Day archives: December 22nd, 2010

Health Advocacy Group Report: One mother's activism has led to more transparency in hospital disclosures to the public

California HealthCare Foundation Center for Health Reporting, an independent organization devoted to reporting on California health care issues reporting: “After Carole Mosss 15-year-old son died from an infection in 2006 in an Orange County hospital, she launched a one-woman crusade to force hospitals throughout California to reveal how many of their patients contract serious infections. …

Subjects: Government Documents

BJS – Correctional Populations in the United States, 2009

“The number of adults under correctional supervision in the United States declined by less than one percent during 2009, dropping to 7,225,800 (or 48,800 fewer offenders than at yearend 2008), the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) announced today. This was the first measured decline in the total number of adults under correctional supervision since BJS …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, E-Government, Government Documents

New GAO Reports: Medicare, Long-Term Care Hospitals, Missile Defense

Medicare: CMS Needs to Collect Consistent Information from Quality Improvement Organizations to Strengthen Its Establishment of Budgets for Quality of Care Reviews, GAO-11-116R, December 06, 2010 Long-Term Care Hospitals: Differences in Their Oversight Compared to Other Types of Hospitals and Nursing Homes, GAO-11-130R, November 30, 2010 Missile Defense: European Phased Adaptive Approach Acquisitions Face Synchronization, …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

BIS: Capitalisation of bank exposures to central counterparties – consultative document

Capitalisation of bank exposures to central counterparties – consultative document, December 2010 “The Basel Committee issued today a consultative paper on the Capitalisation of bank exposures to central counterparties. These proposals relate to the capitalisation of bank exposures to a central counterparty – CCP – and, in particular, default fund exposures. Generally speaking, the Committee …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

Gallup: U.S. Internet Users Ready to Limit Online Tracking for Ads

Follow up to FTC Staff Issues Privacy Report Offers Framework for Consumers, Businesses, and Policymakers, this news from Gallup: “U.S. Internet users would likely welcome a “Do Not Track” measure like the one the Federal Trade Commission is currently considering to keep advertisers from tracking their movements online. Gallup finds Internet users largely aware that …

Subjects: E-Commerce, Internet, Privacy

BIS: Measurement of perceived and expected inflation on the basis of consumer survey data

Measurement of perceived and expected inflation on the basis of consumer survey data, by Tomasz Łyziak, National Bank of Poland, December 2010, IFC Working Papers No 5, Bank for International Settlements “This paper discusses measurement techniques used in the literature to quantify inflation perception and expectations on the basis of qualitative survey data. Description of …

Subjects: Government Documents

Report: Distributed Denial of Service Attacks Against Independent Media and Human Rights Sites

The Berkman Center for Internet & Society is pleased to share a new report, Distributed Denial of Service Attacks Against Independent Media and Human Rights Sites by Ethan Zuckerman, Hal Roberts, Ryan McGrady, Jillian York, John Palfrey “Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) is an increasingly common Internet phenomenon capable of silencing Internet speech, usually for …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Free Speech, Internet

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