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Journal articles on the topic "Crossing the Gap"

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Murray, Katherine E., J. Lindsey Lane, Carol Carraccio, Tiffany Glasgow, Michele Long, Daniel C. West, Meghan O’Connor, Patricia Hobday, Alan Schwartz, and Robert Englander. "Crossing the Gap." Academic Medicine 94, no. 3 (March 2019): 338–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/acm.0000000000002535.

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Grubb,, Thomas C., and Paul F. Doherty,. "On Home-Range Gap-Crossing." Auk 116, no. 3 (July 1999): 618–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/4089323.

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Connelly, Marie L., Helen M. Conaglen, Barry S. Parsonson, and Robert B. Isler. "Child pedestrians' crossing gap thresholds." Accident Analysis & Prevention 30, no. 4 (July 1998): 443–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0001-4575(97)00109-7.

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Carvalko, Joe. "Crossing the Evolutionary Gap [Fiction]." IEEE Technology and Society Magazine 35, no. 4 (December 2016): 62–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/mts.2016.2618659.

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Harrell, W. A., and Tami Bereska. "Gap Acceptance by Pedestrians." Perceptual and Motor Skills 75, no. 2 (October 1992): 432–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pms.1992.75.2.432.

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The riskiness of street crossing behavior of 75 individuals and groups of pedestrians was observed. Gap acceptance, or the elapsed time before a pedestrian initiated a crossing at a marked crosswalk and the time until a vehicle passed through the crosswalk, was the measure of risk. Pedestrian groups containing at least one infant tended to choose longer gaps, i.e., they were less risky in their crossing. Gap acceptance was also more conservative as the mean age of the pedestrian group increased. Gap was not affected by the sex ratio of the group or the volume of traffic passing through the intersection.
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Ross, Robert L., and C. J. Koch. "Crossing the Gap: A Novelist's Essays." World Literature Today 62, no. 3 (1988): 514. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40144488.

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O’Neal, Elizabeth E., Yuanyuan Jiang, Kathryne Brown, Joseph K. Kearney, and Jodie M. Plumert. "How Does Crossing Roads with Friends Impact Risk Taking in Young Adolescents and Adults?" Journal of Pediatric Psychology 44, no. 6 (April 6, 2019): 726–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jpepsy/jsz020.

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Abstract Objective The goal of this investigation was to examine how crossing roads with a friend versus alone affects gap decisions and movement timing in young adolescents and adults. Methods Ninety-six 12-year-olds and adults physically crossed a single lane of continuous traffic in an immersive pedestrian simulator. Participants completed 30 crossings either with a friend or alone. Participants were instructed to cross the road without being hit by a car, but friend pairs were not instructed to cross together. Results Pairs of adolescent friends exhibited riskier road-crossing behavior than pairs of adult friends. For gaps crossed together, adult pairs were more discriminating in their gap choices than adult solo crossers, crossing fewer of the smaller gaps and more of the larger gaps. This pattern did not hold for 12-year-old pairs compared to 12-year-old solo crossers. To compensate for their less discriminating gap choices, pairs of 12-year-olds adjusted their movement timing by entering and crossing the road more quickly. For gaps crossed separately, both adult and 12-year-old first crossers chose smaller gaps than second crossers. Unlike adults, 12-year-old first crossers were significantly less discriminating in their gap choices than 12-year-old second crossers. Conclusions Compared to adults, young adolescents took riskier gaps in traffic when crossing virtual roads with a friend than when crossing alone. Given that young adolescents often cross roads together in everyday life, peer influences may pose a significant risk to road safety in early adolescence.
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Shaaban, Khaled, and Karim Abdelwarith. "Pedestrian Attribute Analysis Using Agent-Based Modeling." Applied Sciences 10, no. 14 (July 16, 2020): 4882. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/app10144882.

