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Aviation maintenance trainees participated in two experiments designed to assess the relative effectiveness of traditional instruction versus two types of computer simulation in the context of aircraft power-plant troubleshooting. Simulations ranged in nature from abstract, context-free problems to those involving specific aircraft power plants. Traditional instruction included reading assignments, television programs tailored to aircraft power-plant troubleshooting, and on-line quizzes. The first experiment compared the three training methods, and the second considered a mixture of the two computer simulations versus traditional instruction. The primary conclusion was that an appropriate combination of low- and moderate-fidelity computer simulations can provide sufficient problem-solving experience to be competitive with the more traditional lectureldemonstration form of instruction.

"Form of a will" (4 p. at end) reprinted from chapter CXVIII, 1866 edition of above work ; Mode of access: Internet. ; Author's inscribed presentation copy to the Hon. Charles A. Eldridge

The curious tale of two priest impersonators in late colonial Mexico Cut loose from their ancestral communities by wars, natural disasters, and the great systemic changes of an expanding Europe, vagabond strangers and others out of place found their way throughthe turbulent history of early modern Spain and Spanish America. As shadowy characters inspiring deep suspicion, fascination, and sometimes charity, they prompted a stream of decrees and administrative measures that treated them as nameless threats to good order and public morals. The vagabonds and impostors of colonial Mexico are as elusive in the written record as they were on the ground, and the administrative record offers little more than commonplaces about them. Fugitive Freedom locates two of these suspect strangers, Joseph Aguayo and Juan Atondo, both priest impersonators and petty villains in central Mexico during the last years of Spanish rule. Displacement brought pícaros to the forefront of Spanish literature and popular culture-a protean assortment of low life characters, seen as treacherous but not usually violent, shadowed by poverty, on the move and on the make in selfish, sometimes clever ways as they navigated a hostile, sinful world. What to make of the lives and longings of Aguayo and Atondo, whichresemble those of one or another literary pícaro? Did they imagine themselves in literary terms, asheroes of a certain kind of story? Could impostors like these have become fixtures in everyday life with neithera receptive audience norpermissive institutions?With Fugitive Freedom, William B. Taylor provides a rare opportunity to examine the social histories and inner lives of two individuals at the margins of an unfinished colonial order that was coming apart even as it was coming together

Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- Mott Haven -- Melrose -- Concourse -- Hunts Point -- Crotona Park East -- Morrisania -- Tremont -- Mount Eden -- Highbridge -- Morris Heights -- University Heights -- Belmont -- Fordham -- Bedford Park -- Norwood -- Kingsbridge -- Riverdale -- Woodlawn -- Wakefield -- Eastchester & -- Baychester -- Williamsbridge -- Allerton -- Pelham Parkway & -- Pelham Gardens -- Morris Park -- Parkchester -- Soundview -- Castle Hill -- Throgs Neck -- Pelham Bay -- Westchester Square -- Co-op City -- City Island -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

"The author proposes and defends a constitutional amendment to require that laws of Congress be upheld unless the Supreme Court by unanimous vote decides that a particular law is unconstitutional. This will strengthen the people's right to be governed by majority rule, including in cases where rights are concerned"--

This book comprises a set of stories about being an engineer for many decades and the lessons the author learned from research and practice. These lessons focus on people and organizations, often enabled by technology.

Front Cover -- About Island Press -- Subscribe -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part 1: Place -- Chapter 1: The Making of an Urbanist -- Chapter 2: The Thinning Metropolis -- Chapter 3: The Garden Suburb and the New Urbanism -- Chapter 4: The Autocratic Citizen of Philadelphia -- Chapter 5: Having No Car but Plenty of Cars -- Chapter 6: Tom Hayden's Cars -- Chapter 7: Talk City -- Chapter 8: Why I'm Scared to Walk in Houston -- Chapter 9: My Favorite Street -- Part 2: Prosperity -- Chapter 10: Romancing the Smokestack -- Chapter 11: Company Town -- Chapter 12: The Case for Subsidizing the Mermaid Bar -- Chapter 13: Kotkin versus Florida -- Chapter 14: Houston, We Have a Gentrification Problem -- Part 3: The Promised Land -- Chapter 15: The Long Drive -- Chapter 16: The California Attitude -- Chapter 17: The Not-So-Reluctant Metropolis -- Chapter 18: Living the 2 Percent Life -- Chapter 19: My Los Angeles -- Conclusion: On the Morning after the Pandemic -- Acknowledgments -- Credits -- About the Author -- Index.

Public-private collaborations are key to the functioning of most essential ecosystems such as security, healthcare, education, and energy. William B. Rouse addresses the challenges of transforming these ecosystems and provides an integrated perspective for understanding and enabling change.

Cut loose from their ancestral communities by wars, natural disasters, and the great systemic changes of an expanding Europe, vagabond strangers and others out of place found their way through the turbulent history of early modern Spain and Spanish America. As shadowy characters inspiring deep suspicion, fascination, and sometimes charity, they prompted a stream of decrees and administrative measures that treated them as nameless threats to good order and public morals. The vagabonds and impostors of colonial Mexico are as elusive in the written record as they were on the ground, and the administrative record offers little more than commonplaces about them. Fugitive Freedom locates two of these suspect strangers, Joseph Aguayo and Juan Atondo, both priest impersonators and petty villains in central Mexico during the last years of Spanish rule. Displacement brought pícaros to the forefront of Spanish literature and popular culture--a protean assortment of low life characters, seen as treacherous but not usually violent, shadowed by poverty, on the move and on the make in selfish, sometimes clever ways as they navigated a hostile, sinful world. What to make of the lives and longings of Aguayo and Atondo, which resemble those of one or another literary pícaro? Did they imagine themselves in literary terms, as heroes of a certain kind of story? Could impostors like these have become fixtures in everyday life with neither a receptive audience nor permissive institutions? With Fugitive Freedom, William B. Taylor provides a rare opportunity to examine the social histories and inner lives of two individuals at the margins of an unfinished colonial order that was coming apart even as it was coming together.