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FEMA’s flood maps often miss dangerous flash flood risks, leaving homeowners unprepared
On average, it takes five to seven years to develop and implement a new FEMA Flood Insurance Rate Map. As a result, many maps across the U.S. are significantly out of date, often failing to reflect ...
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C++ Encounters Of The Rusty Zig Kind
There comes a time in any software developer’s life when they look at their achievements, the lines of code written and the ...
Explaining Medicaid, Connecticut's HUSKY program and what's next
There are around 917,000 Connecticut residents enrolled in the various HUSKY programs, according to the state.
Trump’s ‘big’ bill gives millions of taxpayers a new charitable tax break, but whether it will help nonprofits is unclear
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) ...
How national security gave birth to bioethics
And in 1953 the Pentagon adopted the Nuremberg Code for its defensive studies of atomic, biological and chemical warfare. They were the first and only US government agency to adopt the code word for ...
The Latest: Judge orders Trump administration to halt indiscriminate ICE arrests in California
A federal judge on Friday ordered the Trump administration to immediately halt indiscriminate immigration stops and arrests ...
Astronomy has a major data problem – simulating realistic images of the sky can help train algorithms
PhoSim simulates the atmosphere, including air turbulence, as well as distortions from the shape of the telescope’s mirrors and the electrical properties of the sensors. The photons are propagated ...
Peru's Amazon communities accuse the state of failing to stop mercury pollution from illegal mining
Indigenous and rural communities from Peru’s northern Amazon have filed a formal complaint against the government for failing to curb illegal gold mining in the Nanay River basin. They say ...
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Why energy markets fluctuate during an international crisis
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic ... prices to spike as buyers scramble to secure resources. In 2008, for example, India and ...
RNA has newly identified role: Repairing serious DNA damage to maintain the genome
By uncovering RNA’s previously unknown function to repair DNA damage, our findings show how RNA may directly contribute to the stability and evolution of the genome. It’s not merely a passive ...
Will AI take your job? The answer could hinge on the 4 S’s of the technology’s advantages over humans
(THE CONVERSATION) If you’ve worried that AI might take your job, deprive you of your livelihood, or maybe even replace your role in society, it probably feels good to see the latest AI tools fail ...
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GitHub - newrelic/newrelic-php-agent: The New Relic PHP Agent
License The PHP agent is licensed under the Apache 2.0 License and also uses source code from third-party libraries. You can find full details on which libraries are used and the terms under which ...