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Noise and Vibration Mitigation for Rail Transportation Systems - Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Railway Noise, 16-20 September 2019, Ghent, Belgium (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Geert Degrande, Geert Lombaert, David Anderson, Paul DeVos, Pierre-Etienne Gautier, …
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This book reports on the 13th International Workshop on Railway
Noise (IWRN13), held on September 16-20, 2019, in Ghent, Belgium.
It gathers original peer-reviewed papers describing the latest
developments in railway noise and vibration, as well as
state-of-the-art reviews written by authoritative experts in the
field. The different papers cover a broad range of railway noise
and vibration topics, such as rolling noise, wheel squeal, noise
perception, prediction methods, measurements and monitoring, and
vehicle interior noise. Further topics include rail roughness, rail
corrugation and grinding, high-speed rail and aerodynamic noise,
structure-borne noise, ground-borne noise and vibration, and
resilient track forms. Policy, criteria and regulation are also
discussed. Offering extensive and timely information to both
scientists and engineers, this book will help them in their daily
efforts to identify, understand and solve problems related to
railway noise and vibration, and to achieve the ultimate goal of
reducing the environmental impact of railway systems.
ON NOVEMBER 30 1978, SEATTLE SLEW RETIRED FROM THOROUGHBRED HORSE
RACING. SHORTLY THEREAFTER, HE ENTERED STALLION DUTY. IMMEDIATELY,
HE BEGAN PRODUCING CHAMPION SONS AND DAUGHTERS AT A FEVER PITCH
PACE. ON APRIL 21 1981, ONE OF HIS GREATEST AND MOST BELOVED SONS
WAS BORN. HIS NAME WAS SWALE. HE WAS A CHIP OFF THE OLE' BLOCK.
THIS BOOK IS THE STORY OF HIS LIFE. DURING HIS SHORT LIFE, SWALE
DEFINED THE TRUE MEANING OF COURAGE. WHENEVER HE WAS CHALLENGED, HE
ROSE TO MEET THAT CHALLENGE. HE NEVER BACKED AWAY FROM A FIGHT. HE
DISPLAYED GRIT AND VALOR OUT ON THAT RACETRACK, LIKE NO
THOROUGHBRED BEFORE HIM, OR SINCE. WHEN YOU ARE FINISHED READING
THIS BOOK, YOU WILL LOVE SWALE, AND YOU WILL NEVER FORGET HIM.
Drawing on newly-discovered manuscripts, this collection is the
first modern edition of poetry by John Thelwall, the famed radical
Romantic and champion of the working class. Eight key essays and
125 fully-annotated poems introduce his work in correspondence with
historical traditions and current critical paradigms.
The guide is a refreshingly different account of the Christian
story and is ideally suited to young adults. It covers the main
Christian events succinctly and links them in a way that makes the
story come alive. The scope of the guide is comprehensive. It
begins with a review of pre-Christian beliefs and what the ordinary
people at the time of Jesus knew and understood. It ends with a
review of what Christians believe today and some of the issues that
are likely to be discussed in the next millennium. An introduction
to the orthodox Christian story is given together with some
contemporary interpretations of key events in the life of Jesus
Christ. The guide endeavours to put the reader in a better position
to form and evaluate his or her own beliefs. In the modern world,
true and enduring faith can only be found through a sound
understanding of the Christian story. Events and happenings that
led those in the early Church to believe Jesus Christ was divine
and the steps the Apostles took to spread the Gospel far and wide
are explained. The formation of the Roman Catholic Church and its
development are investigated, together with the ways the
Reformation changed the direction of the Christian story. The more
recent impact of science and social changes is also considered. An
overview of the Church today helps the reader to understand the
current structure and practices within the Church. The guide
explains how different Christian denominations were taken to all
parts of the world at the end of the medieval period. Finally,
issues such as the nature of God and his kingdom, gender, and
wealth in the context of today's Christian world are introduced so
that the reader may be in a better position to take part in
contemporary debate.
Putting the "I" in IHY This book is about international
cooperation. It demonstrates how the power of scienti?c imagination
and investigation can bring together people form all continents in
almost all countries around the globe. In presenting this
impressive result, we can understand, how much unifying force the
quest for understanding our universe and using outer space for that
purpose have. Astronomy is far away from being a "political" area
of science. But is has enormous political effects - and all of
these effects are positive. This book about the international
aspects and achievements of the "International Heliophysical Year
(IHY) 2007" can be regarded as a compendium of the fertile impacts
of conducting research in this ?eld. The main focus, as the title
implicates, is the international cooperation, which has emerged
from this grassroots initiative. North and South, industrialized
and developing countries have been coordinating their efforts and
have been learning from each other in a mutual partnership under a
joint understanding of sharing the scienti?c bene?ts. Through this,
trans-border networks have been created and scienti?c as well as
cultural exchange took place.
