What follows the Cold War? Even the fact that the question can be asked isastounding.  Shall the sequel be "peaceful competition" (Gorbachev), "cold peace and peaceful competition" (The New York Times editorial of August 10, 1987), "stable coexistence" (the American Committee on U. S.-Soviet Relations, including Arthur Macy Cox, William Colby, and George Ball)- or, grudgingly, "steps ... to reconcile vital U. S. and Soviet interests" (Henry Kissinger and Cyrus Vance)? There is dispute and confusion in both camps over what the new relationship is, what to call it. As the American establishment reorganizes its understanding of the world, theAmerican right is not silent. It is therefore useful to monitor the right's reactions to East-West rapprochement. In these notes, I look at the American right's responses to the East-West relaxation marked by the Washington and Moscow summits and the signing of the INF treaty. The discourse of the right in the first half of 1988 offers a preview of how it may be expected to react during the years to come.

This chapter describes key topics in the design and operation of conventional data acquisition systems used for structural health monitoring. These systems are discussed by four sub-system modules: (1) the sensor module, which consists of the physical element(s) that interact with the system-under-test to sense the physical process(es) and convert that information into a detectable signal form (e.g., an electrical voltage); (2) the signal conditioning module, which may have any number of functions, which could be further subdivided into analog functions (voltage amplification, some types of filtering, and possibly telemetry) and digital functions (timekeeping, digitization, triggering, master control); (3) the output module, which provides an actual indication, in an appropriate form, of the measurement(s) desired; and (4) the control module, which contains some form of an active controller that interprets the output and feeds back that information to an actuator that can manipulate the physical process (only present in active sensing systems). In the discussion of each module, the relevant hardware and signal processing components that comprise its operation and function are described, and the chapter concludes with a short summary of key concepts and observation of trends in data acquisition for structural health monitoring. © 2014 Woodhead Publishing Limited All rights reserved.

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In December of 1924, Charles Burke, the commissioner of Indian Affairs, received a letter from H. J. Hagerman, a former governor of New Mexico Territory who had been appointed by the Office of Indian Affairs (OIA) as “Special Commissioner to the Navajo.” Hagerman reported that he had received a troubling piece of correspondence from an OIA physician headquartered on the Navajo Reservation. This physician, Polk Richards, had found some disturbing after-effects among Navajo patients who had been treated by government doctors for trachoma, a painful, infectious eye disease that produced damaged vision or even blindness. Two of these patients could no longer close their eyelids completely, a condition known as lagopthalmos, and at least two others were suffering from entropion, in which the eyelashes had turned inward and were scratching the surface of the eyeball. All of these patients had been treated as part of a national campaign by the OIA to eradicate trachoma from Indian communities. Their condition, Hagerman told Burke, suggested that perhaps the OIA needed to rethink its strategy. The trachoma campaign was based on the use of a radical surgical technique known as tarsectomy, in which the surgeon attempted to treat the disease by simply cutting out the tarsus, the supportive tissue underneath the eyelids. Unless patients were selected very judiciously, Hagerman warned, and unless those who performed the operation were highly skilled surgeons, it was quite possible that the trachoma campaign would produce “very harmful results,” potentially causing Indian patients to lose all confidence in OIA doctors.