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‘reportless places’: Janet Malcolm and Collage
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Natalie Ferris
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Public Administration, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The paper explores the gender dimensions of social equity and social equity budgeting (SEB) by investigating women's inclusion in local politics, budgeting and decision‐making in Bangladesh. Quotas for women representatives are reserved at each successive level of local government in Bangladesh, and their active participation in local politics
Md Salah Uddin Rajib +3 more
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Prediction of metal pm emission in rail tracks for condition monitoring application
Exposure to particulate material (PM) is a major health concern in megacities across the world which use trains as a primary public transport. PM emissions caused by railway traffic have hardly been investigated in the past, due to their obviously minor ...
Gu, Fengshou +4 more
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Wheel wear reduction from vehicle lightweighting: a case study for an innovative ultralight vehicle
, 2022 Vehicle light-weighting is a crucial design target for the new generation of rail vehicles, as it reduces energy consumption and improves the capacity and dynamic performance of rail vehicles, making the railway system more attractive to address the ...
Bin Fu +4 more
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Jixie qiangdu, 2020 The influence of nitriding treatment on wheel/rail rolling contact fatigue and surface wear behavior of CL60 wheel was studied on JD-DRCF/M rolling contact fatigue/wear tester,the wheel surface nitriding treatment on the mechanisms of wheel/rail surface ...
WU Qiang +6 more
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Social Equity Practices in Public Financial Management: A Conceptual Review and Proposed Reforms
Public Administration, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Equity has been at the core of public finance going at least as far back as 1776 when Adam Smith included it as one of four canons of a good tax in his classic An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (Tax Project Institute 2025).
John R. Bartle +2 more
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Reduction of Corrugation by Semi-Active Track
, 2004 This article discusses possibilities for application of semi-active actuators to reduce rail and wheel wear. A simple model of a vehicle/track interaction is presented. The model is extended with a model of semi-active actuators. The feedback control law
Preumont, A., Valasek, M., Vaculin, O.
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Locomotive traction and rail wear control [PDF]
, 2015 Railways play one of the most important roles in today’s transport systems throughout the world due to their safety, relatively high traction capacity and low operation and maintenance cost [1]. With the development of electric drive and power electronics technology, the capacity and efficiency of railway transport has been improved dramatically ...
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The Russian Review, EarlyView.Abstract How did World War II affect the nature and resilience of Soviet institutions and authority, especially in the extreme case of the Blockade of Leningrad? During the Blockade, Leningraders acted with great agency by engaging in the shadow trade of food and shadow talk for information and community in order to survive.
Jeffrey K. Hass, Nikita A. Lomagin
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Teaching New Religious Movements Historically: Distance, Empathy, and Cults in the Classroom
Teaching Theology &Religion, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Resistance to understanding the beliefs of modern New Religious Movements (NRMs) is well‐known to those who teach in the area. This paper builds on Eugene Gallagher's repurposing of “methodological belief” for college classes on NRMs by suggesting that scholars and teachers in the field of religious studies engage methods and content drawn ...
Douglas FitzHenry Jones
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