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East Village Housing New York City, Alice J. Raucher

Architecture Senior Theses

The intent of this thesis is to develop low-rise, high density urban housing which will provide its occupants with the basic amenities of light, air, and green space, while reconstructing and extending the fabric of New York City into an area of the East Village.
There exists in the East Village, as in other areas of Manhattan, an uneasy relationship between the low-scale rowhouses and tenements [...] and the monolithic architecture of the superblock housing developments of the 1950s. These rowhouses and tenements [...] provided few amenities for its inhabitants.
The proposed development would investigate new housing prototypes for a …

Alvaro-Agustin De Liano And His Books In Leopold Von Ranke's Library, Gail P. Hueting

The Courier

This article tells the story of Liagno (or Liano), an author active in Europe during the early nineteenth century. The author discovered the little-known author while research annotations in the von Ranke collection within the Syracuse University Special Collections. He traveled to many cities and wrote in many languages, became a monk, priest, and then converted to Calvanism. Appropriately, he became responsible for cataloging materials in the area of theology, history, and literature in multiple languages.

Arithmetic Vs. Morality: Liberalism In Collective Choice, Fred M. Frohock

Syracuse Scholar (1979-1991)

The author argues that collective choice theory relies on a number of background concepts that are not recognized in the formal delineations of the theory. Some of these background concepts describe a liberal community. These liberal premises conflict with the more explicit arithmetical languages of collective choice, and this conflict explains some of the rational breakdowns between one and all demonstrated in collective choice.

The Appearance Of Justice: Judges' Verbal And Nonverbal Behavior In Criminal Jury Trials, Peter Blanck, Robert Rosenthal, La Doris Hazzard Cordell

Burton Blatt Institute

This note empirically investigates how trial judges' expect tions for trial outcome might predict both (a) the judges' unintended verbal and nonverbal behavior, and (b) the verdicts returned by juries. This note also describes how trial judges' unintended verbal and nonverbal behavior might predict the verdicts returned by juries. Part I describes the relationship between judicial behavior or influence and due process and describes the type of extreme and subtle influence judges may exert on jurors and perhaps on their decision making process. The implication that this influence may have for a more complete description of procedural due process requirements …

Guide To The Secretariat Circulars: Kenya National Archives Microfilm, Robert G. Gregory, Richard E. Lewis

Kenya National Archives Guides

The Secretariat Circulars are made up of five reels of microfilm that comprise Section 7, the last section of the Guide to the Kenya National Archives. Included in the collection are circulars or circular letters issued by the British colonial Administration from 1916 through 1962.

For more information, refer to the Kenya National Archives subject guide.

Guide To Daily Correspondence Of The Coast, Rift Valley, Central, And Northeastern Provinces : Kenya National Archives Microfilm, Robert G. Gregory, Richard E. Lewis

Kenya National Archives Guides

The daily correspondence of the provincial and district officers of the East Africa Protectorate and Kenya Colony were microfilmed during the 1960s as part of a cooperative project between the Kenya National Archives and Syracuse University. This guide was prepared at Syracuse University during 1982-84 under a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. It is an index to the follow collections of daily correspondence: Cost Province, 2nd series, 1894-1965: 150 reels -- Central Province, 1888-1964: 71 reels (1-40, 61-91) -- Rift Valley Province, 1894-1959: 61 reels -- Northeastern Province, 1909-63: 46 reels.

For more information, refer to the …

Speaking To And About Patients: Predicting Therapists' Tone Of Voice, Peter Blanck, Robert Rosenthal, Marsha Vannicelli

Burton Blatt Institute

The tone of voice in which therapists spoke about their alcoholic and/or drug- abusing patients was employed to predict the tone of voice in which these same therapists would speak to these same patients. Clips of speech ranging from 10 s to 1 min were content filtered and rated by judges. The results of zero-order correlational analysis, multiple regression, and canonical correlational analysis all showed clearly that predictions of therapists' tone of voice could be made with discriminant as well as predictive validity. Predictions were not only very significant statistically, but of practically meaningful magnitudes. Therapists who spoke about patients …

A Guide To The Secretariat Circulars: Kenya National Archives Microfilm, Robert G. Gregory, Richard E. Lewis

Books

The Secretariat Circulars are made up of five reels of microfilm that comprise Section 7, the last section of the Guide to the Kenya National Archives. Microfilm number: 2807.

