Some Low Cost Dwellings at Iselin's Park, New York

1896 ◽  
Vol 22 (3build) ◽  
pp. 52-53
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Low Cost

Introduction

Stirrings ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 1-25
Author(s):  
Lana Dee Povitz
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
New Left ◽  
The United States ◽  
Community Control ◽  
Female Leaders ◽  
Food Activism ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1960S

Using the conceptual lens of terroir, this chapter provides an overview of hunger and poverty in the United States, starting with the urban liberalism of the 1960s and tracing the onset of austerity politics from mid-1970s through the early 2000s. It shows how New York City food activism was connected to an array of apparently unrelated social movements, including American Communism, community control, the countercultural New Left, feminism, Black Power, and AIDS activism. As governments reduced spending on social programs, leaders from these movements formed nonprofit organizations geared toward providing services, such as emergency meals and low-cost groceries. This chapter offers an overview of why and how service provision came to absorb the attention of late-twentieth century activists and shows how nonprofit kitchens and offices became sites of mentorship. As charismatic, overwhelmingly female leaders passed on values and strategies forged in earlier eras, they enacted activist genealogies that helped sustain political involvement over decades. Powerful interpersonal bonds and people’s own sense of being transformed by their activism illuminate the underappreciated role of emotion in the history of left-progressive movements.

scholarly journals Alignments between strategic content and process structure: the case of container terminal service process automation

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 543-558 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ping Wang ◽  
Joan P. Mileski ◽  
Qingcheng Zeng
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Business Strategy ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Container Terminal ◽  
Container Terminals ◽  
Service Process ◽  
Market Uncertainty ◽  
Process Automation ◽  
Differentiation Strategy ◽  
Process Structure

AbstractDuring the last three decades, technological innovations in cargo handling equipment have made it possible to automate operational processes in container terminals. Despite the increasing trend in terminal automation, little work has been done to develop theoretical guidelines for evaluating the benefits of this industrial practice. We assess terminal automation by focusing on whether strategic content and process structure are aligned. In this study, we explore the reasons that these results are mixed in the context of service automation. Have market competitiveness and operational performance been enhanced by automation in seaports? We focus on two key strategic elements and their proper alignment to produce the best performance for a port. The first element is the overall business strategy and strategic content adopted by the port. In this study, we look at Porter’s (Competitive strategy, Free Press, New York, 1980) generic strategic classification of low cost, differentiation, or focus strategies. The second element is the process structure of the port, which may have been impacted by technological innovation. Using the framework of contingency theory, we explore the interface of strategic content and process structure and how this interface impacts the service process automation. A multiple case study is conducted on a sample of 20 container terminals, selected from the list of 2014 Journal of Commerce’s Top Productive Terminals. We come up with three important findings. First, a port’s strategic market position determines the choice of overall business strategy. If a port is strategically positioned as an international gate, then it should adopt an overall cost-leadership strategy, whereas a transshipment terminal should adopt an overall differentiation strategy. Second, we find that the process structure adopted is associated with the level of automation, and a differentiation strategy is dependent on the level of flexibility, speed, and reliability. Higher market uncertainty requires higher flexibility, while lower market uncertainty requires greater speed and reliability. Third, the level of process automation depends on throughput volume and stability. Closer relationships with maritime supply–chain partners help increase throughput volume and reduce throughput uncertainty.

New Projects

1981 ◽  
Vol 74 (7) ◽  
pp. 570-571
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
New York ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
School Setting ◽  
University Faculty ◽  
Adjunct Instructors ◽  
Cooperative Program ◽  
School Faculty ◽  
Syracuse University ◽  
The University

Project Advance is a cooperative program between Syracuse University and approximately eighty participating high schools in New York, Massachuseus, and Michigan. Project Advance allows high school seniors to take at a low cost university courses for university credit in their own school setting. The courses are taught by carefully selected high school faculty who attend workshops and seminars conducted each year by regular Syracuse University faculty. Cooperating secondary school faculty, on qualification, are designated as adjunct instructors of the university. The field courses are carefully monitored by regular university faculty to ensure equivalent standards in Project Advance courses and on-campus courses. On successful completion of Project Advance course work, students obtain university credit. The student can earn up to nine university credits.

