Effects of Fluency on Psychological Distance and Mental Construal: Or Why New York is a large city, but nEW yORK is a civilized jungle

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam L. Alter ◽  
Daniel M. Oppenheimer
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Large City ◽  
Psychological Distance ◽  
Mental Construal

Engineering as a Prerequisite for Growth: New York and its Infrastructure

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie Ennis ◽  
Donald Friedman
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Structural Engineering ◽  
Large City ◽  
Close Correlation ◽  
Structural Type ◽  
World City ◽  
Suspension Bridges ◽  
World Record ◽  
Physical Constraints ◽  
The World

<p>As a world city, New York is famous for many reasons; as a large city located primarily on islands at a complex of rivers, bays, and tidal straits, it has long depended on structural engineering for viability. Prominent structures include underwater vehicular and rail tunnels, bridges of every structural type, and aqueducts. Ten different buildings have held the world record for height, two arch bridges have held the world record for span, and four different suspension bridges have held the world record for their main span. With a multitude of successful businesses and the physical constraints of the geography, the motivation for technical innovation were present, and engineers were ready for the challenges.</p><p>These structures have generally not been built because they would break records, but rather because they served a purpose. For example, the Brooklyn Bridge, with a center span fiIy percent longer than the second- longest at the time of its construction, was built because ferries were the only transportation between New York and Brooklyn, then the first and third largest cities in the country. There is a close correlation, decade by decade and beginning in the 1880s, between what was feasible in terms of structural engineering and what has been built to enable the city to grow and prosper. This paper will examine that correlation and engineers’ role in the city’s evolution.</p>

Measuring the Impact of Various Dispatching Procedures on Response Time, Backlog, Availability and Patient Care in an Urban Setting

1985 ◽  
Vol 1 (S1) ◽  
pp. 61
Author(s):  
David DeLucia ◽  
Emil Pascarelli
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Response Time ◽  
Patient Care ◽  
Large City ◽  
Urban Setting ◽  
Massachusetts Institute ◽  
Massachusetts Institute Of Technology ◽  
Institute Of Technology ◽  
The Impact

A study conducted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology concluded that in a large city, a minimum of eight ambulances per 500,000 population was desirable to assure a reasonable response time.How does a large city with less than this suggested minimum make best use of its available ambulance units ?A three week study was conducted in New York City to examine the impact of various dispatching procedures on response time, “backlog”, availability of “back-up” units and patient care.

scholarly journals Scopes and Challenges In Educating The Clinical And Nursing Staffs Regarding The COVID -19 Specimen Collection And Processing For Testing In The Municipal Public Health System Based Ambulatory Care Health Clinics In New York City

2020 ◽  
Vol 154 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S121-S122
Author(s):  
F M Huq Ronny
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Health System ◽  
Ambulatory Care ◽  
York City ◽  
Large City ◽  
Federal State ◽  
Health Authorities ◽  
Specimen Collection ◽  
Care Health

Abstract Introduction/Objective With the emergence of Novel COVID-19 infection in the New York City, at the initial phase a very limited information and guidelines were available from the federal and state health authorities and only state lab could provide the COVID -19 testing. Sparsity of the authentic information and up surging of the misinformation in the social media and rapidly evolving different reference testing laboratories were creating confusions and challenges among our clinic providers and nursing staffs. With periodic incorporation of updates on standardized protocol and guidelines, we formulated a plan and delivered that in a coordinated manner in educating the clinical and nursing staffs regarding the COVID -19 specimen collection and processing for testing to overcome that. Methods We gathered all the communications for COVID -19 from the federal, state and city health authorities and our corporate management about the testing methods, collection and processing requirements and specimen pickups. We verified and customized that information, prepared and circulated them in detailed PowerPoint presentation and then updated that periodically with any addition or changes in the testing reference labs and/or their specimen requirements. Results With periodic, standardized and updated guidelines and detailed verified information and instructions for sample processing, a uniform and much coordinated specimen collection and processing could be achieved and all of our five-borough spanning multisite municipal ambulatory clinics could collect and process the COVID-19 specimens properly. Conclusion Centralized, Planned and concerted education planning and timely delivering that to the clinical and nursing staffs could tremendously help in answering many relevant queries and curtailing confusion and properly collecting and handling the specimens in emerging infection like COVID-19 in a large city municipal ambulatory care health system.

Imprinting the Civil

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Van Horn
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Large City ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Large Size ◽  
Common Goals

This chapter explores a group of large city views, also known as long views, sponsored by local subscribers in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Charleston, and engraved in London. These prints perfected urban environments by eliminating spaces of unruly commerce and crime and celebrating residents’ architectural accomplishments. They contributed to colonists’ efforts to reduce the wilderness by adapting the prospect view and drawing upon the science of surveying. The views allowed subscribers to articulate their common goals for urban planning and hope for their cities’ growth. Intended for a British imperial audience, the prints also asserted colonial Americans’ civic growth and reminded British viewers of North America’s large size. Whereas English thinkers belittled America’s fauna and her land, colonial city views proclaimed North America’s magnitude.

