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Measuring the cyclic compressional behaviour of soil under constrained lateral deformations. [PDF]

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Hussain R, Kamai R.
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‘The Good Couscous That Pleases Us!’: The Meanings of Enduring Imperialist Imagery in Postcolonial French Food Advertising, 1970–2000

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines a wave of Orientalism‐inspired food commercials that appeared on television in France between 1975 and 2000. Older commercials for couscous were more banal, emphasizing a given product's superiority or affordability. Around 1975, however, there was a concerted shift in the advertising; new spots contained exoticized ...
Kelly Ricciardi Colvin
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Optimization of steel anchor pile configurations for enhanced pullout resistance in expansive soil foundations. [PDF]

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Sharma A, Kumari A, Alsabhan AH, Alam S, Singh K, Tiwary AK, Qadri J, Senagah A, Juneja G, Gupta R, Mehta A.   +10 more
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South Asian Bodies at British Borders in the 1970s: From the Ugandan Asian ‘Stateless Husbands’ to ‘Virginity Testing’

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article looks at two critical moments in British immigration – the case of the ‘stateless’ Ugandan Asian husbands, whose wives successfully argued for their entry in Britain in 1973 and the ‘virginity test’ performed on Mrs K at Heathrow Airport in 1979.
Antara Datta, Jinal Parekh
wiley   +1 more source

Experimental study on vertical compressive bearing capacity of single pile in Weihe river second terrace. [PDF]

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Du X, Liu F.
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‘From the Fields Into the Bars’: The Story of Israel's First Transgender Novel, The Cut (1977)

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 1977, an Israeli transgender woman, Judy Spotheim, published an autobiographical novel entitled The Cut. It describes the emergence of a trans community in the commercial‐sex areas of Tel Aviv‐Jaffa, hoping to humanise trans women (coccinelles). This article is the first to study the novel and present a biography of Spotheim.
Gil Engelstein, Iris Rachamimov
wiley   +1 more source

Study on influence of cosine-shaped subgrade settlement at different positions on the deformation and interlayer contact behavior of unit slab ballastless track. [PDF]

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Tan J, Jiang X, Luo R, Li H, He S, Hou Y.   +5 more
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Performance of Soil Metal Arch Structures

World Congress on Civil, Structural, and Environmental Engineering, 2018
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Cuttings, Combings, Fettlings and Flock: Gender and Australian Wool ‘Waste’, 1900–1950

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As Australia's wool industry produced vast amounts of fine fleece from the nineteenth century, the wool processing and clothes manufacturing industries generated waste – products like cuttings, combings, fettlings and flock. Salvaged and then sold to waste merchants, these and other materials had a second life.
Lorinda Cramer
wiley   +1 more source

Response of free-headed segmental piles with mechanical joints to lateral loading. [PDF]

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Liu T, Zhang Q, Sun C, Cheng J, Wu Y.
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