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Aldrich, Mark. "On the Track of Efficiency: Scientific Management Comes to Railroad Shops, 1900–1930." Business History Review 84, no. 3 (2010): 501–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0007680500002221.

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In 1910, Louis Brandeis claimed that scientific management could save the railroads a million dollars a day and avoid a rate increase. While Brandeis's claims are well known, historians have neglected the influence of scientific management on the railroads. In 1904, Harrington Emerson introduced repair scheduling techniques in the locomotive shops of the Santa Fe. Scheduling revolutionized repair, and–esponding in part to the regulatory pressures Brandeis helped create–by 1925 most major railroads employed it. In the 1920s, the carriers imported a second new management technique–the “progressive” system that focused on material flows, and introduced batch production techniques to car and locomotive repair. Collectively these methods prevented transportation bottlenecks, raised labor productivity, and reduced capital requirements.
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Dumitru, T. A., K. C. Hill, D. A. Coyle, I. R. Duddy, D. A. Foster, A. J. W. Gleadow, P. F. Green, B. P. Kohn, G. M. Laslett, and A. J. O'Sullivan. "FISSION TRACK THERMOCHRONOLOGY: APPLICATION TO CONTINENTAL RIFTING OF SOUTH-EASTERN AUSTRALIA." APPEA Journal 31, no. 1 (1991): 131. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/aj90011.

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Over the last five to ten years, apatite fission track analysis has developed into a sophisticated technique for studying the low-temperature thermal history of rocks. It has particular utility in oil exploration because its temperature range of sensitivity, about 20° to 125°C, overlaps the oil generation window. Whereas older fission track thermal history approaches relied solely on the sample fission track age, the new interpretive approaches use sample age, single grain age and track length data. They also emphasise the analysis of systematic variations in data patterns in sequences of samples, such as samples from various depths in a well. Laboratory study of the thermal annealing of fission tracks and compilation of fission track data from geological case studies has greatly improved our understanding of apatite fission track systematics, allowing considerably more detailed interpretations of thermal histories.Application of apatite fission track analysis to the rifted continental margins of south-eastern Australia shows that rifting and separation of Australia from Antarctica and the Lord Howe Rise were accompanied by at least 1.5-3 km of uplift and erosion along the Tasman Sea and Bass Strait coasts. Uplift and erosion were much less 100 km or so inland. This shows that the uplift of the south-eastern Australian margins was caused by the continental rifting process, the same process that initiated major subsidence in the sedimentary basins in Bass Strait. The consistent fission track data patterns around south-eastern Australia suggest a generally similar tectonic setting for the Tasman Sea and Bass Strait parts of the margin. Lister et al. (in press) propose that the Tasman part of the margin is an upper plate type of margin that formed above a west-dipping detachment zone. The fission track data suggest that the Bass Strait part of the margin may also be of upper plate type.
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McQueen, Humphrey, Frank Stilwell, and Christopher Sheil. "Changing Track: A New Political Economic Direction for Australia." Labour History, no. 81 (2001): 210. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/27516816.

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Bowden, Bradley. "An exploration into the relationship between management and market forces." Journal of Management History 23, no. 3 (June 12, 2017): 297–314. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jmh-12-2016-0062.

