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Welcome to USAspending.gov Where Americans Can See Where Their Money Goes Have you ever wanted to find more information on government spending? Have you ever wondered where Federal contracting dollars and grant awards go? Or perhaps you would just like to know, as a citizen, what the Government is really doing with your money.
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Refugee Health Information Network
Refugee Health Information Network
Welcome to the Refugee Health Information Network (RHIN®), a national collaborative partnership managed by refugee health professionals whose objective is to provide quality multilingual, health information resources for those providing care to resettled refugees and asylees. more> Health Information in Multiple Languages Health Information in Multiple Languages Multilingual information for health professionals, refugees, and asylees (in print, audio, and video formats) Provider Tools Refugee Health Information for Providers Information useful for health providers working with refugee patients or clients, including assessment guidelines, cultural information, clinic tools, and recent literature citations Refugee Support Services Information about Health Services for Refugees Information for refugees about accessing health services in the United States (including links to information about immigration status and procedures, eligibility for Medicaid, Social Security, etc.)
Penn World Table, Center for International Comparisons, University of Pennsylvania
Penn World Table, Center for International Comparisons, University of Pennsylvania
The Penn World Table (PWT) displays a set of national accounts economic time series covering many countries. Its expenditure entries are denominated in a common set of prices in a common currency so that real quantity comparisons can be made, both between countries and over time. It also provides information about relative prices within and between countries, as well as demographic data and capital stock estimates. Since the regionalization of the ICP beginning with the 1980 benchmark, Summers and Heston at Penn have been using ICP benchmark comparisons (see About the ICP) as a basis for estimating PPPs for non-benchmark countries and extrapolations backward and forward in time. These are the major components of Penn World Tables or PWT. An early version of this technique was developed with Irving Kravis (1978): Kravis,I., R. Summers and A.Heston (1978). "Real GDP Per Capita for More Than One Hundred Countries," Economic Journal , June.
The Penn World Tables are described in Robert Summers and Alan Heston "The Penn World Table (Mark 5): An Expanded Set of International Comparisons, 1950-1988", Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 1991, pp.327--368. (See Research Papers) The table itself, an annex to the article, was distributed to users on a diskette and through anonymous ftp by the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts. A revised and updated version of PWT 5, PWT 5.5, was made available in 1993. Version 5.6 was released January 1995. It was prepared by Alan Heston and Robert Summers of the University of Pennsylvania, Daniel A. Nuxoll of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, and Bettina Aten of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (now at the Bureau of Economic Analysis), with the research assistance of Valerie Mercer, James Walsh, and Bao Truong. The current version of Penn World Tables, PWT 6, is produced by The Center for International Comparisons at the University of Pennsylvania ( see About CIC ). PWT 6 has been prepared by Aten, Heston and Summers with the assistance of Mark McMullen, Feng Zhu, Sham Shah and Prajesh Parekh. Robert Feenstra of the University of California, Davis, has been consulting with CICUP in preparing PWT 6 and will jointly produce subsequent versions through the Center for International Data at Davis, and in association with the NBER.
The Table contains data on about 30 variables for about 167 countries over some or all the years 1950-98. As PWT 6 is modified these will be described in What is new? What is Different? PWT is built up through a set of sophisticated extrapolations from the successive benchmark studies, both through time and across space. The Penn World Table is a forerunner of a new kind of international data base that may be described as a Space-Time System of National Accounts. PWT 6 is comparable to previous versions of the table. However, the methodology of these comparisons is still being developed so that future versions may move in the direction of national accounts constant price series, namely chaining or use stochastic methods of aggregation. While chaining over time is natural, in that time is sequential, chaining across countries does not have such an obvious path, which is why work along these lines has only been preliminary.
Using PWT
Many users of PWT 5.6 may want to refer to those files and documentation so they remain on this site. The most obvious difference between PWT 5.6 and 6 is that the base year has been moved from 1985 to 1996. A second difference, largely cosmetic, is that some of the variables have been renamed and the order has been slightly altered. This should be clear in the list of variables for PWT 6. As noted the present coverage is 1950-2000.
In addition to the description of PWT cited above, there are two other pieces of documentation. First, the data Appendix of PWT 5.6 may be consulted. Second, we have created a more readable Data Appendix for PWT 6, with the treatment of China provided as a separate China Appendix. Also, the national accounts file underlying PWT 6.1 is provided as a separate file in Downloads.
Penn World Table, Center for International Comparisons, University of Pennsylvania
MarketingCharts: charts and data for marketers in web and Excel format
MarketingCharts: charts and data for marketers in web and Excel format
MarketingCharts is a Watershed Publishing publication. It is published daily in the US by its own staff, and also features editorial contributions from other writers and analysts in the Watershed Publishing network. MarketingCharts is a sister publication to MarketingVox, MediaBuyerPlanner and Retailer Daily.
Ad sales are handled by Watershed’s Justin Martin, who can be reached via email » justin@watershed-publishing.com or via phone at (406) 371-5687.
Editor Victoria Petrock can be reached via email » editorial@marketingcharts.com. Tips, press releases, suggestions, and questions about other editorial matters are welcomed and read avidly.
The company’s business office is located in Thetford Center, VT and can be reached via phone at (802) 785-4260 or email » support@MarketingCharts.com.
MarketingCharts: charts and data for marketers in web and Excel format
Discovering American Women's History Online
Discovering American Women's History Online
This database provides access to digital collections of primary sources (photos, letters, diaries, artifacts, etc.) that document the history of women in the United States. These diverse collections range from Ancestral Pueblo pottery to Katrina Thomas's photographs of ethnic weddings from the late 20th century.
