Day archives: July 29th, 2016

Study – breeding conditions for Arctic shorebirds could collapse by 2070

“Climate change could make much of the Arctic unsuitable for millions of migratory birds that travel north to breed each year, according to a new international study published today in Global Change Biology.  The University of Queensland School of Biological Sciences’ researcher Hannah Wauchope said that suitable breeding conditions for Arctic shorebirds could collapse by …

Subjects: Climate Change, Environmental Law

Scholarpedia – peer reviewed open access encyclopedia

“Scholarpedia is a peer-reviewed open-access encyclopedia written and maintained by scholarly experts from around the world. Scholarpedia is inspired by Wikipedia and aims to complement it by providing in-depth scholarly treatments of academic topics. Scholarpedia and Wikipedia are alike in many respects: both allow anyone to propose revisions to almost any article both are “wikis” …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management

Papers in Physics – free online peer reviewed journal

“Papers in Physics publishes original research in all areas of physics and its interface with other subjects. The scope includes, but is not limited to, physics of particles and fields, condensed matter, relativity and gravitation, nuclear physics, physics of fluids, biophysics, econophysics, chemical physics, statistical mechanics, soft condensed matter, materials science, mathematical physics and general …

Subjects: Knowledge Management

Information Security Oversight Office Report for FY 2015

2015 Report to the President, Information Security Oversight Office, transmitted by ISOO Acting Director William A. Cira, July 15, 2016 (via FAS – “53,425 new secrets (“original classification decisions”) created by executive branch agencies in FY 2015) – “This report provides statistics and analysis of the system of classification and declassification based on ISOO’s review of …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Legal Research