107th Congress

This report provides a brief history of how the current National Integrated Ballistics Information Network (NIBIN) system evolved and operates. It includes information about issues that may be of concern to Members and committees of the 107th Congress, such as whether expanding NIBIN to include new gun purchases could be construed as a step toward a national gun registry system. The report also summarizes bills introduced in the 107th Congress related to NIBIN

Het reconstrueren van frames in het nieuws, op redacties en in de hoofden van journalisten: Een voorstel van aanpak [Looking for frames in the news, in newsrooms and in the minds of journalists]

Item does not contain fulltextIn deze methodologische bijdrage reflecteren de auteurs over hoe frame building onderwerp van onderzoek kan vormen. Het artikel spitst zich toe op culturele frames, en bekijkt hoe deze zich verhouden tot het nieuws, met de schemata van journalisten en met interacties op de werkvloer. Daarbij wordt voor een multimethodische aanpak gepleit die triangulatie toelaat: observaties, frameanalyses, surveyonderzoek in combinatie met reconstructie-interviews.16 p

Bistability of thermal donors in germanium: assignment of far-infrared and electron-paramagnetic-resonance spectra

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Species rank for Rheinardia ocellata nigrescens (Phasianidae)

Crested Argus Rheinardia ocellata has two highly disjunct populations in Vietnam and Lao PDR (nominate ocellata) and Malaysia (subspecies nigrescens). When evidence from the small sample of museum specimens is supplemented by novel photographic and acoustic evidence, Malaysian nigrescens proves to be distinct on a suite of characters: yellower bill with blackish nares, buffier supercilium, throat and breast, different-coloured and -structured crest, different-patterned upperparts and tail, a purer, more fluent, longer, lower Short Call (used by advertising males), markedly divergent from the explosive, nasal, double-noted equivalent in nominate ocellata, and a higher number of loud notes in the Long Call including an unexplained bimodal vs. unimodal pattern (hence either average 8.6 or 14.5 vs. 7.1 loud notes per call). In combination these characters indicate a level of differentiation compatible with species rank for nigrescens, and this is strongly reflected in Tobias criteria scoring. The conservation of the two forms requires urgent reconsideration

Innovating Science Policy: Restructuring S&T Policy for the Twenty-first Century -super-1

Over the next twenty years, accelerating scientific and technical developments will spawn immense changes to society that can be both crucially beneficial and tragically destructive. This trend, principally occurring outside of government control, is both helping the United States to improve defense and economic security and producing threats to national security. To deal with these increasingly technical issues, the nation's leadership needs to be armed with considerable scientific and technological acumen. Hence, the United States should explore the creation of a national security science and technology (S&T) strategy that improves: (1) scientific analysis available to decision makers; (2) understanding of the S&T needed to maintain national security; (3) coordination and collaboration among S&T providers; (4) control of dangerous technologies; (5) technology prioritization and acquisition processes; and (6) the dialog on enhancing the application of the products of private sector and foreign research for American national security purposes. Policies that address these issues will have to achieve the difficult balance between government and scientists' influence over research and development (R&D). This article explores how to better deliver technical advice to high-level decision makers, as a means to better deal with emerging threats that are enabled by the rapid innovation and proliferation of scientific knowledge throughout the world. Copyright 2004 by The Policy Studies Organization.