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Central Hma Acceptance Lab Process Improvement Project, Ted W. Boehm, Jim Handy

JTRP Technical Reports

The Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) Central Hot Mix Asphalt (HMA) Acceptance Lab was opened on March 29, 2018, at the Office of Materials Management (OMM) facility in Indianapolis. The state-of-the-art lab conducts acceptance testing on HMA samples from INDOT’s Crawfordsville and Greenfield districts, as well as testing of appeals samples from the other four INDOT districts. Each HMA sample undergoes multiple sequences acceptance testing processes. INDOT’s standard metric is for these tests to be completed and reported in six days. Overall average performance in 2018 met this target (4.66 days for Crawfordsville, 4.99 days for Greenfield), however, turnaround time …

Development Of Automated Incident Detection System Using Existing Atms Cctv, Stanley Chien, Yaobin Chen, Qiang Yi, Zhengming Ding

JTRP Technical Reports

Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) has over 300 digital cameras along highways in populated areas in Indiana. These cameras are used to monitor traffic conditions around the clock, all year round. Currently, the videos from these cameras are observed by human operators. The main objective of this research is to develop an automatic real-time system to monitor traffic conditions using the INDOT CCTV video feeds by a collaborative research team of the Transportation Active Safety Institute (TASI) at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) and the Traffic Management Center (TMC) of INDOT.

In this project, the research team developed the system …

Synthesis Study: Facilities (Enterprise Development, Sponsorship/Privatization), Ananth V. Iyer, Olga Senicheva, Steven R. Dunlop, Dutt J. Thakkar, Andrew Colbert, Hannah Pratt

JTRP Technical Reports

The Indiana Department of Transportation maintains 17 rest area locations with 28 separate rest area facilities located on interstates for driver safety and convenience. Although the rest areas provide many benefits to the traveling public, the rest areas do not earn direct profits. Moreover, the Indiana Department of Transportation is increasingly challenged by inadequate funding from taxes generated on the interstates. Constrained by Title 23, that prohibits the commercialization and the privatization of the rest areas, the state of Indiana has a high interest in sustainable sources of revenue at the rest areas that would be able to promote the …

Developing A Business Ecosystem Around Autonomous Vehicle Infrastructure In Indiana, Ananth V. Iyer, Steven R. Dunlop, Anmol Guram Singh, Mihir Bhatia, Sazzadur Rahman

JTRP Technical Reports

INDOT will soon be embarking on infrastructure planning to accommodate autonomous vehicles. This new technology affords the ability to impact economic value creation across the supply chain in Indiana, as well as foster economic development in Indiana to support these emerging technologies. This proposal will be a first cut towards exploring the development of a strategy to realize this potential. Our proposal will consist of two phases.

Phase 1: A focus on industry choices and plans that can inform INDOT choices.

Phase 2: A focus on INDOT’s internal decision making, risk tolerance, and choices regarding infrastructure projects.

Restaging World Literature In The Age Of Neoliberalism/Neocolonialism, Shaobo Xie

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his article "Restaging World Literature in the Age of Neoliberal­ism/Neocolonia­­lism" Shaobo Xie argues that Goethe's notion of world literature spells a genuine universalism that contributes to resistance to neoliberal imperialism. In the age of neocolonial­ism/ne­oliberalism all conduct, and all spheres of human life are framed and measured by economic terms and metrics and neoliberalism both as a govern­ing rationality and as an economic policy is penetrating into every part of the world. The politics that is really heter­ogeneous or external to the rule of neoliberal capitalism in the neocolonial global present consists in thinking towards new possibilities of organizing …

Resistance To Neocolonialism In Contemporary Chinese Literary Theory, Zeng Jun

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his article "Resistance to Neocolonialism in Contemporary Chinese Literary Theory" Jun ZENG claims that the introduction of Western Literary Theory in the past forty years of China's reform and opening up was carried out under the background of neo-colonialism. "Western imagination" in the discourse of contemporary Chinese literary theory was an important aspect of the strategy of cultural resistance under the overwhelming influence of Western neocolonialism. Contemporary Chinese literary theory no longer simply regards Western literary theory in the twentieth century as a bourgeois literary ideology; instead, it adopts a "de-ideological" attitude to return to the issues of literature, …

Neocolonialism In Translating China, Guoqiang Qiao

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his article "Neocolonialism in Translating China" Guoqiang Qiao analyzes the neocolonial phenomenon that occurs in the process of Chinese literature's "walking-out." Taking examples from Howard Goldblatt's translation and neocolonial ideas that Goldblatt advanced in his essays, interviews and speeches and those Chinese writers, critics and professors who practice self-colonization, he analyzes their neocolonialism with the challenging concepts of neocolonialism and self-colonization and thus aims to cope with the phenomenon of colonization and self-colonization in the area of Chinese literature's "walking-out."

