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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Federal program"”.
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Ground access to domestic airports : the creation of a federal program to streamline enhancement and modernization projects
… organizations. Given the current structure of federal aviation and surface transportation funding, little incentive is provided for these organizations to develop a comprehensive intermodal outlook towards airport access projects. Given the concurrent reauthorization during the next legislative …
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Texas 1033 : a look inside the federal program giving millions in excess military supplies to Texas law enforcement agencies at taxpayer expense
… presentation of how the 1033 military surplus program operates in Texas. The program transfers excess U.S. Department of Defense supplies to federal, state and local law enforcement at little to no cost to the agencies. Congress created the surplus program in the 1990s to repurpose …
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The effects of interactions between federal and state climate policies : implications for federal climate policy design
In the absence of a federal policy to cap greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions many states are moving forward with their own initiatives, which currently range from announcements of commitments to reduce greenhouse gases to a regional multi-state cap-and-trade program slated to begin in 2009. As …
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Contractual governance: theory and practice in Circular A-76
… environment and contracting process under one federal program, circular A-76. To comply with the government's general policy of relying on commercial sources to supply products and services, Circular A-76 requires agencies to study selected activities and put them up for bid between in0-house …
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The Last Mile of Broadband: Estimating the Economic Impacts of Connect America Fund Initiative
… from 2013 to 2019 to assess the impacts of a federal program that provided massive subsidies to facilitate the expansion of broadband infrastructure: The Connect America Fund Phase II Program. This program incentivized telecommunications carriers to provided broadband access to high-cost areas …
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Beetles or Bureaucrats? Reconsidering the United States' Failure to Stop Dutch Elm Disease
… across the Northeast United States and beyond. A federal program to save the elm trees was in place from 1930-1952. I use archival documents to create a narrative describing the management of the disease by the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, the division of the United States Department …
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The Adaptation And Implementation Of A Comprehensive Retirement Transition Program For Members Of Law Enforcement
… DNP project implemented a retirement transition program modeled from a successful federal program for military personnel that was structured as a five day, in-person experience designed to be efficient and cost effective. The aims of the project were to: 1) modify an existing comprehensive …
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Equitable economic energy efficiency : creating good jobs in low-income efficiency programming
… consideration in energy policy-making. So, a federal program aimed at funding "energy efficiency retrofits" for low-income households could be an important step in increasing the overall efficiency of energy use in America. If each eligible household reduces the amount of energy it currently …
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Subsidized Housing, Private Developers and Place: A Spatial Analysis of the Clustering of Low Income Housing Tax Credit Properties in the 25 Largest U.S. Cities
The Low Income Housing Tax Credit Program is the primary federal program for producing new units of affordable housing. The program provides financial incentives to private developers to develop and operate affordable rental housing. In recent years, evidence has emerged that the program has led to …
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'The Man' In the Kitchen: Government Attempts to Change Foodways In the Rural 1930S South
<p>This thesis examines the way in which the federal government, primarily through the United States Department of Agriculture, the Bureau of Home Economics, and the Cooperative Extension Services' state-run home demonstration programs, attempted to change foodways in the rural South during the …
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A Paradigm Shift in Professional Development: Weaving Threads of Understandings Through Job-Embedded Coaching for Increased Student Achievement.
… First schools and their job-embedded coaching programs. Reading First is a federal program with money appropriated to states and school systems that qualify with low socioeconomic status and student achievement scores. Further research opportunities are available at middle and high school sites …
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The Art of Sharing: The Richer Provinces Versus the Poorer Provinces Since Confederation
… political history of equalization, which is the federal program that allows all provinces to provide reasonably comparable levels of services for reasonably comparable levels of taxation. It examines why Ottawa adopted this mechanism in 1957, the models that it used for those grants, and how it …
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A textual analysis of Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award recipients to explore best organizational communication models in American companies
… and strategies for competitiveness. The Federal program under the directive of National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) manages a program called the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award (MBNQA).</p> <p>Using the award summary profiles of the 68 MBNQA recipients, the best …
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Unintended effects of federal transportation policy: a look at the lifecycle costs of the interstate system
The federal surface transportation program in the United States stands at a crossroads. Short on money and lacking vision, the program is in need of reevaluation and reform. This thesis attempts to illustrate the current issues affecting the program within the historical context of transportation …
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Understanding the Challenge:The Worklife of a Principal in an Achieving Urban Elementary School with a Large Number of At-risk Students
… in recent years. These changes include shifting federal program priorities, adoption of state curriculum standards, and the implementation of site-based decision-making. These changes come at a time when schools are experiencing significant changes in the ethnic and socioeconomic composition of …
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An examination of the relationship between characteristics of Expanded Food and Nutrition Program paraprofessionals and their effectiveness as change agents
The Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) is a federal program designed to improve the nutritional status of the population and provide employment for paraprofessional aides from the indigenous target population and an example of a change agency. Diffusion and change literature …
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Opportunities and obstacles in obtaining air connectivity for the residents of federally designated essential air service communities
The Essential Air Service (EAS) program was established in 1978 to guarantee air connectivity for residents of small communities to the national air transportation system. Currently, over half of EAS communities are within 70 highway-miles of another airport leading to passenger leakage at EAS …
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Rural risk reduction in Mexico : making national plans for post-earthquake reconstruction more effective at the local level
… Because they tend to be very poor, the Mexican federal government intervened to assist affected families by utilizing national savings to provide conditional cash transfers for self-building, with the aim of facilitating housing reconstruction. However, this federal program, like other …
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Interprofessional Collaboration Between Criminal Justice And Mental Health Practitioners Regarding Mentally Ill Offenders: Perception of Collaboration
The federal program of deinstitutionalizing psychiatric facilities has resulted in a well documented, ever-increasing mentally ill population in the nation's prisons and jails. Historically, the criminal justice system has maintained a laissez-faire attitude toward the mentally ill, and only became …
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Reading machines for the blind: a study of federally supported technology development and innovation
In 1943, Vannevar Bush established a federal government program within the wartime Office of Scientific Research and Development to develop sensory aids for the blind. From the first, the program was intended to benefit not only veterans but all blind Americans. Over the next forty years, six firms …
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