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Employment Coaching Evaluation for TANF
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Coaching-based interventions have shown promise in a range of settings to help people identify and develop self-regulation skills needed to set and make progress toward goals. Building on a growing body of evidence, the Administration for Children and…
Better Maps, More Investment: The Participatory Mapping and Planning (PMaP-1) Project
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Indonesia is an archipelago nation with more than 17,000 islands. Traditionally, communities have mapped their borders, relying on natural landmarks. However, the number of communities with accurate maps remains low. Resolving this uncertainty allows…
Remote Sensing Analyses to Support the Natural Resource Damage Assessment and Restoration for the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
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Classification of shoreline. Abt Global has used remote sensing throughout the natural resource damage assessment for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. For the injury analysis, Abt staff developed a model of a current shoreline in a…
Toxicity Testing for the Deepwater Horizon Natural Resource Damage Assessment
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The Deepwater Horizon (DWH) blowout released 3.19 million barrels of oil in the Gulf of Mexico over nearly three months. It exposed organisms to oil at various stages of processing, and the duration and size of the spill had the potential to harm many…
SPECIATE: EPA's Repository of Volatile Organic Gas and Particulate Matter Speciation Profiles of Air Pollution Sources
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The SPECIATE database is the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) repository of volatile organic gas and particulate matter (PM) speciation profiles of air pollution sources. The data are used to guide regulatory analysis and need to be kept up…
Supporting the Development of the National Emissions Inventory
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Emission Inventory and Analysis Group (EIAG) produces the National Emission Inventory (NEI), a comprehensive estimate of air pollutant emissions. States need these data to evaluate emissions trends and to…
Climate Impacts and Risk Assessment (CIRA) Modeling
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Abt Global’s staff has developed and implemented spatially specific modeling approaches for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to quantify, and often estimate the cost of, the impacts of climate change on a number of sectors and dynamics in…
Measuring Photo-Induced Toxicity of North West Shelf Oil in Australia
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Photo-induced toxicity of crude oil occurs when ultraviolet light (UV) contacts certain photo-active polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), which act as catalysts and produce reactive oxygen species. When this reaction occurs in the tissues of…
Setting a Health-Based Benchmark for Lead in Drinking Water
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Abt Global provided technical assistance to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water to support the development of a draft report outlining potential approaches to inform a health-based benchmark for lead…
Evaluating Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Care Models
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The Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program (RWHAP), administered by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) within the Department of Health and Human Services, provides a comprehensive system of care for people living with HIV and AIDS. Although…