CHICAGO, Illinois, Dec. 5 [Category: Libraries] -- The American Library Association issued the following news release: CHICAGO "Understanding Public Libraries: Management, Leadership and Ideology," published by Facet Publishing and available through the ALA Store, advances a scientific understanding of public libraries and ultimately poses and explores the vital question: Whose interests should public libraries serve? Drawing on the ideas of Marx and Maslow and their theories of dialectical mat more PR

SEATTLE, Dec. 6 -- Alaska Airlines, a subsidiary of Alaska Air Group, issued the following news release: * * * We're your ticket to Coachella and Stagecoach! As the official airline, we've got the most flights to Palm Springs--your gateway to all the festival fun. With easy connections, budget-friendly Flight Pass options, and some exciting surprises along the way, it's time to pack your bags and get ready for an unforgettable desert adventure this spring! Summary - Alaska Airlines is now th more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 (TNSres) -- The Association of American Medical Colleges issued the following commentary on Dec. 3, 2024: * * * Guilt, sadness, fear, worry over bringing children into the world. Eco-anxiety is on the rise. Here's what doctors and medical educators can -- and must -- do to help. * * * Growing Toll of Climate Anxiety By Britt Wray and Henna Hundal In the summer of 2023, Joe Vipond, MD, a Canadian emergency medicine physician, found himself increasingly distressed. The cli more PR

VICTORIA, Australia, Dec. 6 (TNSres) -- The Australian Education Union issued the following news release: The latest Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) results have once again highlighted the growing inequalities within Australia's education system, and the need for full funding of public schools. These results show the performance gap between socio-economically disadvantaged students, Aboriginal students and Torres Strait Islander students, and their peers has conti more PR

VICTORIA, Australia, Dec. 6 -- The Australian Securities and Investments Commission issued the following news: ASIC has banned SA based former financial adviser Bruce Stuart Davis from providing financial services, controlling an entity that carries on a financial services business or performing any function involved in the carrying on of a financial services business. Mr Davis was the sole director, responsible manager, and financial adviser of AFS Licensee, Wise Investment Advisers Pty Ltd ( more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics issued the following report (No. USDL-24-2365) on Dec. 4, 2024, entitled "Total Factor Productivity for Major Industries - 2023": * * * Total factor productivity (TFP) increased in 12 out of 21 major industries in 2023, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today, led by the mining and retail trade industries. The TFP increases in 2023 were driven by output growth outpacing the growth in combined in more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 5 -- The Center for Digital Democracy issued a 48-page report in October 2024 entitled "How TV Watches Us: Commercial Surveillance in the Streaming Era." The report was written by Jeff Chester and Kathryn C. Montgomery. Here are excerpts: * * * Acknowledgements The Center for Digital Democracy's project on connected television is funded, in part, by the Rose Foundation for Communities and the Environment. CDD thanks the foundation for its generous support. The Center for  more ST

WASHINGTON, Dec. 5 -- The Center for Strategic and International Studies issued the following Q&A on Dec. 4, 2024, by Wes Rumbaugh: * * * Following Iran's ballistic missile attack on Israel on October 1, defense analysts have expressed concerns about the U.S. use of about a dozen Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) interceptors. The debates surrounding aid to Ukraine have turned concerns about munitions production into an almost reflexive reaction to any use or transfer of U.S. weapons. While there are  more PR

BLACKSBURG, Virginia, Dec. 5 -- Virginia Tech issued the following news: The potential for record-breaking online sales this holiday season unfortunately signifies opportunities for holiday scams, adding urgency to consumer warnings from agencies such as the Federal Bureau of Investigations and the Federal Trade Commission. Yet as technology advances, so do the tactics of scammers. Virginia Tech cybercrime expert Katalin Parti shared tips for new scammer tactics to guard against, through the h more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 -- EMILYs List issued the following statement on Dec. 5, 2024: * * * Today, Sen. Laphonza Butler delivered her Senate farewell address following her Senate appointment after the passing of Sen. Dianne Feinstein. The former president of EMILYs List, Butler is the third Black woman to serve in the U.S. Senate. EMILYs List President Jessica Mackler released the following statement: "We are grateful for Sen. Laphonza Butler's groundbreaking leadership in the U.S. Senate over th more PR

