Table Egg Production and Hen Welfare: The UEP-HSUS Agreement and H.R. 3798, May 14, 2012 “The United Egg Producers (UEP), the largest group representing egg producers, and the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), the largest animal protection group, have been adversaries for many years over the use of conventional cages in table egg… Continue Reading
Accurate, Focused Research on Law, Technology and Knowledge Discovery Since 2002
Monthly Archives: May 2012
Broken Promises of Privacy: Responding to the Surprising Failure of Anonymization
Ohm, Paul, Broken Promises of Privacy: Responding to the Surprising Failure of Anonymization (August 13, 2009). UCLA Law Review, Vol. 57, p. 1701, 2010; U of Colorado Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 9-12. Available at SSRN “Computer scientists have recently undermined our faith in the privacy-protecting power of anonymization, the name for techniques for… Continue Reading
Census Bureau Releases Estimates of Undercount and Overcount in the 2010 Census
News release: “The U.S. Census Bureau released today results from its post-enumeration survey, providing a measure of the accuracy of the 2010 Census. The results found that the 2010 Census had a net overcount of 0.01 percent, meaning about 36,000 people were overcounted in the census. This sample-based result, however, was not statistically different from… Continue Reading
May 2012 Economic and Housing Outlook
News release: “Housing activity indicated a promising start for the first quarter of 2012 that substantially outpaced performance during the same period last year. However, the monthly pattern suggests some loss of momentum late in the quarter. According to Fannie Maes (FNMA/OTC) Economic & Strategic Research Group, a slowdown in momentum may be mirroring many… Continue Reading
The U.S. Export Control System and the Presidents Reform Initiative
The U.S. Export Control System and the Presidents Reform Initiative. Ian F. Fergusson, Specialist in International Trade and Finance; Paul K. Kerr, Analyst in Nonproliferation. May 18, 2012 “The 112th Congress may consider reforms of the U.S. export control system. The balance between national security and export competitiveness has made the subject of export controls… Continue Reading
CBO Analyzes Effects of Fiscal Restraint Scheduled Under Current Law
Economic Effects of Reducing the Fiscal Restraint That Is Scheduled to Occur in 2013, May 22, 2012 “Policymakers are facing difficult trade-offs in formulating the nations fiscal policies. On the one hand, if the fiscal policies currently in place are continued in coming years, the revenues collected by the federal government will fall far short… Continue Reading
Center for Naval Analyses – Estimating climate change effects on installation energy use
Estimating climate change effects on installation energy use – Ronald Filadelfo Jonathon Mintz Daniel Carvell Alan Marcus, May 1, 2012 “We downscaled large regional-scale climate change forecasts to forecasts of temperature change for the immediate areas of military installations. Based on these expected temperature changes, we estimated how installation energy demand for… Continue Reading
Leveraging Data Analytics in Federal Organizations
Leveraging Data Analytics in Federal Organizations: “Data analytics is a powerful tool that can help government agencies reduce fraud, waste and abuse. The commercial sector has used data analytics for years to improve decision making, achieve better financial outcomes and improve customer service. The use of data analytics is growing at a rapid rate. The… Continue Reading
CMS – Projected Medicare Expenditures under Illustrative Scenarios with Alternative Payment Updates to Medicare Providers
CMS – “In the 2012 Annual Report of the Board of Trustees of the Federal Hospital Insurance and Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Funds, the Board warns that Medicares actual future costs are highly uncertain and are likely to exceed those shown by the current-law projections. The Trustees Report is necessarily based on current law;… Continue Reading
Canadian Oil Sands: Life-Cycle Assessments of Greenhouse Gas Emissions
CRS – Canadian Oil Sands: Life-Cycle Assessments of Greenhouse Gas Emissions. Richard K. Lattanzio, Analyst in Environmental Policy, May 15, 201s “Recent congressional interest in U.S. energy policy has focused in part on ways through which the United States could secure more economical and reliable crude oil resources both domestically and internationally. Many forecasters identify… Continue Reading
Not Coming to America: Why the US is Falling Behind in the Global Race for Talent
Not Coming to America: Why the US is Falling Behind in the Global Race for Talent – May 22, 2012, “is a first-ever comparative study of the immigration reforms other countries employ to boost their economies and lure the high and low-skilled workers needed for continued economic growth. The report by the Partnership for a… Continue Reading
NIH study finds sigmoidoscopy reduces colorectal cancer rates
News release: “Flexible sigmoidoscopy, a screening test for colorectal cancer that is less invasive and has fewer side effects than colonoscopy, is effective in reducing the rates of new cases and deaths due to colorectal cancer, according to research sponsored by the National Cancer Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health. In a study… Continue Reading
