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    ํ•ด๋ฐฉ ํ›„ ๊ณต๋ฏผ๊ณผ ๋†๋ฏผ ์ฃผ์ฒด์— ๊ด€ํ•œ ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ •์˜ ์ ‘๊ทผ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ: โธข๋†๋ฏผ์ฃผ๋ณดโธฅ์˜ ๋‚ด์šฉ๋ถ„์„์„ ์ค‘์‹ฌ์œผ๋กœ

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    ํ•™์œ„๋…ผ๋ฌธ(์„์‚ฌ)--์„œ์šธ๋Œ€ํ•™๊ต ๋Œ€ํ•™์› :์‚ฌ๋ฒ”๋Œ€ํ•™ ํ˜‘๋™๊ณผ์ • ๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ๊ต์œกํ˜‘๋ ฅ์ „๊ณต,2019. 8. ๊ฐ•๋Œ€์ค‘.The purpose of this study is to explore how the intentions of the United States Army Military Government in Korea (USAMGIK, 1945-1948) were represented in the Farmers Weekly, published by the Department of Public Information, in terms of enlightening farmers as a new subject of newly-independent South Korea. This study conducts a qualitative content analysis of the Farmers Weekly to illustrate the aspects of literacy that are found in it and the subjectivity the military government intended to produce through such literacy. The newspaper is viewed as a literacy education texts in that it contained contents on knowledge, attitudes, values, and practices to cultivate a certain literacy. The contents of the Farmers Weekly are categorized into three groups based on the types of literacy they foster: basic, political, and agricultural literacy. The basic literacy contents are subdivided into Korean literacy, the history of Korea, and health. The political literacy contents comprise the following: the USAMGIKs policies, activities, and political perspectives; criticisms against the communist Soviet Unions; and democracy and political participation. The agricultural literacy contents include food policies, crop cultivation techniques, animal husbandry, and farmers virtues. These contents are restructured as the literacy required for the kongmin (civics)โ€”a political subjectโ€”and the farmerโ€”an economic subject. The kongmin is the subject who realizes nation-building and democracy within the US-led liberal camp while conforming to the national authority. Literacy for the kongmin is composed of, first, basic literacy of Hanguel, Korean history, and health and, second, political literacy comprising appreciation of democracy, pro-US and anti-Soviet perspectives, and conformity to the national authority. This was a noticeable switch from colonial education for imperial subjects, characteristic of the approach of the military government (MG) to the political subject of a democratic state in the context of the Cold War. The conformity required of the kongmin, however, had the potential to override the value for democracy, amid highly nationalistic colonial legacies remaining in education, as it meant refraining from active political participation. The farmer is a rational economic subject, who is required for scientific literacy for farming. The literate farmer also learns to become not only self-reliant to break the cycle