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Measuring the Information Society 2012: “New figures released today by International Telecommunications Union (ITU) show that information and communication technology (ICT) uptake continues to grow worldwide, spurred by a steady fall in the price of telephone and broadband Internet services. The new data, released in ITUs flagship annual report Measuring the Information Society 2012, rank …
How College Graduates Solve Information Problems Once They Join the Workplace. October 16, 2012 | Alison J. Head “Qualitative findings about the information-seeking behavior of todays college graduates as they transition from the campus to the workplace. Included are findings from interviews with 23 US employers and focus groups with 33 recent graduates from four …
“A U.S. Census Bureau report, Patterns of Metropolitan and Micropolitan Population Change: 2000 to 2010, shows that in many of the largest cities of the most-populous metro areas, downtown is becoming a place not only to work but also to live. Between the 2000 and 2010 censuses, metro areas with 5 million or more people …
Bobylev, Yuri and Federov, Ilya, Russia’s Oil and Gas Sector in 2011 (February 10, 2012). Russian Economy in 2011, Trends and Outlooks, Issue 33, Moscow 2012. Available at SSRN “Oil and gas production remain the core sector of Russia economy, which has a leading role in generating federal budget revenue and this countrys balance of …
The Eurozone Crisis: Overview and Issues for Congress, September 26, 2012 “The United States has strong economic ties to Europe, and many analysts view the Eurozone crisis as the biggest potential threat to the U.S. economic recovery. U.S. Treasury officials have emphasized that U.S. exposure to the Eurozone countries under the most market pressure is …
European Commission – High-level Expert Group on reforming the structure of the EU banking sector, Chaired by Erkki Liikanen, Final Report, October 2, 2012 “The High-level Expert Group was requested to consider whether there is a need for structural reforms of the EU banking sector or not and to make any relevant proposals as appropriate, …
Dremel: Interactive Analysis of WebScale Datasets – Sergey Melnik, Andrey Gubarev, Jing Jing Long, Geoffrey Romer, Shiva Shivakumar, Matt Tolton, Theo Vassilakis – Google, Inc. “Dremel is a scalable, interactive ad-hoc query system for analysis of read-only nested data. By combining multi-level execution trees and columnar data layout, it is capable of running aggregation queries …
“Where consumers live has a significant impact on how easily they can access information on terms, conditions and fees, as well as how much they will pay to maintain an account, overdraft, or accrue other fees. The Pew Safe Checking in the Electronic Age Project released
Irans Nuclear Program: Status, Paul K. Kerr, Analyst in Nonproliferation. September 26, 2012 Irans nuclear program began during the 1950s. The United States has expressed concern since the mid-1970s that Tehran might develop nuclear weapons. Irans construction of gas centrifuge based uranium enrichment facilities is currently the main source of proliferation concern. Gas centrifuges enrich …
Why the Fiscal Health of States and Cities Matters, Jonathan Masters, Online Editor/Writer, October 3, 2012 “In the wake of the recent economic crisis, many statehouses and city halls face worrying fiscal stress that could have national ramifications. Federal stimulus fundinga multi-year lifeline for state and city coffersis petering out before tax revenues fully recover …
