Health Care – Anticipating and Meeting Accountability Challenges in a Dynamic Environment – GAO-12-988CG, Aug 4, 2012 Students with Disabilities – Better Federal Coordination Could Lessen Challenges in the Transition from High School, GAO-12-594, July 12, 2012 Telecommunications – Exposure and Testing Requirements for Mobile Phones Should Be Reassessed, GAO-12-771, July 24, 2012 Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: August 2012
The Happy Planet Index 2012
“The Happy Planet Index is a new measure of progress that focusses on what matters: sustainable well-being for all. It tells us how well nations are doing in terms of supporting their inhabitants to live good lives now, while ensuring that others can do the same in the future. In a time of uncertainty, the… Continue Reading
A Primer on Mathematical Modelling in Economics
Rai, Birendra K., So, Chiu Ki and Nicholas, Aaron, A Primer on Mathematical Modelling in Economics (September 2012). Journal of Economic Surveys, Vol. 26, Issue 4, pp. 594-615, 2012. Available at SSRN “The Commission on Graduate Education in Economics had raised several concerns regarding the role of mathematics in graduate training in economics (Krueger, 1991;… Continue Reading
Pew – A Snapshot of American Cities
A Snapshot of American Cities – “This interactive graphic provides statistics on the biggest city in the nation’s 30 largest metro areas. While every city has a unique set of economic and demographic conditions, they face many common challenges.” Continue Reading
NOAA-funded researchers find caffeine in Pacific Northwest coastal waters
News release: “Finding caffeine in waters just off a coastline heavy with coffee shops may not be surprising. What a new NOAA-funded study does reveal is that traces of caffeine in Pacific Northwest waters point to a likely source of the stimulant: septic tanks and sewer overflows. Results of the study, funded in part by… Continue Reading
Cyber Security Task Force: Public-Private Information Sharing
Cyber Security Task Force: Public-Private Information Sharing. This report is the product of the Bipartisan Policy Centers Homeland Security Project, July 2012 “The attacks on information technology systems from a wide range of adversaries including hacktivists, criminals, and nation-states continue to grow.1 From October 2011 through February 2012, over 50,000 cyber attacks on… Continue Reading
New GAO Reports – Drug Control, Federal Real Property
Drug Control – Initial Review of the National Strategy and Drug Abuse Prevention and Treatment Programs, GAO-12-744R, Jul 6, 2012 Federal Real Property – Improved Data and a National Strategy Needed to Better Manage Excess and Underutilized Property, GAO-12-958T, August 6, 2012 Continue Reading
OCLC recommends Open Data Commons Attribution License for WorldCat data
News release: “OCLC is recommending the Open Data Commons Attribution License (ODC-BY) for member institutions that would like to release their library catalog data on the Web. This open data license provides the means for users to share WorldCat-derived data in a manner that is consistent with the cooperatives community norms defined in the WorldCat… Continue Reading
Shifting Confidence in Homeownership: The Great Recession
Shifting Confidence in Homeownership: The Great Recession. Anat Bracha and Julian C. Jamison. Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, June 26, 2012 “The authors study the responses to several questions related to real estate that were added to the Michigan Survey of Consumers in July and August 2011. In particular, they asked about attitudes toward renting… Continue Reading
Broadband Internet Technical Advisory Group – SNMP Reflected Amplification DDoS Attack Mitigation
Broadband Internet Technical Advisory Group, Technical work Group Report, August 2012 “A BITAG member and Internet Service Provider (ISP), Comcast, has observed large-scale Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) Reflected Amplification Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. These attacks are significant and have been observed to result in tens of gigabits to over one hundred gigabits… Continue Reading
Pew Report – Mobile Phone Problem
Mobile Phone Problems – by Jan Lauren Boyles, Lee Rainie. August 2, 2012 Even though mobile technology often simplifies the completion of everyday tasks, cell phone owners can also encounter technical glitches and unwanted intrusions on their phones. In an April 2012 survey, the Pew Research Centers Internet & American Life Project assessed the prevalence… Continue Reading
