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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457557403321

Titolo

Spatial disorientation in aviation [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Fred H. Previc, William R. Ercoline

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Reston, Va., : American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Inc., c2004

ISBN

1-60086-670-0

1-60086-451-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (580 p.)

Collana

Progress in astronautics and aeronautics ; ; v. 203

Altri autori (Persone)

PrevicFred H

ErcolineWilliam R

Disciplina

629.1 s

612/.0144

Soggetti

Space perception

Orientation

Flight - Physiological aspects

Electronic books.

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

""Cover""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Foreword""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Chapter 1. Spatial Disorientation in Aviation: Historical Background, Concepts, and Terminology""; ""I. Definition""; ""II. Historical Background""; ""III. Types of SD""; ""IV. Aircraft Motions in Flight""; ""V. Summary""; ""References""; ""Chapter 2. Nonvisual Spatial Orientation Mechanisms""; ""I. Introduction""; ""II. Overview of Spatial Orientation Mechanisms in Flight""; ""III. Vestibular Input to Orientation""; ""IV. Vestibular Contribution to Gaze Stability""

""V. Interactions Between the Semicircular Canals and Otoliths""""VI. Visual-Vestibular Interaction""; ""VII. Vestibular Influence on Cardiovascular Control""; ""VIII. Vestibular Habituation""; ""IX. Alignment with the Gravitational Vertical""; ""X. Vestibulospinal vs Corticospinal Motor Mechanisms""; ""XI. Somatosensory Input to Orientation""; ""XII. Auditory Input to Orientation""; ""XIII. Cortical Input to Spatial Orientation""; ""XIV. Summary""; ""References""; ""Chapter 3. Visual Orientation Mechanisms""; ""I. Introduction""; ""II. Nature of Three-



Dimensional Space""

""III. Function of Ambient Vision""""IV. Ambient Visual Mechanisms""; ""V. Neurophysiology of Ambient Vision""; ""VI. Summary""; ""References""; ""Chapter 4. Psychological Factors""; ""I. Personality and Other Traits""; ""II. Mental and Physical State""; ""III. Experience""; ""IV. Task""; ""V. Environment""; ""VI. SD Phenomena Related to Psychological Factors""; ""VII. Summary""; ""References""; ""Chapter 5. Spatial Disorientation Mishap Classification, Data, and Investigation""; ""I. Introduction""; ""II. Human Factors Modeling""; ""III. Spatial Disorientation Mishap Classification Issues""

""IV. Mishap Statistics""""V. Investigation Concerns and Techniques""; ""VI. Summary""; ""References""; ""Chapter 6. Nonvisual Illusions in Flight""; ""I. Introduction""; ""II. Illusions Primarily Involving the Semicircular Canals""; ""III. Illusions Primarily Involving the Otoliths""; ""IV. Illusions Involving Semicircular Canals and Otoliths""; ""V. Visual and Audio Correlates of Somatic Illusions""; ""VI. Illusions Contributed by the Somatosensory System""; ""VII. Incapacitating Illusions""; ""VIII. Inner-Ear Problems Contributing to SD""; ""IX. Summary""

""Appendix A: Assortment of Practical Recommendations for Flight Surgeons""""References""; ""Chapter 7. Visual Illusions in Flight""; ""I. Introduction""; ""II. Specific Visual Illusions of Flight""; ""III. Optical-Device Distortions and Illusions""; ""IV. Summary""; ""References""; ""Chapter 8. Spatial Disorientation Instruction, Demonstration, and Training""; ""I. Introduction""; ""II. Didactic Instruction""; ""III. Ground-Based Devices""; ""IV. In-Flight Demonstration and Training""; ""V. Efficacy of Demonstration and Training""; ""VI. Improvements in SD Education""; ""VII. Summary""

""Appendix A: Didactic Syllabus of the SD Mechanisms""



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458975003321

Autore

Abel Elizabeth <1945->

Titolo

Signs of the times [[electronic resource] ] : the visual politics of Jim Crow / / Elizabeth Abel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2010

ISBN

1-283-27721-2

9786613277213

0-520-94586-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (415 p.)

Disciplina

305.800975

Soggetti

African Americans - Segregation - Southern States - History - 20th century

Visual communication - Southern States - History - 20th century

Signs and signboards - Southern States - History - 20th century

Photography - Social aspects - Southern States - History - 20th century

Racism in popular culture - Southern States - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Southern States Race relations History 20th century

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

Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction: Jim Crow's Cultural Turns -- 1. American Graffiti: The Social Life of Jim Crow Signs -- 2. The Signs of Race in the Language of Photography -- 3. Cultural Memory and the Conditions of Visibility: The Circulation of Jim Crow Photographs -- 4. Restroom Doors and Drinking Fountains: Perspective, Mobility, and the Fluid Grounds of Race and Gender -- 5. The Eyeball and the Wall: Eating, Seeing, and the Nation -- 6. Double Take: Photography, Cinema, and the Segregated Theater -- 7. Upside Down and Inside Out: Camera Work, Spectatorship, and the Chronotope of the Colored Balcony -- 8. Remaking Racial Signs: Activism and Photography in the Theater of the Sit-Ins -- Afterword: Contemporary Turns -- Notes -- Select bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Signs of the Times traces the career of Jim Crow signs-simplified in



cultural memory to the "colored/white" labels that demarcated the public spaces of the American South-from their intellectual and political origins in the second half of the nineteenth century through their dismantling by civil rights activists in the 1960's and '70s. In this beautifully written, meticulously researched book, Elizabeth Abel assembles a variegated archive of segregation signs and photographs that translated a set of regional practices into a national conversation about race. Abel also brilliantly investigates the semiotic system through which segregation worked to reveal how the signs functioned in particular spaces and contexts that shifted the grounds of race from the somatic to the social sphere.