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GAO Reports – DOD Counterfeit Parts, Defense Logistics, International Remittances, Medicaid Nonemergency Transportation

Counterfeit Parts: DOD Needs to Improve Reporting and Oversight to Reduce Supply Chain Risk, GAO-16-236: Published: Feb 16, 2016. Publicly Released: Feb 16, 2016. Defense Logistics: Enhanced Policy and Procedures Needed to Improve Management of Sensitive Conventional Ammunition, GAO-16-202: Published: Feb 16, 2016. Publicly Released: Feb 16, 2016. International Remittances: Actions Needed to Address Unreliable …

Subjects: Defense, Economy, Financial System, Government Documents, Health Care, Legal Research, Transportation

Paper – A majority of low-wage workers earn so little they must rely on public assistance to make ends meet

Economic Policy Institute – David Cooper, February 9, 2016: “There is an enduring myth that people who rely on public assistance are unwilling to work. However, there are 41.2 million working Americans (nearly 30 percent of the workforce) who receive public assistance—and nearly half of these workers (19.3 million) have full-time jobs. Not surprisingly, these …

Subjects: Economy, Education, Financial System, Government Documents, Poverty

Search Hillary Clinton’s Emails

Via WSJ.com – Search Hillary Clinton’s Emails – The State Department has released five batches of Hillary Clinton’s emails from the time when she was secretary of state. The department is reviewing more than 50,000 pages of Clinton’s messages and releasing them on a monthly schedule. Last updated Jan. 29, 2015.

Subjects: E-Government, E-Mail, E-Records, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Legal Research

New on LLRX – Web Data Extractors 2016

Via LLRX.com – Web Data Extractors 2016 – Extracting data from the internet has become an increasingly high priority for organizations with teams that focus on mining and leveraging huge amounts of data as part of an effective, collaborative and actionable work product. Tools and protocols to extract content rich information are in demand as …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Legislation, Marketing, RSS

New on LLRX – Fight for Kindle all-text bold option: Why you STILL need to write Amazon – and the media

Via LLRX.com – Fight for Kindle all-text bold option: Why you STILL need to write Amazon – and the media – David Rothman has been proactively and consistently engaged in an effort to increase visual usability of the Kindle for K-12 kids, the elderly and others with contrast-sensitivity problems. He has requested the company implement …

Subjects: E-Commerce, Internet, Knowledge Management, Libraries, Web Site Accessibility and Usability

New on LLRX – Book Review of “The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory”

Via LLRX.com – Book Review of “The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory” – Alan Rothman writes that for interested readers who either did or did not come of age at some point during the past two decades, this highly engaging account of the extraordinary changes throughout the music industry will provide them with a …

Subjects: Knowledge Management, Recommended Books

Paper – Clutter, Chaos, and Overconsumption

Via NPR – and note – why only female participants? – in any case – Clutter, Chaos, and Overconsumption – The Role of Mind-Set in Stressful and Chaotic Food Environments – Environment and Behavior. February 2, 2016. “How do cluttered, chaotic environments—such as messy kitchens—influence snacking behavior? How does one’s mind-set help prevent unwanted snacking from …

Subjects: Food and Nutrition, Health Care, Knowledge Management

Law, Order and Algorithms

Stanford engineers’ ‘Law, Order & Algorithms’ data project aims to identify bias in the criminal justice system “A team of engineers uses computational analysis tools to scrape information from police-related incidents to reveal discrimination and reduce crime….The project is led by computational social scientist Sharad Goel, an assistant professor of management science and engineering. He …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Government Documents, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

A Large Dataset of Object Scans

A Large Dataset of Object Scans – Sungjoon Choi, Qian-Yi Zhou, Stephen Miller, Vladlen Koltun (Submitted on 8 Feb 2016 (v1), last revised 9 Feb 2016 (this version, v2)) arXiv:1602.02481v2 [cs.CV] for this version)- “We have created a dataset of more than ten thousand 3D scans of real objects. To create the dataset, we recruited …

Subjects: Knowledge Management

The DOI System

“This is the web site of the International DOI Foundation (IDF), a not-for-profit membership organization that is the governance and management body for the federation of Registration Agencies providing Digital Object Identifier (DOI) services and registration, and is the registration authority for the ISO standard (ISO 26324) for the DOI system. The DOI system provides …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries

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