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The Gender of Heteroclites1

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Few have asked what happens to gender when a noun is heteroclitic – when its inflection draws on more than one inflection class. While heteroclisis has moved from being treated as a marginal irregularity to a theoretically revealing phenomenon, its implications for gender assignment remain largely unexplored.
Greville G. Corbett
wiley   +1 more source

Cell Complexity Impact on Railway 5G Performance: Measurements Along Tallinn-Tartu Corridor. [PDF]

Sensors (Basel)
Pilvik R, Jairus T, Sadam A, Kõrbe Kaare K.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Masculinity, Prostitution, and the Imaginary Northwest in Chinese Travel Writings About Shanxi and Western Inner Mongolia, 1920–1949

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article considers travel writings by metropolitan men in Republican China about Shanxi and western Inner Mongolia as a case study to further explore the transformations and continuities of Chinese masculinities. Drawing upon a range of popular travel narratives, it shows that so‐called “Worn‐Out Shoes (poxie)” – women perceived as ...
Amanda Zhang
wiley   +1 more source

Robust LiDAR-Based Train Detection via Point Cloud Segmentation for Railway Safety. [PDF]

Sensors (Basel)
Yang Y, Yu S, Xiao J.
europepmc   +1 more source

Syphilis and ‘Sons of Empire’: The ‘Prostitute’ and Britain's Fighting Arm in Nineteenth ̵ Century Colonial Punjab

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The British army in India took great care to provide European troops with facilities for sexual relations while anxiously managing venereal disease. Examining archival evidence, political debates and medical discourse from the nineteenth century, this article examines the colonial military enterprise of regulated prostitution in colonial ...
Sameera Chauhan
wiley   +1 more source

Gap Measurement Method for Railway Switch Machines Based on the Fusion of Deep Vision and Geometric Features. [PDF]

Sensors (Basel)
Zhi W, Feng Q, Xiao S, He X, Liu H, Zou Y, Li H.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Remembering Interracial Intimacies: South Asian Perspectives on Black/Brown Sex and Romance in Colonial East Africa

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Bringing together historical evidence, postcolonial fiction and memory work, this study recovers South Asian cultural attitudes towards interracial heterosexual romance from the margins of East African history. It asks why Black/brown intimacy was treated as taboo and denied legitimacy within South Asian diasporic communities in British‐ruled ...
Carissa Chew
wiley   +1 more source

A Physics-Guided Quantitative GPR Framework for Detecting Hanging Sleepers in Ballasted Railway Tracks. [PDF]

Sensors (Basel)
Yang W, Gao J, Xu Z.
europepmc   +1 more source

‘Mere Amateurs’? Elementary Teachers and the Making of Scientific Authority in the British Child Study Movement

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article offers new perspectives on the relationship between elementary teaching, scientific expertise and the professionalization of the human sciences. Previous scholarship has demonstrated the ready existence of ‘amateur’ science societies in the nineteenth century where cross‐class exchanges were common.
Julia Gustavsson
wiley   +1 more source

Research on the optimal selection method for railway line routes in complex and challenging mountainous areas taking into account ecological protection. [PDF]

PLoS One
Han F, Luo Y.
europepmc   +1 more source