55 Ebooks por Office of International Affairs
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Alternative Technologies to Replace Antipersonnel Landmines: Alternative Technologies to Replace Antipersonnel Landmines
This book examines potential technologies for replacing antipersonnel landmines by 2006, the U.S. target date for signing an international treaty banning these weapons. Alternative Technologies to Re …
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€59.19
Chinese Academy of Engineering & Chinese Academy of Sciences: Cooperation in the Energy Futures of China and the United States
Today we recognize the importance of the pending transition in energy resource utilization in the coming century. Two major players in this transition will be two of the world’s superpowers China and …
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€40.95
National Research Council & Office of International Affairs: Pervasive Role of Science, Technology, and Health in Foreign Policy
Issues involving science, technology, and health (STH) have moved to the forefront of the international diplomatic agenda. Other vital issues linked to technological developments pervade longer-range …
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€60.18
Committee on Utilization of Technologies Developed at Russian Research and Educational Institutions & National Research Council and Russian Academy of Sciences: Technology Commercialization
This collection of papersby American and Russian specialistsaddresses a variety of legal, regulatory, institutional, and financial issues that can promote or hinder technology commercialization. The …
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€55.42
Committee on International Security and Arms Control & National Research Council: Proliferation Concerns
The successor states of the former Soviet Union have enormous stocks of weapons-usable nuclear material and other militarily significant commodities and technologies. Preventing the flow of such item …
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€55.32
National Research Council & Office of International Affairs: Assessment of the International Science and Technology Center
This report reviews the ISTC’s objectives and plans, discussed its activities with U.S. and FSU officials, and met with FSU grant recipients and institute directors. The committee concludes that duri …
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€48.87
Advisory Committee & National Research Council: Careers in Science and Technology
Every industrialized country is concerned with maintaining an adequate supply of individuals interested in careers in science and technology, yet little is known about these efforts outside national …
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€50.81
National Research Council & World Bank: Marshaling Technology for Development
Recent technological advances, particularly in microelectronics and telecommunications, biotechnology, and advanced materials, pose critical challenges and opportunities for developing countries, and …
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€55.33
Board on Science and Technology for International Development & National Research Council: Lost Crops of Africa
Scenes of starvation have drawn the world’s attention to Africa’s agricultural and environmental crisis. Some observers question whether this continent can ever hope to feed its growing population. Y …
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€70.10
Committee on Japan & National Research Council: Engineering Tasks for the New Century
The U.S.-Japan bilateral task force was tasked with addressing the following questions: (1) How do Japan and the United States educate and train engineers, and what are the major similarities, differ …
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€30.92
National Research Council & Office of International Affairs: Protecting Nuclear Weapons Material in Russia
The management challenge in orchestrating a multitude of DOE headquarters, laboratory, and contractor personnel at about 50 sites in Russia is daunting. Steps are needed to maximize the return on U.S …
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€30.72
National Research Council & Office of Central Europe and Eurasia: Biodiversity Conservation in Transboundary Protected Areas
Recognizing the increasing rate of species loss on a global scale and that neither pollution nor ecosystems respects political boundaries, cooperation on many different levels is required to conserve …
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€51.20
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Alternative Technologies to Replace Antipersonnel Landmines: Alternative Technologies to Replace Antipersonnel Landmines
This book examines potential technologies for replacing antipersonnel landmines by 2006, the U.S. target date for signing an international treaty banning these weapons. Alternative Technologies to Re …
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€41.84
Chinese Academy of Engineering & Chinese Academy of Sciences: Cooperation in the Energy Futures of China and the United States
Today we recognize the importance of the pending transition in energy resource utilization in the coming century. Two major players in this transition will be two of the world’s superpowers China and …
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€28.59
National Research Council & Office of International Affairs: Pervasive Role of Science, Technology, and Health in Foreign Policy
Issues involving science, technology, and health (STH) have moved to the forefront of the international diplomatic agenda. Other vital issues linked to technological developments pervade longer-range …
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€41.59
Committee on Knowledge Assessment & National Research Council: Lighting the Way
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€32.08
