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Thermal Development And Rejuvenation Of The Marginal Plateaus Along The Transtensional Volcanic Margins Of The Norwegian-Greenland Sea, Nilgun Okay

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

The predominance of large-scale paleo-shear zones in the Norwegian-Greenland Sea is thought to be the major cause of asymmetric seafloor spreading in this region. Plate reconstructions suggest that nascent mid-ocean ridges propagated into these obliquely oriented shear zones causing transtension to occur. The asymmetric evolution of the northern Norwegian-Greenland Sea is evident from both the morphology of the seafloor as well as its geophysical characteristics. The eastern passive margins of the northern Norwegian-Greenland Sea are punctuated by volcanic plateaus which have significantly higher heat flow than the western passive margins. It is hypothesized that marginal volcanic plateaus formed originally in …

Automatic And Controlled Information Processing In Alzheimer's Disease, Linda S. Carozza

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This research investigation explored the cognitive processing operations of 18 healthy elderly (HE) subjects and 12 Alzheimer's Disease (AD) subjects in the mild clinical stage of the disease in their performance on a semantic priming task involving semantic lexical activations of both automatic and controlled processing natures.

Relatively little conclusive evidence has been documented regarding the relative roles of attention and memory processing in the lexical-semantic impairment of Alzheimer's Disease. A lexical decision processing task was implemented to investigate the effects of normal aging and neuropathological damage of Alzheimer's Disease on subjects' semantic priming abilities. The research design was based …

Mary Mccarthy, Mary Gordon, And The Irish-American Literary Tradition, Stacey Lee Donohue

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

There is a distinct literary canon in the United States, composed of Irish-Catholic-American writers, which requires different modes of criticism or evaluation than other U.S. literatures, particularly the dominant, largely Protestant or Protestant-influenced, American literary canon. In addition, as a recently recognized literary tradition, many women writers have either been ignored or unnoticed because their works do not immediately fit into the evolving criteria of evaluation for the Irish-American literary tradition. My purpose in this study is not to survey the Irish-American literary canon, but to examine two women writers who have not always been admitted to an innately misogynistic …

Child Sexual Abuse, Moral Panic, And The Mass Media: A Case Study In The Social Construction Of Deviance, Steven M. Gorelick

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This is a case study of newswork in a moral panic. Specifically, Stanley Cohen's concept of "moral panic" is used to examine the practices of a group of reporters who covered a widely publicized case of alleged child sexual abuse in a day-care center. Moral panics occur when a perceived threat to the social order emerges with such force, and with such little overt warning, that routine discourse about right and wrong gives way to a flood of indignation about an extraordinary breach of normal moral boundaries. Suspending normal rules governing social control, officials rush to crack down on the …

Including Migration In The Development Calculus: The Dominican Republic And Other Caribbean Countries, Sherrie Baver

Publications and Research

Study of development in the Caribbean Basin is incomplete with- out considering the socioeconomic impact of international labor migration on this region, which is defined here as including Mexico, the Carib- bean archipelago, Central America, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana. Most of the seven books under review deal with the specific case of the Dominican Republic and in doing so bring new theoretical sophistication and depth to examining the link between migration and development. In this way, they expand understanding of the present-day Dominican reality, which involves massive migration by Dominicans to the United States-mainly to New York but also …

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, And Transgender, Polly Thistlethwaite, Daniel C. Tsang

Publications and Research

The proliferation of publications in the lesbian, Gay, bisexual, and transgender press has allowed the weaving of a well-informed network of previously isolated individuals and communities, empowering and unifying lesbian, gay, and other sexual minorities," Dan Tsang and Polly Thistlethwaite wrote in the introduction to the 'Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender' section of Katzes' 1995 edition of Magazines for Libraries. This title review of the queer periodicals of the day was intended to serve as a guide and justification for 'mainstream' libraries' collection building. The number and range of titles in Thistlethwaite and Tsang's collaborative entries (1989, 1992, and …

The Ticker, December 7, 1994

The Ticker

The Ticker is the student newspaper of Baruch College. It has been published continuously since 1932, when the Baruch College campus was the School of Business and Civic Administration of the City College of New York.

Advocate, October 1994, Vol. 6, No. 5, Gc Advocate

The Advocate

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Your Check is In the Mail: Students and the Research Foundation. Staff (p. 1)

DSC Allocates Student Funds Contrary to Court Findings. Michael Weinstein (p. 1)

Access Denied: Full-Time Need, Part-Time Schedule. Susanna Miller and Staff (p. 1)

LIU Strike: Adjuncts and Full-timers Go Out Together. Tom Smith (p. 1)

¡Qué Viva la Música! Untimely Death of a Sociology Professor. Courtney E. Guthreau (p. 1)

New Latin American and Caribbean Studies Concentration: A Cause for Celebration and Concern. Tracy Steffy (p. 1)

Graduate Students, AIDS and the Silence at CUNY: Part One. Tracy Morgan (p. 1)

Editorial: …

Careers In Chemical Information And Science Librarianship, Philip Barnett

Publications and Research

The ceaseless growth of chemical information has created a need for chemical professionals who can organize and disseminate this vast knowledge. If you like to read, enjoy being in a library, or like to work with information on computers, you may want to consider a career in chemical information. While only a small fraction of chemists choose this nontraditional career, they have found fulfillment in many different roles. Chemical information scientists and librarians using the powerful computerized databases now available either provide chemists and other research scientists the information they need, or teach researchers and students how to use these …

Report John Jay College Of Criminal Justice The City University Of New York: Branch Campus, Police Academy, Gurabo, Puerto Rico, John Jay College Of Criminal Justice

Reports and Publications from John Jay College

No abstract provided.

