1 2 The capacity drop indicates that the queue discharge rate is lower than the free-flow 3 capacity. Studies show that queue discharge rates vary under different traffic conditions. 4 Empirical data show that the queue discharge rate increases as the speed in congestion 5 increases. Insights into the underlying behavioral mechanisms that result in such variable 6 queue discharge rates can help...

• Dry pressure drop for two types of complex structured packing is evaluated experimentally and numerically. A numerical model established validated with an average deviation ≤ 20% from the experimental data. The advantages/drawbacks results different computational domains dry study are presented. a wire-based column 16,500 cm 3 produced using periodic rectangular domain 42 . effect penalty on ...

The steady expansion in the capacity of modern beamlines for high-throughput data collection, enabled by increasing X-ray brightness, capacity of robotics and detector speeds, has pushed the bottleneck upstream towards sample preparation. Even in ligand-binding studies using crystal soaking, the experiment best able to exploit beamline capacity, a primary limitation is the need for gentle and n...

As we get older, even if we are healthy, we become less fit. At the extreme, we become disabled and eventually die. Although this deterioration in physical work capacity is widely accepted, few studies have characterized changes in aerobic capacity across the age span. Instead, the majority of studies have utilized cross-sectional designs. These studies are limited, however, by selective surviv...

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This paper seeks to understand the impact of the Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility (Flex) Program on hospital choice and consumer welfare for rural residents. The Flex Program created a new class of hospital, the Critical Access Hospital (CAH), which receives more generous Medicare reimbursements in return for limits on capacity and length of stay. We find that conversion to CAH status result...

The objective of this research was to investigate esponse of repeated low velocity impact tests on glass fibre/ epoxy-Al metal laminates (GEAML) and carbon fibre/ epoxy-Al metal laminates (CEAML) at the same location using drop-weight tester. CEAML, GEAML as well as monolithic Al panels of the same thickness were impacted repeatedly up to four impacts. The effect of repeated impacts on specimen...