Academic literature on the topic 'Means hosting small'

In a little-known chapter in Tijerina’s life, he claimed to be a prophet named Iratéo, which he said meant Wrath of God. In 1955, Iratéo convinced a small group of devoted followers to create a religious utopia in the desert outside of Casa Grande, Arizona, and await the end of the world. Pooling their resources and digging underground bunkers for shelter, residents of Valle de Paz (Valley of Peace) were soon beset by rattlesnakes, floods, and hostile neighbors. Community residents also began to lose their faith in Tijerina because of his autocratic, abusive, and often absent leadership. He frequently took long trips to Mexico to study land-grant history. The community collapsed entirely after Tijerina was arrested on theft charges and then jumped bail rather than face trial.

This chapter details the experience of flight from Poland to Germany and what it meant in real terms to be a Jewish refugee on the roads of central Europe. This is a crucial issue because that kind of forced travel is such a fundamental part of what refugees have to endure that unless it is examined, they themselves cannot be understood. Though the whole refugee experience was fraught with danger and terror, the most difficult moments for many came right at the beginning, when the individuals or small groups of refugees had to evade the enemy troops from whom they were fleeing. Even if refugees managed to evade the hostile soldiers, their lives remained in danger from people acting out of hatred of Jews, simply wanting to rob them, or both. Nighttime was particularly dangerous, especially if Jews were staying at an inn run by a non-Jew. The chapter then highlights the personal chronicle of Yuda ben Ephraim Ḥayim of Piła in Great Poland, who fled to Silesia during 1656 to avoid being attacked by the forces of Stefan Czarniecki.

Urbanization, industrialization, and mining are three different responses by mankind to survive, to develop, to create wealth and prosperity, and to organize life. Of the three, mining is the oldest, accessing specific materials provided by nature. Urbanization originally was a community’s means of seeking shelter in a hostile natural environment. The co-operation involved in urbanization also provides benefit to all. Industrialization is the latest of these three processes and aims to concentrate production activities at one spot, which allows for increased scale and higher outputs. Industrialization is often linked with mining and more so with urbanization. Mining is obviously found in confined areas primarily determined by the availability of the required earth materials. Urbanization is determined by a mix of geographical (infrastructure), geological (firm underground and stable conditions), and strategic conditions. Moreover, economic, social, and political factors are increasingly important. The same can be said for the processes leading to the establishment of industrial sites. Urbanization, industrialization, and mining have in common that they not only profit from the environment in which they operate, but also affect the natural balances of that environment. Consequently, these activities generate some response in the subsurface, either small or more significant. In the course of time humankind has faced many of these responses, but they still may cause surprises. This chapter briefly describes the impact of urbanization, industrialization, and mining on the natural environment of north-western Europe, both in terms of assets and threats. Attention is given to monitoring the Earth’s response to these activities through the geological processes involved. For monitoring and prediction substantial information and knowledge of the subsurface is necessary and sources of such data are outlined. The chapter starts with some facts and figures, and is mainly based on Urban Geoscience by McCall et al. (1996). Information is also derived from the State of the Environment reports as published by the European Union. Much more attention is given to urbanization than to either of the other activities. However, since modern, urban, industrialized societies consume large amounts of primary resources, mining, industrialization, and urbanization are closely connected.

Regenerative thermal oxidizers are used extensively for the abatement of volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions from process vent streams. Due to the unique heat storage and convection properties of the ceramic packing utilized, they are especially well suited for applications with high flows and dilute concentrations of organic vapors. However, packed-bed devices such as these are known to be vulnerable to interstitial plugging when processing vent streams that contain particulate matter in addition to the VOC. In this paper, the authors postulate a new failure mode that involves relativel