The Bridge: Laguardia Community College Student Newspaper (May 1994), Laguardia Community College

The Bridge: LaGuardia Community College Student Newspaper

No abstract provided.

Effectiveness Compared: Asl Interpretation Vs. Transliteration, Sue Livingston, Bonnie Singer, Theodore Abramson

Publications and Research

Two kinds of interpretation are currently used to make the spoken language accessible to deaf students in regular college programs; namely, ASL Interpretation and Transliteration. To test the effectiveness of each kind, 43 students from several colleges of the City University of New York were divided into two groups by their preference for one or the other kind, and the groups divided according to level of education. Matched groups then received a narrative presentation and a lecture presentation, interpreted either one way or the other by experienced certified interpreters, and then answered questions on the material so received. The results …

Advocate, February 1994, Vol. 6, No. 1, Gc Advocate

The Advocate

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Cultural Studies at CUNY. Barbara Martinsons (p. 1)

The Whole World is Talking. Kevin Cooke and Dan Lehrer (p. 1)

Contents: Columns and Features (p. 1)

Editor’s Note. Pamela Renner (p. 2)

Ask Aphrodite (p. 3)

Valkyrie in Valhalla. Valerie Walker (p. 4)

Free Gratis for Nothing: Unemployed Man in the Free World. Stefan Smagula (p. 5)

Artist’s Portfolio: Curtis James. Pamela Renner (p. 7)

Bicoastal Emptiness: Raymond Carver and John Guare. Elizabeth Powers (p. 8)

Gotta Be Bad to Be Good. Jeannette Radredensek (p. 9)

City Sites. Charles Naylor (p. 11)

About Our Contributors (p. 12) …

Myth: The Conflicts Of Diversity, Justice, And Peace In The Theories Of Dispute Resolution; A Myth: Bridge Makers Who Face The Great Mystery, Beryl Blaustone

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.

Affirmative Action : An Evaluation, Anup Kaur

Student Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Implementation Of Congressional Intent: A Study Of Amnesty Policy And The Immigration And Naturalization Service, Sherrie Baver, William Arp Iii

Publications and Research

In 1990, the United States Border Patrol arrested approximately one million illegals (Dillin, 1990). Significant as this number may seem, it parallels the rate of arrest that existed prior to the passage of the Immigration and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA). This phenomenon suggests that the Act has failed to accomplish one of its primary objectives: to control illegal immigration to the United States.

The IRCA represented the first major change in US immigration policy in twenty-two years. In seeking to prevent illegal entry and to gain control over the undocumented population already in the country, it contained two key …

Some Consequences Of Semantic Externalism, Consuelo Preti

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Semantic externalism is the view that meaning and mental content are determined by relations to the world of objects and properties outside the physical boundaries of the subject of mental states. What you mean by your words–what you're thinking when you're thinking about something–is essentially constituted by the world at large. It has become customary to formulate externalism in terms of so-called twin earth cases–cases where (some kinds of) content do not supervene on inner states, but this formulation can be shown to be too limited to be of any great use in characterizing a theory of mind. A more …

A Research Note: Race, Slavery, And The Ambiguity Of Corporate Consciousness, Herman L. Bennett

Publications and Research

In 1769, as he languished in Córdoba's prison, Diego Antonio Macute seethed. He was not alone. Fifteen of his compatriots shared his sentiments as they confronted their re-enslavement. Recent events painfully reminded them that racial consciousness had limits: their maroon allies, after all, had returned them to their former masters.

The Child's Understanding Of Functional Relations In The Domain Of Liquid Quantity, Irvin Sam Schonfeld

Publications and Research

Four liquid comparison tasks were designed to assess children's knowledge of functional relations, one-directional compositions of functional relations (greater + greater yield greater) and countervailing compositions (greater + lesser yield ?) in 4- to 7-year-olds. On one task, in which height indexed quantity, children of every age group performed well. Success on the other comparison tasks was related to operative level, as mdexed by conservation performance, and age. More advanced pre-operational children evidenced a degree of success on the one-directional composition task. Consistent with Schonfeld (1990), the results suggested that at more advanced operative levels: (1) the understanding of increasingly …

Disseminating Heterotopia, Robert F. Reid-Pharr

Publications and Research

Focuses on the motion picture The Passion of Remembrance by Isaac Julien and Maureen Blackwood, and the book Tales of Neveryon by Samuel Delany. Highlights of the motion picture and the book; Author's argument that the tendency to ossify myths only leads to further confusion; Understanding of the mythic process.

