765 Ebooks bởi Policy and Global Affairs
National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: Sustainable Management of Groundwater in Mexico
This report contains a collection of papers presented at a workshop in Merida, Mexico Strengthening Science-Based Decision Making: Sustainable Management of Groundwater in Mexico. The cross-cutting t …
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€31.58
National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: Lost Crops of Africa
This book is the third in a series evaluating underexploited African plant resources that could help broaden and secure Africa’s food supply. The volume describes 24 little-known indigenous African c …
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€77.69
National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: Agricultural Water Management
This report contains a collection of papers from a workshop Strengthening Science-Based Decision-Making for Sustainable Management of Scarce Water Resources for Agricultural Production, held in Tunis …
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€37.47
National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: Assessment of the SBIR Program at the Department of Defense
The SBIR program allocates 2.5 percent of 11 federal agencies’ extramural R&D budgets to fund R&D projects by small businesses, providing approximately $2 billion annually in competitive awards. At t …
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€88.77
National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: Assessment of the SBIR Program at the National Institutes of Health
The SBIR program allocates 2.5 percent of 11 federal agencies’ extramural R&D budgets to fund R&D projects by small businesses, providing approximately $2 billion annually in competitive awards. At t …
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€112.22
National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: Assessment of the SBIR Program
The SBIR program allocates 2.5 percent of 11 federal agencies’ extramural R&D budgets to fund R&D projects by small businesses, providing approximately $2 billion annually in competitive awards. At t …
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€76.73
Committee on Creation of Science-Based Industries in Developing Countries & National Research Council: Mobilizing Science-Based Enterprises for Energy, Water, and Medicines in Nigeria
Developed in collaboration with the Nigerian Academy of Science, this report explores the ways in which science-based private enterprises can be created and encouraged in Nigeria and other developing …
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€34.74
Computer Science and Telecommunications Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Strategic Management of Information and Communication Technology
Although Y2K did not result in major disruptions, the event is a rich source of critical lessons for strategic management of information and communication technology (ICT), many of which apply to lar …
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€34.81
Chinese Academy of Engineering & Chinese Academy of Sciences: Energy Futures and Urban Air Pollution
The United States and China are the top two energy consumers in the world. As a consequence, they are also the top two emitters of numerous air pollutants which have local, regional, and global impac …
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€75.00
Committee on Prevention of Proliferation of Biological Weapons & National Research Council: Biological Threat Reduction Program of the Department of Defense
This Congressionally-mandated report identifies areas for further cooperation with Russia and other states of the former Soviet Union under the Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) program of the Depar …
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€30.89
Committee on a New Government-University Partnership for Science and Security & National Research Council: Science and Security in a Post 9/11 World
Based on a series of regional meetings on university campuses with officials from the national security community and academic research institutions, this report identifies specific actions that shou …
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€30.75
Board on Higher Education and Workforce & Committee on Approaches for the Evaluation of the NIST: Approaches for Evaluating the NRC Resident Research Associateship Program at NIST
The NRC Resident Research Associateship Program at NIST provides two-year temporary appointments for outstanding scientists and engineers. This book describes program applicants and awardees and offe …
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€39.26
National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: Assessment of the SBIR Program at the Department of Energy
The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program is one of the largest examples of U.S. public-private partnerships. Founded in 1982, SBIR was designed to encourage small business to develop new …
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€52.76
Board on International Scientific Organizations & Committee on International Collaborations in Social and Behavioral Sciences Research: International Collaborations in Behavioral and Social Sciences
Based on the outcomes of a workshop convened by the U.S. National Committee for Psychological Science and informed by a survey of social scientists who have led cross-national projects, this National …
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€27.53
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Gender Differences at Critical Transitions in the Careers of Science, Engineering, and Mathematics Faculty
Gender Differences at Critical Transitions in the Careers of Science, Engineering, and Mathematics Faculty presents new and surprising findings about career differences between female and male full-t …
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€48.20
Board on Higher Education and Workforce & Committee on Enhancing the Master’s Degree in the Natural Sciences: Science Professionals
What are employer needs for staff trained in the natural sciences at the master’s degree level? How do master’s level professionals in the natural sciences contribute in the workplace? How do master’ …
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€28.54
Committee on Comparative Innovation Policy: Best Practice for the 21st Century & National Research Council: Innovative Flanders
Recognizing that innovation is the key to international competitiveness in the 21st century, policymakers around the world are seeking more effective ways to translate scientific and technological kn …
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€44.99
Food and Nutrition Board & Institute of Medicine: Foodborne Disease and Public Health
The Institute of Medicine’s Food and Nutrition Board and the National Research Council’s Policy and Global Affairs Division convened a workshop in Washington, D.C., entitled Foodborne Disease and Pub …
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€29.07
Committee on the Competitiveness and Workforce Needs of U.S. Industry & National Research Council: Innovation in Global Industries
The debate over offshoring of production, transfer of technological capabilities, and potential loss of U.S. competitiveness is a long-running one. Prevailing thinking is that "the world is flat …
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€53.40
Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology & Committee on Evaluating the Efficiency of Research and Development Programs at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: Evaluating Research Efficiency in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
A new book from the National Research Council recommends changes in how the federal government evaluates the efficiency of research at EPA and other agencies. Assessing efficiency should be considere …
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€34.66
Committee on Evaluation of USAID Democracy Assistance Programs & National Research Council: Improving Democracy Assistance
Over the past 25 years, the United States has made support for the spread of democracy to other nations an increasingly important element of its national security policy. These efforts have created a …
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€66.10
Committee on the U.S.-Iran Workshop on Science and Technology and the Future Development of Societies & National Research Council: Science and Technology and the Future Development of Societies
In June 2006, seventeen scientists and educators selected by the National Academies, the Academy of Sciences of Iran, and the Acadmie des Sciences of France held a workshop at the estate of the Fonda …
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€34.45
Committee on International Security and Arms Control & Committee on the U.S.-Chinese Glossary of Nuclear Security Terms: English-Chinese, Chinese-English Nuclear Security Glossary
The U.S. National Academies Committee on International Security and Arms Control (CISAC) and the Chinese Scientists Group on Arms Control (CSGAC) of the Chinese People’s Association for Peace and Dis …
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€56.72
Committee on Issues in Consolidating Spent Nuclear Fuel at International Storage Sites & National Research Council: Setting the Stage for International Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage Facilities
In May 2003, the Russian Academy of Sciences and the National Academies organized an international workshop in Moscow on the scientific issues relevant to the establishment and operation of an intern …
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€32.30
Committee on Comparative Innovation Policy: Best Practice for the 21st Century & National Research Council: 21st Century Innovation Systems for Japan and the United States
Recognizing that a capacity to innovate and commercialize new high-technology products is increasingly a key for the economic growth in the environment of tighter environmental and resource constrain …
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€61.20
National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: Transitioning to Sustainability Through Research and Development on Ecosystem Services and Biofuels
The National Research Council’s Roundtable on Science and Technology for Sustainability hosted "Transitioning to Sustainability through Research and Development on Ecosystem Services and Biofuel …
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€31.39
National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: Assessment of the SBIR Program at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program is one of the largest examples of U.S. public-private partnerships. Founded in 1982, SBIR was designed to encourage small business to develop new …
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€80.62
American Association for the Advancement of Science & Board on Life Sciences: Survey of Attitudes and Actions on Dual Use Research in the Life Sciences
The same technologies that fuel scientific advances also pose potential risksthat the knowledge, tools, and techniques gained through legitimate biotechnology research could be misused to create biol …
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€86.04
Committee on International Security and Arms Control & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Internationalization of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle
The so-called nuclear renaissance has increased worldwide interest in nuclear power. This potential growth also has increased, in some quarters, concern that nonproliferation considerations are not b …
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€44.95
Committee on Counterterrorism Challenges for Russia and the United States & National Academy of Sciences: Countering Terrorism
This book presents the proceedings of the fourth U.S.-Russian interacademy workshop on the general theme of countering terrorism, which was held in Moscow in March 2007. The fourth in a series, this …
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€51.08
Committee on Cleaning Up of Radioactive Contamination: Russian Challenges and U.S. Experience & National Research Council: Cleaning Up Sites Contaminated with Radioactive Materials
This publication features papers presented at the Workshop on Cleaning Up Sites Contaminated with Radioactive Materials, held in Moscow in June 2007. This activity was organized by the National Acade …
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€49.98
Board on International Scientific Organizations & Committee on International Outreach Activities on Biosecurity: 2nd International Forum on Biosecurity
The 2nd International Forum on Biosecurity, held in Budapest, Hungary on March 30 – April 2, 2008, represents the efforts of a number of individuals and organizations, over the last five years, to en …
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€36.85
National Research Council & Office for Central Europe and Eurasia: Science as a Gateway to Understanding
In October 2007, the U.S. National Academies and the Iranian Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Science organized the first of a series of planned U.S.-Iranian workshops on the topic "Scien …
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€41.60
National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: Enhancing the Effectiveness of Sustainability Partnerships
Sustainable developmentmeeting human needs while nurturing and restoring the planet’s life support systemsrequires a continuous process of scientific innovation, new knowledge and learning, and colla …
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€30.89
National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: Venture Funding and the NIH SBIR Program
The Small Business Administration issued a policy directive in 2002, the effect of which has been to exclude innovative small firms in which venture capital firms have a controlling interest from the …
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€33.97
