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‘The Tragedy of a Small Nation’: Alexander Devine and British Perspectives on the Montenegrin Question, 1918–24

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the pro‐Montenegrin political campaigns of Alexander Devine, a schoolmaster and journalist who became Montenegro's leading British advocate following its incorporation into the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes after the First World War.
ROSS CAMERON
wiley   +1 more source

An optimization method for railway alignment schemes based on game-theoretic combination weighting and an interval number model. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Yang D, Han F, Gao Y, Li Z.
europepmc   +1 more source

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

Analysing factors influencing railway accidents: A predictive approach using multinomial logistic regression and data mining. [PDF]

PLoS One
Mašek J, Duricova L, Čamaj J.
europepmc   +1 more source

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

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

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

Preventing railway suicides through level crossing removal: a multiple-arm pre-post study design in Victoria, Australia. [PDF]

Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol, 2022
Clapperton A, Dwyer J, Spittal MJ, Roberts L, Pirkis J.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Safety Analysis of Railway Crossings [PDF]

Diplomová práce s názvem Analýza bezpečnosti na železničních přejezdech se věnuje zhodnocení aktuálního stavu zabezpečení železničních přejezdů v České republice, včetně právního rámce dané problematiky.
Martin Štekl
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Unnatural Wills: Inheritance Disputes and Inequality

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Within the conceptual frame of relational economic sociology, inheritance disputes are a canonical form of relational mismatch. But the social patterning of relational mismatches, and their various ties to inequality, remain murky. In this paper, I examine all known inheritance disputes in Dallas from 1895–1945 within their social context to ...
Shay O'Brien
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