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“The NOPA database compiles information for the WHO European Member States to monitor progress on nutrition, diet, physical activity and obesity. The country information contains national and subnational surveillance data, policy documents, action to implement policy and examples of good practice in programmes and interventions. As a monitoring tool, the NOPA database can stimulate policy-makers …
News release: “Uranium mining near the Grand Canyon could have health impacts and erode trust in the safety of drinking water supplies for 26 million residents of Southern California, Nevada and Arizona, the regions water suppliers warn. In a letter to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, the Lower Colorado River Water Partnership expressed concern …
Privacy leakage vs. Protection measures: the growing disconnect, Balachander Krishnamurthy – AT&T Labs Research; Konstantin Naryshkin – Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Craig E. Wills – Worcester Polytechnic Institute, May 2011. “Numerous research papers have listed different vectors of personally identifable information leaking via traditional and mobile Online Social Networks (OSNs) and highlighted the ongoing aggregation of …
DOD IG: Incomplete Contract Files for Southwest Asia Task Orders on the Warfighter Field Operations Customer Support Contract (Report No. D-2011-066), June 1, 2011 “We are providing this report for your information and use. In June 2007, the Army awarded the Warfighter Field Operations Customer Support contract to Raytheon Technical Services Company, with a total …
International Monetary Fund – World Economic Outlook (WEO) – Tensions from the Two-Speed Recovery: Unemployment, Commodities, and Capital Flows, April 2011 “The world economic recovery continues, more or less as predicted. Indeed, our growth forecasts are nearly unchanged since the January 2011 WEO Update and can be summarized in three numbers: We expect the world …
SEC: “This page allows you to search the full text of EDGAR filings from the last four years. The full text of a filing includes all data in the filing as well as all attachments to the filing. To find the information you need and make your search easy and enjoyable, please visit our FAQ …
News release: “A new study has matched future climate change hotspots with regions already suffering chronic food problems to identify highly-vulnerable populations, chiefly in Africa and South Asia, but potentially in China and Latin America as well, where in fewer than 40 years, the prospect of shorter, hotter or drier growing seasons could imperil hundreds …
Employment Situation Summary May 2011: “Nonfarm payroll employment changed little (+54,000) in May, and the unemployment rate was essentially unchanged at 9.1 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistic reported today. Job gains continued in professional and business services, health care, and mining. Employment levels in other major private-sector industries were little changed, and local …
Why the U.S. Recovery Is Lagging – Sebastian Mallaby, Director of the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies and Paul A. Volcker Senior Fellow for International Economics, June 3, 2011 “CFR’s [Council on Foreign Relations] quarterly chartbook, which sets the U.S. recovery in historical perspective, shows that the economy has expanded by a total …
Truth in Lending Act and Amendments Legislative History: Links on Westlaw (WL – GAO Histories) and the Library of Congress (LC – THOMAS CRS Histories) with Public Law links on GPO’s FDsys from 1995, Compiled and Maintained by Rick McKinney, Assistant Law Librarian, Federal Reserve Board Law Library, June 3, 2011
Combating Terrorism: U.S. Government Should Improve Its Reporting on Terrorist Safe Havens, GAO-11-561, June 03, 2011 Combating Terrorism: U.S. Government Strategies and Efforts to Deny Terrorists Safe Haven, GAO-11-713T, June 03, 2011 Defense Health Care: DOD Lacks Assurance That Selected Reserve Members Are Informed about TRICARE Reserve Select, GAO-11-551, June 03, 2011 Intelligence, Surveillance, and …
GDP and the Economy, May 2011: “Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased 1.8 percent at an annual rate in the first quarter of 2011, according to the advance estimates of the national income and product accounts (NIPAs). In the fourth quarter of 2010, real GDP increased 3.1 percent. The deceleration in real GDP in the …
