1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910453724703321

Autore

Mayor Adrienne <1946->

Titolo

Fossil legends of the first Americans / / Adrienne Mayor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton, New Jersey : , : Princeton University Press, , [2005]

©2005

ISBN

0-691-11345-9

1-4008-4931-4

Edizione

[Course Book]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (489 p.)

Disciplina

398/.36

Soggetti

Indians - Antiquities

Indians

Fossils - America - History

Fossils - America

Tales - America

Paleontology - America

Paleoanthropology - America

Electronic books.

America Antiquities

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 (pages [407]-427) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Marsh monsters of big bone lick -- The northeast: giants, great bears, and grandfather of the buffalo -- New Spain: bones of fear and birds of terror -- The southwest: fossil fetishes and monster slayers -- The prairies: fossil medicine and spirit animals -- The high plains: thunder birds, water monsters, and buffalo-calling stones -- Common ground -- Fossil frauds and specious legends.

Sommario/riassunto

The burnt-red badlands of Montana's Hell Creek are a vast graveyard of the Cretaceous dinosaurs that lived 68 million years ago. Those hills were, much later, also home to the Sioux, the Crows, and the Blackfeet, the first people to encounter the dinosaur fossils exposed by the elements. What did Native Americans make of these stone skeletons, and how did they explain the teeth and claws of gargantuan animals no one had seen alive? Did they speculate about their deaths? Did they



collect fossils? Beginning in the East, with its Ice Age monsters, and ending in the West, where dinosaurs lived and died, this richly illustrated and elegantly written book examines the discoveries of enormous bones and uses of fossils for medicine, hunting magic, and spells. Well before Columbus, Native Americans observed the mysterious petrified remains of extinct creatures and sought to understand their transformation to stone. In perceptive creation stories, they visualized the remains of extinct mammoths, dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and marine creatures as Monster Bears, Giant Lizards, Thunder Birds, and Water Monsters. Their insights, some so sophisticated that they anticipate modern scientific theories, were passed down in oral histories over many centuries. Drawing on historical sources, archaeology, traditional accounts, and extensive personal interviews, Adrienne Mayor takes us from Aztec and Inca fossil tales to the traditions of the Iroquois, Navajos, Apaches, Cheyennes, and Pawnees. Fossil Legends of the First Americans represents a major step forward in our understanding of how humans made sense of fossils before evolutionary theory developed.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910696631603321

Autore

Apple Daina Dravnieks

Titolo

Changing social and legal forces affecting the management of national forests [[electronic resource] /] / by Daina Dravnieks Apple

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Washington, D.C.] : , : [U.S.Forest Service], , 1997

Descrizione fisica

16 unnumbered pages : digital, PDF file

Soggetti

Forest reserves - United States - Management

Forest reserves - Law and legislation - United States

Forest policy - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed on Nov. 3, 2005).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [13]-[16]).



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910574065603321

Autore

Bertram A (Albrecht)

Titolo

Compendium on Gradient Materials / / by Albrecht Bertram

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2022

ISBN

9783031045004

9783031044991

Edizione

[1st ed. 2022.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (307 pages)

Collana

Engineering Series

Disciplina

620.11292

620.118

Soggetti

Mechanical engineering

Continuum mechanics

Materials science

Mechanical Engineering

Continuum Mechanics

Materials Science

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Balance Laws -- Material Theory of Second-Gradient Materials -- Material Theory of Third-Gradient Materials -- N th-Order Gradient Materials under Small Deformations -- Second-Order Gradient Elasticity and Plasticity under Small Deformations -- Isotropic Stiffness Hexadics -- Internal Constraints -- Nth-Order Gradient Fluids.

Sommario/riassunto

This book offers frameworks for the material modeling of gradient materials both for finite and small deformations within elasticity, plasticity, viscosity, and thermomechanics. The first chapter focuses on balance laws and holds for all gradient materials. The next chapters are dedicated to the material modeling of second and third-order materials under finite deformations. Afterwards the scope is limited to the geometrically linear theory, i.e., to small deformations. The next chapter offers an extension of the concept of internal constraints to gradient materials. The final chapter is dedicated to incompressible viscous gradient fluids with the intention to describe, among other applications, turbulent flows, as already suggested by Saint-Venant in



the middle of the 19th century.

4.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910299839503321

Titolo

Experimental Techniques, Rotating Machinery, and Acoustics, Volume 8 : Proceedings of the 33rd IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2015 / / edited by James De Clerck

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015

ISBN

87-438-0272-9

87-7004-912-2

3-319-15236-X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2015.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (275 p.)

Collana

Conference Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Mechanics Series, , 2191-5652

Disciplina

620

620.1

629.1

Soggetti

Multibody systems

Vibration

Mechanics, Applied

Aerospace engineering

Astronautics

Solids

Multibody Systems and Mechanical Vibrations

Aerospace Technology and Astronautics

Solid Mechanics

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.

Nota di contenuto

1. A Computational Model to Investigate the Influence of Spacing Errors on Spur Gear Pair Dynamics -- 2. Drill Vibration Suppression through Phase-Locked Loop Control -- 3. Towards the Selection of Balancing Planes to Attain Low Vibrations in Flexible Rotor Motor Systems -- 4.



Experimental Acoustic Modal Analysis of an Automotive Cabin -- 5. Uncorrelated Noise Sources Separation Using Inverse Beamforming -- 6. ACTIVE NOISE CONTROL EXPERIMENT MINIMISING RADIATION OF ACTIVE ENERGY -- 7. Active Control of Transformer Noise by MIMO Algorithm -- 8. Numerical Prediction Tools for Low-frequency Sound Insulation in Lightweight Buildings -- 9. Reduction of Radiating Sound from CFRP Laminated Plates with Orthotropy -- 10. Rotating disc model for complex eigenvalue analysis of brake squeal -- 11. Validation of closed-loop coupling disc brake model for squeal analysis -- 12. Estimation of Torsional Compliance from Free-Free FRF Measurements: eRCF Theory -- 13. An Estimation of Torsional Compliance (Stiffness) from Free-Free FRF Measurements:  eRCF Application -- 14. Estimation of Bending Compliance (Stiffness) from Free-Free FRF Measurements: eBCF Theory -- 15. In-Situ Experimental Modal Analysis of a Direct-Drive Wind Turbine Generator -- 16. Effect of Radial Confinement on Wave Propagation and Vibrational Response in Bars -- 17. Component Qualification Using 3D Laser Vibrometry and Transmissibility Models -- 18. Exploiting Continuous Scanning Laser Doppler Vibrometry and Wavelet Processing for Damage Detection -- 19. Use of 3D Scanning Laser Vibrometer for Full Field Strain Measurements -- 20. Inline measurements of rail bending and torsion through a portable device -- 21. Forty Years of Use and Abuse of Impact Testing: A Practical Guide to Making Good FRF Measurements -- 22. Detection of Coupling Misalignment by Extended Orbits -- 23. Linear and Nonlinear Response of a Rectangular Plate Measured with Continuous-Scan Laser Doppler Vibrometry and 3D-Digital Image Correlation -- 24. VibrationEvent Localization in an Instrumented Building -- 25. Loading Effect on Induction Motor Eccentricity Diagnostics Using Vibration and Motor Current.

Sommario/riassunto

Experimental Techniques, Rotating Machinery & Acoustics, Volume 8: Proceedings of the 33rd IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2015, the eighth volume of ten from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.  The collection presents early findings and case studies on fundamental and applied aspects of Structural Dynamics, including papers on:   Experimental Techniques Processing Modal Data Rotating Machinery Acoustics Adaptive Structures Biodynamics Damping.