Via LLRX.com – The True Measure of Bitcoin’s Success – This commentary by financial analyst Ryan Davis supports the position that the price of Bitcoin should not be the primary measure of the state of Bitcoin, nor should any one metric be the primary measure of the state of Bitcoin. The true measure of the state of Bitcoin is a combination of everything from activity in GitHub repositories to the number of daily bitcoin transactions.
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Daily Archives: November 15, 2015
New on LLRX – Bitcoin Derivatives – Independent Study Report
Via LLRX.com: Bitcoin Derivatives – Independent Study Report – Financial analyst Ryan Davis describes the landscape of exchanges based in and outside of the U.S. that have begun to offer trading in bitcoin derivatives. TeraExchange completed the first bitcoin derivative trade on a regulated exchange in the U.S. on October 8, 2014 with its Bitcoin… Continue Reading
New on LLRX – The Support from Standardized Tests: High School Graduates Unprepared to be College Freshmen
Via LLRX.com – The Support from Standardized Tests: High School Graduates Unprepared to be College Freshmen – In Part 4 of a 5 Part series, Librarian and Educator Lorette Weldon focuses on a core issue related to STEM education – high school students are not guaranteed success in college when they have completed college-preparatory courses.… Continue Reading
Searchable Suicide Attack Database
“The Chicago Project on Security and Terrorism (CPOST) maintains a searchable database on all suicide attacks from 1982 through June 2015. The database includes information about the location of attacks, the target type, the weapon used, and systematic information on the demographic and general biographical characteristics of suicide attackers. The database expands the breadth of… Continue Reading
Opening the Black Box of Scholarly Communication Funding
Lawson, Stuart and Gray, Jonathan and Mauri, Michele, Opening the Black Box of Scholarly Communication Funding: A Public Data Infrastructure for Financial Flows in Academic Publishing (November 13, 2015). Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2690570 “”Public access to publicly funded research” has been one of the rallying calls of the global open access movement. Governments… Continue Reading
Financing Education for the Public Good: A New Strategy
McMahon, Walter W., Financing Education for the Public Good: A New Strategy (May 1, 2015). Journal of Education Finance, 40:4 (Spring 2015), pp. 414-437. Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2690479 “A new approach is suggested that depends on and measures how spending on higher and basic education is really an investment in the future, not… Continue Reading
National Transit Database
“Today the transit industry consists of over 140,000 vehicles, traveling over 48 billion passenger miles, and collecting over $8.5 billion in passenger fares. In the past 10 years the transit industry has grown by over 20 percent – faster than either highway or air travel. As the industry continues to grow, every indication is that… Continue Reading
Drug Offenders in Federal Prisons: Estimates of Characteristics Based on Linked Data
“More than half (54 percent) of drug offenders in federal custody at yearend 2012 were serving sentences for powder or crack cocaine, the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) reported in a study released today. Methamphetamine offenders (24 percent) accounted for the next largest share of drug offenders, followed by marijuana (12 percent) and heroin (6… Continue Reading
Police Use of Nonfatal Force, 2002–11
“In a study released today by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), an annual average of 44 million U.S. residents age 16 or older had one or more face-to-face contacts with police from 2002 to 2011, and an estimated 1.6 percent experienced the threat or use of nonfatal force during the most recent contact. About… Continue Reading
Can we measure beauty? Computational evaluation of coral reef aesthetics
Haas AF, Guibert M, Foerschner A, Co T, Calhoun S, George E, Hatay M, Dinsdale E, Sandin SA, Smith JE, Vermeij MJA, Felts B, Dustan P, Salamon P, Rohwer F. (2015) Can we measure beauty? Computational evaluation of coral reef aesthetics. PeerJ 3:e1390 https://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1390 “The natural beauty of coral reefs attracts millions of tourists worldwide… Continue Reading
