WARREN, Rhode Island, Sept. 18 (TNSres) -- The Association of Marina Industries issued the following news release: * * * Register for the 2025 AMI Conference & Expo, late January, Fort Lauderdale, FL * * * Registration for the Association of Marina Industries (AMI) Conference & Expo is now open at marinaassociation.org/conferenceandexpo. Entering its 23rd year, the conference will be held January 28 - 30, 2025, at the Broward County Convention Center, Fort Lauderdale, FL. The Conference & Ex more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 (TNSres) -- Oil Change International posted the following news release: * * * Video clips from the press conference will be available here (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pp_4IK1XSGr_prHq_Xa4dutWarVc5H7a/view?usp=drive_link). * * * In the coming months, signatories to the Paris Agreement will begin to share updated climate commitments, known as Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), which are due in February 2025. NDCs, which are updated every five years, detail t more PR

CHICAGO, Illinois, Sept. 18 (TNSres) -- The American Gas Association issued the following news release on Sept. 17, 2024: The American Gas Association (AGA) announced the findings of a new research study, Building for Efficiency: Home Appliance Cost and Emissions Comparison, at a press conference on Tuesday. The report compares the cost and greenhouse gas emissions of heating appliances in new construction homes. It shows that direct natural gas use for home heating is often the lowest cost and more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 (TNSres) -- The American Geophysical Union issued the following news release: * * * Urban growth, climate change, and flood risk at lower elevations can push people to live on steeper, more dangerous terrain * * * As urban centers in mountainous regions grow, more people are driven to build on steeper slopes prone to slow-moving landslides, a new study finds. Slow-moving landslides are frequently excluded from estimates of landslide risk, but they could threaten hundreds more PR

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Sept. 18 (TNSres) -- The Broad Institute issued the following Q&A on Sept. 17, 2024, with former nuclear physicist Edana Martin: * * * Former nuclear physicist Edana Martin talks about the importance of collaboration and creative thinking in her work supporting researchers. * * * A desire to constantly learn more has fueled Edana Martin's varied career in science. Growing up in Colombia, she became fascinated with physics and astronomy, seeking to understand how the more PR

