WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 -- The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities issued the following blog: New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy has signed a bill that lets residents who are undocumented obtain driver's licenses, giving access to nearly 450,000 such residents and providing for safer roads, fewer uninsured drivers, more state revenue, and greater mobility for families in their daily lives. New Jersey is now the 15th state in addition to the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico to provide driver's l  more

HOBOKEN, New Jersey, Dec. 26 -- Clinical Transplantation, a journal that says it aims to serve as a channel for those involved in the care of patients who require, or have had, organ or tissue transplants (including kidney, intestine, liver, pancreas, islets, heart, heart valves, lung, bone marrow, cornea, skin, bone and cartilage), published research articles on the following topics in its December 2019 edition: * Assessing cardiovascular risk in the prerenal transplant population: Comparison   more

SOUTH PLAINFIELD, New Jersey, Dec. 27 -- The Council on American-Islamic Relations issued the following news release: The New Jersey chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-NJ), the state office of the nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, announced that Selaedin Maksut has been named as its new Executive Director. Before joining CAIR-New Jersey, Maksut received his BA from New York University in Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies, and his MA from Col  more

PENNSVILLE, New Jersey, Dec. 26 -- Ear and Hearing, a journal from the American Auditory Society that says it covers auditory and vestibular disorders, published research articles, including the following topics, in its November/December 2019 edition: * Age-Related Changes in Temporal Resolution Revisited: Electrophysiological and Behavioral Findings From Cochlear Implant Users * Auditory Training for Adult Cochlear Implant Users: A Survey and Cost Analysis Study * Bone Conduction Amplificati  more

HOBOKEN, New Jersey, Dec. 22 -- Ecohydrology, a journal that says it aims to improve understanding of processes at the interface between ecology and hydrology and associated applications related to environmental management, published research articles, including the following topics, in its December 2019 edition: * Controlling factors affecting the presence and distribution of Didymosphenia geminata in lakes and rivers of the Neuquen province, Argentina * Controls on soil carbon dioxide and me  more

BASEL, Switzerland, Dec. 25 -- Environments, an open access journal from the Society for Urban Ecology that says it focuses on environmental systems, published research articles on the following topics in its December 2019 edition: * Characterizing the Spatial Distribution of Eragrostis Curvula (Weeping Lovegrass) in New Jersey (United States of America) Using Logistic Regression * Error Models for the Kinetic Evaluation of Chemical Degradation Data * Occupational Exposure on Board Fishing Ve  more

CAMDEN, New Jersey, Dec. 17 -- Faith in Action issued the following statement: Faith in New Jersey, a federation of Faith in Action, is celebrating the passage of state legislation A-4743 & S-3229 that allows immigrants regardless of status, as well as survivors of domestic abuse, returning citizens, and other marginalized populations to obtain a driver's license. Faith in New Jersey has worked tirelessly over the past several years advocating in favor of this measure, which also states that th  more

PISCATAWAY, New Jersey, Dec. 27 -- IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics, a peer-reviewed journal from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers that says it features articles that connects photovoltaic science and technology, published research articles, including the following topics, in its January 2020 edition: * Considerations for the Design of a Heterojunction Bipolar Transistor Solar Cell * Controlling Light- and Elevated-Temperature-Induced Degradation With Thin Film Barrier Layers  more

PISCATAWAY, New Jersey, Dec. 23 -- IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, a journal that says it emphasizes on transistor-level design of integrated circuits from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, published research articles, including the following topics, in its December 2019 edition: * Bipolar-Input Thermoelectric Energy-Harvesting Interface With Boost/Flyback Hybrid Converter and On-Chip Cold Starter * Calibration-Free Time-Interleaved Fourth-Order Noise-Shaping SAR ADC  more

PISCATAWAY, New Jersey, Dec. 23 -- IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, a journal from the IEEE Computer Society, published research articles, including the following topics, in its January 2020 edition: * Approximate Fisher Information Matrix to Characterize the Training of Deep Neural Networks * Bayesian Neural Networks with Weight Sharing Using Dirichlet Processes * Cooperative Training of Descriptor and Generator Networks * Detecting Coherent Groups in Crowd Sc  more

NEWARK, New Jersey, Dec. 23 -- The National Action Network issued the following statement by Northeast Regional Director Pastor Steffie Bartley: "In light of published reports that a representative of NAN came to the defense of an official that is under fire for insensitive and anti-Semitic comments about the Jersey City, NJ, shootings, we at NAN unequivocally denounce the reported comments and would like to clarify that the person named in reports does not hold a formal role with NAN. "Carol  more

MANASQUAN, New Jersey, Dec. 25 -- The National Conference of Insurance Legislators issued the following news release: * * * - Bill Heads to President's Desk for Signature * * * NCOIL applauds the inclusion of a seven-year reauthorization of the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA) in fiscal year 2020 appropriations legislation. The U.S. House of Representatives passed the spending legislation on Tuesday, December 17th. The bill then headed to the Senate, which passed two days later on Decembe  more

TRENTON, New Jersey, Dec. 18 -- The New Jersey School Boards Association issued the following statement: The President and the Executive Director of the New Jersey School Boards Association today condemned social media comments made by a member of the Jersey City Board of Education following last week's tragedy in the city during which four people lost their lives. The statement by Michael R. McClure, NJSBA president, and Dr. Lawrence S. Feinsod, executive director, follows: "We are appalled  more

MALTON, New Jersey, Dec. 28 -- The National Limousine Association issued the following news release: Year in and year out, one of the best programs the NLA offers is the Scholarship Program. This program gives 10 operators from around the world the unique opportunity to attend the first-ever 2020 Chauffeur Driven/NLA Show in Las Vegas. I am thrilled to see so much interest in the Scholarship program and could not be more excited to welcome the winners at our upcoming show," stated NLA Presiden  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 -- The North American Securities Administrators Association issued the following news release: The following is a statement from Christopher W. Gerold, President of the North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA) and Chief of the New Jersey Bureau of Securities, regarding a rule amendment proposed by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission related to the "accredited investor" definition. This definition helps determine whether investors have the financia  more

NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey, Dec. 27 -- The Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, a hospital operated by RWJBarnabas Health, issued the following news: The Far Hills Race Meeting Association and Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Somerset's Community Health Partnership recently awarded $150,000 over three years to Community in Crisis, a Bernardsville-based non-profit organization which is dedicated to fighting the opioid epidemic. The funds will be used to enhance prevention initiatives   more

NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey, Dec. 28 -- The Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, a hospital operated by RWJBarnabas Health, issued the following news: Michael Valendo, MSN, RN, NE-BC, CEN of Fords has been named Vice President, Nursing and Chief Nursing Officer for Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Somerset, an RWJBarnabas Health facility. Valendo has served as the hospital's acting Chief Nursing Officer for the past six months. He joined Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Somerset  more

PISCATAWAY, New Jersey, Dec. 23 -- Transactions on Circuits and Systems, a journal from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, published research articles, including the following topics, in its December 2019 edition: * Approximate Designs for Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) With Application to Speech Recognition * Coupled Line-Based Coupler With Simultaneously Tunable Phase and Frequency * Design of Cryogenic LNAs for High Linearity in Space Applications * Design of Input-Decim  more

NEW YORK, Dec. 28 -- The World Jewish Congress issued the following news release: The World Jewish Congress United States is dismayed by the string of physical assaults against Jews that took place over the course of the first four days of Hanukkah in the greater New York metropolitan area, including Brooklyn, Manhattan, and nearby Teaneck, New Jersey, during what should be a joyous holiday season. These incidents are part of a resurgence of antisemitism that has been on the rise not only in Ne  more