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Hard numbers have been released by the US government agency that screens visas for high-skilled foreign workers, and they are not pretty. Data made available by the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) for the first time show that the widely made complaint about the visa program is true: a small number of IT outsourcing companies get a disproportionately high number of H-1B visas and pay below-average wages to their workers. The H-1B program was put in the spotlight in April, when US President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order called “Buy American, Hire American” as part of his push to tighten immigration rules. Three months later, the USCIS formally disclosed the number of H1-B visas issued over the last two years by employer. Previously, the data was only available as estimates for companies petitioning for information, or by request under the Freedom of Information Act. Almost 4,000 companies submitted H-1B visa applications in fiscal year 2016. The top 20

Sunblock of the Future: 'DNA Sunscreen' Made from Salmon Sperm... (Third column, 13th story, link ) News http://ift.tt/2hj3zTM August 01, 2017 at 08:07AM

Sunblock of the Future: 'DNA Sunscreen' Made from Salmon Sperm... (Third column, 13th story, link ) News http://ift.tt/2hj3zTM August 01, 2017 at 08:07AM

(This article was first published on R – insightR , and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) By Gabriel Vasconcelos In a recent paper that can be downloaded here , Carvalho, Masini and Medeiros show that estimating counterfactuals in a non-stationary framework (when I say non-stationary it means integrated) is a tricky task. It is intuitive that the models will not work properly in the absence of cointegration (spurious case), but what the authors show is that even with cointegration, the average treatment effect (ATE) converges to a non-standard distribution. As a result, standard tests on the ATE will identify treatment effects in several cases that there is no effect at all. For those who are not familiar with counterfactual models: normally, these models have a treated unit (we want to know the effects of the treatment) and several untreated units that we call peers. There units may be cities, countries, companies, etc. Assuming that only one unit was treated and that th

Currently in Nashville (again!) - it seems that our little real estate side project has been growing faster than expected. Though it has made me realize that the only way to take a true vacation from one thing, is to be so busy with another that you can’t even think about the first! But that also means it’s making me figure out what i miss (and what i don’t!) If you’re curious what we’re up to currently, take a peek on the @NOTlabs Instagram … (Want more visual goodness? See NOTCOT.com + NOTCOT.org ) Design http://ift.tt/2udZ3ak August 01, 2017 at 07:00AM

Daily Design Inspiration AoiroStudio Aug 01, 2017 Part of the Daily Design Inspiration series that started it all on Abduzeedo. This is where you'll find the most interesting things/finds/work curated by one of us to simply inspire your day. Furthermore, it's an opportunity to feature work from more designers, photographers, and artists in general that we haven't had the chance to write or feature about in the past. For this Daily we are selecting editorial, illustration, print design and more. Our goal is to diversify the types of work and in the future we can perhaps categorize them in different sections. For now we are going to stick to the simple format of images and links. I hope you enjoy and share with use via Twitter or our Tumblr . Until further notice, we'll display the images and the titles added to them. Because of little issues we had in the past, the images are still linked to their authors, we just won't mentioned who shared them like we used