Economic expansion is a positive side effect of national highway construction initiatives. So, the plan to construct these projects rapidly. This calls for premium asphalt. As result aggregate gradation variation, numerous asphalt mixes have been rejected and rebuilt on-site in recent decades, resulting waste valuable resources time. Consequently, goal this study was examine durability where ra...

Aggregate base plays an important role in a pavement structure. It supports the asphalt concrete (AC) layer and reduces the wheel load-induced stresses on the underlying layers so that the stresses transmitted to the subgrade do not result in excessive deformation. The base layer also functions as a drainage layer. Consequently, it is important to understand the drainage and strength characteri...

We analyze the implications of financial openness to macroeconomic volatility in a small open economy. The volatility of major macroeconomic aggregates shows non-monotonic pattern with respect to the degree of financial openness in the model without domestic financial frictions. The introduction of domestic financial frictions makes the volatility patterns flatter. Our model explains the lack o...

Using testing and questionnaire methods, this study investigated the relationships among openness to experience, intelligence and creative thinking. This study focused on the moderating effects of openness to experience on the relationship between intelligence and creative thinking in a sample of 831 primary school students in China. The findings showed significant positive relationships among ...