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Vehicle Fires: Significant Fire Hazard in Transportation Infrastructure
Fire and Materials, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Vehicle flammability poses a critical threat to transportation infrastructure, with recent fires in depots, tunnels, and car parks highlighting systemic vulnerabilities. These incidents often result in the total loss of vehicles and buildings, revealing the inadequacy of current fire safety standards for vehicle materials.
Anja Hofmann‐Böllinghaus +2 more
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Battery-Powered Aircraft: Technologies and Designs
Engineering ProceedingsSustainability is one of the guiding principles of the aviation industry. In the coming years, new sustainable aircraft concepts and propulsion technologies are expected to be developed and scaled up.
María Zamarreño Suárez +5 more
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The performance of Italian airports [PDF]
The aim of this work is the analysis of the operational efficiencies of the major Italian airports. The study is based on a cross-sectional, time series dataset of 14 Italian airports for the period 2000-2004.
Gitto, Simone +2 more
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Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract This essay examines how gendered expectations, structural precarity, and institutional hierarchies shape research practices, knowledge production, and career trajectories in biological anthropology. Taking the figure of the “strong woman” as an entry point, it questions celebratory narratives of resilience that frame endurance as an individual
Lumila Paula Menéndez
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Analysing Sector Safety Performance Based on Potential Conflicts: Complex Network Approach
AerospaceThis paper presents an in-depth analysis of Sector Safety Performance (SeSPe), focusing on potential conflicts within the Spanish Air Traffic Network.
Icíar García-Ovies Carro +1 more
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Relative efficiency of Argentinean airports [PDF]
The main objectives of this paper are to measure the relative efficiency of Argentinean airports, and to infer possible regulatory consequences of the results. We pay attention to regional differences that could help the regulator in its task.
Fabián Garitta +2 more
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Quiet activism as feminist practice
Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract In this article, we discuss how women combat silencing in the face of violence and increased political turmoil through quiet activism in their day‐to‐day lives. Centering lengthy conversations with Arab women across London and notes from an ongoing collaboration with a feminist activist based in the US, we examine how wearable rhetorical ...
Vicky Panossian, Catherine A. Evans
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Productivity change in Italian airports [PDF]
This paper examines the total factor productivity of 28 Italian airports during 2000–2006 using non-parametric estimation methods. Moreover, non-parametric inference and hypothesis test on the Malmquist index and its two main components, efficiency and ...
Gitto, Simone, Mancuso, Paolo
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Research advances in metal halides for flexible indirect X‐ray imaging
FlexMat, EarlyView.This review focuses on the preparation of flexible scintillators and provides an in‐depth discussion of the preparation methods and optimization of flexible films and flexible amorphous materials for MHs X‐ray indirect detectors. The content covers characterization methods for flexible materials, the selection of flexible substrates, optimization ...
Tianyu Xie +3 more
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AerospaceThis paper investigates the impact of trajectory predictor performance on the encounter probability generated by an adaptive conflict detection tool and examines the flexibility of the tool dependent on its adjustable thresholds, using historical radar ...
Chen Xia +4 more
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