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Analysis of Jet Structure and Physical Properties in the Coalfields of Northern China

Applied Sciences, 2022
Archeological discoveries have identified China as one of the first countries in the world to use jet. However, many differences are evident between the jet currently found in existing mines and the archaeological discoveries of cultural relics in terms ...
Yuping Gao, Jinyu Gao, Kaitong Hu, Yufei Ma, Yuanzhi Zhang   +4 more
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Optimization of Land Pattern in Mining Area Based on the Improvement of Ecosystem Service Function—A Case Study of Fushun Mining Area

Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Mining activities are prevalent worldwide and pose significant threats to the supply of ecosystem services (ESs) for humanity. Many mining areas face challenges related to recovery and reclamation following resource depletion. A key challenge for the sustainable development of these areas is how to achieve collaborative optimization of land ...
Luge Rong, Changwei An
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Health locus of control in a pandemic situation: cross-cultural differences between European and Asian respondents

Health Psychology Report, 2022
Background The present cross-cultural study examined the health locus of control construct during the COVID-19 pandemic. The scien-tific purpose of the study was to determine whether, during the pandemic situation, cultural and sex differences influence ...
Krum D. Krumov, Knud S. Larsen, Jin Liu, Johann F. Schneider, Albena K. Krumova, Eko Widodo, Marta Juhasz, Magdalena Z. Garvanova, Sanjay Kumar, Rita Repaczki   +9 more
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Forces Behind South Australia's Unusual Structural Changes Since 1840

Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The agricultural sector's share of GDP in growing economies typically declines but, for a century from the early 1850s, Australia's did not. That trend is most evident for the former colony and now State of South Australia (SA). Moreover, that share for SA has been almost flat since 1980 as well, along with the agricultural sector's share of ...
Kym Anderson
wiley   +1 more source

Spontaneous combustion liability of coal and coal-shale: a review of prediction methods

International Journal of Coal Science & Technology, 2019
This study presents a review of the various methods to predict the spontaneous combustion liability of coal and coal-shale. The relative propensity of coal to undergo self-heating can be established by different methods.
M. Onifade, B. Genc
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Fragmented and Dealigned: The 2024 British General Election and the Rise of Place‐Based Politics

The Political Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 13-25, January/March 2025.
Abstract While the outcome of the 2024 British general election signalled a resounding repudiation of the incumbent government—returning a 231‐seat swing from the Conservatives to Labour—it did not radically overturn the geography of electoral outcomes in England and Wales.
Will Jennings, Jamie Furlong, Gerry Stoker, Lawrence Mckay   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Local Crime Spillover Onto Public–Private Partnership Financing Commitment: Do Urban Proximity and Local Affluence Matter?

Journal of Regional Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While the relationship between public infrastructure and crime location choices is well‐studied in criminology, the impact of crime as a spillover externality on public–private partnership (PPP) infrastructure financing remains unexplored. Leveraging a data set of 542 Private Finance Initiative (PFI)‐funded infrastructures in England and Wales
King Yoong Lim, Lin Lang, Diego Morris, Waseem Toraubally   +3 more
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Zonal prediction of the heights of water-conducting fracture zones under varying overburden types in North China-type coalfields

Meitian dizhi yu kantan
BackgroundThe gradual increase in the exploitation depth and intensity of coal resources in the North China-type coalfields has caused problems such as overburden movement and damage, as well as fracture evolution.
Dongjing XU, Ruiqing ZHANG, Weifu GAO, Haonan JIANG, Haifeng ZHU, Ye LI, Zhicun XIA   +6 more
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'Her body [was] like a hard-worked machine': Women's work and disability in coalfields literature, 1880-1950

Disability Studies Quarterly, 2017
This essay considers the representation of women's work and disability in British coalfields literature in the period 1880-1950. Industrial settings are a rich source for literature concerned with bodily health, injury and disability and offer insights ...
Alexandra Jones
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What Could ‘Manchesterism’ Mean?: Infrastructural Citizenship for Civic Renewal

IPPR Progressive Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Local infrastrucutre is a lens through which citizens materially experience the actions of the state. Drawing on the concept of 'infrastructural citizenship', this paper explores how shared spaces can shift from sources of alienation to catalysts for trust.
Beth Kitson, Owen Garling
wiley   +1 more source