13,433 research outputs found
Interview of Elgen M. Long by Brian Shoemaker
No full textAbraham, Ed, mechanic, p. 15
Allen, Doug, movie producer, p. 70
Aulmac, Robert, Commander, USN, p. 55
Burke, Arlie, Admiral, USN, pp. 53-54
Byrd, Admiral Richard, pp. 18, 74
Castro, Fidel, President of Cuba, p. 51
Earhart, Amelia, pp. 29, 64, 74-75
Hamby, Sr., Robert S. “Bob,” Captain, pp. 15, 21
Hoey, Bill, Captain and Chief Pilot of Central Sector, p. 15
Long, John, Chief Pilot of the Flying Tigers airline, p. 11
Long, Robert Earl, brother of Elgen Long, p. 2
Odum, Bill, pilot, pp. 28-29
Patterson, William R. “Bill,” Captain, pp. 15-16
Perry, Paul, Captain, p. 15
Rossi, John R. “Dick,” Captain, p. 15
Swinburne, Captain, USN, pp. 54-56
Tharp, Robert “Bob” V., Captain, pp. 15-16
Van Reese, Eugene, pp. 56, 59
Vasey, Gerald J., Co-pilot, p. 15
Yeager, Chuck, pilot, p. 32The media can be accessed at the links below.Audio Part 1: http://streaming.osu.edu/knowledgebank/byrd/oral_history/Elgen_Long_1.mp3Audio Part 2: http://streaming.osu.edu/knowledgebank/byrd/oral_history/Elgen_Long_2.mp3TextFunded by a grant from the National Science Foundation
Circus train, Long Beach VA Hospital, 1990
No full textCircus train, Long Beach VA Hospital, 1990; Seaside child development center, exterior, 5901 East 7th Street (at Bellflower Boulevard). Engineered by a lion, the train appears to travel through the corner of the building, disappearing into a tunnel painted on one side and re-emerging from another on the adjacent wall. 14 1/2' x 102 1/2' by Rob Gadient, Roland Plukas, Brian Wallace, Arthur Williams, Louis Cyon, Debbie Plewes, Katrina Hardy and Jen Grey. Sponsored by California State University, Long Beach - VA Joint Institute -- Dunitz, Street gallery, p. 265, #54 D (photo on p. 262)
Cognition and visual information: an examination of human evolution, cognitive models and my artistic practice
No full textAn examination of my cross-disciplinary artistic practice that attempts to bring together Asian meditative disciplines with Western inquiry through visualizing social and physical statistics. As I explore the relationship between language and sensation, I use Charles Pierce's three referential modes: the iconic, indexical and symbol-symbol to view how humanity as come to understand the world through images, objects and rituals. Paralleling this investigation is a systems theory that attempts to visualize the fluidity of a non-discrete universe where social interaction correlates with the physical world.M.F.A.Includes bibliographical references (p. 39-42)by Brian J Bulfe
Public Perceptions of Genetically Modified Foods: Americans Know Not What They Eat
No full textBiotechnology stands to be a defining technology in the future of food and agriculture. Proponents argue that science and industry are poised to bring consumers a wide variety of products that have potential for meeting basic food needs, as well as delivering a wide-range of health, environmental and economic benefits. Opponents counter that the potential exists for unintended consequences, ranging from ecological disruption to adverse human health implications, and that these risks are not fully understood. Fundamental questions exist, however, regarding the general public’s position on food products derived with the use of biotechnology. To address these questions, the Food Policy Institute addressed consumers using computer assisted telephone interviews (CATI) system, a public phone survey of a sample selection of 1203 U.S. residents was administered between March and April 2001. The questionnaire was developed to address perceived gaps in the current literature on American consumer awareness, acceptance, and perceptions of food biotechnology and to serve as the basis for a set of longitudinal studies that will be able to track public opinion over time.Food Policy Institute Publication Number RR-0302-001
The human body as a terrorist weapon: hunger strikes and suicide bombers
No full textThis article argues that a major factor in terrorist acts is an appeal to the actor's own community at an emotional and symbolic level, through acts of sacrifice, particularly self-sacrifice. Although other aims also exist, a prime concern is to recall the actor's home audience to the struggle, because the actor regards himself as acting on their behalf. This utilizes the imagery and symbolism of traditional religion, implying a strong communal and non-material impetus to terrorist acts, rather than rational material calculation, that modern Western man finds difficult to comprehend. It also recalls much classical social theory, which emphasized the central role of religion in community. Self-sacrifice tells an emotional story to the actor's community that is comprehensible to them and will have an emotional appeal to maintaining the community. For the Northern Ireland hunger strikes (possibly analogous to suicide bombers) this is reflected in their appeal solely to a Catholic/nationalist community that equates strongly with ideas of a pre-modern society under threat from a modernizing society. All the hunger strikers were very normal for their community, but left non-Catholics completely unmoved. Consequently there is a need to understand the communal dynamics behind terrorism if one is to effectively counter the threat and that different societies may have different values regarding the individual, community, and life itself. Individual motivations do not provide an adequate explanation for much terrorism and it is a failure to grasp this that severely hinders much counterterrorism
Public debt in developing countries : has the market-based model worked?
