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Diagnostics of railway turnout systems using tools of centralization blocking system

open access: yesMATEC Web of Conferences, 2018
Turnout systems are one of the few most important components of the railway infrastructure. Recently there has been a revival of research aimed at prognostics and health management of railway turnout systems.
Siroklyn Ivan   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Factors that influence in the turnout in ballet dancers with knee pain

open access: yesFisioterapia e Pesquisa, 2014
The turnout, primary gesture in classical ballet, refers the 180º of the feet. The lateral rotation provides the greatest amount of degrees necessary to perform the position perfectly.
Paula Fiquetti Silveira   +1 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Does Voting History Matter? Analysing Persistence in Turnout [PDF]

open access: yes
Individuals who vote in one election are also more likely to vote in the next. Modelling the causal relationship between past and current voting decisions however is intrinsically difficult, as this positive association can exist due to habit formation ...
Orla Doyle, Kevin Denny
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Election turnout in authoritarian regimes

open access: yes, 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
Martinez i Coma, Ferran   +1 more
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Bioinspired Adaptive Sensors: A Review on Current Developments in Theory and Application

open access: yesAdvanced Materials, EarlyView.
This review comprehensively summarizes the recent progress in the design and fabrication of sensory‐adaptation‐inspired devices and highlights their valuable applications in electronic skin, wearable electronics, and machine vision. The existing challenges and future directions are addressed in aspects such as device performance optimization ...
Guodong Gong   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Real-Time Prewarning Method of Subway Turnout Jamming Failure Based on Short-Term Load Prediction and Ensemble LVQ Learning

open access: yesIEEE Access
Turnout is the key equipment for realizing the turnback of subway trains. Frequent movements and environmental changes often lead to abnormal increases in resistance during turnout conversion, resulting in jamming failures that directly affect traffic ...
Hao Wen, Jie Xiao, Guangxiang Xie
doaj   +1 more source

Vote centers and turnout by election type in Texas

open access: yesResearch & Politics, 2019
The use of vote centers—specific locations in a county where all voters will vote—is on the rise nationwide, as more than a dozen states used this process by 2018.
Jeronimo Cortina, Brandon Rottinghaus
doaj   +1 more source

Turnout and the modeling of economic conditions: Evidence from Portuguese elections [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper analyzes the impact of economic conditions on voter turnout at Portuguese legislative and municipal elections. We use four extensive datasets to estimate an economic turnout model in which local economic variables are included in quadratic ...
Rodrigo Martins, Francisco José Veiga
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The hierarchies of age-period-cohort research: Political context and the development of generational turnout patterns

open access: yes, 2014
Voters that come of age at roughly the same time share common influences because of the specific political context during their formative years. We can therefore assume the errors in a model explaining their political behavior to be dependent.
Neundorf, Anja, Smets, Kaat
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