National Research Council & Office for Central Europe and Eurasia: Partners on the Frontier
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€14.76
National Research Council & Office of International Affairs: Assessment of the International Science and Technology Center
This report reviews the ISTC’s objectives and plans, discussed its activities with U.S. and FSU officials, and met with FSU grant recipients and institute directors. The committee concludes that duri …
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€34.73
Committee on International Security and Arms Control & National Research Council: Proliferation Concerns
The successor states of the former Soviet Union have enormous stocks of weapons-usable nuclear material and other militarily significant commodities and technologies. Preventing the flow of such item …
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€38.41
National Research Council & Office of International Affairs: Bridge Builders
This volume tells 16 remarkable storiesfirst person accounts of how information and communication technologies have been successfully introduced into institutions for the benefit of scientists and en …
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€38.05
Committee on International Security and Arms Control & National Academy of Sciences: Nuclear Arms Control
This nontechnical overview of developments in nuclear arms control describes how the United States and the Soviet Union arrived at their present positionsand where they might go from here. According …
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€24.79
Advisory Committee & National Research Council: Careers in Science and Technology
Every industrialized country is concerned with maintaining an adequate supply of individuals interested in careers in science and technology, yet little is known about these efforts outside national …
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€34.68
National Research Council & Office of International Affairs: Applications of Biotechnology in Traditional Fermented Foods
In developing countries, traditional fermentation serves many purposes. It can improve the taste of an otherwise bland food, enhance the digestibility of a food that is difficult to assimilate, prese …
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€56.31
National Academy of Sciences & Office of International Affairs: High-Energy Astrophysics
During the past decade, the field of astrophysics has progressed at an impressive rate. This was reflected by the topics discussed at the workshop from which this book eminated. These topics include …
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€29.53
Board on Science and Technology for International Development & National Research Council: Microlivestock
Microlivestock is a term coined for species that are inherently small as well as for breeds of cattle, sheep, goats, and pigs that are less than about half the size of the most common breeds. These m …
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€114.51
Committee on International Security and Arms Control & National Academy of Sciences: Challenges for the 1990s for Arms Control and International Security
Featuring essays by prominent experts in international security, this volume surveys the status and prospects for progress in every major area of arms control under active negotiation: strategic and …
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€14.80
Board on Science and Technology for International Development & Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems: Toward Sustainability
How can high-growth areas such as Africa, Asia, and Latin America sustain agricultural production for current and future generations? Toward Sustainability explores research priorities to support sus …
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€10.25
National Research Council & Office of International Affairs: China and Global Change
Given China’s current and potential impacts on the global environment and the contributions Chinese science can make to global change research, China’s full participation in international research pr …
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€27.14
A Consensus Statement Prepared by the Panel on Advanced Technology Competition and the Industrialized Allies & National Research Council: International Competition in Advanced Technology
"…should help mobilize Government support for the nation’s slipping technological and international trade position…." Leonard Silk, The New York Times. A blue-ribbon panel takes a criti …
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€30.87
Committee on International Security and Arms Control & National Academy of Sciences: Reykjavik and Beyond
No more important issue faces us today than the future success of efforts to manage and control nuclear arsenals. Reykjavik and Beyond represents the careful consideration of this subject by a group …
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€12.84
Board on Science and Technology for International Development & National Research Council: Conserving Biodiversity
The loss of the earth’s biological diversity is widely recognized as a critical environmental problem. That loss is most severe in developing countries, where the conditions of human existence are mo …
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€19.12
Committee on Scholarly Communication with the People’s Republic of China & National Research Council: Grasslands and Grassland Sciences in Northern China
This volume describes one of the most extensive grassland ecosystems and the efforts of Chinese scientists to understand it.Leading Chinese scientists attribute the decline in China’s grasslands to o …
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€30.59
Committee on Japan & National Research Council: U.S.-Japan Technology Linkages in Biotechnology
U.S.-Japan Technology Linkages in Biotechnology provides an assessment of the extent and nature of the rapidly expanding linkages between the United States and Japan in biotechnology. Through analysi …