Committee on Comparative Innovation Policy: Best Practice for the 21st Century & National Research Council: Understanding Research, Science and Technology Parks
Many nations are currently adopting a variety of directed strategies to launch and support research parks, often with significant financial commitments and policy support. By better understanding how …
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€43.42
Committee to Review the United States Institute of Peace Senior Fellows Program & National Research Council: Assessing the United States Institute of Peace Jennings Randolph Senior Fellowship
The United States Institute of Peace (USIP) is an independent, nonpartisan, national institution established and funded by the U.S. Congress. The goals of the USIP are to help prevent and resolve vio …
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€29.53
Committee on Scientific Communication and National Security & National Research Council: Beyond ‘Fortress America’
The national security controls that regulate access to and export of science and technology are broken. As currently structured, many of these controls undermine our national and homeland security an …
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€41.31
Committee on Partnerships for Emerging Research Institutions & National Academy of Engineering: Partnerships for Emerging Research Institutions
Constituting one-third of all U.S. institutions of higher education, emerging research institutions (ERIs) are crucial to sustaining the nation’s technological competitiveness through innovation and …
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€21.24
Committee on International Security and Arms Control & Committee on Strengthening and Expanding the Department of Defense Cooperative Threat Reduction Program: Global Security Engagement
The government’s first Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) programs were created in 1991 to eliminate the former Soviet Union’s nuclear, chemical, and other weapons and prevent their proliferation. Th …
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€36.58
Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics & Committee on Identifying the Needs of the Forensic Sciences Community: Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States
Scores of talented and dedicated people serve the forensic science community, performing vitally important work. However, they are often constrained by lack of adequate resources, sound policies, and …
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€34.88
Committee on International Security and Arms Control & Joint Committees on the Future of the Nuclear Security Environment in 2015: Future of the Nuclear Security Environment in 2015
The U.S. National Academies (NAS) and the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), building on a foundation of years of interacademy cooperation, conducted a joint project to identify U.S. and Russian view …
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€64.75
Committee on Prevention of Proliferation of Biological Weapons in States Beyond the Former Soviet Union & National Research Council: Countering Biological Threats
In response to a request from the U.S. Congress, this book examines how the unique experience and extensive capabilities of the Department of Defense (DOD) can be extended to reduce the threat of bio …
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€43.75
National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: Revisiting the Department of Defense SBIR Fast Track Initiative
In October 1995, the Department of Defense launched a Fast Track initiative to attract new firms and encourage commercialization of Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) funded technologies throu …
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€45.90
Institute of Medicine & National Academy of Engineering: Adviser, Teacher, Role Model, Friend
This guide offers helpful advice on how teachers, administrators, and career advisers in science and engineering can become better mentors to their students. It starts with the premise that a success …
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€30.87
Committee on Women in Science and Engineering & Committee on the Guide to Recruiting and Advancing Women Scientists and Engineers in Academia: To Recruit and Advance
Although more women than men participate in higher education in the United States, the same is not true when it comes to pursuing careers in science and engineering. To Recruit and Advance: Women Stu …
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€42.36
Board on Higher Education and Workforce & Committee on Engineering Education: Enhancing the Community College Pathway to Engineering Careers
Community colleges play an important role in starting students on the road toengineering careers, but students often face obstacles in transferring to four-yeareducational institutions to continue th …
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€45.65
Board on Higher Education and Workforce & Committee on Enhancing the Master’s Degree in the Natural Sciences: Science Professionals
What are employer needs for staff trained in the natural sciences at the master’s degree level? How do master’s level professionals in the natural sciences contribute in the workplace? How do master’ …
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€41.08
Committee on the Competitiveness and Workforce Needs of U.S. Industry & National Research Council: Innovation in Global Industries
The debate over offshoring of production, transfer of technological capabilities, and potential loss of U.S. competitiveness is a long-running one. Prevailing thinking is that "the world is flat …
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€76.87
National Research Council & Office for Central Europe and Eurasia: Russian Views on Countering Terrorism During Eight Years of Dialogue
Few countries have endured as many attacks of terrorism during the past two decades as has Russia. From bombings on the streets of a number of cities, to the disruption of pipelines in Dagestan, to t …
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€70.82
Board on International Scientific Organizations & National Research Council: Frontiers in Soil Science Research
There has been renewed interest in soil and soil science in recent years as the recognition that biogeochemical processes that occur at the Earth’s surface influence global climate change, land degra …
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€21.07
Board on Research Data and Information & National Research Council: Socioeconomic Effects of Public Sector Information on Digital Networks
While governments throughout the world have different approaches to how they make their public sector information (PSI) available and the terms under which the information may be reused, there appear …
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€28.36
National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: Venture Funding and the NIH SBIR Program
The Small Business Administration issued a policy directive in 2002, the effect of which has been to exclude innovative small firms in which venture capital firms have a controlling interest from the …
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€35.94
Board on Research Data and Information & National Research Council: Socioeconomic Effects of Public Sector Information on Digital Networks
While governments throughout the world have different approaches to how they make their public sector information (PSI) available and the terms under which the information may be reused, there appear …
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€40.79
National Research Council & Office for Central Europe and Eurasia: Russian Views on Countering Terrorism During Eight Years of Dialogue
Few countries have endured as many attacks of terrorism during the past two decades as has Russia. From bombings on the streets of a number of cities, to the disruption of pipelines in Dagestan, to t …
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€102.72
Committee on Scientific Communication and National Security & National Research Council: Beyond ‘Fortress America’
The national security controls that regulate access to and export of science and technology are broken. As currently structured, many of these controls undermine our national and homeland security an …
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€59.19
American Association for the Advancement of Science & Board on Life Sciences: Survey of Attitudes and Actions on Dual Use Research in the Life Sciences
The same technologies that fuel scientific advances also pose potential risksthat the knowledge, tools, and techniques gained through legitimate biotechnology research could be misused to create biol …
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€89.60
Committee on Competing in the 21st Century: Best Practice in State and Regional Innovation Initiatives & National Research Council: Future of Photovoltaics Manufacturing in the United States
Technological innovation and growth are critical to U.S. competitiveness in a global economy. One means of facilitating growth and improving competitiveness is to foster more robust innovation ecosys …
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€58.97
Committee on International Security and Arms Control & Committee on Strengthening and Expanding the Department of Defense Cooperative Threat Reduction Program: Global Security Engagement
The government’s first Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) programs were created in 1991 to eliminate the former Soviet Union’s nuclear, chemical, and other weapons and prevent their proliferation. Th …
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€51.36
Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics & Committee on Identifying the Needs of the Forensic Sciences Community: Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States
Scores of talented and dedicated people serve the forensic science community, performing vitally important work. However, they are often constrained by lack of adequate resources, sound policies, and …
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€46.07
Board on Health Sciences Policy & Committee on Opportunities to Address Clinical Research Workforce Diversity Needs for 2010: Opportunities to Address Clinical Research Workforce Diversity Needs for 2010
Based on a 2003 workshop, this study describes current public and private programs and recommends ways to recruit and retain more women and underrepresented minorities into clinical research, especia …
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€49.54
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Intangible Assets
Intangible assetswhich include computer software, research and development (R&D), intellectual property, workforce training, and spending to raise the efficiency and brand identification of firmscomp …
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€31.37
Board on International Scientific Organizations & National Research Council: Frontiers in Soil Science Research
There has been renewed interest in soil and soil science in recent years as the recognition that biogeochemical processes that occur at the Earth’s surface influence global climate change, land degra …
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€30.81
Glenn E. Schweitzer & National Research Council: Interacademy Programs Between the United States and Eastern Europe 1967-2009
Interacademy Programs Between the United States and Eastern Europe 1967-2009 documents how interacademy programs have played a significant role in establishing and maintaining American scientific con …
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€21.19
National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: Approaches to Reducing the Use of Forced or Child Labor
Globally, child labor and forced labor are widespread and complex problems. They are conceptually different phenomena, requiring different policy responses, though they may also overlap in practice. …
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€34.83
Committee on Comparative Innovation Policy: Best Practice for the 21st Century & National Research Council: Understanding Research, Science and Technology Parks
Many nations are currently adopting a variety of directed strategies to launch and support research parks, often with significant financial commitments and policy support. By better understanding how …
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€61.01
National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: Assessment of the SBIR Program at the Department of Defense
The SBIR program allocates 2.5 percent of 11 federal agencies’ extramural R&D budgets to fund R&D projects by small businesses, providing approximately $2 billion annually in competitive awards. At t …
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€128.55
National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: Approaches to Reducing the Use of Forced or Child Labor
Globally, child labor and forced labor are widespread and complex problems. They are conceptually different phenomena, requiring different policy responses, though they may also overlap in practice. …
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€48.97
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology: Hidden Costs of Energy
Despite the many benefits of energy, most of which are reflected in energy market prices, the production, distribution, and use of energy causes negative effects. Many of these negative effects are n …
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€46.22
National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: Revisiting the Department of Defense SBIR Fast Track Initiative
In October 1995, the Department of Defense launched a Fast Track initiative to attract new firms and encourage commercialization of Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) funded technologies throu …
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€64.20
Committee on Certification of Sustainable Products and Services & National Research Council: Certifiably Sustainable?
