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Review of Active Noise Control Technology of Railway Vehicle
机车电传动, 2018 Interior noise of railway vehicle especially high-speed train increases with vehicle’s speed increasing. Compared with passive noise control such as sound insulation and absorption, active noise control (ANC) has many advantages such as lightweight and ...
LUO Zhuhui +5 more
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The specifics of non‐routine task changes: A granular approach
Contemporary Economic Policy, EarlyView.Abstract This paper estimates granular specific non‐routine tasks and examines employment reallocation across those tasks in the United States. Employment shifts into decision‐making, technology, and information‐related tasks account for 90% of high‐wage employment growth.
Carol A. Scotese
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Speculation in the United Kingdom, 1785‒2019
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract Speculation has long been thought to have significant economic effects, but it is difficult to measure, making it challenging to examine these effects empirically. In this paper we measure speculation in the United Kingdom since 1785 by using business and financial reporting in The Times newspaper.
William Quinn +2 more
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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
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Monitoring track irregularities using multi-source on-board measurement data
Railway Engineering ScienceAccurate monitoring of track irregularities is very helpful to improving the vehicle operation quality and to formulating appropriate track maintenance strategies.
Qinglin Xie +6 more
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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
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Rational Expectations Fools' Bubbles
International Economic Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We develop a rational, Walrasian model of speculative bubbles inspired by the Kindleberger–Minsky view, which describes bubbles as wave‐like market processes. Touched off by an initial shock, price booms are initially self‐reinforcing but become self‐destructive later when prices surpass fundamental value.
Luis Araujo, Antonio Doblas‐Madrid
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International Transactions in Operational Research, EarlyView.Abstract We address the scheduling conflicting jobs on parallel identical machines problem with makespan minimization, a classical and computationally challenging variant of parallel machine scheduling. We develop and evaluate three distinct solution methodologies: a novel constraint programming (CP) formulation, and two metaheuristics: a multi ...
Roberto Maria Rosati +3 more
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The Agencies of the European Union: A Glimmer of Hope for Enlargement?
JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.Abstract In recent years, the process of EU enlargement has become increasingly difficult. The longer the process drags on and the less likely accession appears, the more the candidate states are discouraged and the less influential the EU becomes. A different approach to integration must therefore be used.
Matis Poussardin
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