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OCR finds that student received appropriate accommodations

Case name: Letter to: Cornell University School of Law, No. 02‐18‐0259 (OCR 05/21/18).

OCR finds that student received appropriate accommodations

Case name: Letter to: Cornell University School of Law, No. 02‐18‐0259 (OCR 05/21/18).

OCR finds that student received appropriate accommodations

Case name: Letter to: Cornell University School of Law, No. 02‐18‐0259 (OCR 05/21/18).

Practical Applications of Footprints on a Blockchain: Trading and Information Leakage in Distributed Ledgers

<h3>Practical Applications Summary</h3> In <b>Footprints on a Blockchain: <i>Trading and Information Leakage in Distributed Ledgers</i></b>, from the Summer 2017 issue of <b><i>The Journal of Trading</i></b>, authors <b>Rune Tevasvold Aune</b>, <b>Adam Krellenstein</b> (both of <b>Symbiont</b>) <b>Maureen O’Hara</b> (<b>Cornell University School of Management</b>) and <b>Ouziel Slama</b> (formerly of Symbiont and now with <b>Legolas</b>), describe a creative solution to a potential limitation to the use of distributed ledger technology in financial market contexts. This complication relates to the disclosure of proprietary trading information that could be used to “front-run” certain investors. The authors outline a solution to this problem, which involves the use of a cryptographic hash to indicate prioritization of transactions. This solution could facilitate widespread usage of blockchain technology in a variety of financial contexts. <b>TOPICS:</b>Quantitative methods, exchanges/markets/clearinghouses

Teaching Revenue Management at the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration

The Cornell University School of Hotel Administration was one of the first in the world to offer a university course in revenue management (starting in 1994) and currently offers five courses related to revenue management: Yield Management, Restaurant Revenue Management, Managing Hospitality Distribution Strategies, Hospitality Pricing and Analysis, and Nontraditional Revenue Management. In addition, the school offers undergraduate and graduate concentrations and executive education courses in revenue management. In recent years, about 10%–15% of our graduates have obtained jobs in revenue management and distribution. In the following paper we discuss the evolution of the teaching of revenue management at Cornell providing descriptions of the courses we teach as well as insight into how this content may be delivered at other institutions.

Roundtable Retrospective 2007

A review of sexual harassment case law was presented at the 2007 Labor and Employment Roundtable at the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration. The foremost lesson is that employers should take steps to prevent harassment, but failing that, an employer should maintain and follow a strong policy on sexual harassment and immediately make an effective response to a complaint.

Developing In-House Careers and Retaining Management Talent

One of the primary challenges the hospitality industry faces continues to be high levels of turnover. In this study, the authors examine turnover intentions of one of the most critical groups of employees: management staff. Using a sample of Cornell University School of Hotel Administration graduates from 1987 through 2002, the authors identify the job features that enhance managers' commitment levels to their organizations and to the overall industry, as well as reduce their likelihood of leaving both. Results suggest that hospitality managers are taking charge of their careers. They are looking for challenging jobs that offer growth opportunities, as well as competent leadership and fair compensation. To the degree these job features are in place, hospitality managers' commitment levels will rise. Managers' commitment to performing challenging work especially reduces their likelihood of leaving their companies and the industry.

Curriculum of the American College of Phlebology

T Nguyen , J Bergan-, R Min, N Morrison and S Zimmet *Dermatology, Mohs Micrographic & Dermatologic surgery, Procedural Dermatology, University of Texas-MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA; -Department of Surgery, UCSD School of Medicine, San Diego, CA, USA; +Department of Radiology, Cornell University School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA; Morrison Vein Institute, Scottsdale AZ, USA; Zimmet Vein and Dermatology, Austin, TX, USA

Retaliation

Many employers were shocked and alarmed when the U.S. Supreme Court in June 2006 unanimously established a relatively broad standard regarding employees’ complaints of retaliation by employers when employees have made discrimination complaints. An examination of case law as well as comments made by those attending the 2006 Labor and Employment Law Roundtable at the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration allow us to conclude that although employees who make complaints need to be treated carefully, employers need not panic. Instead, they must thoroughly document any personnel actions and base them on actual performance, making sure that any termination or demotion is, in fact, not a retaliation.