of individual poverty but also devoted to supporting the national economy. This incorporates both the United States introduction to a rational way of thinking and practice in farming, as well as values that were conventionally required of farmers from the late colonial period with continuing rural poverty, limited governmental financial support, and procrastination of land reforms after the liberation. As such, the subjectivity the USAMGIK intended through the medium of the Farmers Weekly had distinctive characteristics but was also based upon the educational contexts intertwined with political and economic contexts unfolding from the colonial period into liberated Korea. This thesis provides a better understanding of literacy education for farmers. It discusses the features of literacy that the MG required farmers to learn, in terms of making them the new subjects of independent Korea. It also contributes to an understanding of the features of farmers economic as well as political subjectivity, while previous research was more inclined to solely investigate political subjectivity focusing on kongmin in the political contexts of the Cold War.์ด ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์˜ ๋ชฉ์ ์€ ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ • (1945๋…„-1948๋…„)์ด ๋†๋ฏผ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์˜๋„ํ–ˆ๋˜ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ๊ตญ๊ฐ€์˜ ์ฃผ์ฒด์˜ ๋ชจ์Šต์ด ๊ณต๋ณด๋ถ€๊ฐ€ ๋ฐœ๊ฐ„ํ•œ ์‹ ๋ฌธ โธข๋†๋ฏผ์ฃผ๋ณดโธฅ์— ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚˜ ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€ ํƒ๊ตฌํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค. โธข๋†๋ฏผ์ฃผ๋ณดโธฅ์— ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚˜๋Š” ๋ฌธํ•ด์˜ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์ธก๋ฉด๋“ค์„ ๋ถ„์„ํ•˜๊ณ , ์ด๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ •์ด ์–ด๋–ค ์ข…๋ฅ˜์˜ ์ฃผ์ฒด์„ฑ์„ ์ƒ์‚ฐํ•˜๊ณ ์ž ํ–ˆ๋Š”์ง€ ๋“œ๋Ÿฌ๋‚ด๊ณ ์ž ํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค. ๋ณธ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ๋Š” โธข๋†๋ฏผ์ฃผ๋ณดโธฅ๋ฅผ ๋ฌธํ•ด๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•œ ํŠน์ •ํ•œ ์ง€์‹, ํƒœ๋„, ๊ฐ€์น˜๊ด€, ์‹ค์ฒœ ๋‚ด์šฉ์„ ๋‹ด๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ฌธํ•ด๊ต์œก ๊ต์žฌ๋กœ ๋ณด๊ณ , ์งˆ์  ๋‚ด์šฉ๋ถ„์„์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ด์™€ ๊ฐ™์€ ๋ฌธ์ œ๋ฅผ ํƒ๊ตฌํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค. โธข๋†๋ฏผ์ฃผ๋ณดโธฅ์˜ ๋‚ด์šฉ์€ ์œกํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฌธํ•ด์˜ ์ข…๋ฅ˜์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ์„ธ ๊ทธ๋ฃน์œผ๋กœ ๋‚˜๋‰œ๋‹ค. ์ฒซ์งธ, ๊ธฐ์ดˆ ๋ฌธํ•ด๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•œ ๋‚ด์šฉ์€ ํ•œ๊ธ€ ๋ฌธํ•ด, ํ•œ๊ตญ์‚ฌ, ๋ณด๊ฑด ๋ฐ ์œ„์ƒ ๊ต์œก์œผ๋กœ ์ด๋ฃจ์–ด์ ธ ์žˆ๋‹ค. ๋‘˜์งธ, ์ •์น˜ ๋ฌธํ•ด๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•œ ๋‚ด์šฉ์€ ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ •์˜ ์ •์ฑ…, ํ™œ๋™, ์ •์น˜์  ๊ด€์ , ์†Œ๋ จ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ฒฝ๊ณ„์™€ ๋น„ํŒ, ๋ฏผ์ฃผ์ฃผ์˜ ๋ฐ ์ •์น˜ ์ฐธ์—ฌ๋กœ ๊ตฌ์„ฑ๋œ๋‹ค. ์…‹์งธ, ๋†์—… ๋ฌธํ•ด๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•œ ๋‚ด์šฉ์€ ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ •์˜ ์‹๋Ÿ‰ ์ •์ฑ…, ์ž‘๋ฌผ ์žฌ๋ฐฐ๋ฒ•, ์ถ•์‚ฐ๋ฒ•, ๋†๋ฏผ์œผ๋กœ์„œ ๊ฐ–์ถฐ์•ผ ํ•  ๋ฏธ๋•์„ ํฌ๊ด„ํ•œ๋‹ค. ์ด ๋‚ด์šฉ๋“ค์€ ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ •์ด ์ •์น˜์  ์ฃผ์ฒด์ธ ๊ณต๋ฏผ์—๊ฒŒ ์š”๊ตฌํ•œ ๋ฌธํ•ด์™€ ๊ฒฝ์ œ์  ์ฃผ์ฒด์ธ ๋†๋ฏผ์—๊ฒŒ ์š”๊ตฌํ•œ ๋ฌธํ•ด๋กœ ์žฌ์กฐ์ง๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ •์€ ๋†๋ฏผ๋“ค์„ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์˜ ์ž์œ ์ง„์˜ ์•ˆ์—์„œ ๋ฏผ์ฃผ์ฃผ์˜์™€ ๊ตญ๊ฐ€๊ฑด์„ค์„ ์‹คํ˜„ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ณต๋ฏผ์œผ๋กœ ๊ต์œกํ•˜๊ณ ์ž ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ, ๊ณต๋ฏผ์€ ๊ตญ๊ฐ€์˜ ํ•„์š”์— ์ฒ ์ €ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ˆœ์‘์ ์ธ ์ฃผ์ฒด์—ฌ์•ผ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. โธข๋†๋ฏผ์ฃผ๋ณดโธฅ๋Š” ๊ณต๋ฏผ์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ํ•œ๊ธ€, ๊ตญ์‚ฌ, ๋ณด๊ฑด ์ง€์‹ ๋ฐ ์‹ค์ฒœ์œผ๋กœ ๊ตฌ์„ฑ๋œ ๊ธฐ์ดˆ ๋ฌธํ•ด์™€ ๋ฏผ์ฃผ์ฃผ์˜ ๋ฐ ์นœ๋ฏธ-๋ฐ˜์†Œ์˜ ๊ด€์ , ๊ตญ๊ฐ€ ๊ถŒ์œ„ ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ดํ•ด์™€ ์ˆ˜์šฉ์œผ๋กœ ๊ตฌ์„ฑ๋œ ์ •์น˜ ๋ฌธํ•ด๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€๋ฅด์ณค๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ์ผ์ œ๊ฐ•์ ๊ธฐ ํ™ฉ๊ตญ์‹ ๋ฏผ์—์„œ ์ง„์ผ๋ณดํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ, ๋ƒ‰์ „ ํ•˜์—์„œ ๋ฏผ์ฃผ ๊ตญ๊ฐ€์˜ ์ •์น˜์  ์ฃผ์ฒด ๊ต์œก์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ •์˜ ๋…ํŠนํ•œ ์ ‘๊ทผ์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ค€๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ๊ตญ๊ฐ€ ๊ถŒ์œ„์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ˆœ์‘์„ ๊ฐ•์กฐํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์€ ๊ทน๋„๋กœ ๊ตญ๊ฐ€์ฃผ์˜์ ์ธ ์‹๋ฏผ์ง€๊ธฐ ๊ต์œก์˜ ์ž”์žฌ๊ฐ€ ๋‚จ์•„ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ƒํ™ฉ์—์„œ ๊ณต๋ฏผ์œผ๋กœ ํ•˜์—ฌ๊ธˆ ๊ตญ๊ฐ€์˜ ๊ถŒ์œ„์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ˆœ์‘์„ ๋ฏผ์ฃผ์ ์ธ ๊ฐ€์น˜์™€ ์‹ค์ฒœ๋ณด๋‹ค ์šฐ์„ ์‹œ ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ํ•  ์ˆ˜๋„ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ, ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ •์€ ๋†๋ฏผ์„ ํ•ฉ๋ฆฌ์  ๊ฒฝ์ œ ์ฃผ์ฒด๋กœ ๊ณ„๋ชฝํ•˜๊ณ ์ž ํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•ด์„œ ๋†๋ฏผ๋“ค์€ ๋†์‚ฌ์ผ์— ์ ํ•ฉํ•œ ๊ณผํ•™ ๋ฌธํ•ด์™€ ๋†์‚ฌ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ํ•ฉ๋ฆฌ์ ์ธ ์‚ฌ๊ณ ๋ฐฉ์‹๊ณผ ์‹ค์ฒœ์„ ๋ฐฐ์›Œ์•ผ๋งŒ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ, ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ •์ด ๋†๋ฏผ์—๊ฒŒ ์š”๊ตฌํ•œ ๋ฌธํ•ด๋Š” ๋นˆ๊ณค์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ฐœ์ธ์  ์ฑ…์ž„์˜์‹๊ณผ ๊ตญ๊ฐ€ ๊ฒฝ์ œ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ํ—Œ์‹ ๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ๊ฐ€์น˜๊ด€๋„ ํฌํ•จํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ •์ด ๊ฒฝ์ œ์  ์ฃผ์ฒด๋กœ์„œ์˜ ๋†๋ฏผ์ด ์ƒˆ๋กญ๊ฒŒ ์†Œ๊ฐœ๋œ ํ•ฉ๋ฆฌ์„ฑ์„ ์Šต๋“ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ๋„, ๊ฐ€์น˜๊ด€ ์ธก๋ฉด์—์„œ๋Š” ์ง€์†๋˜๋Š” ๋†์ดŒ ๋นˆ๊ณค, ๊ตญ๊ฐ€ ์ง€์›์˜ ์ œํ•œ, ๋†์ง€ ๊ฐœํ˜์˜ ์ง€์ฒด ์†์—์„œ ์ผ์ œ๊ฐ•์ ๊ธฐ ํ›„๋ฐ˜ ์ดํ›„ ์ค„๊ณง ๋†๋ฏผ์—๊ฒŒ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€๋˜์—ˆ๋˜ ๋ฐ”๋ฅผ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์˜๋„ํ–ˆ์Œ์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ค€๋‹ค. ์ด์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์ •์ด ์˜๋„ํ•œ ๋†๋ฏผ์˜ ์ฃผ์ฒด์„ฑ์€ ๊ทธ ์‹œ๊ธฐ์˜ ๋…ํŠนํ•œ ํŠน์ง•์„ ๋„๊ณ  ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ๋™์‹œ์— ์ผ์ œ๊ฐ•์ ๊ธฐ ํ›„๋ฐ˜๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ํ•ด๋ฐฉ ์ดํ›„๊นŒ์ง€ ์ง€์†๋˜์–ด ์˜ค๋˜ ์—ญ์‚ฌ์  ๋งฅ๋ฝ์„ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜์œผ๋กœ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๊ธฐ๋„ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION ๏ผ‘ 1.1. Background ๏ผ‘ 1.2. Statement of the Problem ๏ผ– 1.3 Research Purpose and Questions ๏ผ‘๏ผ’ 1.4 Significance of the Study ๏ผ‘๏ผ“ CHAPTER II. LITERATURE REVIEW ๏ผ‘๏ผ” 2.1 Education in the Late Japanese Colonial Era ๏ผ‘๏ผ” 2.1.1 Nationalist Social Education ๏ผ‘๏ผ” 2.1.2 Farmers Enlightenment and the Rural Community Development ๏ผ‘๏ผ– 2.2 Civics Education under the United States Army Military Government in Korea (USAMGIK) ๏ผ’๏ผ“ 2.2.1 Democratic Nation-Building and Civics Education ๏ผ’๏ผ“ 2.2.2 Civics and Farmers Enlightenment ๏ผ’๏ผ˜ 2.3 Literacy ๏ผ“๏ผ‘ 2.3.1 Functional Approach ๏ผ“๏ผ’ 2.3.2 Critical Approach ๏ผ“๏ผ• 2.3.3 Expanding the Concept of Literacy ๏ผ“๏ผ— CHAPTER III. METHODOLOGY ๏ผ“๏ผ™ 3.1 Qualitative Content Analysis ๏ผ“๏ผ™ 3.2 Overview of the Farmers Weekly ๏ผ”๏ผ 3.2.1 The Publisher and Publishing Purpose ๏ผ”๏ผ 3.2.2 The Farmers Weekly as a Literacy Education Text ๏ผ”๏ผ“ 3.3 Analysis Process ๏ผ”๏ผ— CHAPTER โ…ฃ. FINDINGS ๏ผ•๏ผ” 4.1 Basic Literacy ๏ผ•๏ผ” 4.1.1 Hangeul and Korean History ๏ผ•๏ผ” 4.1.2 Health and Hygiene ๏ผ•๏ผ• 4.2 Political Literacy ๏ผ•๏ผ— 4.2.1. The USAMGIKs Policies, Activities, and Political Perspectives ๏ผ•๏ผ— 4.2.2. Criticisms against the communist Soviet Unions ๏ผ–๏ผ” 4.2.3. Democracy and Political Participation ๏ผ–๏ผ• 4.3 Agricultural Literacy ๏ผ—๏ผ’ 4.3.1 Food Control Policies ๏ผ—๏ผ’ 4.3.2 Crop Cultivation Techniques ๏ผ—๏ผ— 4.3.3. Animal Husbandry Techniques ๏ผ˜๏ผ” 4.3.4 Farmers Virtues ๏ผ™๏ผ CHAPTER โ…ค. DISCUSSION ๏ผ™๏ผ• 5.1 Literacy for the Kongmin ๏ผ™๏ผ• 5.1.1 The Basic Literacy ๏ผ™๏ผ– 5.1.2 The Political Literacy Required ๏ผ™๏ผ— 5.1.2 The Political Literacy Excluded ๏ผ‘๏ผ๏ผ” 5.2 Literacy for the Farmer ๏ผ‘๏ผ๏ผ• 5.2.1 The Scientific Literacy for Farming ๏ผ‘๏ผ๏ผ– 5.2.2 The Values Required ๏ผ‘๏ผ‘๏ผ CHAPTER โ…ฅ. CONCLUSION ๏ผ‘๏ผ‘๏ผ• BIBLIOGRAPHY ๏ผ‘๏ผ’๏ผ ๊ตญ๋ฌธ์ดˆ๋ก ๏ผ‘๏ผ“๏ผ Acknowledgements ๏ผ‘๏ผ“๏ผ’Maste