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Crossing a road outside of a crosswalk is a major cause of pedestrian fatalities. The aim of this study was to investigate this type of behavior for different pedestrian attributes in terms of risk and gap acceptance using agent-based modeling techniques. An agent-based model was developed and tested to represent pedestrian behavior in different situations. Different pedestrian attributes were analyzed, including gender, age, type of clothing, carrying bags, using mobile phones, and crossing in a group. The results showed that pedestrians add a positive risk factor to the speed of approaching vehicles before evaluating a gap, then proceed with the crossing decision. The factor for the female pedestrians was smaller in comparison to their male counterparts, which may infer that they are more prone to taking risks during crossing compared to male pedestrians. Another interpretation can be that they have a better ability to discern vehicle speeds and thus a better assessment of the critical gap. Compared to pedestrians crossing individually, the factor was smaller for pedestrians crossing in a group, which can be an indication that pedestrians have a higher sense of safety when crossing as a group. Moreover, the analysis suggested that there is no difference in perception between old and middle-age pedestrians, pedestrians carrying bags or not, and pedestrians using a mobile phone while crossing or not. These results can be useful in evaluating pedestrian safety at midblock crossings and providing a framework for modeling this type of behavior in simulation models.
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Azam, Muhammad, Asif Ali, Saddam Akbar, Marrium Bashir, and Hyun Chae Chung. "GENDER DIFFERENCES WHILE PERFORMING AN EVERYDAY PERCEPTUAL-MOTOR TASK." Humanities & Social Sciences Reviews 9, no. 3 (June 30, 2021): 1504–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.18510/hssr.2021.93151.

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Purpose of the study: The aim of this paper was to study gender differences regarding their perceptual judgment and movement behavior in the road crossing task. Methodology: A simulated road crossing environment outside the Human Motor Behavior laboratory (HMBL) was used to examine the individuals’ perceptual-motor behavior. Twenty-four young adults performed the road crossing task in the virtual environment judging whether the available gap was crossable or not crossable and then initiating movement depending on the perceptual information. Main Findings: Participants’ gap selection revealed that their cross-ability was influenced by vehicle speed, however, female participants made more errors relative to males. In addition, females took longer to cross and made unnecessary adjustments during crossings. The study findings suggest that females’ erroneous perceptual decisions and inconsistent locomotion behavior in road-crossing put them at higher risk relative to their male counterparts. Application of this study: The findings of this study may apply to developing training programs regarding pedestrian individuals. Training with performing road-crossing tasks may prove to be helpful for refining individuals’ perceptual judgment and movement behavior to minimize chances of accidents in road crossing. Specifically, having experience with the road-crossing task in a virtual environment may reduce the tendency towards risk-taking behavior. The novelty of this study: Most of the past research regarding pedestrian individuals’ road crossing behavior examined participants’ perceptual judgment (perception) in standing position only or did not analyze movement behavior in the actual walking set up. The approach utilized in our experiment was novel in this regard; individuals can choose to cross a gap and walk wearing a head-mounted display.
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Saleh, Wafaa, Monika Grigorova, and Samia Elattar. "Pedestrian Road Crossing at Uncontrolled Mid-Block Locations: Does the Refuge Island Increase Risk?" Sustainability 12, no. 12 (June 15, 2020): 4891. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12124891.

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The study investigates the behaviour of pedestrians crossing a road with a refuge island in an urban area to assess whether refuge islands deliver their expected benefit. This type of pedestrian crossings aims at providing a half-way shelter and protection while pedestrians are crossing a road with two-traffic streams. Data has been collected using two video cameras from an urban location in Edinburgh on gaps in traffic flow, rejected and accepted gaps, and critical gaps of pedestrians while crossing from the curb or the median. Data have also been examined to estimate and assess vehicle and pedestrians’ speeds, vehicle type, waiting time, group size and other demographic characteristics of pedestrians. The statistical modelling techniques used include Multiple Linear Regression and Generalised Estimating Equations (GEE). The results show that the critical gap for crossing from the median to the curb is much shorter than that from the curb to the median. Pedestrians appear to be less cautious when crossing from the median to the curb as they are more likely to accept a shorter gap in traffic. This could indicate a shortfall in the design and/or operation of this type of crossing. Further considerations and investigation of what measures could be implemented to enhance safety and reduce risky behaviour at this type of crossing are recommended and certainly encouraged.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Crossing the Gap"

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Phillips, Abigail Cora. "Locomotor development and gap crossing behaviour in Bornean orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus)." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2012. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/3852/.

