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Advanced ceramic coatings and materials for extreme environments [[electronic resource] ] : a collection of papers presented at the 35th international conference on advanced ceramics and composites, January 23-28, 2011, Daytona Beach, Florida / / edited by Dongming Zhu, Hua-Tay Lin, Yanchun Zhou
| Advanced ceramic coatings and materials for extreme environments [[electronic resource] ] : a collection of papers presented at the 35th international conference on advanced ceramics and composites, January 23-28, 2011, Daytona Beach, Florida / / edited by Dongming Zhu, Hua-Tay Lin, Yanchun Zhou |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hoboken, NJ, : John Wiley, 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (204 p.) |
| Disciplina |
620.14
620.1404 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
ZhuDongming
LinHua-Tay ZhouYanchun |
| Collana | Ceramic Engineering and Science Proceedings |
| Soggetto topico |
Ceramic coating
Extreme environments |
| ISBN |
1-283-33756-8
9786613337566 1-118-09523-5 1-118-17258-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Advanced Ceramic Coatings and Materials for Extreme Environments: A Collection of Papers Presented at the 35th International Conference on Advanced Ceramics and Composites January 23-28, 2011 Daytona Beach, Florida; Contents; Preface; Introduction; ADVANCED COATING CHARACTERIZATION METHODS AND NON-DESTRUCTIVE EVALUATION; Monitoring Delamination of Thermal Barrier Coatings during Interrupted High-Heat-Flux Laser Testing using Upconversion Luminescence Imaging; Thermal Imaging Measurement Accuracy for Thermal Properties of Thermal Barrier Coatings
ADVANCED COATING PROCESSING AND NANOSTRUCTURED COATING SYSTEMSHigh Velocity Suspension Flame Sprayed (HVSFS) Hydroxyapatite Coatings for Biomedical Applications; COATINGS TO RESIST WEAR, EROSION, AND TRIBOLOGICAL LOADINGS; Ceramic/Metal-Polymer Multilayered Coatings for Tribological Applications Under Dry Sliding Conditions; Application of HVOF for High Performance Cylinder Liner Coatings; Multilayer Coatings for Anti-Corrosion Applications; ENVIRONMENTAL BARRIER COATINGS FOR TURBINE ENGINES AND EXTREME ENVIRONMENTS Plasma Spray-Physical Vapor Deposition (PS-PVD) of Ceramics for Protective CoatingsAn Yb2Si2O7 Oxidation Resistance Coating for C/C Composites by Supersonic Plasma Spray; FUNCTIONALLY GRADED COATINGS AND INTERFACES; Development of Oxide Ceramic APS Coatings for Microwave Absorption; THERMAL BARRIER COATINGS; Hot Corrosion of Potential Thermal Barrier Coating Material (Sm1-xYbx)2Zr2O7 by V2O5 and Na2SO4; Variation of Creep Properties and Interfacial Roughness in Thermal Barrier Coating Systems MATERIALS FOR EXTREME ENVIRONMENTS: ULTRA HIGH TEMPERATURE CERAMICS (UHTCS) AND NANOLAMINATED TERNARY CARBIDES AND NITRIDES (MAX PHASES)Temperature and Strain-Rate Dependent Plasticity of ZrB2 Composites from Hardness Measurements; Nano-Crystalline Ultra High Temperature HfB2 and HfC Powders and Coatings Using a Sol-Gel Approach; Pressureless Sintering and Hot-Pressing of Ti2AIN Powders Obtained by SHS Process; Diffraction Study of Self-Recovery in Decomposed AI2Ti05 during Vacuum Annealing; Kinetics of Phase Decomposition in Ti4AIN3 and Ti2AIN-A Comparative Diffraction Study; Author Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910139748503321 |
| Hoboken, NJ, : John Wiley, 2011 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Advanced ceramic coatings and materials for extreme environments : a collection of papers presented at the 35th international conference on advanced ceramics and composites, January 23-28, 2011, Daytona Beach, Florida / / edited by Dongming Zhu, Hua-Tay Lin, Yanchun Zhou
| Advanced ceramic coatings and materials for extreme environments : a collection of papers presented at the 35th international conference on advanced ceramics and composites, January 23-28, 2011, Daytona Beach, Florida / / edited by Dongming Zhu, Hua-Tay Lin, Yanchun Zhou |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hoboken, NJ, : John Wiley, 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (204 p.) |
| Disciplina |
620.14
620.1404 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
