Abstract: Responses to willingness‐to‐pay questions in contingent valuation (CV) surveys are being used with increasing frequency to obtain estimates of the value of public goods, such as improved water quality, for use in benefit‐cost ...

Abstract: Two factors of great importance when considering gas–solid fluidized bed dynamics are pressure drop and void fraction, which is the volume fraction of the gas phase. It is, of course, possible to obtain pressure drop and ...

Abstract: Satellite retrieval of cirrus cloud microphysical properties is an important but difficult problem because of uncertainties in ice-scattering characteristics. Most methods have been developed for instruments aboard ...

Abstract: Several examples of Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) visible satellite images depicting cloud features often associated with the transition to, or intensification of, supercell thunderstorms are ...

Abstract: A criterion for dewetting in solid propellant materials is developed from an application of Drucker’s postulate to an idealized model of stress-strain behavior. The criterion is evaluated ...

Abstract: Inherent in biologically inspired design (BID) is the selection of one or more analogs from which one or more strategies are extracted and transferred into the engineering domain. The selection of an analog is a fundamental ...

Abstract: Potential driving forces and environmental impacts of urban and suburban development of rural lands were investigated in a 44-county study region located in the central portion of the state of Indiana. Land-cover dynamics ...

Abstract: The quality of existing data about the use of urban trails is poor, and planners need better data to plan new trails and manage existing ones. This note presents descriptive analyses of pedestrian and bicycle traffic counts ...