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Daily Archives: November 15, 2015

New on LLRX – The True Measure of Bitcoin’s Success

Via LLRX.com – The True Measure of Bitcoin’s Success – This commentary by financial analyst Ryan Davis supports the position that the price of Bitcoin should not be the primary measure of the state of Bitcoin, nor should any one metric be the primary measure of the state of Bitcoin. The true measure of the state of Bitcoin is a combination of everything from activity in GitHub repositories to the number of daily bitcoin transactions.

New on LLRX – Bitcoin Derivatives – Independent Study Report

Via LLRX.com: Bitcoin Derivatives – Independent Study Report – Financial analyst Ryan Davis describes the landscape of exchanges based in and outside of the U.S. that have begun to offer trading in bitcoin derivatives. TeraExchange completed the first bitcoin derivative trade on a regulated exchange in the U.S. on October 8, 2014 with its Bitcoin… Continue Reading

New on LLRX – The Support from Standardized Tests: High School Graduates Unprepared to be College Freshmen

Via LLRX.com – The Support from Standardized Tests: High School Graduates Unprepared to be College Freshmen – In Part 4 of a 5 Part series, Librarian and Educator Lorette Weldon focuses on a core issue related to STEM education – high school students are not guaranteed success in college when they have completed college-preparatory courses.… Continue Reading

Searchable Suicide Attack Database

“The Chicago Project on Security and Terrorism (CPOST) maintains a searchable database on all suicide attacks from 1982 through June 2015. The database includes information about the location of attacks, the target type, the weapon used, and systematic information on the demographic and general biographical characteristics of suicide attackers. The database expands the breadth of… Continue Reading

Opening the Black Box of Scholarly Communication Funding

Lawson, Stuart and Gray, Jonathan and Mauri, Michele, Opening the Black Box of Scholarly Communication Funding: A Public Data Infrastructure for Financial Flows in Academic Publishing (November 13, 2015). Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2690570 “”Public access to publicly funded research” has been one of the rallying calls of the global open access movement. Governments… Continue Reading

Financing Education for the Public Good: A New Strategy

McMahon, Walter W., Financing Education for the Public Good: A New Strategy (May 1, 2015). Journal of Education Finance, 40:4 (Spring 2015), pp. 414-437. Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2690479 “A new approach is suggested that depends on and measures how spending on higher and basic education is really an investment in the future, not… Continue Reading

Drug Offenders in Federal Prisons: Estimates of Characteristics Based on Linked Data

“More than half (54 percent) of drug offenders in federal custody at yearend 2012 were serving sentences for powder or crack cocaine, the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) reported in a study released today. Methamphetamine offenders (24 percent) accounted for the next largest share of drug offenders, followed by marijuana (12 percent) and heroin (6… Continue Reading

Police Use of Nonfatal Force, 2002–11

“In a study released today by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), an annual average of 44 million U.S. residents age 16 or older had one or more face-to-face contacts with police from 2002 to 2011, and an estimated 1.6 percent experienced the threat or use of nonfatal force during the most recent contact. About… Continue Reading

Can we measure beauty? Computational evaluation of coral reef aesthetics

Haas AF, Guibert M, Foerschner A, Co T, Calhoun S, George E, Hatay M, Dinsdale E, Sandin SA, Smith JE, Vermeij MJA, Felts B, Dustan P, Salamon P, Rohwer F. (2015) Can we measure beauty? Computational evaluation of coral reef aesthetics. PeerJ 3:e1390 https://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1390 “The natural beauty of coral reefs attracts millions of tourists worldwide… Continue Reading