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Purpose Are business outcomes due primarily to entrepreneurial and managerial ability or are they mainly the result of business content? The purpose of this study is to explore this question by comparing the railroads of Victoria and Queensland (Australia) and the South-West and Northern Plains of America between 1881 and 1900. Given the commonalities of the four railway systems in terms of their economic orientation towards rural custom, and their marked difference in terms of ownership, one would expect similarities in their financial circumstances if outcomes were primarily determined by fluctuations in global commodity markets. Conversely, marked differences would be expected if outcomes primarily resulted from managerial initiative. Design/methodology/approach Conceptually, this study is informed by the idea that social and economic outcomes are shaped by long historical movements, with meaningful structural change occurring rarely but to great effect. In exploring this concept through a comparison of the railways of Australia and the American West, the study draws on two forms of archival evidence. One source of evidence relates to railroad management, operations and finances. Figures cited come primarily from Australian railway commissioners’ reports and Poor’s Manual of the Railroads of the USA. The other source of evidence relates to agricultural statistics. These are drawn from official reports. Findings This study argues that effective strategic decision-making can only occur if we understand the structural changes that alter our world. In the late nineteenth century, the Australian and American railroads servicing newly settled rural regions were financial failures because management failed to appreciate the structural changes that the revolution in steam-powered transport had initiated; a revolution which resulted in commodity prices – and hence, the railway rates for farm produce – being determined by global demand and supply balances rather than by local factors. As a result, they continued a policy of expansion that was no longer financially justified. Originality/value This study seeks to contribute to a fundamental debate in historical studies and management about the drivers of social and economic change. Increasingly, there is acceptance of the view that historical circumstances are inherently unstable and what counts is the particular change cascading through a myriad of “events”. This study points in a contrary direction, suggesting that business outcomes are primarily determined by deep structural shifts that can be understood and steered but seldom opposed.
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Ouzman, Sven, Paul S. C. Taçon, Ken Mulvaney, and Richard Fullager. "Extraordinary Engraved Bird Track from North Australia: Extinct Fauna, Dreaming Being and/or Aesthetic Masterpiece?" Cambridge Archaeological Journal 12, no. 1 (April 2002): 103–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0959774302000057.

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An extraordinary engraved bird track was located in the Weaber Range of the Keep River region of Northern Territory, Australia, in July 2000. This engraved track is dissimilar to most other examples in Australian rock-art, differing in shape, size and detail from the thousands of engraved, painted or beeswax depictions of bird tracks known from sites across the continent. Importantly, it also differs in technique from other engraved tracks in the Keep River region, having been rubbed and abraded to a smooth finish. We explore three approaches to the engraved track's significance, that it: a) depicts the track of an extinct bird species; b) relates to Aboriginal beliefs regarding Dreaming Beings; and c) is a powerful aesthetic achievement that reflects rare observation of emu tracks. We conclude that the Weaber bird track engraving most probably represents a relatively recent visual expression of ancient Aboriginal thoughts that have been transmitted through the centuries via story-telling and rock-art. This discussion highlights problems of assigning identification and meaning to ancient art but also suggests that aspects of history may be passed across generations for much longer than is commonly realized.
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Highfield, Tim, and Axel Bruns. "Confrontation and Cooptation: A Brief History of Australian Political Blogs." Media International Australia 143, no. 1 (May 2012): 89–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x1214300111.

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Even early on, political blogging in Australia was not an entirely alternative endeavour – the blogosphere has seen early and continued involvement from representatives of the mainstream media. However, the acceptance of the blogging concept by the mainstream media has been accompanied by a comparative lack of acceptance of individual bloggers. Analyses and commentary published by bloggers have been attacked by journalists, creating an at times antagonistic relationship. In this article, we examine the historical development of blogging in Australia, focusing primarily on political and news blogs. We track the evolution of individual and group blogs, and independent and mainstream media-hosted opinion sites, and the gradual convergence of these platforms and their associated contributing authors. We conclude by examining the current state of the Australian blogosphere and its likely future development, taking into account the rise of social media, particularly Twitter, as additional spaces for public commentary.
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Koul, Sohan L., A. R. Wilde, and Awtar K. Tickoo. "A thermal history of the Proterozoic East Alligator River Terrain, N.T., Australia: a fission track study." Tectonophysics 145, no. 1-2 (January 1988): 101–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0040-1951(88)90319-8.

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Mitchell, Melinda M., Kevin C. Hill, and David A. Foster. "The thermal history of the gambier embayment, Western Otway basin, Australia, from apatite fission track analysis." Nuclear Tracks and Radiation Measurements 21, no. 4 (October 1993): 621. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/1359-0189(93)90276-f.

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Barr, Trevor. "Broadband Bottleneck: History Revisited." Media International Australia 129, no. 1 (November 2008): 129–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x0812900113.

