Concept Highway Maintenance Vehicle, Final Report, Phase Two, 1998

This report documents Phase II activities of a potentially four-phase project. The goal of the project is to study the feasibility of using advanced technologies from other industries to improve the efficiency and safety of winter highway maintenance vehicle operations. State departments of transportation from Iowa, Minnesota, and Michigan initially formed the study consortium, and several private vendors have become project partners. The Center for Transportation Research and Education (CTRE) at Iowa State University is managing project task

Aeronautical Engineering: A continuing bibliography with indexes (supplement 177)

This bibliography lists 469 reports, articles and other documents introduced into the NASA scientific and technical information system in July 1984

Aeronautical engineering: A continuing bibliography with indexes (supplement 282)

This bibliography lists 623 reports, articles, and other documents introduced into the NASA scientific and technical information system in Aug. 1992. The coverage includes documents on the engineering and theoretical aspects of design, construction, evaluation, testing, operation, and performance of aircraft (including aircraft engines) and associated components, equipment, and systems. It also includes research and development in aerodynamics, aeronautics, and ground support equipment for aeronautical vehicles

Energy Efficiency

This book is one of the most comprehensive and up-to-date books written on Energy Efficiency. The readers will learn about different technologies for energy efficiency policies and programs to reduce the amount of energy. The book provides some studies and specific sets of policies and programs that are implemented in order to maximize the potential for energy efficiency improvement. It contains unique insights from scientists with academic and industrial expertise in the field of energy efficiency collected in this multi-disciplinary forum

Exercise in residential aged care – effects on falls, physical performance, quality of life and health care costs

This thesis investigates the implications of falls in residential aged care and provides evidence for exercise as a clinically and cost-effective intervention. The opening chapters present gaps in evidence and form the rationale for the studies undertaken. The first is a cluster randomised controlled trial to test the effectiveness of the Sunbeam Program which was designed to incorporate the key components of effective exercises for falls prevention in community dwellers. Falls rate was the primary outcome measure, a range of secondary outcomes were taken including; quality of life, physical performance, functional mobility, fear of falling and cognition. The trial included 16 clusters and 221 residents, 8 clusters were randomly allocated to receive the program and 8 continued usual care. Progressive resistance and balance training was individually prescribed and upgraded over 50 one- hour sessions provided twice weekly for 25 weeks in a group setting. At 12-months, there was a significant reduction of 55% in the rate of falls for those in the Sunbeam Program (incidence rate ratio = 0.45 (95% confidence interval 0.17 - 0.74). These findings are important as this is the first trial that provides strong evidence for exercise as an effective counter measure to falls in this setting. A significant improvement was also demonstrated in physical performance (p = 0‧02). The Sunbeam Program cost $AUD 463 per person to deliver and the incremental cost effectiveness ratio per fall avoided was$AUD 22. These outcomes are compared to other falls prevention programs and demonstrate cost effectiveness. These studies have important implications for residents of aged care as the intervention is relatively simple to scale with the potential to improve health outcomes as well as reduce healthcare costs

Aeronautical Engineering: A continuing bibliography, supplement 120

This bibliography contains abstracts for 297 reports, articles, and other documents introduced into the NASA scientific and technical information system in February 1980

Low-Carbon City Policy Databook: 72 Policy Recommendations for Chinese Cities from the Benchmarking and Energy Savings Tool for Low Carbon Cities

This report is designed to help city authorities evaluate and prioritize more than 70 different policy strategies that can reduce their city’s energy use and carbon-based greenhouse gas emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4). Local government officials, researchers, and planners can utilize the report to identify policies most relevant to local circumstances and to develop a low carbon city action plan that can be implemented in phases, over a multi-year timeframe. The policies cover nine city sectors: industry, public and commercial buildings, residential buildings, transportation, power and heat, street lighting, water & wastewater, solid waste, and urban green space. See Table 1 for a listing of the policies. Recognizing the prominence of urban industry in the energy and carbon inventories of Chinese cities, this report includes low carbon city policies for the industrial sector. The policies gathered here have proven effective in multiple locations around the world and have the potential to achieve future energy and carbon savings in Chinese cities

Aeronautical Engineering: A continuing bibliography

This bibliography lists 347 reports, articles and other documents introduced into the scientific and technical information system. Documents on the engineering and theoretical aspects of design, construction, evaluation, testing, operation, and performance of aircraft (including aircraft engines) and associated compounds, equipment, and systems are included. Research and development in aerodynamics, aeronautics and ground support equipment for aeronautical vehicles are also included