BACKGROUND Most studies having shown respiratory health effects from traffic exhaust were conducted in urban areas with a complex mixture of air pollution sources. This study has investigated the potential impact of traffic exhaust on respiratory symptoms among adults living along a Swiss alpine highway corridor, where traffic exhaust from the respective trans-Alpine highway is the predominate ...

The southwest Kansas region is one of the centers in the United States for the production of processed beef and related industries. Trucks utilized to support these industries cause noteworthy damages to the regional highway pavements. The objective of this research project was to determine the pavement damage cost of a typical highway section in southwest Kansas attributed to the truck traffic...

The depth of the neural network is a vital factor that affects its performance. Recently a new architecture called highway network was proposed. This network facilitates the training process of a very deep neural network by using gate units to control a information highway over the conventional hidden layer. For the speech synthesis task, we investigate the performance of highway networks with ...

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Potential financial planning tools may include technical models for forecasting expenses, revenues, and risk. The Volpe Center conducted a literature review to assess the state of the financial forecasting practice and potentially to expand the body of knowledge concerning the development and use of these tools. The results of the literature scan, presented in the table below, were narrowed fro...

Link layer controllers for the AVHS architecture proposed in PATH are derived using vehicle conservation flow models. Control laws are developed for three highway topologies: a single lane highway, a highway with multiple discrete lanes and a highway with an arbitrary 2 dimensional flow pattern. The control laws obtained for each of the topologies is distributed and is very suited for implement...

Purdue has not only led the way in spreading the gospel of better highway construction methods through its academic program and through regular meetings such as this one, but also set the pattern for service to the state highway department through its Joint Highway Research Project that is now being followed in many other states. And the influence of Purdue is being felt throughout the nation a...