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Florida's Brightline passenger rail as an opportunity to rearticulate and extend transit service in cities like Orlando

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Boston versus the Raleigh-Durham's GoTransit Model ," 2017 -- " What Richmond can't teach DC about bus services ," 2019 Brightline is a new railroad passenger service that started in South Florida, is expanding to Orlando and intends to expand to Tampa.

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CFP: CJAL Special Issue: Libraries and/as Extraction

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Maura holds an MSI from the University of Michigan School of Information, an MA in American studies from the University of Minnesota, and a graduate certificate in digital public humanities from George Mason University. from the University of Michigan School of Information, and is working towards a Masters of Data Science at SMU.

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City of Boulder, CO Integrates PBB into Budget as the "Framework within which all Budget Decisions are Made!"

PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

Boulder has recently published their 2017 Recommended Budget. And for a much deeper dive, please see the full City of Boulder 2017 Recommended Budget (with a focus on Strategies and Priorities on pages 54 - 67). A listing of all 2017 programs by quartile is included in the following section.

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WMATA is pathetic: of course it belongs to "the public"

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

For frequent, new and visiting customers, we are piloting new signage, beginning with putting service information at street level at Metro Center. In the near term, we are supporting returning customers with more rapid social media engagement, and extended customer service hours Monday through Friday 7 a.m. and Saturday and Sunday 8 a.m.

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Your Patrons Are Not Goldfish! The Powerful, Scientifically Proven Reason Why Your Library Should Aim To Hold the Sustained Attention of Your Community

Super Library Marketing

In 2015, large news organizations, including Time , The New York Times , and The Telegraph reported a single, mind-blowing finding from a new study by Microsoft. A BBC reporter investigated the origin of the goldfish statistic in 2017. It is also the basis for information processing and cognitive development.

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Icometrix helps to detect and treat neurological diseases with AI imaging, powered by AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

In 2017, one study estimated that the cost of care for patients suffering from the nine most common neurological conditions amounted to nearly $800 billion in the US alone. By 2015, however, icometrix noticed that these ML-based pipelines were reaching their limits regarding accuracy of the measurements and computation time.

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The Primacy of Social Capital for Community Resilience

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Aldrich and Meyer argued for greater attention to the role of social capital in a seminal 2015 article by in the American Behavioral Scientist. 1377-80). (pp. Resilience will come not from physical engineering—instead, it will come from bottom up responses built on local social networks. 363) Social capital matters.

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