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Design of rapier drive mechanisms for rapier weft insertion systems

open access: yes, 1997
Bu çalışmada kam mekanizması içeren kanca tahrik mekanizmalarının optimum tasarımı amaçlanmıştır. Dokuma makinalarında kullanılan atkı atma sistemleri genel olarak incelendikten sonra kancalı atkı atma sisteminin bugünkü durumu tasarım yaklaşımları ...
Sezen, Koray
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Radiative cooling textiles using industry‐standard particle‐free nonporous micro‐structured fibers

open access: yesNanophotonics, Volume 13, Issue 5, Page 649-657, March 2024.
Abstract Thermal radiation is a major dissipative pathway for heat generated by the human body and offers a significant thermoregulation mechanism over a wide range of conditions. We could use this in garment design to enhance personal cooling, which can improve the wearing comfort of garments or even result in energy savings in buildings.
Peter B. Catrysse, Shanhui Fan
wiley   +1 more source

James Rapier and the Negro Labor Movement [PDF]

open access: yes, 1975
BORN OF FREE BLACK PARENTS IN FLORENCE, ALABAMA, a quarter century before the Civil War (1837) , James Thomas Rapier emerged during Reconstruction as one of the South,s outstanding political leaders. At the Tennessee Negro suffrage convention (only seven
Schweninger, Loren L.   +1 more
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Visible hands: How gig companies shape workers' exposure to market risk

open access: yesIndustrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, Volume 63, Issue 1, Page 59-79, January 2024.
Abstract How do gig platforms prevent workers from defecting to a competitor? Drawing on 40 original interviews and survey data from 210 ride‐hail drivers, the author finds that platform companies calibrate workers' exposure to market risk using gamified reward systems.
Michael David Maffie
wiley   +1 more source

The Renaissance rapier -- history and use

open access: yes, 2001
This project analyzed the fencing techniques of the rapier as taught by five different fencing masters from Renaissance Europe. A web page was then constructed which incorporated the analyses, a basic history of the rapier and rapier techniques, and ...
Young, Paul J.   +4 more
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Is Consumer Choice for Retail Water Service in Our Future

open access: yes, 2006
Rapier explores the potential for introducing consumer choice in retail water service markets, analyzing the benefits and challenges of such a shift in Texas.
Rapier, John
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Too far West (dangerous curves ahead)

open access: yesThe European Journal of Humour Research, 2015
In a career that lasted over eighty years, the performances of Mae West were famous, or infamous, for their power to shock, their transgression of boundaries of class, gender, sexuality and propriety, and for the frequent opprobrium that West seemed to ...
Will Visconti
doaj   +3 more sources

Geometrical Modeling of Woven Fabrics Weavability-Limit New Relationships

open access: yesAUTEX Research Journal, 2017
The weavability limit and tightness for 2D and 3D woven fabrics is an important factor and depends on many geometric parameters. Based on a comprehensive review of the literature on textile fabric construction and property, and related research on fabric
Dalal Mohamed   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The History of the Rapier

open access: yes, 2013
At the end of the Middle Ages, weapons began to be used not only on the battlefield, but for civilian use as well. The rapier became the essential self-defense weapon of the "Renaissance man." This project explores the history, evolution, and manufacture
Correa, Robert Michael   +3 more
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Rapier: Integrating routing and scheduling for coflow-aware data center networks

open access: yes, 2015
In the data flow models of today's data center applications such as MapReduce, Spark and Dryad, multiple flows can comprise a coflow group semantically. Only completing all flows in a coflow is meaningful to an application.
Li, Dan   +17 more
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