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A Very Social History: South American Cricketing Tourists in Britain in 1932

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Drawing on both the rich Anglophone cricket historiography and the new Latin American sports scholarship, this article maps out the entangled global networks that shaped the tour of Britain made in 1932 by a team of South American cricketers.
Matthew Brown
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

[Train crossing railway bridge on Nikolaev Railway]

This is the third photograph in Views of Nikolaev Railway, an album containing 45 albumen prints. The album commemorating the railroad line between St.
Goffert, I.
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Folklore Studies, Fieldwork and the Making of a Domestic Anthropology in Fin‐de‐Siècle Britain

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article follows the ‘communities of knowledge‐making’ that formed around folklore collection at the end of the nineteenth century. Often regarded as eccentric or marginal figures in the history of human science, these collectors in fact engaged in lively and sophisticated discussions about the methodologies needed to study the mental ...
HARRY PARKER
wiley   +1 more source

Structural Entropy, Modal Diversity Entropy, and Accessibility Differentiation: A Study of the Western China-Central Asia Cross-Border Multimodal Transportation Network. [PDF]

Entropy (Basel)
Sun R, Xin Y, Shao Y, Ju P.
europepmc   +1 more source

Michigan Central Railway to S.D. Woodruff

, 1883
Letter from the Michigan Central Railway to S.D.
Michigan Central Railway
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THE VIOLENCE OF FULL COST RECOVERY: Financing Water Infrastructure, and the History and Future of Perpetual Crisis in Mombasa

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Foregrounding the role of finance, this article examines the historical production and future trajectory of the urban water crisis in Mombasa. Drawing on archival research and contemporary fieldwork, it traces how principles of full cost recovery—institutionalized during the colonial period and later reworked through postcolonial ...
Joe Williams
wiley   +1 more source

Optimization of multi-objective flexible scheduling for container rail mounted gantry cranes in railway logistics yards. [PDF]

PLoS One
Wang H, Xu C, Hou Y, Zhang J, Liu Z.
europepmc   +1 more source

Mobile warning system for railway level crossing

, 2007
The aim of the work was to implement and test an in-vehicle warning system for railway level crossings. A prototype was built and tested on HankoKarjaa railway line in southern Finland. The prototype was based on GPS, GPRS and laptop computers. The operation of the invehicle warning system was compared to fi xed warning system installed on level ...
Öörni Risto, Virtanen Ari
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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