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Joint Publications from Iowa Engineering Experiment Station - Bulletin No. 190 and Iowa Highway Research Board - Bulletin No. 19. This bulletin is a report on the development of bituminous paving mixtures containing various local materials and asphaltic binders. The laboratory investigations described in this bulletin were performed as part of Iowa Highway Research Board project HR-20, "Treating Loess, Fine Sands, and Limestone Dusts With Liquid Binders." This project was awarded to the Iowa Engineering Experiment Station of Iowa State University in 1952, and continued to June, 1958.

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Joint Publications from Iowa Engineering Experiment Station - Bulletin No. 188 and Iowa Highway Research Board - Bulletin No. 17. In the design of highway bridges, the 'static live load is multiplied by a factor to compensate for the dynamic effect of moving vehicles. This factor, commonly referred to as an impact factor, is intended to provide for the dynamic response of the bridge to moving loads and suddenly applied forces. Many investigators have published research which contradicts the current impact formula 1,4,17. Some investigators feel that the problem of impact deals not only with the increase in over-all static live load but that it is an integral part of a dynamic load distribution problem. The current expanded highway program with the large number of bridge structures required emphasizes the need for investigating some of the dynamic behavior problems which have been generally ignored by highway engineers. These problems generally result from the inability of a designer to predict the dynamic response of a bridge structure. Many different investigations have been made of particular portions of the overall dynamic problem. The results of these varied investigations are inevitably followed by a number of unanswered questions. Ironically, many of the unanswered questions are those which are of immediate concern in the design of highway bridges, and this emphasizes the need for additional research on the problem of impact.

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A contract for Project HR-20 "Treating Loess, Fine Sands and Soft Limestones with Liquid Binders" of the Iowa Highway Research Board was awarded in December, 1951, to the Iowa Engineering Experiment Station of Iowa State University as its Project 295-S. By 1954 the studies of the fine materials and asphalts had progressed quite well, and a method of treating the fine materials, called the atomization process, had been applied. A study was begun in 1954 to see if some of the problems of the atomization process could be solved with the use of foamed asphalt. Foamed asphalt has several advantages. The foaming of asphalt increases its volume, reduces its viscosity, and alters its surface tension so that it will adhere tenaciously to solids. Foamed asphalt displaces moisture from the surface of a solid and coats it with a thin film. Foamed asphalt can permeate deeply into damp soils. In the past these unusual characteristics were considered nuisances to be avoided if possible.

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In the search for new soil stabilizing agents the effects of six organic cations on plastic limit, liquid limit, shrinkage limit, air-dry strength and rate of slaking of a highly plastic clay subsoil were studied. In all cases the plasticity index and shrinkage were reduced by the treatments. The air-dry strength was lowered in varying degree, which was the only undesirable effect noted. With one exception resistance to slaking was improved. It is concluded that large organic cations show promise as possible stabilizing agents for highly plastic fine-grained soils.

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This bulletin is a compilation of the reports on completed research done for the Iowa State Highway Research Board Project HR-1, "The Loess and Glacial Till Materials of Iowa; an Investigation of Their Physical and Chemical Properties and Techniques for Processing Them to Increase Their All-Weather Stability for Road Construction.” The research, started in 1950, was done by the Iowa Engineering Experiment Station under its project 283-S. The project was supported by funds from the Iowa State Highway Commission.

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The aim of this article is to think about the expansion in peasant property detectable from the end of nineteeth to the middle of twenteeth centuries. The research is centred around one particular Catalan region, the Baix Empordà. The main parts of the process were the break-up and, the sale of old estates, as well as its purchase —fragmented— by peasant sectors. Some explanatory elements are set, both related to the behaviour of landed sectors, and to the means that make possible the expansion of a significant group of peasant properties

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Partant du double constat (1) de l?accroissement quasi exponentiel de la pression anthropique sur les ressources naturelles depuis près d?un siècle (Pfister 1996) et (2) de l?incapacité des politiques environnementales contemporaines à envisager les questions de régulation des rela- tions entre les sociétés humaines et leur environnement naturel sous l?angle de ce problème de plus en plus urgent de la surexploitation des ressources naturelles, ce travail de thèse de doc- torat propose de mettre en oeuvre un nouveau cadre d?analyse élaboré dans le cadre d?une recherche collective portant sur les {t régimes institutionnels de ressources naturelles >:.l. Ce ca- dre conceptuel est le produit d?une rencontre entre deux disciplines ayant contribué, chacune à sa manière, à l?analyse de la régulation des usages sociaux de l?environnement et des ressour- ces naturelles que sont : (1) l?économie institutionnelle des ressources naturelles et (2) l?analyse des politiques publiques de l?environnement. Il se fonde sur deux postulats que sont : (1) la nécessité - si l?on entend rendre compre de ma- nière pertinente et exhaustive de l?ensemble des enjeux liés aux usages humains de l?environnement naturel - de combiner les instruments d?analyse de ces deux disciplines dans le cadre d?une nouvelle conceptualisation formalisée sous le terme de H régime institutionnei de ressources naturelles », et (2) la nécessité de dépasser la conception t< sectorielle >) des politiques environnementales et de relire la réalité sous l?angle non plus de la gestion des émissions, mais de la gestion des ressources naturelles. Par régime institutionnel, on entend la combinaison d?une part, de l?ensemble des politiques publiques régulant les usages d?exploitation et de protection d?une ressource naturelle et d?autre part, l?ensemble des droits de propriété (propriété formelle, droits de disposition et droits d?usages) s?appliquant à cette même ressource. Reprenant cet acquis commun (Knoepfel, Kissling-Naef, Varone 2001) et constatant que, eil l?état actuel de son développement, ce cadre conceptuel des régimes institutionnels n?est encore essentiellement que heuristique et statique, ma thèse a pour ambition de rendre celui-ci plus dynamique de manière à accroître sa capacité explicative. L?objectif de ce travail consiste donc à contribuer à l?élaboration d?une théorie des changements de régime et dc leurs effets. Pour ce faire, ce travail a pour ambition de répondre aux trois questions suivantes : 1. Pourquoi (déclencheurs) et comment (dynamique) les RIRN se transforment-ils dans le temps ? 2. Quels sont les effets de ces changements sur les usages et l?état de la ressource naturelle régulée ? 3. Quels enseignements peut-on tirer de la connaissance de ces processus en vue de la constitution de régimes institutionnels garantissant une gestion durable des ressources naturelles ?