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John Jay College Performance Goals And Targets: 2008-2009 Academic Year, John Jay College Of Criminal Justice

Reports and Publications from John Jay College

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

Reports and Publications from John Jay College

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Validation Of Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (Tes) Nadir Ozone Profiles Using Ozonesonde Measurements, Ray Nassar, Jennifer A. Logan, Helen M. Worden, Inna A. Megretskaia, Kevin W. Bowman, Gregory B. Osterman, Anne M. Thompson, David W. Tarasick, Shermane Austin, Hans Claude, Manvendra K. Dubey, Wayne K. Hocking, Bryan J. Johnson, Everette Joseph, John Merrill, Gary A. Morris, Mike Newchurch, Samuel J. Oltmans, Françoise Posny, F. J. Schmidlin, Holger Vömel, David N. Whiteman, Jacquelyn C. Witte

Publications and Research

We compare Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES) version 2 (V002) nadir ozone profiles with ozonesonde profiles from the Intercontinental Chemical Transport Experiment Ozonesonde Network Study, the World Ozone and Ultraviolet Data Center, the Global Monitoring Division of the Earth System Research Laboratory, and the Southern Hemisphere Additional Ozonesonde archives. Approximately 1600 coincidences spanning 72.5°S–80.3°N from October 2004 to October 2006 are found. The TES averaging kernel and constraint are applied to the ozonesonde data to account for the TES measurement sensitivity and vertical resolution. TES sonde differences are examined in six latitude zones after excluding profiles with thick high clouds. Values …

Characterizing Effective Auction Mechanisms: Insights From The 2007 Tac Mechanism Design Competition, Jinzhong Niu, Kai Cai, Simon Parsons, Enrico Gerding, Peter Mcburney

Publications and Research

This paper analyzes the entrants to the 2007 TAC Market Design competition. It presents a classification of the entries to the competition, and uses this classification to compare these entries. The paper also attempts to relate market dynamics to the auction rules adopted by these entries and their adaptive strategies via a set of post-tournament experiments. Based on this analysis, the paper speculates about the design of effective auction mechanisms, both in the setting of this competition and in the more general case.

Methods Of Assessing And Ranking Probable Sources Of Error, Nataniel Greene

Publications and Research

A classical method for ranking n potential events as sources of error is Bayes' theorem. However, a ranking based on Bayes' theorem lacks a fundamental symmetry: the ranking in terms of blame for error will not be the reverse of the ranking in terms of credit for lack of error. While this is not a flaw in Bayes' theorem, it does lead one to inquire whether there are related methods which have such symmetry. Related methods explored here include the logical version of Bayes' theorem based on probabilities of conditionals, probabilities of biconditionals, and ratios or differences of credit to …

Jcat: A Platform For The Tac Market Design Competition, Jinzhong Niu, Kai Cai, Simon Parsons, Enrico Gerding, Peter Mcburney, Thierry Moyaux, Steve Phelps, David Shield

Publications and Research

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The Ticker, April 7, 2008

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 1, 2008, Bronx Community College Curriculum Committee

BCC Governance Archives

Minutes for the meeting of the Curriculum Committee on April 1, 2008.

The Learning Profiles Of Hostos Community College Students, Christine Mangino

Touchstone

One hundred sixty-six students took the Productivity Environmental Preference Survey (PEPS) and were included in the analyses of learning styles preferences. The following is a description of the Dunn and Dunn Model and our students’ learning styles.

Business Education, Internships And Students' Transition To Work-- Are Students Meeting Employers' Expectations?, Hector Lopez

Touchstone

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Touchstone Volume 1.1 (Spring 2008), Hostos Community

Touchstone

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Teaching Anatomy And Physiology Beyond The Boundaries Of The Classroom, Nelson Nunez-Rodriguez

Touchstone

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Using A Paradigm Shift To Teach Neurobiology And The Nature Of Science—A C.R.E.A.T.E.-Based Approach, Sally G. Hoskins

Publications and Research

Decades ago, classic experiments established the phenomenon of “neural induction” (Spemann and Mangold, 1924; Holtfreter, 1933). It appeared clear that amphibian ectoderm was pre-programmed to form epidermis, and that the neural phenotype was induced by a chemical signal from mesoderm. The “ectoderm makes skin, unless induced to make nervous system” model appeared in many textbooks. This interpretation, however, was not simply incorrect but 180 degrees out of alignment with the actual situation. As subsequently demonstrated, the default state of amphibian ectoderm is neuronal, and the expression of the epidermal phenotype requires cell signaling (Hemmati-Brivanlou and Melton, 1992; 1994; 1997). In …

Enforcing Behavioral Constraints In Evolving Aspect-Oriented Programs, Raffi Khatchadourian, Johan Dovland, Neelam Soundarajan

Publications and Research

Reasoning, specification, and verification of Aspect-Oriented (AO) programs presents unique challenges especially as such programs evolve over time. Components, base-code and aspects alike, may be easily added, removed, interchanged, or presently unavailable at unpredictable frequencies. Consequently, modular reasoning of such programs is highly attractive as it enables tractable evolution, otherwise necessitating that the entire program be reexamined each time a component is changed. It is well known, however, that modular reasoning about AO programs is difficult. In this paper, we present our ongoing work in constructing a rely-guarantee style reasoning system for the Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) paradigm, adopting a trace-based …

