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Modeling Biota Losses from Cooling Water Intake Structures
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Power plants’ cooling systems often are located along coastal waterways and use large amounts of water from oceans, bays and estuaries. As millions of tiny aquatic organisms in the water such as fish eggs and larvae pass through the power plant, the heat…
Evaluating Homebuyer Education and Counseling
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The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) wants to know about the effectiveness of offering access to first-time homebuyer education and counseling.
PFAS Multi-Site Research Study
Project
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are a group of man-made chemicals that are associated with health detriments. Given the large scope of a planned multi-site study (MSS) and the complexity of the data to be collected, the Agency for Toxic…
National Prisoner Statistics and Corrections Reporting Programs
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For years, collecting prisoner data was treated as little more than an accounting exercise: PIPO (prisoner in, prisoner out). The National Prisoner Statistics (NPS) program counts male and female prisoners each year plus confirmed HIV and AIDS cases.
The MA Early Childhood Support Organization Initiative
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Abt evaluated the delivery and impact of the MA ECSO initiative which helps early education leaders and educators improve the quality of their practice.
Communications Strategy for Updating of Pandemic Flu Mitigation Guidelines
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An influenza pandemic is a major public health threat. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) needed a communications strategy to notify communities of the latest scientific findings on nonpharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) in the wake of…
Evaluating Data on School Turnaround AmeriCorps Efforts
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School Turnaround AmeriCorps is a grant program to increase high school graduation, college readiness, and educational attainment for students in our nation’s persistently lowest-achieving schools, designated as School‐Improvement Grant (SIG) or Priority…
Research Partnership Supports Effective Educators in Massachusetts
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From 2012 to 2015, the research team including Abt Global and SRI International studied the implementation of a new system to improve educator effectiveness in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The research was conducted for the Massachusetts Department…
Latrine Businesses Prove Vital to Nutritional Health
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Abt’s Ashfaq Enayetullah explains how commercial engagement furthers sanitation goals of our Feed the Future activity in Bangladesh and improves nutrition.
Technical Assistance for Education Innovation and Research Evaluations
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Education Innovation and Research (EIR) is a competitive grant program, and grantees must fund an independent evaluation of their projects’ effectiveness. Abt provides technical assistance on the conduct of these evaluations to maximize the strength of…