“This is the seventh in a series of stories over the coming weeks looking at various topics related to the response, the Natural Resource Damage Assessment science, restoration efforts, and the future of the Gulf of Mexico. APRIL 17, 2015 — The Deepwater Horizon oil spill was the largest marine oil spill in U.S. history.… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: April 2015
DHS Data Framework – Interim Process to Address Emergent Threat
Privacy Impact Assessment for the DHS Data Framework – Interim Process to Address an Emergent Threat. DHS/ALL/PIA-051 April 15 , 2015. “The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is publishing this Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) to explain its plan to expedite DHS’s ability to meet a critical mission need through the use of an interim manual… Continue Reading
New GAO Reports – 202 Census, Defense Inventory, DOD Acquisition Rulemaking
2020 Census: Recommended Actions Need to Be Implemented before Potential Cost Savings Can be Realized, GAO-15-546T: Published: Apr 20, 2015. Publicly Released: Apr 20, 2015. Defense Inventory: Services Generally Have Reduced Excess Inventory, but Additional Actions Are Needed, GAO-15-350: Published: Apr 20, 2015. Publicly Released: Apr 20, 2015. Department of Defense: Acquisition Rulemaking Practices, GAO-15-423R:… Continue Reading
NIST Seeks Comments on De-identification Report
EPIC – “The National Institute of Standards and Technology has released a draft report on “De-Identification of Personally Identifiable Information.” The agency is requesting comments by May 15. The NIST report reviews de-identification techniques and research, including work by EPIC Advisory Board members Cynthia Dwork and Latanya Sweeney. Last year, in response to a similar… Continue Reading
Indicators to support monetary and financial stability analysis: data sources and statistical methodologies
Indicators to support monetary and financial stability analysis: data sources and statistical methodologies IFC Bulletin No 39 April 2015 – 837 pages PDF. Papers in this volume were prepared for the Seventh IFC Conference held in Basel on 4-5 September 2014. Table of Contents as follows: Indicators to support monetary and financial stability analysis: overview of… Continue Reading
SEC Implements Dodd-Frank Reporting and Dissemination Rules for Security-Based Swaps
SEC Implements Dodd-Frank Reporting and Dissemination Rules for Security-Based Swaps Posted by Kobi Kastiel, Co-editor, HLS Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation, on Sunday, April 19, 2015 [The following post comes to us from Arthur S. Long, partner in the Financial Institutions and Securities Regulation practice groups at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, and… Continue Reading
SV150: Current tech boom is no dot-com bubble, experts say
Silicon Valley’s top public tech companies ranked, in everything from sales to taxes paid. (Dollar figures in millions.) By Daniel J. Willis, Jeremy C. Owens and Jack Davis / Bay Area News Group – Searchable Database. Patrick May – Mercury News – “Silicon Valley’s tech cup runneth over. Job growth is humming, coders are being… Continue Reading
Guest Editorial: Social media metrics in scholarly communication
Guest Editorial: Social media metrics in scholarly communication, Stefanie Haustein, Cassidy R. Sugimoto, Vincent Larivière (Submitted on 8 Apr 2015). “Social media metrics – commonly coined as “altmetrics” – have been heralded as great democratizers of science, providing broader and timelier indicators of impact than citations. These metrics come from a range of sources, including… Continue Reading
Contextualization of topics – browsing through terms, authors, journals and cluster allocations
Contextualization of topics – browsing through terms, authors, journals and cluster allocations, Rob Koopman, Shenghui Wang, Andrea Scharnhorst (Submitted on 16 Apr 2015). “This paper builds on an innovative Information Retrieval tool, Ariadne. The tool has been developed as an interactive network visualization and browsing tool for large-scale bibliographic databases. It basically allows to gain… Continue Reading
Physics in 100 Years
Physics in 100 Years, Frank Wilczek (Submitted on 26 Mar 2015) “Here I indulge in wide-ranging speculations on the shape of physics, and technology closely related to physics, over the next one hundred years. Themes include the many faces of unification, the re-imagining of quantum theory, and new forms of engineering on small, intermediate, and… Continue Reading
The Regulatory Adventure of the Two Norwood Builders
Davies, Ross E., The Regulatory Adventure of the Two Norwood Builders: Sherlock Holmes Crosses Paths with Congress, the President, the Courts, and the Administrative State, in the Press (April 17, 2015). 2015 Green Bag Almanac & Reader 567. Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2595768 “It was almost certainly some combination of law on the books… Continue Reading
Cyber In-securIty II Closing the Federal Talent Gap
Partnership for Public Service and Booz Allen Hamilton – Cyber In-securIty II Closing the Federal Talent Gap, April 2015. “Technology has changed our lives. Individuals can email, text and talk to each other, take pictures, get directions, watch television, control their home appliances, read the news, play games and manage their schedules using a device that… Continue Reading
