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Analysis and Suggestion on Distances between the Centers of Adjacent Passenger Doors for Metro Vehicle

机车电传动, 2014
Distances choice between the centers of adjacent passenger doors for metro vehicle was analyzed, and two kinds of typical proposals were introduced. The two kinds of typical proposals was compared from following aspects: length of end vehicle and the ...
MA Xi-cheng, LI Liang, LIU Jia-dong, LIU Jun-liang, SONG Xiang-hui   +4 more
doaj  

Spectacle and Spy Stories: The 1954 Royal Commission on Espionage

Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Menzies government's 1954 royal commission, established to investigate Soviet espionage in Australia, is well known as the backdrop to the Labor Party split. It saw opposition leader H.V. Evatt's demise and ushered in an almost 20‐year period of Liberal Party governance.
Ebony Nilsson
wiley   +1 more source

Crack Damage Identification of Pantograph Upper Frame Elbow Joint Based on Strain Mode

Chengshi guidao jiaotong yanjiu
ObjectiveThe structural safety of pantograph has a significant impact on the operational reliability of trains. Fatigue cracks are prone to occur at the elbow joints of pantograph on high-speed trains.
Haixiang GAO, Ning ZHOU, Yao CHENG, Hangyan JIANG, Taotao SHAN, Zongming WANG, Weihua ZHANG   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Brake Anti-slide Detection and Protection for Metro Vehicles

, 2015
Based on the weakness analysis of the traditional wheel-slip detect methods such as speed difference and decelerationcriterion, proposals were given for the reference speed calculation and over sensitive caused by deceleration-criterion. At the same time, two different strategy of anti-slide recovery were compared, and their influence on the anti-slide
YU Jieren, QIAN Hua, XIA Shuai, SHAO Yuehu, LI Yiye   +4 more
openaire   +1 more source

Burying Futures: Artisanal Mining Deaths and the Politics of Negligence in Zimbabwe

American Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the gold‐mining town of Kwekwe, central Zimbabwe, injury and death are a constant presence. Collapsing shafts, sudden explosions, gang fights, and neglected health infrastructure characterize the everyday lives of the town's impoverished residents.
Melusi Nkomo
wiley   +1 more source

‘Don't Forget Me, I'm Important Too’: Amplifying Self‐Advocate Voice Through Disability Theatre

British Journal of Learning Disabilities, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Across Canada, people with an intellectual disability continue to face systemic barriers and inequities in employment. To raise awareness and promote change, a self‐advocate led participatory disability theatre project acted as both inquiry and advocacy.
Leyton Schnellert, Jennifer Christianson‐Barker, Nadia Galvan Hernandez, Belinda Chi, 14 Self‐Advocate Co‐Creators, Rachelle Hole   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Survey of Methods for Constructing 3D Urban Models From Point Clouds

Computer Graphics Forum, EarlyView.
The survey outlines a general process for constructing 3D models from point clouds and categorizes the methods based on their use of templates, basic surface primitives, hybrid approaches, or linear primitives. Additionally, the survey reviews the datasets and benchmarks that are essential for testing and training the developed methods.
Chiara Romanengo, Silvia Biasotti, Bianca Falcidieno, Daniela Cabiddu, Elia Moscoso Thompson, Michela Spagnuolo   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Story(line) So Far: A Survey on Storyline Visualization

Computer Graphics Forum, EarlyView.
Abstract Storyline visualizations model narratives as temporal networks, using x‐monotone lines to represent entities and their interactions over time. This technique offers an intuitive way to reveal structural patterns over time, such as character co‐occurrence and narrative flow.
S. Di Bartolomeo, A. Dobler, V. Filipov, M. Nöllenburg, H. Ehlers   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Vehicle Formation Scheme for Wuxi Metro Line 5

Chengshi guidao jiaotong yanjiu
Objective To somewhat address the issues of low passenger load factor, high operating cost, and excessive reliance on government subsidies in medium-sized urban rail transit network, taking Wuxi Metro Line 5 as example, a formation scheme of new line vehicles is developed based on the actual passenger flow on operating lines.
LU Jie, FAN Yong, FENG Liyuan
openaire   +1 more source

Trapped in the Cave: Toward a Platonic Theory of Ideology

European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper is about showing that Plato has a theory of ideology in the broadly Marxist sense of distorted self‐consciousness of social life. Focusing on the Allegory of the Cave and related passages in the Republic, the paper argues that in the Cave, Plato illustrates the social mediation of human psychology, which contributes to the soul's ...
John D. Proios
wiley   +1 more source