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If it ain't a mess, it'll do till the mess gets here

Blazecock Pileon — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 22:53:14 -0800

Statistics compiled by State Senator Eliot Shapleigh in the state's annual ranking, entitled "Texas on the Brink" report dreary news in just about all categories used to characterize standards of living, from education to health to enfranchisement. Statistics were compiled from the Census Bureau, the CDC, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Environmental Protection Agency and a number of bipartisan foundations.

the peculiarities of journal citation data

zennie — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 19:25:19 -0800

The scholarly literature forms a vast network of academic papers connected to one another by citations in bibliographies and footnotes. The structure of this network reflects millions of decisions by individual scholars about which papers are important and relevant to their own work. Therefore within the structure of this network is a wealth of information about the relative influence of individual journals, and also about the patterns of relations among academic disciplines. Our aim at eigenfactor.org is develop ways of extracting this information. Borrowing methods from network theory, eigenfactor.org ranks the influence of journals much as Google’s PageRank algorithm ranks the influence of web pages. By this approach, journals are considered to be influential if they are cited often by other influential journals. C.R. Shalizi, care of the the University of Michigan's Center for the Study of Complex Systems, has more on the history of why all this is necessary and how it came to be.

Darke — Thu, 06 Dec 2001 10:04:27 -0800

NME has picked their top 50 albums of 2001 They picked The Stroke's "Is This It." We haven't had a music discussion thread lately, so the opportunity arises to ask the question: What was your favorite album of 2001?

mkn — Tue, 20 Jun 2000 16:01:31 -0800

World Health Report 2000 ranks world health care systems. France #1; UK #18; Canada #30; USA #37