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Automated Refactoring Of Legacy Java Software To Enumerated Types, Raffi Khatchadourian, Jason Sawin, Atanas Rountev

Publications and Research

Modern Java languages introduce several new features that offer significant improvements over older Java technology. In this article we consider the new enum construct, which provides language support for enumerated types. Prior to recent Java languages, programmers needed to employ various patterns (e.g., the weak enum pattern) to compensate for the absence of enumerated types in Java. Unfortunately, these compensation patterns lack several highly-desirable properties of the enum construct, most notably, type safety. We present a novel fully-automated approach for transforming legacy Java code to use the new enumeration construct. This semantics-preserving approach increases type safety, produces code that is …

The Ticker, September 17, 2007

The Ticker

The Ticker is the student newspaper of Baruch College. It has been published continuously since 1932, when the Baruch College campus was the School of Business and Civic Administration of the City College of New York.

Recruitment And Retention Of Low-Income Minority Women In A Behavioral Intervention To Reduce Smoking, Depression, And Intimate Partner Violence During Pregnancy, M Nabil El-Khorazaty, Allan A. Johnson, Michele Kiely, Ayman El-Mohandes, Siva Subramanian, Haziel A. Laryea, Kennan B. Murray, Jutta S. Thornberry, Jill G. Joseph

Publications and Research

Background
Researchers have frequently encountered difficulties in the recruitment and retention of minorities resulting in their under-representation in clinical trials. This report describes the successful strategies of recruitment and retention of African Americans and Latinos in a randomized clinical trial to reduce smoking, depression and intimate partner violence during pregnancy. Socio-demographic characteristics and risk profiles of retained vs. non-retained women and lost to follow-up vs. dropped-out women are presented. In addition, subgroups of pregnant women who are less (more) likely to be retained are identified.

Methods
Pregnant African American women and Latinas who were Washington, DC residents, aged 18 years …

The Ticker, September 4, 2007

The Ticker

The Ticker is the student newspaper of Baruch College. It has been published continuously since 1932, when the Baruch College campus was the School of Business and Civic Administration of the City College of New York.

Report Of The Task Force On Distance Learning Policy And Practice, John Jay College Of Criminal Justice, John Jay College Of Criminal Justice - Task Force On Distance Learning Policy And And Practice

Reports and Publications from John Jay College

The Task Force has generally concluded that distance learning initiatives should only go forward with the full commitment of the college's leadership, made real by dedicated resources and personnel, and carried forward by organizational structures and policies designed to best deliver online education.

The Task Force surveyed John Jay faculty, students and administrators about their experiences with online learning at the college, finding an acceptance of distance learning and an anticipation of its expansion. The competitive landscape was surveyed as well, identifying a large number of institutions in New York and across the country 'that offer degrees in criminal justice, …

John Jay College Performance Goals And Targets: 2007-2008 Academic Year, John Jay College Of Criminal Justice

Reports and Publications from John Jay College

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Strategic Plan For Information Technology, John Jay College Of Criminal Justice, Planning Subcommittee Of The Technology Advisory Committee (Tac), John Jay College Of Criminal Justice

Reports and Publications from John Jay College

To assist in furthering its mission, John Jay College engaged in the development of the following three year Strategic Plan for Information Technology during the spring semester of 2007. The planning effort was headed by the Planning Subcommittee (see Appendix-1) of the Technology Advisory Committee (TAC) and was designed to identify areas of need and opportunities for improvement within the existing College technology environment that would support the College’s achievement of the goals, objectives, and outcomes specified within the Comprehensive Action Plan 2005-2010. (from the introduction)

The Ticker, July 9, 2007

The Ticker

The Ticker is the student newspaper of Baruch College. It has been published continuously since 1932, when the Baruch College campus was the School of Business and Civic Administration of the City College of New York.

Opening Remarks, Barry Kamins

City University of New York Law Review

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Guantanamo Bay And The Evolution Of International Leases And Servitudes, Michael J. Strauss

City University of New York Law Review

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The Practitioner's View: Clients At Guantanamo, Martha Raynor

City University of New York Law Review

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Citizenship And Location In A World Or Torture, Julie Mertus, Lisa Davis

City University of New York Law Review

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Balancing Power In The U.S. Response To External Threats: Nsa Surveillance And Guantanamo Detention, Jameel Jaffer

City University of New York Law Review

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¡Escriba! ¡Write! Volume 5, June 2007, Hostos Community College Library

¡Escriba!

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Research Authority In The Age Of Google: Equilibrium Sought, Mariana Regalado

Publications and Research

The article examines the major shift in the relationship of students, instructors and librarians to information. It is argued that this shift is due to some fundamental changes to authority in the relationship in terms of Web publication, access to content and technical know-how. In addition, it also discusses the impact of the introduction of the Google search engine.

"Whether Beast Or Human": The Cultural Legacies Of Dread, Locks, And Dystopia., Kevin Frank

Publications and Research

Analyzing the ongoing problem of Caribbean racial exploitation, particularly fear signified through one of the most potent Caribbean symbols, dreadlocks, Kevin Frank offers a paradigm shift in arguing that Medusa's alterity is altered by Rastafarians' snake-like hair, but the transformative power of Rasta dreadlocks is contested through certain cinematic depictions of dread.

