Skid resistance is a significant feature that provides consistent traffic safety management for road pavements. An appropriate level of Skid resistance describes the contribution that the pavement surface makes to tire/road friction, and the surface of the road pavement can reduce vehicle operation cost, traffic accidents, and fatalities, particula...
Published in PLoS ONE
Betweenness Centrality (BC) has proven to be a fundamental metric in many domains to identify the components (nodes) of a system modelled as a graph that are mostly traversed by information flows thus being critical to the proper functioning of the system itself. In the transportation domain, the metric has been mainly adopted to discover topologic...
Published in Health technology assessment (Winchester, England)
This report is a summary of research examining if a psychological therapy called cognitive–behavioural therapy can improve the quality of life of people living with physical and/or mental conditions. Cognitive–behavioural therapy uses a set of techniques that help individuals to identify and change problematic thoughts or behaviour patterns that mi...
In marine environments, structures are subjected to a variety of environmental conditions which govern the degradation processes. For reinforced concrete structures these degradation processes (chloride ingress and corrosion) are driven by the availability of oxygen and humidity. Due to the random process of tidal movements, it is difficult to dete...
The previous consultancy report introduced the suggested IoT sensor-network reference architecture shown in Figure 1 for CIAT. This new report presents the software alternatives that support each layer of that architecture following the 3-stack software division proposed by the Eclipse IoT Working Group that is illustrated in Figure 2. The first so...
The previous report reviewed available reference architectures for guiding solutions based on Internet of Things (IoT) sensor networks. Based on the capabilities and limitations found during that review, this report proposes the use of the reference architecture shown in Figure 1 to guide CIAT’s IoT pilot for the high-throughput phenotyping and the...
The intricate chemistry of the carbonaceous particle surface layer (which drives their reactivity, environmental and health impacts) results in complex mass spectra. In this respect, detailed molecular-level analysis of combustion emissions may be challenging even with high-resolution mass spectrometry. Building on a recently proposed comprehensive...
L'émergence des objets connectés pour tous les aspects de la vie quotidienneentraine des besoins croissants de méthodes pour analyser des données fonctionnellesmultivariées. Ce travail propose une méthode de clustering (Schmutz et al, 2017) de façonà faciliter la modélisation et la compréhension de ces données fonctionnelles multivariées.Cette méth...
Les itinéraires routiers supportant un nombre élevé de véhicules lourds ont habituellement des structures de chaussées épaisses et peu déformables. A ce jour, l'évaluation de l'état structurel réalisée au moyen d'appareils de mesure de déflexion (déflectographe ou curviamètre) et les relevés de dégradation sont souvent insuffisants pour détecter le...
