http://app.cul.columbia.edu:8080/ac The Academic Commons digital repository system captures, stores, indexes, preserves, and distributes digital research material. Search the Channel search http://app.cul.columbia.edu:8080/ac/simple-search http://app.cul.columbia.edu:8080/ac/handle/10022/AC:P:2809 Title: Space and evolution in Piet Mondrian's early abstract paintings <br/> <br/>Author(s): Wieczorek, Marek <br/> <br/>Abstract: This dissertation analyzes Piet Mondrian's early abstract paintings (1915-1919) in terms of an Hegelian concept of space, one which implies an evolution from abstract painting into the environment at large. Interpreting Mondrian's abstraction, which he called Neoplasticism, in terms of space, offers an alternative to the current view that his paintings primarily strive for flatness. Mondrian's first published writings from 1917 through 1920 will be compared to his early letters and sketchbook notes from 1913-1914, together with contemporary philosophical and theosophical sources which influenced him. The dissertation will trace these ideas to their origins in Hegelian idealism and will seek to explain in three chapters how Mondrian used dialectical principles to develop his Neoplasticism, why he chose architecture as the exclusive motif for developing abstraction in painting, and the role of color in rendering space. By re-reading Mondrian's early abstraction through his writings and sources, the dissertation offers new interpretations of his particular pictorial development, philosophical background and motives, and artistic achievement. A reconstruction of the simultaneous development of Mondrian's early theoretical writings and abstract paintings shows that he struggled to merge black and white with color as a means to unify opposing pictorial elements. Two chapters on Mondrian's black and white paintings and one on his different attempts at integrating color demonstrate the aims of Neoplasticism: to render space in purely differential terms, through perpendicular lines embodying the relational dimensions of height and width, and primary colors visualizing depth through recessive and progressive values, as formulated in Goethe's color theory. Neoplastic space is not corporeal form, but rather conceptual space, and therefore requires the active involvement of the viewer. The composition internalized in the viewer's consciousness ideally unifies content and form, subject and object, and thereby effects an evolution of the viewer as a creative being. <br/> <br/>Description: Department: Art History and Archaeology.; Thesis (Ph. D.)--Columbia University, 1997. Tue, 29 Oct 1996 22:58:59 GMT http://app.cul.columbia.edu:8080/ac/handle/10022/AC:P:7852 Title: Cognitive, language, and social-emotional development among infants and toddlers in Early Head Start: An examination of the impact of cumulative risk. <br/> <br/>Author(s): Robokos, Dimitra <br/> <br/>Abstract: The data for this study were made available from the Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project. All outcomes were examined at the 36 month time period and the analyses included a large sample of low-income families. A cumulative risk index (CRI) consisting of 13 risk factors was used in this study to examine its relation to children's cognitive and language development, and social emotional well-being. Hierarchical linear regression analyses based on a theoretically designed model of cumulative risk also provided insight on particular risk factors that impact child developmental outcomes. This study also examined mediation models in predicting the effect of the availability of family resources on child developmental outcomes. The mediators that were evaluated included parenting behaviors (mother-child interactions), the impact of the home environment, and family well being variables (maternal depression, parental distress, parent-child dysfunctional interactions, and family conflict). Results indicated that there was a negative association between the CRI and cognitive, language, and positive aspects of social emotional development outcomes (emotional regulation and orientation/engagement), and a positive association between the CRI and negative aspects of social emotional development (aggressive behavior). Hierarchical regression analyses showed that various child, maternal, and familial characteristics differentially impacted child outcomes with proximal variables often accounting for a greater amount of variance than distal risks. Results supported the hypothesis that distinct mediating mechanisms operate on the association between the availability of family resources and some of the child developmental outcomes; associations were mainly seen for the home environment and family well-being variables than for parenting behaviors. The results of this research have important implications for the cumulative risk framework and provide valuable insight into the individual factors that critically impact children's developmental outcomes, particularly for high risk, low-income infants and toddlers and their families. The results of this study also provide evidence of mediation effects between the availability of family resources and child outcomes. The first three years of life are crucial for a child's development. The Early Head Start project provides important information on how to assist families and children in overcoming disadvantage and strengthening both academic and social outcomes. <br/> <br/>Description: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-01, Section: B, page: 0652.; Adviser: Philip Saigh.; Thesis (Ph.D.)--Columbia University, 2007. Sun, 29 Oct 2006 22:58:59 GMT http://app.cul.columbia.edu:8080/ac/handle/10022/AC:P:2633 Title: al-taharah Shatir al-iman : an inquiry into the historical evolution of the Islamic system of ritual purity <br/> <br/>Author(s): Maghen, William Avi <br/> <br/>Abstract: This thesis discusses the origins and development of the Sunni Islamic purity code (taharah), as reflected in the seminal Muslim legal texts of the early medieval period. Through consultation with and analysis of an array of classical sources--including the Qur'an and pertinent exegetical works, Hadith and selected commentaries, as well as works of fiqh proper and various later digests of the opinions and inter-scholastic controversies represented therein--we have endeavored to detail the most significant precepts and prescriptions which constitute this sub-field of the shari'ah. The underlying principles and premises upon which these final legal provisions are based--simultaneously created and built upon by the dynamic process of Islamic jurisprudence--are outlined as well, with the caution befitting any attempt to reduce such a complex and multifarious "system" to fundamental schemata. While the elucidation of taharah regulations is, to this author's mind, an important step by itself in furthering the understanding of Islamic and Middle East history, this dissertation is additionally interested in utilizing purity jurisprudence and positive law as a "test case" for certain well-established Western scholarly theories about the development of Islamic law. <br/> <br/>Description: Department: History.; Thesis (Ph.D.)--Columbia University, 1997. Tue, 29 Oct 1996 22:58:59 GMT http://app.cul.columbia.edu:8080/ac/handle/10022/AC:P:16633 Title: An evaluation of a partial hospital program using a cognitive-behavioral intervention in patients with stress-related symptoms. <br/> <br/>Author(s): Monterosso, Angela Dawn <br/> <br/>Abstract: The objective of the study was to develop and evaluate a psychiatric day treatment program which incorporates cognitive therapy techniques designed to decrease stress-related symptoms. A one group, pre-test/post-test design with a one-month follow-up was used in the study. Two hundred patients were admitted during the study period and 171 adults with non-chronic stress-related symptoms participated in the study. After attrition and clinician error, a total of 89 were included in the data analysis. A psychiatric day hospital in a central Connecticut general hospital's out-patient service was the setting. Participating subjects attended 5-40 days over 1-3 months. A cognitive-behavioral therapy model was incorporated into the psychiatric day hospital's milieu program. The Global Assessment of Functioning, Psychsentinel, Brief Symptom Inventory and a patient self-report survey were the outcome instruments. They were used to measure social, emotional and coping skill functioning in subjects. The differences in the mean outcome scores were statistically (p $<$.05) and clinically significant. Subjects were admitted with mean scores consistent with psychiatric in-patients and had achieved scores by discharge equivalent to out-patients. Additionally, the number of treatment days in which subjects participated had an additive effect. Given the predictive nature of the measures and the additive effect of number of treatment days, partial hospital clinicians may be able to develop treatment and discharge plans based on admission scores. Program interventions that utilize cognitive therapy techniques incorporated into partial hospital can be effective from a clinical, quality assurance, and utilization stand point. <br/> <br/>Description: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 57-07, Section: A, page: 2885.; Sponsor: John Allegrante.; Thesis (Ed.D.)--Teachers College, Columbia University, 1996. Sun, 29 Oct 1995 22:58:59 GMT