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“The Fish Barcode of Life Initiative (FISH-BOL), is a global effort to coordinate an assembly of a standardised reference sequence library for all fish species, one that is derived from voucher specimens with authoritative taxonomic identifications. The benefits of barcoding fishes include facilitating species identification for all potential users, including taxonomists; highlighting specimens that represent …
“The November 2011 McKinsey report, Resource Revolution: Meeting the worlds energy, materials, food, and water needs shows that the resource challenge can be met through a combination of expanding the supply of resources and a step change in the way they are extracted, converted, and used. Such resource productivity improvements, using existing technology, could satisfy …
Simon Rogers: “US road accident casualties: every one mapped across America – 369,629 people died on America’s roads between 2001 and 2009. Following its analysis of UK casualties last week, transport data mapping experts ITO World have taken the official data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration – and produced this powerful map using …
Follow up to previous postings on The Digital Dead Sea Scrolls project, via NYT – “When the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, home to the Dead Sea Scrolls, reopened last year after an extensive renovation, it attracted a million visitors in the first 12 months. When the museum opened an enhanced Web site with newly digitized …
“Our fifth annual survey on the way organizations use social tools and technologies finds that they continue to seep into many organizations, transforming business processes and raising performance”. November 2011 Jacques Bughin, Angela Hung Byers, and Michael Chui, McKinsey Global Institute “Companies are improving their mastery of social technologies, using them to enhance operations …
Reading Lists Aim to Promote Personal, Professional Growth, By Donna Miles American Forces Press Service: “Legend has it that Alexander the Great slept with a copy of The Iliad, Homer’s epic tale set during the Trojan War, under his pillow. Almost 2,500 years later, professional reading remains an important part of the military culture. Every …
Google Scholar Blog: “A few months ago, we introduced a limited release of Google Scholar Citations, a simple way for authors to compute their citation metrics and track them over time. Today, were delighted to make this service available to everyone! Click here and follow the instructions to get started. Heres how it works. You …
“Based on thousands of citation records from Thomson Reuters, this chart shows the scholarly influence of “Prospect Theory: An Analysis of Decision Under Risk,” written by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, and published in Econometrica in 1979. The theory has turned up as a reference for an increasing number of journal articles and book chapters …
“For decades, natural gas has played an important role in electricity generation, industrial uses, and heating in the United Statesand with recent improvements in horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing (fracking) of shale formations, drillers can now access a vastly greater amount of gas at lower cost than in the past. The rapid growth in drilling …
Corporate Governance of Political Expenditures: 2011 Benchmark Report on S&P 500 Companies, By Heidi Welsh and Robin Young, November 2011 “This study takes a close look at the nature and extent of the voluntary governance reforms companies have made, using a broad definition of political spending, to see how these practices affect key disclosure and …
The New, Convoluted Life Cycle Of A Newspaper Story, by Lauren Rabaino “News must be really hard to follow for an everyday consumer of a newspaper website. First tweets go out, sometimes with no links to additional coverage. Then a few grafs go up on a blog, followed by additional updates, either to the top …
First Joint Session of Working Groups I and II IPCC SREX Summary for Policymakers, November 18, 2011 “This Summary for Policymakers presents key findings from the Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (SREX). The SREX approaches the topic by assessing the scientific literature on issues …