No full textOver the past 25 years, significant levels of public debt and external finance are more likely to have enhanced macroeconomic vulnerability than economic growth in developing countries. This applies not just to countries with a history of high inflation and past default, but also to those in East Asia, with a long tradition of prudent macroeconomic policies and rapid growth. The authors examine why with the help of a conceptual framework drawn from the growth, capital flows, and crisis literature for developing countries with access to the international capital markets (market access countries or MACs). They find that, while the chances of another generalized debt crisis have receded since the turbulence of the late 1990s, sovereign debt is indeed constraining growth in MACs, especially those with debt sustainability problems. Several prominent MACs have sought to address the debt and external finance problem by generating large primary fiscal surpluses, switching to flexible exchange rates, and reforming fiscal and financial institutions. Such country-led initiatives completely dominate attempts to overhaul the international financial architecture or launch new lending instruments, which have so far met with little success. While the initial results of the countries'initiatives have been encouraging, serious questions remain about the viability of the model of market-based external development finance. Beyond crisis resolution, which has received attention in the form of the sovereign debt restructuring mechanism, the international financial institutions may need to ramp up their role as providers of stable long-run development finance to MACs instead of exiting from them.
Long Island History Journal
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FEATURE ARTICLES:
Rural Connections: Early Republic Bridgehampton and Its Wider World, 1790-1805
by Ann H. Sandford - 1 /
Alicia Patterson, “Newspaperman”
by Geri Solomon - 23 /
The Life of Teuntje Straatmans: A Dutch Woman’s Travels in the Seventeenth Century Atlantic World
by Annette M. Cramer van den Bogaart - 35 /
The Legacy of Nathaniel Rogers (1787-1844), Long Island Artist from Bridgehampton
by Natalie A. Naylor - 54 /
The Genesis of Neighborhood Health Centers in Suffolk County: 1965-1968
by Priscilla Redfield Roe - 72 /
A Proud Member of the Community of Port Jefferson Remembers His Contributions to the Last Great Crusade - World War II
by Richard Acritelli - 104 /
LOST AND FOUND:
John Underhill, Captain of New England and New Netherland
by John A. Strong - 122 /
SECONDARY SCHOOL ESSAY CONTEST:
Long Island Defeats Goliath: The Closing of Shoreham
by Jane Forman - 128 /
Origins of the Suffolk County Police Department
by Brian Johnson - 141 /
Prayer in Public School: Engel V. Vitale and its Effect on Long Island Communities
by Andrew Malone - 148 /
Boat Building in Amityville
by Victoria Niemi - 163 /
BOOK REVIEWS:
John Komia Domatob. African Americans of Eastern Long Island. Black America Series.
John Komia Domatob. African Americans of Western Long Island. Black America Series
by Thomas D. Beal - 168 /
Jeffrey A. Kroessler. New York, Year by Year: A Chronology of the Great Metropolis.
George J. Lankevich. New York City: A Short History
by Joanne Reitano - 171 /
Victor Principe. Images of America: Bellport Village and Brookhaven Hamlet
by Kathleen L. Scheibel - 173 /
Natalie E. Naylor, ed. Journeys on Old Long Island: Travelers’ Accounts, Contemporary Descriptions and Residents’ Reminiscences, 1744-1893
by Marilyn Weigold - 174 /
Theresa M. Collins. Otto Kahn: Art, Money, and Modern Time
by Karen Cooper - 176 /
James E. Haas. This Gunner at His Piece: College Point, New York and the Civil War with Biographies of the Men Who Served
by Edward H.L. Smith, III - 177 /
Charles Denson. Coney Island: Lost and Found.