The Effects Of Verbal Reinforcement Of Intrinsic Motivation For Sex-Linked Tasks, Peter Blanck, Herry T. Reis, Linda Jackson

Burton Blatt Institute

Recent studies have demonstrated that positive verbal feedback enhances males' intrinsic motivation for a task, while decreasing that of females. This result has been attributed to differential socialization forces which make the controlling aspects of rewards more salient for females as opposed to males, for whom the informational aspects are prepotent. A weakness in this con­ clusion stems from the use of a masculine sex-linked task in prior experiments, producing a result which may be due to gender congruence/in­ congruence rather than to socialization differences. Two laboratory ex­periments were performed to examine the e feels of verbal praise on intrin­sic …

Mental Representations, Noam Chomsky

Syracuse Scholar (1979-1991)

Knowledge of language (and probably much else) can properly be regarded as a system of mental representations and operations to form and modify them. In these terms, many problems concerning language and knowledge can be reasonably approached, sometimes solved, though many mysteries remain, and prospects are opened to incorporate this inquiry within the natural sciences.

The Human Sciences: Obstacles And Opportunities, Alexander Rosenberg

Syracuse Scholar (1979-1991)

An explanation of the failure of the social sciences to attain their aim of providing improvable laws of human behavior, together with a recommendation about where to look for such laws.

The Oldest Grammar Of Hindustani, Tej K. Bhatia

Syracuse Scholar (1979-1991)

The oldest grammar of Hindustani, written by a German in Dutch, was considered to have been lost by most modern scholars until 1931. This article is the first authentic treatment of that rare grammar since it was translated into Latin approximately two and a half centuries ago.

Towards The Holocaust: The Social And Economic Collapse Of The Weimar Republic, Michael N. Dobkowski, Isidor Wallimann

Books

The social system of Weimar Germany has always been controversial. From the start 1Weimar society was characterized by a peculiar fluidity: between 1913 and 1933, the German Reich, commonly referred to as the Weimar Republic, was a virtual laboratory of sociocultural experimentation. In the streets of German towns and cities, political armies competed for followers--a process punctuated by assassinations and advertised by street battles embroiling monarchists, imperial militarists, nihilistic war veterans, Communists, Socialists, anarchists, and National Socialists. Parliamentary activity involved about twenty-five political parties whose shifting alliances produced twenty governmental cabinets with an average lifespan of less than nine months.

Development Of A Formal Lexicon For The Social Sciences, Robert J. Wolfson

Syracuse Scholar (1979-1991)

A formal lexicon would be useful in conducting theoretical work in the social sciences. Such a lexicon is described here. The author and his collaborator hope to adapt results from the field of artificial intelligence.

Social Sciences, Arts And Sciences, And Occam's Razor: A Response To Robert Wolfson, Agehananda Bharati

Syracuse Scholar (1979-1991)

Wolfson's scheme may not be helpful in cultural anthropology, where description is not readily accommodated to an artificial notation.

On Curing The Dyslexia Of Social Science: A Response To Robert Wolfson, C. L. Hardin

Syracuse Scholar (1979-1991)

Professor Wolfson's lexicon may promise more than it can deliver.

Longitudinal And Cross-Sectional Age Effects In Nonverbal Decoding Skill And Style, Peter Blanck, Robert Rosenthal, Sara E. Snodgrass, Bella M. Depaulo, Miron Zuckerman

Burton Blatt Institute

Administered a videotaped nonverbal discrepancy test to children 9–15 yrs old. The test measured (a) decoding accuracy—the extent to which Ss were able to identify affects (positivity and dominance) from video (facial and body) cues and audio (content filtered and random spliced) cues; (b) discrepancy accuracy—the extent to which Ss recognized the degree of discrepancy between audio and video cues; and (c) video primacy—the extent to which Ss were more influenced by video than by audio cues. Older Ss benefited more than younger ones from the effects of retesting in their accuracy at decoding discrepant cues, especially for discrepant facial …

A Response To Hardin And Bharati, Robert J. Wolfson

Syracuse Scholar (1979-1991)

The author rebuts his critics.

Remarks On The Occasion Of The Exhibition, Syracuse University

The Courier

This article is adapted from two addresses given at a Syracuse University Library Associate's exhibition for recent book acquisitions in 1981, delivered by Chancellor Melvin A. Eggers and Vice Chancellor John James Prucha, respectively.

The Post-Standard Award, Syracuse University

The Courier

This article is adapted from the presentation of the Post-Standard award to Chester Soling, conferred by Chancellor Emeritus Willaim P. Tolley in the Fall of 1981.