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€33.68
Committee on Japan & National Research Council: U.S.-Japan Strategic Alliances in the Semiconductor Industry
This book reviews the evolution of strategic alliances involving U.S. and Japanese companies in the semiconductor industry and analyzes whether alliances can contribute to the renewal of an industry …
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€19.35
Committee on Japan & National Research Council: Japan’s Growing Technological Capability
The perspectives of technologists, economists, and policymakers are brought together in this volume. It includes chapters dealing with approaches to assessment of technology leadership in the United …
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€29.52
Board on Science and Technology for International Development & National Research Council: Lost Crops of Africa
Scenes of starvation have drawn the world’s attention to Africa’s agricultural and environmental crisis. Some observers question whether this continent can ever hope to feed its growing population. Y …
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€34.74
National Research Council & Office of International Affairs: Dual-Use Technologies and Export Control in the Post-Cold War Era
This book arises from a joint NAS-Russian Academy of Sciences program to explore possible new approaches to the control of sensitive dual-use technologies, with respect to expanded trade between West …
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€32.54
Committee on International Security and Arms Control & National Academy of Sciences: Management and Disposition of Excess Weapons Plutonium
Within the next decade, many thousands of U.S. and Russian nuclear weapons are slated to be retired as a result of nuclear arms reduction treaties and unilateral pledges. A hundred tons or more of pl …
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€74.48
Committee on Japan & National Research Council: High-Stakes Aviation
The third in a series of sector-specific assessments of U.S.-Japan technology linkages, this book examines U.S.-Japan relationships that develop or transfer aircraft technology, the motivations of pa …
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€27.02
National Research Council & World Bank: Marshaling Technology for Development
Recent technological advances, particularly in microelectronics and telecommunications, biotechnology, and advanced materials, pose critical challenges and opportunities for developing countries, and …
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€38.50
National Research Council & Office of Central Europe and Eurasia: Biodiversity Conservation in Transboundary Protected Areas
Recognizing the increasing rate of species loss on a global scale and that neither pollution nor ecosystems respects political boundaries, cooperation on many different levels is required to conserve …
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€36.64
Committee on Japan & National Research Council: New Strategies for New Challenges
Innovation, "the process by which firms master and get into practice product designs and manufacturing processes that are new to them, " is vital for companies wishing to remain competitive …
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€34.68
Committee on Utilization of Technologies Developed at Russian Research and Educational Institutions & National Research Council and Russian Academy of Sciences: Technology Commercialization
This collection of papersby American and Russian specialistsaddresses a variety of legal, regulatory, institutional, and financial issues that can promote or hinder technology commercialization. The …
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€38.61
National Research Council & Office of International Affairs: Protecting Nuclear Weapons Material in Russia
The management challenge in orchestrating a multitude of DOE headquarters, laboratory, and contractor personnel at about 50 sites in Russia is daunting. Steps are needed to maximize the return on U.S …
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€21.06
Committee on Japan & National Research Council: Engineering Tasks for the New Century
The U.S.-Japan bilateral task force was tasked with addressing the following questions: (1) How do Japan and the United States educate and train engineers, and what are the major similarities, differ …
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€21.27
Academy Industry Program and Office of International Affairs & National Research Council: Europe 1992
The 12 member nations of the European Economic Community (EC) are engaged in a bold effort to create a Single European Market by the end of 1992. The changes brought about by European market integrat …
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€18.02
Leo A. Orleans & National Academy of Sciences: Chinese Students in America
The shift in U.S.-China relations since normalization has resulted in a rapid influx of Chinese students and scholars studying at U.S. institutions. There is an urgent need among institutions and ind …
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€14.72
National Research Council & Office of International Affairs: Global Dimensions of Intellectual Property Rights in Science and Technology
As technological developments multiply around the globeeven as the patenting of human genes comes under serious discussionnations, companies, and researchers find themselves in conflict over intellec …
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€54.40
Committee on Japan & National Research Council: New Strategies for New Challenges
Innovation, "the process by which firms master and get into practice product designs and manufacturing processes that are new to them, " is vital for companies wishing to remain competitive …
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€48.97