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The vexed issues currently surrounding broadband policy in Australia remind us that the public sector has a great track record in building valuable telecommunications infrastructure. One lesson from the past 150 years is the constructive role played by the public sector by providing the vision and seeding capital for the creation of three major communications platforms: Australia's overland telegraph in the 1870s, communications satellites funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) from the 1950s, and the early internet, funded by the US government from the 1960s to the 1990s. But times have changed and new policy models have emerged. Australia's telecommunications public policy decisions during the past decade have locked us into having few choices for broadband. The sad irony to date is that the introduction of the open competition model in July 1997, its associated regulatory framework and the full privatisation of Telstra have actually made us less efficient in investment and impeded the development of the broadband networks we need. We might just benefit from revisiting some lessons from history.
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Rocha1, Cristina. "Establishing the John of God Movement in Australia." Ethnologies 33, no. 1 (February 14, 2012): 143–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1007800ar.

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João de Deus (John of God) is a Brazilian faith healer who has been attracting a large number of followers outside his country. In the past decade, he has conducted international healing events in Germany, the US, and New Zealand, among others. As a consequence, John of God’s story has been told in documentaries on North American, British, Australian, and New Zealand television. Many of these documentaries have been uploaded by followers on You Tube. Such global exposure has been accompanied by intense flows of people, ideas, and commodities between Casa de Dom Inácio (John of God’s healing centre in Brazil) and these countries. In this paper, I track flows between Australia and Brazil. I argue that the position of Australia as a colonial-settler society, where the aboriginal population has suffered immense loss, entails a different understanding of John of God’s particular brand of Spiritism. For many followers, the arrival of the ‘entities’ (spirits John of God incorporates) is perceived as a way to heal the wounds of the land. Such understanding is not found among Spiritists and John of God followers in Brazil, although the country also has a history of dispossession and suffering among indigenous peoples.
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Fernie, Nicholas Stewart. "Thermal History of Central Australia: Cooper Basin, South Australia & Anmatjira Range, Northern Territory: Insights from Apatite Fission Track and U-Pb Thermochronology." Thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/123092.

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A large number of geological studies around the globe have used radiogenic isotopes in accessory minerals to thoroughly investigate upper and lower crustal processes. Minerals such as zircon, monazite, rutile and apatite are some examples of high and low temperature geochronometers which have been applied to various geological problems. Heavy mineral geochronometers have been commonly used to date high temperature igneous and metamorphic processes. Further developments extended their use to dating the depositional ages of sedimentary successions and being able to make conclusions about sediment provenance. Advances in the more recent fission track method have extended the use of these minerals to low-temperature processes such has heating due to burial and cooling due to uplift allowing scientists to date orogenic systems, brittle fault reactivation and basin development. Advances in LA-ICP-MS technology and double dating apatite for fission track and U-Pb chronometers increases the minerals efficiency and applicability to investigatng multiple temperature ranges on a single sample. This study utilizes apatite as the primary tool to investigate and assessa variety of geological settings. Detrital apatite was sampled from the oil and gas rich Cooper-Eromanga Basin to assess and test Cretaceous heating, charge timing and subsequent late Cretaceous cooling profiles from a number of well bores in the region. In this case time-temperature paths were derived by collecting samples over a vertical profile from a range of present-day downhole temperatures, modelled and compared to the results from previous fission track and vitrinite reflectance studies. Apatite U-Pb from was used to make conclusions about the provenance of the stratigraphic unit from which it was sampled and assessed in conjuction with published zircon U-Pb. A secondary assessment was conducted on the cratonic Anmatjira Range, Central Australia. The stability of cratonic regions around the globe has begun to be brought into question due t1o the development of low temperature thermochronometres. In this case apatite fission track was used to assess the assumed Mesozoic stability of the Palaeoproterozoic differentially metamorphosed granitoids of the Anmatjira Range. The actual cause of Mesozoic cooling in Central Australia remains inconclusive but evidence suggests long-wavelength tectonism from either mantle dynamics or synchronous far field orogenic events. Apatite U-Pb, trace and rare earth element analysis was applied to the same samples to assess the effect that prograding greenschist facies to amphibolite facies metamorphism has on the U-Pb chronometer and diffusion characteristics of Mn, Sr and REEs. The result exhibits significant variations in closure temperature between the measured isotopes, indicating a decoupling between U-Pb chronometers, trace and rare earth elements which could have strong implications for sedimentary provenance. Application of multiple apatite chronological methods gives an indication of the minerals flexibility and can be utilized across a range of geological environments. Through the assessment of apatite behavior from recently deformed basin environments to cratonic metamorphosed granitoids, this study investigates some of the uses apatite has and its possible applications to future chronological studies.
Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Adelaide, School of Physical Sciences, 2019
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Books on the topic "Railroads Australia Track History"

