The Stiffness modulus is one of the necessary inputs in mechanistic-empirical pavement design and Quality Assurance/Quality Control (Q Q A C ) of pavement layers construction. The use of Portable Falling Weight Deflectometer (PFWD) for measuring the stiffness modulus of unbound pavement layers is increasing worldwide. The modulus can also be...

In the Mechanistic–Empirical Pavement Design Guide (MEPDG), dynamic modulus of asphalt mixes is used as one of the input parameters in pavement analysis and design. For in-service pavements, MEPDG method uses a combination of some field and laboratory tests for structural evaluation of asphalt layers in rehabilitation projects. In this study, ten new and rehabilitated in-service asphalt pavemen...

Abstract The results of econometric modeling are fragile in the sense that minor changes estimation techniques or sample can lead to statistical models support inconsistent causal hypotheses. fragility undermines making conclusive inferences from empirical literature. I argue program evidential pluralism, which originated context medicine and encapsulates normative reading Russo-Williamson Thes...

Standard UO2 fuel pellets used in light-water reactors fracture during irradiation due to the large thermal gradient radial direction. Over decades, numerous researchers have explored cracking from experimental and modeling points of view. To date, there been both empirical mechanistic approaches predict number fragments that form UO2. The models only consider maximum power burnup as inputs. Ex...

The evolutionary selection forces acting on a protein are commonly inferred using evolutionary codon models by contrasting the rate of synonymous to nonsynonymous substitutions. Most widely used models are based on theoretical assumptions and ignore the empirical observation that distinct amino acids differ in their replacement rates. In this paper, we develop a general method that allows assim...