A Library Writer's Blog

AUGUST 29, 2023

When cognitive load is surpassed, it can be much more difficult to process, encode, and retain new information (Paas and Ayres, 2014). 2 (June 1, 2014): 191–95. Kern (she/her), Engineering Librarian, Pennsylvania State University Please send questions to : addressing.cognitive. Educational Psychology Review 26, no. Sweller, John.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 4, 2023

And that it was adjacent to the Dudley Street neighborhood, which had its own community improvement organization too, Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative, documented in the book Streets of Hope: The Fall and Rise of an Urban Neighborhood. When neighborhoods become attractive at the scale of the metropolitan area, prices go up.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 9, 2022

In some respects, it's merely an extension of points (without the sociological criticism) made in the paper, " The City as an Entertainment Machine " (later expanded into a book), which extends Growth Machine arguments in terms of the post-industrial city and the shifting of focus on knowledge industries, leisure activities, and place qualities.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Many places have installed them, as they are often specified as part of street furniture/advertising projects (" City Room City Room Blogging From the Five Boroughs In 9 Years of Work, Just 3 Public Toilets Go Live ," New York Times , 2014, " JCDecaux wins San Francisco's iconic Street Furniture contract ").

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

MARCH 16, 2021

I first visited the affected area in 2014, having failed to gain a place on an earlier expedition that took place a year and a half after the disaster. The story of Okawa is movingly described in Richard Lloyd Parry's remarkable book Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan. The affected area is the T?hoku I was in a magnitude 6.8

Housing 52

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Grant Writing Made Easy

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

When I got my job in 2014, there were 208 tenure-track Spanish positions advertised ; in 2022 there were only 44. Advantages: Project management — Completing a dissertation, publishing research, preparing and teaching courses — all of these accomplishments require advanced project management skills.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 19, 2023

In DC, for awhile I was a Main Street manager in the Brookland neighborhood, which is home to Catholic University, Trinity Washington University and near Howard University, and I touted the potential of student spending as an element of commercial district revitalization.

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Barrett & Greene

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

We received a tremendous response a few weeks ago when we published “A Reader’s Guide to Government Performance” by John Kamensky, a longtime leader in the performance field who we’ve known since the early 1990s when we visited him at his GAO office and he shared knowledge about performance management in New Zealand, Australia and other countries.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 10, 2023

percent) in 2014, after having been purposefully increased by the FHFA and the two GSEs in prior years. percent range since 2014, rather than being materially lower or higher, does not seem to be well understood in the industry or among policy specialists. percent in 2014 and then stayed in the 0.44 percent to 0.49 percent to 0.49

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Michael Lewis has a good book, The Fifth Risk , on the investment by the federal government in the development of science and technology, like weather prediction systems and the work of federal laboratories. This is a pdf of the book.) Also see writings on innovation districts and quarters more generally. Pittsburgh is a great example.

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PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

JUNE 27, 2016

The process will provide valuable information that supports decision-making by directors and managers, enabling them to allocate or reallocate resources, based on each program or resource request’s alignment to strategic and corporate priorities.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

AUGUST 20, 2021

In his book about the earthquake, the eminent Harvard medical doctor Paul Farmer [ii] noted that only 3.8% In 1978 the architect Ian Davis published a small book entitled Shelter After Disaster , [iv] which included a number of well-chosen exposés of post-disaster housing as architectural fantasy rather than useful dwelling place.

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Librarian.net

JANUARY 12, 2025

This is the thread of the books I am reading this year. I started 137 books and finished 135. I finally managed to read a majority of female and non-binary authors. Here was the Mastodon thread of what I read last year and here’s my 2024 booklist. average read per month: 11.25 average read per week: 2.6

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MAY 31, 2023

Here are two examples where the subsidies could and should be better targeted: A riskier loan is originated from a family that has higher-than-average income among FHA borrowers but has managed its finances poorly (e.g., little savings, high credit card debt, bills often paid late), thus receiving a hidden cross-subsidy in its interest rate.

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