All of the 'ukuleles and braguinhas/cavaquinhos examined in this paper use nylon or gut strings.

The Mouchard-Frasne section, which includes three intermediate stations, is remotely signalled from a single-manned control centre presently located at Mouchard, but ultimately to be moved to Dijon.

As such, they do not have the ontological weight of Being and Not-being, but serve simply as an explanatory vocabulary necessary to describe our world of thises and thats.

Cities were not built to handle this volume of last-mile activity – a fact that firms such as UPS realise only too well.