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Sept. 18 (TNSres) -- Ceres, a non-profit organization that is mobilizing companies and investors to take stronger action on climate change, water scarcity and global sustainability challenges, issued the following news release: * * * * Finds critical link between full-scope emissions targets and overall emissions reductions * Spotlights noteworthy examples of actions taken by Food Emissions 50 companies * * * As more comprehensive climate reporting rules go into effec more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 (TNSres) -- The Competitive Enterprise Institute issued the following study on August 27, 2024, by James Broughel entitled "Empire State of Mind." Here are excerpts: * * * New York State's environmental permitting procedures represent a mixed bag. On the one hand, the Uniform Procedures Act (UPA), signed into law in 1977, has provided a stable framework for the state's Department of Environmental Conservation processes, standardizing procedures across a wide range of prog more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 (TNSres) -- The Center for Strategic and International Studies issued the following report on August 20, 2024, by Sujai Shivakumar, Charles Wessner and Thomas Howell entitled "A World of Chips Acts: The Future of U.S.-EU Semiconductor Collaboration." Here are excerpts: * * * The United States and the European Union have each recently enacted legislation providing for an unprecedented volume of public investments in semiconductors, with the largest portion allocated to the more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 (TNSres) -- The Center for Strategic and International Studies issued the following report on August 19, 2024, by Lauren Mai, Gregory B. Poling and Japhet Quitzon entitled "An Indispensable Upgrade: The U.S.-Vietnam Comprehensive Strategic Partnership." Here are excerpts: * * * In 2025, U.S.-Vietnam relations will mark two important anniversaries: 50 years since the end of the Vietnam War and 30 years since the normalization of U.S.-Vietnam relations. These anniversaries  more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 (TNSres) -- The Center for Strategic and International Studies issued the following report on August 26, 2024, by Romina Bandura, Madeleine McLean, and Caroline Smutny entitled "Approaches to Digital Public Infrastructure in the Global South." Here is the introduction: * * * Digital technologies define a modern economy by allowing companies, governments, and citizens to connect, transact, and gain access to goods and services. Within a country's digital ecosystem, digital more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 (TNSres) -- The Center for Strategic and International Studies issued the following brief on August 19, 2024, by Masao Dahlgren entitled "Defense Priorities in the Open-Source AI Debate." Here are excerpts: * * * Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has increasingly become a U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) priority. Software powered by generative AI foundation models--generalist systems that emulate human reasoning--might process reams of raw intelligence, automate Pe more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 (TNSres) -- The Center for Strategic and International Studies issued the following report on September 9, 2024, by Scott Kennedy and Andrea Leonard Palazzi entitled "Diversifying, Not Decoupling." Here are excerpts: * * * A new report by the CSIS Trustee Chair analyzes a formal survey of over 600 Taiwanese companies, finding that although worries about the risks of doing business with China remain high, Taiwanese companies are engaging in a variety of diversification str more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 (TNSres) -- The Center for Strategic and International Studies issued the following report on August 23, 2024, by Kari A. Bingen and Makena Young entitled "From Earth to Uchu: The Evolution of Japan's Space Security Policy and a Blueprint for Strengthening the U.S.-Japan Space Security Partnership." Here are excerpts: * * * As Japan reckons with an increasingly tense security dynamic driven by growing Chinese and North Korean military activity and defense budgets, space c more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 (TNSres) -- The Center for Strategic and International Studies issued the following report on August 26, 2024, by Romina Bandura and Madeleine McLean entitled "Leveraging Digital Technologies to Advance Women's Economic Empowerment." Here are excerpts: * * * Despite worldwide advances in digitization over the past decade, many people are still excluded from the digital economy and miss out on the opportunities it provides. This exclusion, referred to as the digital divide more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 (TNSres) -- The Center for Strategic and International Studies issued the following report on September 3, 2024, by Max Bergmann, Cy McGeady, Otto Svendsen, Mathias Zacarias and Ignacio Urbasos entitled "Power Plays: Europe's Response to the Energy Crisis." Here are excerpts: * * * Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 triggered a severe energy crisis in Europe. The shock represented a test not just of Europe's energy sector but of the resilience of Eur more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 (TNSres) -- The Center for Strategic and International Studies issued the following report on August 20, 2024, by Daniel F. Runde, Rafael Romeu and Austin Hardman entitled "Reintroducing Concessional Loans into the Development Toolbox." Here is the introduction: * * * Global indebtedness has soared to unsustainable levels and requires a long-term solution, not an endless series of bailouts. The process for helping indebted countries is inefficient and does not serve U.S.  more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 (TNSres) -- The Center for Strategic and International Studies issued the following report on September 3, 2024, by Romina Bandura, Daria Figlus and Ilya Timtchenko entitled "Removing Bottlenecks for the Private Sector." Here are excerpts: * * * Ukraine is an incredibly resource-endowed country in terms of its land, talented workforce, and geographic proximity to Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Once the war is over, Ukraine has the potential to be an economic powerhous more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 (TNSres) -- The Center for Strategic and International Studies issued the following brief on September 3, 2024, by Lachlan MacKenzie entitled "Six Days in October: Russia's Dirty Bomb Signaling and the Return of Nuclear Crises." Here are excerpts: * * * In fall 2022, the United States faced what may have been its most dangerous nuclear crisis in decades. Confronted by intensifying Russian nuclear rhetoric and intercepted conversations about nuclear use in the Russian mili more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 (TNSres) -- The Center for Strategic and International Studies issued the following report on September 10, 2024, by Jane Nakano and Joseph Majkut entitled "Strategic Equilibrium: The United States' Manufacturing Resurgence and the Role of Natural Gas in a Carbon-Competitive World." Here is the introduction: * * * A variety of forces are promoting reindustrialization of the United States. Concerned about the fragility of long supply chains, some firms are reinvesting in U more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 (TNSres) -- The Center for Strategic and International Studies issued the following report on August 21, 2024, by Charles Edel and Christopher B. Johnstone entitled "U.S.-Australia-Japan Trilateral Cooperation on Strategic Stability in the Taiwan Strait." Here are excerpts: * * * China's intensifying military activities in and around the Taiwan Strait, economic coercion tactics against Taiwan, and aggressive rhetoric about compelling reunification have increased anxiety i more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 (TNSres) -- The Economic Policy Institute issued the following report on September 12, 2024, by Sylvia Allegretto entitled "Teacher Pay Rises in 2023--But Not Enough To Shrink Pay Gap With Other College Graduates." Here are excerpts: * * * Key findings * The pay penalty for teachers--the regression-adjusted gap between the weekly wages of teachers and college graduates working in other professions--grew to a record 26.6% in 2023, a significant increase from 6.1% in 1996. more PR

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Sept. 18 (TNSres) -- The Oak Ridge Associated Universities issued the following news release: One of the many benefits of being a member of ORAU's university consortium is the opportunity to participate in the ORAU-Directed Research and Development Program (ODRD). ODRD is a grant program that supports collaborations between ORAU researchers and faculty at our member universities. One of the projects that received ODRD funding in the 2024 fiscal year focused on the impact  more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 [Category: ThinkTank] (TNSres) -- Common Cause issued the following news release: * * * Members of Congress with perfect scores increase more than 15% from 2022 * * * NEVADA-- Common Cause, the nonpartisan watchdog, released its 2024 "Democracy Scorecard," recording every member of Congress' support for voting rights, Supreme Court ethics, and other reforms. "Our 2024 Democracy Scorecard shows a surge of support in Congress for reforms that strengthen the right to vote, more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 [Category: ThinkTank] (TNSres) -- Common Cause issued the following news release: * * * Members of Congress with perfect scores increase more than 15% from 2022 * * * NEW JERSEY -- Common Cause, the nonpartisan watchdog, released its 2024 "Democracy Scorecard," recording every member of Congress' support for voting rights, Supreme Court ethics, and other reforms. "Our 2024 Democracy Scorecard shows a surge of support in Congress for reforms that strengthen the right to more PR

