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“Based on the definition of the well-known h index we propose a t factor for measuring the impact of publications (and other entities) on Twitter. “The new index combines tweet and retweet data in a balanced way whereby retweets are seen as data reflecting the impact of initial tweets. The t factor is defined as …
“The largest U.S. financial institutions conduct business around the world, maintaining a strong presence through branches and subsidiaries in foreign countries. This blog post highlights trends in their foreign ownership over the past twenty-five years, complementing recent research from the New York Fed on large and complex banks. We document a constant decline in the …
A Guide to U.S. Military Casualty Statistics: Operation Freedom’s Sentinel, Operation Inherent Resolve, Operation New Dawn, Operation Iraqi Freedom, and Operation Enduring Freedom. Hannah Fischer, Information Research Specialist. August 7, 2015. [As always, CRS reports via Steven Aftergood/FAS] – “This report presents statistics regarding U.S. military and civilian casualties in the active missions Operation Freedom’s …
Colleagues – we have worked for many years, often many decades, as members of a profession to which we have a deep and abiding commitment and through which we have, under often the most challenging of circumstances, helped to usher in the future without forsaking the past. So this snippet (the rest is behind a …
“In 2014, the most essential indicators of Earth’s changing climate continued to reflect trends of a warming planet, with several markers such as rising land and ocean temperature, sea levels and greenhouse gases ─ setting new records. These key findings and others can be found in the State of the Climate in 2014 report released …
Bank for International Settlement – Bond markets and monetary policy dilemmas for the emerging markets by Jhuvesh Sobrun and Philip Turner Working Papers No 508 August 2015. “Financial conditions in the emerging markets (EMs) have become more dependent on the ‘world’ long-term interest rate, which has been driven down by monetary policies in the advanced …
“Data are now available for metropolitan statistical areas and counties by enterprise employment size. Statistics include number of firms, establishments, employment, annual payroll, and estimated receipts.”
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources – The IUCN Global Species Programme working with the IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC) has been assessing the conservation status of species, subspecies, varieties, and even selected subpopulations on a global scale for the past 50 years in order to highlight taxa threatened with extinction, and thereby promote their conservation. …
