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The National Centre for Text Mining: A Vision for the Future: “Sophia Ananiadou describes NaCTeM and the main scientific challenges it helps to solve together with issues related to deployment, use and uptake of NaCTeM’s text mining tools and services.” “One of the defining challenges of e-Science is dealing with the data deluge information overload …
Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures: Airport and Airway Trust Fund Excise Taxes, GAO-08-203R, November 2, 2007 Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures: Highway Trust Fund Excise Taxes, GAO-08-202R, November 2, 2007 District of Columbia Opportunity Scholarship Program: Additional Policies and Procedures Would Improve Internal Controls and Program Operations, GAO-08-9, November 1, 2007 State Department: Transparent Cost Estimates Needed to Support …
October 30, 2007 Quarterly Report to Congress: “Two notable developments provide a backdrop for SIGIRs work this quarter. First, total relief and reconstruction investment for Iraq from all sourcesthe United States, Iraq, and international donorspassed the $100 billion mark. And second, total attacks on Coalition forces and Iraqis dropped to their lowest levels in over …
Supplement to: Energy Market and Economic Impacts of S. 280, the Climate Stewardship and Innovation Act of 2007 (11/01/2007) “This paper responds to a September 18, 2007, letter from Senators Barrasso, Inhofe, and Voinovich, seeking further energy and economic analysis to supplement information presented in the Energy Information Administrations (EIA) recent analysis of S. 280, …
Long-Term Unemployment, October 2007 (34 pages, PDF), Prepared at the Request of the House Budget and Ways and Means Committee. “Even in a strong labor market, many people become unemployed for short periods as they enter the labor force or change jobs. But some people take many months to find a job. Over the past …
Press release: “A nationwide survey released [November 1, 2007] by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) shows the number of Americans who hold anti-Semitic attitudes remains constant from its 2005 findings, demonstrating once again that “anti-Semitic beliefs endure in America.” The 2007 Survey of American Attitudes Towards Jews in America, a national telephone survey of 2,000 American …
“The government today unveiled a new Web site for the public and civic managers to monitor U.S. drought conditions, get forecasts, and know how drought impacts their communities or what mitigation measures exist. Called the U.S. Drought Portal, the www.drought.govs ite was developed for the National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS). A seemingly slow and …
Corporate Fraud Data Base: “Last spring, as the five-year anniversary of the Corporate Fraud Task Force approached, The American Lawyer set out to review its record of fraud prosecution. This turned out to be a difficult undertaking. The U.S. Department of Justice, after repeated inquiries, finally explained that it collects its statistics from individual U.S. …
Drug Safety: Preliminary Findings Suggest Weaknesses in FDA’s Program for Inspecting Foreign Drug Manufacturers, GAO-08-224T, November 1, 2007 Drug Testing: Undercover Tests Reveal Significant Vulnerabilities in DOT’s Drug Testing Program, GAO-08-225T, November 1, 2007 Indian Issues: Damages and Compensation for Tribes at Seven Reservations Affected by Dams on the Missouri River, GAO-08-249T, November 1, 2007 …
Press release: “The Federal Trade Commission today released staff comments to the federal banking agencies the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Office of Thrift Supervision, and the National Credit Union Administration in response to their request …
“EPA has not established objectives to define an acceptable level of quality for National Emissions Inventory data used in the residual risk process.” At a Glance PDF | Report PDF.
United States Conference of Mayors, 2007 Best Practices Guide “showcases a broad range of environmentally driven and energy efficiency projects in 50 U.S. cities.” Related documents: C40 cities: “C40 is a group of the world’s largest cities committed to tackling climate change. On this website you will find news and updates on current C40 programmes, …
