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UNINA9910346853503321 |
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Elfadel Ibrahim (Abe) M |
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MEMS Accelerometers / Ibrahim (Abe) M. Elfadel, Ha Duong Ngo, Mahmoud Rasras |
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MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2019 |
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Basel, Switzerland : , : MDPI, , 2019 |
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1 electronic resource (252 p.) |
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History of engineering and technology |
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Micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) devices are widely used for inertia, pressure, and ultrasound sensing applications. Research on integrated MEMS technology has undergone extensive development driven by the requirements of a compact footprint, low cost, and increased functionality. Accelerometers are among the most widely used sensors implemented in MEMS technology. MEMS accelerometers are showing a growing presence in almost all industries ranging from automotive to medical. A traditional MEMS accelerometer employs a proof mass suspended to springs, which displaces in response to an external acceleration. A single proof mass can be used for one- or multi-axis sensing. A variety of transduction mechanisms have been used to detect the displacement. They include capacitive, piezoelectric, thermal, tunneling, and optical mechanisms. Capacitive accelerometers are widely used due to their DC measurement interface, thermal stability, reliability, and low cost. However, they are sensitive to electromagnetic field interferences and have poor performance for high-end applications (e.g., precise attitude control for the satellite). Over the past three decades, steady progress has been made in the area of optical accelerometers for high-performance and high-sensitivity applications but several challenges are still to be tackled by |
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researchers and engineers to fully realize opto-mechanical accelerometers, such as chip-scale integration, scaling, low bandwidth, etc. This Special Issue on "MEMS Accelerometers" seeks to highlight research papers, short communications, and review articles that focus on: Novel designs, fabrication platforms, characterization, optimization, and modeling of MEMS accelerometers. Alternative transduction techniques with special emphasis on opto-mechanical sensing. Novel applications employing MEMS accelerometers for consumer electronics, industries, medicine, entertainment, navigation, etc. Multi-physics design tools and methodologies, including MEMS-electronics co-design. Novel accelerometer technologies and 9DoF IMU integration. Multi-accelerometer platforms and their data fusion. |
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UNINA9910416091703321 |
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Caslin Samantha |
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Wolfenden's Women : Prostitution in Post-war Britain / / by Samantha Caslin, Julia Laite |
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London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020 |
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[1st ed. 2020.] |
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1 online resource (307 pages) : illustrations |
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Genders and Sexualities in History, , 2730-9487 |
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Great Britain - History |
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Civilization - History |
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History of Britain and Ireland |
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Cultural History |
Sociocultural Anthropology |
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1. Introduction: Prostitution and the Law before the Wolfenden Committee: A brief history -- 2. Prostitution and Public Space -- 3. Beyond London 4. Policing -- 5. Law, Jurisprudence and Punishment -- 6. Brothels, Off Street Premises, Privatization -- 7. Third Parties and Exploitation -- 8. Causes, Intervention, and Pathologization -- 9. Demand -- 10. Wolfenden’s Missing Women -- 11. The Report of the Departmental Committee on Homosexual Offences and Prostitution -- 12. Conclusion: The Legacies of Wolfenden. |
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This critical sourcebook compiles excerpts from the extensive interviews undertaken by the Wolfenden Committee on the subject of prostitution. The Committee is remembered, first and foremost, for recommending the decriminalization of sex between men. However, the other half of its remit—prostitution—has largely been forgotten, despite the fact that prostitution, not homosexuality, was the original impetus behind the Committee’s appointment. If we consider the Committee and its Report from this perspective, its status as both a liberal and permissive endeavour must be called into question. This book captures the controversy, diversity and complexity of opinions surrounding prostitution in this period, and provides critical analysis and context. It restores the question of prostitution to its central place in the history of Britain’s so-called progressive era and challenges the way that the Report and its legacy have been characterized. Crucially, this book highlights the substantial evidence gathered by the Committee on prostitution outside of London, which the Wolfenden Report itself largely disregarded. The excerpts, the reprinted report, and the critical introductions to each chapter are intended to spark important debates amongst students, researchers and the public about the history of sexuality, society and the state in twentieth-century Britain. . |
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