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Treasury IG – Processes Are Not Sufficient to Assist Victims of Employment-Related Identity Theft

Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration – Processes Are Not Sufficient to Assist Victims of Employment-Related Identity Theft. August 10, 2016. Reference Number: 2016-40-065. “Taxpayers identified as victims of employment-related identity theft are not notified. During the period February 2011 to December 2015, the IRS identified almost 1.1 million taxpayers who were victims of employment-related …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Economy, Financial System, Government Documents, ID Theft

GAO Reports – Bulk Fuel, Generic Drugs, DHS, Affordable Care Act, School Choice

Bulk Fuel: Actions Needed to Improve DOD’s Fuel Consumption Budget Data, GAO-16-644: Published: Sep 12, 2016. Publicly Released: Sep 12, 2016. Generic Drugs Under Medicare: Part D Generic Drug Prices Declined Overall, but Some Had Extraordinary Price Increases, GAO-16-706: Published: Aug 12, 2016. Publicly Released: Sep 12, 2016. Homeland Security: DHS’s Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear …

Subjects: Economy, Education, Government Documents, Health Care, Legislation, Medicine

Oceana report – Deceptive Dishes: Seafood Swaps Found Worldwide

Oceana – “Seafood fraud is a serious global problem that undermines honest businesses and fishermen that play by the rules. It also threatens consumer health and puts our oceans at risk. As global fishing becomes more expansive and further industrialized, seafood fraud and its related impacts could get even worse. This update of Oceana’s 2014 review of seafood fraud studies demonstrates the global scope of the problem, …

Subjects: Economy, Environmental Law, Food and Nutrition, Legal Research

MIT paper documents terahertz waves technology to read books without opening them

Full text, open source paper – Terahertz time-gated spectral imaging for content extraction through layered structures, Nature Communications 7, Article number: 12665, doi:10.1038/ncomms12665. Received 29 October 2015. Accepted 20 July 2016. Published 09 September 2016 – “Spatial resolution, spectral contrast and occlusion are three major bottlenecks for non-invasive inspection of complex samples with current imaging …

Subjects: Knowledge Management, Libraries

FT 2016 masters in management rankings

Via the Financial Times, September 11, 2016: “The University of St Gallen’s domination of the Financial Times’ ranking of masters in management courses continues for another year. The Swiss school came top of the list of 90 best masters programmes worldwide in 2016, winning its sixth consecutive crown. France’s HEC Paris and Essec Business School …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System

New on LLRX – Mecha Justice: When Machines Think Like Lawyers

Via LLRX.com – Mecha Justice: When Machines Think Like Lawyers – Most workplaces, whether public, private, academic – within the government, legal, education, news, or advocacy sectors – are increasingly focused on how to define, implement and position the use of ‘Big Data,’ data analytics, artificial intelligence (AI), and even robotics, into respective organizational missions …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

DHS 2014 Yearbook of Immigration Statistics

2014 Yearbook of Immigration Statistics, August 2016. “Statistical data on immigration have been published annually by the U.S. government since the 1860s . Over the years, the federal agencies responsible for reporting on immigration have changed, as have the content, format, and title of the annual publication. Currently, immigration data are published in the Yearbook …

Subjects: Government Documents

Volkswagen Engineer Pleads Guilty for His Role in Conspiracy to Cheat U.S. Emissions Tests

DOJ news release: “James Robert Liang, a Volkswagen engineer, pleaded guilty today for his role in a nearly 10-year conspiracy to defraud U.S. regulators and U.S. Volkswagen customers by implementing software specifically designed to cheat U.S. emissions tests in hundreds of thousands of Volkswagen “clean diesel” vehicles, the Justice Department announced today. Liang’s plea agreement …

Subjects: Environmental Law, Government Documents, Legal Research, Transportation

Paper – Do Firms Engage in Risk-Shifting? Empirical Evidence

Gilje, Erik, Do Firms Engage in Risk-Shifting? Empirical Evidence (September 9, 2016). Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2837013 “I empirically test whether firms engage in risk-shifting. Contrary to what risk-shifting theory predicts, I find that firms reduce investment risk when they approach financial distress. To identify the effect of distress on risk-taking, I use a …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System, Knowledge Management

Brief of Amici Curiae 55 Antitrust and Competition Policy Scholars, Teladoc Inc. v. Texas Medical Board (5th Cir.)

Volokh, Alexander, Brief of Amici Curiae 55 Antitrust and Competition Policy Scholars, Teladoc Inc. v. Texas Medical Board (5th Cir.) (September 9, 2016). Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2837026 “This appeal involves an effort by a state administrative agency, the Texas Medical Board, to evade the substance of federal antitrust law. The basic purpose of …

Subjects: Courts, Legal Research

BLS Data – Education, training, and library occupations in May 2015

September 02, 2016 – “In May 2015, there were about 1.4 million elementary school teachers, excluding special education—the largest occupation among teachers. These teachers had an average annual wage of $57,730. Excluding special and career/technical education, there were 963,000 secondary school teachers and 633,000 middle school teachers. Secondary school teachers earned an average annual wage …

Subjects: Education, Government Documents, Libraries

9/11 – passage of 15 years brings new insights

There are many articles that continue to provide us with perspective and insight as we respectfully and with continued sadness, mark the 15th anniversary of 9/11. For many years there was an effort to obtain the release of the redacted “28 pages from the House Intelligence Committee’s 2002 report to Congress. As I posted July …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Congress, Education, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Health Care, Legal Research

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