Securing field learning using a twenty-first century Cook's Tour

This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Geography in Higher Education on 22/01/2015, available online: http://wwww.tandfonline.com/http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03098265.2014.1003801This paper evaluates the effectiveness of incorporating digital video into a traditional Cook’s Tour as part of a 7-day road trip around the east coast of New Zealand’s North Island over a 4-year period

Automated Pile Driving Data Acquisition Devices

This presentation introduces automated pile driving data acquisition devices, which gather accurate and consistent driving data and help to enhance inspection and payment. The process is completely digitized and cloud based. Acquired data can be analyzed to help reduce damage and repair costs over time, minimize human error and improve the level of safety for field staff, and provide additional support for future e-Construction processes. Join us for a discussion

INDOT Intelligent Road Design and Construction Using 3D Models

This presentation provides an update on INDOT’s e-construction and Intelligent Design and Construction initiatives. This will include a discussion of INDOT’s efforts over the past year to move toward 3D CAD models for roadway design, advancements in digital/electronic construction inspection including further development and refining of inspection checklists, continued development and testing of a mobile inspection application, and demonstration projects for e-ticketing of HMA materials delivery

INDOT Intelligent Design and Construction (IDC)

This presentation provides an update on INDOT’s e-construction initiatives. Advancements in roadway design include efforts to move toward 3D CAD models for roadway design and 3D subsurface utility design and analysis (SUDA); advancements in digital/electronic construction include the development of inspection checklists, piloting a mobile inspection application, and investigating e-ticketing for materials delivery

3D Design Models to Construction (Data Centric Approach)

One aspect of e-Construction is reducing paper use, and many DOTs have successfully reduced their use of paper documents. INDOT wants to take this further by adding a data-centric approach, which focuses on the transfer of data from 3D design models to construction and then to asset management. In this presentation we discuss this initiative

Digital Design Data for Asset Collection

This session provides an update on the status of INDOT’s implementation of Bentley’s OpenRoads Designer (ORD)–Connect Edition for road design. Presenters will share lessons learned and benefits gained by consultants that have used the INDOT ORD Beta Workspace. Lastly we will demonstrate two workflows that utilize the enhanced digital design platform, ORD, to provide data to asset management

Real-time depth sectioning: Isolating the effect of stress on structure development in pressure-driven flow

Transient structure development at a specific distance from the channel wall in a pressure-driven flow is obtained from a set of real-time measurements that integrate contributions throughout the thickness of a rectangular channel. This “depth sectioning method” retains the advantages of pressure-driven flow while revealing flow-induced structures as a function of stress. The method is illustrated by applying it to isothermal shear-induced crystallization of an isotactic polypropylene using both synchrotron x-ray scattering and optical retardance. Real-time, depth-resolved information about the development of oriented precursors reveals features that cannot be extracted from ex-situ observation of the final morphology and that are obscured in the depth-averaged in-situ measurements. For example, at 137 °C and at the highest shear stress examined (65 kPa), oriented thread-like nuclei formed rapidly, saturated within the first 7 s of flow, developed significant crystalline overgrowth during flow and did not relax after cessation of shear. At lower stresses, threads formed later and increased at a slower rate. The depth sectioning method can be applied to the flow-induced structure development in diverse complex fluids, including block copolymers, colloidal systems, and liquid-crystalline polymers

Jim Allen : radical drama beyond 'days of hope'

Due to a desire to establish television as a serious medium, television drama has often been seen as a forum for writers, with names such as David Mercer, Dennis Potter and Trevor Griffiths identified by critics as the driving force, or auteur, behind the works that bear their names rather than, as in much writing about film, the director. However, while this has been so, there are also many examples of writers whose contribution to television writing has been much less celebrated, often due to their close collaboration with a high-profile director who in many critics’ view remains the most influential contributor to the final piece of work. One practitioner who arguably has failed to get the critical credit he is due is Jim Allen, a writer still perhaps best known for his work with one such high-profile director, Ken Loach

1,2-Bis(2-bromo­benz­yl)diselane

In the title compound, C14H12Br2Se2, the Se—Se bond length [2.3034 (9) Å] is similar to those in diphenyl diselenide [2.3066 (7) and 2.3073 (10) Å] and shorter than that in 1,8-diselenona­phthalene [2.0879 (8)Å]. The mol­ecule adopts a classical gauche conformation

SURGICAL SITE INFECTIONS OF PATIENTS FOLLOWING AN ABDOMINAL HYSTERECTOMY: A LITERATURE REVIEW

Surgical site infections (SSIs) are the most common complication resulting from surgical procedures. As they impact patient recovery, well-being, and the health care system, SSIs cost time and money. Researchers have identified a number of factors influencing the causation and prevention of SSIs. The purpose of this paper is to examine the literature in regard to factors that have an impact on the incidence of SSI. A review of the literature was guided by the following PICO question: "In women undergoing abdominal hysterectomy, what are the most effective interventions to be used in a standardized care plan, when compared to current practice with varied and undefined interventions, in reduction of surgical site infection?". Four key variables were identified that either influence the incidence of SSI, or are important in shaping policy concerns regarding SSI. The most evident interventions were prophylactic antibiotics and preoperative washing. The findings from literature regarding dressings remain inconclusive in the reduction of SSI incidence. Furthermore, the findings for obese women showing a higher risk for SSI remain inconclusive, but specialized interventions can be used for this group. These findings help to bring further attention to how research in these key areas can improve future nursing practice