1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910956063803321

Titolo

The atacama large millimeter array (ALMA) : implications of a potential descope / / Committee to Review the Science Requirements for the Atacama Large Millimeter Array

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : National Academies Press, c2005

ISBN

9786610262786

9780309182058

0309182050

9781280262784

1280262788

9780309551755

0309551757

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (48 p.)

Disciplina

522.682

Soggetti

Radar

Detectors

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

""Front Matter""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgment of Reviewers""; ""Contents""; ""Summary""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 Technical Performance Specifications""; ""3 Performance Degradation""; ""4 The Threshold for Transformational Science""; ""5 Minimum Number of Antennas""; ""Appendixes""; ""Appendix A Letter of Request""; ""Appendix B ALMA Level-1 Science Requirements""

Sommario/riassunto

The 1991 NRC decadal survey for astronomy and astrophysics included a project called the Millimeter Array (MMA). This instrument would be an array of millimeter-wavelength telescopes intended to capture images of star-forming regions and distant star-burst galaxies. With the addition of contributions form Europe, the MMA evolved into the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA), a proposed array of 64, 12-meter antennas. The project is now part of the NSF Major Research Equipment and Facilities budget request. Increased costs, however, have forced the NSF to reconsider the number of antennas. To help



with that review, NSF asked the NRC to assess the scientific consequences of reducing the number of active antennas from 60 to either 50 or 40. This report presents an assessment of the effect of downsizing on technical performance specifications, performance degradation, and the ability to perform transformational science, and of the minimum number of antennas needed.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910960330203321

Autore

Critchlow Donald T. <1948->

Titolo

Intended consequences : birth control, abortion, and the federal government in modern America / / Donald T. Critchlow

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; , : Oxford University Press, , 2023

ISBN

0-19-771394-7

1-280-65525-9

0-19-802153-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (318 p.)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

363.9/6/0973

Soggetti

Birth control - Government policy - United States

Abortion - Government policy - United States

United States Social policy

United States Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Previously issued in print: 1999.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Laying the Foundation for Federal Family Planning Policy: The Eisenhower-Kennedy Years -- 2. Moving Forward Quietly: Family Planning in the Johnson Administration -- 3. Implementing the Policy Revolution Under Johnson and Nixon -- 4. The Backlash: Roman Catholics Contraceptives, Abortion, and Sterilization -- 5. Richard Nixon and the Politicization of Family Planning Policy -- 6. Contesting the Policy Terrain After Roe: From Reagan to Clinton -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M



-- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

Sommario/riassunto

This story of the federal government's intervention in the most private aspect of American family life sheds light on the culture wars over unwed motherhood, homosexual parenting, a woman's right to an abortion, drawing a political map of past choices and current consequences.