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The wider use, in the future, of hydrogen ion concentration (H+) rather than pH to describe and evaluate acid-base status will require interconversion of the two notations until a final standard is adopted. The relationship between pH and (H+) is given by the general expression pH = - log (H+). Tables relating pH and (H+) have been constructed acco
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This project involves the design, construction, and testing in thelaboratory and field of instrumentation capable of measuring the lateralearth pressure along a drilled shaft.A good deal of work" has been done concerning the development of pressuretransducers designed to measure stresses in an earth mass. Consequently,these studies have produced th
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This paper reports the results of three experimental programs conducted on synthetic aggregates; physical durability, chemical durability, and mechanical durability. In the physical durability program, five selected commercially produced and eight TTI kiln-produced lightweight coarse aggregates were investigated. Absorption characteristics and poro
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This phase of the research is concerned with the treatment of bridge decks to prevent the initiation of surface deterioration or to attenuate deterioration that has already begun. It seeks a solution to the problem of determining what materials are effective as surface treatments in the prevention and/or spread of damage; the manner, extent, and sc
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In aviation occupations, performance impairment under stress conditions is particularly undesirable. However, individuals may show differing amounts of impairment under stress, and the reasons for these differences are not clear. The present study explored the extent to which individual differences in previously expressed fear of a specific stress
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The study concerns the experimental use of several commercially-published aptitude tests and a determination of their validity as predictors of training-performance grades for more than 300 Marines and over 600 Naval students who entered a basic air-traffic-controller (ATC) training course. The results indicated that a composite score involving onl
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Drugs and alcohol are frequently cited as major causes of automobile accidents. Druges are rarely reported as a cause of aircraft accidents. This is due to the relatively infrequent search for their presence and to unprecise definition of levels at which most of them begin to impair pilot performance.
Increased overwater flight has resulted in an increase in both military ejections and civil crash landings in water, 78 general aviation water accidents occurring in 1965. The objective of the study was to determine mechanisms of gross trauma in non-penetrating fatal water impact.The method involved analysis of necropsy data on 169 fatal (52 female
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In a study of 54 human subjects using three alcohol consumption levels and three simulated cabin conditions it was found that alcohol caused an increase in heart rate and an increase in skin temperature. Internal body temperature was lower with alcohol but did increase as blood alcohol levels decreased. The performance tests used apparently were no
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The recent use of strobe lights in aviation suggests the possibility of using temporal patterns of short duration flashes as information-carrying signals. Under night flight conditions, two-flash thresholds were obtained using a two-interval, temporal forced-choice technique with foveally fixated circular targets varying in luminance and area. For
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Pilot response to peripheral vision cues relating to aircraft bank angle was studied during instrument flight in two simulators representing (1) a conventional, medium weight, piston engine airliner, and (2) a heavy, jet engine, sweptwing transport. There was no statistically significant difference found between pilot performance in the dissimilar
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Fifteen of the most popular single-engine general-aviation light aircraft were tested for the noise intensity present during normal cruising operations at 2000, and 10,000 feet MSL (mean sea level). In comparison with currently accepted DRC (damage-risk criterion) curves, the noise levels found even in the quietest plane tested could be damaging. H
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Although the systems approach to design is usually thought of as having applications only in the field of hardware systems design, from whence it came, systems methodology and philosophy are also applicable to the design of computer software systems. The NGI (Numeric Ground Image) Systems Design study is an example of the systems approach to the de
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The objectives of this study were; (1) to develop a computer program~ from a mathematical model, to be used in determining the dynamic response of light poles subjected to steady winds, (2) to determine the dynamic response of two typical light poles with typical luminaires attached for wind velocities between 0 and 50 miles per hour, and (3) from
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This publication consists of a state-of-the-art report on maintenance of bituminous highway surfaces in the state of Texas. The publication reflects a review of the literature, and a field survey of materials, equipment, and techniques used for typical bituminous surface maintenance operations. Descriptions of the successful maintenance operations
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Four different measuring devices for use in evaluating highway surface roughness were investigated in this study. Two, the CHLOE Profilometer (1), and the Bureau of Public Roads Roughometer with mechanical integrator (newer Bureau of Public Roads Roughometers are equipped with an electronic integrator) (2), are well known and have been compared pre
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This study was concerned with calibrating and testing the gravity model trip distribution using a small sized urban area - Waco, Texas. An analysis of trip purpose stratification was performed, and it was concluded that no practical differences resulted between a seven purpose, a three purpose, and a single purpose model. Upon converting production
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The objective of this phase of Research Study 2-8-63-60 was the analysis of trip generation by traffic assignment zones. Particular items of concern were the relative efficiency of different independent variables used for trip estimates, the effect of stratification of trips by purpose and/or direction, and the comparison of multiple regression wit
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The broad objective of the research described in this report is to establish whether the resistance to penetration predicted by any of the commonly used pile driving formulas agrees with that found by the wave equation, and if so, to determine which piles, driving hammers, and soil resistances provide agreement. The use of the wave equation to dete
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