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Haas AF, Guibert M, Foerschner A, Co T, Calhoun S, George E, Hatay M, Dinsdale E, Sandin SA, Smith JE, Vermeij MJA, Felts B, Dustan P, Salamon P, Rohwer F. (2015) Can we measure beauty? Computational evaluation of coral reef aesthetics. PeerJ 3:e1390 https://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1390 “The natural beauty of coral reefs attracts millions of tourists worldwide …
Oil Change International – “This research discovers that G20 country governments’ support to fossil fuel production marries bad economics with potentially disastrous consequences for climate change. In effect, governments are propping up the production of oil, gas and coal, much of which cannot be used if the world is to avoid dangerous climate change. The …
Financial Audit: IRS’s Fiscal Years 2015 and 2014 Financial Statements, GAO-16-146: Published: Nov 12, 2015. Publicly Released: Nov 12, 2015. “In GAO’s opinion, the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) fiscal years 2015 and 2014 financial statements are fairly presented in all material respects. However, in GAO’s opinion, IRS did not maintain effective internal control over financial …
New York Times – IBM’sDesign-Centered Strategy to Set Free the Squares – “The tech stalwart has been hiring designers by the hundreds, all part of an accelerated approach to product development that is a major departure from the past.”
Neither Snow Nor Rain Nor MITM…An Empirical Analysis of Email Delivery Security “The SMTP protocol is responsible for carrying some of users’ most intimate communication, but like other Internet protocols, authentication and confidentiality were added only as an afterthought. In this work, we present the first report on global adoption rates of SMTP security extensions, …
Fiscal Year 2015 Top Management Challenges – “The Reports Consolidation Act of 2000 requires the Inspector General to identify and report annually the top management challenges facing the agency. In meeting this requirement, we have classified the challenges in to two key types of issues facing the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) – environmental …
Roark, Marc Lane and Emerson, Warren, Signals (November 10, 2015). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2688685 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2688685 ”Currently, The Bluebook recommends twelve signals that give direction to the author’s intended use of sources. Bluebook signals communicate how the author believes the work cited is relevant to the proposition. But Bluebook signals could communicate so much more. …
Washington Post: “Taken together, the assaults represented the deadliest attacks in France since World War II, and one of the worst terrorist strikes on Western soil since Sept. 11, 2001.” New York Times: “President François Hollande, speaking Saturday from the Élysée Palace, said the attacks were “prepared, organized and planned from abroad, with complicity from …
New York Times: “When Otto Frank first published his daughter’s red-checked diary and notebooks, he wrote a prologue assuring readers that the book mostly contained her words, written while hiding from the Nazis in a secret annex of a factory in Amsterdam. But now the Swiss foundation that holds the copyright to “The Diary of …
EPIC – NGOs Reject “Safe Harbor 2.0,” Urge EU and US to Protect Fundamental Rights – Leading human rights and consumer organizations have issued a letter to urge the US and the EU to protect the fundamental right to privacy. After the Schrems decision the parties are now renegotiating the invalidated Safe Harbor arrangement. The …
Financial Audit: Bureau of the Fiscal Service’s Fiscal Years 2015 and 2014 Schedules of Federal Debt, GAO-16-160: Published: Nov 13, 2015. Publicly Released: Nov 13, 2015. Military Personnel: Oversight Framework and Evaluations Needed for DOD and the Coast Guard to Help Increase the Number of Female Officer Applicants, GAO-16-55: Published: Nov 13, 2015. Publicly Released: …
Full Report – “The monthly average price of U.S. regular retail gasoline was $2.29/gallon (gal) in October, a decrease of 8 cents/gal from September and 88 cents/gal lower than in October 2014. EIA expects monthly gasoline prices to decline to an average of $2.06/gal in December 2015. EIA forecasts U.S. regular gasoline retail prices to …
