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Exploring a life lost to history: Industrialist Irving Olds

Hello, I’m Alec Ferretti, and I recently interned with the Archival Processing Unit at the New-York Historical Society. I’m a professional genealogist by day and a grad student at NYU in their Archives program by night. I set aside every Monday of the spring semester to work on processing collections here in the N-YHS manuscripts division. On...

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Benjamin West’s Memorial to Washington

Prior to the construction of Robert Mills’ Washington Monument in 1833, proposals to erect a memorial in honor of George Washington began as early as 1783. The defeat of the British under his command and his consecutive time as the first President of the United States had thrust Washington into the public’s mind as an...

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Mathematica Studies in Special Issue of Health Affairs Inform Evidence Base on U.S. Military Health System

More than nine million active duty and retired military members and their families, including two million children, receive benefits from TRICARE, the military’s health care program. TRICARE offers health maintenance organization (HMO) and preferred provider organization (PPO) options.




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New Study of Program for Noncustodial Parents Reveals Large Effect on Parents’ Level of Satisfaction with Child Support Services

Parents who participated in the Child Support Noncustodial Parent Employment Demonstration (CSPED) reported substantially higher levels of satisfaction with child support services compared with those who did not participate in the program.




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Mathematica at the National Association for Medicaid Program Integrity (NAMPI) Conference

Mathematica’s Jonathan Morse and Clint Eisenhower will team up to share their thoughts on state impacts and expectations for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Medicaid program integrity strategy at this year’s NAMPI Annual Conference in Atlanta.




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Effects of Sweetened Beverage Taxes in Philadelphia and Oakland: Fewer Beverage Purchases, but Increased Cross-Border Shopping and Mixed Effects on Consumption

A Mathematica issue brief synthesizes new and recent evidence on how the two cities’ beverage taxes affected purchases, consumption, and the retail environment.




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New Tools to Explore the Role of Physician Group Practices in U.S. Health Care Systems

A new, publicly available data file on physician group practices has been released by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s (AHRQ) Comparative Health System Performance Initiative.




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Mathematica at Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management (APPAM): Rising to the Challenge of Engaging Diverse Perspectives

From November 7 to 9, APPAM will host its annual Fall Research Conference in Denver, Colorado. As a proud partner of APPAM since its inception, Mathematica will participate in a number of conference activities.




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Mathematica Team Named Finalist in Stage 1 of CMS Artificial Intelligence Health Outcomes Challenge

Mathematica is partnering with The Health Collaborative, the Patient Advocate Foundation, and MediaAgility on a solution leveraging artificial intelligence and other industry-leading methods to achieve a number of goals to drive primary care transformation.




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Mathematica Marks National Rural Health Day: Pennsylvania Rural Health Model Drives Payment Innovation

The National Organization of State Offices of Rural Health sets aside the third Thursday of every November—this year, it’s November 21—to celebrate National Rural Health Day.




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New Toolkit Highlights How Medicare Accountable Care Organizations Engage Beneficiaries

Under a contract with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), Mathematica’s health experts worked with 24 Medicare Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) and End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Seamless Care Organizations participating in the Shared Savings Program, Next Generation ACO Model, and the Comprehensive ESRD Care Model to identify the strategies that ACOs use to engage beneficiaries in their care.




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Howard University and Mathematica to Host Computational Social Science Summer Institute

Mathematica and Howard University have partnered to host the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science (SICSS), which will give social and data scientists opportunities to explore how they can use real-world data to address ethics and equity in artificial intelligence.




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Leisurely Islam : negotiating geography and morality in Shi'ite South Beirut / Lara Deeb & Mona Harb

Deeb, Lara, 1974- author




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International handbook on ecotourism / edited by Roy Ballantyne and Jan Packer, University of Queensland, School of Tourism, Australia




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Contemporary cases in heritage. Volume 1 / edited by Brian Garrod, Alan Fyall




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Lifestyle mobilities : intersections of travel, leisure and migration / edited by Tara Duncan, University of Otago, New Zealand, Scott A. Cohen, University of Surrey, UK, Maria Thulemark, Dalarna University, Sweden




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Tourism and citizenship : rights, freedom and responsibilities in the global order / Raoul V. Bianchi and Marcus L. Stephenson

Bianchi, Raoul V., author




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Green growth and travelism : concept, policy and practice for sustainable tourism / edited by Terry DeLacy, Min Jiang, Geoffrey Lipman and Shaun Vorster




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The tourism education futures initiative : activating change in tourism education / edited by Darko Prebezac, Christian Schott and Pauline J. Sheldon




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The Wiley Blackwell companion to tourism / edited by Alan A. Lew, C. Michael Hall, and Allan M. Williams




