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Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Education•Worcester, Massachusetts, United States•
About: Worcester Polytechnic Institute is a education organization based out in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Data envelopment analysis. The organization has 6270 authors who have published 12704 publications receiving 332081 citations. The organization is also known as: WPI.
Topics: Population, Data envelopment analysis, Supply chain, Nonlinear system, Finite element method
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the concept of 100% recycling, determine whether such mixtures can perform as well as conventional asphalt mixes and if yes, develop a mixture design method for 100% recycled asphalt.
Abstract: Dramatically rising asphalt binder cost, dwindling budgets, growing traffic loads, and the desire to find more sustainable paving practices are forcing agencies to seek ways for maximizing the re-use of Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement (RAP). While most of the academic and industrial institutions have been focused on the development of procedures to recycle hot asphalt mixes with up to 40% RAP content, a few industry innovators have refined 100% recycling technologies over the past four decades to a level where routine production of 100% recycled mixes is in clear sight. The main hindrance in the widespread use of 100% recycling is the unproven performance of 100% RAP pavements and lack of a unified and rational system for selection of materials and mix design. The objective of this research was, therefore, to critically investigate the concept of 100% recycling, determine whether such mixtures can perform as well as conventional asphalt mixes and if yes, develop a mixture design method for 100% recycled asphalt. This article presents a summary of the research, demonstrating that with adequate mixture design 100% recycled asphalt mixtures can perform equally to conventional asphalt. The available production technologies are also shortly summarized. Finally an environmental effect and cost calculation is performed demonstrating reduction of emission by 35% while reducing the costs of materials by half.
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TL;DR: In this article, the effect of by-products obtained during the low-temperature synthesis of Mg, Al- hydrotalcite on further thermal decomposition of hydralcite material was studied by X-ray powder diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscope and infrared spectroscopy.
Abstract: The effect of by-products obtained during the low-temperature synthesis of Mg, Al- hydrotalcite on further thermal decomposition of hydrotalcite material was studied by X-ray powder diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy and infrared spectroscopy. By-products, which thermally decomposed below 450°C, led to the formation of α-Al2O3 and MgO; by-products which completely decomposed above 500°C resulted in the formation of MgAl2O4 and a sharp increase in MgO dispersity.
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TL;DR: In this article, the spontaneous moment of a single BMP as a function of temperature and the concentration of BMP's was investigated using magnetization measurements, and it was shown that the BMP susceptibility at low temperatures is quite anisotropic.
Abstract: Bound magnetic polarons (BMP's) in $p$-type ${\mathrm{Cu}}_{2}{\mathrm{Mn}}_{0.9}{\mathrm{Zn}}_{0.1}{\mathrm{SnS}}_{4}$ were investigated using magnetization measurements. The magnetization $M$ was studied from 2 to 60 K in magnetic fields up to 55 kOe. The data show the characteristic features of BMP's in the collective regime. In addition, the onset of antiferromagnetic order in the ``matrix'' surrounding the BMP's leads to anomalies in the BMP susceptibility at the N\'eel temperature of the matrix ${T}_{N}=8$ K. Below 15 K the low-field magnetization of the BMP's is quite anisotropic. A detailed analysis of the isothermal magnetization curves, based on Wolff's work but with some additional assumptions, separates the BMP contributions to $M$ from the contribution of the matrix. The analysis gives the spontaneous moment ${m}_{s}$ of a single BMP as a function of temperature $T$, and the concentration $N$ of BMP's. The value ${m}_{s}=143$ Bohr magnetons/BMP at the lowest temperatures is consistent with the expected radius of the hole orbit, of order 10 \AA{}. The observed $T$ dependence of ${m}_{s}$ is compared with theoretical calculations based on a model that assumes that the wave function in the absence of the $p$-$d$ interaction is hydrogenic. The calculated decrease of ${m}_{s}$ with increasing $T$ is somewhat slower than that deduced from the experimental data. The BMP concentration $N$, from an analysis of the magnetization data, is about $2\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}{10}^{19}$ BMP/cm${}^{3}$ in all the samples. This $N$ is consistent with the observed hopping conductivity at low temperatures. High-field magnetization data, up to 300 kOe, show the canted-to-paramagnetic phase transition of the matrix. At 1.4 K the transition is near 225 kOe.
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TL;DR: A parameter-dependent Lyapunov function was utilized to ensure the asymptotic convergence of the state estimation error and to achieve such a result, the derivative of the estimated position is indeed the estimate of the velocity component.
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TL;DR: College-educated subjects in comparison to high-school dropouts have a significant reduction in cancer risk after controlling for smoking, years of residency, and job exposures with AOR = 0.30.
Abstract: —A study of lung cancer risk from residential radon exposure and its radioactive progeny was performed with 200 cases (58% male, 42% female) and 397 controls matched on age and sex, all from the same health maintenance organization. Emphasis was placed on accurate and extensive year-long dos
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Andrew G. Clark | 140 | 823 | 123333 |
Ming Li | 103 | 1669 | 62672 |
Joseph Sarkis | 101 | 482 | 45116 |
Arthur C. Graesser | 95 | 614 | 38549 |
Kevin J. Harrington | 85 | 682 | 33625 |
Kui Ren | 83 | 501 | 32490 |
Bart Preneel | 82 | 844 | 25572 |
Ming-Hui Chen | 82 | 525 | 29184 |
Yuguang Fang | 79 | 572 | 20715 |
Wenjing Lou | 77 | 311 | 29405 |
Bernard Lown | 73 | 330 | 20320 |
Joe Zhu | 72 | 231 | 19017 |
Y.S. Lin | 71 | 304 | 16100 |
Kevin Talbot | 71 | 268 | 15669 |
Christof Paar | 69 | 399 | 21790 |