Day archives: December 16th, 2011

New GAO Reports: Foster Children, Weatherization Funds, Medicaid,

Foster Children – HHS Guidance Could Help States Improve Oversight of Psychotropic Prescriptions [Reissued on December 15, 2011], GAO-12-201, Dec 14, 2011 Progress and Challenges in Spending Weatherization Funds, GAO-12-195, Dec 16, 2011 Medicaid – Health Opportunity Accounts Demonstration Program, GAO-12-221R, Dec 16, 2011 Station Fire – Forest Service’s Response Offers Potential Lessons for Future …

Subjects: Government Documents

Reports that Google Chrome Overtakes IE 8 in Global Market

Technolog: “Ireland-based StatCounter — which posts Web analytics based on aggregate data it collects from a sample exceeding 15 billion pageviews per month (including 4 billion in the U.S.), collected from the StatCounter network of more than 3 million websites — released a statement about Chrome 15’s ascension, humbling the initial enthusiasm of any Google …

Subjects: Search Engines

Cal-Tech: High-Energy Physicists Set Record for Network Data Transfer

News release: “Researchers have set a new world record for data transfer, helping to usher in the next generation of high-speed network technology. At the SuperComputing 2011 (SC11) conference in Seattle during mid-November, the international team transferred data in opposite directions at a combined rate of 186 gigabits per second (Gbps) in a wide-area network …

Subjects: Internet

Research: High risk of permafrost thaw

Northern soils will release huge amounts of carbon in a warmer world, say Edward A. G. Schuur, Benjamin Abbott and the Permafrost Carbon Network. “Arctic temperatures are rising fast, and permafrost is thawing. Carbon released into the atmosphere from permafrost soils will accelerate climate change, but the magnitude of this effect remains highly uncertain. Our …

Subjects: Government Documents