Psychological Specialties in Historical Contexts: Enriching the Classroom Experience for Teachers and Students

This edited collection presents the histories of various subdisciplines in psychology. Our intended audience includes teachers of psychology as well as scholars. Authors were asked to develop teaching materials for instructors who may be teaching outside of their own fields or for instructors who are content experts in their fields but may not (yet) know the histories of their fields. Authors therefore wrote illustrative rather than comprehensive histories, with accompanying vignettes intended for immediate classroom use. The chapters and vignettes are exciting, rich in texture, and loaded with details, examples, and events that are not typically contained in textbooks. For each of the 28 chapters in the volume, authors drafted short vignettes intended to be accessible for instructors looking for a concise and poignant story or teaching example to take into their classes. Authors typically selected vignettes to address (1) a relevant technological innovation (e.g., the development of implicit association tests), (2) a pioneering individual (e.g., Kurt Lewin), and (3) a cultural event that shaped the field (e.g., the murder of Kitty Genovese). The editors hope that a psychology instructor who is not a historian can open this work, find a chapter or vignette related to class topics, invest a short time to read, learn, and prepare, and then take a fresh new teaching example into class and into future classes

MEASURING RATES OF OUTDOOR AIRFLOW INTO HVAC SYSTEMS MEASURING RATES OF OUTDOOR AIRFLOW INTO HVAC SYSTEMS

Abstract During the last few years, new technologies have been introduced for measuring the flow rates of outside air into HVAC systems. This document describes one particular technology for measuring these airflows, a system and a related protocol developed to evaluate this and similar measurement technologies under conditions without wind, and the results of our evaluations. We conclude that the measurement technology evaluated can provide a reasonably accurate measurement of OA flow rate over a broad range of flow, without significantly increasing airflow resistance

Outdoor airflow into HVAC systems: An evaluation of measurement technologies

During the last few years, new technologies have been introduced for measuring the flow rates of outdoor air (OA) into HVAC systems; however, an evaluation of these measurement technologies has not previously been published. This document describes a test system and protocols developed for controlled evaluation of these measurement technologies. The results of tests of three measurement technologies are also summarized. The test system and protocol were judged practical and very useful. The test results indicate that one measurement technology can measure OA flow rates with errors of 20% or less without a field-based calibration, as long as the OA velocities are sufficient to provide an accurately measurable pressure signal. The test results for a second measurement technology are similar; however, a difficult field-based calibration relating the OA flow rate with the pressure signal would be required to reduce errors below approximately 30%. The errors in OA flow rates measured with the third measurement technology, that uses six electronic airspeed sensors downstream of the OA inlet louver, exceeded 100%; however, these errors could be substantially reduced through a difficult field based calibration. The effects of wind on the accuracy of these measurement technologies still needs to be evaluated

Measuring Rates of Outdoor Airflow Into HVAC Systems

During the last few years, new technologies have been introduced for measuring the flow rates of outside air into HVAC systems. This document describes one particular technology for measuring these airflows, a system and a related protocol developed to evaluate this and similar measurement technologies under conditions without wind, and the results of our evaluations. We conclude that the measurement technology evaluated can provide a reasonably accurate measurement of OA flow rate over a broad range of flow, without significantly increasing airflow resistance

Measuring rates of outdoor airflow into HVAC systems

During the last few years, new technologies have been introduced for measuring the flow rates of outside air into HVAC systems. This document describes one particular technology for measuring these airflows, a system and a related protocol developed to evaluate this and similar measurement technologies under conditions without wind, and the results of our evaluations. We conclude that the measurement technology evaluated can provide a reasonably accurate measurement of OA flow rate over a broad range of flow, without significantly increasing airflow resistance