1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910453616803321

Titolo

Cuba in a global context : international relations, internationalism, and transnationalism / / edited by Catherine Krull ; foreword by Louis A. Perez Jr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Gainesville : , : University Press of Florida, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

0-8130-4670-X

0-8130-4862-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (350 p.)

Collana

Contemporary Cuba

Altri autori (Persone)

KrullCatherine

PérezLouis A. <1943->

Disciplina

972.9106/4

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Cuba Foreign relations 1959-1990

Cuba Politics and government 1959-1990

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

Foreword / Louis A. Pérez Jr -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Cuba in a global context / Catherine Krull -- International relations -- Disaster, disease, and environmental degradation: U.S.-Cuban cooperation as a bridge to reconciliation / William M. LeoGrande and Marguerite Rose Jiménez -- A model servant: the revolutionary armed forces and Cuban foreign policy / Hal Klepak -- Cuba's monumental children: Operation Peter Pan and the intimacies of foreign policy / Karen Dubinsky -- The role of the courts in shaping U.S. policy toward Cuba / Stanley J. Murphy -- Cuban-Chinese relations after the end of the cold war / Carlos Alzugaray Treto -- "Complicated and far-reaching": the historical foundations of Canadian policy toward Cuba / Asa McKercher -- Internationalism -- The Cuba-Venezuela alliance and its continental impact / Max Azicri -- Santeria commerce and the unofficial networks of interpersonal internationalism / Kevin M. Delgado -- The promise of globalization: sustainable tourism development and environmental policy in Cuba / Ricardo Pérez -- The heart of the matter: the impact of Cuban medical internationalism in



the global south / Robert Huish -- Cuba's revolutionary agro-ecological movement: learning from the experience of food sovereignty / Efe Can Gürcan -- Postcards from abroad: the Cuban special period through Spanish eyes / Ana Serra -- Transnationalism -- Transnationalism and the Havana cigar: commodity chains, networks, and knowledge circulation / Jean Stubbs -- Through the eyes of foreign filmmakers: contradictions and paradigms of Cuban cinema after the revolution -- / María Caridad Cumaná -- Cubans in Spain: transnational connections and memories / Mette Louise Berg -- Oral history and constructions of racial memory / Yvette Louis -- Cubans without borders: from the buildup to the breakdown of a socially constructed wall across the Florida Straits / Susan Eckstein -- Ernesto Che Guevara, dispositions, and education for transnational social justice / John D. Holst.

part I. International relations -- part II. Internationalism -- part III. Transnationalism.

Sommario/riassunto

Examines the relationships between post-revolutionary Cuba and other nations across the globe, providing case studies within the themes of international relations, internationalism, and transnationalism.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910702113803321

Autore

Ameri Ali A.

Titolo

Implementation of a transition model in a NASA code and validation using heat transfer data on a turbine blade / / Ali A. Ameri

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cleveland, Ohio : , : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Glenn Research Center, , [2012]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (25 pages) : illustrations

Collana

[NASA contractor report] ; ; NASA-CR 2012-217436

Soggetti

Computational fluid dynamics

Turbulent boundary layer

Turbine blades

Heat transfer

Losses

Low Reynolds number

Pressure ratio

Three dimensional flow

Laminar flow

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed Jan. 15, 2013).

"April 2012."

"This work was sponsored by the Fundamental Aeronautics Program at the NASA Glenn Research Center."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 24-25).