ZhuDongming
LinHua-Tay ZhouYanchun |
| Collana | Ceramic Engineering and Science Proceedings |
| Soggetto topico |
Ceramic coating
Extreme environments |
| ISBN |
1-283-33756-8
9786613337566 1-118-09523-5 1-118-17258-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Advanced Ceramic Coatings and Materials for Extreme Environments: A Collection of Papers Presented at the 35th International Conference on Advanced Ceramics and Composites January 23-28, 2011 Daytona Beach, Florida; Contents; Preface; Introduction; ADVANCED COATING CHARACTERIZATION METHODS AND NON-DESTRUCTIVE EVALUATION; Monitoring Delamination of Thermal Barrier Coatings during Interrupted High-Heat-Flux Laser Testing using Upconversion Luminescence Imaging; Thermal Imaging Measurement Accuracy for Thermal Properties of Thermal Barrier Coatings
ADVANCED COATING PROCESSING AND NANOSTRUCTURED COATING SYSTEMSHigh Velocity Suspension Flame Sprayed (HVSFS) Hydroxyapatite Coatings for Biomedical Applications; COATINGS TO RESIST WEAR, EROSION, AND TRIBOLOGICAL LOADINGS; Ceramic/Metal-Polymer Multilayered Coatings for Tribological Applications Under Dry Sliding Conditions; Application of HVOF for High Performance Cylinder Liner Coatings; Multilayer Coatings for Anti-Corrosion Applications; ENVIRONMENTAL BARRIER COATINGS FOR TURBINE ENGINES AND EXTREME ENVIRONMENTS Plasma Spray-Physical Vapor Deposition (PS-PVD) of Ceramics for Protective CoatingsAn Yb2Si2O7 Oxidation Resistance Coating for C/C Composites by Supersonic Plasma Spray; FUNCTIONALLY GRADED COATINGS AND INTERFACES; Development of Oxide Ceramic APS Coatings for Microwave Absorption; THERMAL BARRIER COATINGS; Hot Corrosion of Potential Thermal Barrier Coating Material (Sm1-xYbx)2Zr2O7 by V2O5 and Na2SO4; Variation of Creep Properties and Interfacial Roughness in Thermal Barrier Coating Systems MATERIALS FOR EXTREME ENVIRONMENTS: ULTRA HIGH TEMPERATURE CERAMICS (UHTCS) AND NANOLAMINATED TERNARY CARBIDES AND NITRIDES (MAX PHASES)Temperature and Strain-Rate Dependent Plasticity of ZrB2 Composites from Hardness Measurements; Nano-Crystalline Ultra High Temperature HfB2 and HfC Powders and Coatings Using a Sol-Gel Approach; Pressureless Sintering and Hot-Pressing of Ti2AIN Powders Obtained by SHS Process; Diffraction Study of Self-Recovery in Decomposed AI2Ti05 during Vacuum Annealing; Kinetics of Phase Decomposition in Ti4AIN3 and Ti2AIN-A Comparative Diffraction Study; Author Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910811650603321 |
| Hoboken, NJ, : John Wiley, 2011 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Advanced ceramic coatings and materials for extreme environments II [[electronic resource] ] : a collection of papers presented at the 36th International Conference on Advanced Ceramics and Composites January 22-27, 2012, Daytona Beach, Florida / / edited by Dongming Zhu ... [et al.] ; volume editors, Michael Halbig, Sanjay Mathur
| Advanced ceramic coatings and materials for extreme environments II [[electronic resource] ] : a collection of papers presented at the 36th International Conference on Advanced Ceramics and Composites January 22-27, 2012, Daytona Beach, Florida / / edited by Dongming Zhu ... [et al.] ; volume editors, Michael Halbig, Sanjay Mathur |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hoboken, N.J., : American Ceramic Society, 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (252 p.) |
| Disciplina | 666 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
ZhuDongming
HalbigMichael MathurSanjay |
| Collana | Ceramic engineering and science proceedings |
| Soggetto topico |
Ceramic coating
Extreme environments |
| ISBN |
1-118-21747-0
1-283-91749-1 1-118-53018-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Advanced Ceramic Coatings and Materials for Extreme Environments II: A Collection of Papers Presented at the 36th International Conference on Advanced Ceramics and Composites; Contents; Preface; Introduction; ADVANCED THERMAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL COATING PROCESSING AND CHARACTERIZATIONS; Multilayered Thermal Barrier Coating Architectures for High Temperature Applications; Foreign Object Damage (FOD) Behavior of EB-PVD Thermal Barrier Coatings (TBCs) in Airfoil Components; Solid Particle Erosion of Thermal Spray and Physical Vapour Deposition Thermal Barrier Coatings
