The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
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Accurate Measurement Methods of Frequency Eigenquantities in High-Speed Railway Seismic Wavefields and Applications to Distributed Acoustic Sensing Data. [PDF]
Sensors (Basel)An Y, Ma J, Cai Y, Yan W.
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using biographical methods, the study explores the lives of 34 young people undertaking engineering apprenticeships in Teesside, Northeast England. It examines why working‐class youth in a deindustrialised region might be attracted to engineering, how they might secure apprenticeship, and the invaluable role households play in orchestrating ...
Anoop Nayak, Graham Gaunt
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Service-oriented vulnerability assessment for the larger-scale high speed railway infrastructure network: a case in China. [PDF]
Sci RepZhang H, Xing H, Ma X, Jia L.
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The Mysterious Stranger and Modern Enchantment
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sociological accounts of modernity have long emphasized rationalization, alienation, and the attenuation of affective intensity. While these diagnoses capture crucial dynamics of modern social order, they leave underexplored a persistent and generative dimension of social life: enchantment.
Dmitry Kurakin
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An optimization method for railway alignment schemes based on game-theoretic combination weighting and an interval number model. [PDF]
Sci RepYang D, Han F, Gao Y, Li Z.
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300 Years of Degradation in Wales Estuaries and Coasts
Natural Resources Forum, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The world's oceans are in a severe state of degradation, yet our understanding of that degradation is often based on changes observed only in the past 20–50 years. This narrow view leads to marine conservation efforts that aim to preserve already degraded ecosystems, shaped by shifted ecological baselines.
Richard K. F. Unsworth +3 more
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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.
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Market Integration and Nonlinear Price Transmission in 19th‐Century British Wheat Markets
Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Important developments in infrastructure and institutions characterized 19th‐Century wheat markets in Great Britain. Among these developments was the construction of the national rail system which enabled cheaper and more efficient transport of grain and other bulky cargoes between inland towns and ports.
Barry K. Goodwin, A. Ford Ramsey
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Unintended Consequences of Installing Platform Screen Doors: Displacement and Substitution for Suicide Attempts. [PDF]
Health EconPark M, Lee Y, Nakazawa N.
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