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China's Belt and Road Initiative in Pakistan: Bureaucratic Coordination and Chinese State‐led Development Abroad

Development and Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines China's bureaucratic approach to international development cooperation under the Belt and Road Initiative, focusing on bureaucratically structured policy coordination as a core mechanism. It highlights the central role of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) — China's top economic planning agency — in ...
Hong Zhang
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Autonomous Train Control System Principle: Fully Train‐Centric Route Generation and Track Resource Management

IET Intelligent Transport Systems
The current moving block systems still depend on wayside interlocking systems and zone controllers, resulting in complex control flow and limited control efficiency.
Sehchan Oh, Kyungran Kang, Young‐Jong Cho   +2 more
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Politicized Framing of the Future: Encouraging Innovation in Mature Ecosystems in the Face of Asymmetric De Alio Entrants

Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Hubs and participants of mature ecosystems increasingly compete with de alio entrants that are hubs of more innovative ecosystems. Prior research shows how these asymmetric de alio entrants frame to win over participants from mature ecosystems and suggests that hubs of these ecosystems should respond by encouraging innovation among ...
Georg Reischauer, Alexander Engelmann, Werner H. Hoffmann   +2 more
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Intrinsic Safety Design Concept for Metro Systems Based on Hollistic Approach to Safety

Chengshi guidao jiaotong yanjiu
[Objective] Many design concepts in urban rail transit originate from the railway transportation sector； however， some of them conflict with the specific management requirements of urban rail transit. Additionally， the safety design in urban rail transit
YANG Yao
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Automatic instantiation of abstract tests on specific configurations for large critical control systems

, 2013
Computer-based control systems have grown in size, complexity, distribution and criticality. In this paper a methodology is presented to perform an abstract testing of such large control systems in an efficient way: an abstract test is specified directly
Flammini, Francesco, Mazzocca, Nicola, Orazzo, Antonio   +2 more
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The Changing Nature of Sino-Foreign Business Relationships, 1842-1941 [PDF]

, 2000
During the second half of the nineteenth century, foreign business enterprises relied considerably upon the service of compradors to extend their economic interests in the Chinese economy.
Chan, Kai Yiu, Cox, Howard
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Between and Beyond: Negotiating Belonging Within Queer Borderlands

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Belonging is an affective, social and biopolitical phenomenon which is relationally negotiated and which produces material and symbolic ‘borders’. Subsequently, the politics of belonging refers to the construction, maintenance and policing of the borders of belonging.
Meg Poff
wiley   +1 more source

Methodology for Studying the Reliability of Interlocking Devices in Bulgarian Railways

Applied Sciences
Railway signalling systems must ensure the safe movement of trains and the reliability of the operation of their components is of utmost importance.
Emiliya Dimitrova, Vasil Dimitrov
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Evaluation of planning policies for marshalling track allocation using simulation [PDF]

, 2012
Planning the operational procedures in a railway marshalling yard is a complex problem. When a train arrives at a marshalling yard, it is uncoupled on an arrival yard and then its cars are rolled to a classification yard.
Bohlin, Markus, Gestrelius, Sara, Khoshniyat, Fahimeh   +2 more
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Computers in Our Cosmos: Intersections in Geographies of Care, Abolition Geographies and Worker Movements

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT AI assistants on spacecrafts. Netflix streamed through inter‐planetary communication networks. Colonies on Mars by 2050. While the glamorous public–private ventures into outer space curate discussions on the technical specificities of these proposed projects, this paper reorients discussions on such developments through critical frameworks of ...
Yung Au
wiley   +1 more source