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Adam-Smith, Patsy. Trains of Australia: All aboard. Melbourne: Australia Post, 1993.

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The railway: British track since 1804. Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Pen & Sword, 2014.

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The Harcourt Street Line: Back on track. Dublin: Currach Press, 2003.

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Macinnis, Peter. Kokoda track: 101 days. Fitzroy, Vic., Australia: Black Dog Books, 2007.

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Tucker track: The curious history of food in Australia. Sydney, Australia: ABC Books, 2005.

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One track mind: Photographic essays on Western railroading. Erin, Ontario, Canada: Boston Mills Press, 1999.

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Wade, Stuart. Tacoma Rail: One hundred years and still on track. Virginia Beach, VA: The Donning Company Publishers, 2016.

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The track. Houghton, South Africa: Jacana, 2003.

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O'Brien, Beatrice. One track. Philadelphia, Pa: Mozart Park Press, 1995.

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H, White John. On the right track: Some historic Cincinnati railroads. Cincinnati, Ohio: Cincinnati Railroad Club, Inc., 2003.

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Mitchell, M. M., B. P. Kohn, and D. A. Foster. "Post-Orogenic Cooling History of Eastern South Australia from Apatite FT Thermochronology." In Advances in Fission-Track Geochronology, 207–24. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9133-1_13.

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Conference papers on the topic "Railroads Australia Track History"

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Zhang, Zhipeng, Kang Zhou, and Xiang Liu. "Broken Rail Prediction With Machine Learning-Based Approach." In 2020 Joint Rail Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/jrc2020-8102.

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Abstract Broken rails are the most frequent cause of freight train derailments in the United States. According to the U.S. Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) railroad accident database, there are over 900 Class I railroad freight-train derailments caused by broken rails between 2000 and 2017. In 2017 alone, broken rail-caused freight train derailments cause $15.8 million track and rolling stock damage costs to Class I railroads. The prevention of broken rails is crucial for reducing the risk due to broken rail-caused derailments. Although there is fast-growing big data in the railroad industry, quite limited prior research has taken advantage of these data to disclose the relationship between real-world factors and broken rail occurrence. This article aims to predict the occurrence of broken rails via machine learning approach that simultaneously accounts for track files, traffic information, maintenance history, and prior defect information. In the prediction of broken rails, a machine learning-based algorithm called extreme gradient boosting (XGBoost) is developed with various types of variables, including track characteristics (e.g. rail profile information, rail laid information), traffic-related information (e.g. gross tonnage recorded by time, number of passing cars), maintenance records (e.g. rail grinding and track ballast cleaning), and historical rail defect records. Area Under the Curve (AUC) is used as the evaluation metric to identify the prediction accuracy of developed machine learning model. The preliminary result shows that the AUC for one year of the XGBoost-based prediction model is 0.83, which is higher than two comparative models, logistic regression and random forests. Furthermore, the feature importance discloses that segment length, traffic tonnage, number of car passes, rail age, and the number of detected defects in the past six months have relatively greater importance for the prediction of broken rails. The prediction model and outcomes, along with future research in the relationship between broken rails and broken rail-caused derailment, can benefit railroad practical maintenance planning and capital planning.
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