A preference for smooth curvature, as opposed to angularity, is a well-established finding for lines, two-dimensional shapes, and complex objects, but little is known about individual differences. We used two-dimensional black-and-white shapes-randomly generated irregular polygons, and arrays of circles and hexagons-and measured many individual differences, including artistic expertise, persona...

The rules of soft-collinear effective theory can be used naı̈vely to write hard scattering cross-sections as convolutions of separate hard, jet, and soft functions. One condition required to guarantee the validity of such a factorization is the infrared safety of these functions in perturbation theory. Using e+e− angularity distributions as an example, we propose and illustrate an intuitive meth...

_Abstract. Random density models are analyzed to determine the low degree harmonics of the gravity field of a planet, and therefrom two properties: an axiatity Pl, the percent of the degree variance in the zonal term referred to an axis through the maximum for degree t; and an angularity Eln, the angle between the maxima for two degrees l, ru The random density distributions give solutions reas...

When using a high content of reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP) in production, the RAP properties play primary role defining performance new mixture. The depend not only on composition old but also milling process. Here we performed full-scale experiment at four jobsites. At each them, three machine parameters were varied (moving speed, depth, and drum rotational speed), while everything else rem...

The high-resolution X-ray CT was applied to investigate the fatigue damage evolution of asphalt mixtures. detailed Xray images in centre samples were used characterise cracking and air voids increase at different vertical deformations. Air void content surface area distribution before after loading also analysed. results show that main failure mode mixtures low temperature is debonding interfac...

Abstract We study the production of an electroweak boson in association with jets, processes where jet highest transverse momentum is identified as quark-initiated. The quark/gluon tagging procedure realised by a cut on angularity and it therefore theoretically well-defined exhibits infrared collinear safety. In this context, exploiting resummed perturbation theory, we are able to provide theor...

Abstract An algorithm to re-create virtual aggregates with realistic shapes is presented in this paper. The has been implemented the Unity 3D platform. idea realistically coarse and crushed that are normally used as a material for construction of roads. This method consists two major procedures: (i) combine spherical density function noise matrix based on Perlin obtain appropriate angularity an...

The present paper deals with the experimental investigation of interlocking effect crushed stone ballast material, assessing it as relationship residual and dynamic stresses under layer during laboratory tests consideration different boundary conditions. experiments were executed a scaled model sleeper. measured pressure at bottom surface has two parts: residual. part depends on external loadin...