    Correlated parameters in driving behavior models: car-following example and implications for traffic microsimulation

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    Behavioral parameters in car following and other models of driving behavior are expected to be correlated. An investigation is conducted into the effect of ignoring correlations in three parameters of car-following models on the resulting movement and properties of a simulated heterogeneous vehicle traffic stream. For each model specification, parameters are calibrated for the entire sample of individual drivers with Next Generation Simulation trajectory data. Factor analysis is performed to understand the pattern of relationships between parameters on the basis of calibrated data. Correlation coefficients have been used to show statistically significant correlation between the parameters. Simulation experiments are performed with vehicle parameter sets generated with and without considering such correlation. First, parameter values are sampled from the empirical mass functions, and simulated results show significant difference in output measures when parameter correlation is captured (versus ignored). Next, parameters are sampled under the assumption that they follow the multivariate normal distribution. Results suggest that the use of parametric distribution with known correlation structure may not sufficiently reduce the error due to ignoring correlation if the underlying assumption does not hold for both marginal and joint distributions

    Determination of melanin types and relative concentrations: an observational study using a non-invasive inverse skin reflectance analysis

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    Objective: Melanin is a major skin colour pigment that made up of eumelanin (the dark brownโ€“black colour) and pheomelanin (the light redโ€“yellow colour) pigments. Skin-whitening products typically contain depigmentation agents that reduce the level of pigmentation by changing the pheomelaninโ€“eumelanin production. Similarly, in skin pigment treatment of skin disorders, the melanin production is managed accordingly. To assess and improve treatment efficacy, it is important to have a measurement tool that is capable of determining the melanin types objectively. So far, the efficacy assessment is subjective. In this study, an inverse skin reflectance pigmentation analysis system that determines eumelanin and pheomelanin content is developed and evaluated in an observational study involving 36 participants with skin photo type IV. Methods: The reflectance spectra of the left forearms of participants were analysed by the pigmentation analysis system to determine their skin parameters โ€“ pheomelanin and eumelanin concentrations, melanosome volume fraction, and epidermal thickness. The determined skin parameters are then inputted into the realistic skin model (RSM) of the Advanced Systems Analyses Program (asapยฎ) to generate the ground truth reflectance spectra for the given skin parameters to validate the system. Results: The developed pigmentation analysis system is found to be accurate with a spectral error of 0.0163 ยฑ 0.009 between measured reflectance and the reflectance output of the analysis system and RSM. The regression analysis shows a strong linear relationship (R2 = 0.994) indicating good precision. The relative concentrations of pheomelanin (38.23 ยฑ 15.04) and eumelanin (1.68 ยฑ 0.91) analysed by the system gives a ratio of pheomelanin to eumelanin of 0.048 ยฑ 0.029; this value is consistent with previously reported figure of 0.049. Conclusion: The proposed pigmentation analysis system is able to determine melanin types and their relative concentrations. It has the potential to assess the efficacy of the skin-whitening and pigmentation treatments objectively in a non-invasive manner

