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Anything can happen in the Zone: Library and Departmental Change Driven by Migration to a Cloud-based Library Management System, Josh Petrusa, Library Leadership & Management (LL&M) , Vol 30, No 3 (2016) Abstract – “Butler University Libraries had already made progressive changes in public services areas, but Technical Services remained unchanged and bound to legacy …
Via ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University Townsville Queensland 4811 Australia “Australian scientists have revealed [April 26, 2016] the full extent of the coral bleaching that is unfolding on the Great Barrier Reef, off the coast of Queensland. The final results of extensive aerial and underwater surveys reveal that 93% …
Bickers, John M., Asculum Defeats: Prosecutorial Losses in the Military Commissions and How They Help the United States (May 1, 2016). National Security Law Journal, Volume 4 (Forthcoming) . Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2773759 “Small but consistent failures have marked the U.S. endeavor to use military commissions in the struggle against Al Qaeda. The handful of …
Via Greenpeace – Annie Leonard. May 2, 2016: “Greenpeace Netherlands released to the public secret documents from the United States’ current trade negotiations with the European Union. The deal is called the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP for short) and once it’s agreed upon it will govern the U.S.-European economic relationship for years. You …
Via POGO: “The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) broke the law in its use of independent contractors, according to a four-year-old internal review that was declassified and approved for public release in March. The contents of the June 2012 CIA Inspector General (IG) audit report were revealed last week by VICE News reporter Jason Leopold. The …
Ideal Cardiovascular Health and Cognitive Aging in the Northern Manhattan Study. Hannah Gardener, ScD; Clinton B. Wright, MD, MS; Chuanhui Dong, PhD; Ken Cheung, PhD; Janet DeRosa, MPH; Micaela Nannery; Yaakov Stern, PhD; Mitchell S. V. Elkind, MD, MS; Ralph L. Sacco, MD, MS. Journal of the American Heart Association, May 2, 2016. Background: “The …
Liberty Street Economics – What’s Up with GCF Repo®? Jacob Adenbaum, David Hubbs, Antoine Martin, and Ira Selig “In a recent Important Notice, the Fixed Income Clearing Corporation (FICC) announced that it would no longer support interbank trading for its General Collateral Finance Repo Service. (GCF Repo®, hereafter GCF Repo, is a registered service mark …
