evaluating existing flexible pavement condition is a pre-requisite to choose improvement technique that has to be adopted to enhance its quality. to evaluate existing pavements, non-destructive testing methods are desirable. benkelman beam and 5th wheel bump integrator are used to conduct non-destructive tests like deflection and roughness surveys on the existing pavement of 4 lane divided carr...

Evaluating existing flexible pavement condition is a pre-requisite to choose improvement technique that has to be adopted to enhance its quality. To evaluate existing pavements, non-destructive testing methods are desirable. Benkelman Beam and 5th Wheel Bump Integrator are used to conduct non-destructive tests like deflection and roughness surveys on the existing pavement of 4 lane divided carr...

The loop structure plays an important role in many aspects of complex networks and attracts much attention. Among the previous works, Bianconi [Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 118701 (2008)] found that real networks often have very few short loops as compared to random models. In this paper, we focus on the uneven location of loops which makes some parts of the network rich while some other parts sparse ...

This paper studies unevenness in network properties on the social Semantic Web. First, we propose a two-step methodology for processing and analyzing social network data from the Semantic Web, based on the SPARQL query language. After a brief introduction to the notion of unevenness, the methodology is applied to examine unevenness in network properties of real-world data. Comparing Lorenz curv...

Many tests are available for measuring unevenness of pulmonary ventilation. In recent years tests of unevenness of pulmonary blood flow have been described, which utilize radioactive krypton (1) in patients with emphysema, radioactive oxygen in patients with mitral stenosis (2), and radioactive carbon dioxide in normal subjects (3). These studies provide quantitative data on the degree of uneve...

We consider the scheduling of deferrable charging demand for plug-in electric or hybrid-electric vehicles (PEVs/PHEVs) in the smart grid such that the grid is operating within the safety charging threshold, and as many as consumers/users are satisfied by the end of a finite horizon (e.g., 8pm6am). Given that the charging profiles of PEVs/PHEVs are not constant and have a (truncated) prescribed ...

According to Ravallion1 84 % of China’s population lived below the international poverty line of $1.25 per day in 1981, when only four countries, Cambodia, Burkina Faso, Mali and Uganda had a higher headcount index than China. However, The Economist (Jun 1st 2013) shows that China pulled 680 million people out of misery and reduced its extreme-poverty rate to 10% through economic growth in the ...

A single splat is the building block of a thermal spray coating; thus, investigating single splats is essential to understanding thermal spray coatings and their properties. In this study, the spreading behavior and the morphology of flame sprayed ethylene methacrylic acid (EMAA) splats, deposited at various stand-off distances (SODs) onto glass and mild steel substrates were investigated using...

Pavement surface unevenness plays a pivotal role on roughness index of road which affects on riding comfort ability. Comfort ability refers to the degree of protection offered to vehicle occupants from uneven elements in the road surface. So, it is preferable to have a lower roughness index value for a better riding quality of road users. Roughness is generally defined as an expression of irreg...

REASON FOR PERFORMING STUDY Foot stance in grazing significantly influences hoof conformation and development from foal to yearling age. OBJECTIVES To conduct a longitudinal study to establish if the relationship between motor laterality and uneven front feet persisted in 3-year-old horses at the time of studbook selection and to investigate if such laterality and unevenness might influence t...