Identifying documents that describe a specific type of event is challenging due to the high complexity and variety of event descriptions. We propose a multi-faceted event recognition approach, which identifies documents about an event using event phrases as well as defining characteristics of the event. Our research focuses on civil unrest events and learns civil unrest expressions as well as p...

Sakdirat Kaewunruen*, Joseph M. Sussman and Herbert H. Einstein 1 Birmingham Centre for Railway Research and Education, School of Civil Engineering, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK 2 High Speed Rail Research Group, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA 3 Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachuset...

Department of Civil Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, M5S 1A4, Canada Urban Transportation Research and Advancement Centre, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, M5S 1A4, Canada Toronto ITS Centre and Testbed, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, M5S 1A4, Canada Center of Research Excellence in Hajj and Omrah (HajjCoRE), Umm Al-Q...

J. L. Salinas1, A. Castellarin2, S. Kohnová3, and T. R. Kjeldsen4 1Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources Management, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria 2Department DICAM, School of Civil Engineering, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy 3Department of Land and Water Resources Management, Faculty of Civil Engineering, SUT Bratislava, Slovak Republic 4Department of...

Dongshuai Hou PhD Candidate, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Hongyan Ma Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Zongjin Li Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technolo...

Too often, the examination of the work of a major intellectual figure occurs in an historical vacuum. History has two meanings. One sense is obviously that of the social, political, and economic context within which a specific theoretical development takes place. Would Keynes have written The General Theory had England not suffered economic difficulties following World War I and had the capital...

Russell and Walker proposed different ways of constructing instants from events. As an explanation of “time as a continuum”, Thomason favoured Walker’s construction. The present paper shows that Russell’s construction fares as well. To this end, a mathematical characterization problem is solved which corresponds to the characterization problem that Thomason solved with regard to Walker’s constr...

This paper documents a migration response to the American Civil War. We compare men who served in the Confederate Army with their men who served in the Union army in the border state of Kentucky, which contributed significant numbers of soldiers to both armies. To create the dataset, we collected the universe of existing Union and Confederate enlistees from Kentucky and matched men to their pre...

Crush syndrome remains rare in European practice. It is, however, common in areas of civil disorder and where the normal structures of society have given way to civil war or natural disaster. Western doctors are becoming increasingly involved in such situations and there is no reason to believe that instances due to more conventional causes, such as collapse in the elderly or road traffic accid...

Theodor Meyer’s 1908 doctoral dissertation, with Ludwig Prandtl (1875–1953) as his advisor, introduced much of what has now become basic gas dynamics: not only the Prandtl–Meyer expansion but also the oblique-shock-wave theory as well. It is arguably the most influential dissertation in all of fluid dynamics. Yet no biography or even a photograph of Meyer has been available in the intervening c...