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An Analysis Of Traffic Accidents On County Roads : Technical Paper (Information), Donald F. Petty, Harold L. Michael

JTRP Technical Reports

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Principles Of Highway Drainage And Erosion Control, John L. Sanborn

Indiana Local Technical Assistance Program (LTAP) Publications

This manual is an attempt to describe the important principles of highway drainage and erosion control, and to describe some specific applications of those principles .

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County Subdivision Control: Model Ordinance With Discussion, William Joseph Head

Indiana Local Technical Assistance Program (LTAP) Publications

The purpose of this manual is to impress upon the reader the urgent need for sound planning and to show what tools are available to facilitate the job of planning and (2) to provide a rough framework, a "model subdivision ordinance," around which a county can build a subdivision ordinance tailored to its particular needs and circumstances.

It must be emphasized that the values appearing in this manual are only typical minimal values. The model ordinance is quite general—any county wishing to adopt this ordinance would be obliged to initiate a study to determine to what extent the model ordinance …

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Handbook Of Facts And Figures On Indiana County Roads—Including Directory Of Indiana County Highway Departments, Jean E. Hittle

Indiana Local Technical Assistance Program (LTAP) Publications

This handbook will assist county road officials in the planning of county road operations. The data and information included in this handbook are either statistical or public information which are already available from the official sources, but which needed to be brought together for convenient distribution and use.

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A Wideband Adaptive Communication System, J. C. Hancock, W. C. Lindsey

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technical Reports

The concept of an open loop Adaptive Communication link is established as one which is capable of monitoring the medium through which it must perform while simultaneously transmitting information and continuously adjusting its modes of operation so as to optimize its performance with respect to a performance criterion chosen a priori. Statistical methods are applied to the adaptive communication problem. Communicating through a random multipath channel with additive noise is considered. The transmitter is specified as one which transmits one of two possible noise-like waveforms which are assumed to be known at the receiver. At any time, it is postulated …

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Microwave Energy Conversion, E. M. Sabbagh

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technical Reports

MICROWAVE ENERGY CONVERSION Rectification by Semiconductor Diodes* A relatively simple method has been devised for mounting 680-1N830 diodes in a series parallel combination to form a single phase full-wave rectifier for operation at microwave frequencies. The efficiencies attained at 2440 Mc are as follows; Efficiency of 70% for 9 watts output, 65% for 18.7 watts, 55$ for 30.7 watts and 50% for 34 watts output.' Conversion by Bulk Semiconductor. An analytical study of bulk semiconductor conversion of microwave is presented. However, the material used for the experimental part of the project is not satisfactory for use at microwave frequencies. The …

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The Variable Gradient Method Of Generating Liapunov Functions With Application To Automatic Control Systems, John E. Gibson, D. G. Schultz

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technical Reports

The contribution of this thesis is the introduction and development of the variable gradient method of generating Liapunov functions. A Liapunov function, V, is considered to be generated if the form of V is not known before the generating procedure is applied. Two previous attempts at the generation of Liapunov functions to prove global asymptotic stability for nonlinear autonomous systems have been made. These attempts are summarized and evaluated in some detail, as they form the basis for the variable gradient approach proposed in this thesis. It is assumed that the system whose stability is being investigated is represented by …

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