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Henry Rappaport Collection circa 1971-2000
No full textThis collection contains Questionnaires I & II of the Austrian Heritage Collection at the Leo Baeck Institute, with biographical information and information
about his emigration from Austria in 1938 and subsequent medical career (including service in US Army); accompanying the questionnaire is a page from "Encyclopaedia
Judaica" (circa 1971) showing an entry for Henry Rappaport with highlights of professional career.Henry Rappaport was born in Lemberg, Galicia, 1913. His family moved to Vienna when he was a child. He attended the Realgymnasium in the 18th district of Vienna and
entered Medical School at the University of Vienna in 1931. He graduated as MD in 1937 and started to work at a hospital in Vienna. After the ‘Anschluss’, he lost his position. Henry
Rappaport managed to leave Austria in August 1938 and fled to Switzerland. After one month, he went to France until his emigration to the USA in February 1940. In January 1943, he
joined the U.S. Army Forces as Medical Corps Officer. 1946 he was discharged as Major and started his academic and research career as a pathologist. Amongst other positions, he headed
the reticulo-endothelial pathology and hematology section of the Armed Forced Institute of Pathology in Washington DC (1949-1954), worked as a professor of pathology at the University
of Chicago (1961-1974) and at the City of Hope National Medical Center in Duarte, CA (1974-1996). Dr. Henry Rappaport is author of “Tumors of the Hematopoietic System” (1966) and is
mentioned in the “Encyclopaedia Judaica”. He lived in Studio City, CA.Austrian Heritage Collection inventory available in the folderAustrian Heritage CollectionProcessed for digitizationSent for digitizationReturned from digitizationLinked to online manifestationdigitize
Retard de croissance staturale d'origine psycho-affective : réflexions à propos d'une expérience personnelle
No full textRappaport R. Retard de croissance staturale d'origine psycho-affective : réflexions à propos d'une expérience personnelle . In: Enfance, tome 33, n°4-5, 1980. Congrès international de psychologie de l'enfant. pp. 68-72
What are the benefits of hosting a major league sports franchise?
No full textOver the last few decades the number of U.S. metropolitan areas large enough to host a franchise from one of the four major professional sports leagues has soared. Even as major league baseball, football, basketball and hockey have expanded to include more franchises, demand by metro areas continues to exceed supply. Metro areas have thus been forced to compete with each other to retain and attract franchises. ; The resulting large public spending on new sports facilities has been quite controversial. Usually these costly projects are justified by claims that hosting a sports franchise spurs local economic development by creating numerous new jobs and boosting local tax revenue. Independent economic studies suggest, however, that such benefits are much smaller than the outlay of public funds. ; Does this mean that public funding of sports franchises is not justified? Perhaps not. Rappaport and Wilkerson review the current rush by metro areas to build sports facilities. They lay out the arguments both in favor of and against using public funds to do so. They show why the job creation and tax revenue benefits from hosting a major league franchise fall far short of typical public outlays on constructing a new sports facility. Finally, they argue that the large quality-of-life benefits associated with hosting a major league team may justify the public outlays.Professional sports
Letter from Percy Rappaport to Clair Engle Regarding US House Resolution 9324, March 12, 1956
No full textThis letter, dated March 12, 1956, from Percy Rappaport, Assistant Director in the United States (US) Bureau of the Budget to US Representative and Chair of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs Clair Engle provides the requested perspective of the US Bureau of the Budget on US House Resolution 9324 (H. R. 9324). The bill would grant hunting, fishing, and grazing rights to the Three Affiliated Tribes on land taken by the US government for construction of the Garrison Dam. This bill is identical to US Senate Bill 1956 (S. 1956). An amendment is suggested for the bill and with the amendment, the US Bureau of the Budget approves of the bill.
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Letter from Wesley D\u27Ewart to Clair Engle Regarding US House Resolution 9324, March 12, 1956https://commons.und.edu/burdick-papers/1228/thumbnail.jp
A comparison of the original Rappaport medium (R medium) and the Rappaport-Vassiliadis medium (RV medium) in the isolation of salmonellae from meat products
No full textThe Rappaport–Vassiliadis enrichment medium (RV medium)in 10 ml quantities (RV/43 °C, 10 ml) inoculated with 0·1 ml of pre-enrichment medium (P medium) was found more efficient in the isolation of salmonellae from 409 pre-enriched samples (mainly meat products), than the original Rappaport medium incubated at 43 °C (R/43 °C) and the RV medium in 5 ml quantities (RV/43 °C, 5 ml) inoculated with 0·01 ml of P medium (P < 0·001, in both instances). Therefore, the inoculum from pre-enriched foods should not be less than 0·l ml in 10 ml of RV medium.The RV/43°, 10 ml was also better (P < 0·01) in detecting samples containing salmonellas than the original Rappaport medium incubated at 37 °C (R/37 °C, 10 ml) and the modification R25 of R medium incubated at 37 °C. The R25 modification was used in 10 ml quantities (R25/37 °C, 10 ml) inoculated with 0·1 ml of P medium and in 5 ml quantities (R25/37°, 5 ml) inoculated with 0·01 ml of P medium. The last two R25 procedures were of the same efficiency in isolating salmonellas from meat products. © 1984, Cambridge University Press. All rights reserved
Rappaport, Revisited