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Orangutans are the largest predominantly arboreal primate and consequently have a diverse repertoire of positional behaviour. Problems associated with travel on thin flexible supports worsen as body size increases; therefore locomotion should vary with body size. The aim of this thesis was to explore how orangutans solve problems related to life in wild and captive environments and how this changes with growth and development. A cross-sectional sample of wild orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii) was studied at Tuanan Field Station in Central Borneo with subjects ranging from infant to adult. Results from wild orangutans showed that locomotion varied according to body size with larger orangutans using larger supports and gaining stability by bearing their weight in suspension. In contrast captivity promoted higher frequencies of terrestrial behaviours and these increased with age. Wild orangutans crossed large gaps in the canopy by oscillating compliant trunks. However I found that these skills are not fully mastered until 6 years old. Mothers were found to provide assistance during gap crossing according to the needs of their offspring. This thesis has shown that complex locomotor behaviour develops slowly during ontogeny and this may have implications for orangutan life history in different types of habitat.
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Ibarra-Macias, Ana C. "Effects of Habitat Fragmentation on the Distribution and Movement of Tropical Forest Birds." Scholarly Repository, 2009. http://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/oa_dissertations/481.

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Habitat loss and fragmentation occur at unprecedented rates, especially in tropical countries where human activities have deforested or degraded around 80% of tropical rainforests. Tropical forest fragmentation is considered the main cause of extinction of tropical forest avifauna, yet the mechanisms by which fragmentation affects bird populations are poorly understood. The present study investigates the pattern of bird species distribution in a fragmented landscape in tropical southeastern Mexico and the relation of bird community and species distribution patterns to landscape and fragment characteristics. Area and isolation of forest fragments were the main determinant of species richness and abundance in fragments, especially for forest-dependent species. The significant effect of isolation on species persistence in forest fragments suggests that limitation of dispersal is one potential mechanism by which fragmentation affects species distribution in the landscape. To understand how fragmentation can affect bird dispersal in a fragmented landscape, the effect of open areas and corridors on movement patterns of forest birds was investigated. The evidence presented in this study supports the idea that bird movement is restricted by open areas, especially for forest-restricted birds. Forested corridors had a positive effect on movement rates of forest birds, potentially acting to preserve movement and dispersal processes, and ultimately species persistence, in heavily fragmented landscapes.
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Groom, Jeremiah D. "Distribution, territorial limitations, and patch colonization dynamics of bird species in a fragmented temperate-zone woodland landscape." The Ohio State University, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1060694203.

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Louveton, Nicolas. "Le contrôle continu de l'interception d'un créneau temporel en mouvement : Le cas de la traversée d'intersection." Phd thesis, Aix-Marseille Université, 2012. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00795589.

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L'objectif de cette thèse est d'étudier le comportement de traversée d'intersection en conduite automobile sous l'angle des actions visuellement guidées. Dans l'introduction, nous montrons que les principales études portant sur la traversée d'intersection se sont focalisées sur les processus de jugement perceptif ; or nous montrons que la compréhension de cette activité pourrait être affinée en utilisant les concepts de la théorie de la perception directe et ceux issus de l'étude du controle moteur. Notre revue de questions nous conduit à rapprocher la tache de traversée d'intersection à l'intérieur d'un créneau libre du trafic à celle d'interception de cible se déplaçant horizontalement. Or, dans le cadre des taches d'interception, il a été démontré que la stratégie d'angle de relèvement constant (i.e., Constant Bearing Angle, CBA) a un fort pouvoir explicatif vis-à-vis des données expérimentales. Nous avons donc tiré partie des outils de simulation automobile pour tester la plausibilité de l'utilisation d'une telle stratégie par les conducteurs. Dans le premier chapitre expérimental, nous montrons qu'il est légitime d'étudier le couplage perception-action dans ce type de tache et que les conducteurs adoptent des régulations comportementales proches de celles observées dans une tache d'interception de mobile. Le second chapitre expérimental nous permet de mettre en évidence l'utilisation conjointe par les conducteurs d'informations relatives au créneau du trafic (supports globaux) et aux véhicules (supports locaux). Enfin, dans le dernier chapitre expérimental, nous mettons en évidence que les conducteurs n'utilisent pas exclusivement le taux de changement de l'angle de relèvement comme information visuelle mais qu'ils utilisent aussi l'expansion optique des véhicules du trafic. Nous concluons ce travail en montrant comment nos résultats nous permettent d'interpréter sous un autre angle ceux obtenus avec une méthodologie fondée uniquement sur les jugements perceptifs. Enfin, nous proposons des perspectives expérimentales en envisageant la manipulation des capacités d'action des conducteurs ainsi que des perspectives appliquées en envisageant l'utilisation de nos résultats dans le contexte de la conception d'un système d'assistance à la conduite.
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Creegan, Helen P. "Modelling the effects of changing habitat characteristics and spatial pattern on woodland songbird distributions in West and Central Scotland." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/48.

