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A history of modern French literature: from the sixteenth century to the twentieth century / edited by Christopher Prendergast

Hayden Library - PQ103.H57 2017




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The little prince / Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ; translated by Irene Testot-Ferry

Barker Library - PQ2637.A274 P413 2018




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Patron Services: History Unfolded: U.S. Newspapers and the Holocaust. Participatory Research Sprint.

Help us examine historic newspapers on microfilm in order to find out what Americans could have known about the Holocaust through reading their local newspapers.  Articles found during the sprint will be added to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s History Unfolded Project.

When: Thursday, November 14, 2019, 4-7 pm (drop-in hours)

Where: Newspaper and Current Periodical Reading Room, James Madison Building, Room 133

Please RSVP through Eventbrite: http://bit.ly/Nov2019Sprint

Request ADA accommodations five days in advance at (202) 707-6362 or ada@loc.gov.

Please contact Erin Sidwell with any questions about the sprint: esid@loc.gov

Request ADA accommodations five days in advance at (202) 707-6362 or ADA@loc.gov

 

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Patron Services: Prints and Photographs Research Orientation

Come learn about the resources of the Prints and Photographs Division. One of the division’s reference librarians will provide an overview of the wide range of pictorial materials in the Prints and Photographs Division and will offer tips on how to make the most of its online offerings and future visits to the reading room.

Date:  Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2020, 11:00-12:00 EST

Location:  Library of Congress James Madison Building, Room 337

Click here for more information and to register.

Request ADA accommodations five days in advance at (202) 707-6362 or ADA@loc.gov.

 

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Patron Services: History Unfolded Research Sprint

The Newspaper & Current Periodical Reading Room is hosting a participatory research event with the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum for their History Unfolded project. In mid-May 1944, the Hungarian authorities, in coordination with the German Security Police, began systematically to deport Hungarian Jews. Help us learn how the United States press reported on these deportations by researching microfilmed newspapers from across America.

Contribute to History Unfolded: https://newspapers.ushmm.org  

Space is limited, so please RSVP: http://bit.ly/Feb2020Sprint

Where: Newspaper & Current Periodical Reading Room, LM-133, 1st floor, Madison Building

When: Monday, February 24, 2020, Drop-in anytime between 4pm and 7pm

Click here for more information.




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Multiple Measures Are for Principal Evaluation, Too: Using Teacher Surveys to Better Understand Principal Performance

Evaluating the performance of school principals can be challenging. As we noted in previous posts, principals’ roles are complex and multi-faceted.




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How Learning Collaboratives Can Help Address Today’s Pressing Policy Challenges

Researchers and policymakers across a number of fields have long understood the power of peer-to-peer learning.




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Three Things Primary Care Stakeholders (Mostly) Agree On

Simply put, 2019 has been a big year for primary care in the United States. Whether you follow federal or state healthcare news or simply follow investor-entrepreneur Mark Cuban on Twitter, it’s likely you’ve seen how the conversation about primary care has been elevated.




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Proactive, Holistic, and Risk-Based: Plotting the Course for Program Integrity in State Medicaid Agencies

By using an enterprise risk management approach, state Medicaid agencies can meet new federal program integrity requirements, serve more clients, improve the quality of care, and contain costs.




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Exclusionary Discipline Is “Free”: How Federal Policymakers Can Promote Positive Approaches to School Discipline

The topic of exclusionary discipline is not only of professional interest to me—it’s personal. Helping my son navigate the middle grades was taxing. He attended a school that suspended him for defending himself when a classmate broke his iPad and then punched him during recess to instigate a fight.




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What Doctors Need to Fulfill the Promise of Electronic Health Records

In this week’s episode of On the Evidence, Genna Cohen and Llew Brown, who research and work with electronic health records (EHRs) at Mathematica, discuss challenges in adopting EHRs as well as what to do about them.




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Prescribing Social Services: Leveraging Data to Diagnose and Treat the Social Determinants That Affect Health

This post describes how health care systems and providers have been—and can be—critical partners in collecting and acting on social determinants of health data.




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Insights to Improve Food Security in Malawi

Senior Researcher Kristen Velyvis highlights the long-term impact of a program designed to improve nutrition and food security for more than 200,000 households with chronic food insecurity in southern Malawi.




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Helping Connect Youth to Jobs, Apprenticeships, and Internships with More Timely and Detailed Data

Each day, millions of people between the ages of 16 and 24 don’t attend school or head to work. Instead, these young people—often called opportunity youth—face greater risk of social exclusion, poverty, and falling behind without the skills to improve their lives.




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The Most Comprehensive Study of Soda Taxes Says a Lot About Consumption, Prices, and the Future of Nudges

For this episode of On the Evidence, we spoke with the principal investigators for the project: Dave Jones, an associate director in the Health Unit at Mathematica, and Dave Frisvold, an associate professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Iowa.




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Progress Together Toward a More Diverse and Inclusive Mathematica

Our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion in all that we do means thinking critically about what diversity means and taking important steps to create a Mathematica where everyone feels welcome and can cultivate a meaningful career.




