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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. Find more AWS Institute thought leadership for public service leaders.

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New Report on Ten Years of Land Banking in New York Offers Compelling Metrics of Success, Useful Lessons, and a Lot of Inspiration

Center for Community Progress

By Tarik Abdelazim , Director, National Technical Assistance, Center for Community Progress Before I came to Community Progress, I spent eight years in public service in my hometown, Binghamton, New York.

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Lies, damn lies, and misleading data: bus service (DC Circulator)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

. == I threw up my hands about the Circulator years ago, calling it "political bus service"--created to assuage particular neighborhood groups, not because it's needed (" Throwing up my hands and the "Anacostia" "Circulator" ," 2010). The thing is, most Circulator bus lines duplicate in some ways Metrobus service.

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National Library Week, 4/7 - 4/13

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I was reading an article about Reagan, transit and cities, and it was the first article that put the funding cuts under the title of "austerity" which has been the British Conservative Government's policy since 2010 of defunding local government and local services (" How austerity (and ideology) broke Britain ," Guardian ).

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Remote workers: When do they count for local economic development incentives?

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

It is a foundational principle of North Carolina constitutional law that a government must receive valid consideration—performance of a public service—in exchange for any payment to a private entity. 304 (2010). City of Winston-Salem , 342 N.C. 708 (1996). County of Durham , 208 N.C.App.

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Building an Export Business

First State Insights

Founded in 2010, Argentek is a consumer electronics wholesaler that exports from its base in Wilmington, Delaware to over 70 countries around the world. IPA is a research and public service center within the University of Delaware's Biden School of Public Policy & Administration. In May 2023, the U.S. License.

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What Causes “Urban Prairies” in Shrinking Cities?

Center for Community Progress

Vacant properties and declining public services can all discourage people from moving in and promote moving out, leading to still more shrinkage. But demolitions never kept pace with the continued weak demand for the city’s houses and the continued outflow of population.

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