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This study investigated bird distributions in relation to local habitat and landscape pattern and the implications which habitat fragmentation may have for woodland birds. There were two sections to the research: an experimental study investigating bird gap crossing behaviour across distances of five to 120m; and an observational study modelling woodland bird distributions in relation to local habitat and landscape scale variables in two study areas (East Loch Lomond and the Central Scotland Forest). In the experimental study it was hypothesised that bird willingness to cross gaps will decrease with increasing gap distance even at home-range scales and that the rate of decline will vary interspecifically in relation to bird morphology. Song thrush mobbing calls played at woodland edges in the West of Scotland were used to attract birds across gaps and results were compared with the response along woodland edges. Data were obtained for four species: chaffinch, coal tit, robin and goldcrest. The decline in response with distance across gaps and along woodland edge was modelled for each species using generalized linear modelling. Maximum gap crossing distances ranged from 46m (goldcrest) to 150m (extrapolated value for the chaffinch). Goldcrests responded more readily through woodlands. There was no difference between woodland edge and gap response for the coal tit. Robins and chaffinches however responded more readily across gaps than through woodland. When different response indices were plotted against bird mass and wing area, results suggested that larger birds with bigger wings responded more readily across gaps than through woodland. It is suggested that this relates to differences in bird manoeuvrability within woodlands and ability to evade a predator in gaps. Fragmentation indices were calculated for an area of the Central Scotland Forest to show how willingness to cross different gap distances influences perception of how fragmented the woodlands are in a region. Results are discussed in the context of the creation of Forest Habitat Networks. The data for the observational section of the work was from bird point counts for 200 sample points at East Loch Lomond in 1998 and 2000 and 267 sample points in the Central Scotland Forest in 1999. In addition a time series of point count data was available for 30 sample points at East Loch Lomond. Additional data was gathered for ten sample points (1998) and two sample points (2000) at East Loch Lomond to investigate effects of observer, time and weather on count data. Generalized linear and generalized additive modelling was carried out on these additional data. Results indicated that biases due to the variation in time and weather conditions between counts existed in the pure count data but that these were eliminated by reducing data to presence and absence form for analysis. Species accumulation curves indicated that two counts per sample point were insufficient to determine species richness. However a sufficiently large proportion of the species was being detected consistently in two counts of ten minutes duration for it to be valid to model them in relation to habitat and landscape variables. Point count data for East Loch Lomond in 1998 (ELL98) and the Central Scotland Forest in 1999 (CSF99) for the wren, treecreeper, garden warbler, robin, blue tit, blackbird, willow warbler, coal tit, goldcrest, great tit, and song thrush were analysed using generalized additive modelling. In addition models were built for the blackcap (CSF99) and the siskin, redstart and wood warbler (ELL98). Where all relationships were identified as linear, models were rebuilt as GLMs. Models were evaluated using the Area Under the Curve (AUC) of Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) plots. AUC values ranged from 0.84-0.99 for ELL98 and from 0.76-0.93 for CSF99 indicating high predictive accuracy. Habitat variables accounted for the largest proportion of explained variation in all models and could be interpreted in terms of bird nesting and feeding behaviour. However additional variation was explained by landscape scale and fragmentation related (especially edge) variables. ELL98 models were used to predict bird distributions for Loch Lomond in 2000 (ELL00) and for the CSF99. Likewise the CSF99 models were used to predict distributions for ELL98 and ELL00. Predicted distributions had useful application in many cases within the ELL site between years. Fewer cases of useful application arose for predicting distributions between sites. Results are discussed in the context of the generality of bird environment relationships and reasons for low predictive accuracy when models are applied between sites and years. Models which had useful application for ELL00 were used to predict bird distributions for 2025 and 2050 at East Loch Lomond. Habitat and landscape changes were projected based on the proposed management for the site. Since woodland regeneration rates are difficult to predict, two scenarios were modelled, one assuming a modest amount of regeneration and one assuming no regeneration. Predictions derived from the ELL98 models showed broad-leaved species increasing in distribution while coniferous species declined. This was in keeping with the expected changes in the relative extent of broad-leaved and coniferous habitat. However, predictions from the CSF99 models were often less readily explicable. The value of the modelling approach is discussed and suggestions are made for further study to improve confidence in the predictions.
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Moreno, Adi. "Crossing borders : remaking gay fatherhood in the global market." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2016. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/crossing-bordersremaking-gay-fatherhood-in-the-global-market(af873916-b0ba-48fb-9a18-b6d8ce99846b).html.

