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Consumer Protection And Cybersecurity: The Consumer Education Gap, David Serabian
Consumer Protection And Cybersecurity: The Consumer Education Gap, David Serabian
Brookings Mountain West Publications
Consumer cyber protection as it relates to the threat of cyber insecurity is an increasingly critical issue with cyberattacks on major businesses such as Target and Sony. Over 100 million Americans to date have had their financial information compromised, and in the ten-year history of Verizon’s Payment Card Industry investigations no companies were compliant with Payment Card Industry standards at the time of the attack. In March 2015, the FCC fined AT&T $25 million for failing to adequately provide cybersecurity that resulted in almost 300,000 people having their personal and financial information compromised. It was the largest in FCC history …
Nevada Should Opt-In To Organ Policy Changes, Alex Velto
Nevada Should Opt-In To Organ Policy Changes, Alex Velto
Brookings Mountain West Publications
Organ donation shortages are a problem in Nevada. A shift in policy towards an opt-out system could more than double the number of registered organ donors in Nevada. A Libertarian Paternalistic strategy would allow potential donors to express their preference for organ donations more accurately. Currently Nevada abides by an opt-in policy where people are only organ donors if they explicitly request to become donors. Under an opt-out policy, people would be presumed organ donors unless they requested not to be donors. Policy changes during the 2015 Legislative session were a good start but failed to fully utilize behavioral economics …
Comparison Of Research Universities: Mississippi And Nevada, 2015, Brookings Mountain West And The Lincy Institute
Comparison Of Research Universities: Mississippi And Nevada, 2015, Brookings Mountain West And The Lincy Institute
Brookings Mountain West Publications
This Fact Sheet looks at state economic and university expenditures to display how research institutions in Nevada differ from those in Mississippi.
2014 And 2015 National Science Foundation (Nsf) Rankings By Total R&D Expenditures ($ Million), Brookings Mountain West And The Lincy Institute
2014 And 2015 National Science Foundation (Nsf) Rankings By Total R&D Expenditures ($ Million), Brookings Mountain West And The Lincy Institute
Brookings Mountain West Publications
This Fact Sheet provides data from the National Science Foundation (NSF) that compares UNLV and UNR (combined) research funding to individual research universities across the nation.