NEW ROCHELLE, New York, Dec. 6 -- Facial Plastic Surgery and Aesthetic Medicine, a peer-reviewed journal from the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, European Academy of Facial Plastic Surgery and International Federation of Facial Plastic Surgery Societies that says it focuses on advances in reconstructive and aesthetic procedures to improve patients' quality of life and encourages a deeper understanding of the basic sciences related to facial development and wound he more PR

GESSO, Italy, Dec. 5 -- The White House issued the following remarks on Dec. 4, 2024, by First Lady Jill Biden who was visiting her ancestral hometown: * * * As Prepared for Delivery Buongiorno! Thank you, Mr. Mayor, for a warmer welcome than I could have imagined. I'm also grateful to Ms. Prefect Di Stani and to President Schifani for their leadership. Ambassador Markell, Jack, Carla, thank you for your hospitality and your work to strengthen the special relationship between Italy and th more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 5 -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Food and Drug Administration issued a notice in the Federal Register on Nov. 20, 2024, entitled "Determination That FORTESTA (Testosterone) Gel, 10 Milligrams/0.5 Gram Actuation, Was Not Withdrawn From Sale for Reasons of Safety or Effectiveness". Here are excerpts: * * * SUMMARY: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or Agency) has determined that FORTESTA (testosterone) gel, 10 milligrams (mg)/0.5 gram (gm) actuation,  more ST

WASHINGTON, Dec. 5 -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Food and Drug Administration issued a notice in the Federal Register on Nov. 20, 2024, entitled "Determination That IC-GREEN (Indocyanine Green), 25 Milligrams/Vial, Was Not Withdrawn From Sale for Reasons of Safety or Effectiveness". Here are excerpts: * * * SUMMARY: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or Agency) has determined that IC-GREEN (indocyanine green), 25 milligrams (mg)/vial, was not withdrawn from sale for more ST

ITHACA, New York, Dec. 5 -- Cornell University issued the following news: When she arrived in Ithaca in 1924 to pursue a master's degree at Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences, Pearl S. Buck was an aspiring novelist whose husband, John Lossing Buck, B.S. 1914, M.S. '25, Ph.D. '33, was a star acolyte of farm economist George Warren, namesake of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences' Warren Hall. Over the next academic year, Pearl received influential mentorship from English professor  more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of the Treasury Internal Revenue Service issued the following news release on Dec. 5, 2024: * * * Details agency's global reach, billion-dollar impact * * * The Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) released its Fiscal Year 2024 (FY24) Annual Report today that details significant cases involving crimes ranging from tax fraud to cybercrime, enhanced domestic and foreign partnerships and investigative statistics from FY24 th more PR

PLANO, Texas, Dec. 6 -- JCPenney, an apparel and home furnishings retailer, issued the following news on Dec. 5, 2024: Celebrity hairstylist Larry Sims and actress Gabrielle Union celebrated the launch of SimStyled, a salon experience exclusive to select JCPenney Salons, with a reception at the JCPenney Glendale Galleria location in Los Angeles on December 3. Celebrity guests, beauty industry experts and JCPenney leaders including Michelle Wlazlo, chief merchandising and supply chain officer, J more PR

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, Dec. 5 -- The Journal of Economic Literature, a peer-reviewed survey and review articles to help economists keep abreast of the flow of literature from the American Economic Association, published research articles on the following topics in its December 2024 edition (Vol. 62, No. 4): Articles * Social Protection in the Developing World * The Economics of Social Media * The Origins of Enduring Economic Inequality * The Changing Identities of American Wives and Moth more PR

