Variation in environmental factors can result in changes in pavement material properties. In asphalt pavements, asphalt stiffness is affected by changes in temperature (e.g., moduli value increases ...

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In hard disk drives, digital information is stored and retrieved magnetically by a “read head” that flies over the disk within tens of nanometers of its surface. Figure 1 is a photograph of a read ...