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News release: “World military expenditure totalled $1.75 trillion in 2012, a fall of 0.5 per cent in real terms since 2011, according to figures released today by Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). The comprehensive annual update of the SIPRI Military Expenditure Database is accessible here. The fallthe first since 1998was driven by major spending …
“On May 12, 2009, the ACLU and the Public Patent Foundation (PUBPAT) filed a lawsuit charging that patents on two human genes associated with breast and ovarian cancer, BRCA1 and BRCA2, are unconstitutional and invalid. On November 30, 2012, the Supreme Court agreed to hear argument on the patentability of human genes [via SCOTUSblog]. The …
Knowledge@Wharton: “Collateralized debt obligations (CDOs), the bad boys of the financial crisis of 2008, are coming back. CDOs are securities that hold different types of debt, such as mortgage-backed securities and corporate bonds, which are then sliced into varying levels of risk and sold to investors. With the Federal Reserve committed to keeping interest rates …
R&D News: “In a development that could make the advanced form of secure communications known as quantum cryptography more practical, University of Michigan researchers have demonstrated a simpler, more efficient single-photon emitter that can be made using traditional semiconductor processing techniques. Single-photon emitters release one particle of light, or photon, at a time, as opposed …
How advanced analytics are redefining banking: “In search of growth, banks are increasingly analyzing the massive amounts of data they collect to sharpen their decision-making processes. In a new video interview, on mckinsey.com, McKinsey director Toos Daruvala explains how three banks are applying analytics in different ways to gain a competitive edge… Three related articles, …
Careers in the growing field of information technology services, by Lauren Csorny. April 2013 “Computers and information technology (IT) touch nearly every aspect of modern life. Information technology can help with such diverse tasks as driving motor vehicles and diagnosing diseases. IT enables seamless integration and communication between businesses anywhere in the world. To keep …
A Profile of the Working Poor, 2011 [April 2013] “In 2011, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, about 46.2 million people, or 15.0 percent of the nations population, lived below the official poverty level. Although the poor were primarily children and adults who had not participated in the labor force during the year, according to …
QuickStats: Percentage of Adults Who Often Felt Very Tired or Exhausted in the Past 3 Months, by Sex and Age Group – National Health Interview Survey, United States, 2010-2011. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), April 12, 2013.
What Can We Learn by Disaggregating the Unemployment-Vacancy Relationship?, Public Policy Brief No. 12-3, by Rand Ghayad and William Dickens, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, October 2012. “The Beveridge curvethe empirical relationship between unemployment and job vacanciesis thought to be an indicator of the efficiency of the functioning of the labor market. Normally, when job …
“The Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues today issued its report concerning federally-sponsored research involving human volunteers, concluding that current rules and regulations provide adequate safeguards to mitigate risk. In its report, Moral Science: Protecting Participants in Human Subjects Research, the Commission also recommended 14 changes to current practices to better protect research …
