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European railways 1825-2001 : an overview [PDF]

Fremdling, Rainer
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A new age of steam?: the Tua Valley Line, Portugal: experience and examples from the technological heritage operations and preserved railways of Britain [PDF]

, 2012
Fontana, Dominic
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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

National-Scale Conservation Gaps and Priority Areas for Invasive Plant Control in China: An Integrated MaxEnt-InVEST Framework. [PDF]

Plants (Basel)
Liu B, Lin M, Liu S, Ye X, Chen S.
europepmc   +1 more source

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
wiley   +1 more source

Energy and economic benefits from economies of scale in intercity freight transportation. [PDF]

NPJ Sustain Mobil Transp
Krammer P, Schäfer AW.
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The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

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
wiley   +1 more source

Determination of the spatial patterns and influencing factors of agricultural cultural heritages in the six provinces of central China via GIS. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Xiang H, Zhang L, Peng B.
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Carbonation and Corrosion Durability Assessment of Reinforced Concrete Beam in Heavy-Haul Railways by Multi-Physics Coupling-Based Analytical Method. [PDF]

Materials (Basel)
Yan WT, Yuan L, Su YH, Yan LB, Song ZW.
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