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How SkillsFuture Singapore provides access to skills training resources and more with AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

In 2015, the Singapore government launched the SkillsFuture Movement —a national movement to provide Singapore’s citizens with opportunities to develop to their fullest potential regardless of where and how they started in life. Introduced in 2015, all Singaporeans aged 25 and above can receive an opening SkillsFuture credit of S$500.

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Estimating physical climate heat risk with NASA Global Daily Downscaled Projections on ASDI

AWS Public Sector Blog

As climate-related disclosures emerge, such as the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) , and asset owners and insurers consider climate risk impacts for their operations, heat represents a chronic risk to many organizations and activities. Customer asset locations (in this example, a sample of U.S.

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Querying the Daylight OpenStreetMap Distribution with Amazon Athena

AWS Public Sector Blog

We can also use a geographic bounding box in Athena to be more precise and perform actual geospatial operations. 2,730 2015-01-02 301.42 5,558 2015-01-03 146.77 In this example, we’ve drawn a polygon around Puerto Rico. The WKT string is: POLYGON((-67.51 18.63, -65.06 track 5,739.49 tertiary, tertiary_link 5,675.30, 28.71

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Introducing the Government Lens for the AWS Well-Architected Framework

AWS Public Sector Blog

The Government Lens is a collection of customer-proven design principles, scenarios, and technology agnostic best practices designed to encourage the unique context and requirements of governments globally to be considered when designing, building, and operating government workloads on AWS.

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

AWS Public Sector Blog

By 2015, however, icometrix noticed that these ML-based pipelines were reaching their limits regarding accuracy of the measurements and computation time. Due to the highly parallelized way in which typical DL models operate, this new DL pipeline allows the use of all available computational resources on a given instance.

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Revisiting the Community Land Trust: An Academic Literature Review

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Housing prices have increased far faster than incomes (Miller 2015), making affordable homeownership inaccessible for many aspiring homeowners (Hackett et al. Inclusionary zoning or LIHTC units only provide below-market housing for a fixed period (Miller 2015), and Housing Choice Vouchers become more costly as rents rise.

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Shortline Rail on Delmarva

First State Insights

CEI) since 2015. The Delmarva Central Railroad Company (DCR), a subsidiary of CEI, operates 188 miles of rail line in Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia and is managed locally from offices in Harrington, Delaware. Visit carloadexpress.com for more details on CEI and DCR infrastructure and operations. CEI) since 2015.