Road pavements in Russia are now working difficult conditions of ever-growing vehicular traffic intensity. Current methodology for designing flexible road has a number serious shortcomings, where the best design experience and actual operating highways not fully taken into account. In some cases, this leads to ineffective pavement structures with short service life. On many roads, rutting prema...

1 Michael R. Graham, Llantarnam Research Academy, Newport Road, Llantarnam, Cwmbran, NP44 3AF, UK. 2 Bruce Davies, Health and Exercise Science Department, University of South Wales, CF37 1DL, UK 3 Julien S Baker, Director of Research, Institute of Clinical Exercise and Health Science, Exercise Science Research Laboratory, School of Science, University of the West of Scotland, Hamilton, Lanarksh...

People desire luxury products because they are highly valued by society, among other reasons, but little is known about how wearing luxury products influences consumers’ selfidentity and behavior. This research demonstrates that wearing luxury products can lead consumers to engage in behaviors that are highly valued by society. Study participants who wear or simply imagine themselves wearing lu...

XML itself does not support hypermedia, but the XLink standard has been defined to make XML usable for hypermedia. One of XLinks most interesting features is its support for external links and linkbases, which makes it possible to create links between resources without having to change the resources. In order to use these links, user agents must access linkbases and query them for relevant link...