To address the speeding problem in residential areas, the City of Edmonton initiated a pilot project to reduce the posted speed limit from 50km/h to 40km/h within six residential communities. This paper investigates the community perceptions of traffic safety within the six pilot communities in two phases: prior to project initiation (pre-pilot) and following the end of the project (post-pilot)...

One of the important issues in hydraulic engineering is inspection of local scour depth around bridge pier. Using piles is one of the ways for confronting local scour and erosion. In this study, the experiments were conducted in an 8m long, 0.5m deep and 0.25m wide flume. And the effectof using piles and number of them observed on the amount of scour in three different Frude numbers. The shape ...

one of the important issues in hydraulic engineering is inspection of local scour depth around bridge pier. using piles is one of the ways for confronting local scour and erosion. in this study, the experiments were conducted in an 8m long, 0.5m deep and 0.25m wide flume. and the effectof using piles and number of them observed on the amount of scour in three different frude numbers. the shape ...

By mechanical-biological treatment (MBT) of residual municipal solid waste the behaviour of landfills can be significantly improved. After MBT the organic content (COD and BOD5), total organic carbon, and total nitrogen in the leachate, as well as the gas production rate, are reduced to values lower than 90% of the fresh untreated waste. The volume of the stabilized material to be disposed on l...

BACKGROUND The majority of current health literacy tools assess functional skills including reading, writing, and numeracy. Although these tools have been able to underline the impact of such skills on individuals' health behaviour, there is a need for comprehensive measures to examine more advanced skills. The individual's ability to use health-related information considering his/her own healt...

Introduction More than two years ago a multinational company producing office furniture asked for an appropriate tool to integrate ECODESIGN into their product development process. A company adaptation of the ECODESIGN Product Investigation, Learning and Optimization Tool (PILOT) [1] has been carried out and this initiated a continuous improvement process within that company. Today the former t...

274 Original Article COMPARISON OF FLOW AND VOLUME ORIENTED INCENTIVE SPIROMETRY ON LUNG FUNCTION AND DIAPHRAGM MOVEMENT AFTER LAPAROSCOPIC ABDOMINAL SURGERY: A RANDOMIZED CLINICAL PILOT TRIAL Gopala Krishna Alaparthi 1, Alfred Joseph Augustine *2, Anand R 3, Ajith Mahale 4. 1 Asst. Professor, Department of Physiotherapy, 2* Professor, Department of surgery, 3 Professor, Department of Pulmonary...

BACKGROUND After incorporating quality improvement (QI) education as a required curriculum for our trainees in 2010, a need arose to readdress our didactic sessions as they were too long, difficult to schedule, and resulting in a drop in attendance. A 'flipped classroom' (FC) model to deliver QI education was touted to be an effective delivery method as it allows the trainees to view didactic m...