New York Placenames In Film Titles, Jay H. Bernstein

Publications and Research

From 1914 to 2006, 396 feature films with titles containing New York place names were released. This pattern emerged during the silent era, peaked from the late 1920s to the early 1940s, and then dropped off steadily before rebounding in the 1970s. This article discusses the cinematic representation of cities and urban life in the movies and the special place of New York as an “imagined city” and a cultural icon. New York’s associations in the popular imagination help explain the frequent occurrence of themes of negativity, violence, nightlife, and grandiosity (royalty or divinity) in these titles. The use of …

You And Me And Google Makes Three: Welcoming Google Into The Reference Interview, Jill Cirasella

Publications and Research

Library patrons often approach the reference desk with indirect, incomplete, or misleading questions, known as "ill-formed" questions. Transforming ill-formed questions into well-formed ones is a crucial part of the reference interview, and Google can be an active participant in that process. This paper discusses how Google can help librarians and patrons deal with incomplete citations, incorrect citations, incorrect spellings, tip-of-the-tongue questions, and forgotten searches.

The Ticker, May 7, 2007

The Ticker

The Ticker is the student newspaper of Baruch College. It has been published continuously since 1932, when the Baruch College campus was the School of Business and Civic Administration of the City College of New York.

The Dilemma Of Access: Describing Open Access Journals With Marc And [Other] Metadata Schemes, Summary Of A Presentation By Monica Berger And Gloria Rohman, Beth Evans

Urban Library Journal

Monica Berger and Gloria Rohmann bring to the open access discussion the librarian’s point of view, both from the standpoint of the cataloger (Berger) and of the position of the public access librarian (Rohmann). ...

Institutional Repositories (Ir) In Higher Education – A Panel Discussion, Summary, Beth Evans

Urban Library Journal

Theresa McManus, the moderator, introduced the panel and opened with her own concerns about IRs. She finds herself caught between faculty advocating for mandating e-print repositories, priorities in a context of budget reductions, and faculty who view repositories sometimes with trepidation and doubt in regard to them being mandated to put materials in them. ...

How The Success Of Open Access Publishing Can Stimulate Improved Access To Grey Literature, Marcus A. Banks

Urban Library Journal

With a focus on biomedicine and public health, this paper will demonstrate that the emerging success of open access publishing provides a model for improved access to grey literature. It will describe pioneering efforts to provide access to grey literature, and recommend ways to build upon these initiatives. Finally, it will argue that the evolution of electronic scholarship will eventually collapse the distinction between grey and non-grey literature.

Designing For The Discipline: Open Libraries And Scholarly Communication, Summary Of A Presentation By Thomas Krichel, Beth Evans

Urban Library Journal

Thomas Krichel speaks about the RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) system (http://RePEc.org). RePEc is a large digital library Krichel founded. Krichel says he is “bringing the world of economics into the world of computing and live information.” ...

Going In Reverse To Go Forward: Institutional Repositories And The New York Public Library, Stewart Bodner, Eric Neubacher

Urban Library Journal

The Research Libraries of the New York Public Library is one of the most significant public information centers in the world. Since the opening in 1911 of its flagship building at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street in the heart of Manhattan , the Library has aimed to serve people from all walks of life and on a global scale. ...

To Perpetuity … And Beyond, Curtis Kendrick

Urban Library Journal

Good morning. I am delighted that LACUNY has organized this conference on Scholarly Publishing and Open Access. I think we owe a debt of gratitude to Kenneth Schlesinger, LACUNY President, and the two Institute Co-chairs, Scott White and Beth Evans. ...

Low-Income Minority Mothers’ Reports Of Infant Health Care Utilisation Compared With Medical Records, Kennan D. Murray, Ayman El-Mohandes, M. Nabil El-Khorazaty, Michele Kiely

Publications and Research

This study aimed to investigate mothers’ reporting of the nature, location, frequency and content of health care visits for their infants, as compared with data abstracted from the infants’ medical records. It was part of a community-based parenting intervention designed to improve preventive health care utilisation among minority mothers in Washington, DC. Mothers 18 years old with newborn infants and with poor or no prenatal care were enrolled in the study. A total of 160 mother–infant dyads completed the 12-month study. Mothers were interviewed when the infants were 4, 8 and 12 months old, and were asked to recall infant …

A Role For Sperm In Regulation Of Egg-Laying In The Nematode C. Elegans, Marie Mcgovern, Ling Yu, Mary Kosinski, David Greenstein, Cathy Savage-Dunn

Publications and Research

Background In insects and in mammals, male sperm and seminal fluid provide signaling factors that influence various aspects of female physiology and behavior to promote reproductive success and to compete with other males. It is less apparent how important such signaling is in the context of a self-fertile hermaphrodite species. We have addressed this question in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, which can reproduce either by hermaphrodite self-fertilization or by male-hermaphrodite mating.

Results We have studied the egg-laying defective mutant, egl-32, and found that the cellular basis of the egl-32 egg-laying phenotype is likely a defect in sperm. First, the time …

The Ticker, April 23, 2007

The Ticker

The Ticker is the student newspaper of Baruch College. It has been published continuously since 1932, when the Baruch College campus was the School of Business and Civic Administration of the City College of New York.

Curriculum Committee Minutes April 17, 2007, Bronx Community College Curriculum Committee

BCC Governance Archives

Minutes for the meeting of the Curriculum Committee on April 17, 2007.

The Ticker, April 16, 2007

The Ticker

The Ticker is the student newspaper of Baruch College. It has been published continuously since 1932, when the Baruch College campus was the School of Business and Civic Administration of the City College of New York.