Recently, smart composites that serve as multi-functional materials have gained popularity for structural and infrastructural applications yielding condition assessment capabilities. An emerging application is the monitoring prediction of fatigue road infrastructure, where these systems may benefit from ability to detect estimate vehicle loads via weigh-in-motion (WIM) sensing without interrupt...

A weigh-in-motion (WIM) system has the capability to perform on-site vehicle classifications based on FHWA schema. However, WIM datasets often contain a significant portion of vehicles that could not be classified into any 13 classes by devices. Possible reasons for classifier failing classify these are tailgating, lane changing, traffic congestion, and equipment malfunction. Analysis unclassif...

PURPOSE Canine rabies is a serious health problem in Morocco and about 22 human deaths are reported yearly. Following the World Health Organization (WHO) recommendations, Moroccan authorities evaluated oral rabies vaccine baits specially designed for dogs. MATERIALS AND METHODS The study was performed in Tiflet area. The vaccine strain was SAG2, a modified live oral rabies vaccine strain. Eac...

May 15, 2015 Type Package Title Evaluation of Surrogate Endpoints in Clinical Trials Version 0.1-6 Date 2015-05-14 Author Wim Van der Elst, Ariel Alonso & Geert Molenberghs Maintainer Wim Van der Elst Description In a clinical trial, it frequently occurs that the most credible outcome to evaluate the effectiveness of a new therapy (the true endpoint) is difficult to m...

The need to protect road infrastructure and the environment, as well increase safety of users ensure fair conditions competition in transport, requires an efficiency elimination overloaded vehicles from traffic. replacement “manual” vehicle control (carried out by inspectors relevant services) automatic can that these are highly effective. Such be implemented directly on basis weighing results ...

Modern computational fluid dynamics simulations are capable of the detailed simulation of fluid flow. The output data sets of these simulations are very large and information rich. The importance of data visualization is clearly recognized for the presentation of these data sets. For gaining new insight in the nature of flow, interactive visualization methods are essential. The goal of our work...

Frustration is an emotional state produced by the surprising omission in quantity and/or quality of an appetitive reinforcer. The aversive properties of stressors, such as electric shocks, produce responses similar to those elicited by a state of frustration. In this set of three experiments, we assessed the effects of water immersion (WIM, in Experiment 1)--that is, a physical stressor--and fi...