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Efforts to improve pavement skid resistance have shown the advantages of using open-graded asphalt paving mixtures. Extensive implementation of these mixtures has been hampered, however, due to some difficulties encountered during construction and some deficiencies observed in service performance. These problems are partially attributable to a numb
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Environmental variables important in pavement cracking studies are catalogued for west Texas. This portion of the state is shown to receive the most severe environmental changes. Results from other studies, mainly in Canada, are interpreted in terms of the information gathered for west Texas. These data indicate that pavement deterioration in west
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The cost-effectiveness analysis procedure for roadside safety improvement evaluation has been developed on an immediate implementation basis. This report documents the procedures to be applied in conducting the physical roadside hazard inventory and recommending safety improvement alternatives on Texas freeways. Immediate implementation of the mate
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This report describes the results of an investigation of the tensile and elastic properties of highway pavement materials. Cores of four types of materials obtained from recently constructed highway pavements were obtained and tested. Experimental estimates of the tensile and elastic properties (tensile strength, modulus of elasticity, and Poissont
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This report presents the development of a model for predicting the travel time required by a motorist to travel from any freeway location to the end of the freeway system during freeway incident conditions. Operating speeds and shock wave speeds can also be predicted. Typical incident solutions and travel time results are presented. The mathematica
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Stress in controllers on the straight five-day shift was determined at Houston Intercontinental Tower in 1970. In 1971 controllers on the 2-2-1 rotation were studied at the same tower. Controllers generally prefer the 2-2-1 to the straight five-day schedule because of the long week end associated with the 2-2-1. Management is concerned that the 'qu
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Thirty young men were randomly assigned in equal numbers to one of the following groups: placebo (lactose), secobarbital (100 mg), or d-amphetamine (10 mg). The drugs or placebo were administered in capsules in a double-blind procedure. Tests were scheduled 1, 2, and 4 hours after capsule ingestion; all tests were conducted inside a Stille-Werner r
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Subjects were exposed indoors to simulated sonic booms having outside overpressures of 50 and 150 N/sq m. Rise times were held constant at 5.5 msecs. In addition to the outside measurements, inside measures of dBlin and dBA were also obtained. Subjects attempted to hold a hand-steadiness device on target during boom exposure and amplitude of the ar
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Biochemical and physiological indices of stress showed that the level of stress of 16 air traffic controllers at the Houston Intercontinental Airport Tower was indistinguishable from that of control populations. While the level of stress was lower than that among O'Hare Tower controllers, both groups showed about the same degree of adaptation.Day w
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Subjects of varying type and degree of color deficiency were tested on a battery of color tests, including the American Optical Company Plates (both 1940 and 1965 editions), the Dvorine Plates, the Farnsworth-Munsell 100-hue, the Farnsworth Lantern, the Farnsworth Panel D-15, the SAM Color Threshold Tester, the Titmus Vision Tester Color Plate, and
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The reductions in task load resulting from the increasing automation of air traffic control may actually increase the requirement for controllers to maintain high levels of sustained attention in order to detect infrequent system malfunctions. A previous study indicated that individuals scoring high on a distractibility scale found it difficult to
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An annotated bibliography of translations of foreign-language articles is presented. The 20 listed entries are concerned with studies of cardiology; aviation vestibular testing and vestibular factors in accidents; use of bones of identification of remains; psychological characteristics associated with pilots, stewardesses, and nuclear workers; stre
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The State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) was used to assess the anxiety of air traffic controllers who had experienced difficult and easy work shifts. Eighty volunteers completed the STAI before and after two or more eight-hour work shifts. Controllers relatively high in anxiety proneness tended to report higher levels of anxiety in association wit
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Twenty-one brands of ear protectors, including custom-molded, wearer-molded, and pre-molded types, were evaluated according to American-standard procedures. Earplugs are described and are listed in the order of their low-frequency (below 1000 Hz) attenuation.
The study described in this paper was the second phase in a ground- based control force testing program conducted by the University of Oklahoma and the Civil Aeromedical Institute of the Federal Aviation Administration located in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.A Convair-340 simulator, modified to conform to a typical civil aviation aircraft, was used for
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Noise, either in the form of masking or in the form of distortion products, interferes with speech intelligibility. When the signal-to-noise ratio is bad enough, articulation can drop to unacceptably--even dangerously--low levels. However, listeners are capable of learning to listen to such speech and to improve their comprehension of it. In the ex
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A summary of the discussions from the Civil Aeromedical Institute Symposium on aeromedical aspects of marihuana is presented. The invited panel discussed the legal aspects of marihuana use and aviation, the experiences of military aviation, and the acute and chronic effects of the drug. For civil aviation, the panel proposed a 12-16 hour period bet
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The report contains a description of the uniform reporting system for the urban mass transit industry designed and tested in Project FARE. It is presented in five volumes. Volume I contains a description of how Task IV was accomplished and the conclusions and recommendations reached at the end of the task. It also contains a summary of the conduct
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A popular construction technique in south Louisiana for many years has been the use of river sand to establish foundations for highways. The abundance of river sand and the need for it in excavation backfill operations across Louisiana's marshlands have fostered this concept.Recent construction problems on Route I-10 in St. James Parish and the dec
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This study consisted of an examination of the compressive strengths of soil-cement mixtures on 15 construction projects from the standpoint of design and actual achievement. The laboratory design test was examined closely along with the present field method of density control for soil-cement bases and the distribution of cement within the bases.the
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