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Environment 2012


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"Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2270 consists of 22 papers that explore laboratory tests of tire-pavement noise for hot mix asphalt, temperature effects on onboard sound intensity measurement of tire-pavement noise, annoyance of traffic noise on roads and rail, alternative uses of highway rights-of-way, wildlife crossing structures location and design, use of MOVES and AERMOD emissions models for conformity analysis, generating heavy-duty truck activity data for MOVES emissions model, and exposure of bicyclists to air pollution. This issue of the TRR also examines engine idling emissions from nonroad diesel construction equipment; air quality at bus stops; modeling roadway link PM2.5 emissions; environmentally conscious design of crest vertical curves; carbon footprint of dedicated truck lanes on I-70; predictive ecocruise control system; analysis of intersection emissions with MOVES emissions model; vehicle emissions estimates using traffic microsimulation models; inclusion of regional transit emissions in local greenhouse gas inventories; in-vehicle exposure to traffic-induced emissions; environment-responsive traffic control impact on roadside particulate matter and nitrogen oxides; decomposition analysis for carbon dioxide emissions from car travel; duty cycles, fuels, and emission control technologies of heavy-duty trucks; and quantitative decision-making framework for evaluating environmental commitment tracking systems"--Pub. desc.




Diversity and Complexity in Prehistoric Maritime Societies


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New England archaeology has not always been everyone's cup of tea; only late in the Golden of nineteenth-century archaeology, as archaeology's focus turned westward, did a few pioneers look northward as well, causing a brief flurry of investigation and excavation. Between 1892 and 1894, Charles C. Willoughby did some exemplary excavations at three small burial sites in Bucksport, Orland, and Ellsworth, Maine, and made some models of that activity for exhibition at the Chicago World's Fair. These activities were encouraged by E Putnam, director of the Harvard Peabody Museum and head of anthropology at the "Columbian" Exposition. Even earlier, another director of the Peabody, Jeffries Wyman, spawned some real interest in the shellheaps of the Maine coast, but that did not last very long. Twentieth-century New England archaeology, specifically in Maine, was--for its first fifty years--rather low key too, with short-lived but important activity by Arlo and Oric (a Bates Harvard student) prior to World War Later, I. another Massachusetts institution, the Peabody Foundation at Andover, took some minor but responsible steps toward further understanding of the area's prehistoric past.