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	CSAS Logo CSAS may refer to: * Canadian Special Air Service Company, an elite post-war parachute unit. * Center for the Study of the American South * Central Sleep Apnea Syndrome * Combined Statistical Area, a statistical unit used by the United States Census and other offices. * Coal Smoke Abatement Society, a predecessor to Environmental Protection UK. * Community Safety Accreditation Scheme * Chattanooga School for the Arts & Sciences * Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences * Command Stability Augmentation System, a fly-by-wire feature of the Panavia Tornado The Panavia Tornado is a family of twin-engine, variable-sweep wing multirole combat aircraft, jointly developed and manufactured by Italy, the United Kingdom and West Germany. There are three primary Tornado variants: the Tornado IDS (inter ... . {{Disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Canadian Special Air Service Company The Canadian Special Air Service Company was a Canadian Airborne Special Forces unit in operation between 1947 and 1949. Role As opposed to a purely military function, the Canadian SAS was originally given functions of airborne firefighting, search and rescue and aid to the civil powers.Horn, Bernd, Wyczynski, Michel & Chagas, Carlos ''Canadian Airborne Forces Since 1942'' 2006 Osprey Publishing, pp.17-18 However, once officially sanctioned, the SAS was assigned the functions of being initially a parachute company but able to be the cadre of up to three parachute battalions, provide demonstrations of their capabilities throughout the nation, and "preserve and advance the techniques of SAS (Commando) operations developed during World War II". The Canadian SAS Company performed an arctic rescue mission in 1947 and provided flood relief efforts in the Fraser Valley in 1948. Commander Appointed as the Second-in-Command, but acting as the first and only Officer Commanding of the unit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Center For The Study Of The American South The Center for the Study of the American South (CSAS) is an academic organization dedicated to the study of "southern history, literature, and culture as well as ongoing social, political, and economic issues" at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. History The CSAS was the brainchild of a working group of faculty at UNC's Institute for Research in Social Science, a group that included IRSS director John Shelton Reed (William Rand Kenan Jr. Professor of Sociology at UNC), anthropologist James Peacock, and David Moltke-Hansen (curator of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC's Wilson Library). This group recognized the value of an umbrella organization that could help faculty and students studying the South to communicate, collaborate, and combine resources. They presented their idea to the UNC Board of Governors, which established the CSAS in 1992 with Reed as acting director, until he was succeeded by Moltke-Hansen. Malinda Maynor Lowery, professor of history a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Central Sleep Apnea Central sleep apnea (CSA) or central sleep apnea syndrome (CSAS) is a sleep-related disorder in which the effort to breathe is diminished or absent, typically for 10 to 30 seconds either intermittently or in cycles, and is usually associated with a reduction in blood oxygen saturation. CSA is usually due to an instability in the body's feedback mechanisms that control respiration. Central sleep apnea can also be an indicator of Arnold–Chiari malformation. Signs and symptoms In a healthy person during sleep, breathing is regular so oxygen levels and carbon dioxide levels in the bloodstream stay fairly constant: After exhalation, the blood level of oxygen decreases and that of carbon dioxide increases. Exchange of gases with a lungful of fresh air is necessary to replenish oxygen and rid the bloodstream of built-up carbon dioxide. Oxygen and carbon dioxide receptors in the body (called chemoreceptors) send nerve impulses to the brain, which then signals for reflexive openin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Combined Statistical Area Combined statistical area (CSA) is a United States Office of Management and Budget (OMB) term for a combination of adjacent metropolitan (MSA) and micropolitan statistical areas (µSA) across the 50 US states and the territory of Puerto Rico that can demonstrate economic or social linkage. CSAs were first designated in 2003. The OMB defines a CSA as consisting of various combinations of adjacent metropolitan and micropolitan areas with economic ties measured by commuting patterns. These areas that combine retain their own designations as metropolitan or micropolitan statistical areas within the larger combined statistical area. The primary distinguishing factor between a CSA and an MSA/µSA is that the social and economic ties between the individual MSAs/µSAs within a CSA are at lower levels than between the counties within an MSA. CSAs represent multiple metropolitan or micropolitan areas that have an employment interchange of at least 15%. CSAs often represent regions wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Environmental Protection UK Environmental Protection UK is a UK environmental non-governmental organisation (NGO) working to improve the quality of the local environment - specialising in the subjects of air quality, noise management and land quality. It was formerly known as the National Society for Clean Air and Environmental Protection (NSCA), changing its name 2007, to reflect ongoing work in fields beyond air quality. History and early work The organisation traces its roots back to the foundation of the Coal Smoke Abatement Society (CSAS) set up in 1898, making it one of the oldest environmental NGOs. CSAS was founded by London-based artist Sir William Blake Richmond, who became frustrated by low light levels in the winter caused by coal smoke. In an 1898 letter to the Times calling for action Sir William said that, "the darkness was comparable to a total eclipse of the sun". Over the following decades the CSAS was instrumental in the introduction of the 1926 Public Health (Smoke Abatement Act) and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Community Safety Accreditation Scheme Community safety accreditation schemes enable the chief constable of a police force in the United Kingdom (Except Scotland ) to grant a limited range of police powers to employees of non-police organisations bolstering community safety. Community safety accreditation schemes were created under section 40 of the Police Reform Act 2002. Individuals who have been granted these powers are known under the Act as accredited persons. Powers A chief constable may grant some or all of the following powers to an accredited person as part of a community safety accreditation scheme: * The power to: require the name and address of a person who has committed a criminal offence that causes injury, alarm and distress to another person or damage or loss of someone else's property, or to whom a penalty notice has been issued; require the name and address of a person acting in an anti-social manner; require a person to stop drinking in a designated public place and confiscate and dispo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:** [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Chattanooga School For The Arts & Sciences The Chattanooga School for the Arts & Sciences is a K–12 magnet school in Chattanooga, Tennessee. It was opened in 1986 in the former Wyatt Hall building which was used as a high school until 1983. The building was built in 1920–1921 and designed by Reuben H. Hunt, a Chattanooga architect. Its liberal-arts curriculum is patterned on Mortimer Adler's Paideia philosophy. The physical building has been a school in several incarnations, and was once attended by Samuel L. Jackson (as Riverside High School). The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986 as Wyatt Hall. It was designed by architect Reuben H. Hunt in Georgian Revival Georgian architecture is the name given in most English-speaking countries to the set of architectural styles current between 1714 and 1830. It is named after the first four British monarchs of the House of Hanover— George I, George II, Ge ... style. It was named for Professor Henry D. Wyatt, founder of the publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Czechoslovak Academy Of Sciences The Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences (Czech: ''Československá akademie věd'', Slovak: ''Česko-slovenská akadémia vied'') was established in 1953 to be the scientific center for Czechoslovakia. It was succeeded by the Czech Academy of Sciences (''Akademie věd České republiky'') and Slovak Academy of Sciences (''Slovenská akadémia vied'') in 1992. History The Royal Czech Society of Sciences, which encompassed both the humanities and the natural sciences, was established in the Czech Crown lands in 1784. After the Communist regime came to power in Czechoslovakia in 1948, all scientific, non-university institutions and learned societies were dissolved and, in their place, the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences was founded by Act No. 52/1952. It comprised both a complex of research institutes and a learned society. The Slovak Academy of Sciences, established in 1942 and re-established in 1953, was a formal part of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences from 1960 to 1992. During ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]