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Nearly everyone on the list is striving to reinvent her business. Meet a group of executives who don’t sit still. “The Most Powerful Women in Business list is compiled by FORTUNE editors, who consider four criteria: the size and importance of the woman’s business in the global economy, the health and direction of the business, …
“The national survey by the Pew Research Center, conducted Oct. 3-6 among 1,000 adults, finds 44% say Republican leaders should give ground on their demand that any budget deal include cuts or delays to the 2010 health care law. Nearly as many (42%) say it is Obama who should give ground, by agreeing to changes …
Lindsey A. Wolko, Center for Pet Safety: “In 2013 the Center for Pet Safety (CPS) and Subaru of America formed a partnership to further the CPS 2011 Harness Crashworthiness Pilot Study (size: Large) and evaluate the overall performance of harness products claiming “testing”, “crash testing” or “crash protection”. A combined testing approach including quasi-static preliminary …
“International education remains a priority for individuals who want to broaden their outlooks, institutions that want to expand their offerings and resources as well as governments that want to increase their national competitiveness and human capital. As such, the global higher education sector has shown strong, sustained growth in past decades despite intermittent economic uncertainty …
Natural Resources Defense Council Staff Blog: “As the government shutdown enters its second week with no end in sight, the stalemate continues to erode our health, safety, the environment and our economy. Just as the effects of a slow-acting toxin are not apparent at first, the shutdown’s impacts may not yet be fully evident, but …
“Freedom on the Net 2013 is the fourth report in a series of comprehensive studies of internet freedom around the globe and covers developments in 60 countries that occurred between May 2012 and April 2013. Over 60 researchers, nearly all based in the countries they analyzed, contributed to the project by researching laws and practices …
Avian Monitoring in the Allegheny Highlands – 2013 Report “This document reports on the third year of avian monitoring, completed in 2013, in the 18,000-acre Warm Springs Mountain Restoration Project (WSMRP), a collaborative initiative spanning lands of The Nature Conservancy and the George Washington and Jefferson National Forest. Developed by the Central Appalachians Fire Learning Network partnership, WSMRP is working to …
The Unpunishable Moral Failures that Helped Cause the Financial Crisis, and How to Address Them in the Future by Hilary J. Allen Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, October 6, 2013 “Five years after the financial crisis of 2007-2008, the public is still angry that the big financial institutions (and their senior managers) have …
Two Concepts of Corruption, Dennis F. Thompson – Harvard University – Department of Government. August 1, 2013. “To combat institutional corruption, we need to distinguish it clearly from individual corruption. Individual corruption occurs when an institution or its officials receive a benefit that does not serve the institution and provides a service through relationships external …
Presentation: Technology Adoption by Lower Income Populations – Oct 8, 2013 at American Public Health Services Association “Aaron Smith, Senior Researcher at the Pew Research Center’s Internet Project, discusses the Project’s latest research about internet usage, broadband adoption, and the impact of mobile connectivity among lower-income populations.”
In the Eye of the Beholder – Eye Contact Increases Resistance to Persuasion by Frances S. Chen, Julia A. Minson, Maren Schöne, Markus Heinrichs. Published online before print September 25, 2013, doi: 10.1177/0956797613491968. Psychological Science September 25, 2013 0956797613491968. “Popular belief holds that eye contact increases the success of persuasive communication, and prior research suggests …
Three Paradoxes of Big Data by Neil Richards (Washington University in Saint Louis – School of Law) and Jonathan King (Washington University in Saint Louis) “Big data is all the rage. Its proponents tout the use of sophisticated analytics to mine large data sets for insight as the solution to many of our society’s problems. …
