Design and Construction of the New Staten Island Ferries

1979 ◽  
Vol 16 (04) ◽  
pp. 365-380
Author(s):  
Edward J. Ciechon ◽  
Larry N. Hairston
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Staten Island ◽  
Under Construction ◽  
Propulsion Concept ◽  
Design And Construction

Although cycloidal propulsion is well known and has been widely accepted in European service for many years, its applications in the United States are relatively rare. The reasons for selecting this unique propulsion concept for the two new ferries now under construction for Manhattan-Staten Island service are described in this paper, as well as the design and construction problems encountered.

Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: Diagnosis and Stereotypy

2015 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stewart Justman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder ◽  
Attention Deficit ◽  
Attention Deficit Disorder ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
The United States ◽  
Hyperactivity Disorder ◽  
Diagnostic And Statistical Manual ◽  
Relative Rarity ◽  
Under Construction

The official symptoms of attention deficit disorder and attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) as first codified in the 3rd edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders bear an uneasy resemblance to potent caricatures of Blacks that had long been in circulation in the United States. In effect, traits such as laziness and troublesomeness persistently associated with Blacks became symptoms that could be had by anyone, Black, White, or other. But just as racial imagery plays on stereotypes, the ADHD diagnosis itself has become a stereotype. Only stereotyped figures have the telltale marks of identity that children with ADHD are said to have. As we have known at least since the time of the prejudice studies cited by the United States Supreme Court in 1954, stereotypes can be highly injurious, especially if they are internalized by their objects. Children who grow with the diagnosis of ADHD, incorporating it into their sense of self even while it is under construction, may well internalize its messages. That in turn may have something to do with the dismal long-term outcomes of ADHD despite the relative rarity of severe cases.

The United States and Ecuador, 1909–1913

1963 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 276-290 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walter V. Scholes ◽  
Marie V. Scholes
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Galapagos Islands ◽  
Galápagos Islands ◽  
Power Politics ◽  
Department Of State ◽  
Isthmus Of Panama ◽  
Under Construction

While the negotiations between the United States and Ecuador in the period 1909 to 1913 came to no fruitful conclusion, they still remain a subject of interest because in microcosm they illustrate so well how the Department of State operated in the Taft administration. The negotiations embraced all the standard considerations: strategy, vested American interests, projected loans, power politics, and “ up-lift.” The Department's interest in Ecuador quickened in this period because Ecuador owned the Galápagos Islands, an archipelago which lay six hundred miles off the coast of Ecuador and about one thousand miles southwest of the Isthmus of Panama, where the canal was under construction.

State of the Practice of Cable Barrier Systems

2008 ◽  
Vol 2060 (1) ◽  
pp. 84-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nauman M. Sheikh ◽  
Dean C. Alberson ◽  
Linda S. Chatham
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
The United States ◽  
The State ◽  
Service Performance ◽  
Survey Quality ◽  
Comprehensive Survey ◽  
Design And Construction

This paper presents the state of the practice of the use of cable barrier systems in the United States. A literature review was conducted to identify the types of cable barriers systems being used. The scope of this review included benefits of using cable barriers, available guidelines, policies or procedures related to barrier placement, and issues related to the maintenance and in-service performance of the cable barriers. A comprehensive survey was conducted to identify experiences, practices, and design and construction standards for the use of cable barrier systems. To improve survey quality, survey participants were people identified as managing the cable barrier systems firsthand. The participants were therefore likely to be most knowledgeable about the design and construction, maintenance, and overall experience of cable barrier usage. Concluding remarks about the state of the practice of cable barriers, along with areas of further research, are presented.

Anticipating Images

2020 ◽  
pp. 151-172
Author(s):  
Claire Zimmerman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
The United States ◽  
Manufacturing Plant ◽  
The Us ◽  
Industrial Architecture ◽  
Detroit Area ◽  
Under Construction ◽  
Market Capitalism

This chapter begins with a newspaper ad placed at the beginning of the previous century that depicted the newly constructed George N. Pierce manufacturing plant at Buffalo. It describes the plant as a new kind of industrial architecture that satisfied the demands of rapid technological change in the United States over the last decades of the nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth century. It also talks about the growth of US industry in the early twentieth century that coupled market capitalism with scientific optimization moderated by Progressive Era reforms. The chapter reviews the industry that came into being in the United States in the wake of a “Second Industrial Revolution,” which was produced by the architecture firm of Albert Kahn Associates. It considers the historical resource that photographs constitute from the archives of the US industrial architecture under construction between 1905 and 1945 in the Detroit area collections.

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