Earthwork projects involve moving specific amounts of earth from a discrete set of source locations to a discrete set of destinations. Constructors use different methods and equipment to move earth depending primarily on haul distance and equipment availability. Successful earthwork projects involve successively refined cycles of construction plan preparation and evaluation. The construction pl...

Computer-based systems are increasingly being exposed to evolving security threats, which often reveal new vulnerabilities. A formal analysis of the evolving threats is difficult due to a number of practical considerations such as incomplete knowledge about the design, limited information about attacks, and constraints on organisational resources. In our earlierwork onRISA (RIsk assessment in S...

A methodology has been developed to predict the propensity for hydrogen bonds to form in crystal structures, treating each potential H-bond as a binary response variable, and modelling its likelihood using a set of relevant chemical descriptors [1]. Modelling is tailored to a target using chemically similar known structures, from e.g. the Cambridge Structural Database [2], making it accessible ...

Recent advances in technology have made practical the use of sensor networks for a wide range of problems, ranging from security applications to assistive environments and urban sensing. However, sensor systems today have limited capabilities in understanding human behaviors, thus requiring the presence of human operators, canceling, therefore, their main advantages which are large numbers and ...

Title of Document: DETERMINING THE RELATIONSHIPS AMONG AIRPORT OPERATIONAL PERFORMANCE AREAS AND OTHER AIRPORT CHARACTERISTICS Kennis Yuen Man Chan, M.S., 2009 Directed By: Professor David J. Lovell Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering In this thesis, a methodology is proposed to investigate pair-wise relationships between different types of airport operational performance variable...

XYY chromosome constitution, for example. It ends with a fine summary and discussion of the ethical considerations in newborn screening for chromosome abnormalities, written by the well-known cytogeneticist John Hammerton. This book should be added to the shelf of every clinical geneticist and will in addition be of interest to pediatricians, child developmentalists, and child psychiatrists and...

The Work Ability Index (WAI) is a well-accepted questionnaire designed to assess an individual’s work ability. However, most research with WAI has focused on occupational populations with physical demands at work. The purpose of this study is to explore the value of WAI as screening instrument among professionals in a Dutch university. Based on database data about absenteeism, questionnaire dat...

In commission of the Royal Netherlands Air Force and the City of Eindhoven we registered the number of birds aloft on Eindhoven Airport between August 1998 and July 1999 by visual techniques using binoculars. Observations were conducted during four days each month and lasted the full daylight period. Two methods were used: observations in a fixed volume covering a part of the runway and borderi...

A new approach to property-based characterisation of security requirements is presented. The main goal is to provide a framework for the specification of a wide variety of security requirements with formal semantics in terms of security properties of a discrete model of a system. In contrast to previous approaches it is not focused on a special type of security property. The classical concept o...