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Did Railroads Induce or Follow Economic Growth? Urbanization and Population Growth in the American Midwest, 1850-60 [PDF]
For generations of scholars and observers, the "transportation revolution," especially the railroad, has loomed large as a dominant factor in the settlement and development of the United States in the nineteenth century.
Michael Haines +3 more
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Fire and Materials, Volume 49, Issue 3, Page 329-346, April 2025.ABSTRACT This study investigates the postfire mechanical properties of epoxy glass‐fiber reinforced composites (EP GFRCs) using increasing concentrations of ammonium polyphosphate (APP) and inorganic silicate (InSi) to modify the char and fire residue.
Sruthi Sunder +5 more
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Saúde mental e automação: a propósito de um estudo de caso no setor ferroviário
Cadernos de Saúde PúblicaO propósito deste trabalho é enfocar algumas inter-relações entre Saúde Mental e as transformações contemporâneas do trabalho pelas mudanças técnicas, organizacionais e contextuais. Apresenta algumas características em um estudo de caso. O artigo examina
Edith Seligmann-Silva
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Consolidation of the Southern Pacific and other railroads.
, 1883 47-2Pacific RailroadConsolidation of Certain Railroads. [2159] To connect the Gulf region with the Pacific; forming a southern railroad network; would run a great distance through Indian country.1883 ...
House of Representatives Report No. 1856, 47th Congress, 2nd Session (1883)
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Notable Impact of Paleotectonic Stress on Gold Mineralisation in the West Qinling Orogen
Geological Journal, EarlyView.By applying fuzzy clustering and multiple inverse methods, we systematically processed the data of vein and fault slip in this ore deposit to reveal the transition of orogenic geological environment and paleotectonic stress field. Our research results show two different stress states: the northwest–southeast extensional stress field and the northeast ...
Hongyan Wang +3 more
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Railroads and Local Economic Development: The United States in the 1850s [PDF]
We use county and individual-level data from 1850 and 1860 to examine the economic impact of gaining access to a railroad. Previous studies have found that rail access was positively correlated with the value of agricultural land at a point in time, and ...
Michael R. Haines, Robert A. Margo
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Industry Portfolio Volatility Connections and Industry Portfolio Returns
International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper tracks dynamic connections that form among daily US industry portfolio return volatilities using a Bayesian time‐varying parameter VAR model. Market participants often focus on sectors to filter vast amounts of information, and this focus results in cross‐industry return predictability. We characterise connections that form over the
Michael Ellington +2 more
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Vols. for 1895-1924 called 28th-57th annual number.Microfilm.Mode of access: Internet.Absorbed the Railroad section of: Moody's manual of railroads and corporation securities ...
Poor, Henry V. (Henry Varnum), 1812-1905.
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Spinning Welfare: the Gains from Process Innovation in Cotton and Car Production [PDF]
Economists and economic historians want to know how much better life is today than in the past. Fifty years ago economic historians found surprisingly small gains from 19th century US railroads, while more recently economists have found relatively large ...
Tim Leunig, Joachim Voth
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Membership‐Making in Diverse Societies: Revisiting the Idea of Society as a Common Possession
Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The traditional aim of Western social democracy has been to create a society that is a ‘common possession’ of its members (in T.H. Marshall's words). Social democratic politics has therefore been both society‐making and membership‐making, orienting people to a shared society as an object of attachment and loyalty, and nurturing membership ...
Will Kymlicka
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