Additionally, it states that since passage of the Stafford Act in 1988, which gave the president powers to "alleviate the suffering and damage" caused by disasters, the number of declared federal disasters has
I tend to believe that these are actually essentials for building trust between people and their governments and also explains to some extent why China ranks so high on the Trust Barometer. And it is indeed time for low-trust countries to read the writing on the wall, re-think trust and t...
Former Vice President Kamala Harris is headed back home to Los Angeles on Monday, and will immediately visit a local fire station to thank firefighters for their work battling the deadly blazes. Harris, who lives with her husband in Brentwood, an area that had ev...
The built environment turns into an attraction, populated not by citizens but rather by users who feel the need to self-document their lives.
They will memorize whatever their teacher says only as long as they need to get the B or C on the test their parents want and then will forget everything that isn’t related to what they think they want to do in the future. None of them plan to be historians so that they will ...
Notaries are appointed by a government authority, such as a court or state governments, or by a regulatory body, such as a faculty of notaries public. Although notaries are public officials, they do not receiveremunerationfrom the government, and they earn income by charging fees for services ...
In response to the 2008 financial crisis, governments worldwide put in place sweeping regulatory reforms to address the risks posed by "too big to fail" institutions. In the U.S., theDodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010became the centerpiece of these reforms, intr...
In Latin America, for example, despite the many individual efforts of the governments to preserve the biodiversity for future generations, traditional knowledge, especially that of derived from traditional medicine such as indigenous knowledge, is also disappearing [33]. Transformation of local ecosystems...
It also implements the IOASISNET interface allowing it to share the user's profile/avatar as well as find Holons and players in their local area. NextGenSoftware.OASIS.API.Providers.HoloOASIS.Desktop This is the desktop implementation of the HoloOASIS Provider and uses the desktop version of ...
The now-completed DARPA program NESD (Neural Engineering System Design) aimed to create interfaces that could read from and write to the brain with unprecedented fidelity. Their goal: decode the electrochemical language of neurons and translate it into machine-readable signals. On record, the purpos...