Results-Oriented Management: OPM Needs to Do More to Ensure Meaningful Distinctions Are Made in SES Ratings and Performance Awards, GAO-15-189: Published: Jan 22, 2015. Publicly Released: Feb 23, 2015: “GAO recommends that the Director of OPM consider various refinements to better ensure the SES performance appraisal system certification guidelines promote making meaningful distinctions in performance.… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: February 2015
Effects of Regional Temperature on Electric Vehicle Efficiency, Range, and Emissions in the US
Effects of Regional Temperature on Electric Vehicle Efficiency, Range, and Emissions in the United States. Tugce Yuksel and Jeremy J Michalek. Environ. Sci. Technol., Just Accepted Manuscript DOI: 10.1021/es505621s Publication Date (Web): February 11, 2015. “We characterize the effect of regional temperature differences on battery electric vehicle (BEV) efficiency, range, and use-phase CO2 emissions in… Continue Reading
Trusting Trust
Gordon, Deborah S., Trusting Trust (February 20, 2015). Kansas Law Review, Vol. 63, 2015; Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law Research Paper No. 2015-A-01. Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2567910 “What is a trustee and how should we understand her duties? The existing literature typically identifies the trustee in the role of agent,… Continue Reading
No Paperwhite read-aloud for you! FCC again lets Amazon and friends diss people with disabilities
New on LLRX – No Paperwhite read-aloud for you! FCC again lets Amazon and friends diss people with disabilities. David Rothman continues his reporting on the status of Text to Speech applications that have yet to be added to E-Ink readers due to the FCC’s extension of vendor exemptions from complying with a key benefit… Continue Reading
New on LLRX – Shaken Baby Syndrome: A Differential Diagnosis of Justice
Via LLRX.com – Shaken Baby Syndrome: A Differential Diagnosis of Justice – Ken Strutin’s article is a comprehensive examination of how the concept of Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS) has become a battleground where medical evidence and legal presumptions clash, testing the limits of judicial wisdom. Strutin presents a collection of recent and select court decisions,… Continue Reading
Cisco Visual Networking Index: Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast Update, 2014–2019
Cisco Visual Networking Index: Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast Update, 2014–2019: From the Summary – “Global mobile data traffic grew 69 percent in 2014. Global mobile data traffic reached 2.5 exabytes per month at the end of 2014, up from 1.5 exabytes per month at the end of 2013.Last year’s mobile data traffic was nearly 30… Continue Reading
Denmark’s largest digital archive launched
The Copenhagen Post – “Denmark’s largest digital photo album with nearly two million images…open[ed] to the general public [February 20, 2015]. Danes will have access to the online database at Arkiv.dk, which includes 1,841,254 documents such as photos, diaries, letters, and sound and video recordings. Since the late 1980s, all items from the country’s more… Continue Reading
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Report on Cybersecurity Practices
FINRA Report on Cybersecurity Practices, February 2015 – Executive Summary – “Like many organizations in the financial services and other sectors, broker-dealers (firms) are the target of cyberattacks. The frequency and sophistication of these attacks is increasing and individual broker-dealers, and the industry as a whole, must make responding to these threats a high priority.… Continue Reading
PSE Citation Database on Shale & Tight Gas Development
“This citation database provides bibliographic information, abstracts, and links to many of the vetted scientific papers housed in the PSE Healthy Energy Library, as well as other peer-reviewed journal articles. This database is a near exhaustive and evolving list of the peer-reviewed literature that directly pertains to shale and tight gas development. This literature is organized… Continue Reading
Analysis of the oil and gas industry’s case for fracking
The Public Accountability Initiative (PAI) Report – Frackademia in Depth: “In the wake of New York State’s decision to ban fracking, drilling proponents have criticized Governor Andrew Cuomo and his administration for basing the decision on “pseudo science” and “junk science.” When asked about the New York fracking ban at his 2015 “State of American… Continue Reading
22 ideas win Knight News Challenge: Libraries
Knight Foundation Blog – Chris Barr – January 15, 2015: In September we launched the 12th Knight News Challenge, on libraries, asking the question, “How might we leverage libraries as a platform to build more knowledgeable communities?” Today we’re announcing 22 winners of that challenge, awarding the recipients a share of $3 million for their… Continue Reading
CRS – How Social Security Benefits Are Computed: In Brief
How Social Security Benefits Are Computed: In Brief. Noah P. Meyerson, Analyst in Income Security. February 4, 2015. “With about $900 billion in benefit outlays projected to be made in 2015, Social Security is the largest program in the federal budget. It provides monthly cash benefits to retired and disabled workers and their family members… Continue Reading