Effect of Hard Thin Film Coatings on Tribochemical Film Behavior under Lubricated Sliding ContactRare Earth Oxides Pyrochlore Compounds by Soft Chemistry; Degradation of (Ni.Pt)AI Coatings by Mixture of Sodium and Potassium Sulfate at 950°C; Original In-Situ Method to Quantify the SiC Active Corrosion Rate and Active/Passive Transition in Ar/O2 and Ar/H2O Gas Mixtures at Very High Temperatures; Silicon Carbide Nanotube Oxidation at High Temperatures; ADVANCED WEAR-CORROSION RESISTANT, NANO-COMPOSITE AND MULTI-FUNCTIONAL COATINGS Evaluations of Multilayer Coatings for Galvanic Corrosion Resistance Applications-Oxide and Nitride Coatings on Carbon SteelAcoustic Field Assisted Drying of Electrophoretically Deposited Colloidal Coatings; THERMAL PROTECTION SYSTEMS; Testing of Candidate Rigid Heat Shield Materials at LHMEL for the Entry, Descent, and Landing Technology Development Project; Failure Mechanism of R-Type Temperature Sensor in Extreme Environments; MATERIALS FOR EXTREME ENVIRONMENTS; Protection against Oxydation by CVD or SPS Coatings of Hafnium Carbide and Silicon Carbide on Carbon/Carbon Composites Properties of Hot-Pressed Ti2AIN Obtained by SHS ProcessA Comparative Study of Decomposition Kinetics in Max Phases at Elevated Temperature; The Hardness of ZrB2 between 1373K and 2273 K; Microstructural Analysis of a Cf/ZrC Composites Produced by Melt Infiltration; TECHNOLOGIES FOR INNOVATIVE SURFACE COATINGS; Interactions between Amorphous Carbon Coatings and Engine Oil Additives: Prediction of the Friction Behavior using Optimized Artificial Neural Networks; Control of Oxygen Content with Oxygen Gas Introduction in Cr(N,O) Thin Films Prepared by Pulsed Laser Deposition; Author Index |
| Record Nr. | UNISA-996206771703316 |
| Hoboken, N.J., : American Ceramic Society, 2013 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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Advanced ceramic coatings and materials for extreme environments II [[electronic resource] ] : a collection of papers presented at the 36th International Conference on Advanced Ceramics and Composites January 22-27, 2012, Daytona Beach, Florida / / edited by Dongming Zhu ... [et al.] ; volume editors, Michael Halbig, Sanjay Mathur
| Advanced ceramic coatings and materials for extreme environments II [[electronic resource] ] : a collection of papers presented at the 36th International Conference on Advanced Ceramics and Composites January 22-27, 2012, Daytona Beach, Florida / / edited by Dongming Zhu ... [et al.] ; volume editors, Michael Halbig, Sanjay Mathur |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hoboken, N.J., : American Ceramic Society, 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (252 p.) |
| Disciplina | 666 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
ZhuDongming
HalbigMichael MathurSanjay |
| Collana | Ceramic engineering and science proceedings |
| Soggetto topico |
Ceramic coating
Extreme environments |
| ISBN |
1-118-21747-0
1-283-91749-1 1-118-53018-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Advanced Ceramic Coatings and Materials for Extreme Environments II: A Collection of Papers Presented at the 36th International Conference on Advanced Ceramics and Composites; Contents; Preface; Introduction; ADVANCED THERMAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL COATING PROCESSING AND CHARACTERIZATIONS; Multilayered Thermal Barrier Coating Architectures for High Temperature Applications; Foreign Object Damage (FOD) Behavior of EB-PVD Thermal Barrier Coatings (TBCs) in Airfoil Components; Solid Particle Erosion of Thermal Spray and Physical Vapour Deposition Thermal Barrier Coatings
