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From:Canadian Journal of Zoology (Vol. 91, Issue 11) Peer-Reviewed
Physical condition of black-capped chickadees (Poecile atricapillus) in relation to road disturbance
Roads and their associated low-frequency noise have been linked with a reduction in abundance and density for many songbird species. However, a handful of species remain equally abundant in roadside habitats and... -
From:Environmental Health Perspectives (Vol. 123, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedBACKGROUND: Associations between long-term exposure to air pollution and carotid intima-media thickness (CIMT) have inconsistent findings. OBJECTIVES: In this study we aimed to evaluate association between 1-year...
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From:Alberta History (Vol. 59, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedCalgary -- A party of Americans have been in Calgary with a new project in view to connect Edmonton and Calgary by an automobile line. They claim that a good road for autos can be built from here to the capital at...
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From:Appraisal Journal (Vol. 72, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedA change in a city's designation of a public access road on an owner's property from a two-way to a one-way street did not amount to a compensable taking of the owner's right to access his property according to the...
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From:Bulletin of the World Health Organization (Vol. 81, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed"Unsuitable vehicles driven on unsuitable roads by untrained drivers" are the main cause of the continued escalation in road traffic deaths, according to Max Mosley, President of the Federation Internationale de...
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From:Notes (Vol. 51, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedFor many years, computer music researchers have relied on a relatively small number of techniques for the analysis and resynthesis of sound, for the most part designed for maximal computational efficiency, in the face of...
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From:Microwave Journal (Vol. 38, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedTraffic congestion on roads in Europe is rapidly increasing to unacceptable levels while the building of new roads tends to be opposed by strong and highly organized protest groups generally supported by public...
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From:CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries (Vol. 53, Issue 12)[cc] 53-5347 D21 2015-13264 CIP Frankopan, Peter. The Silk Roads: a new history of the world. Knopf, 2015. 645p index ISBN 9781101946329 cloth, $30.00; ISBN 9781101946336 ebook, contact publisher for price...
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From:Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering (Vol. 43, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedThe permanent deformation of the road subgrade soil accumulated during passage of the cyclic loads is mainly due to the post-compacting and plastic flow mechanisms according to a study by the National Cooperative...
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From:Construction and Building Materials (Vol. 24, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT This paper analyses the permanent deformation performance of an unbound granular material for base layers of low-traffic roads. The material has been subjected to repeated triaxial loads. The shakedown...
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From:Arctic (Vol. 67, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT. Worldwide, some caribou (Rangifer tarandus) populations are experiencing declines due partially to the expansion of industrial development. Caribou can exhibit behavioral avoidance of development, leading to...
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From:Canadian Journal of Zoology (Vol. 99, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAnthropogenic disturbances, including roads, are known to influence animal habitat selection and mortality. In this study, we consider the role of sensory perception in understanding why and how animals respond to...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 14, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedWorldwide, roads are a main driver of deforestation and degradation as they increase forest access along the forest edge. In many tropical areas, unofficial roads go unreported and unrecorded, resulting in inaccurate...
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From:The Shock and Vibration Digest (Vol. 38, Issue 2)06-0365 Butorina, M., and N. Minina. Evaluation of noise penetration into inhabited areas at the building of the ring-road round Saint-Petersburg. Proceedings of the Eleventh International Congress on Sound and...
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From:Advances in MeteorologyPeer-ReviewedA forecast road surface temperature (RST) helps winter services to optimize costs and to reduce the deicers environmental impacts. Data from road weather information systems (RWIS) and thermal mapping are considered...
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From:Mathematical Problems in Engineering (Vol. 2021) Peer-ReviewedThe identification of critical road links is greatly important to the management and control of the transportation system. Existing works fail to fully consider the influence of the distribution of traffic flow and its...
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From:The Baltic Journal of Road and Bridge Engineering (Vol. 7, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedPolymer modified road bitumens, being examples of viscoelastic materials, are very interesting with respect to rheology. The phenomenon of inverse creep (retarded strain recovery) observed in samples of asphalt binders...
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From:The Baltic Journal of Road and Bridge Engineering (Vol. 6, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedToday, an increasing number of necessary infrastructural measures is encountered the purpose of which is to assist in managing the traffic speed thus forming the most important part in speed management policies. This...
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From:The Baltic Journal of Road and Bridge Engineering (Vol. 12, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedCement-stabilized macadam is the most widely used road base material in road engineering. The current study investigated the impact of fiber diameter on its performance. The authors prepared polyester fibers with...
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From:Design Week (Vol. 19, Issue 29)THE Department for Transport has appointed Manchester-based True North to create the visual identity for its Neighbourhood Road Safety Initiative, which is scheduled to launch next month. True North was appointed...