A. James Clark School of Engineering
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A. James Clark School of Engineering

The A. James Clark School of Engineering is the engineering school of the University of Maryland, College Park. The school consists of fourteen buildings on the College Park campus that cover over 750,000 sq ft (70,000 m2). The school is near Washington, D.C. and Baltimore, as well as several

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Akvo Foundation
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Akvo Foundation

Akvo Foundation is a non-profit focused on internet and software development foundation, headquartered in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The foundation primarily builds and operates data collection and visualization systems to be used in international development and aid activities. The company started as

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2010s
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2010s

The 2010s (pronounced "twenty-tens" or "two thousand [and] tens"; shortened to "the '10s" and also known as "the Tens" or simply "the Tweens") was the decade that began on 1 January 2010 and ended on 31 December 2019. The decade began with an economic recovery from the Great Recession. Inflation

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2012–2014 Salvadoran gang truce
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2012–2014 Salvadoran gang truce

From March 2012 to May 2014, the Salvadoran government, the Catholic Church, and the country's two largest criminal gangs — Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) and the 18th Street gang (Barrio 18) — came to a truce, known in El Salvador simply as the Gang Truce (Spanish: tregua entre pandillas), to lower the

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Altmetric
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Altmetric

Altmetric, or altmetric.com, is a data science company that tracks where published research is mentioned online, and provides tools and services to institutions, publishers, researchers, funders and other organisations to monitor this activity, commonly referred to as altmetrics. Altmetric was

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2008 financial crisis
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2008 financial crisis

A major worldwide financial crisis centered in the United States took place in 2008. The causes included excessive speculation on property values by both homeowners and financial institutions, leading to the 2000s United States housing bubble. This was exacerbated by predatory lending for subprime

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Alberto Cairo
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Alberto Cairo

Alberto Cairo (born 1974 in A Coruña) is a Spanish information designer and professor. Cairo is the Knight Chair in Visual Journalism at the School of Communication of the University of Miami. == Education == Cairo holds a BA in Journalism from the University of Santiago de Compostela, and MA and

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