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View Resource FRED: Federal Reserve Economic Data

The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis provides this clearinghouse of financial and economic data. Central to this site are the data files, a compendium of hundreds of daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly time series on financial, monetary, interest rate, producer and consumer price, employment, population, and exchange rate data, among others. Some files are in .zip or compressed format. The site...

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/
View Resource MULTIMOD Econometric Model

Designed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), MULTIMOD is a modern, dynamic, multi-country macro model of the world economy designed to study the transmission of shocks across countries as well as the short-run and medium-run consequences of alternative monetary and fiscal policies. Country sub-models include the seven largest industrial countries--Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the...

https://www.imf.org/external/np/res/mmod/index.htm
View Resource Baseline Assessment of Public Housing Desegregation Cases: Cross-site Report

Released earlier this month, this new report from the Department of Housing and Urban Development presents an assessment of efforts by HUD to desegregate public housing as a voluntary response to suits filed by various groups at eight different urban sites citing discriminatory HUD policies. HUD commissioned the Urban Institute (see the September 9, 1999 Scout Report for Business and Economics) to...

https://www.huduser.gov/portal/publications/pubasst/baseline...
View Resource EPA: Tools and Literature

Green Chemistry, as its name implies, is an environment friendly practice of using chemistry to prevent pollution. The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) created the Green Chemistry Expert System software that can be freely downloaded from this site. The program can be used to assess hazardous substances in chemical reactions, learn about green synthetic methods, design safer chemicals by...

https://www.epa.gov/greenchemistry/green-chemistry-resources...
View Resource The V/STOL Wheel of Mis-Fortune

Vertical and/or short takeoff and landing (V/STOL) aircraft have historically been much less studied than their counterparts that need runways to become airborne. "The V/STOL Wheel is a graphic diagram of all 45 types of aircraft that have been built and tested." While clearly there have been more than that number of models designed and built by many companies, the wheel represents 45...

https://vertipedia.vtol.org/vstol/wheel.htm
View Resource Distributed Intrusion Detection System

Internet worms and other malicious code often scan firewalls to determine which ports are unprotected. While firewall users have access to their port scanning data in the form of log files, most do not make use of it. The Distributed Intrusion Detection System remotely monitors trends in worldwide port scanning, and the data it has collected is available at this site. The data can be used by...

https://secure.dshield.org/
View Resource SPEC: Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation

The Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) is a highly recognized organization in the computer industry for its development of standardized benchmarks used to measure and compare different computer systems. Researchers and developers can download many of these benchmarks for free from the SPEC Web site, or read about new benchmarks that are soon to be released. A very large database of...

http://www.spec.org/
View Resource West Point Bridge Design Contest

The second annual West Point Bridge Design Contest concluded in May 2003. Although it is uncertain whether the contest will receive funding for future competitions, its Web site has a number of educational resources for middle and high school students. The main feature is the bridge design software, which allows the user to "model, test, and optimize a steel highway bridge, based on realistic...

http://paxonguidance.weebly.com/blog/the-engineering-encount...
View Resource Voice over Internet Protocol

A reasonably good introduction to the basics of VoIP and its operation is given at this site (1). Special consideration is given to the implementation of VoIP systems and standards; the material can be fairly technical in nature, but the majority should be useful even for people with no prior background in the subject. A much more in-depth overview can be found in this tutorial from the...

https://scout.wisc.edu/Reports/NSDL/MET/2003/met-030912#Topi...
View Resource POV-Ray: The Persistence of Vision Raytracer

"The Persistence of Vision Raytracer is a high-quality, totally free tool for creating stunning three-dimensional graphics." At this site, users can download the POV-Ray software for Windows, Macintosh, and Linux platforms. Source code is also available. Extensive documentation is provided online, but unfortunately there is not yet a downloadable version for offline viewing. Even people who are...

http://www.povray.org/
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