AS the sun began its long descent late one afternoon in the Taklamakan Desert in the Xinjiang region of northwestern China, my traveling companions and I mounted a train of camels and wondered aloud if we would ever emerge from the dunes that stretched to the horizon.
Alexandre Mapokopero is proud to work for SNCC, the national railway of the Democratic Republic of Congo, but the last time he actually mounted a train was back in June.
As director of the C.I.A., Mr. Petraeus proposed that the Obama administration mount a covert program to train and arm moderate Syrian rebels.
Not only did the U.S. not support sending international peacekeepers, it didn't mount a serious program to train a new Libyan army.
In 2006, Pakistan took the decision to mount a large initiative to train more than 58 000 community midwives.
Next morning came the bad news that the final part of our trip, the night train from Munich to Paris, had been cancelled; disappointing, because I had hoped to mount a general defence of sleeper trains, which are quietly being phased out across Europe.
All rats were trained to mount a hidden/submerged (1.5 cm below the surface for rats) escape platform in a restricted region of the pool (Pool diameter: 1.8 m for rats).
In experiments conducted with the EMATs mounted on a train, scanning a rail, they were demonstrated as being sufficiently robust, with an SNR sufficient for defect detection.
According to Wooh, similar detectors mounted on a train running at 60 miles per hour could send and receive ultrasound signals and a signal-processing chip could evaluate the responses immediately.
Virgin Trains is to mount a last-ditch legal challenge to try to hold on to its lucrative West Coast main line franchise.
But the rebels were too poorly trained and disorganized to mount a substantial counterattack.