Developing Low-Cost Functional Class 3 IETM

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Betty Harvey
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Oxygen Pressure ◽  
Life Support ◽  
Support Systems ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Functional Class ◽  
Aviation Industry ◽  
Pressure Regulator ◽  
Life Support Systems ◽  
Technical Manual

This paper will describe an approach that was taken by Cobham Mission Systems Division in Orchard Park, New York for delivering a Class 3 Interactive Electronic Technical Manual (IETM). Cobham Mission Systems Division develops life support systems for the aviation industry and NASA.  John Glenn, and every astronaut since, has used Cobham's oxygen pressure-regulator.  The original oxygen pressure-regulator that John Glenn used in his first trip into space is displayed prominently in Cobham's lobby in Orchard Park.   After this presentation a demonstration of the IETM will be provided.

scholarly journals Getting on the Grid

2003 ◽  
Vol 125 (03) ◽  
pp. 46-48
Author(s):  
Jean Thilmany
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Grid Computing ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Grid Technology ◽  
Palo Alto ◽  
Hewlett Packard ◽  
Central Processing ◽  
The Past ◽  
It Managers ◽  
Open Standards

This review discusses grid computing that is a low-cost way to harness the central processing units of a group of workstations. The grid can be made up of any number of central processing units (CPU), and they may be far-flung or within the same company, or even in the same department. Grid computing puts to work on the grid all available CPUs at idle workstations and thus does away with the need for powerful servers or supercomputers. Sun Microsystems Inc., Santa Clara, CA, and IBM of Armonk, New York, have both released software within the past three years that can divide and farm out pieces of an application to several thousand linked computers. Microsoft is developing grid-computing software for use with its products, as are Hewlett-Packard, Palo Alto, CA, and others. Grid software is written in Linux, the open-standards operating system. However, because no gatekeeping technology is currently in place for grids, the hard work of IT managers seeking to implement grid technology comes when negotiating policies among departments and setting up grids accordingly.

scholarly journals INTRA-URBAN MOVEMENT FLOW ESTIMATION USING LOCATION BASED SOCIAL NETWORKING DATA

2015 ◽  
Vol XL-1-W5 ◽  
pp. 781-785 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Kheiri ◽  
F. Karimipour ◽  
M. Forghani
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Travel Demand ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Urban Experience ◽  
Flow Estimation ◽  
Social Network Data ◽  
Mobility Behavior ◽  
Data Source ◽  
Location Based Social Network

In recent years, there has been a rapid growth of location-based social networking services, such as Foursquare and Facebook, which have attracted an increasing number of users and greatly enriched their urban experience. Location-based social network data, as a new travel demand data source, seems to be an alternative or complement to survey data in the study of mobility behavior and activity analysis because of its relatively high access and low cost. In this paper, three OD estimation models have been utilized in order to investigate their relative performance when using Location-Based Social Networking (LBSN) data. For this, the Foursquare LBSN data was used to analyze the intra-urban movement behavioral patterns for the study area, Manhattan, the most densely populated of the five boroughs of New York city. The outputs of models are evaluated using real observations based on different criterions including distance distribution, destination travel constraints. The results demonstrate the promising potential of using LBSN data for urban travel demand analysis and monitoring.

scholarly journals Toward point-of-care diagnostics of Candida auris

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoffrey Mulberry ◽  
Sudha Chaturvedi ◽  
Vishnu Chaturvedi ◽  
Brian N. Kim
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Real Time Pcr ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Point Of Care ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
High Sensitivity ◽  
Clinical Samples ◽  
Pcr Assay ◽  
Candida Auris

AbstractCandida auris is a multidrug-resistant yeast that presents global health threat for the hospitalized patients. Early diagnostic of C. auris is crucial in control, prevention, and treatment. Candida auris is difficult to identify with standard laboratory methods and often can be misidentified leading to inappropriate management. A newly-devised real-time PCR assay played an important role in the ongoing investigation of the C. auris outbreak in New York metropolitan area. The assay can rapidly detect C. auris DNA in surveillance and clinical samples with high sensitivity and specificity, and also useful for confirmation of C. auris cultures. Despite its positive impact, the real-time PCR assay is difficult to deploy at frontline laboratories due to high-complexity set-up and operation. Using a low-cost handheld real-time PCR device, we show that the C. auris can potentially be identified in a low-complexity assay without the need for high-cost equipment. An implementation of low-cost real-time PCR device in hospitals and healthcare facilities is likely to accelerate the diagnosis of C. auris and for control of the global epidemic.

scholarly journals INJECTIONS: First Do No Harm (History of Injections)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sufia Imam ◽  
Dattatreya Mukherjee ◽  
Suriya Narayanan Harikrishnan ◽  
Aayushi Raj Sinha
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Cylindrical Tube ◽  
Cataract Extraction ◽  
Becton Dickinson ◽  
Glass Syringe ◽  
Disposable Syringe ◽  
Hypodermic Syringe ◽  
Medical Health Care ◽  
The Individual