No full textabstract: In Ritual and Religion in the Making of Humanity, Roy Rappaport misses an opportunity to more tightly theorize the synergistic relationship between concepts of the divine, the psyches of ritual participants, and the adaptive dynamics of religious sociality. This paper proposes such a theory by drawing on implicit features of Rappaport’s account, fulfilling his goal of a “cybernetics of the holy.” I argue that concepts of the divine, when made authoritative for participants through ritual, have three important effects: they invite intense and meaningful reconstructions of personal identity according to paradigmatic examples; they act as a form of encoded social memory by organizing human relationship according to a “spiritual map”; and they provide the cognitive framework that make religious community organization robust, adaptive, and reproductive. We can characterize divine concepts as “specified absences” that ground each of these effects and link them together in a mutually-reinforcing set.This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of Brill Academic Publishers for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in THEORY IN THE STUDY OF RELIGION, 26(4), 417-438. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15700682-1234132
Disturber of the peace: Touches to the portrait of A. G. Rappaport
No full textAlexander Herbertovich Rappaport is a philosopher, architect, art historian, author of many articles and books on the theory of architecture and art history, author of the unique blog “Tower and Maze”, where he regularly publishes his reflections. A huge influence on Rappaport’s formation was his work in the Moscow Methodological Circle of Georgy Petrovich Shchedrovitsky (MMC). In 1979 he left the MMC and since the early 1980s he has been engaged in phenomenology, a direction in philosophy, the founder of which was Edmund Husserl. Most of A. G. Rappaport’s articles and books are written within the framework of phenomenology, but the school of thought that Rappaport underwent at MMK had an undeniable influence on his work. Rappaport’s works merge Shchedrovitsky’s methodology, phenomenology and poetry. © 2023 Russian Academy of Architecture and Construction Sciences, Vostoksibacademcenter. All rights reserved
A non-hydrostatic rhea
No full textRadiometric data obtained during Cassini's close flyby of Rhea, on 26 November 2005, has been subject to several published analyses aiming to determine the satellite's mass and quadrupole gravity moments. Combining aspects of two of these analyses we present our best, unbiased estimates of the gravity field parameters and point out how the constraint of hydrostatic equilibrium adopted by previous analysts affects the results. We present solutions based on a broad range of geophysical assumptions, such as the presence of degree 3 and 4 gravity field constrained at different levels. The result is a balanced approach which describes our current knowledge of Rhea's gravity field. In the case of a gravity field limited to second degree harmonics the most reliable estimates are GM = 153.9398 +/- 0.0008 km(3) s(-2), 10(6) J(2) = 931.0 +/- 12.0, 10(6) C(22) = 237.2 +/- 4.5, and 10(6) S(22) = 3.8 +/- 3.8
U.S. urban decline and growth, 1950 to 2000
No full textFollowing World War II, many large U.S. cities began to rapidly lose population. This urban decline climaxed during the 1970s when New York City, Boston, Chicago, Minneapolis, and Atlanta each lost more than 10 percent of their population. The sharp declines of these and numerous other U.S. urban municipalities led many to believe that large U.S. cities were dying. ; Then, during the 1980s, New York and Boston began to grow again. In the 1990s, so did Chicago, Atlanta, and Minneapolis. The reversal of population declines by these and a few other U.S. urban municipalities has led many to believe that large U.S. cities were coming back. ; Rappaport explains why, contrary to such perceptions, recent U.S. history has not been characterized by a period of pervasive urban decline followed by a widespread urban renaissance. To be sure, a few large cities were able to successfully reverse steep population declines. But over the past 50 years, most large U.S. cities either declined continuously or else grew continuously. Such varied growth experiences resulted from a complex combination of national, regional, metropolitan area, and local factors. These included a continuing shift of population from the Northeast and Midwest to the South and West, a slowing shift of population from cities to suburbs, and the much more rapid growth of some metropolitan areas relative to others.Urban economics
The effectiveness of homeownership in building household wealth
No full textThe recent economic and financial crisis and the current slow recovery highlight that homeownership plays a critical role in the U.S. economy. The estimated “equivalent rent” implicitly paid by homeowners accounts for more than 8 percent of gross domestic product. Investment in single-family housing also represents a significant share of GDP and is closely tied to the business cycle. During the past decade, such investment has ranged from as little as 1.3 percent of GDP during recessions to as much as 3.4 percent during expansions. The associated large fluctuations in demand for owner-occupied housing play an important role in driving the business cycle. In addition, demand for owner-occupied housing is especially sensitive to intermediate-term real interest rates and hence to inflation and monetary policy expectations. ; Homeownership also plays an important role in determining household saving, which has implications for national saving and investment. Some aspects of homeownership increase household and national saving. For example, renters intending to purchase a home have an incentive to save to make a down payment on their first home. In addition, new homeowners must promise to save far into the future by making monthly mortgage principal payments. On the other hand, homeownership typically requires large house-related payments and so can reduce household cash flows available to invest in financial assets such as stocks and bonds. ; For decades, conventional wisdom has viewed homeownership as an effective way to build household wealth. However, the recent fall in house prices has caused some observers to question this belief. Rappaport examines whether homeownership effectively builds household wealth. He develops an analytical framework to compare the wealth that homeowners have historically accumulated by building equity in their houses with the wealth they could have accumulated by renting an identical house and investing the resulting saved cash flow in stocks and bonds.
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