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CRS – Army Drawdown and Restructuring: Background and Issues for Congress, Andrew Feickert, Specialist in Military Ground Forces. January 3, 2013 “On January 26, 2012, senior DOD leadership unveiled a new defense strategy based on a review of potential future security challenges, current defense strategy, and budgetary constraints. This new strategy envisions a smaller, leaner …
Via LLRX.com – Googles powerful Nexus 10 Android tablet as a library patrons delight: The hardware and the apps that shine on it – David H. Rothman reviews the Android Nexus 10, which he considers a standout from among the well known group of available e-book readers. David documents key reasons to choose this e-reading …
Via LLRX.com – 2012: The year of the mobile lawyer? – Attorney Nicole Black discusses the rise in the number of lawyers using mobile devices, the growing number of apps developed specifically for lawyers, and how these apps increasingly support lawyers at every stage of the litigation process.
Via LLRX.com – Legal ethics and retention of electronic data: Lawyers are increasingly shifting their day to day operations to applications and operations that leverage the convenience and affordability offered by the concept of a paperless office. Attorney Nicole Black talks about how doing so can raise an assortment of ethical issues, since the confidentiality …
Global Shadow Banking Monitoring Report 2012, Financial Stability Board, November 18, 2012 “The shadow banking system can broadly be described as credit intermediation involving entities and activities outside the regular banking system. Although intermediating credit through non-bank channels can have advantages, such channels can also become a source of systemic risk, especially when they are …
CRS – Internet Domain Names: Background and Policy Issues. Lennard G. Kruger, Specialist in Science and Technology Policy. January 3, 2013 “Navigating the Internet requires using addresses and corresponding names that identify the location of individual computers. The Domain Name System (DNS) is the distributed set of databases residing in computers around the world that …
Wareluk, Ewa Justyna, The Analysis of Insider Trading on Credit Derivatives Market by Means of the Event Study Methodology (January 6, 2013). Available at SSRN “Preemption has emerged as the leading contender for conceptual grounding of the patentable subject matter doctrines exclusion of abstract ideas and natural phenomena from patentability. Despite the Supreme Courts frequent …
CRS – Internet Governance and the Domain Name System: Issues for Congress. Lennard G. Kruger, Specialist in Science and Technology Policy. January 2, 2013 “The Internet is often described as a network of networks because it is not a single physical entity, but hundreds of thousands of interconnected networks linking hundreds of millions of computers …
Tracking Europe’s Debt Crisis: “Bank lending to companies in the euro zone continued to slump in November, according to official data that could raise expectations of an interest rate cut as early as next week by the European Central Bank. The bank said that loans to companies, not including banks, in the 17-nation currency zone …
National, regional, and global trends in adult overweight and obesity prevalences, Population Health Metrics 2012, 10:22 “Excess body weight is an important risk factor for mortality and morbidity from cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, cancers, and musculoskeletal disorders, causing nearly three million annual deaths worldwide. In previous work, we used a systematic analysis of data from population-based …