NEW YORK, Sept. 18 (TNSres) -- The Interactive Advertising Bureau issued the following news: In a landmark study, "Unconnected Commerce: the Disconnect between Brands and Consumers in Digital Video Shopping," the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) analyzes the rise of Commerce Video, as it found 70% of digital video advertisers are already using Commerce Video and nearly all of them plan to spend more in the future. The study, conducted in partnership with research consultancy Alter Agents,  more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 (TNSres) -- The Institute for Women's Policy Research issued the following report on September 12, 2024, by Ariane Hegewisch, Miranda Peterson and Nina Besser Doorley entitled "Gender and Racial Wage Gaps Worsened in 2023 and Pay Equity Still Decades Away.": Here are excerpts: * * * In 2023, women working full-time year-round made 82.7 cents per dollar earned by men (a wage gap of 17.3 percent), a significant worsening of the earnings ratio compared to 84.0 cents per doll more PR

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, North Carolina, Sept. 18 (TNSres) -- The International Society of Automation issued the following news release: The International Society of Automation (ISA) -- the leading professional society for automation -- has announced the publication of a new position paper, "Automation Shapes Global Economic Growth and Development." Automation has long boosted global economies by improving productivity, cost savings, quality, safety and reliability. Automation technologies have more PR

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, Sept. 17 (TNSres)(TNScapv) -- The American Friends Service Committee issued the following news release: * * * 15 aid organizations demand international pressure for an immediate ceasefire, arms embargo, and end to Israel's systematic aid obstruction * * * New data has revealed the scale of aid obstruction, and the consequential drastic fall in aid entering Gaza. This is driving a humanitarian disaster, with the entire population of Gaza facing hunger and disease,  more PR

CHICAGO, Illinois, Sept. 18 (TNSres) -- The Journal of Marketing, a part of the American Marketing Association, issued the following news release: Researchers from Vanderbilt University, San Diego State University, University of Denver, and University of Georgia published a new Journal of Marketing study that examines how the presentation of performance rankings influences critical outcomes, including salesperson quota attainment and employee turnover. The study, forthcoming in the Journal of  more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 (TNSres) -- MISMO, a subsidiary of the Mortgage Bankers Association, issued the following news on Sept. 17, 2024: MISMO(R), the real estate finance industry's standards organization, today announced the publication of a Housing Counseling White Paper (https://www.mismo.org/standards-resources/mismo-product/housing-counseling-white-paper) focused on how utilizing MISMO standards in housing counseling can expand homeownership opportunities. "This white paper is an important  more PR

CHICAGO, Illinois, Sept. 18 (TNSres) -- The Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning issued the following news release: * * * New findings also show educators who instruct their students in SEL are more likely to report higher student interest and more positive climates. * * * A national survey of educators and principals shows a record number of K-12 schools reporting social and emotional learning (SEL) implementation. By the 2023-24 school year, 83 percent of school princi more PR

PORTLAND, Oregon, Sept. 18 (TNSres) -- NWEA, an organization that says it creates academic assessments for pre-K-12, issued the following news release: * * * First large-scale, in-depth analysis shows uneven recovery in science achievement across the elementary and middle grades * * * NWEA, a K-12 assessment and research organization, announced today a new research report exploring trends in science achievement since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Using MAP(R) Growth(TM) assessment resu more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 (TNSres) -- Childhood Education International issued the following news: The newest issue of Childhood Education: Innovations features unique, stimulating information about educational programs around the world. The September/October 2024 issue includes articles on creativity, literacy, wellbeing, and more. Two of these articles are currently freely available to the public, while the others are available to magazine subscribers or for a download fee. Access to the free art more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 (TNSres) -- The Progressive Policy Institute issued the following news release on Sept. 17, 2024: The Progressive Policy Institute (PPI) today released a new report, "Fixing Uncompetitive Markets: Protecting Working Americans from the High Costs of Market Power," authored by Diana L. Moss, Vice President and Director of Competition Policy at PPI. This report offers an in-depth analysis of how concentrated market power in key sectors harms working-class Americans by driving  more PR

