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Coney Hotel: framing the unexpected
No full textConey Island is a special place. It is both a chimera and a relic. A chimera (is a mythological creature with multiple faces) that shifts and vanishes and reforms right before our eyes. And a relic that has seen so many different stories and has been part of many lives in so many different ways. For most, Coney Island is an energetic escape from daily city life. A place to let go at, within its explosiveness, absurdity and extremity. It’s amusement parks and their rides and attractions seem to be a collection of all bombastic parts of life. However Coney Island also has an intimate side that doesn't get experienced often, but makes it a truly time-resistant landscape. The design for the Coney Hotel, reveals Coney Island's amusement area's whole narrative in order to benefit city life as a fitting escape from it. The design is like a confident creature that isn’t afraid to be in the spotlight but is also humble enough to let its surroundings take the stage. It is elegant, but strong, crazy but nice. It is an energetic attraction that can be used to escape to, collecting story after story becoming a relic, with an intimate connection to its surroundings and its users, being honest about its different faces and allowing Coney Island to be so as well.Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Explorela
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Coney Island Avenue
No full textA stroll down Coney Island Avenue, through the neighborhoods of Turks, Pakistanis, Jews, Muslims, Italians, Sikhs, Russians—ending with everyone in their swimming suits dancing on the beach at Coney Island to a Beach Boys number. A dance theatre piece—but, then, what, among these plays, isn't? [12 actors
Exterior of Coney Island Saloon, El Paso, Texas
No full textPhotograph shows the Coney Island Saloon (Bar), a two-story brick building located at the corner of Sheldon and Oregon Streets. Model T automobile in front. A tailor shop is located on the second floor. Building has C and L Block on parapet
"Saving" iconic places: Coney Island's wild redevelopment ride
No full textThis dissertation examines the origins of a planning controversy over the redevelopment of Coney Island, a world-famous, historic, seaside amusement district in Brooklyn, New York. In 2009, the Bloomberg Administration passed a major rezoning of the neighborhood in an effort to attract development to the area. This measure inspired opposition from individuals who felt that the proposal did not honor the neighborhood's history. My research focuses on the hegemonic rationality that shaped the City's plan and on the competing logics and desires that inspired its opposition. Wide agreement about Coney Island's heritage value and foremost attributes - its diversity, authenticity, and historicity - masked profound disagreement about the proper uses of the district and about the plans for its future. To explore this disconnect, I trace it back to an interplay between divergent sets of images and experiences of the neighborhood, as mediated by its materiality, and then show how these divergences helped shape the planning process. Viewed through this lens, qualities like diversity and authenticity become not points of agreement, but windows for examining sources of contestation. They help us explain why neighborhood physical structures dismissed by the City as obsolete and disposable were regarded by others as useful and historic. In this way, my project points planning practice beyond the question of which places matter and toward questions of how and why they matter. This focus on subjective experience facilitates a deeper understanding of people's relation to places, making possible the formulation of more responsive and equitable plans. It also allows us to envision forms of conflict resolution based not on zero-sum adversarial trade-offs, which invariably favor the powerful, but on a negotiated reconceptualization of a place and of its future.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical referencesby Juan Jorge Rivero Sous
Age, growth and natural mortality of coney (Cephalopholis fulva) from the southeastern United States
No full textConey (Cephalopholis fulva) sampled from recreational and commercial vessels along the southeastern coast of the United States in 1998–2013 (n = 353) were aged by counting opaque bands on sectioned sagittal otoliths. Analysis of otolith edge type (opaque or translucent) revealed that annuli formed in January–June with a peak in April. Coney were aged up to 19 years, and the largest fish measured 430 mm in total length (TL). The weight-length relationship was ln(W) = 3.03 × ln(TL) − 18.05 (n = 487; coefficient of determination [r2] = 0.91), where W = whole weight in kilograms and and TL = total length in millimeters. Mean observed sizes at ages 1, 3, 5, 10, and 19 years were 225, 273, 307, 338, and 400 mm TL, respectively. The von Bertalanffy growth equation for coney was Lt = 377 (1 − e(−0.20(t+3.53))). Natural mortality (M) estimated by Hewitt and Hoenig’s longevity-based method which integrates all ages was 0.22. Age-specific M values, estimated with the method of Charnov and others, were 0.40, 0.30, 0.26, 0.22, and 0.20 for ages 1, 3, 5, 10, and 19, respectively
Simple arithmetic processing: Surface form effects in a priming task
No full textModels of numerical processing vary on whether they assume common or separate processing pathways for problems represented in different surface forms. The present study employed a priming procedure, with target naming task, in an investigation of surface form effects in simple addition and multiplication operations. Participants were presented with Arabic digit and number word problems in one of three prime-target relationships, including congruent (e.g., '2 + 3' and '5'), incongruent (e.g., '9 + 7' and '5') and neutral (e.g., 'X + Y' and '5') conditions. The results revealed significant facilitatory effects in response to congruent digit stimuli at SOAs of 300 and 1000 ms, in both operations. In contrast, inhibitory effects were observed in response to incongruent word stimuli in both the addition and multiplication operations at 300 ms, and in the addition operation at 1000 ms. The overall priming effects observed in the digit condition were significantly greater than in the word condition at 1000 ms in the multiplication operation and at 300 ms in the addition operation. The results provide support to separate pathway accounts of simple arithmetic processing for problems represented in different surface forms. An explanation for variation in processing due to differences in access to visual and phonological representations is provided
CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNICATION - THE CHALLENGES FACED BY FINNISH ORGANISATIONS IN ESTONIA
No full textRelations between Estonia and Finland have been very strong traditionally. Their geographical proximity has facilitated the exchange of goods as well as ideas. Finland has a major stake in the Estonian economy – Finland is Estonia’s number one trade partner. Finnish organizations make up about a quarter of all foreign direct investment in Estonia. The two countries also share very strong cultural ties. Both peoples are of Finno-Ugrian origin, they speak similar languages. Many Estonians speak the Finnish language fluently. Although Estonia is a Baltic state from a geographical point of view, Estonians consider themselves more Nordic than Baltic. Yet, despite these similarities, Finnish companies operating in Estonia face major communication challenges with their Estonian business units. Half a century of Soviet occupation has left its mark. On the one hand it had introduced the lasting legacy of Soviet management style. On the other hand, it has led to widespread prejudice against Estonian businesses, which even fifteen years of restructuring and the adoption of contemporary management practices could not change. Cooperation between Finnish organizations and their Estonian counterparts is cumbersome due to prejudices, taken-for-granted assumptions and miscommunication. This paper analyses the communication problems by examining intra-organizational communication between Finnish parent companies and their Estonian subsidiaries. The findings of this paper are based on a survey conducted with Estonian and Finnish managerial and non-managerial staff. The paper will underline the importance of cultural sensitivity in business communication.Cross-cultural communication; Estonia; Finland; Baltic economies
The dimensions of mental models created by a listener's mind
No full textA substantial number of studies on mental models have examined spatial accessibility in mental models during narrative comprehension. Accessibility of objects was dependent on how close they were to the current protagonist’s location with closer objects being more accessible than further objects. This gradient of accessibility was conceptualized as the spatial distance effect (Morrow, Greenspan, Bower, 1987). Previous studies had used artificial designs and measures that made it difficult to generalize the results obtained. These included: memorizing a visual map before reading the narrative, using short or simple narratives and interrupting the natural reading process of a narrative for probing to occur. Furthermore, these studies focused on mental models constructed from written text. Few had attempted to explore mental models constructed from an audio narrative. The purpose of the present study was to use a naturalistic audio narrative to demonstrate the spatial representations in mental models. The setting of the narrative was on a deserted island and consisted of nine separate episodic events (episodes). The nine episodes were used to create prime-target word pairs that were used for probing during the lexical decision task. Forty participants from Murdoch University participated in a computerized go/no-go lexical decision task (LDT) where reaction time was documented to measure spatial proximity in mental models. Participants were assessed on reading enjoyment prior to the LDT. The findings showed evidence of the spatial distance effect, faster reaction times were observed for episodes that were located closer together than those further apart. There was unexpected sex differences observed. The spatial distance effect was observed for male participants but not for female participants. Interpretation and implications for future research were discussed.
Keywords: Mental models, spatial distance effect, spatial dimension, lexical decision task, se
Simple arithmetic processing: Individual differences in automaticity
No full textThis study investigated individual differences in the ability to automatically access simple addition and multiplication facts from memory. It employed a target-naming task and a priming procedure similar to that utilised in the single word semantic-priming paradigm. In each trial, participants were first presented with a single digit arithmetic problem (e.g., 6 + 8) and were then presented with a target that was either congruent (e.g., 14) or incongruent (e.g., 17) with this prime. Response times for congruent and incongruent conditions were then compared to a neutral condition (e.g., X + Y, with target 14). For the high skilled group, significant facilitation in naming congruent multiplication and addition targets was found at SOAs of 300 and 1000 ms. In contrast, for the low skilled group, facilitation in naming congruent targets was only observed at 1000 ms. Significant inhibition in naming incongruent multiplication and addition targets at 300 ms, and addition targets at 1000 ms, was found for the high skilled group alone. This advantage in access to simple facts for the high skilled group was then further supported in a problem size analysis that revealed individual differences in access to small and large problems that varied by operation. These findings support the notion that individual differences in arithmetic skill stem from automaticity in solution retrieval and additionally, that they also derive from strategic access to multiplication solutions
Changes in Families’ Organic Food Consumption
No full textAccording to recent research based on the theoretical concept of the family cycle it can be assumed that expenditures for organic food in families decline as children get older. For organic food marketing this raises the question to which extent organic food consumption in families is characterised by changes, when changes in families’ organic food consumption appear over time and what the reasons for these changes are. The article presents theoretical background, research design and results of a qualitative study. Based on qualitative interviews which were analysed according to Grounded Theory it is found that consumers perceive changes in organic food consumption in terms of increase and decrease. As causal conditions for this, pregnancy, the feeding of babies with complementary food, children’s adolescence, a new partner and a new situation in household income could be identified. The results point out how qualitative research can contribute to the completion of existing and the inspiration for future quantitative studies.Family Cycle, Organic Food, Qualitative Interviews, Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety,
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