How to balance resources, environment, and economic growth achieve sustainable development is a challenge for developing countries. In 2013, China implemented high-stringency environmental regulation—the Clean Air Action, which has effectively controlled air pollution. To explore the cost of regulation, this paper investigates policy effect on employment in industrial sector. However, there are...

Concrete overlays are a growing solution in the United States for pavement rehabilitation and preservation. Many different overlay types designs can be used based on existing conditions to achieve variety of design goals. Recent performance studies have indicated that concrete capable providing an extended service life 35 years or more. However, intended may shorter, some cases, experience earl...

Purpose: The purpose of the study is to examine impacts climate change on intermodal transport.
 Methodology: This adopted a desktop methodology. used secondary data from which include review existing literature already published studies and reports that was easily accessed through online journals libraries.
 Findings: impact transport associated with heavy rains, carbon dioxide emiss...

Background: Dental students who are at clinical or educational stage, are under environmental stress. The cumulative effect of clinical and educational stressors may also have negatively impact performance of clinical education in the long term and lead to mental and physical disorders. Our aim was to recognize and compare the stressful factors of dental environment among the students of clinic...

Nowadays, due to the advances of many industries people tend to travel much more in compared to the past. Without any doubt, various types of climates and weathers, vemacular diseases, changes in life style and qualitative and quantitative changes of nutrition are all the factors of which many diseases occur during trips. Travel associated anxieties and fears are common. It has been suggested t...

Repair mortar is commonly used to rehabilitate reinforced concrete structures or components that exhibit a relatively high level of distresses. Yet, the repair mortar can be contaminated by salt from its service environment. This work employs a two-dimensional finite element model to investigate the non-stationary transport behavior of ionic species in salt-contaminated and water-saturated repa...

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...

Recently developed Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide (MEPDG) determines the probable total rutting by summing up the deformations of all layers of the trial pavement. If all distresses outcomes including rutting are within the specification the trial section is designed for construction. Therefore, vertical deformation (or strain) needs to be measured to validate the MEPDG for local c...

Energy can be considered both a resource and carbon intensive sector with the potential to promote adverse effects. One of these is climate change that distresses multiple dimensions of sustainability both on developed and emerging countries. Therefore, efforts to achieve energy sustainability should strive for emission reductions that promote impact decoupling, namely between energyrelated CO2...