Conclusion

2021 ◽  
pp. 157-172
Author(s):  
Gwynne Mapes
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Work Ethic ◽  
Additional Data ◽  
Individual Work ◽  
Global Spread ◽  
Elite Status

In the final chapter and general conclusion of the book, Mapes demonstrates the global spread of elite authenticity across so-called light and thick communities. She briefly analyzes additional data from outside New York, including food texts from Australia, Germany, and England. Ultimately, Mapes explains how the generative workings of reflexivity within neoliberal societies have pushed forward the tendency to deny elite status, and instead to claim distinction based on individual work ethic and meritocratic reward. Thus, the discourse of elite authenticity is a means of detecting—and, indeed, reflexively coming to terms with—the pervasive trend in society to ignore implicit claims to eliteness and status in favor of performed (and learned) egalitarianism.

scholarly journals COVID-19 in obstetrics 2020: the experience at a New York City medical center

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (9) ◽  
pp. 892-899
Author(s):  
Ashlesha K. Dayal ◽  
Armin S. Razavi ◽  
Amir K. Jaffer ◽  
Nishant Prasad ◽  
Daniel W. Skupski
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Medical Center ◽  
Severe Disease ◽  
Infection Rates ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Health Crisis ◽  
Asymptomatic Carriage ◽  
Global Spread ◽  
Workforce Flexibility

AbstractThe global spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus during the early months of 2020 was rapid and exposed vulnerabilities in health systems throughout the world. Obstetric SARS-CoV-2 disease was discovered to be largely asymptomatic carriage but included a small rate of severe disease with rapid decompensation in otherwise healthy women. Higher rates of hospitalization, Intensive Care Unit (ICU) admission and intubation, along with higher infection rates in minority and disadvantaged populations have been documented across regions. The operational gymnastics that occurred daily during the Covid-19 emergency needed to be translated to the obstetrics realm, both inpatient and ambulatory. Resources for adaptation to the public health crisis included workforce flexibility, frequent communication of operational and protocol changes for evaluation and management, and application of innovative ideas to meet the demand.

“Working in the Next Present” in Aurora and New York 2140

2019 ◽  
pp. 170-188
Author(s):  
Robert Markley
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
New York ◽  
Solar System ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Large Measure ◽  
Narrative Structures ◽  
Financial Speculation ◽  
Terrestrial Life

The final chapter considers Robinson’s two most recent novels, Aurora (2015) and New York 2140 (2017), that offer different visions of the future. Aurora drives a stake through the heart of interstellar romance by depicting the failed mission of a multigenerational starship to colonize another solar system. Narrated in large measure by the spaceship’s artificial intelligence, Aurora brilliantly experiments with the narrative structures of sf even as it explores the ecological and biogeographical limits of terrestrial life. New York 2140, in contrast, depicts the struggle for the city’s political and environmental future in a future where a sea-level rise of forty feet above today’s level has occurred and rampant financial speculation still drives a capitalist worldview. Rather than a dystopian struggle for survival, however, the novel offers a utopian comedy of political and ecological regeneration.

Digitization, Virtual Collections, and Total Archives in the Twenty-First Century

2021 ◽  
pp. 148-173
Author(s):  
Jason Lustig
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Jewish History ◽  
First Century ◽  
World War ◽  
Historical Materials ◽  
The World ◽  
Cairo Genizah

This final chapter argues that struggles over archival ownership and the possibility of archival totality continue far beyond the years immediately following World War II. It considers three case studies to consider new forms of total archives being created through virtual collections and digitization: The Center for Jewish History in New York City (formed in 1994/1995 and opened in 2000), the efforts by the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research to digitize materials found in Lithuania and reunite them with their own files, and the Friedberg Genizah Project’s initiative to digitize and join together fragments of the Cairo Genizah found in repositories around the world. These case studies showcase enduring visions of monumentality and indicate how archival construction is not merely the province of the past. Instead, the process of gathering historical materials is a continual process of making and remaking history.

Back to Work

2018 ◽  
pp. 213-224
Author(s):  
Joseph R. Fitzgerald
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Young People ◽  
First Century ◽  
Wall Street ◽  
Student Activists ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Not For Profit ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The City

The final chapter briefly touches on Richardson’s second divorce but focuses on her difficulties finding and keeping employment. After holding a series of jobs in various corporate and not-for-profit agencies, Richardson eventually earned a permanent civil service position with the City of New York, where she worked until the twenty-first century. In one way or another, all her jobs involved some kind of social justice. Over the last five decades, Richardson has paid close attention to social change movements, including Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter, and this chapter discusses her thoughts about them, particularly her view that young people have the capability and vision to lead the nation to greater freedom, just as young people did in the 1960s. She advises them to replicate the group-centered and member-driven model student activists employed in the early 1960s and to avoid becoming ideological.

The Final Chapter of Knickerbocker's New York

1969 ◽  
Vol 66 (3) ◽  
pp. 248-255
Author(s):  
Martin Roth
Keyword(s):  
New York

scholarly journals Academic Salaries and Contracts: What Do We Know?

2015 ◽  
pp. 2-3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Altbach ◽  
Ivan Pacheco
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
New York ◽  
Web Site ◽  
Research University ◽  
Additional Data ◽  
Institutional Analysis ◽  
International Higher Education ◽  
Boston College ◽  
Global Comparison ◽  
Academic Salaries

Data in this article are from Paying the Professoriate: A Global Comparison of Compensation and Contracts, ed- ited by Philip G. Altbach, Liz Reisberg, Maria Yudkevich, Gregory Androushchak, and Iván F. Pacheco (New York: Routlege, 2012). Additional data can be found on the project Web site: http://acarem.hse.ru. This research resulted from a collaboration between the Center for International Higher Education at Boston College and the Laboratory of Institutional Analysis at the National Research University– Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia.

