Institute Profile
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The Center for Educational Resources and Laboratory for Advanced Studies, Inc.
The Institute Profile
The Institute was established as a not-for-profit entity and received the 501(c)(3) designation by the IRS. It is divided into two separate divisions: (a) The Center for Educational Resources; and (b) The Laboratory for Advanced Studies The Center activates and runs projects based on research results from the Laboratory, though both divisions are capable of pursuing independent interests and activities. The Center can also be viewed as the educational arm of the Laboratory. Some selected notable activities are listed below. [A] Research at the Laboratory, identified during the heights of unemployment in the U.S during the 1976, parallels between the work of Elisabeth Kübler-Ross on death and dying and the ill-adjustments of unemployed persons to regain and maintain new employment, as articulated in the research paper termed "The unemployment Syndrome". |
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The Center, utilized the results of the Unemployment Syndrome to establish a Psychiatric Clinic for the Unemployed, which provided counseling to unemployed individuals in the New Haven area in Connecticut. The Clinic was named "Project Support" and was established with Federal funds received through the City of New Haven, in Connecticut. The Clinic, where the head of the Unemployment Agency served on its Advisory Board, provided free service to walk-in individuals, as well as referrals from such entities as St. Raphael Hospital, or Connecticut Mental Health Center (CMHC) of Yale New Haven Hospital. On the educational level the Clinic also engaged students from Southern Connecticut State College, (now Southern Connecticut State University), who were exposed to the new methods by functioning as part of the Clinic's staff.
[B] Research resulting in developing a positive psychological approach to assist and motivate individuals who accumulated bad debts, to voluntarily make efforts to repay their debts was provided to Revenue Controls Corporation, a Delaware Company that utilized it successfully for its clients in Connecticut that included a bank and a major private transportation company. The company received praised letters from individuals who were positively surprised when contacted by the company regarding their bad debt.
[C] The Laboratory developed special stress handling procedures for police departments, which the Center utilized in working with the New Haven Police Department. The Center created the New Haven Police Department Stress Unit, with some 20 police officers specially trained by the Center and faculty members of Yale University, as the first intervention line of respondents. The operational activities of the Stress Unit were divided into the administrative and operational management by the New Haven Police Department, with the special personal input and supervision by the then Police Chief William Farrell, who was the grandfather of the Stress Unit idea and the clinical and research work performed by the Center. The New Haven Police Stress Unit functioned as such for a decade, until it was picked up for succession by Yale University Hospital.
[D] The Laboratory developed psychological systems for hostage negotiations, which the Center utilized in its work with the New Haven Police Department, creating their Hostage Negotiation Team, which was specially trained by the Center for the negotiation tasks and coordination with their Swat Team. The Hostage Negotiation Team, which was initially suggested by the Center, based on research at the Laboratory and accepted by Chief William Farrell, handled successfully many hostage situations in New haven, including the notorious case in the New Haven Convalescent Home and the Case at the Connecticut Mental Health Center, where a patient took hostage the members in his group therapy. Such successful situations were covered both by the media and newspapers and the head of the Center received an official commendation from the City of New Haven.
[E] Ground breaking research related to the celestial Pulsar radio emissions, conducted by the head of the Laboratory, part of which was published in the Journal of Computational Physics[1], was the base for his comprehensive explanation to the Pulsar radio emission discovered by Dame Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell at Cambridge University. Her subsequent analysis of the phenomena together with her doctoral advisor, Antony Hewish at Cambridge University, only deepened the mystery, intrigued and baffled the scientific community that could not find a suitable scientific explanation for it. Nonetheless, Antony Hewish was awarded the Nobel prize for it in 1974, with the mystery generally remaining then still unsolved. The accepted comprehensive explanation to the Pulsars radio emission enigma, was finally provided by Raanan Liebermann, the head of the Laboratory, who was already elected as a Fellow of the British Royal Astronomical Society (FRAS) in 1972. He submitted his proposed theory as a doctoral thesis to the University of Oxford in 1973, continuing the earlier research work by ter Haar[2], Buckee[3] and Miranda[4], culminating with his comprehensive solution to the Pulsar radio emission enigma. He was awarded for it a doctorate in Astrophysics from the University of Oxford in 1776.
[F] A universal language for blind and deaf-blind individuals, called Touch Language was developed at the Laboratory, in conjunction with Signtel, a company that develops products for the hearing and sight-challenged individuals. The language is based on concepts articulated by body parts (hands and fingers), which makes it universal. Tapping and vibrations on such body parts identify the components of the message received by such individuals. Touch Language is beneficial for communications, even across different languages and cultures, as well as for participating blind and deaf-blind individuals in television reception. Touch Language, was put in the public domain in 2016 and can be read online on this site or downloaded free of charge - see the section on Books and Monographs. Touch Language can also be retrieved from the link provided by the International Center for Disability on the Internet at: http://www.icdri.org, or at Signtel, at http://www.signtelinc.com/touch-language.html.