Consumption of goods and services represents a growing share of global economic activity. In the United States, consumption accounts for more than two-thirds of gross domestic product. This trend of …
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€34.73
National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: Expanding Biofuel Production and the Transition to Advanced Biofuels
While energy prices, energy security, and climate change are front and center in the national media, these issues are often framed to the exclusion of the broader issue of sustainabilityensuring that …
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€40.33
Glenn E. Schweitzer & National Research Council: Interacademy Programs Between the United States and Eastern Europe 1967-2009
Interacademy Programs Between the United States and Eastern Europe 1967-2009 documents how interacademy programs have played a significant role in establishing and maintaining American scientific con …
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€30.61
National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: Enhancing the Effectiveness of Sustainability Partnerships
Sustainable developmentmeeting human needs while nurturing and restoring the planet’s life support systemsrequires a continuous process of scientific innovation, new knowledge and learning, and colla …
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€44.77
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Intangible Assets
Intangible assetswhich include computer software, research and development (R&D), intellectual property, workforce training, and spending to raise the efficiency and brand identification of firmscomp …
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€41.16
Committee on Reviewing and Updating Technical Issues Related to the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty & National Research Council: Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
This report reviews and updates the 2002 National Research Council report, Technical Issues Related to the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT). This report also assesses various topics, incl …
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€3.82
Committee on the Competitiveness and Workforce Needs of U.S. Industry & National Research Council: Dragon and the Elephant
The return of the once-dormant economies of China and India to dynamism and growth is one of the most remarkable stories in recent history. The two countries are home to nearly 40 percent of the worl …
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€21.12
Board on International Scientific Organizations & National Research Council: Teacher Development Continuum in the United States and China
In 1999, Liping Ma published her book Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics: Teachers’ Understanding of Fundamental Mathematics in the United States and China, which probed the kinds of knowled …
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€21.07
Committee on the Competitiveness and Workforce Needs of U.S. Industry & National Research Council: Dragon and the Elephant
The return of the once-dormant economies of China and India to dynamism and growth is one of the most remarkable stories in recent history. The two countries are home to nearly 40 percent of the worl …
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€30.87
National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: Expanding Biofuel Production and the Transition to Advanced Biofuels
While energy prices, energy security, and climate change are front and center in the national media, these issues are often framed to the exclusion of the broader issue of sustainabilityensuring that …
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€51.36
Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Steps Toward Large-Scale Data Integration in the Sciences
Steps Toward Large-Scale Data Integration in the Sciences summarizes a National Research Council (NRC) workshop to identify some of the major challenges that hinder large-scale data integration in th …
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€21.23
Glenn E. Schweitzer & National Research Council: U.S.-Iran Engagement in Science, Engineering, and Health (2000-2009)
During the first decade of the 21st century, the National Academies, working with a number of partner organizations in Iran, carried out a program of U.S.-Iran engagement in science, engineering, and …
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€28.36
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology: Hidden Costs of Energy
Despite the many benefits of energy, most of which are reflected in energy market prices, the production, distribution, and use of energy causes negative effects. Many of these negative effects are n …
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€64.02
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Gender Differences at Critical Transitions in the Careers of Science, Engineering, and Mathematics Faculty
Gender Differences at Critical Transitions in the Careers of Science, Engineering, and Mathematics Faculty presents new and surprising findings about career differences between female and male full-t …
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€70.74
Committee on Competing in the 21st Century: Best Practice in State and Regional Innovation Initiatives & National Research Council: Growing Innovation Clusters for American Prosperity
Responding to the challenges of fostering regional growth and employment in an increasingly competitive global economy, many U.S. states and regions have developed programs to attract and grow compan …
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€41.83
Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Steps Toward Large-Scale Data Integration in the Sciences
Steps Toward Large-Scale Data Integration in the Sciences summarizes a National Research Council (NRC) workshop to identify some of the major challenges that hinder large-scale data integration in th …
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€30.59
Committee on Certification of Sustainable Products and Services & National Research Council: Certifiably Sustainable?
Consumption of goods and services represents a growing share of global economic activity. In the United States, consumption accounts for more than two-thirds of gross domestic product. This trend of …
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€50.18
Committee on the Challenge of Developing Sustainable Urban Systems & National Research Council: Pathways to Urban Sustainability
More than half of the world’s people now live in cities. In the United States, the figure is 80 percent. It is worthwhile to consider how this trend of increased urbanization, if inevitable, could be …
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€31.50
Board on Higher Education and Workforce & National Research Council: Research Training in the Biomedical, Behavioral, and Clinical Research Sciences
Comprehensive research and a highly-trained workforce are essential for the improvement of health and health care both nationally and internationally. During the past 40 years the National Research S …
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€38.52
Committee on Underrepresented Groups and the Expansion of the Science and Engineering Workforce Pipeline & Institute of Medicine: Expanding Underrepresented Minority Participation
In order for the United States to maintain the global leadership and competitiveness in science and technology that are critical to achieving national goals, we must invest in research, encourage inn …
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€39.81
Chinese Academy of Engineering & Chinese Academy of Sciences: Power of Renewables
The United States and China are the world’s top two energy consumers and, as of 2010, the two largest economies. Consequently, they have a decisive role to play in the world’s clean energy future. Bo …
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€35.83
Committee on Deterring Cyberattacks: Informing Strategies and Developing Options for U.S. Policy & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Proceedings of a Workshop on Deterring Cyberattacks
In a world of increasing dependence on information technology, the prevention of cyberattacks on a nation’s important computer and communications systems and networks is a problem that looms large. G …
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€77.98
National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: Managing University Intellectual Property in the Public Interest
Thirty years ago federal policy underwent a major change through the Bayh-Dole Act of 1980, which fostered greater uniformity in the way research agencies treat inventions arising from the work they …
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€31.46
Committee on the Challenge of Developing Sustainable Urban Systems & National Research Council: Pathways to Urban Sustainability
More than half of the world’s people now live in cities. In the United States, the figure is 80 percent. It is worthwhile to consider how this trend of increased urbanization, if inevitable, could be …
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€44.93
Board on Health Care Services & Board on Health Sciences Policy: Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing
Today, scores of companies, primarily in the United States and Europe, are offering whole genome scanning services directly to the public. The proliferation of these companies and the services they o …
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€28.31
Glenn E. Schweitzer & National Research Council: U.S.-Iran Engagement in Science, Engineering, and Health (2000-2009)
During the first decade of the 21st century, the National Academies, working with a number of partner organizations in Iran, carried out a program of U.S.-Iran engagement in science, engineering, and …
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€41.12
Board on International Scientific Organizations & National Research Council: Teacher Development Continuum in the United States and China
In 1999, Liping Ma published her book Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics: Teachers’ Understanding of Fundamental Mathematics in the United States and China, which probed the kinds of knowled …
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€30.71
Committee on Prevention of Proliferation of Biological Weapons in States Beyond the Former Soviet Union & National Research Council: Countering Biological Threats
In response to a request from the U.S. Congress, this book examines how the unique experience and extensive capabilities of the Department of Defense (DOD) can be extended to reduce the threat of bio …
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€61.63
National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: Lost Crops of Africa
This book is the third in a series evaluating underexploited African plant resources that could help broaden and secure Africa’s food supply. The volume describes 24 little-known indigenous African c …
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€83.64
National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: Lost Crops of Africa
This report is the second in a series of three evaluating underexploited African plant resources that could help broaden and secure Africa’s food supply. The volume describes the characteristics of 1 …
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€61.61
Committee on Science and Technology in Foreign Assistance & National Research Council: Fundamental Role of Science and Technology in International Development
In October 2003 the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the National Research Council (NRC) entered into a cooperative agreement. The agreement called for the NRC to examine selecte …
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€47.60
Board on Global Health & Committee on Advances in Technology and the Prevention of Their Application to Next Generation Biowarfare Threats: Globalization, Biosecurity, and the Future of the Life Sciences
Biomedical advances have made it possible to identify and manipulate features of living organisms in useful waysleading to improvements in public health, agriculture, and other areas. The globalizati …
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€76.55
Committee on Intellectual Property Rights in Genomic and Protein Research and Innovation & National Research Council: Reaping the Benefits of Genomic and Proteomic Research
The patenting and licensing of human genetic material and proteins represents an extension of intellectual property (IP) rights to naturally occurring biological material and scientific information, …
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€56.84
Charles W. Wessner & Committee on Government-Industry Partnerships for the Development of New Technologies: Partnering Against Terrorism
Terrorism and the measures needed to prevent terrorist attacks pose a central policy challenge for the U.S. To meet this unprecedented challenge, the U.S. has great technological assets. What is need …
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€50.81
Board on Higher Education and Workforce & National Research Council: Advancing the Nation’s Health Needs
This report is the twelfth assessment of the National Institutes of Health National Research Service Awards program. The research training needs of the country in basic biomedical, clinical, and beha …
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€51.07
David W. Cash & James Buizer: Knowledge-Action Systems for Seasonal to Interannual Climate Forecasting
The National Academies’ Roundtable on Science and Technology for Sustainability hosted a workshop "Knowledge Action Systems for Seasonal to Interannual Climate Forecasting" in 2004 to disco …
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€21.87
Committee on Educational Paradigms for Homeland Security & National Research Council: Frameworks for Higher Education in Homeland Security
This report explores whether there are core pedagogical and skill-based homeland security program needs; examines current and proposed education programs focusing on various aspects of homeland secur …
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€30.79
Committee on Measuring and Sustaining the New Economy & National Research Council: Productivity and Cyclicality in Semiconductors
Hosted by Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, this symposium brought together leading technologists and economists to review technical challenges facing the semiconductor industry, the …
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€64.20
Committee on Science and Technology in Armenia & National Research Council: Science and Technology in Armenia
An NRC ad hoc committee analyzed the current status and future development potential of Armenia’s science and technology base, including human and infrastructural resources and research and education …
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€47.34
National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: Assessment of the Small Business Innovation Research Program
In response to a Congressional mandate, the National Research Council conducted a review of the SBIR program at the five federal agencies with SBIR programs with budgets in excess of $100 million (DO …
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€44.78
Board on Life Sciences & Committee on Genomics Databases for Bioterrorism Threat Agents: Seeking Security
Within the last 30 years, the genomes of thousands of organisms, from viruses, to bacteria, to humans, have been sequenced or partially sequenced and deposited in databases freely accessible to scien …
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€21.79
