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Department of the Treasury – U.S. National Terrorist Financing Risk Assessment 2015, December 15, 2015. “After the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, the United States adopted a preventive approach to combating all forms of terrorist activity. Efforts to combat the financing of terrorism (CFT) are a central pillar of this approach. Cutting off financial support …
“The IMF has released results of the Coordinated Direct Investment Survey (CDIS) on December 9, 2015, the worldwide survey of bilateral direct investment positions, with 100 economies reporting 2014 data, compared to 90 economies last year. 66 percent of the total inward direct investment position is concentrated in 10 economies.”
Comparing source coverage, citation counts and speed of indexing in Google Scholar and Scopus, Henk F. Moed, Judit Bar-Ilan, Gali Halevi (Submitted on 17 Dec 2015) arXiv:1512.05741 [cs.DL] “An analysis of 1,200 target articles in 12 journals in 6 subject fields and of 7,000 citations to 36 top cited articles found in virology and chemistry …
Pleased to share this article via Quartz – Against all odds, print books are on the rise again in the US “For the last half decade, ever since digital books and e-readers first came on the scene, news headlines have been at war. “The physical book is dead,” some reports declared, while others vehemently argued …
Digital Preservation Coalition Technology Watch Report ‘Personal Digital Archiving’, by Gabriela Redwine, Digital Archivist at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University. “This free peer-reviewed report is aimed at individuals who are concerned about how best to manage and preserve their own personal digital archives, as well as professionals who advise people …
Report – Gender Equality in Power and Decision-Making Review of the Implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action in the EU Member States “The vision of the European Institute for Gender Equality is to make gender equality a reality for all women and men in the European Union (EU) and beyond. Besides a fundamentally essential …
Outlook, worries, aspirations are strongly linked to financial situation: “A new Pew Research Center survey conducted Sept. 15-Oct. 13, 2015, among 1,807 U.S. parents with children younger than 18 finds that for lower-income parents, financial instability can limit their children’s access to a safe environment and to the kinds of enrichment activities that affluent parents …
How To Predict Bad Cops In Chicago By Rob Arthur “In addition to the outsize number of complaints, Kalven said, repeaters have broader, cultural impacts, both within and outside of the department. Within the department, repeaters might normalize misconduct toward residents, pushing other cops toward wrongdoing. Outside of the department, the behavior of these officers …
Shaping the Library to the Life of the User: Adapting, Empowering, Partnering, Engaging – by Merrilee Proffitt, James Michalko and Melissa Renspie.” This report provides a recap of the October 2015 Library in the Life of the User meeting that featured insights about ways libraries can provide more meaningful support based on what students, scholars …
Critical Infrastructure Protection: Measures Needed to Assess Agencies’ Promotion of the Cybersecurity Framework, GAO-16-152: Published: Dec 17, 2015. Publicly Released: Dec 17, 2015. DOD Financial Management: Improved Documentation Needed to Support the Air Force’s Military Payroll and Meet Audit Readiness Goals, GAO-16-68: Published: Dec 17, 2015. Publicly Released: Dec 17, 2015. = Information Technology: FDA …
“For the very first time, The Human Development Report is available in a unique web version. The web version of the Human Development Report 2015: Work for Human Development contains interactive features that provide enhanced functionality and enable information sharing in our interconnected world…The report features 16 statistical tables in the annex as well as …
“This toolkit, produced by the Libraries Taskforce is the first step in addressing a need identified by the Independent Library Report for England; “that more information needs to be available about the remarkable and vital value that a good library service can offer modern communities of every size and character”. It sets out how library …