Responsive Systems|Appliance Architectures

AbstractBranden Hookway and Chris Perry introduce the Responsive Systems Group (RSG), a newly formed design research collective at Cornell University's School of Architecture, Art, and Planning. Highly interdisciplinary in nature, the work here addresses questions of collective intelligence at a number of scales. In terms of practice, collaborative, group‐based work is emphasised, with both the students as well as the instructors working in teams of three (Perry and Hookway are co‐directors of the Responsive Systems Group along with Ezra Ardolino). The second scale addresses the technologies and methodologies of design itself, exploring problems of ‘responsivity’ in the context of artificial intelligence and the emerging fields of robotic and sensory interaction design. Finally, and by extension, the issue of scale itself becomes a site of inquiry as the RSG's work focuses less on ‘architecture’ and more on ‘design’, implicitly if not explicitly loosening general notions of disciplinarity as a means of revealing new sites for mixture and innovation. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley &amp; Sons, Ltd.

Introducing the Hospitality Roundtable on Legal Issues

Excerpt] I am pleased to present this issue’s section on issues connected to employment law. The section comprises three articles, two of which stem directly from a roundtable held at the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration.

Endings, beginnings, and continuations

Excerpt] As this August issue of CHRAQ is being delivered, we here at the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration are experiencing a time of exciting change. Some of our readers may be marking the end of a busy summer tourism season, while those of us at Cornell (as at schools everywhere) are gearing up for a new academic year. Students are arriving, classes are beginning, new faculty members are just starting their jobs, and there is an aura of freshness, excitement, and energy at the school.

Controversies of the Sweet Urine Disease

Before the discovery of insulin, the primary controversy in diabetes was what kind of reductive diet to use—rice diet, rancid fat diet, vegetables “cooked three times in their own water,” and so forth. All were restrictive and essentially treated diabetes by starvation. For type 2 diabetes, they probably worked out, in that they no doubt led to weight loss. (Perhaps we should try some of these again.) With the advent of insulin, the problem of diabetes was thought to be solved, and indeed, those with type 1 diabetes did just fine, for a while. It didn’t take long, however, for those now living longer to begin to develop vascular and neurological complications. And thus began a new round of controversy. This controversy, which began in the 1930s, raged on for the next 60 years and was often very heated. The issue, simply put, was whether the vascular and neurological problems associated with diabetes were a genetic concomitant of the disease (and thus inevitable and unalterable) or instead were associated with the metabolic abnormalities of diabetes, such as high blood glucose levels (and thus preventable). Which side one took on this issue had great ramifications regarding the method of diabetes management one’s practice adopted. A classic debate on this topic took place in New York in the 1940s between Dr. Elliott Joslin and Dr. Edward Tolstoi. The debate, which was recorded and is available at the New York Hospital, Cornell University School of Medicine, was reenacted a few years ago. In the late 1930s, Dr. Robert L. Jackson, then a pediatrician at the University of Iowa …

SchedulExpert: Scheduling Courses in the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration

A major curriculum review in the School of Hotel Administration at Cornell University revealed that course scheduling was a major problem for the school. We devised a methodology to improve the system and developed a computer program, SchedulExpert, to automate the scheduling process. By using the program, we have eliminated conflicts among core required courses by year and among electives within areas and minimized conflicts among elective sets specified by faculty members. We used to spend weeks on scheduling, but now we achieve better results in only a few hours.