[F.1] World Touch Language Forum that functions under the Center, was established in 2017, as a safety mechanism for safeguarding the integrity of the language and preserve its universality. It is a well known fact that Sign Language has various "dialects" that could cause confusion to deaf individuals observing signing in a different geographic location than their own. In order to avoid the same path of evolution that could result from the natural evolution of Touch Language, the World Touch Language Forum will analyze and sanction any new additions or changes to the language. The Forum has the enforcement tools for such tasks, provided by the intellectual property rights to the issued patent for Touch Language that were obtained for such purpose and have been exclusively assigned to the Forum. The Forum is housed at the Institute and can be reached through this site.
[G] Combating Climate Change has been a research topic at the Laboratory and is cited here by permission of the collaborating company, as well as the entity[5] that owns the intellectual property rights related to it.
Combating climate change, is a multi-stage process. It is based on utilizing untapped mechanical energy received by vehicles from the road, during their mobility, due to the road impacting a force on the vehicles according to the rules of physics. The mechanical energy, which is carbon-free, is then converted at the vehicle to electrical energy, which is stored in supercapacitors on the vehicles. Such supercapacitors that are capable to receive and dissipate energy almost instantaneously, automatically discharge such carbon-free accumulated electrical energy to collectors positioned in designated locations, when the vehicle passes next to them. Such designated locations can be located next to Stop signs on the road, traffic lights, toll stations on highways, or parking lots in shopping areas. Such collectors transmit the energy to near by commercial outfits who need it locally, or to sub stations feeding the electric grid, which can further provide it to the industry and homes. All installations in vehicles could also be constructed as add-ons to existing vehicles. Such a plan that creates crowd sourced carbon-free energy, is not only beneficial economically to implementing countries, but can also provide significant amounts of clean energy that in essence could be a major factor in combating climate change.
Additional information can be found in the Monograph section of this site.
The Laboratory hereby invites all individuals, commercial entities, and governmental jurisdictions, to contact the Laboratory with ideas or interests for undertaking the implementation of this essential technology that could make a difference for the survival of the planet.
Reference
[1] Liebermann, R. Traces in High-Energy Processes in Strong Magnetic Fields, J.Comput. Phys. 29 (1978), 208-218. (received July 7, 1975)
[2] D. ter Haar, Phys. Repts., 3, 57 (1972).
[3] J.W. Buckee, D. Phil. thesis, Oxford, 1971
[4] L.C.M. Miranda, Buckee, J. W. Grounds, S, Miranda L.C.M, and ter Haar, D, AGARD conf. proc. 138, p18, 1974.
[5] The Alexander Trust.
[B] Research resulting in developing a positive psychological approach to assist and motivate individuals who accumulated bad debts, to voluntarily make efforts to repay their debts was provided to Revenue Controls Corporation, a Delaware Company that utilized it successfully for its clients in Connecticut that included a bank and a major private transportation company. The company received praised letters from individuals who were positively surprised when contacted by the company regarding their bad debt.
[C] The Laboratory developed special stress handling procedures for police departments, which the Center utilized in working with the New Haven Police Department. The Center created the New Haven Police Department Stress Unit, with some 20 police officers specially trained by the Center and faculty members of Yale University, as the first intervention line of respondents. The operational activities of the Stress Unit were divided into the administrative and operational management by the New Haven Police Department, with the special personal input and supervision by the then Police Chief William Farrell, who was the grandfather of the Stress Unit idea and the clinical and research work performed by the Center. The New Haven Police Stress Unit functioned as such for a decade, until it was picked up for succession by Yale University Hospital.
[D] The Laboratory developed psychological systems for hostage negotiations, which the Center utilized in its work with the New Haven Police Department, creating their Hostage Negotiation Team, which was specially trained by the Center for the negotiation tasks and coordination with their Swat Team. The Hostage Negotiation Team, which was initially suggested by the Center, based on research at the Laboratory and accepted by Chief William Farrell, handled successfully many hostage situations in New haven, including the notorious case in the New Haven Convalescent Home and the Case at the Connecticut Mental Health Center, where a patient took hostage the members in his group therapy. Such successful situations were covered both by the media and newspapers and the head of the Center received an official commendation from the City of New Haven.
[E] Ground breaking research related to the celestial Pulsar radio emissions, conducted by the head of the Laboratory, part of which was published in the Journal of Computational Physics[1], was the base for his comprehensive explanation to the Pulsar radio emission discovered by Dame Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell at Cambridge University. Her subsequent analysis of the phenomena together with her doctoral advisor, Antony Hewish at Cambridge University, only deepened the mystery, intrigued and baffled the scientific community that could not find a suitable scientific explanation for it. Nonetheless, Antony Hewish was awarded the Nobel prize for it in 1974, with the mystery generally remaining then still unsolved. The accepted comprehensive explanation to the Pulsars radio emission enigma, was finally provided by Raanan Liebermann, the head of the Laboratory, who was already elected as a Fellow of the British Royal Astronomical Society (FRAS) in 1972. He submitted his proposed theory as a doctoral thesis to the University of Oxford in 1973, continuing the earlier research work by ter Haar[2], Buckee[3] and Miranda[4], culminating with his comprehensive solution to the Pulsar radio emission enigma. He was awarded for it a doctorate in Astrophysics from the University of Oxford in 1776.
