1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910708660303321

Autore

Loulou Patrick

Titolo

Direct numerical simulation of incompressible pipe flow using a B-spline spectral method / / Patrick Loulou [and three others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Moffett Field, California : , : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Ames Research Center, , February 1997

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xix, 144 pages) : illustrations

Collana

NASA technical memorandum ; ; 110436

Soggetti

Digital simulation

Computerized simulation

Computational fluid dynamics

Incompressible flow

Pipe flow

Finite element method

Turbulent flow

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"February 1997."

"Performing organization: Ames Research Center" Report documentation page.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-144).



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910255187303321

Autore

Gerapetritis George

Titolo

Affirmative Action Policies and Judicial Review Worldwide / / by George Gerapetritis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2016

ISBN

3-319-22395-X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (270 p.)

Collana

Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice, , 1534-6781 ; ; 47

Disciplina

340

Soggetti

Conflict of laws

Social structure

Equality

Human rights

Constitutional law

Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law

Social Structure, Social Inequality

Human Rights

Constitutional Law

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 -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Moral Question: Interacting with Traditional Values -- 3. The Sociological Question: Goals and Legitimacy -- 4. The Policy Question: Diverse Worldwide Practices -- 5. The Legal Question: Method and Intensity of Judicial Review -- 6. Conclusion -- Index (per country) -- Index (per material).

Sommario/riassunto

This book discusses affirmative action or positive discrimination, defined as measures awarding privileges to certain groups that have historically suffered discrimination or have been underrepresented in specific social sectors. The book’s underlying rationale is that one cannot place at the same starting point people who have been treated differently in the past because in this way one merely perpetuates a state of difference and, in turn, social gaps are exaggerated and social cohesion is endangered. Starting out with an introduction on the



meaning and typology of affirmative action policies, the book goes on to emphasise the interaction of affirmative action with traditional values of liberal state, such as equality, meritocracy, democracy, justice, liberalism and socialism. It reveals the affirmative action goals from a legal and sociological point of view, examining the remedial, cultural, societal, pedagogical and economy purposes of such action. After applying an institutional narrative of the implementation of affirmative action worldwide, the book explains the jurisprudence on the issue through syntheses and antitheses of structural and material variables, such as the institutional recognition of the policies, the domains of their implementation and their beneficiaries. The book eventually makes an analytical impact assessment following the implementation of affirmative action plans and the judicial response, especially in relation to the conventional human rights doctrine, by establishing a liaison between affirmative action and social and group rights.. The book applies a multi-disciplinary and comparative methodology in order to assess the ethical standing of affirmative action policies, the public interests involved and their effectiveness towards actual equality. In the light of the above analysis, the monograph explains the arguments considering affirmative action as a theology for substantive equality and the arguments treating this policy as anathema for liberalism. A universal discussion currently at its peak.