National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: SBIR Program Diversity and Assessment Challenges
In response to a Congressional mandate, the National Research Council conducted a review of the Small Business Innovation Research Program (SBIR) at the five federal agencies with SBIR programs with …
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€63.02
Committee on New Approaches to Early Detection and Diagnosis of Breast Cancer & Institute of Medicine: Saving Women’s Lives
The outlook for women with breast cancer has improved in recent years. Due to the combination of improved treatments and the benefits of mammographyscreening, breast cancer mortality has decreased st …
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€64.44
National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: Electronic Scientific, Technical, and Medical Journal Publishing and Its Implications
This report is the proceedings of a 2003 symposium on "Electronic Scientific, Technical, and Medical Journal Publishing and Its Implications, " which brought together experts in STM publish …
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€47.40
National Academies & Policy and Global Affairs: Electronic Scientific, Technical, and Medical Journal Publishing and Its Implications
The Symposium on Electronic Scientific, Technical, and Medical (STM) Journals and Its Implications addressed five key areas. The first two areas addressedcosts of publication and publication business …
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€45.13
Committee on Counterterrorism Challenges for Russia and the United States & National Research Council: Terrorism: Reducing Vulnerabilities and Improving Responses
This book is devoted primarily to papers prepared by American and Russian specialists on cyber terrorism and urban terrorism. It also includes papers on biological and radiological terrorism from the …
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€62.13
Committee on Women in Science and Engineering & National Research Council: Achieving XXcellence in Science
This report is the proceedings of a July 2002 workshop of the Committee on AXXS 2002: A Workshop for Clinical Societies to Enhance Women’s Contributions to Science and their Profession. The workshop …
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€41.84
Center for Education & Committee on Monitoring International Labor Standards: Monitoring International Labor Standards
This new report provides a framework within which to assess compliance with coreinternational labor standards and succeeds in taking an enormous step toward interpretingall relevant information into …
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€62.78
National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: Overcoming Impediments to U.S.-Russian Cooperation on Nuclear Nonproliferation
The U.S. National Academies and the Russian Academy of Sciences convened a joint workshop to identify methods of overcoming impediments to cooperation between the United States and Russia on nonproli …
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€45.65
Committee on the Use of Third Party Toxicity Research with Human Research Participants & National Research Council: Intentional Human Dosing Studies for EPA Regulatory Purposes
The EPA commissioned The National Academies to provide advice on the vexing question of whether and, if so, under what circumstances EPA should accept and consider intentional human dosing studies co …
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€70.77
Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education & National Research Council: Monitoring International Labor Standards
In February and March 2003, the Committee on Monitoring International Labor Standards (CMILS) of the National Research Council (NRC) convened regional forums in Costa Rica, Sri Lanka, and South Afric …
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€44.80
Board on Higher Education and Workforce & Committee on the Evaluation of the Lucille P. Markey Charitable Trust Programs in Biomedical Sciences: Bridging the Bed-Bench Gap
Since the 1970s there has been a serious gap between fundamental biological research and its clinical application. In response to this gap the Lucille P. Markey Charitable Trust instituted the Genera …
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€47.68
Committee on Conflict and Reconstruction in Multiethnic Societies & National Research Council: Conflict and Reconstruction in Multiethnic Societies
This report is the proceedings of a December 2001 international symposium in Washington, DC organized by the National Academies and the Russian Academy of Sciences. The symposium addressed (1) charac …
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€70.89
Committee on Research Standards and Practices to Prevent the Destructive Application of Biotechnology & National Research Council: Biotechnology Research in an Age of Terrorism
In recent years much has happened to justify an examination of biological researchin light of national security concerns. The destructive application of biotechnologyresearch includes activities such …
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€50.18
Board on International Scientific Organizations & National Research Council: Role of Scientific and Technical Data and Information in the Public Domain
This symposium brought together leading experts and managers from the public and private sectors who are involved in the creation, dissemination, and use of scientific and technical data and informat …
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€70.93
Committee on Intellectual Property Rights in the Knowledge-Based Economy & National Research Council: Patents in the Knowledge-Based Economy
This volume assembles papers commissioned by the National Research Council’s Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy (STEP) to inform judgments about the significant institutional and polic …
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€96.51
National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: Securing the Future
Based on the deliberations of a high-level international conference, this report summarizes the presentations of an exceptional group of experts, convened by Intel’s Chairman Emeritus Gordon Moore an …
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€95.69
Board on Radioactive Waste Management & Committee on End Points for Spent Nuclear Fuel and High-Level Radioactive Waste in Russia and the United States: End Points for Spent Nuclear Fuel and High-Level Radioactive Waste in Russia and the United States (eP
End Points for spent Nuclear Fuel and High-Level Radioactive Waste in Russian and the United States provides an analysis of the management of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste in Ru …
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€51.45
Ad Hoc Committee on Ensuring the Quality of Government Information & National Research Council: Ensuring the Quality of Data Disseminated by the Federal Government
The National Academies Science, Technology, and Law Program convened three workshops focusing on specific aspects of OMB’s "Guidelines for Ensuring and Maximizing the Quality, Objectivity, Utili …
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€46.31
Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education & National Research Council: Monitoring International Labor Standards
Over the past half century, the international flow of goods, services, and capital has grown rapidly. Globalization creates new economic, cultural, and social opportunities, but also poses the challe …
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€46.26
Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable & National Academy of Sciences: Envisioning a 21st Century Science and Engineering Workforce for the United States
At the request of the Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable (GUIRR), Shirley Ann Jackson, President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, presents in this brief paper her views of the cha …
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€37.12
National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: Government-Industry Partnerships for the Development of New Technologies
This report reviews a variety of partnership programs in the United States, and finds that partnerships constitute a vital positive element of public policy, helping to address major challenges and o …
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€57.61
Committee for Survey and Analysis of Science Advice on Sustainable Development to International Organizations & National Research Council: Knowledge and Diplomacy
In the international effort to advance human health, welfare, and development while better managing and conserving the environment and natural resources, there is a clear and growing recognition of t …
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€43.34
National Research Council & Panel on the Impact of Information Technology on the Future of the Research University: Preparing for the Revolution
The rapid evolution of information technology (IT) is transforming our society and its institutions. For the most knowledge-intensive entities of all, research universities, profound IT-related chall …
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€41.08
Chinese Academy of Engineering & National Academy of Engineering: Personal Cars and China
This collaborative study between the NRC and the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE) addresses the problems facing China in the next twenty years as it attempts to provide personal transport desired …
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€70.61
National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: Partnership for Solid-State Lighting
As part of its analysis of public-private partnerships, the Academies convened leading academic researchers, government officials and policy makers, and representatives from large and small firms to …
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€50.18
Center for Education & Committee on Attracting Science and Mathematics PhDs to K-12 Education: From Analysis to Implementation: Attracting PhDs to K-12 Education
The National Research Council (NRC) has undertaken a three-phase project to explore the possibility of a program to attract science, mathematics and engineering Ph Ds to careers in K-12 education. Th …
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€40.57
National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: Access to Research Data in the 21st Century
In the years since the Shelby Amendment, scientists, industry, and policy makers have struggled over how the public’s new right of access should be applied to scientific data. There is loose agreemen …
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€30.71
Committee on Confronting Terrorism in Russia & National Research Council: High-Impact Terrorism
In June 2001 the National Academies and the Russian Academy of Sciences held a bilateral workshop in Moscow on terrorism in a hightechnology society and modern methods to prevent and respond to it. T …
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€64.26
Board on International Scientific Organizations & Center for Education: Studying Classroom Teaching as a Medium for Professional Development
The Mathematical Sciences Education Board (MSEB) and the U.S. National Commission on Mathematics Instruction (USNCMI) took advantage of a unique opportunity to bring educators together. In August 200 …
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€62.92
Board on Life Sciences & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Scientific and Medical Aspects of Human Reproductive Cloning
Human reproductive cloning is an assisted reproductive technology that would be carried out with the goal of creating a newborn genetically identical to another human being. It is currently the subje …
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€49.44
National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: Measuring and Sustaining the New Economy
Sustaining the New Economy will require public policies that remain relevant to the rapid technological changes that characterize it. While data and its timely analysis are key to effective policy-ma …
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€77.04
National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: Capitalizing on New Needs and New Opportunities
This report addresses a topic of recognized policy concern. To capture the benefits of substantial U.S. investments in biomedical R&D, parallel investments in a wide range of seemingly unrelated disc …
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€90.43
National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: Age of Expert Testimony
The federal courts are seeking ways to increase the ability of judges to deal with difficult issues of scientific expert testimony. The workshop explored the new environment judges, plaintiffs, defen …
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€48.61
Committee on the Federal Science and Technology Budget & Institute of Medicine: Observations on the President’s Fiscal Year 2002 Federal Science and Technology Budget
Fourth in a series of annual reports, this study provides observations on the Administration’s FY 2002 budget proposal for federal science and technology (FS&T) programs. The report comments first on …
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€21.67
Committee on Trends in Federal Spending on Scientific and Engineering Research & National Research Council: Trends in Federal Support of Research and Graduate Education
The Board on Science, Technology and Economic Policy updated its 1999 analysis (Appendix A, Securing America’s Industrial Strength, 1999) of changes since 1990 in the distribution of federal research …
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€38.38
National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: Advanced Technology Program
This report examines the operations of the APT, reviews its extensive assessment program, and provides NRC Committee findings concerning the ATP’s operations and recommendations for potential improve …
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€83.46
Chinese Academy of Sciences & Indian National Science Academy: Growing Populations, Changing Landscapes
As the world’s population exceeds an incredible 6 billion people, governmentsand scientistseverywhere are concerned about the prospects for sustainable development. The science academies of the three …
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€61.45
National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: Review of the New Initiatives at the NASA Ames Research Center
NASA Ames Research Center, in the heart of Silicon Valley, is embarking on a program to develop a science and technology park bringing together leading companies and universities to capitalize on Ame …
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€50.97
Institute of Medicine & National Academy of Engineering: Implementing the Government Performance and Results Act for Research
As requested by Congress and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), this report assists federal agencies in crafting plans and reports that are responsive to the Government P …
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€60.86
National Research Council & Office of Special Projects: Issues for Science and Engineering Researchers in the Digital Age
This guide for students and faculty discusses opportunities and implications of conducting research in a digital environment. …
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€48.75
Committee on Women in Science and Engineering & National Academy of Sciences: Who Will Do the Science of the Future?
