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BROOKLYN, New York, Tuesday, April 6, 2021 - Out of a field of over 80 proposals by organizations in Africa many working in collaboration The Governance Lab (GovLab) at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering, L Agence Francaise de Developpement (AFD), and Expertise France chose seven projects to receive the #Data4COVID19 Africa Challenge. The challenge seeks to address the social, economic, and health challenges resulting from COVID-19 in Africa through new collaborations around non-traditional, non-statistical datasets.
Following a call for innovative proposals that ran from December 15, 2020 through February 5, 2021, and with the input of a panel of outside data experts, The GovLab, AFD and their partners selected the following:
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Intelligent.com, a trusted resource for online degree rankings and higher education planning, has announced the Top 50 Master s in Engineering Degree Programs for 2021. The comprehensive research guide is based on an assessment of 166 accredited colleges and universities in the nation. Each program is evaluated based on curriculum quality, graduation rate, reputation, and post-graduate employment.
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The better long-term method of controlling spread of COVID-19 comes from practices that have been echoed since mid March of last year: reducing individual activity via social distancing and closing non-essential businesses. While this project was focused specifically on Italy, the results are revelatory for virtually any country relying on travel restrictions to stem the spread of the pandemic, said Porfiri. We look forward to using U.S. data to tune the model and give specific answers to combat this delicate phase of the pandemic.
The research found that selective lockdown tactics, such as a restriction on activity only for the elderly, similarly did not have a great effect on overall virus transmission. The algorithmic framework also modeled scenarios in which restrictions were lifted, finding that social restrictions must be lifted gradually in order to prevent an additional wave. The timing and speed of which travel restrictions were lifted did not seem impact the rate of t