Monthly archives: November, 2011

New GAO Reports: Environmental Justice, Federal Housing Administration, Next Gen Air Transport

Environmental Justice: EPA Needs to Take Additional Actions to Help Ensure Effective Implementation, GAO-12-77, Oct 6, 2011 Federal Housing Administration: Improvements Needed in Risk Assessment and Human Capital Management, GAO-12-15, Nov 7, 2011 Next Generation Air Transportation System: Linking Test Facilities Can Help Leverage Resources and Improve Technology Transfer Efforts, GAO-12-187T, Nov 7, 2011

Subjects: Government Documents

New Working Papers – Bank for International Settlements, November 2011

Anchoring countercyclical capital buffers: the role of credit aggregates The Impact of the International Financial Crisis on Asia and the Pacific: Highlighting Monetary Policy Challenges from a Negative Asset Price Bubble Perspective Rescue packages and bank lending News driven business cycles and data on asset prices in estimated DSGE models

Subjects: Government Documents

Freedom House – Countries at the Crossroads 2011

“The 2011 edition of the Countries at the Crossroads report analyzes the performance of 35 countries, including six in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). The countries scores cover the period from April 2007 through December 2010, and generally indicate grim and deteriorating conditions in the run-up to the Arab Spring. Overall country declines …

Subjects: Civil Liberties

Remaining Risks in the Tri-Party Repo Market

Remaining Risks in the Tri-Party Repo Market, Antoine Martin, Federal Reserve Bank of New York “The tri-party repo market is one in which large U.S. securities firms and bank securities affiliates (dealers) finance much of their fixed-income securities inventories. A New York Fed white paper and the Financial System Oversight Council annual report have highlighted …

Subjects: Government Documents

CBO Monthly Budget Review November 2011

Monthly Budget Review November 2011. Based on the Monthly Treasury Statement for September and the Daily Treasury Statements for October “The federal government recorded a total budget deficit of $1.3 trillion in fiscal year 2011, almost identical to the deficit it incurred in 2010. As a share of the nation’s gross domestic product (GDP), the …

Subjects: Government Documents

The Socialbot Network: When Bots Socialize for Fame and Money

The Socialbot Network: When Bots Socialize for Fame and Money – Yazan Boshmaf, Ildar Muslukhov, Konstantin Beznosov, Matei Ripeanu – University of British Columbia Vancouver, Canada “Online Social Networks (OSNs) have become an integral part of today’s Web. Politicians, celebrities, revolutionists, and others use OSNs as a podium to deliver their message to millions of …

Subjects: Blogs, Cybercrime, Internet, Privacy

New Paper: Why parents help their children lie to Facebook about age: Unintended consequences of the COPPA

“The Berkman Center for Internet & Society is pleased to share a new paper published in First Monday, Why parents help their children lie to Facebook about age: Unintended consequences of the Childrens Online Privacy Protection Act, authored by Berkman community members danah boyd, Eszter Hargittai, Jason Schultz, and John Palfrey. Abstract from the authors: …

Subjects: Internet, Legal Research, Legislation, Privacy

Report to Congress: Mandatory Minimum Penalties in the Federal Criminal Justice System

Follow up to previous postings on sentencing guidelines, see the following Report to Congress: Mandatory Minimum Penalties in the Federal Criminal Justice System, October 2011: “This report assesses the impact of mandatory minimum penalties on federal sentencing, particularly in light of the Supreme Court’s decision in Booker v. United States, which rendered the federal sentencing …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Courts, Legal Research

Pew – The Generation Gap and the 2012 Election

The Generation Gap and the 2012 Election – Angry Silents, Disengaged Millennials, November 3, 2011 “In the last four national elections, generational differences have mattered more than they have in decades. According to the exit polls, younger people have voted substantially more Democratic than other age groups in each election since 2004, while older voters …

Subjects: Government Documents

'Thinking' in a Deweyan Perspective: The Law School Exam as a Case Study for Thinking in Lawyering

‘Thinking’ in a Deweyan Perspective: The Law School Exam as a Case Study for Thinking in Lawyering, Donald J. Kochan, Chapman University School of Law, November 4, 2011, Nevada Law Journal, Forthcoming “As creatures of thought, we are thinking all the time, but that does not necessarily mean that we are thinking well. Answering the …

Subjects: Knowledge Management, Legal Research

UNESCO Global Open Access Portal launched

“The Global Open Access Portal (GOAP) presents a snapshot of the status of Open Access (OA) to scientific information around the world. For countries that have been more successful in implementing Open Access, the portal highlights critical success factors and aspects of the enabling environment. For countries and regions that are still in the early …

Subjects: Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Knowledge Management

2011 Federal Sentencing Guidelines Manual Now Online

Follow up to previous postings on sentencing guidelines, the 2011 Guidelines Manual (effective November 1, 2011) is available in HTML and Adobe PDF formats (large file and broken into chapters), which can be viewed, downloaded or printed via the website. Individual Chapters 1-8 and Guidelines in HTML or PDF Format View the 2011 Federal Sentencing …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Courts, Legal Research

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