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Over the past decade, a ‘gayby boom’ (Richman, 2002) has occurred in the Israeli male-gay community: hundreds of gay couples became fathers through cross-border commercial surrogacy. This rise was accompanied by political struggles over access to surrogacy for same-sex couples within Israel. This study explores first, the causes of this sudden rise in ‘gay surrogacy’; and second, the social implications, especially pertaining to the alteration of family norms in the 21st century. Drawing on Science and Technology Studies (STS), surrogacy is analysed as an 'assemblage', consisting of the interaction between socially shaped practices and desires, the medical and legal technologies involved, and the overarching state apparatuses. To draw out the complexity of the different components of this assemblage (individual, medical and legal, and state), 31 gay surrogacy fathers were interviewed, along with Israeli surrogacy industry representatives (n=6) and policy makers (n=13). Media coverage of ‘gay surrogacy’ and documentation from relevant court appeals and state committees on reproductive technologies were incorporated into the analysis to provide a contextual framework. Three themes were identified. First, surrogacy provides Israeli gay men a unique combination of novelty and sameness: surrogacy offers ‘biological’ fatherhood, similar to that enjoyed by heterosexual couples, but also facilitates the creation of a new family model, the ‘two-father-family’. The contradiction between the application of technology and the idea of ‘procreation’ disappeared through a discursive normalising and neutralising mechanism, in which surrogacy serves as a stand-in for ‘natural procreation’. Through this process, assisted reproduction facilitated the normalisation of the gay family. Second, despite the fact that surrogacy markets operate globally, the State emerged as a significant force in shaping the specific mechanisms of the surrogacy process, as well as the procreative desires of the Israeli surrogacy fathers – who were geared towards both genetic procreation and reproducing the nation. Gay fatherhood through surrogacy was found to be part of the new ‘gaystream’ (Duggan, 2002), expressing desires towards a new (homo)normativity and participating in homonationalist (Puar, 2007) struggles. Finally, cross-border surrogacy operates in a global market, based upon the commerce of gametes and reproductive services involving third-party women, often from impoverished parts of the world (Vora, 2015). This creates a moral dilemma for commissioning fathers, regarding the commodification of women and children in the market for reproductive services, and the related harm and exploitation within surrogacy markets. Surrogacy fathers negotiated these moral conflicts by forming ideas and ideals of reciprocity, intimacy and shared commitment towards and with the surrogate. However, the realisation of these values is heavily dependent upon the regulatory regimes in the surrogacy state and the outcomes of the medical and physical procedures – that is, the birth of a live healthy child. In conclusion, surrogacy offers a site for making families and remaking ‘the family’. It is based on already existing familial norms, but at the same time partially unsettles these; it is shaped by state regulations and national desires; and it is deeply implicated in unequal global markets, while explicitly harbouring ideals of intimacy and reciprocity. As surrogacy becomes the normative familial form for gay men in Israel, the need arises for collective critical reflexion on the impacts of surrogacy practices on global ‘others’, and on minorities within the Israeli queer community.
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Jorgensen, Ryan. "Three-dimensional trajectories affect the epaxial muscle activity of arboreal snakes crossing gaps." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1490354119231061.

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Ryu, Keun. "Hybrid gas bearings with controlled supply pressure to eliminate rotor vibrations while crossing system critical speeds." Thesis, [College Station, Tex. : Texas A&M University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1573.

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Jelena, Mitrović Simić. "Nivo usluge na nesignalisanim pešačkim prelazima." Phd thesis, Univerzitet u Novom Sadu, Fakultet tehničkih nauka u Novom Sadu, 2016. http://www.cris.uns.ac.rs/record.jsf?recordId=99735&source=NDLTD&language=en.