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Tourism in Africa : harnessing tourism for growth and improved livelihoods / Iain Christie, Eneida Fernandes, Hannah Messerli, and Louise Twining-Ward

Christie, Iain T., author




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Creating experience value in tourism / edited by Nina K. Prebensen, University of Tromsø, Norway, Joseph S. Chen, Indiana University at Bloomington and Muzaffer Uysal, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University




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Queer postcolonial narratives and the ethics of witnessing / Donna McCormack

McCormack, Donna




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Volunteer tourism : popular humanitarianism in neoliberal times / bMary Mostafanezhad

Mostafanezhad, Mary, author




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VFR travel research : international perspectives / edited by Elisa Backer and Brian King




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Cultural tourism in a digital era : first International Conference IACuDiT, Athens, 2014 / Vicky Katsoni, editor

International Conference on Cultural and Digital Tourism (1st : 2014 : Athens, Greece)




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Challenges and contemporary solutions for tourism destination planning, development, and marketing : building better places, attracting newer faces : proceedings of the 4th International Tourism Studies Association Biennial Conference / editors: Shen Han,

International Tourism Studies Association Biennial Conference (4th : 2012 : Bali, Indonesia)




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Social media marketing in tourism and hospitality / Roberta Minazzi

Minazzi, Roberta




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The beautiful country : tourism and the impossible state of destination Italy / Stephanie Malia Hom

Hom, Stephanie Malia, author




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Sustainability, social responsibility, and innovations in tourism and hospitality / edited by H.G. Parsa ; Vijaya "Vi" Narapareddy, consulting editor ; SooCheong (Shawn) Jang, Maríval Segarra-Oña, and Rachel J.C. Chen, associate editor




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Kooljaman at Cape Leveque : a tourism development and marketing strategy / prepared for Bardina Pty Ltd as trustee for the Kooljaman Resort Unit Trust by Ian Menzies of Menzies & Associates

Menzies, Ian, author




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Responsible tourism and CSR : assessment systems for sustainable development of SMEs in tourism / Mara Manente, Valeria Minghetti, Erica Mingotto

Manente, Mara, author




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A tourism development and marketing strategy for the Lake Grace Development Association / prepared by Menzies & Associates Pty Ltd for the Lake Grace Development Association




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Collie 2000 : towards a development and marketing strategy for the Collie River Valley / prepared by Ian Menzies of Menzies & Associates for presentation to the Collie River Marketing Group, Inc




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A tourism development strategy for the Shire of Plantagenet and the Southern Ranges and wine country Western Australia




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A tourism development and marketing strategy for the Shire of Williams / prepared by Menzies & Associates Pty Ltd for the Shire of Williams

Menzies, Ian, author




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A development and marketing strategy for the Plantagenet Region / prepared by Menzies & Associates Pty Ltd for the Mount Barker Chamber of Commerce

Menzies, Ian, author




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A tourism development and marketing strategy for the West Arthur region / prepared by Menzies & Associates Pty Ltd for the West Arthur Tourism Promotion Group Inc. and the Shire of West Arthur

Menzies, Ian, author




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A tourism development and marketing strategy for the Shire of Dumbleyung / prepared by Menzies & Associates Pty Ltd for the Shire of Dumbleyung




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A tourism development and marketing strategy for the Porongurups / prepared by Menzies & Associates Pty Ltd for the Porongurup Promotions Association Inc

Menzies, Ian




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Segment insights pack : market research intelligence on Aboriginal tourism / prepared by Market Insights Unit, Australian Tourist Commission




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Affective tourism : dark routes in conflict / Dorina Maria Buda

Buda, Dorina Maria




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Water tourism and recreation on Wellington Dam and the Collie River / by Ian Menzies and Rob Doupe

Menzies, Ian, author




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Marketing places and spaces / edited by Antónia Correia, Juergen Gnoth, Metin Kozak, Alan Fyall




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Shire of Wagin tourism development and marketing strategy : Wagin Woolorama 2002 : an overview of the trade and consumer fair / prepared for the Shire of Wagin by Menzies & Associates Pty Ltd

Menzies, Ian, author




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The social side of tourism : the interface between tourism, society, and the environment : answers to global questions from the International Competence Network Of Tourism Research and Education (ICNT) / Michael Lück, Jan Velvin, Bernd Eisenstein (ed




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Commercial space exploration : [ethics, policy and governance] / edited by Jai Galliott




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When East meets West : cross-cultural variation in service encounter interactions / Thuy-Huong Truong

Truong, Thuy-Huong




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Resisting paradise : tourism, diaspora, and sexuality in Caribbean culture / Angelique V. Nixon

Nixon, Angelique V




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Dead men's silver : the story of Australia's greatest shipwreck hunter / Hugh Edwards

Edwards, Hugh, 1933-