Socio-demographic characteristics of the neighborhoods and depression

2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (S2) ◽  
pp. 2121-2121
Author(s):  
M. Bassi
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
New York ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Depressive Disorders ◽  
Large City ◽  
Urban Neighborhoods ◽  
Demographic Characteristics ◽  
Ethnic Composition ◽  
Prevalence Of Depression ◽  
Leisure Facilities

Over the 50% of the world's population now is living in the cities and particularly in the large metropolitan areas. Empirical evidence again and again confirms that some features of the context of a large city can influence the mental health of citizens. Faris and Dunham in 1939 were the first to show that the environmental and social disorganization in neighborhoods of Chicago was one of the most important factors to undermine the mental health of residents. This evidence was confirmed by a study carried out in midtown Manhattan, New York City. It suggests that the urban characteristics, such as social and environmental disorganization, could affect the mental health of the residents. Substantial evidence links structural inequalities to health and mental health and the researchers suggest that the disproportionate concentration of recent immigrants in urban neighborhoods contributes to racial and ethnic health disparities. While most part of the studies has examined the relationships between neighbourhood characteristics (e.g. socio-demographic characteristics, stability and mobility of the residents, ethnic composition, public transport, availability of green areas and parks, meeting places for social and cultural events, sport and leisure facilities, shopping centres, health and social services, etc.) and mental health, few studies have examined the factors that contribute to increase the incidence and the prevalence of the depressive disorders. Our research in Milan, Italy, is carrying out at the neighborhoods level, in analysis of intercity comparison, typically focused on the evaluation between environmental characteristics, neighbourhood-specific, and the incidence and prevalence of depression in residents.

scholarly journals Modeling COVID-19 epidemics in an Excel spreadsheet: Democratizing the access to first-hand accurate predictions of epidemic outbreaks

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mario Moisés Alvarez ◽  
Everardo González-González ◽  
Grissel Trujillo-de Santiago
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Population Density ◽  
York City ◽  
Large City ◽  
Epidemiological Model ◽  
Viral Diseases ◽  
Excel Spreadsheet ◽  
Two Parameters ◽  
Governmental Response

AbstractCOVID-19, the first pandemic of this decade and the second in less than 15 years, has harshly taught us that viral diseases do not recognize boundaries; however, they truly do discriminate between aggressive and mediocre containment responses.We present a simple epidemiological model that is amenable to implementation in Excel spreadsheets and sufficiently accurate to reproduce observed data on the evolution of the COVID-19 pandemics in different regions (i.e., Italy, Spain, and New York City (NYC)). We also show that the model can be adapted to closely follow the evolution of COVID-19 in any large city by simply adjusting two parameters related to (a) population density and (b) aggressiveness of the response from a society/government to epidemics. Moreover, we show that this simple epidemiological simulator can be used to assess the efficacy of the response of a government/society to an outbreak.The simplicity and accuracy of this model will greatly contribute to democratizing the availability of knowledge in societies regarding the extent of an epidemic event and the efficacy of a governmental response.

scholarly journals Working Together to Improve Community-Level Health: The Evolution of the New York City Food & Fitness Partnership

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (1_suppl) ◽  
pp. 57S-62S
Author(s):  
Tracey Capers
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Large City ◽  
Community Development Corporation ◽  
Community Stakeholders ◽  
Working Together ◽  
Diverse Community ◽  
Leadership Changes

The New York City Food & Fitness Partnership case study discusses how the scope and abundance of diverse community stakeholders can create difficulties when addressing and conducting work in a large city landscape. We describe our 9-year journey, from initial citywide planning, to early challenges, to rebirth as a Central Brooklyn–focused effort led by a community development corporation. We describe difficult and transparent conversations, and the various leadership changes and organizational transitions that have helped the partnership embrace equity frameworks. We illustrate how these principles have been demonstrated in their efforts to be community driven, ensuring that intended beneficiaries would be involved in every stage of decision making.

Education and the Creation of Capital: or What I have Learned From Following the Money

2008 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy Beadie
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Small Town ◽  
Psychological Distance ◽  
Teaching Position ◽  
The Hours ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Charles Finney ◽  
The City

In the Fall of 1840, twenty-four-year-old Clarissa Pengra journeyed from a small town in western New York to the growing city of Syracuse to take up a new teaching position. She began by heading north by carriage on a plank road to Rochester, where she would catch a canal boat east. Arriving in Rochester in the evening, after what she described as “an unpleasant ride,” she decided to spend the night at a boarding establishment rather than at the home of a family friend, “in order to be convenient for the boat in the morning.” While in the city, she finished her “shopping,” a term she had never used in the context of her rural hometown. Already, Clarissa had traveled a social and psychological distance. In the hours, weeks, and months that followed, her sense of dislocation would continue. At 6 a.m. on the morning after she arrived in Rochester, she boarded the canal boat for a trip that would take 24 hours, ending in Syracuse the following day “before daylight.” On the boat, Clarissa encountered whist-players, whiskey drinkers, and a follower of the Calvinist evangelist, Charles Finney, each in his own way somewhat at odds with her own principles and ideas. With respect to the trip as a whole, she expressed a sense of adventure, tempered by a hint of anxiety. “I have left home and friend,” she wrote in her journal, “and for the present must learn to depend upon myself.”

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