Who Will Do the Science of the Future? is the summary of a symposium on careers of women in science. The symposium incorporated three panels of presenters: one focusing on the next generation, Scienc …
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€41.06
National Research Council & Policy Division: Small Business Innovation Research Program
In 1992, Congress for the first time explicitly directed the federal agencies making SBIR grants to use commercial potential as a criterion for granting SBIR awards. In response, the Department of De …
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€83.20
National Research Council & Office of Scientific and Engineering Personnel: Forecasting Demand and Supply of Doctoral Scientists and Engineers
This report is the summary of a workshop conducted by the National Research Council in order to learn from both forecast makers and forecast users about improvements that can be made in understanding …
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€40.79
Committee on National Needs for Biomedical and Behavioral Scientists & Education and Career Studies Unit: Addressing the Nation’s Changing Needs for Biomedical and Behavioral Scientists
As biomedical and behavioral research progresses into new areas, the number of scientists active in various fields rises and falls, and the health needs of the U.S. population evolve, it is important …
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€51.58
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
Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable & Policy Division: Overcoming Barriers to Collaborative Research
This report summarizes discussions and insights from the workshop on Overcoming Barriers to Collaborative Research held March 23-24, 1998, in Irvine, California. The workshop was organized by the Gov …
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€30.42
Committee on Balancing Scientific Openness and National Security & Institute of Medicine: Balancing Scientific Openness and National Security Controls at the Nuclear Weapons Laboratories
This report addresses consequences of current and proposed restrictions on international contacts by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) national laboratories and explores methods of best serving n …
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€48.51
Board on Sustainable Development & National Research Council: Our Common Journey
World human population is expected to reach upwards of 9 billion by 2050 and then level off over the next half-century. How can the transition to a stabilizing population also be a transition to sust …
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€70.17
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
Board on Sustainable Development & Committee on Global Change Research: Global Environmental Change
How can we understand and rise to the environmental challenges of global change? One clear answer is to understand the science of global change, not solely in terms of the processes that control chan …
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€89.58
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
National Research Council & National Research Council: Linking Science and Technology to Society’s Environmental Goals
Where should the United States focus its long-term efforts to improve the nation’s environment? What are the nation’s most important environmental issues? What role should science and technology play …
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€76.80
Committee on Women in Science and Engineering & National Research Council: From Scarcity to Visibility
Although women have made important inroads in science and engineering since the early 1970s, their progress in these fields has stalled over the past several years. This study looks at women in scien …
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€63.04
Ad Hoc Panel on Graduate Attrition Advisory Committee & Board on Higher Education and Workforce: Path to the Ph.D.
There is a growing concern among educators and policymakers about the level of attrition from Ph.D. programs in the sciences and humanities at some U.S. universities. Reliable estimates of graduate s …
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€41.27
Institute of Medicine & National Academy of Engineering: Careers in Science and Engineering
As science and technology advance, the needs of employers change, and these changes continually reshape the job market for scientists and engineers. Such shifts present challenges for students as the …
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€25.72
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
National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: Assessment of the SBIR Program at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program is one of the largest examples of U.S. public-private partnerships. Founded in 1982, SBIR was designed to encourage small business to develop new …
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€115.22
Committee on International Security and Arms Control & Joint Committees on the Future of the Nuclear Security Environment in 2015: Future of the Nuclear Security Environment in 2015
The U.S. National Academies (NAS) and the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), building on a foundation of years of interacademy cooperation, conducted a joint project to identify U.S. and Russian view …
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€70.62
Committee on Counterterrorism Challenges for Russia and the United States & National Academy of Sciences: Countering Terrorism
This book presents the proceedings of the fourth U.S.-Russian interacademy workshop on the general theme of countering terrorism, which was held in Moscow in March 2007. The fourth in a series, this …
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€70.78
Committee on Cleaning Up of Radioactive Contamination: Russian Challenges and U.S. Experience & National Research Council: Cleaning Up Sites Contaminated with Radioactive Materials
This publication features papers presented at the Workshop on Cleaning Up Sites Contaminated with Radioactive Materials, held in Moscow in June 2007. This activity was organized by the National Acade …
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€70.62
Board on International Scientific Organizations & Committee on International Outreach Activities on Biosecurity: 2nd International Forum on Biosecurity
The 2nd International Forum on Biosecurity, held in Budapest, Hungary on March 30 – April 2, 2008, represents the efforts of a number of individuals and organizations, over the last five years, to en …
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€52.88
Committee on Partnerships for Emerging Research Institutions & National Academy of Engineering: Partnerships for Emerging Research Institutions
Constituting one-third of all U.S. institutions of higher education, emerging research institutions (ERIs) are crucial to sustaining the nation’s technological competitiveness through innovation and …
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€30.42
National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: Assessment of the SBIR Program at the National Institutes of Health
The SBIR program allocates 2.5 percent of 11 federal agencies’ extramural R&D budgets to fund R&D projects by small businesses, providing approximately $2 billion annually in competitive awards. At t …
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€154.06
National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: Assessment of the SBIR Program
The SBIR program allocates 2.5 percent of 11 federal agencies’ extramural R&D budgets to fund R&D projects by small businesses, providing approximately $2 billion annually in competitive awards. At t …
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€109.13
Committee on Evaluation of USAID Democracy Assistance Programs & National Research Council: Improving Democracy Assistance
Over the past 25 years, the United States has made support for the spread of democracy to other nations an increasingly important element of its national security policy. These efforts have created a …
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€70.57
National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: Assessment of the SBIR Program at the Department of Energy
The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program is one of the largest examples of U.S. public-private partnerships. Founded in 1982, SBIR was designed to encourage small business to develop new …
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€76.80
Committee on Comparative Innovation Policy: Best Practice for the 21st Century & National Research Council: Innovative Flanders
Recognizing that innovation is the key to international competitiveness in the 21st century, policymakers around the world are seeking more effective ways to translate scientific and technological kn …
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€64.32
National Research Council & Office for Central Europe and Eurasia: Science as a Gateway to Understanding
In October 2007, the U.S. National Academies and the Iranian Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Science organized the first of a series of planned U.S.-Iranian workshops on the topic "Scien …
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€56.47
Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology & Committee on Evaluating the Efficiency of Research and Development Programs at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: Evaluating Research Efficiency in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
A new book from the National Research Council recommends changes in how the federal government evaluates the efficiency of research at EPA and other agencies. Assessing efficiency should be considere …
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€49.44
Committee on the U.S.-Iran Workshop on Science and Technology and the Future Development of Societies & National Research Council: Science and Technology and the Future Development of Societies
In June 2006, seventeen scientists and educators selected by the National Academies, the Academy of Sciences of Iran, and the Acadmie des Sciences of France held a workshop at the estate of the Fonda …
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€48.89
Committee to Review the United States Institute of Peace Senior Fellows Program & National Research Council: Assessing the United States Institute of Peace Jennings Randolph Senior Fellowship
The United States Institute of Peace (USIP) is an independent, nonpartisan, national institution established and funded by the U.S. Congress. The goals of the USIP are to help prevent and resolve vio …
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€42.52
Food and Nutrition Board & Institute of Medicine: Foodborne Disease and Public Health
The Institute of Medicine’s Food and Nutrition Board and the National Research Council’s Policy and Global Affairs Division convened a workshop in Washington, D.C., entitled Foodborne Disease and Pub …
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€42.36
Board on International Scientific Organizations & Committee on International Collaborations in Social and Behavioral Sciences Research: International Collaborations in Behavioral and Social Sciences
Based on the outcomes of a workshop convened by the U.S. National Committee for Psychological Science and informed by a survey of social scientists who have led cross-national projects, this National …
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€39.40
Chinese Academy of Engineering & Chinese Academy of Sciences: Energy Futures and Urban Air Pollution
The United States and China are the top two energy consumers in the world. As a consequence, they are also the top two emitters of numerous air pollutants which have local, regional, and global impac …
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€102.94
National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: Assessment of the SBIR Program at the National Science Foundation
The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program is one of the largest examples of U.S. public-private partnerships. Founded in 1982, SBIR was designed to encourage small business to develop new …
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€102.72
Committee on Comparative Innovation Policy: Best Practice for the 21st Century & National Research Council: India’s Changing Innovation System
As part of its review of Comparative National Innovation Policies: Best Practice for the 21st Century, the Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy convened a major symposium in Washington t …
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Committee on Comparative Innovation Policy: Best Practice for the 21st Century & National Research Council: Innovation Policies for the 21st Century
To mark the opening of a study of Comparative Innovation Policy: Best Practice for the 21st Century the Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy (STEP) convened a symposium providing an over …
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National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: SBIR and the Phase III Challenge of Commercialization
In response to a Congressional mandate, the National Research Council conducted a review of the Small Business Innovation Research Program (SBIR) at the five federal agencies with SBIR programs with …
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Board on Higher Education and Workforce & Committee on Approaches for the Evaluation of the NIST: Approaches for Evaluating the NRC Resident Research Associateship Program at NIST
The NRC Resident Research Associateship Program at NIST provides two-year temporary appointments for outstanding scientists and engineers. This book describes program applicants and awardees and offe …
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€56.09
Committee on Measuring and Sustaining the New Economy & National Research Council: Enhancing Productivity Growth in the Information Age
This report summarizes a workshop Strengthening Science-Based Decision-Making: Implementing the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants held June 7-10, 2004, in Beijing, China. The pres …
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€53.75
National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: Agricultural Water Management
This report contains a collection of papers from a workshop Strengthening Science-Based Decision-Making for Sustainable Management of Scarce Water Resources for Agricultural Production, held in Tunis …
