The Ambiguous Embrace : Government and Faith-Based Schools and Social Agencies / / Charles L. Glenn

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910458768203321
• Autore: Glenn Charles L.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [2002]; ©2000
• ISBN: 1-282-96433-X; 9786612964336; 1-4008-2351-X
• Edizione: [Core Textbook]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (330 p.)
• Collana: New Forum Books ; ; 26
• Altri autori (Persone): BergerPeter L
• Disciplina: 361.7/5/0973; 361.75
• Soggetti: Church and state -- Europe; Church and state -- United States; Church charities -- Europe; Church charities -- United States; Church schools -- Europe; Church schools -- United States; Civil society -- Europe; Civil society -- United States; Human services -- Contracting out -- Europe; Human services -- Contracting out -- United States; Electronic books.
• 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 -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. REACHING OUT TO CIVIL SOCIETY -- 2. STRINGS WITHOUT MONEY -- 3. HOW CLOSE AN EMBRACE? -- 4. FUNDING WITH GOVERNMENT OVERSIGHT -- 5. PROFESSIONAL NORMS -- 6. EMPLOYMENT DECISIONS -- 7. LOSS-AND RECOVERY-OF NERVE -- 8. RECOMMENDATIONS -- REFERENCES -- INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: This is a time of far-reaching change and debate in American education ; and social policy, spurred in part by a rediscovery that civil-society institutions are often better than government at meeting human needs. As Charles Glenn shows in this book, faith-based schools and social agencies have been particularly effective, especially in meeting the needs of the most vulnerable. However, many oppose providing public funds for religious institutions, either on the grounds that it would threaten the constitutional separation of church and state or from concern it might dilute or secularize the distinctive character of the institutions themselves. Glenn tackles these arguments head on. He builds a uniquely comprehensive and persuasive case for faith-based organizations playing a far more active role in American schools and social agencies. And, most importantly, he shows that they could do so both while receiving public funds and while striking a workable balance between accountability and autonomy. Glenn is ideally placed to make this argument. A leading expert on international education policies, he was for many years the director of urban education and civil rights for the Massachusetts Department of Education, and also serves as an Associate Minister of inner-city churches in Boston. Glenn draws on all his varied experience here as he reviews the policies and practices of governments in the United States and Europe as they have worked with faith-based schools and also with such social agencies as the Salvation Army and Teen Challenge. He seeks to answer key theoretical and practical questions: Why should government make greater use of faith-based providers? How could they do so without violating First Amendment limits? What working relationships protect the goals and standards both of government and of the organizations that the government funds? Glenn shows that, with appropriate forms of accountability and a strong commitment to a distinctive vision of service, faith-based organizations can collaborate safely with government, to their mutual benefit and that of those they serve. This is a major contribution to one of the most important topics in political and social debate today.