Effect of Hard Thin Film Coatings on Tribochemical Film Behavior under Lubricated Sliding ContactRare Earth Oxides Pyrochlore Compounds by Soft Chemistry; Degradation of (Ni.Pt)AI Coatings by Mixture of Sodium and Potassium Sulfate at 950°C; Original In-Situ Method to Quantify the SiC Active Corrosion Rate and Active/Passive Transition in Ar/O2 and Ar/H2O Gas Mixtures at Very High Temperatures; Silicon Carbide Nanotube Oxidation at High Temperatures; ADVANCED WEAR-CORROSION RESISTANT, NANO-COMPOSITE AND MULTI-FUNCTIONAL COATINGS Evaluations of Multilayer Coatings for Galvanic Corrosion Resistance Applications-Oxide and Nitride Coatings on Carbon SteelAcoustic Field Assisted Drying of Electrophoretically Deposited Colloidal Coatings; THERMAL PROTECTION SYSTEMS; Testing of Candidate Rigid Heat Shield Materials at LHMEL for the Entry, Descent, and Landing Technology Development Project; Failure Mechanism of R-Type Temperature Sensor in Extreme Environments; MATERIALS FOR EXTREME ENVIRONMENTS; Protection against Oxydation by CVD or SPS Coatings of Hafnium Carbide and Silicon Carbide on Carbon/Carbon Composites Properties of Hot-Pressed Ti2AIN Obtained by SHS ProcessA Comparative Study of Decomposition Kinetics in Max Phases at Elevated Temperature; The Hardness of ZrB2 between 1373K and 2273 K; Microstructural Analysis of a Cf/ZrC Composites Produced by Melt Infiltration; TECHNOLOGIES FOR INNOVATIVE SURFACE COATINGS; Interactions between Amorphous Carbon Coatings and Engine Oil Additives: Prediction of the Friction Behavior using Optimized Artificial Neural Networks; Control of Oxygen Content with Oxygen Gas Introduction in Cr(N,O) Thin Films Prepared by Pulsed Laser Deposition; Author Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910141532103321 |
| Hoboken, N.J., : American Ceramic Society, 2013 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Advanced ceramic coatings and materials for extreme environments II : a collection of papers presented at the 36th International Conference on Advanced Ceramics and Composites January 22-27, 2012, Daytona Beach, Florida / / edited by Dongming Zhu ... [et al.] ; volume editors, Michael Halbig, Sanjay Mathur
| Advanced ceramic coatings and materials for extreme environments II : a collection of papers presented at the 36th International Conference on Advanced Ceramics and Composites January 22-27, 2012, Daytona Beach, Florida / / edited by Dongming Zhu ... [et al.] ; volume editors, Michael Halbig, Sanjay Mathur |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hoboken, N.J., : American Ceramic Society, 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (252 p.) |
| Disciplina | 666 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
ZhuDongming
HalbigMichael MathurSanjay |
| Collana | Ceramic engineering and science proceedings |
| Soggetto topico |
Ceramic coating
Extreme environments |
| ISBN |
1-118-21747-0
1-283-91749-1 1-118-53018-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Advanced Ceramic Coatings and Materials for Extreme Environments II: A Collection of Papers Presented at the 36th International Conference on Advanced Ceramics and Composites; Contents; Preface; Introduction; ADVANCED THERMAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL COATING PROCESSING AND CHARACTERIZATIONS; Multilayered Thermal Barrier Coating Architectures for High Temperature Applications; Foreign Object Damage (FOD) Behavior of EB-PVD Thermal Barrier Coatings (TBCs) in Airfoil Components; Solid Particle Erosion of Thermal Spray and Physical Vapour Deposition Thermal Barrier Coatings
Effect of Hard Thin Film Coatings on Tribochemical Film Behavior under Lubricated Sliding ContactRare Earth Oxides Pyrochlore Compounds by Soft Chemistry; Degradation of (Ni.Pt)AI Coatings by Mixture of Sodium and Potassium Sulfate at 950°C; Original In-Situ Method to Quantify the SiC Active Corrosion Rate and Active/Passive Transition in Ar/O2 and Ar/H2O Gas Mixtures at Very High Temperatures; Silicon Carbide Nanotube Oxidation at High Temperatures; ADVANCED WEAR-CORROSION RESISTANT, NANO-COMPOSITE AND MULTI-FUNCTIONAL COATINGS Evaluations of Multilayer Coatings for Galvanic Corrosion Resistance Applications-Oxide and Nitride Coatings on Carbon SteelAcoustic Field Assisted Drying of Electrophoretically Deposited Colloidal Coatings; THERMAL PROTECTION SYSTEMS; Testing of Candidate Rigid Heat Shield Materials at LHMEL for the Entry, Descent, and Landing Technology Development Project; Failure Mechanism of R-Type Temperature Sensor in Extreme Environments; MATERIALS FOR EXTREME ENVIRONMENTS; Protection against Oxydation by