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Using Leading and Lagging Indicators for Medicaid and CHIP Quality Improvement

Medicaid and CHIP quality improvement often focuses on the big picture, but to be confident that new efforts will lead to improvement, we also need quality measures that can be captured earlier.




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Can Algorithms Be Fair, Transparent, and Protect Children?

On this episode of On the Evidence, three researchers discuss how they work with child welfare agencies in the United States to use algorithms—or, what they call predictive risk models—to inform decisions by case managers and their supervisors.




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Shift to At-Home and Online Learning Underscores the Importance of Culturally Responsive Education Practices in Schools

For this episode of On the Evidence, a principal and an education researcher share insights from research and the field on implementing culturally responsive practices.




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COVID-19 Revealed Longstanding Problems in Our Social Safety Net. It’s Time to Address Them.

The unfortunate truth about crises is that they tend to reveal longstanding problems that we chose to ignore—because we could, or at least thought we could.




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The culture of digital fighting games: performance and practice / Todd Harper

Hayden Library - GV1469.34.V56 H37 2014




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A game design vocabulary: exploring the foundational principles behind good game design / Anna Anthropy, Naomi Clark

Hayden Library - GV1469.34.A97 A58 2014




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Gaming globally: production, play, and place / edited by Nina B. Huntemann and Ben Aslinger

Hayden Library - GV1469.3.G428 2013




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Empathy and violent video games: aggression and prosocial behavior / Christian Happ and André Melzer

Hayden Library - GV1469.34.V56 H367 2014




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Program arcade games: with Python and Pygame / Paul Vincent Craven

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Serious games: foundations, concepts and practice / Ralf Dörner, Stefan Göbel, Wolfgang Effelsberg, Josef Wiemeyer, editors

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Program Arcade Games: With Python and Pygame / Paul Vincent Craven

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Emotion in games: theory and praxis / Kostas Karpouzis, Georgios N. Yannakakis, editors

Online Resource




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BlitzMax for absolute beginners: games programming for the absolute beginner / Sloan Kelly

Online Resource




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Video games and storytelling: reading games and playing books / Souvik Mukherjee, Presidency University, Kolkata, India

Hayden Library - GV1469.34.A97 M85 2015




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Network games, control, and optimization: proceedings of NETGCOOP 2016, Avignon, France / Samson Lasaulce, Tania Jimenez, Eilon Solan, editors

Online Resource




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GameMaker: Studio 100 programming challenges / Ben Tyers

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Pro Java 9 games development: leveraging the JavaFX APIs / Wallace Jackson

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Cross over to HTML5 game development: use your programming experience to create mobile games / Zarrar Chishti

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Java game development with LibGDX: from beginner to professional / Lee Stemkoski

Online Resource




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Gaming representation: race, gender, and sexuality in video games / edited by Jennifer Malkowski and Treaandrea M. Russworm

Hayden Library - GV1469.17.S63 G38 2017




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Clash of realities 2015/16: on the art, technology and theory of digital games: proceedings of the 6th and 7th conference / clash of realities (ed.)

Hayden Library - GV1469.15.C527 2017




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Geogames and geoplay: game-based approaches to the analysis of geo-information / Ola Ahlqvist, Christoph Schlieder, editors

Hayden Library - GV1469.15.G465 2018




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Practical GameMaker projects: build games with GameMaker Studio 2 / Ben Tyers

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Developing 2D games with Unity: independent game programming with C# / Jared Halpern

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Designing immersive video games using 3DUI technologies: improving the gamer's user experience / Arun K. Kulshreshth, Joseph J. LaViola Jr

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Developing games on the Raspberry Pi: app programming with Lua and LÖVE / Seth Kenlon

Online Resource




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Practical shader development: vertex and fragment shaders for game developers / Kyle Halladay

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Videogame sciences and arts: 11th International Conference, VJ 2019, Aveiro, Portugal, November 27-29, 2019, Proceedings / Nelson Zagalo, Ana Isabel Veloso, Liliana Costa, Óscar Mealha (eds.)

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Alternate reality games: promotion and participatory culture / Dr. Stephanie Janes

Dewey Library - GV1469.7.J36 2020




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Beginning game programming with Pygame Zero: coding interactive games on Raspberry Pi using Python / Stewart Watkiss

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Woke gaming: digital challenges to opression and social injustice / edited by Kishonna L. Gray and David J. Leonard

Dewey Library - GV1469.34.S52 W65 2018




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FMCG companies step up new product launches in health and hygiene space

Most launched hand sanitisers initially, but are expanding their portfolio by entering newer categories such as floor and surface cleaners, disinfectant sprays and immunity building products.




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ITC ltd ramps up production to meet demand for sanitisers

Fast-moving consumer goods major ITC Ltd has ramped up personal care production to meet the demand for sanitisers.




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Dabur India resumes production at all manufacturing locations

In view of the fresh guidelines issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs on May 1 and after evaluating the ground situation, the company has resumed production at all manufacturing locations, Dabur India said in a regulatory filing.