1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910702111003321

Autore

Tsao Jen-Ching

Titolo

Further evaluation of scaling methods for rotorcraft icing [[electronic resource] /] / Jen-Ching Tsao, Richard E. Kreeger

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (17 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Collana

NASA/TM ; ; 2012-217418

Altri autori (Persone)

KreegerRichard E

Soggetti

Rotary wing aircraft

Ice formation

Scale models

Swept wings

Angle of attack

Airfoils

Aerodynamics

Pitching moments

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed on Oct. 29, 2012).

"May 2012."

"Prepared for the International Conference on Aircraft and Engine Icing and Ground Deicing sponsored by the SAE International, Chicago, Illinois, June 13-17, 2011."

"11ICE-0033."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (page 17).



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910779362803321

Autore

Orfield Gary

Titolo

Educational delusions? [[electronic resource] ] : why choice can deepen inequality and how to make schools fair / / Gary Orfield and Erica Frankenberg and associates

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2013

ISBN

1-283-86031-7

0-520-95510-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (330 p.)

Collana

The Staff and Educational Development Series

Altri autori (Persone)

OrfieldGary

FrankenbergErica

Disciplina

379.26

Soggetti

School choice

Educational equalization

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

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Part One. Introduction -- 1. Choice and Civil Rights: Forgetting History, Facing Consequences / Orfield, Gary -- 2. Choice Theories and the Schools / Orfield, Gary -- Part Two. School Districts' Use of Choice to Further Diversity -- 3. The Promise of Choice: Berkeley's Innovative Integration Plan / Frankenberg, Erica -- 4. Valuing Diversity and Hoping for the Best: Choice in Metro Tampa / Shircliffe, Barbara / Morley, Jennifer -- 5. Designing Choice: Magnet School Structures and Racial Diversity / Siegel-Hawley, Genevieve / Frankenberg, Erica -- Part Three. Charter Schools and Stratification -- 6. A Segregating Choice? An Overview of Charter School Policy, Enrollment Trends, and Segregation / Frankenberg, Erica / Siegel-Hawley, Genevieve -- 7. Failed Promises: Assessing Charter Schools in the Twin Cities / Orfield, Myron / Gumus-Dawes, Baris / Luce, Thomas -- 8. The State of Public Schools in Post-Katrina New Orleans: The Challenge of Creating Equal Opportunity / Gumus-Dawes, Baris / Luce, Thomas / Orfield, Myron -- Part Four. Lessons about Conditions under Which Choice Furthers Integration -- 9. The Story of Meaningful School Choice: Lessons from Interdistrict Transfer Plans / Stuart Wells, Amy / Warner, Miya / Grzesikowski, Courtney -- 10. School Information,



Parental Decisions, and the Digital Divide: The SmartChoices Project in Hartford, Connecticut / Dougherty, Jack / Zannoni, Diane / Chowhan, Maham / Coyne, Courteney / Dawson, Benjamin / Guruge, Tehani / Nukic, Begaeta -- 11. Experiencing Integration in Louisville: Attitudes on Choice and Diversity in a Changing Legal Environment / Orfield, Gary / Frankenberg, Erica -- Conclusion: A Theory of Choice with Equity / Orfield, Gary / Frankenberg, Erica -- References -- Contributors -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

The first major battle over school choice came out of struggles over equalizing and integrating schools in the civil rights era, when it became apparent that choice could be either a serious barrier or a significant tool for reaching these goals. The second large and continuing movement for choice was part of the very different anti-government, individualistic, market-based movement of a more conservative period in which many of the lessons of that earlier period were forgotten, though choice was once again presented as the answer to racial inequality. This book brings civil rights back into the center of the debate and tries to move from doctrine to empirical research in exploring the many forms of choice and their very different consequences for equity in U.S. schools. Leading researchers conclude that although helping minority children remains a central justification for choice proponents, ignoring the essential civil rights dimensions of choice plans risks compounding rather than remedying racial inequality.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910136801503321

Autore

Anthony G. Hudetz

Titolo

General Anesthesia: From Theory to Experiments

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Frontiers Media SA, 2016

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (138 p.)

Collana

Frontiers Research Topics

Soggetti

Neurosciences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

General anesthesia is a standard medical procedure in today's hospital practice. Although in most cases the administration of anesthetics does not affect severely the patients health, side effects of anesthesia are well-known, such as nausea or cognitive impairment. Moreover 1-2 out of 1000 patients under surgery report a partial wake up from anesthesia during the operation. The reason for such a partial lack of control of depth of anesthesia is that medical procedures are highly optimized based on experience but the neural dynamics during general anesthesia is far from being understood. One reason for this lack of understanding is both the complex neural interactions of neurons on different spatial and temporal scales and the poorly understood action of anesthetics on neural populations. For instance, anesthetic agents act on synaptic receptors on a microscopic scale essentially evoking a macroscopic change of population activity, such as Local Field Potentials, EEG/MEG or resulting change of cerebral blood flow. This population effect then triggers the loss of consciousness in patients. This Research Topic aims to address recent theoretical and experimental advances in the field. The theoretical and experimental studies represent a good overview over the current state of research in the field and provides a deeper insight into the underlying neural mechanisms. Each article in the issue focusses on a specific current research topic in general anesthesia research and several articles introduce to the topic in a pedagogical way. The issue covers various



types of anaesthesia and the most important topics in the field, such as (but not limited to) recent advances in theoretical models and states of consciousness reflected in experimental data, the connectivity changes observed during anesthesia or effects of specific drugs on brain activity. The introduction style of the papers facilitates the reader to understand the background of the research aspect and even allows readers not familiar with general anesthesia research to enter the research domain. Hence the Research Topic aims to provide on one hand an overview of the current state of the art and on the other hand a good starting point for new researchers in the field.