In statistics, the term “official data” denotes data collected in censuses and statistical surveys by National Statistics Institutes (NSIs), as well as administrative and registration records collected by government departments and local authorities. They are used to produce “official statistics” for the purpose of making policy decisions, and to facilitate the appreciation of economic, social,...

MultiUN is a multilingual parallel corpus extracted from the official documents of the United Nations. It is available in the six official languages of the UN and a small portion of it is also available in German. This paper presents a major update on the first public version of the corpus released in 2010. This version 2 consists of over 513, 091 documents, including around 9% of new documents...

A rare and almost complete barnacle fossil, previously described on the basis of two isolated shell fragments, was recently exposed in a limestone block on the outer wall of Melbourne's Old Magistrates' Courts in Victoria, Australia. These courts comprise one of the oldest and grandest buildings in Melbourne and because of this they have a heritage listing. As heritage-listed buildings are prot...

Few policies are as universally accepted as raising primary school enrolment in developing countries, but the policy levers for achieving this goal are not straightforward. This paper merges household survey data with detailed school supply characteristics from official sources, in order to estimate the relative impact of demand and supply side determinants of rural primary school enrolment in ...

The first evaluation criterion is the level of confidence that dismantlement has taken place produced by each option. The level of confidence that a particular monitoring option provides that warhead dismantlement is actually occurring depends on the level of information obtained from that particular option and the ease with which that option can be spoofed. Short of direct observation or remot...

According to the Central Brain Tumor Registry in the United States (CBTRUS), there were approximately 18,000 new cases of meningioma diagnosed annually from 2004 to 2006. Currently, the estimated prevalence in the United States is that there are 170,000 people with meningioma, because of the prolonged natural history of meningiomas and because asymptomatic elderly patients and those with signif...