Transport of Neisseria meningitidis cultures: growth-supporting media and freezing as an alternative

1979 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-123
Author(s):  
L. A. White ◽  
B. E. Holbein ◽  
M. R. Spence
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Neisseria Meningitidis ◽  
York City ◽  
Dry Ice ◽  
Controlled Conditions ◽  
Solid Media ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Positive Effect

The abilities of Transgrow (TG), Thayer-Martin (TM), and New York City (NYC) solid media to maintain the viability of 12 strains of Neisseria meningitidis under various controlled conditions were assessed. The effects of charcoal impregnation of swabs, temperature, and an enriched CO2, atmosphere were examined with holding for up to 21 days. Recovery from samples held at 35 °C was, in almost all instances, greater than at 22 or 4 °C. A strong requirement for added CO2 was demonstrated, especially at lower temperatures. No positive effect could be attributed to the use of charcoal-impregnated swabs. NYC and TM media were the best overall, with the former permitting recovery from more than 75% of all samples held on slants for 20 days at 4 °C in an atmosphere of 5% CO2 in air. Freezing, with holding on dry ice, was a useful alternative to the use of growth-supporting media. This latter method eliminated the requirement for an enriched CO2 atmosphere.

Carriage of Neisseria meningitidis in men who have sex with men presenting to public sexual health clinics, New York City

2020 ◽  
Vol Publish Ahead of Print ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie Ngai ◽  
Don Weiss ◽  
Julie Anne Bell ◽  
Difaa Majrud ◽  
Greicy Zayas ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Sexual Health ◽  
Neisseria Meningitidis ◽  
York City ◽  
Health Clinics ◽  
Sex With Men ◽  
Sexual Health Clinics

Delinquency Prevention in the Neighborhood

1964 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 222-230
Author(s):  
Ruth S. Tefferteller
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Supportive Relationships ◽  
Gang Activity ◽  
Potential Source ◽  
Prevention Project ◽  
Parent Child Relationships ◽  
Positive Effect ◽  
Parent Child

At the Henry Street Settlement in New York City, a delin quency prevention project has emphasized the importance of counteracting the contagion of gang activity by detecting and working with groups of eight- to thirteen-year-olds while there is still a good chance of influencing them. Another most im portant step in the corrective process lies in reaching the parents of these children and helping them reassert their own influence and authority. Even the flimsiest of parent-child relationships is a potential source of control, if help is given in time. By bring ing together the parents of budding antisocial groups and by cultivating close, informal supportive relationships with individ ual parents, we have found a means of establishing this control. The children recognize and accept the partnership between home and Settlement which, in most instances, is contributing toward revitalizing parent-child relationships. The approach seems to be having a positive effect on the behavior of the chil dren in these young groups.

Bosnian Refugee Women in (Re)settlement: Gender Relations and Social Mobility

2003 ◽  
Vol 73 (1) ◽  
pp. 86-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Franz
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
York City ◽  
Role Models ◽  
Downward Mobility ◽  
Traditional Role ◽  
Refugee Women ◽  
Bosnian Women ◽  
Almost All

Bosnian refugee women adapted more quickly than their male partners to their host environments in Vienna and New York City because of their self-understanding and their traditional roles and social positions in the former Yugoslavia. Refugee women's integration into host societies has to be understood through their specific historical experiences. Bosnian women in exile today continue to be influenced by traditional role models that were prevalent in the former Yugoslavia's 20th-century patriarchal society. Family, rather than self-fulfillment through wage labor and emancipation, is the center of life for Bosnian women. In their new environment, Bosnian refugee women are pushed into the labor market and work in low-skill and low-paying jobs. Their participation in the labor market, however, is not increasing their emancipation in part because they maintain their traditional understanding of zena (women) in the patriarchal culture. While Bosnian women's participation in low-skill labor appeared to be individual families’ decisions more in New York City than in Vienna, in the latter almost all Bosnian refugee women in my sample began to work in the black labor market because of restrictive employment policies. In contrast to men, women were relatively nonselective and willing to take any available job. Men, it seems, did not adapt as quickly as women to restrictions in the labor market and their loss of social status in both host societies. Despite their efforts, middle-class families in New York City and Vienna experienced substantial downward mobility in their new settings. Women's economic and social downward mobility in (re)settlement, however, did not significantly change the self-understanding of Bosnian women. Their families’ future and advancements socially and economically, rather than the women's own independence and emancipation remained the most important aspect of their being.

