Evaluating Nonlinear Methods to Generate Flood Hydrographs for Bridge Scour Applications

Road safety is a crucial topic of transportation engineering. The Wyoming Department of Transportation (WYDOT) collects such data from police crash reports and roadway inventories. WYDOT also provides those data to its partner groups in the form of data records or summary statistics documented in periodical reports. The groups include the Wyoming Seat Belt Coalition, the Wyoming Highway Patrol, the Wyoming Association of Sheriffs and Chiefs of Police, the Wyoming Transportation Safety Coalition, the Governor\u2019s Council on Impaired Driving, Wyoming\u2019s counties, the Wyoming Bicycle and Pedestrian System Task Force, and motorcycle groups. In this research, surveys were prepared, distributed to, and collected from those groups asking about the quality of the data they receive from WYDOT, particularly when it comes to data provision frequencies and unreported data that would be beneficial to those groups. In addition, big data analyses were conducted to evaluate human factors influencing crash occurrences and data provision frequencies. This research\u2019s efforts culminated in lists of recommendations to WYDOT regarding the provision of higher quality data at appropriate frequencies to its partners

Peter Harris : A Survey of Fifteen Years

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Evaluating Nonlinear Methods to Generate Flood Hydrographs for Bridge Scour Applications [Research Brief]

MPC-619Project Title: Evaluating Nonlinear Methods for Flood Hydrograph Generation to Evaluate Bridge ScourThis research examined the effects of the nonlinear relationship between excess precipitation and peak stream flow on bridge scour evaluations. A hydrologic modeling system (HEC-HMS) model was developed to estimate peak discharges based on design storms from the regional extreme precipitation study. A river analysis system (HEC-RAS) model was then used to model stream hydraulics and to drive scour calculations for a case study on Cheyenne Creek in Colorado

Sexual and reproductive health outcomes are positively associated with comprehensive sexual education exposure in Mexican high-school students

<div><p>Objectives</p><p>To describe the comprehensive sex education (CSE) coverage and to evaluate a set of indicators related to knowledge, attitudes, and practices associated with the seven components of the CSE framework among Mexican high-school students.</p><p>Methods</p><p>We conducted a cross-sectional survey of a nationally representative sample of students in public and private high schools in Mexico. Questions about CSE coverage and about knowledge, attitudes, and practices related to sexual health were included. We present descriptive statistics for demographic characteristics, exposure to CSE, and sexual health outcomes. We fitted a series of multivariate logistic regression models to examine the association between each CSE component exposure and sexual health outcomes, adjusting for age and sex.</p><p>Results</p><p>There were significant associations between being exposed to each CSE components and the related sexual health outcomes. The strongest one was for identifying effective contraceptives among those exposed to the Sexual and Reproductive Health component (SRH) (OR 4.10; 95%CI[2.93,5.75]). Also, students exposed to the relationships component had 20% higher odds of affirming they could convince their partner to use condoms (OR 1.20; 95%CI[1.05,1.36]).</p><p>Conclusions</p><p>This paper provides evidence of the potential beneficial effects of CSE on attitudes, knowledge, and behaviors regarding sexual and reproductive health among adolescents. In addition, it identifies areas that should be strengthened to increase the positive impact of CSE.</p></div

Distribution of outcomes related to CSE components by gender, México 2014.

<p>Distribution of outcomes related to CSE components by gender, México 2014.</p

Distribution of Comprehensive Sexual Education coverage by gender, Mexico 2014.

<p>Distribution of Comprehensive Sexual Education coverage by gender, Mexico 2014.</p