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Istraživanje koje je sprovedeno u okviru disertacije poslužilo je za definisanje matematičkog modela koji se može primeniti u postupku određivanja nivoa usluge za nesignalisane pešačke prelaze. Formirani model za proračun stepena propuštanja pešaka u uslovima lokalnog odvijanja saobraćaja zavisi od protoka pešaka i vozila, strukture saobraćajnog toka (učešće autobusa i teretnih vozila) i smera kretanja vozila na lokaciji pešačkog prelaza. U okviru disertacije izvršena je analiza pešačkih intervala prilikom prelaska kolovoza. Uporednom analizom prihvatljivih i kritičnih intervala dobijen je model ponašanja pešaka u zavisnosti od karakteristika lokacije nesignalisanog pešačkog prelaza. Utvrđena je zavisnost između dužine prihvaćenih intervala pešaka prilikom prelaska kolovoza i uslova odvijanja saobraćaja, polnih karakteristika pešaka i broja pešaka koji prelaze kolovoz na nesignalisanom pešačkom prelazu.
The study, which was conducted within the thesis, has served to define a mathematical model that can be applied in the process of determining the level of service at unsignalized pedestrian crossings. The formed model for motorist yield rate, in terms of the local pedestrian traffic flow, depends on pedestrian and vehicular flow rate, traffic flow structure (the share of buses and freight vehicles), and vehicle moving at the location of a pedestrian crossing. The pedestrian gap acceptance behaviour has also been analysed. Comparative analysis of acceptable and critical pedestrian gap was conducted. Model of pedestrian behaviour, which depending on the site characteristics, was formed and it has been proven a correlation between the length of the accepted pedestrian gaps and the roadway and traffic conditions, gender characteristics and the number of pedestrians at unsignalized crossings.
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Blinke, Jacob. "Diffusion of Sustainable Innovations : A Case Study of Optical Gas Imaging." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för industriell teknik och management (ITM), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-279593.

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During the last two decades, innovations that contribute to sustainable development has received increasing attention in the markets and academia. The diffusion of sustainable innovations is a key element in society’s transformation toward a greener and more sustainable economy. Within industries that utilize industrial gases in their operations, there are thousands of fugitive emission sources that puts strain on the safety of the plant and the personnel. As most gases are combustible and hazardous to humans and the environment, these companies must have effective leak detection and repair (LDAR) programs. In recent years, a new gas detection technology called Optical Gas Imaging have emerged which can identify gas compounds safer and more efficient compared to older leak detection technologies. However, the rate of diffusion of the innovation has been slow and limited to oil and gas industries, even though many other industries such as steel, paper and pulp and chemical industries utilize gases as well. As such, this research has aimed to identify factors that influence the adoption of sustainable innovations within gas-utilizing industries. The qualitative data was gathered through semi structured interviews with gas-utilizing companies in Sweden and analyzed with interpretive methods. The results show that regulatory factors are a strong driver for the diffusion of sustainable innovations while characteristics of price, availability and type of innovationdecision works as barriers. The generated knowledge may contribute on how innovators of a sustainable innovations can overcome these barriers and improve the rate of adoption of sustainable innovations.
Under de senaste två decennierna har innovationer som bidrar till hållbar utveckling fått ökad uppmärksamhet på marknaden och inom forskningen. Diffusionen av hållbara innovationer är ett viktig del av samhällets omvandling mot ett mer hållbart samhälle. Inom branscher som använder industriella gaser i sin verksamhet finns det tusentals flyktiga utsläppskällor som belastar anläggningen och personalens säkerhet. Eftersom de flesta gaser är brännbara och farliga för människor och miljö, är det viktigt att dessa företag har effektiva läckedetekterings- och reparationsprogram (LDAR). Under de senaste åren har en ny gasdetekteringsteknologi, Optical Gas Imaging, kommit fram som kan identifiera gasföreningar säkrare och effektivare jämfört med äldre tekniker för läckedetektering. Däremot, har diffusionsgraden för innovationen varit långsam och begränsad till olje- och gasindustrin, även om många andra industrier så som stål, papper och massa, och kemiska industrier också använder gaser som energi. Därför har syftet med denna stuie varit att identifiera faktorer som påverkar diffusionen av hållbara innovationer inom industrier som använder gaser. Den kvalitativa datan samlades in genom semistrukturerade intervjuer med företag i Sverige som använder gaser, där datan analyserades med tolkningsmetoder. Resultatet visar att lagar och regler är en stark drivkraft för diffusionen av hållbara innovationer medan innovationsegenskaper såsom ”pris” och nyckelfaktorerna ”tillgänglighet” och ”innovationsbeslut” agerar som hinder. Den genererade kunskapen från denna studie kan bidra till hur en hållbar innovationskapare kan åtgärda dessa hinder och förbättra dess diffusion i marknaden.
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Books on the topic "Crossing the Gap"

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U.S. DEPT. OF THE ARMY. Combined arms gap-crossing operations. Washington, D.C: Headquarters, Dept. of the Army, 2008.

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Crossing the gap: A novelist's essays. London: Chatto & Windus, 1987.

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Crossing the line. Round Rock, TX: Top Shelf, 2008.

