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The Gender of Fossil Fuels: Oil and Domestic Perils in Mandate Palestine
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores the gender dynamics behind the rise of kerosene – an oil derivative – as the main domestic fuel in Mandate Palestine. It argues that these dynamics were constitutive in determining who began to use oil, where and for what purposes, in turn demonstrating that women in Palestine were the promoters and targets of a campaign ...
Shira Pinhas
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‘Some numerical results for waiting times in the queue Ek/M/1.’ [PDF]
, 1960 CHAS. R. BURROWS
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article looks at two critical moments in British immigration – the case of the ‘stateless’ Ugandan Asian husbands, whose wives successfully argued for their entry in Britain in 1973 and the ‘virginity test’ performed on Mrs K at Heathrow Airport in 1979.
Antara Datta, Jinal Parekh
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On Time Dependent Queuing Processes [PDF]
, 1960 Julian Keilson, A. Kooharian
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TERRITORIALIZING POWER: The Politics of Presidential Projects in Antananarivo, Madagascar
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Large‐scale infrastructure projects have become a defining feature of African urbanism. The study of the surge in infrastructure investments has largely been conducted against the backdrop of a purported ‘neoliberal global modernity’ in which cities compete to attract international investments.
Fanny Voélin, Lars Buur
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The serial correlation coefficients of waiting times in a stationary single server queue [PDF]
, 1968 D. J. Daley
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THE ‘OTHERS’ OF TENT CITIES: Reconstruction of Social Order Through Emotions
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Following the earthquakes in Türkiye on 6 February 2023, survivors continued their daily lives in tent cities, which emerged as a new heterotopic space where the boundaries between public and private spheres became intertwined. The transition from one's own ‘castle’ to a communal living space filled with uncertainties has heightened the ...
Handan Akyigit +4 more
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Queueing Systems with a Removable Service Station [PDF]
, 1963 M. Yadin, P. Naor
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FORCE AND ASPIRATION: Mobility and Class Formation on the Peripheries of Addis Ababa
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract While the emergence of social class is usually associated with relations of production or patterns of consumption, this article argues for centring mobility in class analysis, especially within rapidly growing cities. It focuses on the peripheries of Addis Ababa, where Africa's most remarkable state‐led housing programme has produced wrenching
Tom Goodfellow +2 more
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The transient behaviour of a single server queue with batch arrivals [PDF]
, 1963 Peter J. Brockwell
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