Transportation for Populations with Disabilities

Transportation is essential for people with disabilities and older adults to participate in society. It impacts access to healthcare, essential goods and services, interactions with friends and family, and ability to work or attend school, as well as a host of other activities. The Automated Vehicle Services for People with Disabilities\u2014Involved Responsive Engineering (ASPIRE) Center at the University of Pittsburgh is studying how people with disabilities and older adults are affected by access to safe, reliable, timely, and accessible transportation. There are many aspects of accessible transportation and the team of researchers at ASPIRE are addressing areas that need improvement. Driving is regarded as an important aspect of personal freedom and autonomy; however, access is very restricted for non-drivers, especially if they live outside the largest metropolitan areas with limited access to public transportation

The new national highway safety program.

Mode of access: Internet.Author corporate affiliation: National Highway Safety Bureau, Washington, D.C

Bibliotheca sacra.

Religious and theological abstractsNew Testament abstractsMosher Library subject index to selected periodical literatureInternationale Zeitschriftenschau für Bibelwissenschaft und GrenzgebieteEphemerides theologicae lovaniensesChristian periodical indexBiblicaPoole's index to periodical literatureMode of access: Internet.Published by the faculty of Xenia Theological Seminary, 1922-July 1930; by the faculty of the Pittsburgh-Xenia Theological Seminary, Oct. 1930-1933; by the Dallas Theological Seminary (called Evangelical Theological College, 1934-Sept. 1936), 1934-

Studies of the microstructure and mechanical properties of Al-10Mn and Al-10Mn-2.5Si made by powder metallurgy techniques

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Letters of General John Forbes relating to the expedition against Fort Duquesne in 1758 [microform] /

Includes bibliographical references (p. 77-78).Microfilm.Mode of access: Internet

High temperature ceramic membrane reactors for coal liquid upgrading

Membrane reactors are today finding extensive applications for gas and vapor phase catalytic reactions (see discussion in the introduction and recent reviews by Armor [92], Hsieh [93] and Tsotsis et al. [941]). There have not been any published reports, however, of their use in high pressure and temperature liquid-phase applications. The idea to apply membrane reactor technology to coal liquid upgrading has resulted from a series of experimental investigations by our group of petroleum and coal asphaltene transport through model membranes. Coal liquids contain polycyclic aromatic compounds, which not only present potential difficulties in upgrading, storage and coprocessing, but are also bioactive. Direct coal liquefaction is perceived today as a two-stage process, which involves a first stage of thermal (or catalytic) dissolution of coal, followed by a second stage, in which the resulting products of the first stage are catalytically upgraded. Even in the presence of hydrogen, the oil products of the second stage are thought to equilibrate with the heavier (asphaltenic and preasphaltenic) components found in the feedstream. The possibility exists for this smaller molecular fraction to recondense with the unreacted heavy components and form even heavier undesirable components like char and coke. One way to diminish these regressive reactions is to selectively remove these smaller molecular weight fractions once they are formed and prior to recondensation. This can, at least in principle, be accomplished through the use of high temperature membrane reactors, using ceramic membranes which are permselective for the desired products of the coal liquid upgrading process. An additional incentive to do so is in order to eliminate the further hydrogenation and hydrocracking of liquid products to undesirable light gases