The final years of Theodore Roosevelt's life have long been
considered a dark, aberrant period in which a once-great statesman
descended into contrarianism and ill health as his legacy was
eclipsed by world events. This stirring narrative decisively puts
the lie to such depictions of Roosevelt's twilight years, showing
the characteristic dignity, intellectual brilliance, and youthful
vigor with which he confronted both private hardships and the onset
of the First World War.
It was a historical moment eerily reminiscent of our own: violence
in the failed state of Mexico bleeding across the border, an
insurgency brewing within the Republican party, and an eloquent and
charismatic Democratic president facing a global conflict while
bedeviled by constant and vitriolic partisan attacks. That
president was Woodrow Wilson, and his committed adversary was
Theodore Roosevelt, who would wage a personal and political battle
against the administration until the day he died. This duel of
American titans lies at the center of J. Lee Thompson's history,
which is the first modern account of Roosevelt exclusively during
the war years. This is a tale of politics and global conflict, but
also a private story of true love and familial devotion: the love
of Theodore and Edith Roosevelt and the deep bonds of affection
they held for all their children--particularly sons Ted, Kermit,
Archie, and Quentin, who all served bravely on the front. From
public triumphs to personal tragedies, Thompson gives us a
long-overdue look at the later life of one of American history's
most indelible figures, as well as the inexorable process by which
the US was drawn into the greatest war the world had yet
seen.
Performance Affects explores performance projects in disaster and
war zones to argue that joy, beauty and celebration should be the
inspiration for the politics of community-based or participatory
performance practice, seeking to realign the field of Applied
Theatre away from effects towards an affective role, connected to
sensations of pleasure.
This collection uses Theodore Roosevelt to form a fresh approach to
the history of US and European relations, arguing that the best
place to look for the origins of the modern transatlantic
relationship is in Roosevelt's life and career.
In this book, Judith Thompson restores a powerful but
long-suppressed voice to our understanding of British Romanticism.
Drawing on newly discovered archives, this book offers the first
full-length study of the poetry of John Thelwallas well as his
partnership with Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth.
We stand at the threshold of an exciting era of Asteroseismology.
In a few months' time, the Canadian small-satellite
asteroseismology mission MOST will be laun ched. Danish and French
missions MONS and COROT should follow, with the ESA mission
Eddington following in 2007/8. Helioseismology has proved spec
tacularly successful in imaging the internal structure and dynamics
of the Sun and probing the physics of the solar interior.
Ground-based observations have detected solar-like oscillations on
alpha Centauri A and other Sun-like stars, and diagnostics similar
to those used in helioseismology are now being used to test and
constrain the physics and evolutionary state of these stars.
Multi-mode oscillations are being observed in an abundance of other
stars, including slowly pulsating B stars (SPB stars), delta Scuti
stars, Ap stars and the pulsating white dwarfs. New classes of
pulsators continue to be discovered across the Hertzsprung-Russell
diagram. For good reason it was decided to entitle our conference
'Asteroseismology Across the HR Diagram' . Yet the challenges still
to be faced to make asteroseismology across the HR diagram a
reality are formidable. Observation, data analysis and theory all
pose hard problems to be overcome. In conceiving this meeting, the
aim of the organisers was to facilitate a cross-fertilization of
ideas and approaches between researchers working on different
pulsators and with different areas of expertise. We venture to
suggest that in this the conference was a great success."
New volume in the TNTC revision and replacement programme
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Christopher J Thompson
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This book gathers original, empirical and conceptual papers that
address the complex challenges of conducting responsible research
in the business and management professions. It includes
contributions related to, and reflecting on, the vision of the
Responsible Research in Business and Management (RRBM) network,
which proposes that business can help provide a better world if it
is informed by responsible research. The responsible research
agenda requires new methods of scholarly assessment that include
criteria for measuring impact, systemic solutions and practitioner
relevance. Theories greatly influence business and management
practices, and as the late Sumantra Ghoshal warned, bad management
theories are destroying good management practices. The authors of
this book believe that good management theories can help to create
new and better business practices.
At precisely 5:30 AM, Saturday morning, December 16, 1944, the
misty calm of the Ardennes Forest was violently shattered by the
deafening roar of nearly 85 miles of German guns. From the ancient
city of Monschau in the north, all the way down to the resort city
of Echternach in the south, the earth shook and the ground trembled
for nearly an hour as practically every caliber of shell the Third
Reich possessed was hurled at the American lines. This was the
opening act of the famous and legendary campaign known to military
history as: The Battle Of The Bulge. In volume one of the
phenomenal book, The Ardennes On Fire, brilliant author Timothy J.
Thompson details the intensive German military buildup in the weeks
leading up to the massive attack, and then examines every parameter
of day one of Hitler's greatest military gamble. This book is so
riveting, you will never be able to put it down. Mr. Thompson
provides the reader with more than 100 outstanding photographs,
along with a full and comprehensive index as well. If you want to
know how it happened and why it happened, this is the book for you.
The Battle of the Bulge was one of the most thrilling campaigns in
the history of warfare. Volume one of, The Ardennes On Fire,
captures every aspect of it.
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