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Egan, Andrew Niall. Crossing the Darien Gap: A daring journey through a forbidding and enchanting and roadless jungle that is the only link by land between North America and South America. Bradenton, Fla: Adventura Pub., 2008.

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Crossing with the light. Chicago: Tia Chucha Press, 1992.

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Company, Gulf Crossing Pipeline. Gulf crossing project: Final environmental impact statement. Washington, D.C: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 2008.

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Company, Gulf Crossing Pipeline. Gulf crossing project: Final environmental impact statement. Washington, D.C: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 2008.

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Crossing the barriers: The autobiography of Allan H. Spear. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010.

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Board, Canada National Energy. Reasons for decision in the matter of Georgia Strait Crossing Pipeline Limited on behalf of GSX Canada Limited Partnership: GSX Canada Pipeline application dated 24 April 2001. Calgary, Alta: National Energy Board, 2003.

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Queer crossings: Theories, bodies, texts. Milano: Mimesis, 2012.

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Book chapters on the topic "Crossing the Gap"

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Krogh, Peter Gall, and Ilpo Koskinen. "Crossing the Hermeneutic Gap." In Design Research Foundations, 83–93. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37896-7_7.

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Hu, Guangyu. "Cost of Chinese Political Consultation and Crossing of Information Gap." In The Cost of Development in China, 163–74. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4175-4_12.

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Martin, Thomas. "Crossing the temporal gap." In Counter-radicalisation policy and the securing of British identity. Manchester University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.7765/9781526140098.00011.

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Milla, Katherine A. "Crossing the Digital Divide." In Cases on Digital Learning and Teaching Transformations in Higher Education, 35–51. IGI Global, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-9331-7.ch003.

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Teaching university students who have grown up with digital technologies presents new challenges for today's educators, who find themselves struggling to bridge the gap between the legacy educational system and an emerging but still undefined new paradigm. Students of the post-digital era have distinctly different cultural and social differences from their predecessors that require a new understanding of their learning needs and challenges. In this chapter the author summarizes generational differences between the current cohort of college students and their predecessors. She reviews and reflects on her experiences with the Digital Learning Initiative and proposes a new focus and approach for moving forward in the classroom.
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Egri Ku-Mesu, Katalin. "Inscribing Difference: Code-Switching and the Metonymic Gap in Post-Colonial Literatures." In Narratives Crossing Borders: The Dynamics of Cultural Interaction, 169–88. Stockholm University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.16993/bbj.h.

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In their seminal work The Empire Writes Back Ashcroft et al. (1989) identify code-switching between two or more codes in post-colonial literary texts as ‘the most common method of inscribing alterity’ (p.72). Ashcroft (2001) further develops the idea of installing cultural distinctiveness in the text and posits that, together with a wide range of other linguistic devices (e.g. neologisms, ethno-rhythmic prose), the use of code-switching – whether between the variants of the same language or between languages – has a metonymic function to inscribe cultural difference. In this chapter, I will examine the hybrid nature of post-colonial literary texts through the concepts of nativisation (Kachru, 1982a, 1982b, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1995) and indigenisation (Zabus, 1991, 2007). I will then focus on code-switching, adopting Myers-Scotton’s (1993) approach of matrix language vs. embedded language and considering that ‘EL [embedded language] material of any size, from a single morpheme or lexeme to several constituents, may be regarded as CS [code-switching] material’ (p.5). I will analyse examples of code-switching taken from modern Ghanaian English-language novels and short stories, and I will argue that a synecdochic relationship exists between the code-switched embedded language and the culture it originates from. I will contend that it is along the metonymic gap thus created by language variance that readers can be expected to be divided. I will briefly examine the types of authorial assistance that can be provided in order to make the text accessible to the reader, and I will illustrate, in Sperber and Wilson’s (1995) relevance theoretical framework, how different groups of readers cope with code-switched language left in the texts untranslated and/or unexplained. I will argue that by withdrawing assistance from the reader, the author makes it manifest that he concedes ‘the importance of meanibility’ (Ashcroft, 2001, p.76) and opts for the inscription of difference. I will conclude that the metonymic gap is not a simple bi-polar concept between coloniser and colonised culture but a multi-layered entity where the readers’ position in relation to the gap is indicative of their ability to interpret code-switched language unaided. Full appreciation of the writer’s meanings is shown by those readers who share both the writer’s cultural and linguistic experience. Other readers may be able to cross the metonymic gap to various degrees, but for them code-switched language will be the symbol of the writer’s difference of experience.
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Bañón, C. "From form-finding to space-making in high-rise designs." In Structures and Architecture: Bridging the Gap and Crossing Borders, 897–904. CRC Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/9781315229126-107.

