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A rapid review of interventions to reduce suicide ideation, attempts, and deaths at public locations

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Railways and Cities

2008
For most communities, it was a matter of life or death to be serviced by a rail line. The civilizing potential of the railway generated enthusiasm in the middle decades of the nineteenth century. Intensified contacts would promote general welfare; improved communications would stimulate economic growth, give confidence in the future, and consolidate ...
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Street railways in foreign cities

National Municipal Review, 1931
AbstractA concise survey of the street railway situation in Canada and Europe.
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African Inter-City Railway Connection System

Young African Leaders Journal of Development, 2016
African countries are limited in unifying themselves due to the boundaries and various requirements which hinder their free and perfect mobility, manifested in visa requirement, multi-currencies, different leadership, insecurity, unemployment, poor resource utilisation and poor production.
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Coal, Canals, Railways, and Industrial Cities

1994
During the decades after the 1820s, Americans reshaped the industrial landscape by gradually substituting coal for the wood and flowing water they were using as energy sources and iron for wood in structures and machinery. The amount of power they could obtain from wood or water at a given place was limited, but coal resources were so large that more ...
Robert B. Gordon, Patrick M. Malone
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Gas engines in city railway and lighting service

Proceedings of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, 1910
It is not the object of this paper to present the subject of internal combustion engines from a scientific point of view, or to report on results obtained from tests made under the most favorable conditions with apparatus and facilities only to be found in an experimental laboratory, but to consider the subject under the following heads:
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Railway Crossings: Intersectional Railway Safety Advocacy in Charlotte Riddell's City and Suburb

Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas, 2018
Though the literary figure of engineer-inventor George Stephenson epitomized Samuel Smiles's "self-help" ideal of the "manly" liberal subject enabled by laissez-faire policies, Stephenson himself advocated for parliamentary intervention during the heated Railway Regulation debates of the 1840s. This essay deals with women writers' engagement in those
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