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Masculinity, Prostitution, and the Imaginary Northwest in Chinese Travel Writings About Shanxi and Western Inner Mongolia, 1920–1949

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article considers travel writings by metropolitan men in Republican China about Shanxi and western Inner Mongolia as a case study to further explore the transformations and continuities of Chinese masculinities. Drawing upon a range of popular travel narratives, it shows that so‐called “Worn‐Out Shoes (poxie)” – women perceived as ...
Amanda Zhang
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Study on effective frequency range of wheel-rail excitation for elevated high-speed railway. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Xing M, Zhu J, Zhao C, Sun Y.
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Syphilis and ‘Sons of Empire’: The ‘Prostitute’ and Britain's Fighting Arm in Nineteenth ̵ Century Colonial Punjab

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The British army in India took great care to provide European troops with facilities for sexual relations while anxiously managing venereal disease. Examining archival evidence, political debates and medical discourse from the nineteenth century, this article examines the colonial military enterprise of regulated prostitution in colonial ...
Sameera Chauhan
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A linear programming joint optimization model of overnight train timetabling and maintenance planning on high-speed railway. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Zhang T, Liang W, Ji H, Zhang C.
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Experimental Study on the Influence of Transverse Crack on Chloride Ingress in Concrete Slab Track of High-Speed Railway. [PDF]

Materials (Basel), 2023
Liu X, Li H, Qi M, Yang Y, Zhu Z, Yu Z.
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Remembering Interracial Intimacies: South Asian Perspectives on Black/Brown Sex and Romance in Colonial East Africa

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Bringing together historical evidence, postcolonial fiction and memory work, this study recovers South Asian cultural attitudes towards interracial heterosexual romance from the margins of East African history. It asks why Black/brown intimacy was treated as taboo and denied legitimacy within South Asian diasporic communities in British‐ruled ...
Carissa Chew
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A Novel Rail Damage Fault Detection Method for High-Speed Railway. [PDF]

Sensors (Basel)
Wang Y, Miao B, Zhang Y, Huang Z, Xu S.
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Influence of Braking Speed on the Friction and Wear Characteristics of High-Speed Railway Braking Materials under High Ambient Humidity Conditions. [PDF]

Materials (Basel), 2023
Ma L, Zhang M, Ding S, Ou Y.
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‘Mere Amateurs’? Elementary Teachers and the Making of Scientific Authority in the British Child Study Movement

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article offers new perspectives on the relationship between elementary teaching, scientific expertise and the professionalization of the human sciences. Previous scholarship has demonstrated the ready existence of ‘amateur’ science societies in the nineteenth century where cross‐class exchanges were common.
Julia Gustavsson
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Research on multi-stage on-board detection algorithm of track defects of high-speed railway based on the influence mechanism of track defects. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Li J, Shi H, Qiu J, Shi J, Yu Z, Jiang Z.   +5 more
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