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UNINA9910783767103321 |
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Autore |
Carceral K. C |
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Prison, inc [[electronic resource] ] : a convict exposes life inside a private prison / / K.C. Carceral ; edited by Thomas J. Bernard |
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New York, : New York University Press, c2006 |
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0-8147-7243-9 |
1-4294-1510-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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Collana |
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Alternative criminology series |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Prisons - United States |
Corrections - Contracting out - United States |
Prisoners - United States |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-239). |
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The politics of Enterprise Prison -- Orientation -- New prison problems -- Wild wild west -- Beat down crew -- The zoo -- Caught up -- The other enemy -- Gang related -- Seg time -- Riot -- Lockdown -- Aftermath -- The masters -- The servants -- The power -- Factors contributing to violence and its control. |
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Prison, Inc. provides a first-hand account of life behind bars in a controversial new type of prison facility: the private prison. These for-profit prisons are becoming increasingly popular as state budgets get tighter. Yet as privatization is seen as a necessary and cost-saving measure, not much is known about how these facilities are run and whether or not they can effectively watch over this difficult and dangerous population. For the first time, Prison, Inc. provides a look inside one of these private prisons as told through the eyes of an actual inmate, K.C. Carceral who has been in the prison system for over twenty years. |
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UNINA9910825496103321 |
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Autore |
Christensen Jesper |
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Nonlinear optimization of vehicle safety structures : modeling of structures subjected to large deformations / / Jesper Christensen, Christophe Bastien |
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Amsterdam, Netherlands : , : Butterworth-Heinemann, , 2016 |
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©2016 |
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0-12-804424-1 |
0-12-417309-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (488 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Automobiles - Safety appliances |
Automobiles - Safety measures |
Automobiles - Design and construction |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. |
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter | one - Vehicle Architectures, Structures, and Safety Requirements; 1.1 - Introduction; 1.2 - Legislative requirements; 1.3 - Occupant injuries; 1.3.1 - The crash test dummy families (or the tools to capture injury criteria); 1.3.2 - Typical injury criteria; 1.3.2.1 - Head injury criteria (HIC); 1.3.2.2 - Head injury criteria for free motion head form (HIC(d)); 1.3.2.3 - Neck injury criteria (Nij); 1.3.2.4 - TI (Tibia index); 1.3.3 - Surrogate impactors; 1.3.4 - Human computer models |
1.4 - Typical vehicle architectures and scope for optimization1.4.1 - Ladder frame; 1.4.2 - Tubular structures; 1.4.3 - Integral structures; 1.4.4 - Shape and size; 1.4.5 - Materials and manufacture; 1.5 - Holistic approach to vehicle design; 1.5.1 - Overall architecture design for structural instruction limitation; 1.5.2 - Local shape and sizing for legal and other desirable structural requirements; 1.6 - Conclusions and opportunities; References; Chapter | two - Numerical Techniques for Structural Assessment of Vehicle Architectures; 2.1 - Introduction to finite element analysis (FEA) |
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2.2 - Theory of elasticity2.3 - Elements; 2.3.1 - One-dimensional elements; 2.3.2 - Two-dimensional elements; 2.3.3 - Three-dimensional elements; 2.3.4 - Zero-dimensional elements; 2.3.5 - Meshing strategy; 2.3.6 - Element type; 2.3.7 - Element shape; 2.3.8 - Element size; 2.4 - Fundamental explicit and implicit finite element analysis; 2.5 - Nonlinear explicit finite element analysis; 2.5.1 - Understanding the need for explicit FEA in connection with vehicle safety assessment; 2.6 - Explicit FEA applied to vehicle safety assessment |
2.6.1 - Standard explicit equations and convergence criteria2.6.2 - Stress wave propagation and timestep; 2.6.3 - Relating the timestep to explicit FEA for vehicle safety assessment; 2.6.4 - Critical element length; 2.6.5 - Summation of factors influencing the timestep magnitude; 2.6.6 - Importance of consistent mesh size; 2.6.7 - Manipulating timestep magnitude; 2.7 - Contacts; 2.7.1 - Panel-to-panel contacts; 2.7.2 - Tied contacts; 2.8 - Example convergence study of explicit FEA; 2.8.1 - Contact forces; 2.8.2 - Kinetic energy; 2.8.3 - Internal energy; 2.8.4 - Total energy |
2.8.5 - Summation of convergence studyReferences; Chapter | three - Introduction to General Optimization Principles and Methods; 3.1 - What is structural optimization?; 3.2 - How are optimization problems generally solved?; 3.3 - General optimization methods and principles; 3.4 - The curse of dimensionality; 3.5 - Convex programming and optimization; 3.5.1 - Linear programming; 3.5.2 - The Simplex method; 3.5.3 - Application to real-world engineering problems; 3.5.4 - Sequential linear programming; 3.6 - Gradient-based methods and line search methods; 3.6.1 - Gradient descent method |
3.6.2 - MatLab example of gradient descent method |
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