    Likelihood and duration of flow breakdown: modeling the effect of weather

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    The effect of rain on freeway flow breakdown behavior is investigated. Three aspects of flow breakdown are analyzed for rain versus no rain (clear) weather conditions. First, the probability of breakdown occurrence is examined by analyzing the distribution of prebreakdown flow rates observed immediately before the onset of traffic breakdown by using a survival analysis approach. At all study sections, a reduction with prebreakdown flow rates is observed under rain conditions compared with distributions under no rain and confirms higher breakdown likelihoods at lower flows. Log likelihood ratio tests confirm the statistical significance of differences in the prebreakdown flow rate distribution parameters under rain compared with clear conditions. Second, breakdown duration is examined by estimating a semiparametric Cox proportional hazard model. With a rain event indicator set as an independent variable, the effect of rain on breakdown duration is observed. Rain during a breakdown episode is found to increase its duration, whereas rain before breakdown does not appear to affect duration. Finally, prebreakdown and postbreakdown flow rates are compared. Overall, while a reduction in prebreakdown flow rates is observed because of rain, the flow drop between prebreakdown and postbreakdown is not much different between rain (3.9% to 12.0%) and no rain (7.8% to 12.7%) conditions

    Scenario-based approach to analysis of travel time reliability with traffic simulation models

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    This study established a conceptual framework for capturing the probabilistic nature of travel times with the use of existing traffic simulation models. The framework features three components: scenario manager, traffic simulation models, and trajectory processor. The scenario manager captures exogenous sources of variation in travel times through external scenarios consistent with real-world roadway disruptions. The traffic simulation models then produce individual vehicle trajectories for input scenarios while further introducing randomness that stems from endogenous sources of variation. Finally, the trajectory processor constructs distributions of travel time either for each scenario or for multiple scenarios to allow users to investigate scenario-specific impact on variability in travel times and overall system reliability. Within this framework, the paper discusses methodologies for performing scenario-based reliability analysis that focuses on (a) approaches to obtaining distributions of travel times from scenario-specific outputs and (b) issues and practices associated with designing and generating input scenarios. The proposed scenario-based approach was applied to a real-world network to show detailed procedures, analysis results, and their implications

    Calibration of traffic flow models under adverse weather and application in mesoscopic network simulation

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    The weather-sensitive traffic estimation and prediction system (TrEPS) aims for accurate estimation and prediction of the traffic states under inclement weather conditions. Successful application of weather-sensitive TrEPS requires detailed calibration of weather effects on the traffic flow model. In this study, systematic procedures for the entire calibration process were developed, from data collection through model parameter estimation to model validation. After the development of the procedures, a dual-regime modified Greenshields model and weather adjustment factors were calibrated for four metropolitan areas across the United States (Irvine, California; Chicago, Illinois; Salt Lake City, Utah; and Baltimore, Maryland) by using freeway loop detector traffic data and weather data from automated surface-observing systems stations. Observations showed that visibility and precipitation (rain-snow) intensity have significant impacts on the value of some parameters of the traffic flow models, such as free-flow speed and maximum flow rate, while these impacts can be included in weather adjustment factors. The calibrated models were used as input in a weather-integrated simulation system for dynamic traffic assignment. The results show that the calibrated models are capable of capturing the weather effects on traffic flow more realistically than TrEPS without weather integration

    An integrated microstructural-nanomechanical-chemical approach to examine material-specific characteristics of cementitious interphase regions

