Key Ideas from a Stakeholder Discussion at the 2013 Building a Grad Nation Summit – May 2013: “For a variety of reasons, students and families find it difficult to be smart consumers when it comes to choosing a college that provides a quality education at a reasonable cost. Many students end up saddled with enormous… Continue Reading
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A Further Investigation into 3D Printing and 3D Scanning at the Dalhousie University Libraries
A Further Investigation into 3D Printing and 3D Scanning at the Dalhousie University Libraries: a Year Long Case Study, By Michael Groenendyk, April 26th, 2013 While libraries become increasing involved in the digitization of their various textual collections,little work has been done digitizing and preserving physical collections containing items such as artwork, textiles, insignias, and… Continue Reading
Rethinking Macro Policy II: Getting Granular
Rethinking Macro Policy II: Getting Granular. Olivier Blanchard, Giovanni Dell’Ariccia, Paolo Mauro, IMF Staff Discussion Note, April 15, 2013. “The 200809 global economic and financial crisis shook the consensus on how to run macroeconomic policy. It reminded us of the dangers associated with financial sector imbalances; showed the limitations of monetary policy and cast doubt… Continue Reading
TRAC: Southern District of Texas Leading in Record Year for Immigration Prosecutions
Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse: “Very timely Justice Department data show that during the first six months of FY 2013, the rate of federal criminal prosecutions for immigration offenses is up 9.8 percent over the previous year, with 50,468 such prosecutions reported as of the end of March. If this pace continues, more individuals will have… Continue Reading
Quantifying the benefit of early climate change mitigation in avoiding biodiversity loss
Quantifying the benefit of early climate change mitigation in avoiding biodiversity loss. Nature Climate Change (2013). doi:10.1038/nclimate1887. “Climate change is expected to have significant influences on terrestrial biodiversity at all system levels, including species-level reductions in range size and abundance, especially amongst endemic species. However, little is known about how mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions… Continue Reading
Commentary on Google's upcoming release of new browser engine
The Evolution of the Web, in a Blink, by Vijith Assar. The New Yorker, May 11, 2013 “On April 3rd, just a hair shy of four and a half years after Google unveiled its Web browser, Chromenow the most popular desktop browser in the world by some countsGoogle announced that future versions of it will… Continue Reading
Annual Energy Outlook 2013
Annual Energy Outlook 2013: “The projections in the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s (EIA’s) Annual Energy Outlook 2013 (AEO2012) focus on the factors that shape the U.S. energy system over the long term. Under the assumption that current laws and regulations remain unchanged throughout the projections, the AEO2013 Reference case provides the basis for examination and… Continue Reading
Declining Migration Within the US: The Role of the Labor Market
Declining Migration Within the US: The Role of the Labor Market, Raven Molloy, Christopher L. Smith, and Abigail Wozniak. April 2013, Finance and Economics Discussion Series – Divisions of Research & Statistics and Monetary Affairs, Federal Reserve Board, Washington, D.C. “We examine explanations for the secular decline in interstate migration since the 1980s. After showing… Continue Reading
Unintended Consequences of School Accountability Policies
“Accountability policies linked to school performance may result in unintended consequences, such as inducing schools to engage in strategic classification of certain students to improve overall scores rather than make genuine improvements to the quality of education. This gaming of the system by schools in an influential model program is revealed in new analysis by… Continue Reading
GlaxoSmithKline Clinical Study Requests
“Access to the underlying (patient level) data that are collected in clinical trials provides opportunities to conduct further research that can help advance medical science or improve patient care. This helps ensure the data provided by research participants are used to maximum effect in the creation of knowledge and understanding. Researchers can use this site… Continue Reading
Chairman Bernake Speech – Monitoring the Financial System
Chairman Ben S. Bernanke At the 49th Annual Conference on Bank Structure and Competition sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois – May 10, 2013 – Monitoring the Financial System “The step-up in our monitoring is motivated importantly by a shift in financial regulation and supervision toward a more macroprudential, or systemic,… Continue Reading
Report – Declining Medicine Use and Costs: For Better or Worse?
Declining Medicine Use and Costs: For Better or Worse? A Review of the Use of Medicines in the United States in 2012. IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics, May 2013. “In 2012, both the per capita use and cost of medicines declined. The cost curve for medicines if not for other elements of the U.S.… Continue Reading
