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

AWS Public Sector Blog

Identifying causes of Alzheimer’s disease and developing diagnostics and potential cures for the condition requires multi-modal, multi-omics analysis. In 2011, PNGC Director Dr. Gerard Schellenberg met with Dr. Wang and his research team to begin exploring cloud technology for large-scale genomic computations. terabytes (TB).

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Accelerating digital transformation to revitalize local economy and improve lives in Japan

AWS Public Sector Blog

In the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) 2022 Digital Competitiveness Index, Japan ranked 29th out of 63 countries, down one place from last year’s ranking. Many solutions developed by startups help solve key challenges in the public sector and benefit citizens.

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Three ideas about presentation of African American History in the context of Black History Month | reprint with an addition about the US Civil Rights Trail (versus the Dixieland Trail)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

2011 Doors Open Toronto Guide ) But Open House New York Weekend is increasingly a big deal. The Dixieland Trail was an automobile route organized and promoted by the travel divisions and state development boards of Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. The Toronto Star even publishes an event guide.

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Arts as production: The rock music ecosystem in West Seattle

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Part 1: Conceptualising Cultural Quarters " ( Planning, Practice & Research, 18:4)," to music as a performing art in terms of developing "music as production" as opposed to "music as consumption." Owner Matt Vaughan founded West Seattle’s Easy Street Records during what he terms the “slacker era” of the late ’80s.

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CFP: Book About Teaching with Digital Storytelling

A Library Writer's Blog

It will provide educators with innovative case studies for teaching digital storytelling to inspire learners as confident and creative producers of digital information. Digital storytelling is exemplified by the development of empowering personal and community-based narratives through openly-available digital media technologies.

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School closure and consolidation planning needs to focus on integration planning at the outset as a separate process

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

A Qualitative Case Study of a School Closure in an Urban School District " evaluating the closure of a declared underperforming school in Colorado illustrates the rancor that results when the process isn't developed in a collaborative way. My friend suggests that the process be organized in a collaborative way.

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National Community Planning Month: Schools as neighborhood anchors

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

What amazed me about the situation is that the city has lots of charter schools (" How Charter Schools Became Such a Big Player in California's Education System ," KQED/NPR), and they drew off enrollment from the traditional schools, so those schools started failing, in turn having negative impact on the neighborhood.