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Final Impacts of a Home Visiting Program in Texas Designed to Reduce Repeat Pregnancies

A final report presents evidence on the long-term impacts of the Steps to Success home visiting program for adolescent mothers in San Angelo, Texas.




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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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Does a Professional Development Program for Elementary School Principals Improve School Leadership?

Principals can play an important role in improving instruction and student achievement in their schools. Many professional development programs focus on strengthening principals’ leadership skills.




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Using Data to Improve Employment Outcomes for People with Disabilities

Mathematica disability policy expert Purvi Sevak joined a panel of experts at the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) to discuss how the agency is facilitating the collection and sharing of data that might help improve employment outcomes for people with disabilities.




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Mathematica Partners with the Food and Nutrition Service and Boston Children’s Hospital at the APHA Annual Meeting and Expo

Mathematica researchers partnered with key clients and contributed to a number of projects that will be presented at the American Public Health Association’s Annual Meeting and Expo in Philadelphia from November 2 to 6.




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ACF Seeks Comments on Performance Measures Used in a Mathematica-Conducted Study

The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) seeks comments on performance measures used for the Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood (HMRF) grant program.




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Mathematica Supports the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’s State Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program Transformation and Innovation Milestones

Mathematica will showcase state Medicaid services and support for CMS projects to modernize data analytics for Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program at the National Association of Medicaid Directors fall conference.




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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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NextGen Seeks Programs that Help People with Complex Challenges Find Work

Despite recent improvements in the overall job market, many individuals – including many individuals with disabilities – continue to face obstacles to gainful employment and economic independence.




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LaVerne H. Council Appointed to Mathematica’s Board of Directors

Mathematica announced the appointment of LaVerne H. Council to serve as a member of the organization’s Board of Directors.




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New Release of Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s 2018 Compendium of U.S. Health Systems

The Compendium of U.S. Health Systems for 2018 has been released today by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s (AHRQ) Comparative Health System Performance Initiative.




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New Tools for Improving Attendance in Pre-Kindergarten and Kindergarten

Chronic absenteeism is particularly high for students in pre-kindergarten and kindergarten compared with those in elementary and middle school. Check out new resources to help identify and reduce it.




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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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More Nutritious School Meals Reach Millions of Children Since Passage of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act

Updated nutrition standards called for in the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 (HHFKA) have made school meals significantly healthier, according to a recent article.




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New Year, New Insights: Working Together to Make a Difference for Students

As we step into the new year, Mathematica is proud to announce new partnerships with the U.S. Department of Education. On these projects, we will work together to evaluate education programs and produce insights that strengthen teaching and learning.




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Mathematica Named a Best Place to Work for LGBTQ Equality

Mathematica received a score of 100 percent on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s recently released 2020 Corporate Equality Index (CEI), earning the designation as a Best Place to Work for LGBTQ Equality.




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Reading tourism texts : a multimodal analysis / Sabrina Francesconi

Francesconi, Sabrina, 1976-




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The semiotics of heritage tourism / Emma Waterton and Steve Watson

Waterton, Emma




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Tourism and the power of otherness : seductions of difference / edited by David Picard and Michael A. Di Giovine




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Working (out) leisure : a critical interpretation of post-work culture / Melinda Young

Young, Melinda




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Aspects of tourist behavior / edited by Metin Kozak and Nazmi Kozak




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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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Revenue management for hospitality and tourism / [edited by] Patrick Legohérel, Elisabeth Poutier and Alan Fyall




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The ecotourism-extraction nexus : political economies and rural realities of (un)comfortable bedfellows / edited by Bram Büscher and Veronica Davidov




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




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International cases in sustainable travel & tourism / edited by Pierre Beckendorff, Dagmar Lund-Durlacher




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Japanese tourism : spaces, places and structures / Carolin Funck and Malcolm Cooper

Funck, Carolin




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Marketing and designing the tourist experience / Isabelle Frochot and Wided Batat

Frochot, Isabelle, author




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The leadership imperative : technology adoption and strategic management in travel firms in Jamaica / by Andrew Spencer

Spencer, Andrew (Lecturer in tourism management), author




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Tourist destination images and local culture : using the example of the United Arab Emirates / Verena Schwaighofer ; foreword by Prof. Dr. Sc. Othmar M. Lehner

Schwaighofer, Verena, author




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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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A landscape of travel : the work of tourism in rural ethnic China / Jenny Chio

Chio, Jenny, author




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Romancing the wild : cultural dimensions of ecotourism / Robert Fletcher

Fletcher, Robert, 1973- author




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Internet marketing implementation and leapfrogging effects in tourism / Ahmad Fareed Ismail

Ismail, Ahmad Fareed, author




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Sir Hubert Wilkins : enigma of exploration / by John Grierson

Grierson, John, 1909-1971




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The ice and the inland : Mawson, Flynn, and the myth of the frontier / Brigid Hains

Hains, Brigid, 1969-




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Travel and imagination / edited by Garth Lean, Russell Staiff and Emma Waterton




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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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Foodies and food tourism / text by Donald Getz, Richard N.S. Robinson, Tommy D. Andersson and Sanja Vujicic

Getz, Donald, 1949- author




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Tourism security : strategies for effectively managing travel risk and safety / by Peter E. Tarlow

Tarlow, Peter E., author




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Understanding and governing sustainable tourism mobility : psychological and behavioural approaches / edited by Scott A. Cohen, James E.S. Higham, Paul Peeters and Stefan Gössling




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Shipwrecks of the Ningaloo Reef : maritime archaeological projects from 1978-2009 / Jeremy Green (editor) ; with contributions by Ross Anderson ... [et al.]




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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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Managing sustainability in the hospitality and tourism industry : paradigms and directions for the future / edited by Vinnie Jauhari, PhD




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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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Planning for ethnic tourism / Li Yang and Geoffrey Wall

Yang, Li, author




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Tourism in Latin America : cases of success / Alexandre Panosso Netto, Luiz Gonzaga, Godoi Trigo, editors




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Tourism and natural protected areas / edited by M.F. Schmitz




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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