At age 95, author Joseph Kahn wrote his first book in longhand. It was then transcribed by a teacher of English at Florida Atlantic University. The content is from Kahn's role as an eye witness to and participant in an unbelievable century of American history. Research was a no-no; you did it, saw it, or reacted to it, over the span of four generations. "No More Cherries in the Bowl" includes kids stuff, Depression stuff, teenage stuff, romantic stuff, military stuff, making-a-living stuff, jazz stuff, swing stuff, and sports stuff. Also included are biased opinion offerings, smart alec pieces, and an original mystery novelette. The reader will visit the Brooklyn, New York ghettos and the wilds of Manhattan. The trek ends in the lobby of The Atrium in Boca Raton, Florida, where these words were written. About the Author Joseph Kahn was born in Brooklyn, New York, on September 16, 1917. He attended Brooklyn College from 1932 to 1934. He married Jeanette Kahn in 1940 and they had two children, baby boomers Bruce and Arthur. During World War II he served as a Staff Sergeant in the European and Pacific Theatres. Kahn worked in sales and retired in 1997. He is a sports fan, a music buff, and voluntarily computer illiterate. As a patriot, he is fearful for America's future.
The publication of this book coincides with the centenary of the birth of American architect Louis Kahn (1901-1974), though its immediate occasion is the new collection of photographs that illustrate the text and provide an opportunity to reconsider Kahn's achievement and his way of working. Architectural historian Joseph Rykwert has written a sensitive appreciation of Kahn's career and oeuvre, and photographer Roberto Schezen traveled the world to photograph fifteen of Kahn's major projects especially for this volume. Supplementing the photographs are dozens of Kahn's sketches and plans for many of his built and unbuilt designs.
Meet the man who treated each building like a temple. From Dhaka, Bangladesh, to La Jolla, California, this book traces the extraordinary architectural language of Louis Isadore Kahn, the pioneering modernist who inflected the International Style with a "back to basics" classical grammar and pierced its sleek masses with geometrical shapes and...
Author, age 95, writes his first book in longhand. It is then transcribed by an amazed teacher of English at Florida Atlantic University. The content is that of an eye-witness to, and participant in an unbelievable century of American history. Research was a no-no; you did it, or you saw it, or reacted to it, over the span of four generations. Kid stuff, depression stuff, teen-age stuff, romantic stuff, military stuff, making-a-living stuff, jazz stuff, swing stuff, sports stuff. And biased opinion offerings, smart-alec pieces, and an original mystery novelette. The reader will visit the Brooklyn, New York, ghettos and the wilds of Manhattan as the trek ends in the lobby of The Atrium in Boca Raton, Florida, where the words were written.
Researchers commonly ask subjects to self-identify their race from a menu of preestablished options. Yet if race is a multidimensional, multilevel social construction, this has profound methodological implications for the sciences and social sciences. Race must inform how we design large-scale data collection and how scientists utilize race in the context of specific research questions. This landmark collection argues for the recognition of those implications for research and suggests ways in which they may be integrated into future scientific endeavors. It concludes on a prescriptive note, providing an arsenal of multidisciplinary, conceptual, and methodological tools for studying race specifically within the context of health inequalities. Contributors: John A. Garcia, Arline T. Geronimus, Laura E. Gómez, Joseph L. Graves Jr., Janet E. Helms, Derek Kenji Iwamoto, Jonathan Kahn, Jay S. Kaufman, Mai M. Kindaichi, Simon J. Craddock Lee, Nancy López, Ethan H. Mereish, Matthew Miller, Gabriel R. Sanchez, Aliya Saperstein, R. Burciaga Valdez, Vicki D. Ybarra
Mode coupling is a key to overcoming challenges in mode-division-multiplexed transmission systems in multimode fiber. This chapter provides an in-depth description of mode coupling, including its physical origins, its effect on modal dispersion (MD) and mode-dependent loss or gain (MDL), and the resulting impact on system performance and implementation complexity. Strong mode coupling reduces the group delay spread from MD, minimizing the complexity of digital signal processing used for compensating MD and separating multiplexed signals. Likewise, strong mode coupling reduces the variations of MDL arising from transmission fibers and inline optical amplifiers, maximizing average channel capacity. When combined with MD, strong mode coupling creates frequency diversity, which reduces the probability of outage caused by MDL and enables the outage capacity to approach the average capacity. The statistics of strongly coupled MD and MDL depend only on the number of modes and the variances of MD or MDL, and can be derived from the eigenvalue distributions of certain random matrices.
This issue of Emergency Medicine Clinics focuses on Geriatric Emergencies. Articles include: Recent Trends in Geriatric Emergency Medicine, Resuscitation of the Elderly, Pharmacology in the Geriatric Patient, Trauma and Falls in the Elderly, Sepsis and Infectious Emergencies in the Elderly, Evaluation of the Geriatric Patient with Chest Pain, Evaluation of Dyspnea in the Elderly, Abdominal Pain in the Geriatric Patient, Neurologic Emergencies in the Elderly, Evaluation of Syncope, Altered Mental Status and Delirium, and more!
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