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Cable television --- Consolidation and merger of corporations --- Comcast Corporation. --- Time Warner Cable.

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Although the "decline" of network television in the face of cable programming was an institutional crisis of television history, John Caldwell's classic volume Televisuality reveals that this decline spawned a flurry of new production initiatives to reassert network authority. Television in the 1980s hyped an extensive array of exhibitionist practices to raise the prime-time marquee above the multi-channel flow. Televisuality demonstrates the cultural logic of stylistic exhibitionism in everything from prestige series (Northern Exposure) and "loss-leader" event-status programming (War and Remembrance) to lower "trash" and "tabloid" forms (Pee-Wee's Playhouse and reality TV). Caldwell shows how "import-auteurs" like Oliver Stone and David Lynch were stylized for prime time as videographics packaged and tamed crisis news coverage. By drawing on production experience and critical and cultural analysis, and by tying technologies to aesthetics and ideology, Televisuality is a powerful call for desegregation of theory and practice in media scholarship and an end to the willful blindness of "high theory."

Television broadcasting --- Television programs --- Visual communication --- Graphic communication --- Imaginal communication --- Pictorial communication --- Communication --- Social aspects --- History. --- Television broadcasting. --- Telecasting --- Television --- Television industry --- Broadcasting --- Mass media --- tv, television, network television, cable programming, television history, exhibitionist practices, prime-time, prestige series, Northern Exposure, War and Remembrance, Pee-Wee's Playhouse, reality tv, import-auteurs, Oliver Stone, David Lynch, news coverage, media scholarship, tabloid tv.

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Passive vibration control plays a crucial role in structural engineering. Common solutions include seismic isolation and damping systems with various kinds of devices, such as viscous, viscoelastic, hysteretic, and friction dampers. These strategies have been widely utilized in engineering practice, and their efficacy has been demonstrated in mitigating damage and preventing the collapse of buildings, bridges, and industrial facilities. However, there is a need for more sophisticated analytical and numerical tools to design structures equipped with optimally configured devices. On the other hand, the family of devices and dissipative elements used for structural protection keeps evolving, because of growing performance demands and new progress achieved in materials science and mechanical engineering. This Special Issue collects 13 contributions related to the development and application of passive vibration control strategies for structures, covering both traditional and innovative devices. In particular, the contributions concern experimental and theoretical investigations of high-efficiency dampers and isolation bearings; optimization of conventional and innovative energy dissipation devices; performance-based and probability-based design of damped structures; application of nonlinear dynamics, random vibration theory, and modern control theory to the design of structures with passive energy dissipation systems; and critical discussion of implemented isolation/damping technologies in significant or emblematic engineering projects.

History of engineering & technology --- stay cable --- vibration control --- hybrid control --- inertial mass damper --- viscous damper --- passive vibration control --- inerter system --- cable bracing --- parametric study --- optimal design --- tuned mass damper --- inerter --- high-rise buildings --- wind tunnel test --- wind-induced response --- structural control --- synchronous multi-point pressure measurement --- seismic protection --- displacement-dependent damping --- stochastic dynamic analysis --- metal damper --- performance parameter --- cyclic loading test --- hysteretic behavior --- energy dissipation capability --- multi-degree of freedom --- graphical approach --- suspension bridges --- seismic test --- pushover test --- precast concrete structure --- shake table --- Base-Isolated Buildings --- bearing displacement --- STMD --- MTMDs --- d-MTMDs --- incremental dynamic analysis --- earthquake --- energy dissipation --- “double-step” characteristics --- stiffness lifting --- seismic performance --- horizontal connection --- prefabricated shear wall structural systems --- high-tech factory --- lead rubber bearing --- moving crane --- soil structure interaction --- vibration --- wind load --- motion-based design --- uncertainty conditions --- constrained multi-objective optimization --- reliability analysis --- passive structural control --- cable-stayed bridges --- adjacent buildings --- seismic pounding --- energy-dissipation systems --- distributed damping systems --- optimal placement --- multibuilding systems --- hybrid genetic algorithm --- parallel computing --- pounding protection --- seismic isolation --- energy dissipation devices --- negative stiffness device --- damped structures --- stay cable --- vibration control --- hybrid control --- inertial mass damper --- viscous damper --- passive vibration control --- inerter system --- cable bracing --- parametric study --- optimal design --- tuned mass damper --- inerter --- high-rise buildings --- wind tunnel test --- wind-induced response --- structural control --- synchronous multi-point pressure measurement --- seismic protection --- displacement-dependent damping --- stochastic dynamic analysis --- metal damper --- performance parameter --- cyclic loading test --- hysteretic behavior --- energy dissipation capability --- multi-degree of freedom --- graphical approach --- suspension bridges --- seismic test --- pushover test --- precast concrete structure --- shake table --- Base-Isolated Buildings --- bearing displacement --- STMD --- MTMDs --- d-MTMDs --- incremental dynamic analysis --- earthquake --- energy dissipation --- “double-step” characteristics --- stiffness lifting --- seismic performance --- horizontal connection --- prefabricated shear wall structural systems --- high-tech factory --- lead rubber bearing --- moving crane --- soil structure interaction --- vibration --- wind load --- motion-based design --- uncertainty conditions --- constrained multi-objective optimization --- reliability analysis --- passive structural control --- cable-stayed bridges --- adjacent buildings --- seismic pounding --- energy-dissipation systems --- distributed damping systems --- optimal placement --- multibuilding systems --- hybrid genetic algorithm --- parallel computing --- pounding protection --- seismic isolation --- energy dissipation devices --- negative stiffness device --- damped structures