CVD or SPS Coatings of Hafnium Carbide and Silicon Carbide on Carbon/Carbon Composites Properties of Hot-Pressed Ti2AIN Obtained by SHS ProcessA Comparative Study of Decomposition Kinetics in Max Phases at Elevated Temperature; The Hardness of ZrB2 between 1373K and 2273 K; Microstructural Analysis of a Cf/ZrC Composites Produced by Melt Infiltration; TECHNOLOGIES FOR INNOVATIVE SURFACE COATINGS; Interactions between Amorphous Carbon Coatings and Engine Oil Additives: Prediction of the Friction Behavior using Optimized Artificial Neural Networks; Control of Oxygen Content with Oxygen Gas Introduction in Cr(N,O) Thin Films Prepared by Pulsed Laser Deposition; Author Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910815179803321 |
| Hoboken, N.J., : American Ceramic Society, 2013 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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ANSI Std N42.17C-1989 : American National Standard Performance Specifications for Health Physics Instrumentation : Portable Instrumentation for Use in Extreme Environmental Conditions / / IEEE
| ANSI Std N42.17C-1989 : American National Standard Performance Specifications for Health Physics Instrumentation : Portable Instrumentation for Use in Extreme Environmental Conditions / / IEEE |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : IEEE, , 1990 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (20 pages) |
| Disciplina | 539.77 |
| Soggetto topico |
Radiation - Measurement - Instruments
Extreme environments Radioactivity - Instruments Radiation - Measurement - Standards Radioactivity - Measurement - Standards |
| ISBN | 0-7381-0744-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Altri titoli varianti | ANSI Std N42.17C-1989: American National Standard Performance Specifications for Health Physics Instrumentation. Portable Instrumentation for Use in Extreme Environmental Conditions |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910135780603321 |
| New York : , : IEEE, , 1990 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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ANSI Std N42.17C-1989 : American National Standard Performance Specifications for Health Physics Instrumentation : Portable Instrumentation for Use in Extreme Environmental Conditions / / IEEE
| ANSI Std N42.17C-1989 : American National Standard Performance Specifications for Health Physics Instrumentation : Portable Instrumentation for Use in Extreme Environmental Conditions / / IEEE |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : IEEE, , 1990 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (20 pages) |
| Disciplina | 539.77 |
| Soggetto topico |
Radiation - Measurement - Instruments
Extreme environments Radioactivity - Instruments Radiation - Measurement - Standards Radioactivity - Measurement - Standards |
| ISBN | 0-7381-0744-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Altri titoli varianti | ANSI Std N42.17C-1989: American National Standard Performance Specifications for Health Physics Instrumentation. Portable Instrumentation for Use in Extreme Environmental Conditions |
| Record Nr. | UNISA-996279880603316 |
| New York : , : IEEE, , 1990 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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The biology of human survival [[electronic resource] ] : life and death in extreme environments / / Claude A. Piantadosi
| The biology of human survival [[electronic resource] ] : life and death in extreme environments / / Claude A. Piantadosi |
| Autore | Piantadosi Claude A |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Oxford University Press, 2003 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (280 p.) |
| Disciplina | 612 |
| Soggetto topico |
Extreme environments
Adaptation (Biology) Human physiology |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-280-53383-8
9786610533831 0-19-974807-1 1-4237-8497-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
