Friday, September 15, 2006

Friday Resource Round-up

8th Annual Report on International Religious Freedom
The 2006 edition of this State Department report.

AIDS in South Asia: Understanding and Responding to a Heterogeneous Epidemic
A World Bank report.

Annual Coal Report
An Energy Information Administration (EIA) report.

Assessment of Potential Tsunami Impact for Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
A National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) report.

Birds and Influenza H5N1 Virus Movement to and within North America
A Centers for Disease Control (CDC) article published in Emerging Infectious Diseases.

Criminal Victimization, 2005
A Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) report that "presents estimates of national levels and rates of personal and property victimization for the year 2005."

Cyber Storm Exercise Report
"The first Government-led, full-scale, cyber security exercise of its kind, Cyber Storm was a coordinated effort between international, Federal and State governments, and private sector organizations to exercise their response, coordination, and recovery mechanisms in reaction to simulated cyber events."

Disability and Health State Chartbook: 2006 Profiles of Health for Adults With Disabilities
This CDC report "is the first in a series to present information about the health of people with disabilities by state and territory."

DNA Identification in Mass Fatality Incidents
"This report contains the KADAP's [Kinship and Data Analysis Panel's] 'lessons learned,' particularly regarding DNA protocols, laboratory techniques, and statistical approaches, in the DNA identification of WTC victims."

Drug use, smoking and drinking among young people in England in 2005
A statistical report from the United Kingdom's National Centre for Social Research and the National Foundation for Educational Research.

The Dynamic Structure of U.S.-China Trade, 1995-2004
"This paper will serve as the first of many USITC [U.S. International Trade Commission] research products on the dynamics of China's trade experience over the past decade."

Foreign Relations, 1969-1976: Documents on Iran and Iraq, 1969-1972
"This volume is the latest publication in the subseries of the Foreign Relations series that documents the most important decisions and actions of the foreign policy of the administrations of Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford."

Hospital Reporting of Deaths Related to Restraint and Seclusion
A Department of Health and Human Services Inspector General report.

Hurricane Katrina Fraud Task Force: First Year Report to the Attorney General
A Department of Justice report.

Lessons Learned: EPA's Response to Hurricane Katrina
An Evaluation Report from the EPA Office of Inspector General.

Projections of Education Statistics to 2015
A National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) report.

Real Security: A Plan to Fulfill the 9/11 Commission Recommendations
"A report by Congressman Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS) & other leading Homeland Security Democrats."

Review of Criminal Investigations of Alleged Detainee Abuse
A redacted version of the Department of Defense report.

Risk of Tooth Loss After Cigarette Smoking Cessation
Original research from the CDC.

Solar Thermal and Photovoltaic Collector Manufacturing Activities 2005
An EIA report.

Strengthening the Foundation for Future Growth in U.S. Agriculture
"This paper is the fifth and final in a series of briefing papers that assess general themes advanced at the 2007 Farm Bill Forums held during 2005 by Secretary Mike Johanns as well as related issues that have emerged in recent months."

Survey of DHS Data Mining Activities
A Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Inspector General report.

United States Army Military Readiness
A House Democratic Appropriations Obey-Murtha report.

Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Reports:
  • Consumer Price Index: August 2006
  • Employee tenure, 2006
  • Employee tenure by occupation, 2006
  • Industry Competition and Total Factor Productivity Growth
  • Job Openings and Labor Turnover: July 2006
  • U.S. Import and Export Price Indexes, August 2006

    Census Bureau Reports:
  • Company Summary: 2002 (Survey of Business Owners)
  • Quarterly Financial Report for Manufacturing, Mining, and Trade Corporations: 2006
  • U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services

    Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports:
  • Cuba: Issues for the 109th Congress
  • Declarations of War and Authorizations for the Use of Military Force: Historical Background and Legal Implications
  • Federal and State Quarantine and Isolation Authority
  • H.R. 5825 (109th Congress): "Electronic Surveillance Modernization Act"
  • Israel: Background and Relations with the United States
  • Japan-U.S. Relations: Issues for Congress
  • Saudi Arabia: Current Issues and U.S. Relations
  • Sri Lanka: Background and U.S. Relations
  • Undisclosed U.S. Detention Sites Overseas: Background and Legal Issues

    Economic Research Service (ERS) Reports and Data:
  • Canada: A Macroeconomic Study of the United States' Most Important Trade Partner
  • The Cost of Living and the Geographic Distribution of Poverty
  • The Food Assistance Landscape: FY 2006 Midyear Report
  • Livestock and Meat Trade

    Environmental Health Perspectives Articles:
  • Global Environmental Change: What Can Clinicians and the Environmental Health Community Do About It Now?
  • The World Trade Center Disaster and the Health of Workers: Five-Year Assessment of a Unique Medical Screening Program

    Government Accountability Office (GAO) Reports:
  • Alaska Native Allotments: Alternatives to Address Conflicts with Utility Rights-of-way
  • Commercial Aviation: Programs and Options for the Federal Approach to Providing and Improving Air Service to Small Communities
  • Critical Infrastructure Protection: DHS Leadership Needed to Enhance Cybersecurity
  • Defense Management: Comprehensive Strategy and Annual Reporting Are Needed to Measure Progress and Costs of DOD's Global Posture Restructuring
  • Executive Office For Immigration Review: Caseload Performance Reporting Needs Improvement
  • Foreign Workers: Information on Selected Countries' Experiences
  • Homeless Veterans Programs: Improved Communications and Follow-up Could Further Enhance the Grant and Per Diem Program
  • Illegal Immigration: Border-Crossing Deaths Have Doubled Since 1995; Border Patrol's Efforts to Prevent Deaths Have Not Been Fully Evaluated
  • Internet Infrastructure: Challenges in Developing a Public/Private Recovery Plan
  • The Nation's Long-Term Fiscal Outlook: September 2006 Update
  • Social Security Reform: Implications of Different Indexing Choices
  • Stabilizing Iraq: An Assessment of the Security Situation
  • United Nations: Additional Efforts Needed to Increase U.S. Employment at U.N. Agencies

    Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) Articles:
  • Enterovirus Surveillance - United States, 1970-2005
  • National, State, and Urban Area Vaccination Coverage Among Children Aged 19-35 Months - United States, 2005
  • Public Health Response to Varicella Outbreaks - United States, 2003-2004
  • State-Specific Prevalence of Obesity Among Adults - United States, 2005
  • West Nile Virus Activity - United States, January 1-September 12, 2006

    National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) Reports:
  • Crop Production
  • Turkey Hatchery

    United Nations Documents:
  • Afghanistan Opium Survey 2006
  • Doing Business 2007: How to Reform
  • Measures to eliminate international terrorism: Report of the Secretary-General
  • Organization of the sixty-first regular session of the General Assembly, adoption of the agenda and allocation of items: First report of the General Committee
  • Organization of the sixty-first regular session of the General Assembly, adoption of the agenda and allocation of items: Memorandum by the Secretary-General
  • Progress report on the prevention of armed conflict: Report of the Secretary-General
  • State of World Aquaculture: 2006
  • Sweden's Successful Drug Policy: A Review of the Evidence
  • United Nations General Assembly 61st Session website
  • Weapons of terror : freeing the world of nuclear, biological and chemical arms
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