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Advancing connector technologies for multicore optical fibres

Open Access Government - Technology News

There were 36 million FTTH subscribers in Japan in 2021. Against this background, Japan established a “Technical Committee on Extremely Advanced Optical Transmission Technologies (EXAT)” in 2008, intending to further expand optical fibre transmission capacity. References R. Sakaime, K. Watanabe and T. IWCS2012, 17-2 (Nov.,

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More remonstration about the molasses of change: Transit planning, Baltimore County, Maryland and Towson

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Now everything I wrote was rejected because it was at the peak of the post-2008 recession, and the planners were ordered to omit "any recommendations that cost money." The seven proposed “alternatives” were identified in a feasibility study completed in 2021. Had I known that at the time, I would have suggested that too.

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How to Address Homelessness: Reflections from Research

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

2021 ; Gubits et al. More specifically, people leaving incarceration often are not adequately served by short-term planning, and instead would benefit from longer-term housing outreach and engagement ( Remster, 2021 ). 2019 ; Collinson and Reed, 2017 ). Another key upstream strategy involves effective discharge planning.

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Current GSE Guarantee Fees Are Too Low to Be Consistent with Regulatory Capital: Does This Mean a Large Increase Is Coming?

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

2 In November of last year, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), the regulator and conservator of the two companies, issued its annual report on their G-fees (the G-fee Report), covering calendar year 2021. percent range for seven more years through 2021, as disclosed in each year’s annual FHFA G-fee report. percent to 0.49

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What is the competitive advantage for the post-covid city? Doubling down on place values

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Over time, Minneapolis made complementary investments of its own, light rail was added to the program, and the city's decline was reversed.

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Options for Expanding Property Tax Relief for Lower Income Homeowners

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Assume Tina Tarheel is 67, earned $30,000 in 2021, and has lived in her home for 15 years. If Tina applies for the circuit breaker, her 2022 property taxes would be capped at 4% of her 2021 income because she falls under the elderly/disabled income limit of $31,900. In 2008, the General Assembly added a provision to G.S.

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Haiti: has there been progress in disaster reduction since the last big earthquake?

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

The 14 th August 2021 magnitude 7.2 For example, in the 2008 hurricane season, four named storms arrived. In mid-2021, 40 districts are currently enduring a crisis of food availability, and 130,000 children are suffering from acute malnutrition. million), but in mid-August 2021 only 0.1% ii] Farmer, Paul 2012.

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