""Contents""; ""1. The Human Environment""; ""The nature of human physical boundaries""; ""The importance of preparation for extreme exposures""; ""Some basic concepts of survival analysis""; ""Characteristics of life-support systems""; ""2. Survival and Adaptation""; ""The science of human physiology""; ""Principles of physiological regulation and adaptation""; ""Defining physiological adaptation to the environment""; ""Acclimatization and acclimation""; ""3. Cross-Acclimation""; ""The complexity of adaptation to environment""; ""Positive and negative cross-acclimation""
""Biochemical mediators of physiological adaptation""""Stress proteins and the stress response""; ""4. Food for Thought""; ""A brief overview of human starvation""; ""Starvation: an affliction of the very young and the very old""; ""Assessing the severity of starvation""; ""Why children die of starvation""; ""Other critical factors in human starvation""; ""Starvation and obesity: strange bedfellows""; ""The molecular basis of obesity and hunger""; ""5. Water and Salt""; ""The composition of body water""; ""Why do human food and water requirements differ?"" ""The body�s minimum daily water requirements""""The mechanism of dehydration and the body�s responses""; ""Dehydration and heat tolerance""; ""Survival time without drinking water""; ""6. Water That Makes Men Mad""; ""The composition of seawater""; ""Ingestion of seawater""; ""Survival at sea""; ""Lessons from the USS Indianapolis""; ""A practical approach to salt and water loss at sea""; ""7. Tolerance to Heat""; ""Mammalian homeothermy""; ""Humans as tropical primates""; ""Body heat balance""; ""Heat acclimatization""; ""Heat acclimatization and physical fitness"" ""The limitations of human tolerance to heat""""Heat illnesses""; ""Death by heatstroke""; ""8. Endless Oceans of Sand""; ""The camel and the Berber""; ""Desert lessons from Pablo and the Haj""; ""Thermal stress and behavior""; ""Importance and regulation of heat-escape activities""; ""9. Hypothermia""; ""The effects of extreme cold on the extremities""; ""Settings for systemic hypothermia""; ""The physiology of hypothermia""; ""Unexpected effects of cold and hypothermia""; ""The subtle effect of winter on human mortality""; ""10. Life and Death on the Crystal Desert""; ""Life in Antarctica"" ""The race for the South Pole""""Failure to adapt to Antarctic conditions""; ""Engineering out the need to tolerate cold""; ""Human acclimation to cold""; ""Estivation""; ""Hibernation""; ""Hibernation, energy conservation, and suspended animation""; ""11. Survival in Cold Water""; ""The sinking of the Titanic""; ""Water temperature and human survival""; ""Prediction of survival time in cold water""; ""Survival behavior in cold water""; ""Hypothermia in deep sea diving""; ""Respiratory heat losses and slow cooling""; ""12. Air as Good as We Deserve""; ""Life in an oxidizing atmosphere"" ""Biological oxidations and oxygen toxicity"" |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910451575703321 |
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| New York, : Oxford University Press, 2003 | ||
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The biology of human survival [[electronic resource] ] : life and death in extreme environments / / Claude A. Piantadosi
| The biology of human survival [[electronic resource] ] : life and death in extreme environments / / Claude A. Piantadosi |
| Autore | Piantadosi Claude A |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Oxford University Press, 2003 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (280 p.) |
| Disciplina | 612 |
| Soggetto topico |
Extreme environments
Adaptation (Biology) Human physiology |
| ISBN |
0-19-773743-9
1-280-53383-8 9786610533831 0-19-974807-1 1-4237-8497-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
""Contents""; ""1. The Human Environment""; ""The nature of human physical boundaries""; ""The importance of preparation for extreme exposures""; ""Some basic concepts of survival analysis""; ""Characteristics of life-support systems""; ""2. Survival and Adaptation""; ""The science of human physiology""; ""Principles of physiological regulation and adaptation""; ""Defining physiological adaptation to the environment""; ""Acclimatization and acclimation""; ""3. Cross-Acclimation""; ""The complexity of adaptation to environment""; ""Positive and negative cross-acclimation""