Injections are one of the most common, effective, reliable and low cost medical/ health care procedures accepted all around the world. Indeed, there are few medical tools so common and yet so indispensable, as the plastic disposable syringe and needle. However, it took thousands of years for injections to get to where it is today. This review article would trace the evolution of syringe from ancient times to the present and would also highlight about the possible risk of infections related to unsafe disposal of used syringes and needles and injection safety.The word “syringe” is derived from the Greek word syrinx, meaning “tube”. The structure and design of syringe is quite simple and yet effective as a medical tool. A syringe is like a simple pump with a tight plunger that fits into a cylindrical tube. The plunger can be pulled and pushed allowing the syringe to pull in or push out a liquid or gas through the open end of the tube that may be attached with a hypodermic needle.The first syringes were used in Roman times (1st Century AD) and are mentioned in a journal called De Medicina as being used to treat medical complications. Simple piston syringes were used to deliver ointments and creams were described by Galen (129-200 CE). An Egyptian, Ammar bin Ali al-Mawsilli was reported using glass tubes for suction for cataract extraction from about 900 CE. In 1650 Blaise Pascal’s experimental work in hydraulics led him to invent the first modern syringe which allowed the infusion of medicines. By 1660 Esholttz and Drs Major used injections on humans with fatal results due to ignorance of suitable dosage and the need for sterilization and infusion. Hence the disastrous consequences of these experiments delayed the use of injections for around 200 years. An Irish physician named Francis Rynd invented the hollow needle and used it to make the first recorded subcutaneous injections in 1844. In 1853 Charles Pravaz and Alexander Wood developed a medical hypodermic syringe with a needle fine enough to pierce a skin. Alexander Wood injected morphine into humans to treat nerve conditions and his wife subsequently became addicted to morphine and is recorded as the first woman to die of an injected drug overdose.In 1899 Letitia Mumford Geer of New York was granted a patent for a syringe design that permitted the user to operate it one-handed.In 1946 Chance Brothers in England made the first all-glass syringe with an interchangeable barrel and plunge and this was revolutionary as mass-sterilization of different components became possible without needing to match up the individual parts. Then shortly thereafter Australian inventor Charles Rotha user created the world’s first plastic, disposable hypodermic syringe made from polyethylene in 1949. Two years later he produced the first injection-molded syringes made of polypropylene, a plastic that can be heat-sterilized. Then in 1956 a New Zealand pharmacist and inventor Colin Murdoch got patents for disposable plastic syringe followed by Becton Dickinson in 1961 and an African American inventor Phil received a US patent for a “Disposable Syringe”.The basic design has remained unchanged though interchangeable parts and the use of plastic resulted in universal use of disposable syringes and needles since the mid-1950s. The syringe has become an indispensable instrument for many aspects of interventional medicine and everyday practice.

scholarly journals Art and Urban Regeneration in New York City. Doris C. Freedman’s Public Project

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 97
Author(s):  
María F. Carrascal Pérez
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Public Art ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Public Project ◽  
The Public ◽  
Creative City ◽  
The Arts

<p>Given its positive economic, social and urban impact, even with low-cost or low-tech materialization, the urban creativity encouraged by the arts is of great interest today. This narrative reviews one of the most prolific careers in this regard addressing the pioneering work by Doris C. Freedman. The late 1960s and the 1970s, in the context of two financial crises, saw a groundbreaking effort to formalize innovative artistic programs that recycled the obsolete city and integrated local communities in the processes. Doris C. Freedman was the first director of NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, the Public Arts Council, and leader of the organization City Walls. These institutions promoted an unprecedented improvement of the public urban life through the cultural action. Such experiences led Freedman to the conception of her last project, the relevant and, still, ongoing Public Art Fund of New York City. This article focuses on her early professional years, when she began and consolidated herself in the task of legitimizing art as an urban instrument for shaping the city. This research provides a contextualized critical analysis on Freedman’s less-known experimental projects before the foundation of the Public Art Fund, enabling an extraordinary source of inspiration for a current creative city-making.</p>

A Miniature and Low-Cost Robotic Fish for Ethorobotics Research and Engineering Education: Part II—STEM Outreach

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole Abaid ◽  
Vladislav Kopman ◽  
Maurizio Porfiri
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Robotic Fish ◽  
Outreach Program ◽  
Underwater Robotics ◽  
Student Survey ◽  
Development Organization ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
Survey Responses ◽  
K 12

Interactive robotics in formal and informal settings alike has been shown to effectively excite and educate learners at every level. In this second of two papers, we present the educational application of recently-developed biomimetic robotic fish for K-12 learning at the New York Aquarium focused on underwater robotics and marine science. We narrate the development, organization, and execution of an outreach program designed around these robotic fish to pique K-12 students’ interest in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and to attract them toward engineering careers. The activity offers an authentic engineering experience through bioinspired modification of the swimming robots informed by observation of the aquarium’s inhabitants. Student survey responses indicate the success of the activity in influencing the students’ perception of engineering. More specifically, the students showed an increased interest in STEM fields and found engineering to be a more accessible and exciting discipline after the activity.

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