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Saltzburg, Stephen A., Someone Must Be Lying (2015). 28 Criminal Justice (2015); GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 2015-30; GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2015-30. Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2641149 “There is no rule that governs all cases when determining whether it’s permissible for prosecutors to argue in closing that the …
Data Driven Journalism – Mirko Lorenz: “August 6, 1945 was the day when an atomic bomb was dropped on the city of Hiroshima, 70 years ago from today. It is a sad fact that even the biggest atrocities and catastrophes loose part of their threat when time passes on. People forget. People who were present …
Lost in Translation: Supporting Learners to Search Comprehensively Across Databases – JCHLA / JABSC 36: 54–58 (2015) doi: 10.5596/c15-014, Robin Parker and Maggie Neilson. “Health sciences librarians play the key role of expert searcher for knowledge synthesis research projects. When students and trainees conduct systematic reviews as academic assignments, academic librarians train learners to search …
Pew Report – “Over the past year, there has been a substantial rise in the share of Americans — across racial and ethnic groups — who say the country needs to continue making changes to give blacks equal rights with whites, and a growing number of Americans view racism as a big problem in society. …
[August 4, 2015] “the Federal CIO Council’s Innovation Committee is releasing the Open Data Prioritization Toolkit. The toolkit assists agencies with evaluating and prioritizing datasets for release. It consists of tools, workbooks, and resources to help agencies evaluate datasets on the criteria of value, cost, and risk. Included in each criteria are questions agencies can …
Baltimore, MD – August 5, 2015 – “The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) voting members have approved a new project to standardize the ISO Standard Tag Set (ISOSTS) in line with JATS (ANSI/NISO Z39.96-2012 JATS: Journal Article Tag Suite) for application by standards development organizations (SDOs) and use in the standards ecosystem. In the process …
Likelihood of Null Effects of Large NHLBI Clinical Trials Increased over Time (PLOS One): – “…Beginning in approximately 2000, the likelihood of showing a significant benefit in large National Heart Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) funded studies declined. Among the explanations we evaluated, the requirement of prospective registration in Clinicaltrials.gov is most strongly associated with …
Google Trends is tracking statistics related to candidates and major issues in the news – including the Iran Nuclear Deal – data and interactive graphics changes daily.
Thursday, July 30, 2015. CPM 2015-08 From: BETH F. COBERT ACTING DIRECTOR. Subject: Additional Guidance on Advancing Pay Equality in the Federal Government. In April 2014, the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) issued a report, “Governmentwide Strategy on Advancing Pay Equality in the Federal Government,” at the direction of President Obama in his May …
Jaison R. Abel and Richard Deitz: “We often hear that women earn “77 cents on the dollar” compared with men. However, the gender pay gap among recent college graduates is actually much smaller than this figure suggests. We estimate that among recent college graduates, women earn roughly 97 cents on the dollar compared with men …
American Library Association: “Protecting user privacy and confidentiality has long been an integral part of the intellectual freedom mission of libraries. The right to free inquiry as assured by the First Amendment depends upon the ability to read and access information free from scrutiny by the government or other third parties. In their provision of …
Wegner, Judith W., Assuring Accountability Through Mission (June 1, 2015). Building on Best Practices: Transforming Legal Education in a Changing World (Deborah Maranville, Lisa Radtke Bliss, Carolyn Wilkes Kaas & Antoinette Sedillo Lopez eds., 2015), chapter 2. Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2637068 “This chapter of Building on Best Practices: Transforming Legal Education in a …
