Communicating the Safety Benefits of Alternative Intersections

The number of projects employing an alternative intersection design is increasing on both state and local roads, and it is important for agencies to know how to inform the public about the benefits they can expect from these infrastructure investments. In this session we discuss the crash reduction effects of these designs and present videos that can help explain your agency’s design choices

Safety for the Most Vulnerable

Traffic safety numbers indicate that fatalities of pedestrians, bicyclists, and other vulnerable users have risen between 50% to 100% nationally over the past decade. This remarkable increase should make all overseers of a road system, local or state, reassess how vulnerable users can be accommodated and implement strategies to make our roads safer for all users. Join us and learn how you can improve safety for all

Indiana’s New Strategic Highway Safety Plan

Over the past 2 years, Indiana has been part of a nationwide surge in the number of motor vehicle fatalities and serious injuries. Even before that time, traffic deaths remained stubbornly high in comparison to other industrial peer nations. In 2022, INDOT engaged with stakeholders and partners inside and outside of state government to create a new Strategic Highway Safety Plan (SHSP). The new SHSP is aligned with the FHWA Safe Systems Approach and will help facilitate the changes brought by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Legislation (BIL Act) to state and local safety programs. This presentation will introduce the structure of the new SHSP, how data-driven analysis leads us to these strategies, and action plans to improve roadway safety throughout Indiana

Safety Analysis For All Projects

The reduction of roadway fatalities and serious injuries is a key goal of INDOT. In order to meet the vision of zero roadway deaths, the analysis of motor vehicle crash risk is an important part of project development. This session will discuss how INDOT is bringing appropriate safety analysis practices to the development of engineering assessment (scoping) preparation and into the design process

Self-report of depressive symptomatology and daily hassles: Effects of instructional set, gender, and gender role orientation.

Previous research has demonstrated that experimental cues, whether overt or subtle, intended or unintended, affect experimental behavior. More specifically, investigators from various research areas have shown that cues within a testing or experimental setting can affect responding to self-report instruments. Differences in the self-report of depressive symptomatology and daily hassles according to gender, gender role orientation, and manipulated instructional set were investigated. It was hypothesized that both depression scores and hassles scores would differ according to manipulated instructional set. It was also hypothesized that the depression and hassles scores of males and females would differ significantly, and that scores would differ according to reported gender role orientation. Undergraduate university students, 258 in total, in responding to a questionnaire, provided information regarding depressive symptomatology, daily hassles, and gender role orientation. The depression and hassles scores for males and females were not significantly different. Those individuals with a feminine gender role orientation and those classified as undifferentiated were found to have significantly higher depression and hassles scores than individuals reporting either a masculine or androgynous role orientation. Manipulated experimental cues did not significantly affect self-reported experience, since neither depression nor hassles scores differed significantly among four instructional sets.Dept. of Psychology. Paper copy at Leddy Library: Theses & Major Papers - Basement, West Bldg. / Call Number: Thesis1995 .H64. Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 34-06, page: 2478. Adviser: Stewart Page. Thesis (M.A.)--University of Windsor (Canada), 1995

Process characteristics of client-identified helpful events in emotion-focused therapy for adult survivors of childhood abuse (EFT-AS).

Few studies have investigated client views of helpful processes within trauma therapies, and it is not known whether clients find controversial reexperiencing interventions useful. The present study used archival data (client self-report questionnaires, interviews, and videotapes of therapy sessions) collected as part of a larger process-outcome investigation (Paivio & Nieuwenhuis, 2001) to examine process characteristics of client-identified helpful events (HE) (N = 29) and researcher-identified control events (CE) (N = 29) in Emotion Focused Therapy for Adult Survivors of Childhood Abuse (EFT-AS). HE were identified by clients on Helpful Aspects of Therapy Questionnaires (HAT; R. Elliott, 1985; Llewelyn, 1988) and post-treatment interviews (PTI; Paivio & Nieuwenhuis, 2001). HE then were located in videotaped sessions and criteria were used to select one event for examination from each client. CE for each client were selected from sessions which did not contain HE, and were from the same stage of therapy as the HE. Selected events were examined from an observer perspective to determine if HE were distinguished from the remainder of therapy (CE) in terms of child abuse content and emotion processes. The Client Experiencing Scale (EXP; Klein, Mathieu-Coughlan, & Kiesler, 1986) and the Emotional Arousal Scale (EAS; Daldrup, Beutler, Engle, & Greenberg, 1988) were used to rate emotion processes. Available client ratings on the Working Alliance Inventory (WAI; Horvath & Greenberg, 1989) from sessions containing HE and CE also were examined. Results indicated that HE were characterized by a greater focus on child abuse material, greater use of the exposure-based imaginal confrontation (IC) intervention, and higher levels of both modal and peak emotional arousal compared to CE. Statistically significant differences in level of experiencing between HE and CE were not found, possibly due to insufficient power. Finally, the therapeutic alliance was equally strong in HE and CE sessions. Results support key features of EFT-AS and the benefits of the IC reexperiencing intervention in this sample of abuse survivors. As well, results support the reliability and validity of client perspectives about aspects of therapy that are critical to change.Dept. of Psychology. Paper copy at Leddy Library: Theses & Major Papers - Basement, West Bldg. / Call Number: Thesis2004 .H65. Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-07, Section: B, page: 3710. Adviser: Sandra Paivio. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Windsor (Canada), 2004

Comparative study: drying of yerba mate with wood forest implanted vs wood chip

En cumplimiento de la normativa vigente en la provincia de Misiones, las industrias yerbateras han sustituido en sus procesos el uso de leña de bosque nativo por leña de bosque implantado y en menor medida por chip de madera del mismo origen. Cada tipo de combustible tiene una tecnología específica de quemado. El objetivo del presente trabajo fue comparar los dos métodos de secado, para evaluar la incidencia de cada uno sobre los parámetros de calidad del producto final y la eficiencia económica del proceso. Se han encontrado diferencias significativas en las propiedades fisicoquímicas al comparar los métodos utilizados. Se determinó en muestras procesadas con chip menor dispersión de valores de cada variable fisicoquímica. Los costos de producción se redujeron un 29,73% respecto de la leña de bosque implantado. Se determinó que con chip se logra un producto con mejores atributos de calidad y procesos productivos económicamente más eficientesIn compliance with the regulations in force in the province of Misiones, the yerba mate industries have replaced their processes using native wood for firewood planted forest and to a lesser extent chip of wood of the same origin. Each type has a specific fuel burning technology. In compliance with current regulations in the province of Misiones, the yerba mate industries have substituted in their processes the use of native forest firewood by implanted forest firewood and to a lesser extent by wood chip of the same origin. Each type has a specific fuel burning technology. The aim of this study was to compare the two methods of drying, to assess the impact of each on the parameters of product quality and economic efficiency of the process. We found significant differences in physicochemical properties by comparing the methods used. It was determined less dispersion of values of each physicochemical variable in samples processed with chip. Production costs were reduced by 29.73% compared to forest firewood. It was determined that with chip a product of better quality and more efficient economically productive processes is achieved.Fil: Holowaty, Santiago Alexi. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Nordeste. Instituto de Materiales de Misiones. Universidad Nacional de Misiones. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas Químicas y Naturales. Instituto de Materiales de Misiones; ArgentinaFil: Martinez, Mirta C.. Universidad Nacional de Misiones. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Químicas y Naturales; ArgentinaFil: Brignardello, Adriana E.. Universidad Nacional de Misiones. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Químicas y Naturales; ArgentinaFil: Schmalko Radichowski, Miguel Eduardo. Universidad Nacional de Misiones. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Químicas y Naturales; Argentin