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Moral Science – Protecting Participants in Human Subjects Research, Presidential Commission, for the Study of Bioethical Issues – December 2011 “The Commission collected basic, project-level data about human subjects research, including study title, number and location of sites, number of subjects, and funding information. These data were compiled into the Commissions Research Project Database, and …
Follow up to postings on driving distractions and texting, this news release and related documentation: “The NTSB voted unanimously for a nationwide ban on the nonemergency use of portable electronic devices (other than those designed to support the driving task) for all drivers.” NYT: Reframing the Debate Over Using Phones Behind the Wheel: “..in an …
via IEEE Spectrum, Geothermal Energys Promise and Problems: “Geothermal energy is touted as one of the few renewable resources that could be used for base-load (round-the-clock) power generation: Earths heat is always on, and its not dependent on the vagaries of wind or sun. New research from Southern Methodist Universitysponsored by Googles philanthropic armsuggests massive …
“GMIs CEO Pay Survey 2011, one of the largest surveys of CEO compensation in North America, is based on analysis of the Russell 3000 and S&P 500 companies. Only 2,132 CEOs were in the job for the whole of the last two fiscal years, so it is on this smaller sample that changes in CEO …
