The shear resistance at the sleeper–ballast interface of a ballasted track is an important contributor in maintaining stability under faster and heavier axle loads where ballast undergoes significant lateral sliding. Different types interfaces based on type sleeper arrangements, such as concrete sleepers, timber pads (USPs) attached to sleepers influence railway tracks. Therefore, this study de...

Timothy A. Sanborn, MD, FACC,* Lynn A. Sleeper, SCD,† Eric R. Bates, MD, FACC,‡ Alice K. Jacobs, MD, FACC,§ Jean Boland, MD,\ John K. French, MBCHB, PHD,¶ Jo Dens, MD,# Vladimir Dzavik, MD,** Sebastian T. Palmeri, MD, FACC,†† John G. Webb, MD, FACC,‡‡ Mark Goldberger, MD, FACC,§§ Judith S. Hochman, MD, FACC,\\ for the SHOCK Investigators New York, New York; Watertown, Massachusetts; Ann Arbor, ...

FOREWORD Phase I of the Motor Carrier Efficiency Study (MCES) identified a broad array of technology applications that have the potential to leverage advancements in wireless communications. With the commercial rollout of fourth-generation (commonly called 4G) wireless telecommunications systems, creative developers have greater opportunity to develop useful tools to exploit high-speed, data-ri...

H. G. Wells, one of the pioneering utopian and dystopian authors late Victorian Age, delineates a political conjuncture into which London rest world may evolve two centuries later. The novel depicts future in working class is socially oppressed new order where government that holds reign power globally capitalism has gained an ultimate victory historically. Moreover, this dystopic representatio...