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Railroad Turnout Wear Diagnostics
Sensors, 2021 The article presents a few issues related to the technical condition of a railway turnout, an important element of the railway network where about 90% of railway accidents occur.
Jerzy Kisilowski, Rafał Kowalik
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Correlates of Voter Turnout [PDF]
Political Behavior, 2021 Despite decades of research, there is no consensus as to the core correlates of national-level voter turnout. We argue that this is, in part, due to the lack of comprehensive, systematic empirical analysis. This paper conducts such an analysis.
Richard W. Frank, F. M. I. Coma
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Can nonpartisan primaries boost turnout and lessen demographic disparities? [PDF]
PLoS ONEU.S. congressional general elections are largely uncompetitive, featuring candidates who emerge from low-turnout primaries. Voters in these primaries are unrepresentative of the broader electorate; primary voters tend to be older and wealthier.
Todd Donovan +2 more
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Numerical simulations and experimental analysis of high-speed turnout rails wear models [PDF]
Scientific ReportsThis study analyzed different contact theories and models for simulating rail wear in the turnout areas. The typical cross-sections of the high-speed turnout switch and frog areas are selected.
Jincheng Li, Min Hu, Hao Wu, Hao Zhong
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Sensors, 2020 The turnouts in railway infrastructure constitute bottlenecks, limiting the capacity of the entire railway network. These turnouts force speed limits due to their design and geometry.
Arkadiusz Kampczyk
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, 2018 In The Turnout Gap, Bernard L. Fraga offers the most comprehensive analysis to date of the causes and consequences of racial and ethnic disparities in voter turnout. Examining voting for Whites, African Americans, Latinos, and Asian Americans from the 1800s to the present, Fraga documents persistent gaps in turnout and shows that elections are ...
Bernard L. Fraga
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Election turnout in authoritarian regimes
, 2020 What explains election turnout in authoritarian regimes? Despite the significant energy, resources, and time ruling parties devote to improving the participation rates of citizens, there exists extraordinary variation both within and across authoritarian
F. M. I. Coma, Lee Morgenbesser
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The COVID-19 pandemic’s effects on voter turnout
European Journal of Political Economy, 2021 The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the risk of participating in public events, among them elections. We assess whether the voter turnout in the 2020 local government elections in Italy was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Matteo Picchio, Raffaella Santolini
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Does affective polarisation increase turnout? Evidence from Germany, The Netherlands and Spain
West European Politics, 2022 Polarisation is often seen as mainly negative for the functioning of democracies, but one of its saving graces could be that it raises the stakes of politics and encourages participation.
E. Harteveld, Markus Wagner
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A review of research on design theory and engineering practice of high-speed railway turnout
Intelligent Transportation Infrastructure, 2022 This paper systematically reviews the research progress, problems, specific countermeasures and development trends of the dynamic design theory as applied to high-speed railway turnouts.
Ping Wang +6 more
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