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Dejan Petkov explores the tramway renaissance in Western Europe from a socio-technical standpoint and focuses on the development in Germany, France, and England. A multiple case analysis reveals the drivers, impact forces, actors and interest constellations behind the tramway renaissance in these countries and demonstrates the large variations in local systems and their style. A key finding is that there can be quite different paths to the success of tramway systems, but this success usually comes at a cost and can have a comprehensive character only if the systems are considered an integral part of the overarching strategies and concepts for urban and regional development. Contents A socio-technical framing of the tramway renaissance Characteristics of the international tramway renaissance The gradual and multifaceted development of tramway systems in Germany The emergence of the modern French tramway as a socio-technical novelty The uneven path of tramway development in England Appropriation of tramway and light rail technology Target Groups Researchers and students of transport studies, spatial planning, and geography Experts of local transport planning authorities, public transport companies

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Passive vibration control plays a crucial role in structural engineering. Common solutions include seismic isolation and damping systems with various kinds of devices, such as viscous, viscoelastic, hysteretic, and friction dampers. These strategies have been widely utilized in engineering practice, and their efficacy has been demonstrated in mitigating damage and preventing the collapse of buildings, bridges, and industrial facilities. However, there is a need for more sophisticated analytical and numerical tools to design structures equipped with optimally configured devices. On the other hand, the family of devices and dissipative elements used for structural protection keeps evolving, because of growing performance demands and new progress achieved in materials science and mechanical engineering. This Special Issue collects 13 contributions related to the development and application of passive vibration control strategies for structures, covering both traditional and innovative devices. In particular, the contributions concern experimental and theoretical investigations of high-efficiency dampers and isolation bearings; optimization of conventional and innovative energy dissipation devices; performance-based and probability-based design of damped structures; application of nonlinear dynamics, random vibration theory, and modern control theory to the design of structures with passive energy dissipation systems; and critical discussion of implemented isolation/damping technologies in significant or emblematic engineering projects.

History of engineering & technology --- stay cable --- vibration control --- hybrid control --- inertial mass damper --- viscous damper --- passive vibration control --- inerter system --- cable bracing --- parametric study --- optimal design --- tuned mass damper --- inerter --- high-rise buildings --- wind tunnel test --- wind-induced response --- structural control --- synchronous multi-point pressure measurement --- seismic protection --- displacement-dependent damping --- stochastic dynamic analysis --- metal damper --- performance parameter --- cyclic loading test --- hysteretic behavior --- energy dissipation capability --- multi-degree of freedom --- graphical approach --- suspension bridges --- seismic test --- pushover test --- precast concrete structure --- shake table --- Base-Isolated Buildings --- bearing displacement --- STMD --- MTMDs --- d-MTMDs --- incremental dynamic analysis --- earthquake --- energy dissipation --- “double-step” characteristics --- stiffness lifting --- seismic performance --- horizontal connection --- prefabricated shear wall structural systems --- high-tech factory --- lead rubber bearing --- moving crane --- soil structure interaction --- vibration --- wind load --- motion-based design --- uncertainty conditions --- constrained multi-objective optimization --- reliability analysis --- passive structural control --- cable-stayed bridges --- adjacent buildings --- seismic pounding --- energy-dissipation systems --- distributed damping systems --- optimal placement --- multibuilding systems --- hybrid genetic algorithm --- parallel computing --- pounding protection --- seismic isolation --- energy dissipation devices --- negative stiffness device --- damped structures