The triangular dynamic among the United States, India and China will be critical to Asia's strategic future.

Encompassing half of all private sector employment, small businesses are a vital part of the United States economy. Encouraging their continued growth and increasing their ability to survive is especially crucial during an economic downturn. Many regional development organizations (RDOs) manage publicly funded programs that provide small businesses and entrepreneurs with access to capital, offer...

This brief begins by describing the conceptual framework for existing place-based typologies and our rationale for creating a new typology built upon a human service needs profile. We then detail our data and methods for our typology, including a discussion of the relative trade-offs in using different geographic units of analysis. We show the results...

The two critical needs that underlie this study are "the need to recognize the risk to a literal and metaphorical recording of our society, culture, and heritage, and the need to fashion a coordinated response to save and preserve sound recordings," according to this US report. The National Recording Preservation Act of 2000 sets up...

“Communications tools don’t get socially interesting until they get technologically boring.” So wrote Clay Shirky (0) in his 2008 book, Here Comes Everybody. He goes on to say that, “It’s when a technology becomes normal, then ubiquitous, and finally so pervasive as to be invisible, that the really profound changes happen.” According to a 2010...