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Experimental study on mechanical response of soft soil freezing in underground excavation using artificial ground freezing method. [PDF]

PLoS One
Han L, Yi L, Zhang P, Chai L, Cheng Z.
europepmc   +1 more source

‘Elbow grease and yellow soap’: Housework time in working‐class households in late‐nineteenth and early twentieth‐century Britain

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Housework is central to feminist calls for recognition of women's work, economic histories explaining the sexual division of labour, and claims regarding the progressive role of scientific knowledge. Yet little is known about the time it actually took. We address this lacuna.
Sara Horrell, Jane Humphries
wiley   +1 more source

Perception based investigation exploring recurrence of violations by motorist and non-motorist at rail road grade crossings. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Vivek AK, Mohapatra SS, Khan T.
europepmc   +1 more source

Managing agency business groups, elite directors, and the rubber boom, 1897–1913

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract We identify a new organizational form, the Managing Agency Business Group (MABG), demonstrating how agency houses used interlocking directorships to build groups on the basis of commercial and plantation expertise to access finance on London stock markets and local capital markets in the pre‐1914 rubber boom.
David Higgins, Steven Toms
wiley   +1 more source

Transverse and vertical cracking behavior of railway rails due to geometrical imperfections and bending. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Karalar M, Motameni A, Buyuk M, Gürbüz R.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The depth and breadth of capitalism at the Cape

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Limited liability company legislation was introduced to the Cape Colony in 1861. An amendment in 1892 led to wider adoption, expanding and diversifying the capital market. Using novel data from the Cape Joint Stock Archive between 1892 and 1902, this paper examines who invested, where capital flowed, and how these patterns shaped firm outcomes
Edward Kerby, Lloyd Melusi Maphosa
wiley   +1 more source

The Interference Mechanism and Regularity Analysis of Gas Pipelines Affected by High-Speed Rail Based on Field Testing and Numerical Simulation. [PDF]

Materials (Basel)
Zhang Y, Ge C, Chang Z, Du Y, Lu M, Jiang Z.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Remote investing in Latin America, 1869–1929

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Substantial amounts of British capital flowed to Latin America during the first era of globalization. Companies financed by this capital were typically headquartered in the United Kingdom, but operated thousands of miles away. This paper asks how this geographic separation between governance and business activities affected the valuation of ...
Gareth Campbell, Áine Gallagher, Richard S. Grossman   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Early Rust-Layer Evolution of Q355 Carbon Steel in the Pingtan Marine Atmosphere. [PDF]

Materials (Basel)
Xia S, Wu J, An J, Chen S, Hu Y, Wang J.
europepmc   +1 more source

Private money and money market integration: The role of payments infrastructure in nineteenth‐century Switzerland

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Using newly collected discount rate data for six Swiss cities from 1846 to 1893, we find no evidence of increasing integration during a 30‐year period of lightly regulated free banking. We attribute this to two structural issues: banks had incentives to ward off competitors by protecting their local monopolies or forming cartels, and there was
Daniel Kaufmann, Rebecca Stuart
wiley   +1 more source