A Wavelet-Based Method For Overcoming The Gibbs Phenomenon, Nataniel Greene

Publications and Research

The Gibbs phenomenon refers to the lack of uniform convergence which occurs in many orthogonal basis approximations to piecewise smooth functions. This lack of uniform convergence manifests itself in spurious oscillations near the points of discontinuity and a low order of convergence away from the discontinuities. Here we describe a numerical procedure for overcoming the Gibbs phenomenon called the inverse wavelet reconstruction method. The method takes the Fourier coefficients of an oscillatory partial sum and uses them to construct the wavelet coefficients of a non-oscillatory wavelet series.

Advocate, March 2008, Vol. [19], No. [4], Gc Advocate

The Advocate

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Puerto Rico School Teachers Go on Strike, Demand Higher Wages, Smaller Classes, Better Facilities (p. 1)

NP on the Way? Student Affairs Says New Nurse Practitioner Could Be on Campus by Mid-April (p. 1)

From the Editor’s Desk: What Nader’s Bid Really Means (p. 2)

Guest Editorial: CUNY Grad Students Deserve the Same Health Insurance as SUNY Grad Students. Ellen Zitani (p. 3)

Adjuncting: Now is the Time for Graduate Student Health Insurance at CUNY! Carl Lindskoog (p. 4)

Dispatches from the Front: Catching More Flies with… Butter? Tracy E. Robey (p. 5)

Grad Life: Repetitive Motion …

An Overview Of Conditionals And Biconditionals In Probability, Nataniel Greene

Publications and Research

Conditional and biconditional statements are a standard part of symbolic logic but they have only recently begun to be explored in probability for applications in artificial intelligence. Here we give a brief overview of the major theorems involved and illustrate them using two standard model problems from conditional probability.

Flushing History As A Hydrogeological Control On The Regional Distribution Of Arsenic In Shallow Groundwater Of The Bengal Basin, A. Van Geen, Y. Zheng, S. Goodbred, A. Horneman, Z. Aziz, Z. Cheng, M. Stute, B. Mailloux, B. Weinman, M. A. Hoque, A. A. Seddique, M. S. Hossain, S. H. Chowdhury, K. M. Ahmed

Publications and Research

Whereas serious health consequences of widespread consumption of groundwater elevated in As have been documented in several South Asian countries, the mechanisms responsible for As mobilization in reducing aquifers remain poorly understood. We document here a previously unrecognized and consistent relationship between dissolved As concentrations in reducing groundwater and the phosphate-mobilizable As content of aquifer sediment for a set of precisely depth-matched samples from across Bangladesh. The relationship holds across nearly 3 orders of magnitude in As concentrations and suggests that regional as well as local patterns of dissolved As in shallow groundwater are set by the solid phase according …

Fourier Series Of Orthogonal Polynomials, Nataniel Greene

Publications and Research

Explicit formulas for the Fourier coefficients of the Legendre polynomials can be found in the Bateman Manuscript Project. However, similar formulas for more general classes of orthogonal polynomials do not appear to have been worked out. Here we derive explicit formulas for the Fourier series of Gegenbauer, Jacobi, Laguerre and Hermite polynomials.

Course Catalog 2008-2009, Laguardia Community College

Course Catalogs

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Tr-2008007: Degeneration Of Structured Integer Matrices Modulo An Integer, Victor Y. Pan, Xinmao Wang

Computer Science Technical Reports

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Tr-2008008: Schur Aggregation For Linear Systems And Determinants, V. Y. Pan, D. Grady, B. Murphy, G. Qian, R. E. Rosholt, A. D. Ruslanov

Computer Science Technical Reports

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Tr-2008015: An Efficient Heuristic For The Tree Alignment Problem, Andrés Varón, Ward Wheeler, Amotz Bar-Noy

Computer Science Technical Reports

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Tr-2008013: Content-Based 3d Mosaics For Large-Scale Dynamic Urban Scenes, Hao Tang, Zhigang Zhu

Computer Science Technical Reports

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Tr-2008012: Product-Free Lambek Calculus Is Np-Complete, Yury Savateev

Computer Science Technical Reports

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Tr-2008011: Contrast Transfer Function Correction In Electron Microscopy, Joanna Klukowska

Computer Science Technical Reports

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Tr-2008002: On Image Reconstruction From A Small Number Of Projections, G. T. Herman, R. Davidi

Computer Science Technical Reports

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Tr-2008001: Public And Private Communication Are Different: Results On Relative Expressivity, Bryan Renne

Computer Science Technical Reports

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Tr-2008003: Unified Nearly Optimal Algorithms For Structured Integer Matrices And Polynomials, Victor Y. Pan, Brian Murphy, Rhys E. Rosholt

Computer Science Technical Reports

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Tr-2008004: Additive Preconditioning For Matrix Computations, Victor Y. Pan, Dmitriy Ivolgin, Brian Murphy, Rhys Eric Rosholt, Yuqing Tang, Xiaodong Yan

Computer Science Technical Reports

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