1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910701829503321

Autore

May Ryan D.

Titolo

Engine icing modeling and simulation (Part 2) . Part 2 : performance simulation of engine rollback phenomena / / Ryan D. May [and four others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cleveland, Ohio : , : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Glenn Research Center, , December 1, 2011

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (8 pages) : color illustrations

Collana

NASA/TM ; ; 2011-217200

Soggetti

Ice formation

Commercial aircraft

Aircraft engines

Engine failure

Simulation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Prepared for the International Conference on Aircraft and Engine Icing and Ground Deicing sponsored by the SAE International Chicago, Illinois, June 13 17, 2011."

"Performing organization: John H. Glenn Research Center"--Report documentation page.

"Sponsoring organization: National Aeronautics and Space Administration"--Report documentation page.

"December 2011."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 7-8).



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910437828503321

Titolo

African Ethnobotany in the Americas / / edited by Robert Voeks, John Rashford

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : Springer New York : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2013

ISBN

1-283-64016-3

1-4614-0836-9

Edizione

[1st ed. 2013.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (431 p.)

Collana

Life sciences African ethnobotany in the Americas

Altri autori (Persone)

VoeksRobert

RashfordJohn

Disciplina

581.630899607

Soggetti

Botany

Botanical chemistry

Plants - Development

Plant physiology

Plant genetics

Plant Science

Plant Biochemistry

Plant Development

Plant Physiology

Plant Genetics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Seeds of Memory: Botanical Legacies of the African Diaspora -- Did Enslaved Africans Spark South Carolina’s 18th-Century Rice Boom? -- African Origins of Sesame Cultivation in the Americas -- By the Rivers of Babylon: The Lowcountry Basket in Slavery and Freedom -- Gathering, Buying, and Growing Sweetgrass (Muhlenbergia sericea): Urbanization and Social Networking in the Sweetgrass Basket-Making Industry of Lowcountry South Carolina -- Marketing, Culture and Conservation Value of NTFPs: A Case Study of Afro-Ecuadorian Use of Piquigua (Heteropsis ecuadorensis, Araceae) -- Berimbau de Barriga: Musical Ethnobotany of the Afro-Brazilian Diaspora -- Trans-Atlantic Diaspora Ethnobotany: Legacies of West African and Iberian



Mediterranean Migration in Central Cuba -- What Makes a Plant Magical? Symbolism and Sacred Herbs in Afro-Surinamese Winti Rituals -- Medicinal and Cooling Teas of Barbados -- Candomble's Cosmic Tree and Brazil's Ficus Species -- Exploring Biocultural Contexts: Comparative Woody Plant Knowledge of an Indigenous and Afro-American Maroon Community in Suriname, South America -- Ethnobotany of Brazil’s African Diaspora: The Role of Floristic Homogenization.

Sommario/riassunto

African Ethnobotany in the Americas provides the first comprehensive examination of ethnobotanical knowledge and skills among the African Diaspora in the Americas. Leading scholars on the subject explore the complex relationship between plant use and meaning among the descendants of Africans in the New World. With the aid of archival and field research carried out in North America, South America, and the Caribbean, contributors explore the historical, environmental, and political-ecological factors that facilitated/hindered  transatlantic ethnobotanical diffusion; the role of Africans as active agents of plant and plant knowledge transfer during the period of plantation slavery in the Americas; the significance of cultural resistance in refining and redefining plant-based traditions; the principal categories of plant use that resulted; the exchange of knowledge among Amerindian, European and other African peoples; and the changing significance of  African-American ethnobotanical traditions in the 21st century.   Bolstered by abundant visual content and contributions from renowned experts in the field, African Ethnobotany in the Americas is an invaluable resource for students, scientists, and researchers in the field of ethnobotany and African Diaspora studies.