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€52.70
Committee on Creation of Science-Based Industries in Developing Countries & National Research Council: Mobilizing Science-Based Enterprises for Energy, Water, and Medicines in Nigeria
Developed in collaboration with the Nigerian Academy of Science, this report explores the ways in which science-based private enterprises can be created and encouraged in Nigeria and other developing …
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€50.17
Computer Science and Telecommunications Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Strategic Management of Information and Communication Technology
Although Y2K did not result in major disruptions, the event is a rich source of critical lessons for strategic management of information and communication technology (ICT), many of which apply to lar …
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€48.79
Committee on Science and Technology in Kazakhstan & National Research Council: Science and Technology in Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan has an ambitious program to increase its technological competitiveness in the global market place during the next few years, but achieving success will depend in large measure on the effec …
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€47.68
National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: Sustainable Management of Groundwater in Mexico
This report contains a collection of papers presented at a workshop in Merida, Mexico Strengthening Science-Based Decision Making: Sustainable Management of Groundwater in Mexico. The cross-cutting t …
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€45.04
Committee on Prevention of Proliferation of Biological Weapons & National Research Council: Biological Threat Reduction Program of the Department of Defense
This Congressionally-mandated report identifies areas for further cooperation with Russia and other states of the former Soviet Union under the Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) program of the Depar …
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€43.52
Committee on a New Government-University Partnership for Science and Security & National Research Council: Science and Security in a Post 9/11 World
Based on a series of regional meetings on university campuses with officials from the national security community and academic research institutions, this report identifies specific actions that shou …
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€43.63
Committee on the Design of an NSF Innovation Prize & National Research Council: Innovation Inducement Prizes at the National Science Foundation
Following a congressional directive in its FY 2006 Appropriations Act, the National Science Foundation asked the STEP Board to "propose a plan for administering prizes to individuals or teams th …
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€30.79
National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: Implementing the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants
This report summarizes a workshop Strengthening Science-Based Decision-Making: Implementing the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants held June 7-10, 2004, in Beijing, China. The pres …
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€21.95
Committee on Counterterrorism Challenges for Russia and the United States & National Research Council: Countering Urban Terrorism in Russia and the United States
In January-February 2005, the National Academies Committee on Counterterrorism Challenges for Russia and the United States and the Russian Academy of Sciences Standing Committee on Counterterrorism h …
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€56.61
Committee on Measuring and Sustaining the New Economy & National Research Council: Software, Growth, and the Future of the U.S Economy
Starting in the mid 1990s, the United States economy experienced an unprecedented upsurge in economic productivity. Rapid technological change in communications, computing, and information management …
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€70.93
Committee on Measuring and Sustaining the New Economy & Committee on The Telecommunications Challenge: Changing Technologies and Evolving Policies: Telecommunications Challenge
Starting in the mid 1990s, the United States economy experienced an unprecedented upsurge in economic productivity. Rapid technological change in communications, computing, and information management …
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€70.89
Food and Agriculture Organization & National Research Council: Food Safety and Foodborne Disease Surveillance Systems
In October 2004 the Research Center for Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases of Shaheed Beheshti University hosted in Tehran an Iranian-American workshop on Food Safety and Surveillance Systems for Fo …
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€63.74
Board on Higher Education and Workforce & Committee for the Evaluation of the Lucille P. Markey Charitable Trust Programs in Biomedical Sciences: Enhancing Philanthropy’s Support of Biomedical Scientists
During an interval of 15 years, the Lucille P. Markey Charitable Trust spent over $500 million on four programs in the basic biomedical sciences that support the education and research of graduate st …
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€49.96
Board on Higher Education and Workforce & Committee for the Evaluation of the Lucille P. Markey Charitable Trust Programs in Biomedical Sciences: Funding Biomedical Research Programs
During an interval of 15 years, the Lucille P. Markey Charitable Trust spent over $500 million on four programs in the basic biomedical sciences that support the education and research of graduate st …
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€48.18
National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: Linking Knowledge with Action for Sustainable Development
This report summarizes a workshop organized by the National Academies’ Roundtable on Science and Technology for Sustainability. The workshop brought together a select group of program managers from t …
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€47.51
Board on Higher Education and Workforce & Committee for the Evaluation of the Lucille P. Markey Charitable Trust Programs in Biomedical Sciences: Evaluation of the Markey Scholars Program
One of five in a series evaluating the grant programs of the Lucille P. Markey Charitable Trust, this report examines the Markey Scholars Awards in Biomedical Sciences. The Scholars program awarded m …
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€46.30
Committee on Innovation Models for Aerospace Technologies & National Research Council: Aeronautics Innovation
NASA is a global leader in aeronautics research and development fostering advances in aviation safety and emissions, propulsion technology, and many other areas. And the agency’s Aeronautics Research …
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€42.34
Committee on Daubert Standards & National Research Council: Discussion of the Committee on Daubert Standards
In 1993, the U.S. Supreme Court in Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc., laid out a new test for federal trial judges to use when determining the admissibility of expert testimony. In Daubert …
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€21.82
Emory University & Georgia Institute of Technology: Here or There?
In this report to the Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable, authors Jerry Thursby and Marie Thursby summarize their research on the globalization of corporate R&D. The authors surveyed …
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€21.59
Committee on the Scientific Aspects of an International Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage Facility in Russia & National Research Council: International Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage Facility
As part of a long-standing collaboration on nuclear nonproliferation, the National Academy of Sciences and the Russian Academy of Sciences held a joint workshop in Moscow in 2003 on the scientific as …
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€82.84
Academy of Sciences of the Islamic Republic of Iran & Committee on US-Iranian Workshop on Water Conservation and Recycling: Water Conservation, Reuse, and Recycling
In December 2002, a group of specialists on water resources from the United States and Iran met in Tunis, Tunisia, for an interacademy workshop on water resources management, conservation, and recycl …
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€76.47
Committee on International Security and Arms Control & National Research Council: Monitoring Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear-Explosive Materials
In this study, CISAC tackles the technical dimensions of a longstanding controversy: To what extent could existing and plausibly attainable measures for transparency and monitoring make possible the …
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€58.12
Board on Higher Education and Workforce & Committee for the Assessment of NIH Minority Research Training Programs: Assessment of NIH Minority Research and Training Programs
This report provides an assessment of NIH’s programs for increasing the participation in biomedical science of individuals from underrepresented minority groups. The report examines, using available …
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€70.77
Board on Higher Education and Workforce & Committee on Policy Implications of International Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Scholars in the United States: Policy Implications of International Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Scholars in the United St
Policy Implications of International Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Scholars in the United States explores the role and impact of students and scholars on US educational institutions and the US e …
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€61.70
National Research Council & Office for Central Europe and Eurasia: Biological Science and Biotechnology in Russia
In July 2005, the National Academies released the report Biological Science and Biotechnology in Russia: Controlling Diseases and Enhancing Security. The report offered a number of recommendations th …
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€58.63
Committee on Deconstructing the Computer & Committee on Measuring and Sustaining the New Economy: Deconstructing the Computer
Starting in the mid 1990s, the United States economy experienced an unprecedented upsurge in economic productivity. Rapid technological change in communications, computing, and information management …
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€56.40
National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: Strengthening U.S.-Russian Cooperation on Nuclear Nonproliferation
Strengthening U.S.-Russian Cooperation on Nuclear Nonproliferation: Recommendations for Action offers the consensus findings and recommendations of a joint committee established by the U.S. National …
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€52.30
Board on Global Health & Committee on Advances in Technology and the Prevention of Their Application to Next Generation Biowarfare Threats: International Perspective on Advancing Technologies and Strategies for Managing Dual-Use Risks
As part of a study of current and future research in the life sciences that contains applications relevant to development of agents of biological origin 5 to 10 years into the future, an NRC/IOM comm …
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€52.95
Committee on Indigenization of Programs to Prevent Leakage of Plutonium and Highly Enriched Uranium from Russian Facilities & National Research Council: Strengthening Long-Term Nuclear Security
In July 2005, the National Academies released the report Strengthening Long-term Nuclear Security: Protecting Weapon-Usable Material in Russia. The report highlighted several obstacles in the transit …
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€48.64
Committee on Innovating for Profit in Russia: Encouraging a & National Research Council: Innovating for Profit in Russia
The National Research Council hosted an interacademy workshop in Yekaterinburg, Russia together with the Russian Academy of Sciences in October 2004 as a means of exploring various aspects of industr …
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€30.48
National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: Protection, Control, and Accounting of Nuclear Materials
The U.S. and Russian academies convened a workshop in 2003 for sharing best practices in nuclear materials protection, control, and accounting (MPCA), including the status and application of remote m …
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€30.81
National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: Research and Development Data Needs
This report contains the proceedings of a one-day workshop organized by the National Research Council’s Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy (STEP), in conjunction with a study by a pane …
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€30.71
Board on Manufacturing and Engineering Design & Committee on National Laboratories and Universities: National Laboratories and Universities
This volume is a report of a workshop held in 2003 to address best practices and remaining challenges with respect to national laboratory-university collaborations. …
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€30.92
Chinese Academy of Engineering & Chinese Academy of Sciences: Urbanization, Energy, and Air Pollution in China
In October 2003, a group of experts met in Beijing under the auspices of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Engineering, and National Academy of Engineering (NAE)/National Research C …
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€77.20
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Committee on Setting Priorities for NSF-Sponsored Large Research Facility Projects: Setting Priorities for Large Research Facility Projects Supported by the National Science Foundation
In 1995, the National Science Foundation (NSF) created a special account to fund large (several tens of millions of dollars) research facilities. Over the years, these facilities have come to represe …
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€70.93
