Toll plaza is a designated area of controlled-access roads like expressway, bridge, and tunnel for toll collection. A number booths are often placed at the accommodating high passing traffic multiple payment methods. Traffic safety characteristics plazas different from that other road entities. Different conflict risk indicators, which usually longitudinal, have been adopted real-time assessmen...

Community-university engagement is a growing field and takes many different forms. We explain reflect critically on community-university developmental process that we created to design new non-profit studies undergraduate certificate. A steering group comprising students, organizations (NPOs), faculty guided our process. adopted community-based, emergent, multi-tactic went from testing an idea,...

microgrids are small-scale, low voltage (lv) power networks which employ renewable distribution energy resources (ders) with power electronic interfaces (peis). microgrids as single controlled units and active distribution networks require flexible control systems to ensure reliable and secure operation in different modes. these various operations of microgrid cause variations in voltage and fr...

Bribe and coercion are common in conventional voting systems and usually will lead to a biased result that imparts the desired democracy. However, these problems become more difficult to solve when using e-voting schemes. Up to now, many e-voting schemes have been proposed to provide receipt-freeness and uncoercibility to solve these problems. Unfortunately, none is both secure and practical en...

682 Am J P Abstract: Exposure to ultraviolet radiation from indoor tanning devices (tanning beds, booths, and sun lamps) or from the sun contributes to the risk of skin cancer, including melanoma, which is the type of skin cancer responsible for most deaths. Indoor tanning is common among certain groups, especially among older adolescents and young adults, adolescent girls and young women, and ...

The microscopic simulation of traffic operations at a toll plaza entails the detailed understanding of the driver behavior. The lane selection behavior of the driver involves complex inter-vehicle dynamics. This study involves the development of a new methodology for the microscopic simulation of toll plaza operations. Different driver dynamics such as the lane selection probability based on th...

Exposure to ultraviolet radiation from indoor tanning devices (tanning beds, booths, and sun lamps) or from the sun contributes to the risk of skin cancer, including melanoma, which is the type of skin cancer responsible for most deaths. Indoor tanning is common among certain groups, especially among older adolescents and young adults, adolescent girls and young women, and non-Hispanic whites. ...

OBJECTIVE the aim of this study is to estimate the cross-sectional and longitudinal impact of hearing loss on use of community support services and reliance on non-spouse family/friends among older people. METHODS Blue Mountains Hearing Study participants (n = 2,956) were assessed for hearing impairment by audiologists in sound-treated booths. Participants were classified as hearing impaired ...

lectronic checks, cell phones, and speed-through lanes at toll booths are just a few examples of new payment methods recently introduced to the market. Based on computer technology, online commerce, and telecommunications, these new payment methods rely on electronics for most or all of their functions. Many products based on these methods have failed, some have struggled to grow, and a few hav...

we present an improved implementation of the wagner-whitin algorithm for economic lot-sizing problems based on the planning-horizon theorem and the economic- part-period concept. the proposed method of this paper reduces the burden of the computations significantly in two different cases. we first assume there is no backlogging and inventory holding and set-up costs are fixed. the second model ...