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‘The Tragedy of a Small Nation’: Alexander Devine and British Perspectives on the Montenegrin Question, 1918–24

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the pro‐Montenegrin political campaigns of Alexander Devine, a schoolmaster and journalist who became Montenegro's leading British advocate following its incorporation into the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes after the First World War.
ROSS CAMERON
wiley   +1 more source

A novel mechatronic running gear: concept, simulation and scaled roller rig testing

open access: yes, 2011
The basic idea of the concept of the novel mechatronic running gear consists of independently rotating wheels with a mechatronic guidance system to overcome the disadvantages which conventional wheelsets show under certain operating conditions ...
Kurzeck, Bernhard, Valente, Luciano
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A Very Social History: South American Cricketing Tourists in Britain in 1932

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract Drawing on both the rich Anglophone cricket historiography and the new Latin American sports scholarship, this article maps out the entangled global networks that shaped the tour of Britain made in 1932 by a team of South American cricketers.
Matthew Brown
wiley   +1 more source

The Interaction Between Railway Vehicle Dynamics And Track Lateral Alignment

open access: yes
This thesis examines the effect of vehicle dynamics on lateral deterioration of the track alignment. As rail traffic runs along a route, the forces imposed upon the track cause the ballast to settle, and hence the track geometry deteriorates.
Gong, Cencen
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Analysis of high-speed railway system Thalys

open access: yes, 2009
Historický vývoj železnice. Vysokorychlostní železniční systémy. Charakteristika vysokorychlostní železniční dopravy ve Francii. Evropská vysokorychlostní železniční síť. Mezinárodní vysokorychlostní železniční systém Thalys.
Mudrová, Jaroslava
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THE CONTESTED CITY OF VENICE: Caring for Commodified Common Infrastructures in a Touristified Environment

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this essay I reveal contested common infrastructures in the interplay between vanishing public infrastructures in Venice and lack of care by governmental actors in a city with a shrinking number of inhabitants. I examine care and commodified public infrastructures in heritage cities facing mass tourism and climate change effects by zooming ...
Cornelia Dlabaja
wiley   +1 more source

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