[F] A universal language for blind and deaf-blind individuals, called Touch Language was developed at the Laboratory, in conjunction with Signtel, a company that develops products for the hearing and sight-challenged individuals. The language is based on concepts articulated by body parts (hands and fingers), which makes it universal. Tapping and vibrations on such body parts identify the components of the message received by such individuals. Touch Language is beneficial for communications, even across different languages and cultures, as well as for participating blind and deaf-blind individuals in television reception. Touch Language, was put in the public domain in 2016 and can be read online on this site or downloaded free of charge - see the section on Books and Monographs. Touch Language can also be retrieved from the link provided by the International Center for Disability on the Internet at: http://www.icdri.org, or at Signtel, at http://www.signtelinc.com/touch-language.html.
[F.1] World Touch Language Forum that functions under the Center, was established in 2017, as a safety mechanism for safeguarding the integrity of the language and preserve its universality. It is a well known fact that Sign Language has various "dialects" that could cause confusion to deaf individuals observing signing in a different geographic location than their own. In order to avoid the same path of evolution that could result from the natural evolution of Touch Language, the World Touch Language Forum will analyze and sanction any new additions or changes to the language. The Forum has the enforcement tools for such tasks, provided by the intellectual property rights to the issued patent for Touch Language that were obtained for such purpose and have been exclusively assigned to the Forum. The Forum is housed at the Institute and can be reached through this site.
[G] Combating Climate Change has been a research topic at the Laboratory and is cited here by permission of the collaborating company, as well as the entity[5] that owns the intellectual property rights related to it.
Combating climate change, is a multi-stage process. It is based on utilizing untapped mechanical energy received by vehicles from the road, during their mobility, due to the road impacting a force on the vehicles according to the rules of physics. The mechanical energy, which is carbon-free, is then converted at the vehicle to electrical energy, which is stored in supercapacitors on the vehicles. Such supercapacitors that are capable to receive and dissipate energy almost instantaneously, automatically discharge such carbon-free accumulated electrical energy to collectors positioned in designated locations, when the vehicle passes next to them. Such designated locations can be located next to Stop signs on the road, traffic lights, toll stations on highways, or parking lots in shopping areas. Such collectors transmit the energy to near by commercial outfits who need it locally, or to sub stations feeding the electric grid, which can further provide it to the industry and homes. All installations in vehicles could also be constructed as add-ons to existing vehicles. Such a plan that creates crowd sourced carbon-free energy, is not only beneficial economically to implementing countries, but can also provide significant amounts of clean energy that in essence could be a major factor in combating climate change.
Additional information can be found in the Monograph section of this site.
The Laboratory hereby invites all individuals, commercial entities, and governmental jurisdictions, to contact the Laboratory with ideas or interests for undertaking the implementation of this essential technology that could make a difference for the survival of the planet.
Reference
[1] Liebermann, R. Traces in High-Energy Processes in Strong Magnetic Fields, J.Comput. Phys. 29 (1978), 208-218. (received July 7, 1975)
[2] D. ter Haar, Phys. Repts., 3, 57 (1972).
[3] J.W. Buckee, D. Phil. thesis, Oxford, 1971
[4] L.C.M. Miranda, Buckee, J. W. Grounds, S, Miranda L.C.M, and ter Haar, D, AGARD conf. proc. 138, p18, 1974.
[5] The Alexander Trust.
The First National Board of Advisors to the Center and Laboratory(1976):
Fletcher G. Watson
Henry Lee Shuttuck Professor
Chairman Department of Science Education
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts
W. Buell Evans
Professor of Mathematics
Professor of Biometry
Director of the Computing Center
Emory University
Atlanta, Georgia
Robert B. Gordon
Professor of Engineering and Applied Science
Professor of Geology and Geophysics
Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut
Professor Morton Davidson
Director Health Services
New York University Hospitals
New York University
New York, New York
Allan J. Perlis
Eugene Higgins Professor
Chairman Department of Computer Science
Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut
Fletcher G. Watson
Henry Lee Shuttuck Professor
Chairman Department of Science Education
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts
W. Buell Evans
Professor of Mathematics
Professor of Biometry
Director of the Computing Center
Emory University
Atlanta, Georgia
Robert B. Gordon
Professor of Engineering and Applied Science
Professor of Geology and Geophysics
Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut
Professor Morton Davidson
Director Health Services
New York University Hospitals
New York University
New York, New York
Allan J. Perlis
Eugene Higgins Professor
Chairman Department of Computer Science
Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut