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Book reviewed in this article: A Philosophy of Interior Design, Stanley Abercrombie. Reviewed by Eric Strauss, New York Institute of Technology, Old Westbury, New York. A Philosophy of Interior Design, Stanley Abercrombie. Reviewed by Mary Joyce Hasell, University of Florida. High Technology Workplaces, Pierre Goumain (Editor). Reviewed by Duncan Case Interior Pedestrian Places, Michael J. Bednar. Reviewed by John H. Kitamura, Ryerson Polytechnical Institute, Toronto, Ontario. Architectural Glass; A Guide for Design Professionals, Andrew Moor. Reviewed by Roberta Kilty –Padgett, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan. Window Treatments, Karla J. Niel–son. Reviewed by Jean Klopfer Designing Furniture from Concept to Shop Drawing: A Practical Guide, Seth Stem. Reviewed by Ki–Jeong Jeon The Business Management of Interior Design, Dennis Grant Murphy. Reviewed by Rosemary Kilmer, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. Interiors: An Introduction, Karla J. Nielson and David A. Taylor. Reviewed by Judith Matthews, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio. Case Study Research – Design ana Methods, Robert K. Yin. Reviewed by Sheila Danko, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. The Care and Feeding of Ideas, James L. Adams. Reviewed by Sheila Danko, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. Alvar Aalto and the International Style, Paul David Pearson. Book received but not reviewed. Recent paperback edition of the 1978 hardback release. Drawing Interior Architecture, Norman Diekman and John Pile.

An Interview with Edmund White

AN INTERVIEW WITH EDMUND WHITE Edmund White© Thomas Victor Author of The Beautiful Room is Empty (Knopf)· Edmund White's critically acclaimed fiction has earned him a number of honors and awards during his career. He has twice received the Hopwood Awards (1961 and 1962), Ingram Merrill grants (1973 and 1978), was a Guggenheim fellow in 1983, and in that same year received the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters award for fiction. His major works include five novels, Forgetting Elena, Nocturnes for the King of Naples, A Boy's Own Story, Caracole, and The Beautiful Room is Empty as well as a short story collection, The Darker Proof, a play, "The Blue Boy in Black," and the nonfiction Argument for a Myth. He is a frequent contributor of articles and reviews to periodicals, as well. After being based in Paris for a number of years, Mr. White has returned to join the faculty at Brown University, where he currently teaches. This interview was conducted by Kay Bonetti, Director of the American Audio Prose Library series, on June 2, 1989 at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC. The Prose Library offers tapes of American authors reading and discussing their work. For information contact AAPL at PO Box 842, Columbia, MO 65205. An Interview with Edmund White /Kay Bonetti Interviewer: Mr. White, can you fiU us in on some background about yourself? Do A Boy's Own Story and The Beautiful Room Is Empty foUow your own chronology? White: The books fairly reflect where I was and what I was doing. I was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. My parents got divorced when I was seven and my mother began to move from city to city whUe my father remained in Cincinnati. I was sent to a boarding school in Michigan, near Detroit, a school called Cranbrook, which appears as Eton in my books. Interviewer: And you went to the University of Michigan? White: I studied Chinese there, and when I graduated I moved to New York and worked for Time-Life Books from 1962 to 1970. Then I moved to Rome for a year, and when I came back, I became a freelance writer and editor, then worked briefly for Saturday Review and Horizon. I started teaching in the mid-seventies, first at Yale, then at Johns Hopkins, finally at Columbia and New York University. In 1981 I was the executive director of The New York Institute for the Humanities, which is an organization of smart people attached to New York University. Then in 1983, I moved to France, where I've been living ever since. Beginning in spring, 1990, I wUl be teaching at Brown University, where I've just been named a Professor of English with tenure. Interviewer: There's a story in The Darker Proof about a couple that move to Paris in an obUque response to the gay community and AIDS. Did you move to Paris for similar reasons? White: In a way I gave some of the events of my Ufe to those characters, but the reasons were different. In my case, I won a The Missouri Review · 91 Guggenheim, which aUowed me to go for one year. I worked for Vogue and other Condé-Nast magazines as a journaüst, so that aUowed me to stay on. I could stay forever I suppose. I have a nice apartment and I make a decent living as a freelance American journaUst writing from Paris. Interviewer: Then why are you coming back to teaching? White: I Uke teaching. I Uke the idea of a secure position. I'm positive for AIDS, and the statistics are rather grim, but if by some chance I do go on living I would Uke to have a retirement plan. I support my mother now, and if I weren't there, she would reaUy be penruless. Interviewer: Does your fiction sustain you economically? White: If I weren't such a spendthrift and if I didn't have other people to support—my mother's not the only one—I could Uve very weU from my fiction, but Tm a terrible spendthrift. I Uke to travel, and that takes money. Interviewer...

