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Forces Behind South Australia's Unusual Structural Changes Since 1840

Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The agricultural sector's share of GDP in growing economies typically declines but, for a century from the early 1850s, Australia's did not. That trend is most evident for the former colony and now State of South Australia (SA). Moreover, that share for SA has been almost flat since 1980 as well, along with the agricultural sector's share of ...
Kym Anderson
wiley   +1 more source

Feasibility Assessment of Guided Wave Generation in Rail Using Electromagnetic Acoustic Transducers for In-Service Inspection

e-Journal of Nondestructive Testing
The use of electromagnetic acoustic transducers for the generation of ultrasonic guided waves for in-service rail testing could help overcoming some of the current limitations characterizing state of the art conventional (bulk) ultrasonic testing by ...
Andrea Appiani, Michele Carboni
doaj   +1 more source

MIRACLE URBANIZATION: Spatial Production and Political Legitimation in the Sochi 2014 and Beijing 2022 Olympics

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract From desert ski resorts to subtropical Winter Games, there is a global proliferation of ‘mission‐impossible’ mega‐projects. The prevailing frameworks of city branding and urban entrepreneurism fail to explain the political logics behind these seemingly irrational projects.
Yiqiu Liu, Sven Daniel Wolfe
wiley   +1 more source

Introducing intercity: how regional rail can rebalance population growth and create a "state of cities" in Victoria

, 2016
This report has been prepared by a team of transport and planning experts at the Rail Futures Institute. It provides a blueprint for the next thirty years of regional rail development in Victoria, to support projected population growth.  Our ...
Rail Futures Institute
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Rail-STrans: A Rail Surface Defect Segmentation Method Based on Improved Swin Transformer

Applied Sciences
With the continuous expansion of the transport network, the safe operation of high-speed railway rails has become a crucial issue. Defect detection on the surface of rails is a key part of ensuring the safe operation of trains.
Chenghao Si, Hui Luo, Yuelin Han, Zhiwei Ma   +3 more
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Unkept Promises, Unequal Worlds: A Sociological Study of Intimate Abuse in Promise‐to‐Marry Cases in India

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The article presents a sociological study of promise‐to‐marry ‘rape’ cases in India to illuminate the inner lives of intimacies. It argues that promise‐to‐marry cases cannot be understood merely as instances of deceptive sex, wherein the consent of the victim is vitiated by a false promise of marriage as a pretext for sexual intercourse ...
Monika
wiley   +1 more source

Market Integration and Nonlinear Price Transmission in 19th‐Century British Wheat Markets

Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Important developments in infrastructure and institutions characterized 19th‐Century wheat markets in Great Britain. Among these developments was the construction of the national rail system which enabled cheaper and more efficient transport of grain and other bulky cargoes between inland towns and ports.
Barry K. Goodwin, A. Ford Ramsey
wiley   +1 more source

FY 2002, projects funded under 23 USC 130

Electronic coverage as of May 8, 2006: 2005-; Description based on: 2005; title from cover of PDF document (viewed May 8, 2006).; Report evaluates improvements made three years previously.; Harvested from the web on 5/10/06Addresses the progress being ...
Ohio Rail Development Commission.
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Novel method for rail insulation degradation diagnosis driven by diffusion law of stray current

International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems
The degradation of the rail to earth insulation performance is the primary factor contributing to the increased leakage of stray currents. It is difficult to locate rail to earth insulation degradation or assess their severity in urban rail transit ...
Songyuan Li, Wei Liu, Qingan Ma, Feilong Liu, Zhuoxin Yang, Shuangrui Yang   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Fatal pediatric neck entrapment in a lift‐up storage bed: A preventable domestic asphyxial death

Journal of Forensic Sciences, EarlyView.
Abstract Bed‐related deaths are rare in forensic practice and are usually associated with falls, restraint‐related entrapment, or unsafe infant sleeping environments. Fatal mechanical asphyxia involving lift‐up storage beds is an exceptional occurrence, and the few published cases involve adult victims.
Francesco Baldari, Alice Buzzelli, Vittoria Greco, Andrea Guidetti, Valentina Bugelli   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source