1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910798315203321

Autore

Yarrow Andrew L.

Titolo

Thrift : the history of an American cultural movement / / Andrew L. Yarrow

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : University of Massachusetts Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-61376-348-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (252 pages)

Disciplina

339.4/30973

Soggetti

Thriftiness - United States - History - 20th century

Social movements - United States - History - 20th century

Social values - United States - History - 20th century

Saving and investment - Social aspects - United States - History - 20th century

United States Economic conditions 20th century

United States Social conditions 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Prelude -- The early twentieth-century American thrift movement -- Precursors of a movement -- Thrift's heyday, 1910's/1930 -- Teaching thrift in the schools -- The philosophy of thrift -- National Thrift Week -- Allies and strange bedfellows -- The international dimension -- The decline of thrift -- From thrift to sustainability.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910830096403321

Titolo

Optoelectronic materials and technology in the information age [[electronic resource] ] : proceedings of the Optoelectronic Materials and Technology in the Information Age symposium at the 103rd Annual Meeting of The American Ceramic Society, held April 22-25, 2001 in Indianapolis, Indiana / / edited by Ruyan Guo ...[et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Westerville, OH, : American Ceramic Society, c2002

ISBN

1-280-67251-X

9786613649447

1-118-37091-0

1-118-37086-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (170 p.)

Collana

Ceramic transactions ; ; v. 126

Altri autori (Persone)

GuoRuyan

Disciplina

621.381/045

621.381045

Soggetti

Optoelectronics - Materials

Optoelectronic devices

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

Optoelectronic Materials and Technology in the Information Age; Contents; Preface; Inorganic Phosphor, Display, and Solid State Lighting Materials; Luminescence of Long-Time Ordered GaP:N; Radioluminescent Glass Battery; Synthesis of Nano-Sized Europium Doped Yttrium Oxide; Unusual Long-Wavelength Excitation and Emission in Eu(ll) and Ce(lll) Doped M-Si-Al-O-N Glasses; Gas-Phase Modification of the Direct Current Electrophosphor; Novel Synthesis of Amorphous and Semiconducting Optoelectronics; Local Structure and Raman Vibrational Spectra of Doped Tellurite Glasses

Effects of Starting Compositions on the Phase Equilibrium in Hydrothermal Synthesis of Zn2SiO4:Mn2+FeSixOy Films Prepared by Co-Sputtering; Structure-Property Relationships in As-S-Se Glasses for Waveguide Applications Probed by Near-Infrared Raman Spectroscopy; Study of Structural Changes in Glassy As2Se3 by EXAFS under in situ Laser Irradiation; Electro-Optic and Ferroic Materials in Optoelectronic



Applications; Investigations on High Response Speed and High Induced Strain of Photostrictive Doped PLZT Ceramics; Single Crystal Electro-Optic Fiber in Optical Wavelength Shift

Fabrication of Photonic Bandgap Structures by Fused Deposition of MultimaterialsTwo-Dimensional Modeling of Gaussian Beam Propagation through an Anisotropic Medium; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This volume will provide interdisciplinary treatment, with a strong materials community, for technical exchange on optoelecronic materials, device application, and system development.