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My Mathematica: Nancy Murray

By www.mathematica.org
Published On :: Tue, 25 Feb 2020 19:15:00 Z

More than a decade after I arrived at Mathematica, we have a thriving international research division and a portfolio of about 50 international projects for a wide range of clients. It’s been really exciting to see the international practice grow.

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Lessons from Scaling a Customized Employment Program for Workers with Disabilities

By www.mathematica.org
Published On :: Wed, 26 Feb 2020 15:07:00 Z

In this episode of On the Evidence, Shane Kanady of SourceAmerica and Noelle Denny-Brown of Mathematica discuss findings from an evaluation of the Pathways to Careers program, which provides customized employment services to job seekers with significant disabilities.

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New Research on KIPP Shows That Charter Middle Schools Can Improve Early College Outcomes

By www.mathematica.org
Published On :: Wed, 04 Mar 2020 17:57:00 Z

Attending a KIPP school led to a 10-13 percentage point improvement in the likelihood of enrolling in college.

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What’s Unfolding Across the Globe is Unprecedented, but Evidence Can Help Light the Path Forward

By www.mathematica.org
Published On :: Fri, 27 Mar 2020 04:00:00 Z

Although Mathematica might have limited expertise in infectious diseases like COVID-19, we have vast knowledge and experience with the policies and programs that can help our public health system and our economy recover from the unfolding impact this virus is having around the world.

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Using Transparency to Create Accountability When School Buildings Are Closed and Tests Are Cancelled

By www.mathematica.org
Published On :: Wed, 08 Apr 2020 15:45:49 Z

Schools across the country have closed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and states have cancelled their spring assessments. These cancellations mark the first interruption of the annual testing cycle since the No Child Left Behind Act passed nearly 20 years ago.

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Communities Can Learn from Local Social Determinants of Health Data

By www.mathematica.org
Published On :: Thu, 09 Apr 2020 04:00:00 Z

By showing how local data on social determinants of health compare to data from similar communities, we hope to encourage innovation, foster peer-to-peer learning, and identify promising practices.

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Family First Law Allows Major Changes from State Child Welfare Agencies – This Toolkit Can Help.

By www.mathematica.org
Published On :: Tue, 28 Apr 2020 19:54:00 Z

In the United States, a range of social issues can negatively impact parenting, which in the worst of circumstances results in children entering the child welfare system.

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19 and Me: A COVID-19 Risk Calculator

By www.mathematica.org
Published On :: Thu, 07 May 2020 18:15:21 Z

Our team wanted to empower people to make sense of the vast amount of information and to make more informed decisions. 19 and Me helps quantify people’s risk of contracting COVID-19 and visualize how behaviors, such as practicing social distancing, handwashing, and wearing personal protective equipment, can change people’s risk level.

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Volcanic ash you say?

By bluedoorbooks.blogspot.com
Published On :: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 11:46:00 +0000

With the pesky Icelandic ash cloud threatening to disrupt the start of LIBF next week, volcanic activity has become a rather unlikely talking point with volcanologists thrust into the spotlight like never before (even in the Daily Mail).

So with volcanoes even being a Twitter trending topic, I thought I’d take the chance to write about an engrossing new novel by prize-winning Australian author Andrew McGahan. Wonders of a Godless World, McGahan’s fifth novel, tells the story of a young orphan girl living in a decaying mental institution on a torpid tropical island (complete with ash-spewing volcano). The girl cannot speak or understand the speech of others and lives an isolated existence, until that is, a stranger arrives at the hospital, lost in an inexplicable coma. Although he never speaks, the orphan becomes convinced that she can hear the foreigner speaking in her head: he is cursed, he claims with immortality. And so begins a journey of discovery that will take them right around the world and far beyond it. Questioning ideas of reality and madness, this is a book quite unlike anything I have ever read and will certainly provoke debate amongst readers as to the identity of the mysterious stranger.

The Australian press have heaped praise upon McGahan calling Wonders an “impressively sustained feat of imagination,” rising to “invigorating heights.” Published by Allen & Unwin in 2009, Blue Door are proud to be publishing this tumultuous tale in June. Why not whet your appetite until then with the trailer

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Bullying in schools [videorecording] : six methods ofintervention / directed by Dan Phillips, Ian Abdy ; producer, Catherine McAllister.

By lib.cityu.edu.hk
Published On :: Tue, 6 Jun 2017 0:27:9

Publisher Northampton, England : Loggerhead Films, [2009]

Location Media Resources Collection

Call No. LB3013.3 .B94 2009

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The no-nonsense guide to research support and scholarly communication / Claire Sewell.

By darius.uleth.ca
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London : Facet Publishing, 2020.

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Evaluation of multilingual and multi-modal information retrieval [electronic resource] : 7th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2006, Alicante, Spain, September 20-22, 2006 : revised selected papers / Carol Peters [and others] (eds.)

By darius.uleth.ca
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Berlin ; New York : Springer, 2007

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Digital libraries [electronic resource] : achievements, challenges and opportunities : 9th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries, ICADL 2006, Kyoto, Japan, November 27-30, 2006 : proceedings / Shigeo Sugimoto [and others] (eds.)

By darius.uleth.ca
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Berlin : Springer, [2006]

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Digital libraries [electronic resource] : implementing strategies and sharing experiences : 8th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries, ICADL 2005, Bangkok, Thailand, December 12-15, 2005 : proceedings / Edward A. Fox [and others] (eds.)

By darius.uleth.ca
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Berlin ; New York : Springer, [2005]

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Digital Libraries [electronic resource] : International Collaboration and Cross-Fertilization 7th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries, ICADL 2004, Shanghai, China, December 13-17, 2004. Proceedings / edited by Zhaoneng Chen, Hsinchun Chen

By darius.uleth.ca
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Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2005

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Digital libraries [electronic resource]: research and development : First International DELOS Conference, Pisa, Italy, February 13-14, 2007 : revised selected papers / Costantino Thanos, Francesca Borri, Leonardo Candela (eds.)

By darius.uleth.ca
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Berlin ; New York : Springer, [2007]

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The costs of international advocacy: China's interference in United Nations Human Rights mechanisms.

By library.mit.edu
Published On :: Sun, 26 May 2019 07:35:20 EDT

Online Resource

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International relations' last synthesis: decoupling constructivist and critical approaches / J. Samuel Barkin and Laura Sjoberg

By library.mit.edu
Published On :: Sun, 7 Jul 2019 09:21:52 EDT

Dewey Library - JZ1305.B366 2019

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Science and American foreign relations since World War II / Greg Whitesides, University of Colorado, Denver

By library.mit.edu
Published On :: Sun, 7 Jul 2019 09:21:52 EDT

Dewey Library - JZ1254.W45 2019

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