HDTV and the computer industry

In the 1940s, television and radio combinations like the one on the left were the precursors of today's "entertainment centers ." About 25 years later, black and white television gave way to color. The next leap, high resolution television coupled with CD quality stereo may be coming soon. Last April, in the deep hours of the night, NBC, Channel 4 in New York City, announced a test: viewers would witness the first broadcast of the Sarnoff Research Center's Advanced Compatible Television system. The program of choice: the Saint Patrick's Day Parade. Researchers at the Sarnoff Center in Princeton, NJ, watched the signal, which emanated from WNBC at the World Trade Center in New York, on experimental high-definition monitors. The Sarnoff group, along with ABC and General Electric's consumer electronics division, has invested $60 million to develop a system that has twice the lines of regular TV screens (1050), scans at the same rate (29.97 frames per second), and enhances the current standard signal. A planned two-step approach to advanced television, the second phase would provide greater detail to those who bought wide-screen monitors, but it still would be compatible with today's TVs. The Sarnoff system is one of 20 advanced television research projects under way in this country, including those of the Zenith Electronics Group in cooperation with AT&T Microelectronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Advanced Television Research Program, the New York Institute of Technology, the Del-Ray Group, and North American Philips. Many have applied for matching funds from DARPA, which has earmarked $30 million for the next three years—half slated for transmission research and half for display technology. As of August 1989, five companies had been granted money for display technology. Newco Inc. of San Jose, CA, Raychem Corporation of Menlo Park, CA, Texas Instruments Inc. of Dallas, TX, and Projectavision Inc. of New York will receive money for projection display systems. Photonics Technology Inc. of Northwood, OH, was selected for flat panel display technology. More money may be forthcoming, as pressure is exerted to create systems to compete with or to supplant high-definition television (HDTV) as offered by Japan's national broadcasting organization Nippon Hoso Kyokai (NHK) and Europe's Eureka systems.

Technical note: Effect of added soybean paste and instant soydhal on toughness and rate of staling of chapatis

International Journal of Food Science & TechnologyVolume 23, Issue 4 p. 411-414 Technical note: Effect of added soybean paste and instant soydhal on toughness and rate of staling of chapatis A. P. GANDHI, A. P. GANDHI New York State Agricultural Experiment Station and Institute of Food Science, Cornell University, Geneva, New York 14456, U.S.A. Permanent address: Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering, Nabibagh, Berasia Road, Bhopal (M.P.) 462003 India; to whom correspondence should be addressed.Search for more papers by this authorM. C. BOURNE, M. C. BOURNE New York State Agricultural Experiment Station and Institute of Food Science, Cornell University, Geneva, New York 14456, U.S.A.Search for more papers by this author A. P. GANDHI, A. P. GANDHI New York State Agricultural Experiment Station and Institute of Food Science, Cornell University, Geneva, New York 14456, U.S.A. Permanent address: Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering, Nabibagh, Berasia Road, Bhopal (M.P.) 462003 India; to whom correspondence should be addressed.Search for more papers by this authorM. C. BOURNE, M. C. BOURNE New York State Agricultural Experiment Station and Institute of Food Science, Cornell University, Geneva, New York 14456, U.S.A.Search for more papers by this author First published: August 1988 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2621.1988.tb00596.xCitations: 2 AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume23, Issue4August 1988Pages 411-414 RelatedInformation

What Should the Introductory Statistics Course Contain?…

(1988). What Should the Introductory Statistics Course Contain?… The College Mathematics Journal: Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 26-29.

The Development of Computer Network and the New International Correspondence Education : A case of "American Open University of New York Institute of Technology"

The Development of Computer Network and the New International Correspondence Education : A case of "American Open University of New York Institute of Technology"

The Nuclear Household Model in Nigerian Public and Private Sector Policy: Colonial Legacy and Socio‐political Implications

Development and ChangeVolume 18, Issue 2 p. 281-294 The Nuclear Household Model in Nigerian Public and Private Sector Policy: Colonial Legacy and Socio-political Implications Eleanor R. Fapohunda, Eleanor R. Fapohunda Formerly Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economics, University of Lagos, is currently a staff member of the New York Institute of Technology (New York). A labour economist, she has written articles on African women's employment problems and recently contributed to a book on African Women and the Industrial Development Decade for Africa (UNECA).Search for more papers by this author Eleanor R. Fapohunda, Eleanor R. Fapohunda Formerly Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economics, University of Lagos, is currently a staff member of the New York Institute of Technology (New York). A labour economist, she has written articles on African women's employment problems and recently contributed to a book on African Women and the Industrial Development Decade for Africa (UNECA).Search for more papers by this author First published: April 1987 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7660.1987.tb00274.xCitations: 17 AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume18, Issue2April 1987Pages 281-294 RelatedInformation

