Physical Activity, Sadness, and Suicidality in Bullied US Adolescents, Clinical Guidance. Jeremy Sibold, EdD, ATC, Erika Edwards, PhD, Dianna Murray-Close, PhD , James J. Hudziak, MD, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT Accepted: July 14, 2015; Published Online: July 17, 2015. Publication stage: In Press Corrected Proof. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaac.2015.06.019 Objective – The consequences of bullying are… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: September 2015
AAU Campus Survey on Sexual Assault and Sexual Misconduct
Association of American Universities – Full Report; Executive Summary; Press Release; Fact Sheet; Survey Instrument; FAQ “The primary goal of the Campus Climate Survey on Sexual Assault and Sexual Misconduct was to provide participating institutions of higher education with information to inform policies to prevent and respond to sexual assault and misconduct. The survey was… Continue Reading
IMF Monetary Policy and Financial Stability
IMF Staff Report, Monetary Policy and Financial Stability – August 28, 2015: “The issue of using monetary policy for financial stability purposes is hotly contested. The crisis was a reminder that price stability is not sufficient for financial stability, financial crises are costly, and policy should aim to decrease the likelihood of crises, not only… Continue Reading
Current Average Wait for an Immigration Court Hearing is Nearly Three Years
“Nearly a half million individual deportation cases (456,644) were pending before the judges in the nation’s clearly overwhelmed Immigration Courts at the end of August, according to the very latest data from the U.S. Department of Justice. The severity of the rapidly growing crisis was revealed last January, when the court issued thousands of letters… Continue Reading
Humans Are Easily Fooled by Digital Images
Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, September 17, 2015 – Humans Are Easily Fooled by Digital Images. Victor Schetinger, Manuel M. Oliveira, Roberto da Silva, and Tiago Carvalho “Digital images are ubiquitous in our modern lives, with uses ranging from social media to news, and even scientific papers. For this reason, it is crucial evaluate… Continue Reading
Empirical Big Data Research: A Systematic Literature Mapping
Empirical Big Data Research: A Systematic Literature Mapping – Leendert Wienhofen, Bjørn Magnus Mathisen, Dumitru Roman (Submitted on 10 Sep 2015) arXiv.org “Background: Big Data is a relatively new field of research and technology, and literature reports a wide variety of concepts labeled with Big Data. The maturity of a research field can be measured… Continue Reading
Open Access and Discovery Tools: How do Primo Libraries Manage Green Open Access Collections?
François Renaville, University of Liège Library, ALA Editions, http://hdl.handle.net/2268/185329 “Scholarly Open Access repositories contain lots of treasures including rare or otherwise unpublished materials and articles that scholars self-archive, often as part of their institution’s mandate. But it can be hard to discover this material unless users know exactly where to look. Since the very beginning,… Continue Reading
Open Tree of Life
“Open Tree of Life aims to construct a comprehensive, dynamic and digitally-available tree of life by synthesizing published phylogenetic trees along with taxonomic data. The project is a collaborative effort between 11 PIs across 10 institutions. Funding is from NSF AVAToL #1208809. Browse the tree and leave feedback: Click on nodes to move through the… Continue Reading
DOJ Policy Guidance – Use of Cell-Sites Simulator Technology
Department of Justice Guidance – Use of Cell-Sites Simulator Technology, September 3, 2015 “Cell-site simulator technology provides valuable assistance in support of important public safety objectives.Whether deployed as part of a fugitive apprehension effort , a complex narcotics investigation, or to locate or rescue a kidnapped child, cell-site simulators fulfill critical operational needs. As with… Continue Reading
The Deep Web and The Darknet
The Deep Web and The Darknet A Look Inside the Internet’s Massive Black Box. Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, August 2015. “Many believe a Google search can identify most of the information available on the Internet on a given subject. But there is an entire online world – a massive one – beyond the… Continue Reading
InterTubes: A Study of the US Long-haul Fiber-optic Infrastructure
Ramakrishnan Durairajan, Paul Barford, Joel Sommers, Walter Willinger – ACM [Association for Computing Machinery]. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2785956.2787499 “The complexity and enormous costs of installing new long-haul fiber-optic infrastructure has led to a significant amount of infrastructure sharing in previously installed conduits. In this paper, we study the characteristics and implications of infrastructure sharing by analyzing the… Continue Reading
Comparing American and European Innovation Cultures
STEPHEN EZELL – The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF), US; PHILIPP MARXGUT Office of Science and Technology Austria – Washington, US “The evolution of the political economy of innovation has differed between the United States and Europe, write Stephen Ezell and Philip Marxgut of the Austrian Office of Science and Technology in a chapter… Continue Reading
