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The US Transit Bus Manufacturing Industry [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Manufacturing buses for the US transit market has been a challenging business over the last several decades. It is a small market with volatile demand. Many manufacturers have gone bankrupt, left the market, or been acquired by competitors. Manufacturers
Czerwinski, David   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Facilitating macrosystem biology with organismal‐scale airborne remote sensing: Challenges and opportunities

open access: yesFunctional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Emergent ecosystem properties, such as population and trait distributions, biodiversity and energy and water fluxes, occur because of the dynamic interactions of individuals in their environment.
Sarah J. Graves   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Personal Rotorcraft Design and Performance with Electric Hybridization [PDF]

open access: yes
Recent and projected improvements for more or all-electric aviation propulsion systems can enable greater personal mobility, while also reducing environmental impact (noise and emissions).
Snyder, Christopher A.
core   +1 more source

The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
wiley   +1 more source

An Overview of the Layered and Extensible Aircraft Performance System (LEAPS) Development [PDF]

open access: yes
The Layered and Extensible Aircraft Performance System (LEAPS) is a new sizing and synthesis tool being developed within the Aeronautics Systems Analysis Branch (ASAB) at NASA Langley Research Center.
Caldwell, Darrell   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Common Equity Investors’ Assessments of the Dilution and Solvency Effects of Preferred Stock Instruments

open access: yesJournal of Business Finance &Accounting, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) requires dichotomous classification of financial claims as liabilities or equity. Classifying claims is challenging when instruments have attributes of both liabilities and equity (i.e., hybrid instruments).
Thomas J. Linsmeier   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Soft Fixed Route Hybrid Electric Aircraft Charging Problem with Variable Speed

open access: yesWorld Electric Vehicle Journal
The shift toward sustainable aviation has accelerated research into hybrid electric aircraft, particularly in the context of regional air mobility. To support this transition, we introduce the Soft Fixed Route Hybrid Electric Aircraft Charging Problem ...
Anthony Deschênes   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Franco‐British Bilateral Diplomacy After Brexit, 2020–2025: Mending the Ties That Bind

open access: yesJCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Brexit shook to its very core one of the European Union's (EU's) prominent partnerships, the Franco‐British bilateral relationship (FBBR), disrupting diplomatic routines and shattering interpersonal trust before circumstances changed and the relationship rapidly began to mend. In this article, we analyse the breakdown and restoration of Franco‐
Helen Drake, Pauline Schnapper
wiley   +1 more source

Enabling Electric Propulsion for Flight [PDF]

open access: yes
Team Seedling project AFRC and LaRC 31ft distributed electric propulsion wing on truck bed up 75 miles per hour for coefficient of lift validation. Convergent Aeronautic Solutions project, sub-project Convergent Electric Propulsion Technologies AFRC ...
Ginn, Starr Renee
core   +1 more source

Using unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) to improve access to blood in low‐ and middle‐income countries: Current challenges and opportunities

open access: yesVox Sanguinis, EarlyView.
Abstract Blood transfusion is life‐saving for patients in emergencies, but low‐ and middle‐income countries (LMICs) often face a severe shortage of banked blood. Establishing blood banks in rural areas presents substantial logistical and economic challenges for many LMICs.
Suvro Sankha Datta   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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