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Three Options for Managing References in Grant Proposals and Other Documents

Peak Proposals

The result of this uncertainty is that the decision of how to manage references is not made until after the proposal is well underway, and the references are scattered across several locations. What Is a Reference Manager? A reference manager is a software program that allows you to organize and format your references.

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UK Biobank enables medical research worldwide through vast database powered by AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

From 2006–2010, UK Biobank recruited 500,000 UK citizens between the ages of 40 and 69 to supply biological samples (blood, urine, and saliva) and information about their lifestyle regularly on an ongoing basis. Since the database opened in 2012, more than 30,000 researchers from 90 countries have registered to use UK Biobank.

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Change takes forever: plastic bag bans, liquor stores and crime

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Some blog entries -- " Alcoholic beverage sales restrictions moving forward in Seattle ," 2006 -- " Disproportionate link between Circle K convenience stores and crime in Phoenix suburbs ," 2011 -- " The sales of alcoholic beverages in cities (DC vs. Chicago) ," 2012 Journal article -- " Regulating Availability: How Access to Alcohol Affects Drinking (..)

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Lessons Learned from TANF Clients

Barrett & Greene

In researching the 26-year-old Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program recently, we had the chance to talk with Mary Beth Vogel-Ferguson, a University of Utah research professor who has spent the last 23 years in a state-funded project to interview TANF clients and share results with agency management and senior leadership. “My

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The Road Not Taken | a response to a letter to the editor in the Washington Post about DC, traffic deaths and traffic safety

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

. -- " Yard sign, Person running for District Six Council in Salt Lake using traffic safety as a campaign issue ," 2023 Transportation management districts. for Downtown, H Street NE, Capitol Hill, etc.). Sometimes there are issues, admittedly, but mostly it's recklessness. hits 16-year high on traffic deaths ," Washington Post ).

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Eastern Market DC's 150th anniversary last weekend | And my never realized master plan for the market

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

EMPDC was created by the Barry Administration to be a CDC and to take over management of the market, but vendors and other stakeholders fought the idea, and the market remained managed by the city--for a time by a putative nonprofit--with different spaces, like North Hall (arts) and Sunday under the shed run by different entities.

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The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 1)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

4 For those who have closely followed the housing finance industry for a long time, this should evoke memories of the efforts to reform Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (F&F) in the years before the Great Financial Crisis (GFC), and how their management teams also responded so aggressively to counter them. 24 Excessive executive compensation.

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