Shark Research and Useful Links: “As one of the top predators of the oceans, sharks play an important role in the food web and help ensure balance in the oceans ecosystem. As demand and exploitation rates for some shark species and shark products (i.e., fins) have increased, concern has steadily grown regarding the status of… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: August 2012
Potential Budgetary Effects of Immediately Opening Most Federal Lands to Oil and Gas Leasing
Potential Budgetary Effects of Immediately Opening Most Federal Lands to Oil and Gas Leasing, August 9, 2012 “The federal government offers private businesses the opportunity to bid on leases for the development of onshore and offshore oil and natural gas resources on federal landsalthough not all federally controlled lands are open to leasing now. CBO… Continue Reading
Monitoring and Understanding Trends in Extreme Storms: State of Knowledge
Preliminary version – Monitoring and Understanding Trends in Extreme Storms: State of Knowledge, American Meteorological Society “This paper examines a specific subset of extreme weather and climate types affecting the 73 United States. For our purposes, storm-related extremes here refer to those short duration events that have levels/types of wind and/or precipitation at local to… Continue Reading
Google Posts Search quality highlights: 86 changes for June and July
Official Google Search Blog: “Were back with the latest in our series of search quality highlights. We have a couple months to make up for, so this list is a doozy with 86 changes. You might notice weve made one subtle tweak as compared with prior blog posts. Were no longer using separate descriptive names… Continue Reading
Brookings – Cut Off at the Pass: The Limits of Leadership in the 21st Century
Cut Off at the Pass: The Limits of Leadership in the 21st Century: “America has a leadership deficit, argues Barbara Kellerman in a new paper that examines the current state of leadership in the United States. Surveying leaderships genesis and its role as a compelling, powerful concept through history, Kellerman asserts that our current understanding… Continue Reading
OverDrive, safeguarding classics, the Jane Austen-'Hunger Games' connection, and a few other priorities for the DPLA to ponder
via LLRX.com – OverDrive, safeguarding classics, the Jane Austen-‘Hunger Games’ connection, and a few other priorities for the DPLA to ponder: David H. Rothman’s current commentary on the Harvard-hosted Digital Public Library of America highlights successful components of the project and prospective concepts that would support attaining the goal of a national digital library system. Continue Reading
How Bank Competition Affects Firms' Access to Finance
Love, Inessa and Martinez Peria, Maria Soledad, How Bank Competition Affects Firms’Access to Finance (August 1, 2012). World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 6163. Available at SSRN “Combining multi-year, firm-level surveys with country-level panel data for 53 countries, the authors explore the impact of bank competition on firms’ access to finance. They find that… Continue Reading
Deloitte – Tidying up: What reorganization can do for federal agencies
“Driven by budgetary constraints, federal government managers are considering reorganization at the agency or program level according to a new study by the Government Business Council (GBC) and Deloitte. But, while more than half (51 percent) attribute reorganization to limited financial resources, a mere 29 percent say their agency is equipped to manage the human… Continue Reading
Big Data, Big Impact: New Possibilities for International Development
Big Data, Big Impact: New Possibilities for International Development: “The amount of data in the world is exploding – large portion of this comes from the interactions over mobile devices being used by people in the developing world – people whose needs and habits have been poorly understood until now. Researchers and policymakers are beginning… Continue Reading
The Problem of Data – Council on Library and Information Resources
The Problem of Data, Lori Jahnke and Andrew Asher, Spencer D. C. Keralis with an introduction by Charles Henry. August 2012. CLIR Pubublication No. 154. Every day, we create 2.5 quintillion bytes of dataso much that 90% of the data in the world today has been created in the last two years alone. IBM, Bringing… Continue Reading
The European Debt Crisis and the Dollar Funding Gap
The European Debt Crisis and the Dollar Funding Gap – Jason Miu, Asani Sarkar, and Alexander Tepper “Against the backdrop of the ongoing debt crisis in Europe, the difficulties faced by European banks in borrowing U.S. dollars have attracted increased attention. The inability to borrow dollars has been partially responsible for European banks decisions to… Continue Reading
Census Bureau Reports State Pension Systems Assets Rise Nearly $325 Billion in 2011
News release: “The nations state-administered defined benefit retirement systems totaled $2.5 trillion in cash and investment holdings in 2011, a 14.6 percent increase from $2.2 trillion in 2010, according to new statistics from the U.S. Census Bureau. Earnings on investments were $410.6 billion, up from $291.1 billion in 2010. (See Table 1.) These statistics come… Continue Reading
