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Alzheimer’s disease research portal enables data sharing and scientific discovery at scale

AWS Public Sector Blog

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), more than 55 million people globally have dementia , with the most common form, Alzheimer’s disease, accounting for approximately 60-70%. The data housed in NIAGADS represents some of these major advances and findings in the field. The annual financial impact is estimated to be $1.3

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Nonbank Mortgage Servicers: Proposing a Better Path to Reduce Their Risk to Financial Stability

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

This means the far bigger influence comes from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) that are currently under the control 11 of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA). Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Even the FHFA, during 2010 and 2011, attempted to organize such a reform.

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Transforming Cleveland Vacant Lots into an Urban Farm

Center for Community Progress

Drive 15 minutes southeast from the heart of downtown Cleveland and you’ll find an unexpected sight: a working urban farm, complete with a burgeoning fruit orchard, chicken coop, and hoop houses. The house is the “ de facto second, third, and fourth responder serving the impoverished residents of the Mt.

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California Forests Are Disappearing–And So Are Air Pollution Disparities

The Lowe Down

This correlation occurs because air quality is an amenity that is capitalized into housing prices; cleaner air is among the many goods purchased by more affluent households in California. in 2011-2015 and 0.09 We find that a 10 percent increase in household income is associated with a decrease in the level of PM2.5 for 2016-2020.

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Will the GSEs Repeat 2007 - 2009’s Large Losses?

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

The housing market has just experienced one of the largest upcycles in history. First, house prices increased by 57 percent 1 over the nearly nine years from their post-financial crisis bottom (2011 Q2) through the last quarter before the pandemic (2020 Q1). This rapid ascent was driven by multiple factors.

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Gaps in Parks Master Planning: Part Eight | Civic Engagement and Positive Promotion of Democracy

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The administrative team would negotiate sponsorships, provide training, etc., while the affinity groups would focus on programming and fundraising "for their park," without having to deal with "the boring" but important stuff like dealing with the IRS.

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Social Media for Social Good: What role does social media play in creation of and sustainability of social movements? A Social Movement Case Study Examining Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.

Public Policy Blog

Prolific proponent of the networked society Manuel Castells (2011) describes mass media being displaced by mass self-communication (Deluca, Lawson, & Sun, 2012) in altering the communication model from one-to-one to many-to-many. 2011; Aday, et al., Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube Platforms in Brief.