The Book Budget And Inflation, Metod M. Milac

The Courier

This article points to the rising cost of books that occurred in the early 1980s and its affects on library budgets. The costs made it so that book acquisitions, essential for collection development, plummeted. This necessitated other sources of funding, such as the creation of "friends of the library" groups, such as the Library Associates of Syracuse University.

Books Recently Acquired With The Support Of The Library Associates, Syracuse University

The Courier

This article details the purchases of books that Syracuse University acquired for its library in 1981. Some notable additions were a 32-volume set on architect Le Corbusier, the poet Marguerite Yourcenar, and lithographs.

Books Acquired In Memory Of Wayne S. Yenawine, Marcella Stark

The Courier

This article details the purchases of books that were made in honor of the Dean of the (then) Library School at Syracuse University, Wayne S. Yenawine. The books mainly concern the Crusades and the Italian Renaissance.

Library Catalog In Transition, Charles Tremper

The Courier

This article describes the history of the card catalog, along with the many problems inherent in the system as it was being practiced in 1981. Added to these issues were antiquated subject headings and imposing storage issues. The author suggests that the card catalog will eventually be rightfully replaced fully by computer catalogs.

Sex Differences In Eavesdropping On Nonverbal Cues: Developmental Changes, Peter Blanck, Robert Rosenthal, Sara E. Snodgrass, Bella M. Depaulo, Miron Zuckerman

Burton Blatt Institute

This study examined the developmental acquisition, defined both cross-sectionally and longitudinally, of females' superiority in decoding nonverbal cues. Three age groups (250 pre-high school students, 109 high school students, and 81 college students) were examined cross-sectionally, and 48 children 11-14 years old were examined longitudinally. Decoding of four types of nonverbal cues (face, body, tone, discrepancies) arranged from the most controllable channel to the least controllable (most "leaky") channel, was examined. The analysis of variance and the appropriate contrast (the Linear Trend in Age X Linear Trend in Channel) showed that as age increased, females lost more and more of …

Estrangement: Marx's Conception Of Human Nature And The Division Of Labor, Isidor Wallimann

Books

Estrangement: Marx's conception of human nature and the division of labor, examines the idea of estrangement in philosophy and the social sciences through an analysis of Marx's works. This book elucidates a functional meaning for the term estrangement and explores Marx's views on the division of labor and human nature.

Social Position, Political Consciousness, And Political Behavior: A Multivariate Analysis, John Phillips Hunt

Dissertations - ALL

Political behavior during the 1950s and early 1960s was seen as tied to enduring social roots and long-lasting partisan pre-dispositions. Political consciousness factors such as ideology, issues, and political alienation exerted only minimal influence. Since the late 1960s and early 1970s, however, new political and social conditions have brought about a substantial reformulation to these earlier assessments concerning the relationships among social position, political consciousness, and political behavior. The analysis in this dissertation underscores the multi-faceted nature of political behavior in the United States. Although, in terms of numbers of participants, voting remains the core act in American politics, this …

The Cuneiform Tablets At Syracuse University, Marcel Segrist

The Courier

Among its rare book collections, the George Arents Research Library at Syracuse University has 489 clay tablets written 4000 years ago. All of these cuneiform tablets, composed in the Sumerian language, are accounting records. Although how the library came to have them is not documented, they seem to have been in the collection for at least a halfcentury, awaiting their rediscovery by Professor David I. Owen, chairman of the Department of Near Eastern Studies at Cornell University. The tablets are being deciphered and copied by the present author, who will publish his work.

These tablets were made in the city …

Misreading Weber: The Concept Of 'Macht', Isidor Wallimann

Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration

Max Weber's definition of power (Macht), as presented in English texts, is examined in the light of the German original. Differences and discussed and an attempt is made to convey the sense of Weber's original definition. Examples of research based on operationalizations of earlier versions are then evaluated

Sibling Resemblances In Nonverbal Skill And Style, Miron Zuckerman, Bella M. Depaulo, Peter Blanck, Robert Rosenthal

Burton Blatt Institute

This study explored the hypothesis that siblings display a tendency for family resemblance in nonverbal decoding skills. Thirty-seven sibling pairs between the ages of 9 and 15 were administered the videotaped Nonverbal Discrepancy Test. This audiovisual test assesses (1) decoding accuracy-the extent to which subjects are able to identify affects (positivity and dominance) from face, body, and tone of voice cues; (2) discrepancy accuracy-the extent to which subjects recognize the degree of discrepancy between audio and video cues; and (3) video primacy-the extent to which subjects are more influenced by video (face or body) than by audio cues. Brother-brother pairs …