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Swift, S. A., D. Moore, Z. Sharek, and F. Gino. Inflated Applicants: Attribution Errors in Performance Evaluation by Professionals. PLoS ONE (forthcoming). “When explaining others’ behaviors, achievements, and failures, it is common for people to attribute too much influence to disposition and too little influence to structural and situational factors. We examine whether this tendency leads even …
Congressional Primer on Responding to Major Disasters and Emergencies. Francis X. McCarthy -Analyst in Emergency Management Policy; Jared T. Brown – Analyst in Emergency Management and Homeland Security Policy. May 24, 2013 “Before and after a disaster strikes, it may be helpful to understand the broad outlines of the national emergency management structure and where authority rests at …
Cool Tools at American Association of Law Libraries Event. Sean Doherty, Law Technology News, July 22, 2013. “The American Association of Law Libraries Annual Meeting & Conference finished up on Tuesday. The event had ninety exhibitors who presented their products and services to the law library community at the Washington State Convention Center. Here’s the …
National Journal – They’ve been helping the government spy on people for a very long time. The cozy relationships go back decades. By Michael Hirsh – July 25, 2013 “The saga of the private sector’s involvement in the NSA’s scheme for permanent mass surveillance is long, complex, and sometimes contentious. Often, in ways that appeared …
Constitutional Personae, Cass R. Sunstein, Harvard Law School, July 25, 2013 “American constitutional law is dominated by four Constitutional Personae, who can be identified by their inclinations, their temperaments, their sensibilities, and their self-presentations. Indeed, many constitutional debates consist of stylized disagreements among the leading Personae: Heroes, Soldiers, Burkeans, and Mutes. Earl Warren is the …
MILITARY READINESS – Opportunities Exist to Improve Completeness and Usefulness of Quarterly Reports to Congress, GAO-13-678, Jul 26, 2013
Annual Report of the Chief Surveillance Commissioner to the Prime Minister and to Scottish Ministers for 2012-2013 – July 2013 “The powersand duties of the Surveillance Commissioners in scrutinising and deciding whether to approve authorisations under PA97 (property interference) and under RIPA and RIP(S)A (intrusive surveillance) have been explained in earlier reports and are publicly …
“Written by Ixchel Faniel, OCLC Research; Eric Kansa, University of California Berkeley, School of Information; Sarah Whitcher Kansa, The Alexandria Archive Institute; Julianna Barrera-Gomez, OCLC Research; and Elizabeth Yakel, University of Michigan, School of Information, “The Challenges of Digging Data: A Study of Context in Archaeological Data Reuse” appears in JCDL 2013 Proceedings of the …
A Frequency-Domain Alternative to Long-Horizon Regressions with Application to Return Predictability, Natalia Sizova – Rice University, July 24, 2013 “This paper aims at improved accuracy in testing for long-run predictability in noisy series, such as stock market returns. Long-horizon regressions have previously been the dominant approach in this area. We suggest an alternative method that …
E-patients and their hunt for health information by Lee Rainie Jul 26, 2013 at Medical Library Association – “Lee Rainie, Director of the Pew Internet Project, described the Project’s research on how patients and caregivers seek health information in the digital age and he will describe how people fit librarians into their general information needs …
“Casetext is a freely available, annotated database of legal resources. Researchers find relevant documents and immediately see analysis by other attorneys and paths for further research. Contributors mark up documents in a simple, digital format and make their expertise widely known, all while helping to build a comprehensive public research tool. Who are we? Co-founders Jake Heller and Joanna …
News release: “Halliburton Energy Services Inc. has agreed to plead guilty to destroying evidence in connection with the Deepwater Horizon disaster, the Department of Justice announced today. A criminal information charging Halliburton with one count of destruction of evidence was filed today in U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of Louisiana. Halliburton has signed a …