OXFORD, England, Dec. 6 -- The Journal of Theological Studies published research articles on the following topics in its October 2024 edition (Vol. 75, Issue 2): Articles * Anatomizing God? * 'The Stamp of Their Own Iniquity': Ottobah Cugoano on the Mark of Cain, Noah's Curse, and Enslavers * Covenant and Wisdom: Arguing with a Premiss from Absence * Allegory and the Canonization of the Song of Songs * The Independent Works of Luke: Further Evidence on the Early Christian Reception of Luke more PR

SWANSEA, Wales, Dec. 6 (TNSres) -- Swansea University issued the following news: A new board game called Legless in London, based on research by a Swansea historian, will bring disability culture and history to life in a significant and accessible way. The game allows players to experience the challenges and opportunities that Victorian London presented to lower-limb amputees. Through the game, all players play as an amputee and attempt to achieve life goals such as buying property, finding l more PR

ITHACA, New York, Dec. 5 -- Cornell University issued the following news: Allen Hatcher, emeritus professor of mathematics in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been awarded the inaugural Elias M. Stein Prize for Transformative Exposition by the American Mathematical Society. The $5,000 prize will be presented at the 2025 Joint Mathematics Meetings in Seattle. Hatcher, a geometric topologist, will receive the award for his book, "Algebraic Topology," published in 2002 by Cambridge Universit more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 5 -- The Michigan Department of Education and the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services Divisions of Communicable Disease & Immunization has issued a 24-page report in September 2024 entitled "Managing Communicable Diseases in Schools". Here are excerpts: * * * Acknowledgments The authors gratefully acknowledge guidance from Kent County Health Department, Livingston County Health Department, Washtenaw County Public Health, Genesee County Health Department, and Ka more ST

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Dec. 5 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following Q&A on Dec. 4, 2024, with professor and political scientist Fotini Christia: * * * International research co-led by Professor Fotini Christia finds an approach lauded in the US works differently in other regions. * * * By Peter Dizikes, MIT News The concept of community policing gained wide acclaim in the U.S. when crime dropped drastically during the 1990s. In Chicago, Boston, and elsewhere,  more PR

CAMBRIDGE, England, Dec. 5 -- New Perspectives on Turkey, a peer-reviewed social science journal that says it focuses on the history, politics, society, economy and culture of Turkey and the Ottoman Empire, published research articles on the following topics in its November 2024 edition: Article * Islamic art and visualities of war from the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic * Musical convergence and divergence in occupied Istanbul, 1918-1923 * Under the shadow of occupation: cultural, a more PR

DELAWARE, Ohio, Dec. 6 -- Ohio Wesleyan University issued the following news release: Ohio Wesleyan University has been awarded its fourth - and largest - Choose Ohio First grant, receiving $1,199,940 for scholarships for Ohio students pursuing degrees in the STEM fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. OWU's grant is among the four largest awarded to colleges and universities statewide this cycle. The State of Ohio and Ohio Department of Higher Education announced the Fis more PR

PORTLAND, Oregon, Dec. 6 (TNSres) -- Oregon Wild issued the following statement on Dec. 4, 2024, by senior conservation advocate Chandra LeGue: * * * I've read a lot of books about Pacific Northwest forests. I even wrote my own (Oregon's Ancient Forests: A hiking guide). You might think they eventually all seem the same. But reading an advance copy of my friend Peg's book about our region's forests inspired me to learn more about and protect this amazing place we call home all over again. Her  more PR

MILTON, England, Dec. 6 -- Production Planning and Control, a peer-reviewed journal that says it features research paper on management of operations in all industries, published research articles on the following topics in its Vol. 35, Issue 16 edition: Research Articles * A scrumban board-based approach to improve material flow in engineering to order (ETO) companies: an industrial application based on action research * Artificial intelligence as an enabler of quick and effective production  more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 5 -- The Progressive Policy Institute issued a 49-page report in July 2024 entitled "Teaching Students What It Means to Be an American: It Provides the Key to Preserving Our Liberal Democracy." The report was written by Richard D. Kahlenberg. Here are excerpts: * * * EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Almost 250 years after the nation's founding, there is broad agreement that American liberal democracy is in deep trouble. The leading Republican candidate for president has tried to thwart th more ST