Michael Immerso. Coney Island: The People’s Playground.
Brian J. Cudahy. How We Got to Coney Island: The Development of Mass Transportation in Brooklyn and Kings County
by Garry Wilbur - 180 /
Havemeyer, Harry W. East on the Great South Bay: Sayville and Bayport, 1860 - 1960
by Sister Joan Ryan - 187 /
Steven Gregory. Black Corona: Race and the Politics of Place in an Urban Community
by Thomas D. Beal - 188 /
Kristen J. Nyitray and Ann M. Becker. Stony Brook: State University of New York. College History Series
by Joel Rosenthal - 191 /
Barbara Shea. Discover Long Island: Exploring the Great Places from Sea to Sound
by Natalie Naylor - 193 /
BOOK NOTES - 195 /
COMMUNICATIONS - 196SUNY Digital Repository (DSpace): Stony Brook University - Campus Newspapers and JournalsArchived web conten
Nested long period grating interferometers
No full textThe concept of nested fibre optic long period grating (LPG) based
interferometers is introduced. A number of in-series, identical LPGs may be used
to form a set of nested, multiplexed Mach-Zehnder interferometers that may
demodulated and demultiplexed by virtue of a Fourier analysis of the optical
spectrum. The concept is demonstrated by the use of three LPGs to form a nested
set of interferometers
Micro- and nanoscale fluid mechanics : transport in microfluidic devices / Brian J. Kirby.
No full textengineering bookfair2015Includes bibliographical references and index.xxiii, 512 pages :"Intended for graduate and undergraduate students and as a reference for practicing researchers, this text focuses on the physics of fluid transport in micro- and nanofabricated systems"--Provided by publisher."This text focuses on the physics of fluid transport in micro- and nanofabricated liquid-phase systems, with consideration of gas bubbles, solid particles, and macromolecules. This text was designed with the goal of bringing together several areas that are often taught separately - namely, fluid mechanics, electrodynamics, and interfacial chemistry and electrochemistry - with a focused goal of preparing the modern microfluidics researcher to analyze and model continuum fluid mechanical systems encountered when working with micro- and nanofabricated devices. This text is not a summary of current research in the field, and it omits any discussion of microfabrication techniques or any attempt to summarize the technological state of the art. This text serves as a useful reference for practicing researchers but is designed primarily for classroom instruction. Worked sample problems are inserted throughout to assist the student, and exercises are included at the end of each chapter to facilitate use in classes"--Provided by publisher
Exciplex fluorescence of {[Zn(bipy)(1.5)(NO3)(2)}]center dot CH3OH center dot 0.5pyrene}n: a coordination polymer containing intercalated pyrene molecules (bipy=4,4 '-bipyridine)
No full textWe report the first use of fluorescence spectroscopy to probe the environment of the cavities that are present in open framework coordination polymers.PT: J; CR: BIRADHA K, 1998, CHEM COMMUN, P1327 BODENANT B, 1998, J AM CHEM SOC, V120, P7511 BODENANT B, 1999, J ORG CHEM, V64, P7034 DEDEREN JC, 1981, J PHYS CHEM-US, V85, P1198 FRAIJI LK, 1992, J CHEM EDUC, V69, P424 FUJITA M, 1994, J AM CHEM SOC, V116, P1151 GRIESER F, 1980, J AM CHEM SOC, V102, P7258 HARRIMAN A, 1999, PHYS CHEM CHEM PHYS, V1, P4203 HARTLEY RJ, 1985, J AM CHEM SOC, V107, P3436 KALYANASUNDARAM K, 1977, J AM CHEM SOC, V99, P2039 LOSIER P, 1996, ANGEW CHEM INT EDIT, V35, P2779 MOULTON B, 2001, CHEM REV, V101, P1629 NOSAKA Y, 1981, J PHYS CHEM-US, V85, P1353 SEN K, 2001, J PHYS CHEM A, V105, P9077 SIMON JA, 1997, J AM CHEM SOC, V119, P11012 SOUJANYA T, 2000, J PHYS CHEM A, V104, P9408 WILSON GJ, 1997, J PHYS CHEM A, V101, P4860 WILSON GJ, 1998, J PHYS CHEM A, V102, P5150 ZAWOROTKO MJ, 2001, CHEM COMMUN, P1; NR: 19; TC: 25; J9: CHEM COMMUN; PG: 2; GA: 593NBSource type: Electronic(1
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