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Keller, A., and M. Mosoarca. "Historic timber roof structures: Value and influence on the seismic behavior of heritage buildings." In Structures and Architecture: Bridging the Gap and Crossing Borders, 907–14. CRC Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/9781315229126-108.

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Burquel, B., H. Fallon, and B. Vandenbulcke. "From AgwA to Oversize: From design practice to a pedagogic and research project." In Structures and Architecture: Bridging the Gap and Crossing Borders, 915–22. CRC Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/9781315229126-109.

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Ejstrup, H. "Isolating the tectonics of insulation." In Structures and Architecture: Bridging the Gap and Crossing Borders, 93–100. CRC Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/9781315229126-11.

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Onescu, I., E. Onescu, and M. Mosoarca. "Multi-criterial vulnerability assessment for Timisoara city, Romania." In Structures and Architecture: Bridging the Gap and Crossing Borders, 923–30. CRC Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/9781315229126-110.

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Conference papers on the topic "Crossing the Gap"

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Makhduma, F. Saiyed, Chirag A. Patel, and Sudhir Agrawal. "OUTERNET: Crossing over data gap using cubesats." In 2017 International Conference on Inventive Systems and Control (ICISC). IEEE, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icisc.2017.8068587.

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Boeing, A., and T. Braunl. "Leveraging multiple simulators for crossing the reality gap." In 2012 12th International Conference on Control Automation Robotics & Vision (ICARCV 2012). IEEE, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icarcv.2012.6485313.

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Liu, Guangxin, and Keping Li. "Pedestrian's Psychology on Gap Selecting when Crossing Street." In Second International Conference on Transportation Engineering. Reston, VA: American Society of Civil Engineers, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/41039(345)354.

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Oliveira, Miguel, Stephane Doncieux, Jean-Baptiste Mouret, and Cristina Peixoto Santos. "Optimization of humanoid walking controller: Crossing the reality gap." In 2013 13th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids 2013). IEEE, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/humanoids.2013.7029963.

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Parsons, Benjamin S., and Jing-Ru C. Cheng. "Deep Learning for Gap Crossing Ability of Ground Vehicles." In 2019 IEEE/ACM Third Workshop on Deep Learning on Supercomputers (DLS). IEEE, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/dls49591.2019.00009.

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Qiu, Huanneng, Matthew Garratt, David Howard, and Sreenatha Anavatti. "Towards crossing the reality gap with evolved plastic neurocontrollers." In GECCO '20: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3377930.3389843.

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Gyori, Alex, Lyle Franklin, Danny Dig, and Jan Lahoda. "Crossing the gap from imperative to functional programming through refactoring." In the 2013 9th Joint Meeting. New York, New York, USA: ACM Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2491411.2491461.

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Koos, Sylvain, Jean-Baptiste Mouret, and Stéphane Doncieux. "Crossing the reality gap in evolutionary robotics by promoting transferable controllers." In the 12th annual conference. New York, New York, USA: ACM Press, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1830483.1830505.

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Jakym, Joseph, Shady Attalla, and Sam Kodsi. "Modeling of Pedestrian Midblock Crossing Speed with Respect to Vehicle Gap Acceptance." In SAE 2013 World Congress & Exhibition. 400 Commonwealth Drive, Warrendale, PA, United States: SAE International, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.4271/2013-01-0772.

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Wang, Tianjiao, Jianping Wu, Pengjun Zheng, and Mike McDonald. "Study of pedestrians' gap acceptance behavior when they jaywalk outside crossing facilities." In 2010 13th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems - (ITSC 2010). IEEE, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/itsc.2010.5625157.

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Reports on the topic "Crossing the Gap"

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Murray, Mark W. Gap Crossing Requirement. Fort Belvoir, VA: Defense Technical Information Center, August 1988. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada199090.

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Vogt, Patrick D. On the Far Bank: The Effects of Gap Crossing on Operational Reach. Fort Belvoir, VA: Defense Technical Information Center, April 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ad1001902.

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Hornbeck, Brian, Johannes Kluck, and Richard Connor. Trilateral Design and Test Code for Military Bridging and Gap-Crossing Equipment. Fort Belvoir, VA: Defense Technical Information Center, May 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada476104.

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