SOUTHLAKE, Texas, Dec. 6 -- Sabre, a travel technology company, issued the following news release: * * * Long-term renewal reinforces Qantas' commitment to distributing both traditional and NDC content through Sabre's robust, worldwide marketplace. * * * SINGAPORE and Sydney, AUSTRALIA - Dec. 5, 2024 - Sabre Corporation (NASDAQ: SABR), a leading software and technology provider that powers the global travel industry, has extended its long-term distribution agreement with Qantas, Australia's  more PR

NEW YORK, Dec. 6 -- Scholastic, a children's publishing, education and media company, issued the following news release on Dec. 5, 2024: Scholastic Corporation (NASDAQ:SCHL) today announced the following schedule and conference call information for its second quarter fiscal year 2025 earnings announcement: * Earnings Release: Thursday, December 19, 2024, at 4:00 PM ET and posted on the Company's investor relations website, investor.scholastic.com. * Conference Call: Thursday, December 19, 202 more PR

MILTON, England, Dec. 6 -- Small Wars and Insurgencies, a peer-reviewed journal that says it provides a forum for the discussion of insurgency, counter-insurgency, limited war and irregular warfare, published research articles on the following topics in its Vol. 35, Issue 8 edition: Research Article * 'Havoc the laws of regular warfare do not sanction:' the resort to punitive violence by British forces in Victorian small wars * The grand strategy of a non-Western small state: Sri Lanka and th more PR

DURHAM, England, Dec. 6 -- Sociology, a peer reviewed journal from the British Sociological Association, published research articles on the following topics in its December 2024 edition (Vol. 58, Issue 6): Articles * Misgendering, Cisgenderism and the Reproduction of the Gender Order in Social Interaction * Eloquent Blood: A Historical Microsociology of Blushing * Parents' Industrial Sectors and Fields of Study: Five Decades of Evidence from an Elite Regional University in China * Gender Id more PR

MADISON, Wisconsin, Dec. 5 [Category: Religion] -- The Freedom From Religion Foundation issued the following news release: Watch the teaser here. A resolutely secular high-ranking legislator explains on the Freedom From Religion Foundation's television show how he is defending our founding ideals. Oklahoma state Rep. Mickey Dollens has served in the Legislature since 2016, where he is now House Minority Whip. Dolan is the author of the new book, "The Citizen's Guide to Political Change: How t more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 5 -- The U.S. Navy's U.S. Fleet Forces Command issued the following news: By Chief Petty Officer Timothy Black, USS Iwo Jima (LHD 7) NORFOLK, Va. - Growing up in an urban city in Vietnam, surrounded with the smell of coffee beans and vegetable gardens, this Vietnamese teenager had her head in books with a desire to become a teacher one day. With her mother and father supporting the family by growing coffee beans and truck driving, they worked hard to pay for extra tutoring to  more PR

CHICAGO, Illinois, Dec. 5 [Category: Libraries] -- The American Library Association issued the following news release: CHICAGO Award-winning author and illustrator Raina Telgemeier and cartoonist and comic theorist Scott McCloud have been selected Honorary Chairs of the American Library Association's National Library Week, April 6-12, 2025. The week celebrates the important role libraries and library professionals play in schools and communities. Telgemeier and McCloud have partnered to create more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 5 -- The U.S. Department of State U.S. Mission to Suriname has issued a grant notice involving Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation. * * * Description: The U.S. Embassy in Suriname announces a call for concept notes to put forward for the 2025 Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP) competition. The U.S. Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP) helps protect historic buildings, archaeological sites, museum collections, and traditional cultural expressi more ST