Chicago Recovery Partnership Evaluation of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

From 2009-2011, the City of Chicago and Cook County received a total of $2.35 billion in funding provided by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act [ARRA]. The stimulus money was allocated to seven areas: education, basic needs, transportation and infrastructure, housing and energy, public safety, broadband and workforce development. The Chicago Recovery Partnership Evaluation of ARRA analyzes the impact of the stimulus spending using a costbenefit analysis framework. This report evaluated$1.09 billion of total spending in Chicago and Cook County, resulting in net benefits ranging from -$173.9 to$2,740.2 million. The wide range in net benefits is attributed largely to education, which received over half of ARRA funding

Physical and rehabilitation medicine (PRM) care pathways: Adults with severe traumatic brain injury

AbstractThis document is part of a series of guidelines documents designed by the French Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine Society (SOFMER) and the French Federation of PRM (FEDMER). These reference documents focus on a particular pathology (here patients with severe TBI). They describe for each given pathology patients’ clinical and social needs, PRM care objectives and necessary human and material resources of the pathology-dedicated pathway. ‘Care pathways in PRM’ is therefore a short document designed to enable readers (physician, decision-maker, administrator, lawyer, finance manager) to have a global understanding of available therapeutic care structures, organization and economic needs for patients’ optimal care and follow-up. After a severe traumatic brain injury, patients might be divided into three categories according to impairment's severity, to early outcomes in the intensive care unit and to functional prognosis. Each category is considered in line with six identical parameters used in the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (World Health Organization), focusing thereafter on personal and environmental factors liable to affect the patients’ needs

Annual report, 1979, Lancaster, New Hampshire.

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a town/city in the state of New Hampshire

Patient preferences for reconstructive interventions of the upper limb in tetraplegia

Subjects with an SCI suffer from many health problems such as pain, spacticity, pressure sores, urinary tract infections, etc. However, despite these health problems, the satisfaction with life as a whole of subjects with SCI living in the community does not differ significantly from the life satisfaction of a population group, as demonstrated by Post et al. The results of studies carried out by Post et al and Francescini showed that in SCI the levels of social and psychological functioning and the degree of autonomy are more important predictors of life satisfaction and quality of life than the seriousness of the injury. However, these studies also showed that subjects with tetraplegia, related to impairment of the upper extremities (UE), are less satisfied with self-care ability and also have an inferior degree of autonomy, which has a negative impact on satisfaction and quality of life. In this respect, treatment of the UE in subjects with a cervical SCI is of utmost importance

Teacher Guide for The Government of Kansas

The sixth edition of The Government of Kansas offers teachers and students a current review of the types and levels of state government and services available to the state's residents, and a look at the state's history and future

Town of Francestown, New Hampshire 2017 annual reports of the officials, departments, and committees of the town for the calendar year ending December 31, 2017.

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a town/city in the state of New Hampshire

Do Information and Communication Technologies Empower Female Workers? Firm-Level Evidence from Viet Nam

This paper studies the effects of firms’ investments in information and communication technologies (ICT) on their demand for female and skilled workers. Using the gradual liberalization of the broadband Internet sector across provinces from 2006 to 2009 as a source of exogenous variation to identify the causal impacts of ICT, we find evidence from the country’s comprehensive enterprise survey data that firms’ adoption of broadband Internet and other related ICT increased their relative demand for female and college-educated workers. The effect of ICT on firms’ female employment is particularly strong among the college-educated workers, and is stronger in industries that are more dependent on highly manual and physical tasks. These results suggest that ICT can lower gender inequality in the labor market by shifting the labor demand from highly manual, routine tasks in which men have a comparative advantage toward more nonroutine, interactive tasks in which women hold a comparative advantage. However, the effect of ICT is weaker in industries relying more on complex and interactive tasks, suggesting that gender differences in education may have limited female labor supply for the most innovative industries that require highly technical skills to complement ICT