1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910967382103321

Autore

Scotch Richard K. <1951->

Titolo

From good will to civil rights : transforming federal disability policy / / Richard K. Scotch

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, c2001

ISBN

9781282047204

1282047205

9781439901007

1439901007

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (230 p.)

Collana

Health Society And Policy

Disciplina

342.73/087

362.404560973

Soggetti

People with disabilities - Legal status, laws, etc - United States

People with disabilities - Government policy - United States

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 (p. [197]-209) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 A Civil Rights Law for Disabled People; 2 From Good Will to Civil Rights; 3 The Genesis of Section 504; 4 Writing the Regulation for Section 504; 5 Advocacy and the HEW Regulation; 6 Policy Dissemination; 7 Symbolic Victories: The Evolution of Section 504; Epilogue; Appendixes; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Now that curb cuts, braille elevator buttons, and closed caption television are commonplace, many people assume that disabled people are now full participants in American society. This book tells a rather different story. It tells how America's disabled mobilized to effect sweeping changes in public policy, not once but twice, and it suggests that the struggle is not yet over. The first edition of From Good Will to Civil Rights traced the changes in federal disability policy, focusing on the development and implementation of Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. Ri



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910557153203321

Autore

Tumuluru Jaya

Titolo

Woody Biomass for Bioenergy Production

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Basel, Switzerland, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2021

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (182 p.)

Soggetti

History of engineering and technology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Woody biomass is most widely used for energy production. In the United States, roughly 2% of the energy consumed annually is generated from wood and wood-derived fuels. Woody biomass needs to be preprocessed and pretreated before it is used for energy production. Preprocessing and pretreatments improve the physical, chemical, and rheological properties, making them more suitable for feeding, handling, storage transportation, and conversion. Mechanical preprocessing technologies such as size reduction and densification, help improve particle size distribution and density. Thermal pretreatment can reduce grinding energy and torrefied ground biomass has improved sphericity, particle surface area, and particle size distribution. This book focuses on several specific topics, such as understanding how forest biomass for biofuels impacts greenhouse gas emissions; mechanical preprocessing, such as densification of forest residue biomass, to improve physical properties such as size, shape, and density; the impact of thermal pretreatment temperatures on woody biomass chemical composition, physical properties, and microstructure for thermochemical conversions such as pyrolysis and gasification; the grindability of torrefied pellets; use of wood for gasification and as a filter for tar removal; and understanding the pyrolysis kinetics of biomass using thermogravimetric analyzers.