The End Of The Nobel Era And The Reconstruction Of The World Republic Of Letters, Guohua Zhu, Yonghua Tang

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In their article "The End of the Nobel Era and the Reconstruction of the World Republic of Letters" Guohua Zhu and Yonghua Tang critically examine mechanisms of cultural hegemony associated with the Nobel Prize in Literature from a neocolonial lens. Borrowing from Casanova's idea of the "World Republic of Letters" and its attentiveness to geopolitics, the essay proceeds to reconstruct the dialectical relations between the nation and the world. It does so, in the first place, by documenting and analyzing the process of negotiation and bargaining entailed in the construction of global cultural hegemony and thereby examine the functions and …

Mo Yan’S Reception In China And A Reflection On The Postcolonial Discourse, Binghui Song

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his article "Mo Yan's Reception in China and a Reflection on the Postcolonial Discourse" Binghui Song argue that the controversial style and themes of Mo Yan's works are necessitated by the interconnected yet different contexts of China and the rest of the world, only by means of which Mo Yan can let his voice be heard. As one of the most excellent and unique contemporary Chinese writers, Mo Yan has exerted extensive influence on Chinese readers, and his works have also caused various controversies over the past 30 years. His winning of the Nobel Prize in Literature, rather than …

Gendered Companies, Gendered Security, Joseph Bongiovi, Lisa Leitz

Dismantling Bias Conference Series

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Do Source Or Host Contry Practices Dominate In Female Executive Hiring?, Alessandra Gonzalez

Dismantling Bias Conference Series

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"We Have Nothing Against Women": How Business Imperatives Tie The Hands Of Elite Business Organizations, Pernilla Bolander, Karin Svedberg Helgesson, Ebba Sjögren

Dismantling Bias Conference Series

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Early Priorities And Adult Employment Outcomes, Julie Wellmann

Dismantling Bias Conference Series

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Sexual Harassment Of Hospitality Student Interns, Joseph "Mick" La Lopa, Robert H. Woods

Dismantling Bias Conference Series

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Gender Competence Bias Communication At Work: Exploring Mansplaining, Voice Nonrecognition, And Interruption Behaviors, Catlin Q. Briggs, Danielle Gardner, Ann Marie Ryan

Dismantling Bias Conference Series

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Can Self-Affirmation Reduce Backlash?, Chiara Trombini, Hannah R. Bowles, Celia Moore

Dismantling Bias Conference Series

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Generating Power Currency: Afro-Diasporic Women Navigating The Black Ceiling, Samantha E. Erskine, Estelle Archibold, Diana Bilimoria

Dismantling Bias Conference Series

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Glass Cliff Or Invisible Bridge? How Intersectional Invisibility Allows Black Women Executives To Turn Risk Into Oportunity, Alexis S. Washington, Marla B. Watkins, Jamie Ladge

Dismantling Bias Conference Series

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Identity Partners: Facilitating Women's Development Of Improbable Work Identities, Elise B. Jones

Dismantling Bias Conference Series

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Women's Leadership Identity Emergence, Ruth Sealy

Dismantling Bias Conference Series

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Developing Future Leaders: Examining The Predictors And Consequence Of Leader Identity, Donna Chrobot-Mason, Kristen Campbell

Dismantling Bias Conference Series

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How Much Do We Really Know About Women And Entrepreneurship? A Meta-Analysis And Research Call, David Gaddis Ross, Dognhyun Shin

Dismantling Bias Conference Series

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The Gender Composition Of Firms And Risk-Taking Behavior: Evidence From Mutual Funds, Cristian L. Dezso, Evan Rawley, David Gaddis Ross

Dismantling Bias Conference Series

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Why Should Women Actively Serve On The Family Business Board?, Georges Samara, Dima Jamali, Maria Lapeira

Dismantling Bias Conference Series

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Women In Boards: Does Their Presence Matter For The Gender Diversity Of Executive Positions In The Companies? And Can We Rely On The Existing Explanations?, Sigtona Halrynjo, Mary Blair-Loy

Dismantling Bias Conference Series

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Beyond The C-Suite: Women's Access, Entry, And Engagement In Community Elites, Danna Greenberg, Wendy Murphy

Dismantling Bias Conference Series

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Bolstering The Female Ceo Pipeline: Equaling The Playing Field And Igniting Women's Potential As Top-Level Leaders, Signe M. Spencer, E. Susanne Blazek, J. Evelyn Orr

Dismantling Bias Conference Series

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How Women Rationalize Themselves Out Of Leadership Roles: The Unintended Consequences Of Job Crafting, Jasmien Khattab, Morela Hernandez, Daan Van Knippenberg

Dismantling Bias Conference Series

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Career Experiences Of Women In Business, Mona Haug

Dismantling Bias Conference Series

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Sexism Made Material: Gendered Assumptions In Office Design, Jennifer Kaufmann-Buhler

Dismantling Bias Conference Series

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