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Revenue Options for Georgia Municipal Governments
Outlines revenue options for Georgia municipal governments, including: Local Fuel TaxMunicipal Option Sales TaxLocal Option Income TaxThe Right to Work Tax (aka Payroll Tax)State Revenue Sharing Progra
Capital Gains: Its Recent, Varied, and Growing (?) Impact on State Revenues
In this report, we analyze the impact of capital gains on the recent fall-off in state individual income tax revenues. Given the growing importance of the individual income tax, we analyze the impact of capital gains on state tax revenues since 1989 to determine whether capital gains have had more or less of an impact on state revenues over time
Joint Labor-Management Training Programs for Healthcare Worker Advancement and Retention
[Excerpt] Filling vacancies and retaining workers in shortage areas such as nursing and other allied health occupations remains a challenge in todayâs healthcare industry. At the same time, low-wage workers in the healthcare industry often lack the educational credentials necessary to move into higher-paying occupations. This study seeks to understand the role of multi-employer joint labor-management healthcare worker training in meeting the needs of employers for career ladder advancement in their incumbent workforce. The study focuses on hospital employers and their experience with strategies for the advancement of low-wage and entry level workers into healthcare career pathways
A workïŹow for document level interoperability
This article describes a software environment called the Exchange Center that helps digital librarians manage the workïŹow of sourcing documents and metadata from various repositories. The software is built on Greenstone but does not require its use as the ïŹnal digital library server. After describing the software architecture we provide two scenarios of its use: a private library of recipes, which ultimately involves collaboration with other cooks; and a digital library that aggregates the collections of various host institutions that use different repository software
How people find videos
At present very little is known about how people locate and view videos 'in the wild'. This study draws a rich picture of everyday video seeking strategies and video information needs, based on an ethnographic study of New Zealand university students. These insights into the participants' activities and motivations suggest potentially useful facilities for a video digital library
Exploring social music behaviour: An investigation of music selection at parties
This paper builds an understanding how music is currently listened to by small (fewer than 10 individuals) to medium-sized (10 to 40 individuals) gatherings of peopleâ how songs are chosen for playing, how the music fits in with other activities of group members, who supplies the music, the hardware/software that supports song selection and presentation. This fine-grained context emerges from a qualitative analysis of a rich set of participant observations and interviews focusing on the selection of songs to play at social gatherings. We suggest features for software to support music playing at parties
The use of paper in everyday student life
The information we encounter in modern life, in developed countries, is a hybrid of the physical and the digital. Personal archiving tools allow users to capture and retrieve aspects of their everyday lives in digital form. In this paper we use a diary study of studentsâ interactions with paper-based information to inform the design of such archiving tools
Online legacy preservation for humanities researchers
As researchers retire or pass away, the online record of their work and their research careers begins to fragment and fade away. We begin with case studies of four New Zealand Humanities researchers, nearing or at the ends of their active careers. What materials currently exist that they believe are essential to detail the results of their research, and that convey the âstoryâ of their work
Finding video on the web
At present very little is known about how people locate and view videos. This study draws a rich picture of everyday video seeking strategies and video information needs, based on an ethnographic study of New Zealand university students. These insights into the participantsâ activities and motivations suggest potentially useful facilities for a video digital library
Varieties via their L-functions
We describe a procedure for determining the existence, or non-existence, of
an algebraic variety of a given conductor via an analytic calculation involving
L-functions. The procedure assumes that the Hasse-Weil L-function of the
variety satisfies its conjectured functional equation, but there is no
assumption of an associated automorphic object or Galois representation. We
demonstrate the method by finding the Hasse-Weil L-functions of all
hyperelliptic curves of conductor less than 500.Comment: 14 pages, 2 figure
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