SANTA MONICA, California, Sept. 17 (TNSres) -- Rand issued the following excerpts of a commentary on Sept. 16, 2024, to Foreign Policy: * * * Russia Is Riding an Anti-Colonial Wave Across Africa By Benjamin R. Young In May, pro-independence demonstrations spread across New Caledonia, a small Pacific island territory that has been ruled by France since 1853. Waving the flags of the Indigenous Kanak people as well as the flag of the pro-independence Socialist National Liberation Front, demonst more PR

SANTA MONICA, California, Sept. 18 (TNSres) -- Rand issued the following excerpts of a commentary on Sept. 16, 2024, to The National Interest: * * * The Kursk Offensive: Triumph or Tragedy in the Making? By John V. Parachini In a bold move, Ukrainian forces advanced into the Kursk region (https://nationalsecurityjournal.org/a-korean-war-ending-for-the-ukraine-war/) of Russia, creating new dynamics on the battlefield. This operation, while potentially a game-changing move by Ukraine, could le more PR

SANTA MONICA, California, Sept. 18 (TNSres) -- Rand issued the following excerpts of a commentary on Sept. 17, 2024, to The National Interest: * * * Ukraine's 'Masterstroke' Kursk Offensive Is About Geometry, not Geography By Ann Marie Dailey Countless pundits have denigrated Ukraine's Kursk offensive, and nearly all the criticism has focused on geography: Sudzha, Pokrovsk, Kursk. But this misses the point. The offensive is not about geography. It's about geometry. Ukraine's Kursk offensive more PR

SANTA MONICA, California, Sept. 18 (TNSres) -- Rand issued the following commentary on Sept. 17, 2024: * * * Disinformation May Thrive as Transparency Deteriorates Across Social Media By R. Gordon Rinderknecht In 2016, RAND researchers described Russia's attempts at influencing the American public as a "firehose of falsehood," (https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PE198.html) characterized by a high volume of content distributed broadly, repetitively, and with little commitment to truth an more PR

SANTA MONICA, California, Sept. 17 (TNSres) -- Rand issued the following commentary on Sept. 16, 2024: * * * Is AI Threatening Health Care Jobs? Or Just Changing Them? By Shira H. Fischer Are artificial intelligence (AI)-based chatbots coming for your health care job? To answer this question, RAND hosted a conversation with two physician-AI experts from Mass General Brigham, the biggest health care system in Massachusetts and the largest hospital system-based research enterprise (https://www more PR

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, Sept. 18 (TNSres) -- The Society of Hospital Medicine issued the following news release: The Journal of Hospital Medicine (JHM), the official peer-reviewed journal of the Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM), released a new article in its "Perspectives in Hospital Medicine" series, "Lessons from Patient Safety to Accelerate Healthcare Decarbonization," exploring the reduction of US healthcare pollution by integrating existing patient safety principles with evolving env more PR

BETHESDA, Maryland, Sept. 18 (TNSres) -- The Association for Financial Professionals issued the following news release: * * * Ninety-five percent of bankers believe credit support is a priority for clients when choosing a banking partner, a factor that three in four treasury professionals agree is important, according to the 2024 AFP Bank Relationship Management Survey. * * * Rockville, Md. -- A bank's financial stability is of utmost importance to 98% of organizations when choosing a primar more PR

TUCKER, Georgia, Sept. 18 (TNSres) -- The USPOULTRY Foundation issued the following news release: USPOULTRY and the USPOULTRY Foundation are accepting research preproposals from colleges, universities and research facilities through Nov. 1, on combatting avian metapneumovirus (aMPV) in the poultry industry. Hundreds of aMPV detections have been reported from producers across the country in the first and second quarters of 2024 after very few detections of the virus in the U.S. over the past tw more PR

CHARLESTON, West Virginia, Sept. 18 (TNSres) -- The West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy issued the following statement on Sept. 17, 2024: * * * West Virginia's criminal legal system for children is at a crossroads. Juvenile reforms implemented in the 2010s led to decreases in the number of criminal cases filed against youth. But as West Virginia emerged from the COVID-19 pandemic, the trend reversed, and criminal filings have increased each of the last three years. As cases filed against more PR

BETHESDA, Maryland, Sept. 17 (TNSres) -- The Wildlife Society, an organization that says it inspires, empowers and enables wildlife professionals to sustain wildlife populations and habitats through science-based management and conservation, issued the following news: * * * AI could help reduce wildlife deaths caused by fencing * * * Researchers are turning to AI to help wildlife managers find remote fencing that impairs wildlife movement or causes wildlife deaths. Around 1 million kilometer more PR

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, Sept. 18 (TNSres) -- The Wistar Institute issued the following news release: * * * Wistar's Altieri lab uncovered the protein's powerful influence on immune response to tumors * * * The Wistar Institute's President and CEO, Dario C. Altieri, M.D., and team have demonstrated the role of Parkin -- a protein implicated in Parkinson's disease -- in the body's innate immune response to cancer. Parkin is not expressed in several cancers. Dr. Altieri and his team enginee more PR