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New Opportunities For Automated Pedestrian Performance Measures, Jack Bell, Rik Law, Howell Li, Ben Anderson, Darcy M. Bullock

JTRP Affiliated Reports

Pedestrian safety is an important concern when evaluating intersections. Previous literature has shown that exclusive pedestrian phases improve safety, but at the expense of imposing greater pedestrian and motorist delay. However, outside of crash data, there are no easily implementable performance measures for pedestrians at traffic signals. This study proposes two performance metrics: (1) a time-to-jaywalk measure, and (2) the Conflict Occupancy Ratio (COR) for evaluating concurrent pedestrian signal phasing with turning vehicles. The COR quantifies conflicts between turning vehicles and pedestrians in the crosswalk. The COR is based upon a commercially deployed video detection system that correctly identified the …

Experimental And Analytical Evaluation Of The Strength Of Selected Truss Members From The Approach Spans Of The Winona Bridge, Jason B. Lloyd, Leslie E. Campbell, Francisco J. Bonachera Martín, Robert J. Connor

S-BRITE Reports

The following report details a research project comprised of two phases. Phase I included the full-scale experimental testing of two built-up truss chord members removed from service. The members were installed into a reaction frame and loaded to failure to determine remaining capacity in the presence of pack rust, as well as after-failure load redistribution behavior mimicking the member in a state following complete fracture of half the cross section. Phase I also included a finite element–based parametric study calibrated by the experimental work. The study was focused on two-channel axially loaded members for the purpose of developing closed-form solutions …

Assessment Of Bridges Subjected To Vehicular Collision, Yao Wang, Ashley P. Thrall

JTRP Technical Reports

Vehicles often collide with bridges. However, there are no available guidelines for bridge inspectors to assess damage and to make repair decisions. This project addresses this gap by investigating the behavior of steel girder bridges subjected to vehicular collision through (1) performing non-destructive field testing, (2) developing validated numerical models, and (3) performing parametric investigations to extend research findings. Field testing was performed using Digital Image Correlation (DIC) - a portable, non-destructive, photographic measurement technique. The focus was on two- and three-span continuous multi-girder steel bridges for which an exterior girder has sustained Category T damage, i.e., torsion about the …

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 …

An Assessment Of The Potential Impacts Of Climate Change On The Freshwater Habitats Of Indiana, U.S.A., Tomas Höök, Carolyn Foley, Paris Collingsworth, Leslie Dorworth, Brant Fisher, Jason Hoverman Dr., Elizabeth Larue, Mark Pryon, J. L. Tank

Aquatic Ecosystems Publications

Recent climate-driven, physico-chemical changes documented in aquatic systems throughout the world are expected to intensify in the future. Specifically, changes in key environmental attributes of aquatic systems, such as water quantity, clarity, temperatures, ice cover, seasonal flow regimes, external loading, and oxygen content, will undoubtedly have a broad set of direct and indirect ecological consequences. Some anticipated impacts may be similar across different aquatic ecosystems, while others may be system-specific. Here, we review the potential effects of climatic changes for different freshwater habitats within the state of Indiana, USA, a Midwestern state with diverse land and water features. Given this …

Annual Impact Report 2019: A Report By The Impact Evaluation Team, Impact Management Team, Impact Evaluation Team

IMPACT Reports

This is the 2019 annual report of Instruction Matters: Purdue Academic Course Transformation (IMPACT). IMPACT was created in 2010, and is a large collaborative initiative on the Purdue West Lafayette campus involving multiple key partners across campus including the Office of the Provost, Center for Instructional Excellence (CIE), Purdue Online (PO), Purdue Libraries and School of Information Studies (PULSIS), Institutional Data Analytics and Assessment (IDA+A), and the Evaluation and Learning Research Center (ELRC). IMPACT works with instructors to redesign large enrollment, foundational courses with the aim of engaging students more fully in their learning and creating a more student-centered environment, …

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The Writing Center Journal

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Directiveness In The Center: L1, L2, And Generation 1.5 Expectations And Experiences, Grant Eckstein

The Writing Center Journal

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Everyday Reflective Writing: What Conference Records Tell Us About Building A Culture Of Reflection, Rebecca Nowacek, Andrew Hoffmann, Carolyne Hurlburt, Lisa Lamson, Sareene Proodian, Anna Scanlon

The Writing Center Journal

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Tutor Talk: Do Tutors Scaffold Students' Revisions?, Julia Bleakney, Sarah Peterson Pittock

The Writing Center Journal

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"I Need Help On Many Things Please": A Case Study Analysis Of First-Generation College Students' Use Of The Writing Center, Candis Bond

The Writing Center Journal

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Evaluating The Effectiveness Of Dissertation Boot Camp Delivery Models, Nadine Fladd, Clare Bermingham, Nicole Westlund Stewart

The Writing Center Journal

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Creating A Research Culture In The Center: Narratives Of Professional Development And The Multitiered Research Process, Joseph Cheatle, Kenlea Pebbles, Alexis Sargent, Colton Wansitler, Autumn Laws, Rachel Wahl, Michael Carroll, Rohitha Edara

The Writing Center Journal

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The Writing Center Journal

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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, …

Introduction To A Critical Response To Neocolonialism, Guoqiang Qiao

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

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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 …

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."

Revisiting 'Seventeen–Year Literature' (1949-1966) In China From A Neocolonial Perspective, Tian Zhang

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article "Revisiting Seventeen–Year Literature' (1949-1966) in China from a Neo­colonial Perspective" Tian Zhang surveys the "Seventeen-Year Literature" (1949-1966) from a neocolo­nial perspective. It reviews the internal and external factors of anxiety faced by Chinese during the period of seventeen years since the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949. The sev­enteen years witnessed a stress on and flourishing of the proletarian socialist literature of the people, by the people and for the people. The seventeen-year literature, on its way to smashing the old system, represents the trend of Chinese literature of the time and the extension …

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 …

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 …

River Of Dreams, Kaysone Syonesa

Journal of Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement

3 Lao American poems

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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