Enrollment in Postsecondary Institutions, Fall 2012; Financial Statistics, Fiscal Year 2012; Graduation Rates, Selected Cohorts, 2004-2009; and Employees in Postsecondary Institutions, Fall 2012: First Look (Provisional Data) – December 31, 2013. “This provisional First Look report includes fully edited and imputed data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) spring 2013 data collection, which included… Continue Reading
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New Climate Change Study Projects Continued and Severe Future Warming
Spread in model climate sensitivity traced to atmospheric convective mixing, Steven C. Sherwood, Sandrine Bony & Jean-Louis Dufresne. Nature. 505, 37–42 (02 January 2014) doi:10.1038/nature12829. “This paper offers an explanation for the long-standing uncertainty in predictions of global warming derived from climate models. Uncertainties in predicted climate sensitivity — the magnitude of global warming due to an external influence — range from 1.5° C… Continue Reading
2013 Year-End Report on the Federal Judiciary
Chief Justice’s Year-End Reports on the Federal Judiciary – December 31, 2013 “Sequestration cuts have affected court operations across the spectrum. There are fewer court clerks to process new civil and bankruptcy cases, slowing the intake procedure and propagating delays throughout the litigation process. There are fewer probation and pretrial services officers to protect the public from defendants awaiting… Continue Reading
A More Accountable Workforce Development System
Center for an Urban Future – COMMENTARY/OP-ED – DECEMBER 2013, by Christian González-Rivera “New York’s prosperity, today and in the years to come, will largely depend on the quality of its workforce. That’s why the state spends billions of dollars each year on educating and training future workers through the PK-12 system, public colleges and universities, workforce… Continue Reading
Finnish research team reveals how emotions are mapped in the body
News release: “Emotions adjust our mental and also bodily states to cope with the challenges detected in the environment. These sensations arising from the bodily changes are an important feature of our emotional experiences. For example, anxiety may be experienced as pain in the chest, whereas falling in love may trigger warm, pleasurable sensations all… Continue Reading
DOD Unmanned Systems Integrated Roadmap FY2013-2038
“The purpose of this Roadmap is to articulate a vision and strategy for the continued development, production, test, training, operation, and sustainment of unmanned systems technology across DoD. This Unmanned Systems Integrated Roadmap establishes a technological vision for the next 25 years and outlines actions and technologies for DoD and industry to pursue to intelligently… Continue Reading
National Plan to Achieve Maritime Domain Awareness
“Today the White House released the National Maritime Domain Awareness Plan. This plan promotes global maritime security and prosperity through improved governance to support the effective understanding of the maritime domain. Notably, 90 percent of the world’s commerce moves by sea, making maritime security essential to the global supply chain and international trade Consistent with Presidential Policy Directive… Continue Reading
The Postmodernity of Big Data
The Postmodernity of Big Data By MICHAEL PEPI – In addressing the insecurities of postmodern thought, Big Data falls prey to some of the same issues of interpretation “Big Data fascinates because its presence has always been with us in nature. Each tree, drop of rain, and the path of each grain of sand, both responds to and creates… Continue Reading
World Welfare is Rising – NY Fed
World Welfare is Rising: Estimation Using Nonparametric Bounds on Welfare Measures – Maxim L. Pinkovskiy, Staff Report No. 662, December 2013 “I take a new approach to measuring world inequality and welfare over time by constructing robust bounds for these series instead of imposing parametric assumptions to compute point estimates. I derive sharp bounds on the Atkinson inequality index… Continue Reading
Foreign Policy – THE LEADING GLOBAL THINKERS OF 2013
Foreign Policy – THE LEADING GLOBAL THINKERS OF 2013 THE SURVEILLANCE STATE DECISION-MAKERS CHALLENGERS NATURALS INNOVATORS ADVOCATES CHRONICLERS HEALERS ARTISTS MOGULS Continue Reading
Costs for Hospital Stays in the United States, 2011
“Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) provides an annual overview of national statistics on inpatient hospital stays, including their associated costs, using data from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project. Costs for Hospital Stays in the United States, 2011, is a statistical brief that provides the most current data on costs for stays in community… Continue Reading
State of the Judiciary: Judicial Selection During Obama’s Second Term
Alliance for Justice Report – The State of the Judiciary – Judicial Selection During the 113th Congress, October 2013 “Throughout President Obama’s nearly five years in office, the federal courts have experienced an unprecedented vacancy crisis. Congress returned from the August 2013 recess to a federal judiciary with 109 current and future vacancies, 45 pending nominees, and more… Continue Reading
