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Turning the Wheel Catalog of Books and Kits [PDF]

, 1997
1 Electronic records. 4 pages. 1.28 MB, 1341080 bytes.A catalog of books and kits aimed at children to teach them the Wheel of the Year. Turning the Wheel. Turning the Wheel Catalog of Books and Kits. (Portland, OR: Turning the Wheel, 1997?).
Turning the Wheel
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Flap Anatomies and Victorian Veils: Penetrating the Female Reproductive Interior

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the reappearance in the early nineteenth century of anatomical flapbooks in the context of obstetrical education in Britain, America and France. It asks why liftable paper flaps were reintroduced at this time after their disappearance from medical atlases in the eighteenth century.
Margaret Carlyle, Marcia D. Nichols
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Research on On-Line Monitoring of Grinding Wheel Wear Based on Multi-Sensor Fusion

Sensors
The state of a grinding wheel directly affects the surface quality of the workpiece. The monitoring of grinding wheel wear state can allow one to efficiently identify grinding wheel wear information and to timely and effectively trim the grinding wheel ...
Jingsong Duan, Guohua Cao, Guoqing Ma, Zhenglin Yu, Changshun Shao   +4 more
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“Lovelies on Wheels”: The Politics of Miss Wheelchair America, 1972–1977

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the Miss Wheelchair America pageant in the 1970s as a cultural and political space that produced a specific message about the intersections of womanhood, disability, and citizenship. The pageant elevated contestants who performed normative femininity, beauty, heterosexuality, and whiteness, while narratively framing ...
Moira Armstrong
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Investigation of Grinding Wheel Wear Using a White Chromatic Sensor

, 2015
This thesis involves the measuring of grinding wheel wear using an improved grinding wheel scanner. The positional resolution of the scanner has been improved from 26.5 μm to 0.65 μm with the addition of a second encoder. A vision based homing system was
McDonald, Andrew
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Hunting in the Ghaznavid State: Courtly Culture, Military Practices and Political Power

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Hunting occupied an important place in the royal court culture of the Ghaznavid state (963–1186 CE). Ghaznavid hunting culture developed through the interaction of Turkic‐Islamic political traditions, Persianate models of kingship and local ecological settings. Rather than constituting a fully formalized institution, Ghaznavid hunting practice
Arslan Durdu
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Seizure and wear rate testing of wheel–rail contacts under lubricated conditions using pin-on-disc methodology

, 2008
An increased wear rate and a shift of wear mechanism in the wheel-rail contact has been observed in tight curves, mainly due to the change from an almost pure rolling contact to more of a sliding contact.
Sundh, Jon,, Sundvall, Krister,, Olofsson, Ulf,   +2 more
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THE ANALOG CITY: Maintaining Everyday Life Through Repair and Jugaad

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Urban scholarship consistently discusses improvisation and heterogeneity as central to urban life in the global South. In this article, I bring together scholarship on urban improvisation and the digital world of smart cities to understand the city as analog.
Julia Corwin
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GHOSTLY ENCOUNTERS IN LAGOS: Virtual Reality between Urban Marketing and Media Activism

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the role of virtual reality (VR) technologies in mediating and contesting dominant visions of urban futures in West Africa. Drawing on theoretical insights from a hybridization of the work of the German‐born Jewish critic Walter Benjamin and the Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola, I introduce the concept of phantasmagoria as a ...
Hervé Roquet
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PLAYING WITH PREFIGURATION: Ludic Spaces and Prefigurative Organizing for Children's Right to the Mobile City

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Earlier writings on the political importance of play have discussed how it can make players conscious of the possibilities of otherwise worlds. Prefigurative politics has very similar aims, but the discussion between the two has been limited.
JONNE SILONSAARI
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