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Anaerobic Biodegradation of Organic Chemicals in Groundwater

The "Anaerobic Biodegradation of Organic Chemicals in Groundwater" report and database are available at this site. The report (.pdf format), by Syracuse Research Corporation (SRC), reviews anaerobic groundwater biodegradation literature "for 44 common organic chemicals (including BTEX, chlorinated aliphatic compounds, phenolic compounds, common freons, ketones, organic acids, and polychlorinated...

http://www.oilspillprevention.org/
Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS): Fall Staff Data File 1995

The Fall Staff database contains detailed information on staffing for all Post-secondary institutions in the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the outlying areas that are eligible to participate in Title IV federal financial aid programs. Information gathered from the IPEDS forms used to create this data file include: distribution of full- and part-time staff by primary occupation, sex, and...

https://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=98303
World Population Profile: 1998

Just released on the Web by the US Census Bureau, this report offers "a comprehensive assessment of world demographic prospects as we approach the end of this century and the beginning of the next." The report highlights major demographic trends and the roles played by the developed and developing nations in these trends, and identifies some of the key elements and questions behind global...

https://www.census.gov/library/publications/1999/demo/wp95.h...
Substance Abuse and Treatment of State and Federal Prisoners, 1997

Released on January 5, this new study by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) reports a rise in the proportion of state inmates who used drugs (including alcohol) in the month before their arrest and an increase in use by federal inmates within prisons between 1990 and 1997. In the same period, the proportion of state inmates receiving drug abuse treatment fell from 24.5% in 1991 to 9.7% in...

https://bjs.ojp.gov/library/publications/substance-abuse-and...
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0: W3C Recommendation 5 May 1999

On May 5, 1999 the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) revised and released its Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 as a W3C Recommendation. Previously released as a working draft (see the February 6, 1998 Scout Report), the guidelines, which are available in numerous formats, explain how to make Web content more accessible specifically to people with disabilities and more generally to all users....

http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/WAI-WEBCONTENT-19990505/
Criminal Victimization 1998: Changes 1997-98 with Trends 1993-98

This new report from the US Department of Justice (USDOJ) Bureau of Justice Statistics reveals that violent and property crimes have again fallen to their lowest rates since the survey began in 1973. The drop in violent crime continues a downward trend that began in 1994, although rape and sexual assault showed no decline from 1997 to 1998. The biggest drop in property crime was motor vehicle...

https://bjs.ojp.gov/press-release/criminal-victimization-199...
Cog

As part of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, this is is a well-planned Web site devoted to the research and development of Cog, a humanoid robot. Combining robot mechanics with artificial intelligence, Cog is the closest thing yet to Star Wars's C3PO. Highlights of the site include an in-depth research section with links to papers on relevant topics...

http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/humanoid-robotics-group/cog/c...
National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS)

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has recently placed an item of interest online. This item concerns a joint Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) and FBI effort to create individual records on each crime reported. "Under NIBRS, law enforcement authorities will provide information to the FBI on each criminal incident in 22 broad categories of offenses that occur in their jurisdiction." As part of an...

https://bjs.ojp.gov/data-collection/national-incident-based-...
NN-Online

NN-Online provides a source for the physics community to access the work of current and former members of the Theoretical High Energy Physics Group of the University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands. The work found here emphasizes the baryon-baryon interaction, including the nucleon-nucleon interaction, hyperon-nucleon interaction, antinucleon-nucleon interaction and pion-nucleon interaction....

https://nn-online.org/
Chaos at Maryland

US News and World Report has ranked the Maryland Chaos Group number one in the country (tied with University of Texas, Austin) for Non-linear Dynamics, or Chaos. Chaos is an interdisciplinary science founded on the idea that "nonlinear deterministic systems can behave in an apparently unpredictable and chaotic manner." The site includes brief descriptions of the group's research interests as well...

http://www.chaos.umd.edu/
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