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Longer-term effects of Head Start
- American Economic Review
, 2002
"... Abstract Public early intervention programs like Head Start are often justified as investments in children. Yet nothing is known about the long-term effects of Head Start. This paper draws on unique data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to provide new evidence on the effects of Head Start on ..."
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the important question of whether the Head Start program confers long-term benefits on children. We use questions from a supplement to the Panel Survey of Income Dynamics (PSID) which were specifically designed for this study. There are three features of these unique data that are key for our purposes. First
Materials for an exploratory theory of the network society.
- The British Journal of Sociology
, 2000
"... ABSTRACT This article aims at proposing some elements for a grounded theor y of the network society. The network society is the social structure characteristic of the Information Age, as tentatively identi ed by empirical, cross-cultural investigation. It permeates most societies in the world, in v ..."
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. Thus, parties and leaders use access to power as ways to obtain resources for their trade. Political corruption becomes a systemic feature of information age politics. Since character assassination needs some substance from time to time, systemic political corruption provides ample opportunity, as a
Indicators for Social and Economic Coping Capacity - Moving Toward a Working Definition of Adaptive Capacity”, Wesleyan-CMU Working Paper.
, 2001
"... Abstract This paper offers a practically motivated method for evaluating systems' abilities to handle external stress. The method is designed to assess the potential contributions of various adaptation options to improving systems' coping capacities by focusing attention directly on the u ..."
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the globe and subject to a diverse set of stresses that lie beyond their control. This paper offers a practically motivated method for evaluating adaptive capacity by assessing the potential contributions of various adaptation options to improving systems' coping capacities. We expect that this method
"Evaluation data from 12,000 family cases in California and prevention policy recommendations for family resource agencies and child welfare partners"
"... ABSTRACT The California Child Welfare system is confronting massive change in the way it does business. Child Welfare agencies and their non-profit partners, community-based Family Resource Agencies, have formed public/private partnerships to expand services to families considered atrisk for child ..."
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approaches and respond creatively to emerging needs" (Watson). Through a Differential Response referral process FRC resources are employed to assist to keep children safe, improve their family's situation across a holistic set of conditions and prevent their entering the child welfare system
Realizing the Promise: Government Information Systems and the Fourth Generation of Information Technology
- Public Administration Review
, 2001
"... Interoperability is more than "digital plumbing"-making sure that computers talk so that bits of data flow properly. Fundamentally, interoperability is people talking and sharing information. Sharing information reduces the "paperwork burden" on the citizen, streamlines work pro ..."
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report. Federal-State Cooperative Environmental Information Systems In keeping with the effort of reinventing government, the EPA has declared its policy to reduce industry burden and streamline regulatory programs by using data-transfer technologies to reinvent the process of industry compliance
Some Boston Metropolitan Examples
, 1997
"... publicly paper and electronic copies of this gocument in whole iart. ..."
Information Infrastructure
"... Australia as a federative country operates separate cadastral and land administration systems in each state and territories. These systems have played a significant role in shaping Australia’s development. Initially they provided registration of ownership for land settlement. Then, they assisted in ..."
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Australia as a federative country operates separate cadastral and land administration systems in each state and territories. These systems have played a significant role in shaping Australia’s development. Initially they provided registration of ownership for land settlement. Then, they assisted
Towards Secure Electronic Workflows Examples of Applied PKI Supervisor:
, 2006
"... Hiermit versichere ich, die vorliegende Diplomarbeit selbstständig und unter ausschliesslicher Verwendung der angegebenen Quellen und Hilfsmittel angefertigt zu haben. Diese Arbeit hat in gleicher oder ähnlicher Form noch keiner Prüfungsbehörde vorgelegen. Darmstadt, 14. Februar 2006 ..."
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Hiermit versichere ich, die vorliegende Diplomarbeit selbstständig und unter ausschliesslicher Verwendung der angegebenen Quellen und Hilfsmittel angefertigt zu haben. Diese Arbeit hat in gleicher oder ähnlicher Form noch keiner Prüfungsbehörde vorgelegen. Darmstadt, 14. Februar 2006
Acknowledgements
, 2006
"... First, I would like to thank to Dimka Karastoyanova and Mariano Cilia for all the fruitful discussions, their guidance and support through the course of this project. Thanks also to Prof. Alejandro Buchmann who sponsored my stay at Technische Universität Darmstadt during the spring of 2004. The spec ..."
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. The special thanks go to my advisor, Mariano Cilia, who has made all this possible. Finally, I’d like to thank to my family for all these years of support.
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