Teaching Writing by Interdisciplinary Computer Conference

Computer conferencing makes asynchronous interaction possible through a mainframe computer. The computer conferencing system called “Participate” at New York Institute of Technology provided the basis for an experiment in interdisciplinary writing which the authors describe in this article. Their assertion is that computer conferencing has great potential as an interdisciplinary teaching tool because it is fast, efficient, and cost-effective. In fact, it could replace writing centers and in-home faculty workshops for teaching writing.

Day Care and Alzheimer's Disease

Relatively few day care programs have been established exclusively for individuals with Alzheimer's Disease. Of the limited number of such programs in the New York City area, there is currently only one that operates on Saturday. The Day Activities Program at the New York Institute for Aging is staffed entirely by occupational therapy personnel. A description of the program follows including intake procedure, clinical characteristics of particrpants, physical environment, staffing patterns, and activities that have been found to be successful with mild to moderately demented individuals.

<sc>william h. cumberland</sc>. <italic>Wallace M. Short: Iowa Rebel</italic>. (Replica Edition.) Ames: Iowa State University Press. 1983. Pp. ix, 177. $14.95

william h. cumberland. Wallace M. Short: Iowa Rebel. (Replica Edition.) Ames: Iowa State University Press. 1983. Pp. ix, 177. $14.95 Get access Cumberland William H.. Wallace M. Short: Iowa Rebel. (Replica Edition.) Ames: Iowa State University Press. 1983. Pp. ix, 177. $14.95. Ronald L. Feinman Ronald L. Feinman New York Institute of Technology, Old Westbury Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 89, Issue 4, October 1984, Pages 1171–1172, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/89.4.1171-a Published: 01 October 1984

Report on Educational Technology

This paper reports on a state-of-the-art conference held at the New York Institute of Technology on April 24 and 25,1983. The objective of the conference was to clarify the issues relating to applications of technology to education. Conferees identified six major technologies having great potential for education in mathematics, science, and technology: computers; educational television; videotex, databases, and computer-based telecommunications; video discs; intelligent video discs; and robotics. In addition, the conferees suggested exploration of combinations of these technologies and vigilant attention to new technologies as they emerge to identify educational applications. The report also includes discussion of the evidences of effectiveness of educational technology, quality of courseware, and twenty-eight recommendations. These recommendations are action suggestions that are being forwarded to the National Science Foundation's Commission for Precollege Education in Mathematics, Science and Technology for inclusion in their report.

EXPERIENCE AND IMAGERY

The Southern Journal of PhilosophyVolume 20, Issue 4 p. 475-487 EXPERIENCE AND IMAGERY Natika Newton, Natika Newton New York Institute of Technology C. W. Post Center, Long Island University Natika Newton received her Ph.D. in 1980 from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. She teaches at New York Institute and at C. W. Post Center, L.I.U., both on Long Island.Search for more papers by this author Natika Newton, Natika Newton New York Institute of Technology C. W. Post Center, Long Island University Natika Newton received her Ph.D. in 1980 from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. She teaches at New York Institute and at C. W. Post Center, L.I.U., both on Long Island.Search for more papers by this author First published: Winter 1982 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-6962.1982.tb00314.xCitations: 3 Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume20, Issue4Winter 1982Pages 475-487 RelatedInformation

The politics of autism

Assistant Professor Empire State College State University of New York New York, New York Director New York Institute for Social Therapy and Research New York, New York

The N.Y.I.T. Digital Sound Editor

This article describes a digital sound editor developed to meet the needs of musicians, sound engineers, video artists, and research scientists at the New York Institute of Technology's Digital Sound and Computer Graphics Laboratories. A preliminary version of the editor was described in a paper delivered at Queens College during the 1980 International Computer Music Conference (Glassner 1980). The existence of a large and diverse user group consisting of over 30 computer scientists, mathematicians, hardware engineers, artists, and composers made it necessary to design a highly adaptable and easy-to-use system for displaying, editing, and playing back audio sample data. We are of the opinion that any computer system, whether intended for research or production, is useful in inverse proportion to its complexity-or, more precisely, to its perceived complexity. The initial operating version of the N.Y.I.T. editor, as described in this article, is the result of an 18-month developmental effort aimed at providing a fast, simple, bare-bones editor. However, it also provides a sufficient number of user-definable playback and display parameters and a sufficient number of hooks for user-supplied preand postprocessors to serve equally well in a variety of roles, for example:

DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION ON ENERGY CONSERVATION TO SMALL ENERGY USERS

An institutional network that provies homeowners, small businesses, and other small-scale energy users with access to information on energy conservation techniques and alternative energy technologiers was created when the National Energy Extension Service (EES) was established in 1978. To help EES provide practical reference materials and responsive technical assistance to State Energy Extension Services Offices, the Center for Energy Policy and Research (CEPR) of the New York Institute of Technology was retained by the U.S. Department of Energy to setp up and operate a national information clearinghouse for the Energy Extension Service. THrough this clearinghouse CEPR produces and delivers to all States and U.S. Territories monthly energy information packages (called INFO EES) that contain complete copies or summaries of practical reference materials (e.g., books, reports, periodical articles) on energy conservation and alternative energy sources, as well as retrieval aids for all package enclosures. States and territories frequently request and receive additional information about Clearinghouse services, INFO EES materials, or specific subjects of interest to them.

Adaptation of Project “I CAN” Primary Skills Physical Education Program for Deaf-Blind Children

The “I CAN” physical education program, an individualized instructional management system emphasizing development of skills, associated concepts, and social growth, was designed for children whose general developmental growth is slow or who possess specific learning disabilities, social or emotional problems, or economic and language disadvantages. The authors describe how the “I CAN” model was adapted for use with deaf-blind children at the New York Institute for the Education of the Blind.

A Challenge to Professor Roazen

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsK. R. EisslerK. R. Eissler, M.D., life member, American Psychiatric Association and American Psychoanalytic Association; member of the International Psychoanalytic Association, the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, the American Psychological Association and of the American Sociological Association.

Coupled channel theory of pion-deuteron reactions applied to threshold scattering: T. Mizutani, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, 14627, and Swiss Institute for Nuclear Research, CH-5234 Villigen, Switzerland; and D. S. Koltun, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627

Coupled channel theory of pion-deuteron reactions applied to threshold scattering: T. Mizutani, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, 14627, and Swiss Institute for Nuclear Research, CH-5234 Villigen, Switzerland; and D. S. Koltun, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627

Wolcott and Johnson; their camera and their photography

Abstract An original Wolcott-Johnson camera has recently been discovered or, more precisely, rediscovered (by the authors) at the York Institute of Saco, Maine, U.S.A., and this is believed to be the only surviving specimen. As is known from descriptions in the literature, the construction of this instrument is very different from that of the conventional lens cameras used since the 1840s. It relied on a concave mirror to reflect the image onto a daguerreotype plate. The camera had a distinct advantage in the earliest days of photography because, when combined with the Wolcott-Johnson method of lighting, the exposure time was shortened and the resulting image non-reversed. After exposure in the camera, the sensitive plates were finished by the usual daguerreotype process.

Knickerbocker's History and the "Enlightened" Men of New York City

v[ORE THAN JUST THE SATIRE of national politics now assumed, LVJL Knickerbocker's History contains a multitude of satiric shafts aimed at well known New York City individuals and institutions. It is, above all, a book written with the hometown audience in mind. De Witt Clinton probably recognized this. In his An Account of Abimelech Coody and Other Celebrated Writers of New-York, he describes Irving's work: History of New-York by Knickerbocker, independently of its broad humour, is really intolerable. The heterogenous and unnatural combination of fiction and history is perfectly disgusting to good taste.' This, with its intolerable and disgusting, is harsh criticism of a book we have come to think of as gently humorous. But Clinton was leader of the city's literati, men of the Enlightenment who were the founders of the New-York Historical Society and the Literary and Philosophical Society, and they were being challenged by a younger group of writers. This group was led by Verplanck, with Irving as editor of the Analectic Magazine: they formed a newer literary school, one that laughed at the excessive erudition and nit-picking concerns of the older group. This younger circle was anti-intellectual and pragmatic. Irving's History ridiculed all that the literati held dear-and it mocked the way New York City was governed at a time when Clinton was mayor. This satire of the older men of the Enlightenment wlho ruled the city and dominated society is found throughout Knickerbocker's History, but can conveniently be discussed under four headings: The Picture of New-York, which furnished the original inspiration; the activities of the New-York Historical Society; Irving's picture of an enlightened, philosophic ruler; and the satire of city politics.