This database simplifies access to digital collections of primary sources (photos, letters, diaries, artifacts, etc.) that document the history of women in the United States. These diverse collections range from Abigail Franks' letters to her son from the 1730s and 1740s (Center for Jewish History) to Katrina Thomas' photographs of ethnic weddings from the late 20th century.
Search and Browse Options
Please see the Search Tips page for several examples of simple and complex searches.
Researchers can browse the database by subject (150+ entries), place (i.e., states), time period, and primary source type. By browsing through these lists of preconfigured searches, researchers not only gain a quick sense of the scope of the database, but may also discover topics (e.g., women engineers) and approaches to research (e.g., using scrapbooks as primary sources) that they had not considered. In addition, many users will be pleasantly surprised by the number of collections that document the history of women in their home state.
Thumbnail Images
Many "short records" in the database include a thumbnail of an image from the collection that the record describes. The use of thumbnails in this way provides a visual cue to the content of the collection. Full records include a thumbnail caption field.
About the Developer
Ken Middleton is a reference librarian at Middle Tennessee State University Library. He has a second master's degree, with an emphasis in American women's history, from the same university.
Credits and Acknowledgements
Numerous people have provided valuable advice, technical knowledge, and encouragement. Many thanks to Fagdeba Bakoyema, Al Camp, Mary Hoffschwelle, James Staub, Mayo Taylor, and the entire Digital Projects team at Walker Library.
Welcome - Medpedia
Medpedia is just getting started. Welcome to the community.
The mission of Medpedia is to openly share and advance medical knowledge, and that includes the knowledge of patients, caregivers and those looking to stay well. By participating and giving your feedback, you are making Medpedia more useful to yourself and others. See all the ways you can get recognition for your contributions to Medpedia.
THE Medical Biochemistry Page
Online textbook covering biochemistry in addition it includes:
Abbreviations
Glossary of Medical/Clinical Terms
Links
Clinical Lab Data: Blood Test Values
Awards
Wikimedia Commons
Welcome to Wikimedia Commons A database of 4,970,855 freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute.
Wikimedia Commons is a media file repository making available public domain and freely-licensed educational media content (images, sound and video clips) to all. It acts as a common repository for the various projects of the Wikimedia Foundation, but you do not need to belong to one of those projects to use media hosted here. The repository is created and maintained not by paid-for artists but by volunteers. The scope of Commons is set out on the project scope pages.
Wikimedia Commons uses the same wiki-technology as Wikipedia and everyone can edit it. Unlike media files uploaded to other projects, files uploaded to Wikimedia Commons can be embedded on pages of all Wikimedia projects without the need to separately upload them there.
Launched on 7 September 2004, Wikimedia Commons hit the 1,000,000 uploaded media file milestone on 30 November 2006 and currently contains 4,970,782 files and 92,078 media collections. More background information about the Wikimedia Commons project itself can be found in the General disclaimer, at the Wikipedia page about Wikimedia Commons and its page in Meta-wiki.
Unlike traditional media repositories, Wikimedia Commons is free. Everyone is allowed to copy, use and modify any files here freely as long as the source and the authors are credited and as long as users release their copies/improvements under the same freedom to others. The Wikimedia Commons database itself and the texts in it are licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. The license conditions of each individual media file can be found on their description pages. More information on re-use can be found at Commons:Reusing content outside Wikimedia and Commons:First steps/Reuse.
Graduate Schools & Graduate Degrees Guide. Master Degree, MBA, PhD Degree Search - GradSchools.com
Graduate Schools & Graduate Degrees Guide. Master Degree, MBA, PhD Degree Search - GradSchools.com
Welcome to GradSchools.com, the leading and most comprehensive online graduate school guide to find the best graduate schools and graduate degree programs. Search from over 60,000 master degree, doctorate / doctoral degree, PhD degree and graduate certificate programs. Search by field of study, subject, graduate school or metro area nationwide and international. For students interested in distance learning graduate study, you can also search online graduate degrees offered by accredited online colleges and universities. Explore our MBA degree programs for a finance MBA degree, international business MBA degree, leadership MBA degree and other business school MBA programs. Search top graduate schools and programs for Law school, Medical school, Business School and other disciplines including psychology, nursing, education, physical therapy, information technology, engineering and more. Create your own MyGradSchools account to save important graduate education college and university deadlines, grad school calendar events and graduate degree program information. Register for a My GradSchools Account today.
Graduate Schools & Graduate Degrees Guide. Master Degree, MBA, PhD Degree Search - GradSchools.com
Academic Earth - Video lectures from the world's top scholars
Academic Earth - Video lectures from the world's top scholars
Academic Earth is an organization founded with the goal of giving everyone on earth access to a world-class education.
As more and more high quality educational content becomes available online for free, we ask ourselves, what are the real barriers to achieving a world class education? At Academic Earth, we are working to identify these barriers and find innovative ways to use technology to increase the ease of learning.
We are building a user-friendly educational ecosystem that will give internet users around the world the ability to easily find, interact with, and learn from full video courses and lectures from the world’s leading scholars. Our goal is to bring the best content together in one place and create an environment in which that content is remarkably easy to use and where user contributions make existing content increasingly valuable.
We invite those who share our passion to explore our website, participate in our online community, and help us continue to find new ways to make learning easier for everyone.
Academic Earth - Video lectures from the world's top scholars
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