China's Scientific Elite. By Cong Cao. [London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2004. 256 pp. £60.00; $95.00. ISBN 0-415-32757-1.]

2005 ◽  
Vol 182 ◽  
pp. 431-433
Author(s):  
Stanley Rosen
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Social Stratification ◽  
Sociology Of Science ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
Elite Group ◽  
Systematic Effort ◽  
Scientific Elite ◽  
Elite Status ◽  
Science Framework ◽  
The Impact

Since the completion of his doctoral dissertation in sociology at Columbia University in 1997, Cong Cao has published a number of very insightful articles on various aspects of China's scientific elite. He has now taken the next step and, incorporating some material from these earlier publications, given us the most systematic effort to examine this important social group. His agenda is certainly ambitious. Inspired by one of his mentors, the late, great sociologist Robert K. Merton, Cao employs the Mertonian sociology of science framework, using the norm of universalism and the theory of social stratification in science to determine the basis for the formation of this elite group. Using membership in the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) as the indicator of elite status, Cao sets himself four primary tasks. The first – and the major focus of the book – is to examine the various factors that might have played a role in one's selection to this Academy, including social origins, the influence of mentors, the quality of research, political party membership, and personal relations. Secondly, he examines the impact of major historical changes on the development of science and the formation of this elite. Thirdly, he seeks to put the Chinese case into a comparative perspective, often citing the work of another of his mentors, Harriet Zuckerman, a leading scholar of the American scientific elite, among other sources. Finally, he addresses the role this elite has played in influencing the nation's policy making and urging autonomy and democracy in scientific research and societal life.

Clues to the Chronology of Coastal New York

1944 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlyle S. Smith
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Additional Data ◽  
New York State ◽  
Hudson River ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Construction Work ◽  
American Museum ◽  
York State ◽  
New York Historical Society

The region under consideration comprises the coastal portion of New York State east of the Hudson River, including Manhattan Island, Long Island, and southern Westchester County (Map, Fig. 4). The archaeological sites consist of shell middens along the tidal waferways. Although construction work coincident with the expansion of New York City has destroyed many of them and the rest are at least partially disturbed, sufficient material has been obtained for the purpose of this analysis. An attempt is made to establish a chronology of ceramic traits based upon sherds excavated by the writer and his associates as members of the Committee on American Anthropology of the Flushing (New York) Historical Society. Additional data were obtained from a study of collections made by Harrington for the American Museum of Natural History. Consideration of the non-ceramic material is beyond the scope of this paper and must await further study.

scholarly journals Urban Turbulence in Space and in Time

2012 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce B. Hicks ◽  
William J. Callahan ◽  
William R. Pendergrass ◽  
Ronald J. Dobosy ◽  
Elena Novakovskaia
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Velocity Component ◽  
Additional Data ◽  
Wind Component ◽  
Near Surface ◽  
Urban Turbulence ◽  
Wind Velocities ◽  
Standard Deviations ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Individual

AbstractThe utility of aggregating data from near-surface meteorological networks for initiating dispersion models is examined by using data from the “WeatherBug” network that is operated by Earth Networks, Inc. WeatherBug instruments are typically mounted 2–3 m above the eaves of buildings and thus are more representative of the immediate surroundings than of conditions over the broader area. This study focuses on subnetworks of WeatherBug sites that are within circles of varying radius about selected stations of the DCNet program. DCNet is a Washington, D.C., research program of the NOAA Air Resources Laboratory. The aggregation of data within varying-sized circles of 3–10-km radius yields average velocities and velocity-component standard deviations that are largely independent of the number of stations reporting—provided that number exceeds about 10. Given this finding, variances of wind components are aggregated from arrays of WeatherBug stations within a 5-km radius of selected central DCNet locations, with on average 11 WeatherBug stations per array. The total variance of wind components from the surface (WeatherBug) subnetworks is taken to be the sum of two parts: the temporal variance is the average of the conventional wind-component variances at each site and the spatial variance is based on the velocity-component averages of the individual sites. These two variances (and the standard deviations derived from them) are found to be similar. Moreover, the total wind-component variance is comparable to that observed at the DCNet reference stations. The near-surface rooftop wind velocities are about 35% of the magnitudes of the DCNet measurements. Limited additional data indicate that these results can be extended to New York City.

scholarly journals Han Yu (2015). The Other Kind of Funnies: Comics in Technical Communication. New York, NY: Baywood Publishing Company.

2016 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 25-27
Author(s):  
Suzanne Rintoul
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Technical Communication ◽  
Technical Writing ◽  
The Other ◽  
Graduate Courses ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Visual Elements ◽  
Technical Writers ◽  
Communication Challenges

Han Yu’s "The Other Kind of Funnies: Comics in Technical Communication" challenges the notion that technical writing is too “rational” or “serious” to accommodate the conventions of comics-style communication. She does this by illustrating comics’ unique ability to distill and reinforce information in ways entirely appropriate not just for complementing the purposes of many technical writers, but also for fulfilling the needs of their diverse audiences. The book’s major strength lies in Yu’s capacity to locate the productive nexus between two ostensibly dissimilar modes so that by the final chapter those connections seem not only probable, but natural. This text will be especially useful to scholars of rhetoric (particularly those invested in visual culture and/or technical writing) and practitioners of technical writing eager to embrace new (or in some cases re-embrace older) ways of seeing the relationship between textual and visual elements. The clarity with which Yu distils complex theoretical concepts makes this book appropriate reading for undergraduate or graduate courses as well as for non-scholarly audiences.

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