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Use of Dashboards in Government, by Sukumar Ganapati, Florida International University, IBM Center for the Business of Government “Stephen Few defines a dashboard as a visual display of the most important information needed to achieve one or more objectives; consolidated and arranged on a single screen so the information can be monitored at a glance. …
Macroeconomic Assessment Group established by the Financial Stability Board and the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision – Report: Assessment of the macroeconomic impact of higher loss absorbency for global systemically important banks, 10 October 2011 “Weaknesses at large financial institutions have often played a central role in the triggering and propagation of systemic financial crises. …
Food Safety: FDA Needs to Reassess Its Approach to Reducing an Illness Caused by Eating Raw Oysters, GAO-11-607, Sep 8, 2011 Data Mining: DHS Needs to Improve Executive Oversight of Systems Supporting Counterterrorism, GAO-11-742, Sep 7, 2011 National Cord Blood Inventory: Practices for Increasing Availability for Transplants and Related Challenges, GAO-12-23, Oct 7, 2011 On-the-Job …
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI): “Growing demand for biofuels, extreme weather and climate change, and increased financial activity through commodity futures markets are the main causes of high and volatile food prices, according to the 2011 Global Hunger Index report, The Challenge of Hunger: Taming Price Spikes and Excessive Food Price Volatility. These challenges …
Publisher Names in Bibliographic Data: An Experimental Authority File and a Prototype Application – This is a pre-print version of a paper published in Library Resources and Technical Services, 55,4. “The cataloging community has long acknowledged the value of investing in authority control; as bibliographic systems become more global, the need for authority control becomes …
Tracking the Trackers: Where Everybody Knows Your Username by Jonathan Mayer, posted on October 11, 2011 Click the local Home Depot ad and your email address gets handed to a dozen companies monitoring you. Your web browsing, past, present, and future, is now associated with your identity. Swap photos with friends on Photobucket and clue …
News release: “The Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday requested public comment on a proposed regulation implementing the so-called “Volcker Rule” requirements of section 619 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. Section 619 generally contains two prohibitions. First, it prohibits insured depository institutions, bank holding companies, and their subsidiaries or affiliates (banking …
News release: “Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., chairman of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, released a report today, Repatriating Offshore Funds: 2004 Tax Windfall for Select Multinationals, that found that the 2004 repatriation tax break that allowed U.S. companies to bring $312 billion in offshore earnings back to the United States at an extraordinarily low …
Regional Economic Outlook: Europe Navigating Stormy Waters, October 2011 “Following a strong showing in early 2011, the economies across Europe now face the prospect of a pronounced slowdown, as global growth has softened, risk aversion has risen, and strains in Europes sovereign debt and financial markets have deepened, according to the Regional Economic Outlook: Europe. …
International Violence Against Women: U.S. Response and Policy Issues, July 26, 2011 “In recent years, the international community has increasingly recognized international violence against women (VAW) as a significant human rights and global health issue. VAW, which can include both random acts of violence as well as sustained abuse over time, can be physical, psychological, …
“This table series provides a range of social and economic characteristics for the foreign-born population and their children and is the only federal source of data on the “second generation” and “third generation” populations. These data were collected from the Annual Social and Economic Supplement to the Current Population Survey.”
“Human trafficking is a truly global phenomenon and a crime which affects nearly every part of the world, whether as a source, transit or destination country. According to UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), victims from at least 127 countries have been detected and it is estimated that more than 2.4 million people are …