""Biochemical mediators of physiological adaptation""""Stress proteins and the stress response""; ""4. Food for Thought""; ""A brief overview of human starvation""; ""Starvation: an affliction of the very young and the very old""; ""Assessing the severity of starvation""; ""Why children die of starvation""; ""Other critical factors in human starvation""; ""Starvation and obesity: strange bedfellows""; ""The molecular basis of obesity and hunger""; ""5. Water and Salt""; ""The composition of body water""; ""Why do human food and water requirements differ?"" ""The body�s minimum daily water requirements""""The mechanism of dehydration and the body�s responses""; ""Dehydration and heat tolerance""; ""Survival time without drinking water""; ""6. Water That Makes Men Mad""; ""The composition of seawater""; ""Ingestion of seawater""; ""Survival at sea""; ""Lessons from the USS Indianapolis""; ""A practical approach to salt and water loss at sea""; ""7. Tolerance to Heat""; ""Mammalian homeothermy""; ""Humans as tropical primates""; ""Body heat balance""; ""Heat acclimatization""; ""Heat acclimatization and physical fitness"" ""The limitations of human tolerance to heat""""Heat illnesses""; ""Death by heatstroke""; ""8. Endless Oceans of Sand""; ""The camel and the Berber""; ""Desert lessons from Pablo and the Haj""; ""Thermal stress and behavior""; ""Importance and regulation of heat-escape activities""; ""9. Hypothermia""; ""The effects of extreme cold on the extremities""; ""Settings for systemic hypothermia""; ""The physiology of hypothermia""; ""Unexpected effects of cold and hypothermia""; ""The subtle effect of winter on human mortality""; ""10. Life and Death on the Crystal Desert""; ""Life in Antarctica"" ""The race for the South Pole""""Failure to adapt to Antarctic conditions""; ""Engineering out the need to tolerate cold""; ""Human acclimation to cold""; ""Estivation""; ""Hibernation""; ""Hibernation, energy conservation, and suspended animation""; ""11. Survival in Cold Water""; ""The sinking of the Titanic""; ""Water temperature and human survival""; ""Prediction of survival time in cold water""; ""Survival behavior in cold water""; ""Hypothermia in deep sea diving""; ""Respiratory heat losses and slow cooling""; ""12. Air as Good as We Deserve""; ""Life in an oxidizing atmosphere"" ""Biological oxidations and oxygen toxicity"" |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910777644303321 |
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| New York, : Oxford University Press, 2003 | ||
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Ceramics and composites in extreme environments & for chemical and electrochemical applications : 12th international ceramics congress. Part D / / edited by Pietro Vincenzini, World Academy of Ceramics and National Research Council, Italy ; co-edited by Sheldon Wiederhorn, NIST, USA, Paolo Columbo, University of Padua, Italy
| Ceramics and composites in extreme environments & for chemical and electrochemical applications : 12th international ceramics congress. Part D / / edited by Pietro Vincenzini, World Academy of Ceramics and National Research Council, Italy ; co-edited by Sheldon Wiederhorn, NIST, USA, Paolo Columbo, University of Padua, Italy |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Stafa-Zuerich ; ; Enfield, NH : , : Trans Tech Pubs. Limited on behalf of Techna Group, , [2010] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (288 p.) |
| Disciplina | 620.1/4 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
VincenziniP. <1939->
WiederhornS. M ColomboPaolo <1960-> |
| Collana | Advances in science and technology |
| Soggetto topico |
Ceramic materials
Composite materials Extreme environments |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 3-03813-422-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | section I. Ceramics and composites in extreme environments -- section II. Ceramics for chemical, electrochemical and environmental applications. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910462486903321 |
| Stafa-Zuerich ; ; Enfield, NH : , : Trans Tech Pubs. Limited on behalf of Techna Group, , [2010] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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