New York City Senior Centers: Who Participates and Why?

2020 ◽  
pp. 073346482091730
Author(s):  
Manoj Pardasani ◽  
Cathy Berkman
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Leisure Activities ◽  
Senior Centers ◽  
Social Leisure ◽  
Excellent Health ◽  
Making Friends ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Mental And Physical Health

Purpose: Senior centers are focal points of services and programs. Study aims were to describe the frequency of and benefits of attending senior centers and nonmembers’ reasons for nonattendance. Methods: A total of 597 senior center members and 298 community-residing nonmembers in New York City were interviewed. Males and age of 75+ years members were oversampled. Results: Mean days attended weekly = 3.00 days/week ( SD = 1.71). Latinx seniors attended 1 day > White non-Latinx seniors. Seniors in poor/bad health attended .67 fewer days than seniors in excellent health. Almost all members (96.3%) reported benefiting from attendance. The most common benefits were socialization/making friends, educational programs, something to do, being with people like them, meals, and improved mental and physical health. Reasons nonmembers gave for nonattendance were too busy with social/leisure activities or work, not interested or do not need programs/services, do not want/need socialization, and members were older or more disabled than them. Conclusion: Implications for recruiting underserved and isolated seniors are discussed.

(Almost) All-male Shakespeare in New York City, 2006–7

2008 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 152-152
Author(s):  
Jeremy. Lopez
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Almost All

Testing the Effectiveness of “Managing for Results”: Evidence from an Education Policy Innovation in New York City

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 84-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Weijie Wang ◽  
Ryan Yeung
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Performance Management ◽  
York City ◽  
Empowerment Zone ◽  
Public School Principals ◽  
Managing For Results ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Positive Effect

Abstract “Managing for results” (MFR) is a performance management system that decentralizes authority to managers in exchange for greater accountability in performance. Although MFR makes much theoretical sense, the evidence of the effectiveness of MFR has not been as conclusive. In this study, we use panel data methods to examine the impact of a particular MFR reform in New York City, the Empowerment Zone (EZ), which focused on providing city public school principals greater autonomy to improve school outcomes. In addition, we use objective measures of both performance management and organizational performance. Our differences-in-differences estimates suggest that the EZ had a significant and positive effect on school performance as measured by proficiency rates in standardized mathematics exams, overall performance, and Regents diploma graduation rates, though the effects were not immediately apparent.

Some Techniques in Handling a Slow Class in Elementary Algebra

1972 ◽  
Vol 65 (7) ◽  
pp. 591-594
Author(s):  
David Garf
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Algebra I ◽  
Classroom Experiences ◽  
Elementary Algebra ◽  
Almost All

THE first lesson of the College-Bound Algebra I class in a New York City high school turned out to be a fiasco for the teacher, Mr. B. It seemed to run the gamut of almost all undesirable classroom experiences. Twenty students were registered for the class. Some were late, others absent. Those who did come were apathetic, inattentive, unresponsive, stared out the windows, doodled, and communicated with their neighbors. When the period ended, they had not learned one iota of mathematics.

An Important Armenian MS. with Greek Miniatures

1942 ◽  
Vol 74 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 155-162
Author(s):  
H. Kurdian
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Christian Iconography

In 1941 while in New York City I was fortunate enough to purchase an Armenian MS. which I believe will be of interest to students of Eastern Christian iconography.

Hospitals: N.Y. Appellate Court Denies Move to Privatize Public Hospital

1999 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 202-203
Author(s):  
Robert Chatham
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Public Health System ◽  
Municipal Hospital ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Benefit ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Benefit Corporation ◽  
The City

The Court of Appeals of New York held, in Council of the City of New York u. Giuliani, slip op. 02634, 1999 WL 179257 (N.Y. Mar. 30, 1999), that New York City may not privatize a public city hospital without state statutory authorization. The court found invalid a sublease of a municipal hospital operated by a public benefit corporation to a private, for-profit entity. The court reasoned that the controlling statute prescribed the operation of a municipal hospital as a government function that must be fulfilled by the public benefit corporation as long as it exists, and nothing short of legislative action could put an end to the corporation's existence.In 1969, the New York State legislature enacted the Health and Hospitals Corporation Act (HHCA), establishing the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC) as an attempt to improve the New York City public health system. Thirty years later, on a renewed perception that the public health system was once again lacking, the city administration approved a sublease of Coney Island Hospital from HHC to PHS New York, Inc. (PHS), a private, for-profit entity.

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