). the mean radiuses of cell and substrate surface asperities are determined, based on results of conducted roughness analysis and rabinovich roughness theory. these values have been applied in the equations of rough particle nanomanipulation dynamic model and the amo...

Earthquakes are among those natural hazards which may lead to disruption in the function of arterial traffic routes. Road networks are particularly vulnerable, due to their geographical dispersion, extensive functions and structural reliance on favourable geophysical conditions. Traffic functionality after a natural disaster and the repair/rehabilitation cost of roads are crucial considerations...

Pricing of roadways opens doors for infrastructure financing, and congestion pricing seeks to address inefficiencies in roadway operations. This paper takes a cost-benefit approach to illuminate how the costs of infrastructure can be offset via pricing, while ascertaining the welfare impacts of flat-toll, standard congestion pricing, and credit-based congestion pricing policies. While most road...

abstract in all river engineering projects, determination of flow resistance is essential. most commonly, the manning roughness coefficient, , is used to describe the flow resistance or relative roughness of main channel or flood plane. over the past decades little or no study has been conducted to investigate the effects of particle shapes on manning roughness coefficient. therefore, it is the...

In recent years, with the extension of coal mine at depth, rock bursts are more and frequent. Therefore, research roadway support pressure relief has become key to prevent burst. this paper, primary high strength hydraulic fracturing measures studied analysed. The emphasizes matching characteristics materials, strengthen protection active roadway, realize an integrated system. Considering stron...

OBJECTIVES Few low income countries have emergency medical services to provide prehospital medical care and transport to road traffic crash casualties. In Ghana most roadway casualties receive care and transport to the hospital from taxi, bus, or truck drivers. This study reports the methods used to devise a model for prehospital trauma training for commercial drivers in Ghana. METHODS Over 3...

In this paper, we investigate predictive control approaches to the problem of roadway departure prevention via steering and braking. We assume a sensing infrastructure detecting road geometry and consider a two layers architecture consisting of a threat assessment and an intervention layer. In particular, the upper threat assessment layer detects the risk of roadway departure or vehicle instabi...

BACKGROUND Injury risk from car-bicycle collisions is particularly high among youth with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Here, we capitalized on advances in virtual environment technology to safely and systematically examine road-crossing behavior among child cyclists with and without ADHD. METHODS Sixty-three youth (26 with ADHD, 37 non-ADHD controls) ages 10-14 years crosse...

An acoustic backscatter technique proposed by Oelze et al. [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 109, 1826-1832 (2001)] was used to characterize the roughness of porous soil surfaces. Roughness estimation errors are minimized when the effective flow resistivity of the porous soil is high, e.g., above 300,000 mks Rayls/m. Four soil plots were constructed by roughening soil with farming implements. Three plots we...