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The UMBC School of Public Policy includes the master of public policy (MPP) and PhD degree programs, and the Maryland Institute for Public Policy and Analysis Research (MIPAR). Established after four decades of sustained growth, the School consists of nine full-time faculty, more than 30 affiliated faculty from the departments of economics, sociology, political science, and policy analysis. MIPAR, with $23 million in active research grants, links the analytical resources of the University with policymakers in the state and region, conducting opinion research, policy analyses, and program evaluations on a variety of topics. MIPAR activities are supported by federal, state, and local governmental agencies, foundations, and corporations.
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Data-driven COVID-19 policy is more effective than a one-size-fits-all approach
(Cell Press, 2022-10-14)The latest COVID-19 guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) discount the best data sources and rely too heavily on outdated, one-size-fits-all decision rules. Instead, the CDC should recommend ... -
Cart-Based Automated and Semi-Automated Residential Refuse Collection
(University of Nebraska, Omaha, 1983)A relatively few years ago, a new technology for residential refuse collection was introduced in urban America. This was the automated collection of residential refuse using standardized roll-out containers, or carts and ... -
Technical Report: Street & Road Maintenance
This Report addresses an increasingly complex and costly problem facing local governments: namely, street and road maintenance. It was written to provide information and guidance to local public officials and professionals ... -
Technical Bulletins: Automated and Semi-Automated Refuse Collection Technologies
(University of Tennessee Knoxville, 1981-01-09)This Technical Bulletin provides cost and productivity estimates for five different refuse collection technologies (including manual, semi-automated, and automated). The data shows that automated and semi-automated ... -
Local Government Risk Management Handbook
(University of Tennessee Knoxville, 1982-04-01)This handbook originated in a series of risk management workshops developed by the authors in 1980 as part of a special project in local government technology innovation at the University of Tennessee's Municipal Technical ... -
Data Processing and Information Management in the City of Omaha, Nebraska: Analysis and Recommendations
(University of Nebraska, Omaha, 1982-04)The city of Omaha has an extensive and complex data processing system. It is so large, in fact, that no single person inside or out of city government is fully knowledgeable about it. The system as it exists today cannot ... -
City of Omaha Personnel Department: Analysis and Recommendations
(University of Nebraska, Omaha, 1983-05)The Center for Applied Urban Research undertook an analysis of the city of Omaha personnel department during the winter and spring of 1983. This is a summary of the principal findings and recommendations of that analysis. ... -
Geoprocessing for Grand Island and Hall County: Analysis and Recommendations
(University of Nebraska, Omaha, 1983-05)This report examined the feasibility of establishing an automated geobased data processing system for housing and community development data in Grand Island and Hall County. -
Municipal Cost Cutters
(University of Tennessee Knoxville, 1979-06-01)The materials contained here describe three outstanding examples of municipal cost-cutting or productivity programs which have been implemented in Tennessee cities. They are curbside solid waste collection, in-house ... -
Computers and Small Local Governments: A Survey of Computer in the Plains and Mountain States
(University of Nebraska, Omaha, 1983-08)In July, 1982 the Center for Applied Urban Research (CAUR) of the University of Nebraska at Omaha was awarded a grant from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation to develop and test a training and technical assistance program to ... -
Market Potential for Automated Data Processing Services in Southeast Nebraska
(University of Nebraska, Omaha, 1984-01)This report presents an analysis of computing among local governmental agencies in southeastern Nebraska. The data were collected via telephone interviews with 219 agencies during December, 1983. The study was conducted ... -
Automated Word Processing Requirements for the City of Omaha, Nebraska
(University of Nebraska, Omaha, 1984-08)On April 1, 1984 the Center for Applied Urban Research initiated a study of the requirements for automated word processing for the city of Omaha. The study involved the collection and analysis of information regarding the ... -
Microcomputers and Local Government: A Handbook -- Participants' Manual
(University of Nebraska, Omaha, 1984)This handbook has its origins in a conversation between the author and Dr. Theodore Maher in the spring of 1981. The conversation centered on the role that we believed soon would be played by microcomputers in local ... -
Microcomputers in City Hall: Case Studies of Their Uses and Effects
(University of Nebraska, Omaha, 1987-03)Microcomputers first appeared on the commercial marketplace in 1976. Since then, an estimated 40 million microcomputers have been sold and more are being sold each day. A survey conducted in 1982 found that 13 percent of ... -
Is Your Local Government Plugged In? Highlights of the 2000 Electronic Government Survey
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A New Agenda for e-Democracy
(2009-01-13)This report is based on the policy forum A New Agenda for E-democracy: Lessons from Initiatives Round the World, held at Oxford University’s Oxford Internet Institute (OII) on 6–7 May 2004. It is one of a series of ... -
The Natural History of Hepatitis C Virus Infection: Host, Viral, and Environmental Factors
(AMA, 2000-07-26)Context Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection may resolve (viral clearance), persist without complications, or cause end-stage liver disease (ESLD). The frequency and determinants of these outcomes are poorly understood. Objective ...
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