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“VitalStats, an online data access tool, introduces a new section on perinatal mortality data…In the perinatal mortality section of VitalStats, you can access pre-built linked birth/infant death tables and fetal death data files.” Provisional Vital Statistics for February 2007 Released. Births, Marriages, Divorces, and Deaths: Provisional Data for February 2007
DOT OIG Audit – Information Security Program at the Department of Transportation, October 10, 2007, Project ID: FI-2008-001 “Summary: On October 10, 2007, we issued our final report on the annual audit of the Department of Transportation’s Information Security Program as required by the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA). FY 2007 was a particularly …
Press release: “The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) has voted to institute an investigation of certain hard disk drives, components thereof, and products containing the same. The products at issue in this investigation are hard disk drives made using dissipative ceramic bonding tips, components of such drives, and products containing such drives. The investigation is …
Press release: “With a full twelve months under our belt, today OpenDNS published the first-ever PhishTank annual report. The report looks at the more than 300,000 phishes youve submitted and helped verify over the course of one year. While some of the reports findings come as no surprise (e.g., PayPal and eBay round out the …
Press release: “Project Vote releases a report today, Representational Bias in the 2006 Electorate, by Douglas Hess that finds a continuing problem with the U.S. electorate: those who are registered and vote are not representative of the overall U.S. population eligible to vote. The proportion of the U.S. population that registers to vote and that …
DOJ FOIA Posts – Summaries of New Decisions — July 2007 (posted 10/11/2007)
“Over the course of the past ten years PILPG has been called upon to provide legal assistance with a wide variety of issues faced by parties participating in peace negotiations or drafting post-conflict constitutions. The Quick Guides project is the result of a decision by PILPG to distill some of our most important and widely …
Pew Internet & American Life Project: “This morning’s NPR story, Patients Turn to the Internet for Health Information, featured data from [Pew’s] e-patients report, but also some research that has been conducted at the Center for Health Enhancement Systems Studies (CHESS) at the University of Wisconsin. CHESS researchers Robert Hawkins and Suzanne Pingree talked about …
CMSs Implementation of Safeguards During Fiscal Year 2006 to Prevent and Detect Fraud and Abuse in Medicare Prescription Drug Plans (OEI-06-06-00280), October 2007, 34 pages, PDF.
Improvement Continues in DOD’s Reporting on Sustainable Ranges, but Opportunities Exist to Improve Its Range Assessments and Comprehensive Plan, GAO-08-10R, October 11, 2007 Retirement Security: Women Face Challenges in Ensuring Financial Security in Retirement, GAO-08-105, October 11, 2007 Tax Administration: The Internal Revenue Service Can Improve Its Management of Paper Case Files, GAO-07-1160, September 28, …
Press release: “The Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice launched a new Web site today to educate consumers and policymakers about the potential benefits that competition can bring to consumers of real estate brokerage services and the barriers that inhibit that competition. Among its features, the Web site includes maps identifying states with real …
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Computer Security Division: “SP 800-44 version 2, Guidelines on Securing Public Web Servers, is published as final. It is intended to aid organizations in the installation, configuration, and maintenance of secure public Web servers. It presents recommendations for securing Web server operating systems, applications, and content; protecting Web servers …