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    Effective properties and structural performance of cementitious mixtures are substantially governed by the quality of the interphase region because it acts as a bridge transferring forces between aggregates and a binding matrix and is generally susceptible to damage. As alternative binding agents like alkali-activated precursors have obtained substantial attention in recent years, there is a growing need for fundamental knowledge to uncover interphase formation mechanisms. In this paper, two different types of binding materials, i.e., fly ash-based geopolymer and ordinary portland cement, were mixed with limestone aggregate to examine and compare the microstructures and nanomechanical properties of interphase region. To this end, microstructural characteristics using scanning microscopies, nanomechanical properties by nanoindentation tests, and spatial mapping of chemical contents based on the energy dispersive spectroscopy were integrated to identify and investigate the interphase region formed by the case-specific interactions between the matrix materials and limestone. The integrated microstructural-nanomechanicalchemical approach was effective to better understand links between material-specific properties of cementing phases. More specifically, the fly ash-based geopolymer paste was usually well bonded to the aggregate surface with a rich formation of NA- S-H gel, while interfacial debonding was often observed between aggregate surface and paste in ordinary portland cement concrete. However, when a good bonding between aggregate and paste is formed, interphase region in PCC didnโ€™t show any considerable difference in nanomechanical properties compared to the bulk paste

    An Integrated Microstructural-Nanomechanical-Chemical Approach to Examine Material-Specific Characteristics of Cementitious Interphase Regions

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    Effective properties and structural performance of cementitious mixtures are substantially governed by the quality of the interphase region because it acts as a bridge transferring forces between aggregates and a binding matrix and is generally susceptible to damage. As alternative binding agents like alkali-activated precursors have obtained substantial attention in recent years, there is a growing need for fundamental knowledge to uncover interphase formation mechanisms. In this paper, two different types of binding materials, i.e., fly ash-based geopolymer and ordinary portland cement, were mixed with limestone aggregate to examine and compare the microstructures and nanomechanical properties of interphase region. To this end, microstructural characteristics using scanning microscopies, nanomechanical properties by nanoindentation tests, and spatial mapping of chemical contents based on the energy dispersive spectroscopy were integrated to identify and investigate the interphase region formed by the case-specific interactions between the matrix materials and limestone. The integrated microstructural-nanomechanical-chemical approach was effective to better understand links between material-specific properties of cementing phases. More specifically, the fly ash-based geopolymer paste was usually well bonded to the aggregate surface with a rich formation of NA- S-H gel, while interfacial debonding was often observed between aggregate surface and paste in ordinary portland cement concrete. However, when a good bonding between aggregate and paste is formed, interphase region in PCC didnโ€™t show any considerable difference in nanomechanical properties compared to the bulk paste

    Persim - Simulator for Human Activities in Pervasive Spaces

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    Activity recognition research relies heavily on test data to verify the modeling technique and the performance of the activity recognition algorithm. But data from real deployments are expensive and time consuming to obtain. And even if cost is not an issue, regulatory limitations on the use of human subjects prohibit the collection of extensive datasets that can test all scenarios, under all circumstances. A powerful and verifiable simulation tool is needed to accelerate research on human activity recognition. We present Persim, an event driven simulator of human activities in pervasive spaces. Persim is capable of capturing elements of space, sensors, behaviors (activities), and their inter-relationships. We focus on presenting the five main use cases for Persim addressing dataset synthesis, reuse and extension of existing datasets, sharing of data and simulation projects, as well as data validation. ยฉ 2011 IEEE

    Implementation and evaluation of weather-responsive traffic management strategies

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    This study presents the development and application of methodologies to support weather-responsive traffic management (WRTM) strategies by building on traffic estimation and prediction system models. First, a systematic framework for implementing and evaluating WRTM strategies under severe weather conditions is developed. This framework includes activities for planning, preparing, and deploying WRTM strategies in three different time frames: long-term strategic planning, short-term tactical planning, and real-time traffic management center operations. Next, the evaluation of various strategies is demonstrated with locally calibrated network simulation-assignment model capabilities, and special-purpose key performance indicators are introduced. Three types of WRTM strategies [demand management, advisory and control variable message signs (VMSs), and incident management VMSs] are applied to multiple major U.S. areas, namely, Chicago, Illinois; Salt Lake City, Utah; and the Long Island area in New York. The analysis results illustrate the benefits of WRTM under inclement weather conditions and emphasize the importance of incorporating a predictive capability into selecting and deploying WRTM strategies
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