1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910788645203321

Titolo

Differential geometry and mathematical physics : AMS-CMS special session on geometric methods in mathematical physics, August 15-19, 1993, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. / / John K. Beem, Krishan L. Duggal, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Providence, Rhode Island : , : American Mathematical Society, , [1994]

©1994

ISBN

0-8218-7761-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vii, 224 p. ) : ill. ;

Collana

Contemporary mathematics, ; 170 , 0271-4132

Disciplina

530.1/5636

Soggetti

Geometry, Differential

Mathematical physics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Stability of geodesic incompleteness / John K. Beem  -- Numerical simulation of two-polarization Gowdy T³ cosmology / Beverly K. Berger [and others]  -- "No hair" theorems : folklore, conjectures, results / Piotr T. Chruściel  -- Spacetime geometry of CR-structures / Krishan L. Duggal and Aurel Bejancu  -- From the Riccati inequality to the Raychaudhuri equation / Paul E. Ehrlich and Seon-bu Kim  -- Invariance properties of boundary sets of open embeddings of manifolds and their application to the abstract boundary / Christopher J. Fama and Susan M. Scott  -- Least area tori, black holes and topological censorship / Gregory J. Galloway  -- The method of timelike 2-surfaces / Steven G. Harris  -- Conjugate points and higher Arnol'd-Maslov classes / Adam D. Helfer  -- Manifolds with a circle action and the Einstein constraint equations / James Isenberg and Vincent Moncrief  -- The internal geometry of black holes / Werner Israel  -- Einstein-Yang-Mills fields with spherical symmetry / H.P. Künzle  -- Quasi-periodic motions of planar liquid drops / Debra Lewis  -- Compatible metrics on fiber bundles / Phillip E. Parker  -- Dynamic feedback for classical geometries / William F. Shadwick and Willem M. Sluis  -- Ricci curvature inheriting symmetries of semi-Riemannian manifolds / Ramesh Sharma and Krishan L. Duggal.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910787852603321

Titolo

Handbook of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender administration and policy / / edited by Wallace Swan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

CRC Press, 2014

ISBN

0-429-25418-0

1-4665-6730-9

Edizione

[1st edition]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (440 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

SwanWallace

Disciplina

323.3/2640973

Soggetti

Gay rights - United States

Gay people - Government policy - United States

Bisexual people - Government policy - United States

Transgender people - 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 contenuto

Front Cover; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Editor; Contributors; Introduction; Chapter 1: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Demographics; Chapter 2: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Family Formation and Demographics; Chapter 3: The Great Divide: Two Nations and Its Battlegrounds; Chapter 4: Organizations That Keep the Great Divide in Place; Chapter 5: An Introduction to the Battleground States; Chapter 6: Battleground State: Minnesota; Chapter 7: North Carolina: A Disempowered State; Chapter 8: Life in the Disempowered States

Chapter 9: Another Divide: Bisexuality in U.S. PoliticsChapter 10: An Eye to the Future: Perspectives on the National Transgender Discrimination Survey; Chapter 11: Transgender Americans and Public Policy; Chapter 12: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Inclusion: Business Imperative; Chapter 13: Data-Driven Health Care and Senior Care Analysis; Chapter 14: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Health Issues; Chapter 15: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Aging in These Divided States; Chapter 16: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Youth (and Adult) Homelessness

Chapter 17: A Primer on LGBT Immigration IssuesChapter 18: The Need



for a National Solution for Our Bipolar Educational System for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Students; Chapter 19: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, and Asexual Support Systems within Higher Education; Chapter 20: Understanding Economic Power Dynamics as a Method to Combat Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Homicides; Chapter 21: Incarcerated Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People; Chapter 22: LGBT Elected Officials and Their Roles in Changing America

Chapter 23: Federalism, Incrementalism, and the Public Administration InfrastructureChapter 24: Conclusion: New Directions Following the Same-Sex Marriage Decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court; Appendix: State by State Listing of Rights; Back Cover

Sommario/riassunto

Fifteen articles assess the status of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and trangender (GLBT) rights in public policy and administration in the United States and call attention to a number of policy and administrative issues of concern to the GLBT community that are seen by editor Swan (Minneapolis Board of Estimate and Taxation) to be underreported and unde.