APA Applauds Psychiatrist’s Appointment to JCAHO Post

Back to table of contents Previous article Next article Professional NewsFull AccessAPA Applauds Psychiatrist’s Appointment to JCAHO PostJim RosackJim RosackSearch for more papers by this authorPublished Online:20 Jul 2001https://doi.org/10.1176/pn.36.14.0007Joseph T. English, M.D. Former APA president Joseph T. English, M.D., has been appointed by the American Medical Association (AMA) to serve as a commissioner on the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO). English, who served as APA president from May 1992 to May 1993 and has been APA’s senior representative within the AMA’s House of Delegates for the last several years, will be the first psychiatrist to sit on the JCAHO board.“This is a tribute to Joe’s skills and recognition of his high standing and respect within the AMA,” APA President Richard Harding M.D., told Psychiatric News. “It is also indicative of an increasing awareness in the House of Medicine of the importance of psychiatric issues within JCAHO. This represents a unique opportunity for a psychiatrist to represent our patients and our specialty on the governing board of the joint commission.”“This really is a historic and momentous time for American psychiatry,” said English. “I am indeed proud to be able to participate in any way I can to represent the best interests of our patients and our profession.”English is chair of the department of psychiatry and behavioral health sciences at St. Vincent’s Catholic Medical Centers of New York and is professor and chair of psychiatry and associate dean at New York Medical College, as well as adjunct professor of psychiatry at Cornell University School of Medicine.“The appointment of Dr. English by the AMA,” APA Medical Director Steven Mirin, M.D., told Psychiatric News, “will allow him to lend his psychiatric perspective to the policymaking at JCAHO. It further demonstrates just how much progress APA has made in building solid relationships and credibility within the AMA.”JCAHO commissioners generally serve renewable three-year terms. The board consists of 28 members, including members of the medical and allied health professions, administrators, insurance industry representatives, educators, ethicists, and health care consumers.Corporate members of the board are allotted seats to which they make appointments and include not only the AMA, but also the American Hospital Association, the American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine, the American College of Surgeons, and the American Dental Association.The AMA holds seven of the 28 seats, four of which are held by members of the AMA’s Board of Trustees, with the remaining three being appointed from nominations that the AMA board invites from member state and specialty societies. English was unanimously chosen from a group of nine nominees for the open seat. His term will begin in January 2002.More information on JCAHO is posted on the Web at www.jcaho.org. ▪ ISSUES NewArchived

The innocents abroad: Do students face international internships unprepared?

The experiences of a group of interns from the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration demonstrate the importance of advance preparation for international work experience. While the students avoided serious incidents, they did find themselves in awkward situations borne of ignorance. All six students worked for a multi-national corporation that sent them from country to country to assist with internal audits. The students were placed in a sink-or-swim situation, with no advance discussion of the differences between American cultural mores and those found in other countries. While the students gave a high rating to the overall value of the internships, they also experienced misunderstandings about dress expectations, hand gestures and other body language, and the timing of appointments (particularly the level of precision expected regarding a given time).

The Innocents Abroad

The experiences of a group of interns from the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration demonstrate the importance of advance preparation for international work experience. While the students avoided serious incidents, they did find themselves in awkward situations borne of ignorance. All six students worked for a multi-national corporation that sent them from country to country to assist with internal audits. The students were placed in a sink-or-swim situation, with no advance discussion of the differences between American cultural mores and those found in other countries. While the students gave a high rating to the overall value of the internships, they also experienced misunderstandings about dress expectations, hand gestures and other body language, and the timing of appointments (particularly the level of precision expected regarding a given time).

A case of copyrights, CSALIB and CONTU

In May of 1980, Jonathan Bonelli, president and CEO of Island Recreational, hired Clifford Aymes as a computer programmer. Island was in the swimming pool business, operating a chain of retail stores in the New York area; Aymes was a bright, young graduate student at Cornell University's School of Engineering. Between 1980 and 1982, under the direction of Bonelli, Aymes developed a series of programs called “CSALIB”. The program was used by Island to maintain records of cash receipts, inventory, sales figures, price changes, etc. Aymes did most of the programming at Island's office. He worked alone and enjoyed considerable autonomy in developing CSALIB. The working relationship was informal: there were no written agreements between Bonneli and Aymes assigning ownership or copyright of CSALIB.

Pure Price changes of lodging properties

Excerpt] In this article, we report on research to measure the temporal changes in the prices of lodging properties. Our specific objective is to present the results of an ongoing study at the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration to model and index the selling prices of lodging properties. The Cornell-index study reveals that prices responded quickly to changes in the tax treatment of real estate contained in the 1986 Tax Reform Act, and those prices have remained below 1985 levels ever since-this despite well-publicized Japanese investment in U.S. real estate.

Infection-Induced Activation of Cell-Mediated Immunity: Possible Mechanism for Preterm Birth

Cornell University School of Medicine New York City, New York (WITKIN) University of Colorado Health Sciences Center Denver, Colorado (MCGREGOR)