Astrophysics of the interstellar medium / / Giovanni Carraro

• Record Nr.: UNISA996466843203316
• Autore: Carraro Giovanni
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2021]; ©2021
• ISBN: 3-030-75293-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (361 pages)
• Collana: UNITEXT for Physics Ser.
• Disciplina: 523.1135
• Soggetti: Interstellar matter; Materials science
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- 1 Fundamental Equations for Ideal Fluids -- 1.1 Introduction: Fluids as Continuous Systems -- 1.2 Continuity Equation -- 1.3 Volume Forces and Surface Forces. Stresses -- 1.4 Equation of Motion (Euler Equation) for Ideal Fluids -- 1.5 Conservation of Total Energy and Thermal Energy -- 1.6 Vorticity in Ideal Fluids. Potential Motion -- 1.7 Numerical Solutions of Hydrodynamical Equations -- 1.8 Synthetic Summary -- 2 Acoustic Waves -- 2.1 Acoustic Waves in an Ideal Fluid at Rest -- 2.2 Velocity of Propagation in a Dispersive Medium -- 2.3 Acoustic Waves in a Patchy Medium at Rest -- 2.4 Acoustic Waves in a Gravity-Dominated Medium -- 2.5 Virial Theorem -- 2.6 Gravitational Collapse of a Sphere -- 2.7 Synthetic Summary -- References -- 3 Real Fluids -- 3.1 Transport Phenomena -- 3.2 Thermal Conduction -- 3.3 Internal Friction -- 3.4 Navier-Stokes Equation -- 3.5 Energy Dissipation by Internal Friction -- 3.6 Energy Balance in a Real Fluid -- 3.7 Integration of Equations for a Real Fluid -- 3.8 Case of Fluid with Low Viscosity -- 3.9 Similar Motions -- 3.10 Synthetic Summary -- References -- 4 The Interstellar Medium -- 4.1 Thermal Balance of Interstellar Gas -- 4.2 Thermodynamic State of Interstellar Gas -- 4.3 Cooling Processes -- 4.4 Heating Processes -- 4.5 Thermal Instability -- 4.6 Synthetic Summary -- References -- 5 Shock Waves -- 5.1 Supersonic Motion and Discontinuity -- 5.2 Jump Conditions -- 5.3 Shock Waves -- 5.4 ; Rankine-Hugoniot Conditions for an Ideal Gas -- 5.5 Shock Waves in the Interstellar Medium -- 5.6 Isothermal Shock: Schematic Discussion -- 5.7 Structure of the Relaxation Layer -- 5.8 Observability of Radiative Shocks -- 5.9 Synthetic Summary -- Reference -- 6 Turbulence -- 6.1 Experimental Aspects of Turbulence -- 6.2 Stability of Stationary Motion and Turbulence Onset.; 6.3 Notes on the Statistical Description of Turbulence -- 6.4 General Characteristics of Turbulence -- 6.5 Kolmogorov's Theory -- 6.6 Turbulence of the Interstellar Medium -- 6.7 Synthetic Summary -- References -- 7 Electrodynamics and Magnetohydrodynamics -- 7.1 Plasmas. Debye Screening Length -- 7.2 Plasma Oscillations -- 7.3 A Note on Systems of Measurement Units -- 7.4 Maxwell's Equations -- 7.5 Magnetic Field Equation -- 7.6 Freezing of the Magnetic Field Lines of Force -- 7.7 The Galactic Magnetic Field: Origin and Methods of Measure -- 7.8 Synthetic Summary -- 8 Motion of a Plasma in a Magnetic Field -- 8.1 Expressions of Magnetic Force -- 8.2 Fundamental Equations of Magnetohydrodynamics -- 8.3 Motion of a Plasma with Respect to Magnetic Lines of Force -- 8.4 Virial Theorem -- 8.5 Application of the Virial Theorem -- 8.6 Ambipolar Diffusion -- 8.7 Synthetic Summary -- 9 Magnetohydrodynamic Waves -- 9.1 Classification of MHD Waves -- 9.2 Alfven Waves -- 9.3 MHD Waves: General Discussion -- 9.4 MHD Waves with Generic Propagation Direction -- 9.5 Waves with Particular Direction of Propagation -- 9.6 Alfven Waves Attenuation -- 9.7 Excitation of MHD Waves -- 9.8 Magnetohydrodynamic Shock Waves -- 9.9 Synthetic Summary -- 10 Dust from the Interstellar Medium -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 The Extinction of Radiation -- 10.3 Observational Determination of Stellar Extinction -- 10.4 The Extinction Curve of the Diffuse Medium in the Galaxy -- 10.5 Methods for Determining RV -- 10.6 The Equilibrium Temperature of the Grains -- 10.7 The Temperature of the Small Grains -- 10.8 IR Emission of Galaxies -- 10.9 Synthetic Summary -- 11 HII Regions -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Ionisation Balance -- 11.3 Energy Balance and Temperature of an HII Region -- 11.4 The Strömgren Sphere -- 11.5 Effect of Dust on the HII Region.; 11.6 Evolution of the HII Region in a Homogeneous Medium -- 11.7 Classification of Ionization Fronts -- 11.8 HII Region Expansion -- 11.9 End of Expansion -- 11.10 Expansion of an HII Region in an In-Homogeneous Medium -- 11.11 Radio Frequency Emission -- 11.12 Infrared Emission -- 11.13 Calculation of the Lines of the Balmer Series -- 11.14 HII Regions Excited by a Cluster -- 11.15 Synthetic Summary -- Reference -- 12 Stellar Winds -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 Classification of Winds -- 12.3 Structure and Evolution of a Bubble Produced by a Strong Wind -- 12.4 A Simplified Model for the Radiative Phase -- 12.5 Evolution in Phase D -- 12.6 Observations of the Bubbles -- 12.7 Evolution of the Bubble in an In-Homogeneous Medium -- 12.8 Synthetic Summary -- References -- 13 Supernovae Remnants -- 13.1 Supernovae -- 13.2 SNR Evolution -- 13.2.1 Expansion End -- 13.3 Expansion of a SNR in a Patchy Medium -- 13.3.1 Magnetic Field -- 13.3.2 Relativistic Particles -- 13.3.3 Spherical Symmetry -- 13.4 Models of Evolution in a Patchy Medium -- 13.5 Effects of a SNR on the Interstellar Medium -- 13.6 Superbubbles and Supershells -- 13.7 Description of some SNRs -- 13.8 Synthetic Summary -- References -- 14 The Interstellar Medium and Its Components -- 14.1 The Structure of the Interstellar Medium -- 14.2 Neutral Gas Diagnostic Techniques: The Line at 21 cm -- 14.3 The Spiral Structure of the Milky Way -- 14.4 Ionized Gas Diagnostic Techniques -- 14.4.1 Dispersion of Pulsar Signals -- 14.4.2 Recombination Optical Emission -- 14.4.3 Absorption at Low Radio Frequencies -- 14.5 The Hot Component: Coronal Gas -- ; 14.6 The Cold Neutral Component: The Clouds of HI. -- 14.7 The Warm Neutral Component -- 14.8 Synthetic Summary -- References -- 15 Molecular Clouds -- 15.1 Detection of Molecular Gas -- 15.2 Correlation Between CO Emission and Molecular Gas Mass.; 15.3 The Distribution of H2 in the Galaxy -- 15.4 Distribution of H2 in Other Galaxies -- 15.5 Clouds Classification and Statistical Properties -- 15.6 Mechanical Equilibrium of Molecular Clouds -- 15.7 Why the Clouds Where Stars Form Are Molecular? -- 15.8 Mechanisms of Molecular Cloud Formation -- 15.8.1 Formation of Clouds by the Compression of Ambient Gas Induced by Shock Waves -- 15.8.2 Cloud Formation by Agglomeration of Smaller Clouds. -- 15.8.3 Cloud Formation Through Medium Instability -- 15.8.4 Summary -- 15.9 Synthetic Summary -- References -- 16 Star Formation -- 16.1 Observational Data Related to Star Formation -- 16.2 Star Formation in the Presence of a Magnetic Field -- 16.3 The formation of Low-Mass Stars -- 16.4 Low-Mass Star Formation Scenario -- 16.5 Observational Findings -- 16.6 Synthetic Summary.