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GAO – Patent Office Has Opportunities to Further Improve Application Review and Patent Quality

Intellectual Property: Patent Office Has Opportunities to Further Improve Application Review and Patent Quality, GAO-16-883T: Published: Sep 16, 2016. Publicly Released: Sep 16, 2016. “U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) examiners face a variety of challenges in reviewing patent applications and issuing high quality patents. Some challenges affect examiners’ ability to complete a thorough review …

Subjects: Government Documents, Intellectual Property, Legal Research, Patent and Trademark

Agency chief info officers – roles and challenges reviewed by GAO

Federal Chief Information Security Officers: Opportunities Exist to Improve Roles and Address Challenges to Authority, GAO-16-686: Published: Aug 26, 2016. Publicly Released: Sep 15, 2016. “Under the Federal Information Security Modernization Act of 2014 (FISMA 2014), the agency chief information security officer (CISO) has the responsibility to ensure that the agency is meeting the requirements …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Government Documents, Internet

Study – Political Dysfunction Makes America Less Competitive

Dina Gerdeman – “The American economy is a mess, and our broken political system is largely to blame, according to a Harvard Business School US Competitiveness Project report released today. Harvard’s Michael E. Porter, Jan W. Rivkin, and Mihir A. Desai say American economic performance peaked in the late 1990s and since then has experienced …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System, Government Documents, Knowledge Management

Medications in public wastewater focuses need for better safeguards

Mental Floss – “A new study reveals that most of the high concentrations of pharmaceuticals in wastewater don’t come from people flushing their meds willy-nilly down the toilet, as New Scientist reports. Rather, we are flushing meds through our bodies into the sewers. In a new study in Science of the Total Environment, scientists collected wastewater …

Subjects: Environmental Law, Health Care, Legal Research, Medicine

NY Museum of Modern Art posts huge digital collection online

Exhibitions from our founding in 1929 to the present are available online. These pages are updated continually. Search by type: All types Exhibitions Film series Performance programs Other installations and by year(s).

Subjects: Knowledge Management

OECD Education at a Glance 2016

“Education at a Glance is the authoritative source for information on the state of education around the world. It provides key information on the output of educational institutions; the impact of learning across countries; the financial and human resources invested in education; access, participation and progression in education; and the learning environment and organisation of …

Subjects: Education, Government Documents

Forcibly Displaced: Toward a Development Approach Supporting Refugees, the Internally Displaced, and Their Hosts

“Forced displacement is a crisis centered in developing countries, which host 89 percent of refugees and 99 percent of internally displaced persons, says a new World Bank report. At its root are the same 10 conflicts which have accounted for the majority of the forcibly displaced every year since 1991, consistently hosted by about 15 …

Subjects: Economy, Food and Nutrition, Government Documents, Poverty

New American Community Survey Statistics For Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Available For States and Local Areas

“The U.S. Census Bureau today released its most detailed look at America’s people, places and economy with new statistics on income, poverty, health insurance and more than 40 other topics from the American Community Survey. Many states saw an increase in income and a decrease in poverty rates between 2014 and 2015. During that same …

Subjects: Economy, Government Documents, Health Care, Poverty

Survey – In moments of need, people turn to their phones and search

Via think with Google: “In moments where people need to know, go, do, and buy, relying on our phones has become second nature. Google’s VP of marketing, Lisa Gevelber, shares new research that quantifies how people use digital to make decisions and take action in their daily lives…”

Subjects: Marketing, Search Engines

Samsung Recalls Galaxy Note7 Smartphones Due to Serious Fire and Burn Hazards

Consumer Product Safety Commission: “This recall involves the Samsung Galaxy Note7 smartphone sold before September 15, 2016. The recalled devices have a 5.7 inch screen and were sold in the following colors: black onyx, blue coral, gold platinum and silver titanium with a matching stylus. Samsung is printed on the top front of the phone …

Subjects: E-Commerce

International Fact-Checking Network fact-checkers’ code of principles

“The International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) at Poynter is committed to promoting excellence in fact-checking. We believe nonpartisan and transparent fact-checking can be a powerful instrument of accountability journalism; conversely, unsourced or biased fact-checking can increase distrust in the media and experts while polluting public understanding. The following document is the result of consultations among fact-checkers …

Subjects: Knowledge Management, Libraries

Review of the eighth edition of the MLA Handbook

An intriguing review, and do take time to read the comments as well which are informative and add additional facets to the author’s argument – “Why I Hate the New ‘MLA Handbook’ – The just-published eighth edition is a disservice to students and a potential disaster for scholars, By Dallas Liddl, September 14, 2016. “…And …

Subjects: Knowledge Management, Libraries

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