This report is the sixth in a series of first-level analysis reports that describe the results of HVS testing on a fullscale experiment being performed at the Richmond Field Station (RFS) to validate Caltrans overlay strategies for the rehabilitation of cracked asphalt concrete. It describes the...

This report follows a series of seven first-level Heavy Vehicle Simulator (HVS) testing reports, two laboratory reports on shear and fatigue testing, a forensic investigation report, and a report on the backcalculation of deflection measurements, all of which document an investigation undertaken...

Based on data collected from 286 Chinese companies, this paper analyses the key issues in information system management in Mainland China. By ranking the individual issues and comparing them with the results of an earlier study, our findings reveal that while the top three critical issues remain...

This article studies location decisions and network configurations of foreign direct investment (FDI) in Nanjing, the capital of Jiangsu Province, located in the northwest of the Yangtze River Delta (YRD). Built on the perspective that China's economic transition can be conceptualized as a...

Mainland China underwent significant institutional changes in the 1980s, when most villages transitioned from collectivism to individualism. As one of the exceptions, Yakou Village is called "the last people's commune in China". Conducting a lab-in-field experiment, we compared the social and...

The innovation of organizational model of tobacco production is the key to realization of sustainable development of tobacco production in China. From the perspective of sustainable development, we analyze the necessity of innovation of organizational model of tobacco production, put forward the...

In addition to traditional call centers, many companies have started building a new kind of customer contact centers, in which agents communicate with customers via instant messaging (IM) over the Internet rather than phone calls. A distinctive feature of the service centers based on IM is that...

This study was conducted to advance methodology of utilizing leading indicators in prediction of occupational health and safety losses. The qualitative association between leading and lagging indicators is not well documented in the literature. A method was proposed to link leading indicators to...

Fifteen diterpene derivatives including seven new ones, sinensisins A−G ( 1 , 2 , 4 , 7 , 10 , 14 , 15 ), were obtained from the leaves and twigs of Aphanamixis sinensis . Their structures were elucidated by NMR spectroscopic and ECD data analyses. These diverse carbon skeletons containing...

In this study, the degradation of nitenpyram (NTP) using Ag@AgCl/ZnAl-LDH material photocatalytically activated peroxymonosulfate (PMS) system was analyzed. As photocatalysts, Ag@AgCl and calcined zinc-aluminum layered double hydroxide (MMO) had high efficiency to achieve the separation of...