Graduate Student Advocate, December 1993, Vol. 5, No. 6, Gc Advocate

The Advocate

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Organized Student Support for Yomi Falters. Michael Weinstein-Mohammed and Christina Pretto (p. 1)

History Program Hires Caribbeanist Palmer. Michael Weinstein-Mohammed (p. 1)

Computer Center Attempts Comeback. Michael Weinstein-Mohammed (p. 1)

Masthead (p. 2)

December in the News (p. 2)

Reynolds Not Nice, But Efficient, Says Chronicle. Pam Donovan.

Power Plays: Liberal Redux, Or, Just Say Yes. Elizabeth Powers.

Ceremony Held for African Burial Ground. Diana Agosta.)

CSI’s President Volpe Reinstated. Pam Donovan.

Blank Named Hunter’s President. Christina Pretto.

Action on Campus (p. 3)

Labor History, Latin America: The Advocate’s Must-Take Course of the Spring Semester.

Letter …

Pandora's Box Vol. 35 No. 3, York College

Pandora's Box

No abstract provided.

The Ticker, October 20, 1993

The Ticker

The Ticker is the student newspaper of Baruch College. It has been published continuously since 1932, when the Baruch College campus was the School of Business and Civic Administration of the City College of New York.

Pandora's Box Vol. 35, York College

Pandora's Box

No abstract provided.

Reinventing The University: Finding The Place For Basic Writers, Jane E. Hindman

Publications and Research

A poststructuralist critique of basic writing placement and pedagogy, this paper argues that our notions of good writing (i.e., the criteria by which we as English professors and compositionists authorize and "place" students) come not from some general or transcendent standards, but rather from the practices by which we self-authorize within our own discourse community. Using Bartholomae and Petrosky's curriculum presented in Facts, Artifacts, Counterfacts as a point of departure, I propose a language-centered curriculum which uses discourse itself as the subject of the semester-Jong project wherein students eventually learn to critique our practices and create their own discourse communities. …

Pandora's Box Vol. 35 No. 1, York College

Pandora's Box

No abstract provided.

Graduate Student Advocate, September 1993, Vol. 5, No. 4, Gc Advocate

The Advocate

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Administrators to Receive 4% Pay Increase. G. Ganter (p. 1)

Horowitz, Moreland Deny DSC Leaders Stipends. Michael Weinstein-Mohammed (p. 1)

Memo Suggests Reynolds Targeted Calandra Institute Months Before Lawsuit. G. Ganter (p. 1)

Masthead (p. 2)

September in the News (p. 2)

Nurse Practitioner Arrives. Christina Pretto.

Tomfoolery: PC, Liberalism, and the Smothers Brothers. Tom Smith.

Guards Lose Benefits in CUNY Contract Change. Tom Burgess.

Two Music Students Killed on West Side. Pam Donovan.

Action on Campus (p. 3)

Administration to Reward Campuses That Follow Goldstein Report. Pam Donovan.

Memo Calls for Resignation of President of College …

Villas On The Hudson: An Architectural And Biographical Examination, Janet Butler Munch

Publications and Research

A study of Villas on the Hudson: A Collection of Photo-Lithographs of Thirty-One Country Residences (D. Appleton & Co., 1860) depicts floor plans and views of stately homes of 19^th century country gentlemen that were located in today's upper Manhattan, the Bronx, Westchester County, Dutchess County, and even Hoboken, NJ. When published, architecture was in its infancy as a profession and we see representative works of A.J. Davis, J.C Wells, T.R. Jackson and D. Lienau, and others. The accomplishments and interests of the villa’s owners are discussed; and the current status and use of the surviving eleven villas are …

Schubert's Sexuality: A Prescription For Analysis?, Kofi Agawu

Publications and Research

What can Schubert's sexuality have to do with the analysis of his music? Four years ago, Maynard Solomon told a compelling story about a leading Austro-Germanic composer, one whose works are unlikely to be excluded from the narrowest definitions of the canon of European music since 1700: he was probably homosexual. Since then, Solomon's tentative argument has hardened into "fact" in the popular musicological imagination, not because additional evidence has become available, but because, in a field starved of headlines and scandal, such a revelation promised a much needed change of critical perspective.

Poisons And Antidotes Among The Taman Of West Kalimantan, Indonesia, Jay H. Bernstein

Publications and Research

Among the Taman of kabupaten Kapuas Hulu, West Kalimantan, certain oils are used to cast and counteract spells. Antidotes are said to be made from the same substance as poisons, and thus a given antidote implies ownership of the poison, and this is one reason people are furtive in using, exchanging, and discussing this aspect of folk-medicine. Magical oils are generally obtained outside Taman society, and are used most often to cure illnesses presumed to have been contracted outside the society. These oils contain essences, and so can be reproduced by adding oil. However, specific knowledge is needed to use …