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Snapshot|What Drives Innovation in the Federal Government: “How innovative is the federal government? What drives innovation in federal agencies? And, what can leaders do, if anything, to promote innovation within their agencies and teams? Given the importance of improving government effectiveness and delivering better results for the American people within todays budgetary constraints, these are …
Work-based predictors of mortality: A 20-year follow-up of healthy employees. Shirom, A., Toker, S., Alkaly, Y., Jacobson, O. & Balicer, R. (in press). Health Psychology. “Objectives. This study investigated the effects of the Job-Demand- Control-Support (JDC-S) model’s components, workload, control, peer and supervisor social support, on the risk of all-cause mortality. Also examined was the …
Giant Fish Blenders: How Power Plants Kill Fish & Damage Our Waterways, Sierra Club, August 2011 “A power plant with once-through cooling draws hundreds of millions, in some cases billions, of gallons of water each day from the closest lake, river or ocean and indiscriminately sucks in whatever aquatic life is near the intake pipe. …
“IndustryWeek U.S. 500 is IndustryWeek’s report on the 500 largest publicly held U.S. manufacturing companies companies based on revenue Search features: to order by revenue, click on the revenue title. To order by revenue growth, click on the revenue growth title. To order alphabetically, click on the company name title. To order by rank, click …
Dr. Kari Kraus, University of Maryland, via NYT: “..if were going to save even a fraction of the trillions of bits of data churned out every year, we cant think of digital preservation in the same way we do paper preservation. We have to stop thinking about how to save data only after its no …
“The Institute for the Future of the Book seeks to chronicle this shift, and impact its development in a positive direction. The Institute is a project of the Annenberg Center for Communication at the University of Southern California, and is based in Brooklyn, New York. We’re a small think-and-do tank investigating the evolution of intellectual …
“U.S. hospitals waste thousands of tons of medical supplies every day. This includes unused, sterile medical supplies discarded for regulatory reasons and fully functional equipment. DOC2DOCK collects and redistributes these supplies to match the specific needs of hospitals in the developing world. To achieve this goal, we have built a strong network of medical professionals …
News release: “Despite graduating from top universities at rates that far exceed their peers and forming an important part of the talent pipeline for many professions, Asian-Americans remain largely underrepresented in leadership ranks, according to Asians in America: Unleashing the Potential of the Model Minority, a new study from the Center for Work-Life Policy. Although …
Immigration and Poverty in America’s Suburbs – Opportunity and Well-being, Immigration, U.S. Poverty, Race, Ethnicity, Roberto Suro, Jill H. Wilson, Audrey Singer – The Brookings Institution, August 2011: “An analysis of poverty levels among U.S.-born and foreign-born residents in the nations 95 largest metropolitan areas in 2000 and 2009 shows that: Foreign-born residents of Americas …
“The National Insurance Crime Bureau today Hot Wheels its list of the 10 most stolen vehicles in the United States. The report examines vehicle theft data submitted by law enforcement to the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) and determines the vehicle make, model, and model year most reported stolen in 2010.”
News release: “Dow Jones Indexes, a leading global index provider, today announced the launch of the Dow Jones Islamic Market RBP U.S. 50 Index, a unique gauge designed to measure the largest 50 U.S. stocks ranked by RBP® probabilities supplied by Transparent Value, LLC that have first passed the screens for Shariah compliance. RBP®, which …
Forum Guide to Ensuring Equal Access to Education Websites – Introduction to Electronic Information Accessibility Standards, July 2011 “This guide is designed for use by information technology administrators, data specialists, and program staff responsible for the content in data reports, as well as education leaders (e.g., administrators who prioritize tasks for technical and data staff), …