Board on International Scientific Organizations & National Research Council: Open Access and the Public Domain in Digital Data and Information for Science
This symposium, which was held on March 10-11, 2003, at UNESCO headquarters in Paris, brought together policy experts and managers from the government and academic sectors in both developed and devel …
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€60.86
Board on Higher Education and Workforce & Committee for the Evaluation of the Lucille P. Markey Programs in Biomedical Sciences: Markey Scholars Conference
This is the second of five reports to emerge from the evaluation of the Markey Trust. As part of this assessment, the NRC hosted a scientific conference for Markey Scholars and Visiting Fellows in Ri …
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€46.21
Glenn E. Schweitzer & National Research Council: Scientists, Engineers, and Track-Two Diplomacy
This report is intended to provide a brief historical perspective of the evolution of the interacademy program during the past half-century, recognizing that many legacies of the Soviet era continue …
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€54.86
Committee on Intellectual Property Rights in the Knowledge-Based Economy & National Research Council: Patent System for the 21st Century
The U.S. patent system is in an accelerating race with human ingenuity and investments in innovation. In many respects the system has responded with admirable flexibility, but the strain of continual …
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€50.03
Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education & National Research Council: Monitoring International Labor Standards: Human Capital Investment
An increasingly globalized world economy creates new economic, cultural, and social opportunities. Globalization also poses the challenge of ensuring that workers throughout the world share in these …
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€30.81
Board on International Scientific Organizations & National Research Council: Scientific Data for Decision Making Toward Sustainable Development: Senegal River Basin Case Study
Scientific databases relating to the environment, natural resources, and public health on the African continent are, for various reasons, difficult to create and manage effectively. Yet the creation …
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Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education & National Research Council: Monitoring International Labor Standards
The NRC has convened the Committee on Monitoring International Labor Standards to provide expert, science-based advice on monitoring compliance with international labor standards. The committee held …
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€48.89
Committee on Small Innovative Firms in Russian Nuclear Cities & National Research Council: Successes and Difficulties of Small Innovative Firms in Russian Nuclear Cities
This workshop report focuses on successes and failures of small innovative firms in five science cities in Russia. The workshop was organized by the NRC with the cooperation of Minatom. …
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€76.99
National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: Using Human Resource Data to Track Innovation
Despite the fact that technology is embodied in human as well as physical capital and that interactions among technically trained people are critical to innovation and technology diffusion, data on s …
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Committee on International Security and Arms Control & Committee on Technical Issues Related to Ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty: Technical Issues Related to the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
Drawing upon the considerable existing body of technical material related to the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, the National Academy of Sciences reviewed and assessed the key technical issues that ar …
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Board on Health Care Services & Institute of Medicine: Medical Innovation in the Changing Healthcare Marketplace
A wave of new health care innovation and growing demand for health care, coupled with uncertain productivity improvements, could severely challenge efforts to control future health care costs. A comm …
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€30.79
Committee on Improving the Effectiveness of Environmental Nongovernmental Organizations in Russia & National Research Council: Role of Environmental NGOs: Russian Challenges, American Lessons
An NRC committee was established to work with a Russian counterpart group in conducting a workshop in Moscow on the effectiveness of Russian environmental NGOs in environmental decision-making and pr …
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€83.83
Institute of Medicine & National Academy of Engineering: Science and Technology in the National Interest
This report is the second edition of the 1992 COSEPUP report "Science and Technology Leadership in American Government: Ensuring the Best Presidential Appointments." As was the case with th …
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€15.43
Policy and Global Affairs: Convergence of Science and Law
This report is a summary of the first meeting of the Science, Technology, and Law Panel. The Policy Division of the National Research Council established the panel to bring the science and engineerin …
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€21.66
Committee on Global Change Research & National Research Council: Science of Regional and Global Change
This report is intended to promote a dialogue between the scientific community and the government officials who will lead our nation in the coming years on global change research. The first section o …
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Committee on National Statistics & Committee to Assess the Portfolio of The Division of Science Resources Studies of NSF: Measuring the Science and Engineering Enterprise
The science and engineering enterprise has continued to evolve, responding over the last decade to increased economic globalization, a post-cold war military, federal budget fluctuations, and structu …
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€52.76
Center for Education & Committee on Attracting Science and Mathematics Ph.D.s to Secondary School Teaching: Attracting Science and Mathematics Ph.D.s to Secondary School Education
The National Research Council conducted a study to identify a set of incentives that state governments and local school districts can use to attract Ph.D. scientists and mathematicians to secondary s …
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€57.89
National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: Industry-Laboratory Partnerships
The Sandia National Laboratories asked the Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy (STEP) to hold a one-day symposium to review Sandia’s proposal to develop a science and technology park. I …
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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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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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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
National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: Transitioning to Sustainability Through Research and Development on Ecosystem Services and Biofuels
The National Research Council’s Roundtable on Science and Technology for Sustainability hosted "Transitioning to Sustainability through Research and Development on Ecosystem Services and Biofuel …
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Committee on International Security and Arms Control & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Internationalization of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle
The so-called nuclear renaissance has increased worldwide interest in nuclear power. This potential growth also has increased, in some quarters, concern that nonproliferation considerations are not b …
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€64.34
Board on Health Care Services & Board on Health Sciences Policy: Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing
Today, scores of companies, primarily in the United States and Europe, are offering whole genome scanning services directly to the public. The proliferation of these companies and the services they o …
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€41.27
Chinese Academy of Engineering & Chinese Academy of Sciences: Power of Renewables
The United States and China are the world’s top two energy consumers and, as of 2010, the two largest economies. Consequently, they have a decisive role to play in the world’s clean energy future. Bo …
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Board on Life Sciences & Committee on Review of the Scientific Approaches Used During the FBI’s Investigation of the 2001 Bacillus anthracis Mailings: Review of the Scientific Approaches Used During the FBI’s Investigation of the 2001 Anthrax Letters (PDF
Less than a month after the September 11, 2001 attacks, letters containing spores of anthrax bacteria (Bacillus anthracis, or B. anthracis) were sent through the U.S. mail. Between October 4 and Nove …
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Board on International Scientific Organizations & Committee for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: A Symposium: Twenty-First Century Ecosystems
The two hundredth anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin, February 12, 2009, occurred at a critical time for the United States and the world. In honor of Darwin’s birthday, the National Research …
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Board on International Scientific Organizations & Committee for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: A Symposium: Twenty-First Century Ecosystems
The two hundredth anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin, February 12, 2009, occurred at a critical time for the United States and the world. In honor of Darwin’s birthday, the National Research …
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€41.07
Board on Higher Education and Workforce & National Research Council: Research Training in the Biomedical, Behavioral, and Clinical Research Sciences
Comprehensive research and a highly-trained workforce are essential for the improvement of health and health care both nationally and internationally. During the past 40 years the National Research S …
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€54.81
National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: Managing University Intellectual Property in the Public Interest
Thirty years ago federal policy underwent a major change through the Bayh-Dole Act of 1980, which fostered greater uniformity in the way research agencies treat inventions arising from the work they …
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Committee on Regional Approaches to Urban Sustainability & National Research Council: Pathways to Urban Sustainability
The U.S. population is more than 80 percent urban. Recognizing that many metropolitan areas in the United States have been experimenting with various approaches to sustainability, and that despite th …
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€21.19
Committee on Regional Approaches to Urban Sustainability & National Research Council: Pathways to Urban Sustainability
The U.S. population is more than 80 percent urban. Recognizing that many metropolitan areas in the United States have been experimenting with various approaches to sustainability, and that despite th …
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€21.74
Committee on Incorporating Sustainability in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency & National Research Council: Sustainability and the U.S. EPA
Sustainability is based on a simple and long-recognized factual premise: Everything that humans require for their survival and well-being depends, directly or indirectly, on the natural environment. …
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€41.67
Committee on Incorporating Sustainability in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency & National Research Council: Sustainability and the U.S. EPA
Sustainability is based on a simple and long-recognized factual premise: Everything that humans require for their survival and well-being depends, directly or indirectly, on the natural environment. …
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€38.49
Committee on the Development of the Third Edition of the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence & Federal Judicial Center: Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence
The Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence, Third Edition, assists judges in managing cases involving complex scientific and technical evidence by describing the basic tenets of key scientific field …
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€78.73
Committee on the Development of the Third Edition of the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence & Federal Judicial Center: Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence
The Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence, Third Edition, assists judges in managing cases involving complex scientific and technical evidence by describing the basic tenets of key scientific field …
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€83.20
Board on Life Sciences & Committee on Review of the Scientific Approaches Used During the FBI’s Investigation of the 2001 Bacillus anthracis Mailings: Review of the Scientific Approaches Used During the FBI’s Investigation of the 2001 Anthrax Letters (ePU
Less than a month after the September 11, 2001 attacks, letters containing spores of anthrax bacteria (Bacillus anthracis, or B. anthracis) were sent through the U.S. mail. Between October 4 and Nove …
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€51.20
Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable & Institute of Medicine: Examining Core Elements of International Research Collaboration
The globalization of science, engineering, and medical research is proceeding rapidly. The globalization of research has important implications for the U.S. research enterprise, for the U.S. governme …
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€35.95
Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable & Institute of Medicine: Examining Core Elements of International Research Collaboration
The globalization of science, engineering, and medical research is proceeding rapidly. The globalization of research has important implications for the U.S. research enterprise, for the U.S. governme …
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€38.38
Committee on Comparative National Innovation Policies: Best Practice for the 21st Century & National Research Council: Building the 21st Century
The global economy is characterized by increasing locational competition to attract the resources necessary to develop leading-edge technologies as drivers of regional and national growth. One means …
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€47.52
Committee on Comparative National Innovation Policies: Best Practice for the 21st Century & National Research Council: Building the 21st Century
The global economy is characterized by increasing locational competition to attract the resources necessary to develop leading-edge technologies as drivers of regional and national growth. One means …
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€49.71
Committee on Underrepresented Groups and the Expansion of the Science and Engineering Workforce Pipeline & Institute of Medicine: Expanding Underrepresented Minority Participation
In order for the United States to maintain the global leadership and competitiveness in science and technology that are critical to achieving national goals, we must invest in research, encourage inn …
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€42.35
Committee on Measuring Economic and Other Returns on Federal Research Investments & Policy and Global Affairs: Measuring the Impacts of Federal Investments in Research
The enactment of the America COMPETES Act in 2006 (and its reauthorization in 2010), the increase in research expenditures under the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), and President …
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€53.41
Committee on Measuring Economic and Other Returns on Federal Research Investments & Policy and Global Affairs: Measuring the Impacts of Federal Investments in Research
The enactment of the America COMPETES Act in 2006 (and its reauthorization in 2010), the increase in research expenditures under the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), and President …
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€56.47
Board on Research Data and Information & National Research Council: Designing the Microbial Research Commons
Recent decades have witnessed an ever-increasing range and volume of digital data. All elements of the pillars of sciencewhether observation, experiment, or theory and modelingare being transformed b …
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Board on Research Data and Information & National Research Council: Designing the Microbial Research Commons
Recent decades have witnessed an ever-increasing range and volume of digital data. All elements of the pillars of sciencewhether observation, experiment, or theory and modelingare being transformed b …
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Committee on Competing in the 21st Century: Best Practice in State and Regional Innovation Initiatives & National Research Council: Clustering for 21st Century Prosperity
Responding to the challenges of fostering regional growth and employment in an increasingly competitive global economy, many U.S. states and regions have developed programs to attract and grow compan …
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€3.85
Committee on Competing in the 21st Century: Best Practice in State and Regional Innovation Initiatives & National Research Council: Clustering for 21st Century Prosperity
Responding to the challenges of fostering regional growth and employment in an increasingly competitive global economy, many U.S. states and regions have developed programs to attract and grow compan …
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€46.32
Committee on Competing in the 21st Century: Best Practice in State and Regional Innovation Initiatives & National Research Council: Building Hawaii’s Innovation Economy
Responding to the challenges of fostering regional growth and employment in an increasingly competitive global economy, many U.S. states and regions have developed programs to attract and grow compan …
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Committee on Competing in the 21st Century: Best Practice in State and Regional Innovation Initiatives & National Research Council: Building Hawaii’s Innovation Economy
Responding to the challenges of fostering regional growth and employment in an increasingly competitive global economy, many U.S. states and regions have developed programs to attract and grow compan …
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Committee on Improving Metrics for the Department of Defense & Committee on International Security and Arms Control: Improving Metrics for the Department of Defense Cooperative Threat Reduction Program
The Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) Program was created in 1991 as a set of support activities assisting the Former Soviet Union states in securing and eliminating strategic nuclear weapons and th …
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Committee on Improving Metrics for the Department of Defense & Committee on International Security and Arms Control: Improving Metrics for the Department of Defense Cooperative Threat Reduction Program
The Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) Program was created in 1991 as a set of support activities assisting the Former Soviet Union states in securing and eliminating strategic nuclear weapons and th …
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€39.79
Committee on Food Security for All as a Sustainability Challenge & National Research Council: Sustainability Challenge
The National Research Council’s Science and Technology for Sustainability Program hosted two workshops in 2011 addressing the sustainability challenges associated with food security for all. The firs …
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Committee on Food Security for All as a Sustainability Challenge & National Research Council: Sustainability Challenge
The National Research Council’s Science and Technology for Sustainability Program hosted two workshops in 2011 addressing the sustainability challenges associated with food security for all. The firs …
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€53.25
Committee on Global Science Policy and Science Diplomacy & National Research Council: U.S. and International Perspectives on Global Science Policy and Science Diplomacy
The United States and other countries around the world face problems of an increasingly global nature that often require major contributions from science and engineering that one nation alone cannot …
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€3.84
Committee on Global Science Policy and Science Diplomacy & National Research Council: U.S. and International Perspectives on Global Science Policy and Science Diplomacy
The United States and other countries around the world face problems of an increasingly global nature that often require major contributions from science and engineering that one nation alone cannot …
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€35.68
Board on Higher Education and Workforce & Policy and Global Affairs: Data-Based Assessment of Research-Doctorate Programs in the United States (with CD)
A Data-Based Assessment of Research-Doctorate Programs in the United States provides an unparalleled dataset that can be used to assess the quality and effectiveness of doctoral programs based on mea …
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€102.42
Committee on Competing in the 21st Century: Best Practice in State and Regional Innovation Initiatives & National Research Council: Future of Photovoltaics Manufacturing in the United States
Technological innovation and growth are critical to U.S. competitiveness in a global economy. One means of facilitating growth and improving competitiveness is to foster more robust innovation ecosys …
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€62.47
Committee on Competing in the 21st Century: Best Practice in State and Regional Innovation Initiatives & National Research Council: Growing Innovation Clusters for American Prosperity
Responding to the challenges of fostering regional growth and employment in an increasingly competitive global economy, many U.S. states and regions have developed programs to attract and grow compan …
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€45.04
Committee on Status and Participation of Women in STEM Disciplines and Careers & National Research Council: Blueprint for the Future
The scientific work of women is often viewed through a national or regional lens, but given the growing worldwide connectivity of most, if not all, scientific disciplines, there needs to be recogniti …
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€3.83
Committee on Status and Participation of Women in STEM Disciplines and Careers & National Research Council: Blueprint for the Future
The scientific work of women is often viewed through a national or regional lens, but given the growing worldwide connectivity of most, if not all, scientific disciplines, there needs to be recogniti …
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€41.16
Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology & Board on Higher Education and Workforce: Assuring a Future U.S.-Based Nuclear and Radiochemistry Expertise
The growing use of nuclear medicine, the potential expansion of nuclear power generation, and the urgent needs to protect the nation against external nuclear threats, to maintain our nuclear weapons …
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€3.83
Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology & Board on Higher Education and Workforce: Assuring a Future U.S.-Based Nuclear and Radiochemistry Expertise
The growing use of nuclear medicine, the potential expansion of nuclear power generation, and the urgent needs to protect the nation against external nuclear threats, to maintain our nuclear weapons …
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€57.61
Board on Life Sciences & Committee on Anticipating Biosecurity Challenges of the Global Expansion of High-Containment Biological Laboratories: Biosecurity Challenges of the Global Expansion of High-Containment Biological Laboratories
During July 10-13, 2011, 68 participants from 32 countries gathered in Istanbul, Turkey for a workshop organized by the United States National Research Council on Anticipating Biosecurity Challenges …
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€3.85
Board on Life Sciences & Committee on Anticipating Biosecurity Challenges of the Global Expansion of High-Containment Biological Laboratories: Biosecurity Challenges of the Global Expansion of High-Containment Biological Laboratories
During July 10-13, 2011, 68 participants from 32 countries gathered in Istanbul, Turkey for a workshop organized by the United States National Research Council on Anticipating Biosecurity Challenges …
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€47.15
Board on Life Sciences & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Positioning Synthetic Biology to Meet the Challenges of the 21st Century
Synthetic biologyunlike any research discipline that precedes ithas the potential to bypass the less predictable process of evolution to usher in a new and dynamic way of working with living systems. …
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€3.81
Board on Life Sciences & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Positioning Synthetic Biology to Meet the Challenges of the 21st Century
Synthetic biologyunlike any research discipline that precedes ithas the potential to bypass the less predictable process of evolution to usher in a new and dynamic way of working with living systems. …
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€38.51
Board on Health Sciences Policy & Division on Earth and Life Studies: International Animal Research Regulations
Animals are widely used in neuroscience research to explore biological mechanisms of nervous system function, to identify the genetic basis of disease states, and to provide models of human disorders …
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€3.80
Board on Health Sciences Policy & Division on Earth and Life Studies: International Animal Research Regulations
Animals are widely used in neuroscience research to explore biological mechanisms of nervous system function, to identify the genetic basis of disease states, and to provide models of human disorders …
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€35.83
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Improving Measures of Science, Technology, and Innovation
The National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES), at the U.S. National Foundation, is 1 of 14 major statistical agencies in the federal government, of which at least 5 collect relev …
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€3.85
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Improving Measures of Science, Technology, and Innovation
The National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES), at the U.S. National Foundation, is 1 of 14 major statistical agencies in the federal government, of which at least 5 collect relev …
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€32.08
Committee on Homeland Security and Export Controls & National Research Council: Export Control Challenges Associated with Securing the Homeland
The "homeland" security mission of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is paradoxical: Its mission space is uniquely focused on the domestic consequences of security threats, but thes …
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€3.83
Committee on Homeland Security and Export Controls & National Research Council: Export Control Challenges Associated with Securing the Homeland
The "homeland" security mission of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is paradoxical: Its mission space is uniquely focused on the domestic consequences of security threats, but thes …
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€35.85
Committee on Competing in the 21st Century: Best Practice in State and Regional Innovation Initiatives & National Research Council: Building the U.S. Battery Industry for Electric Drive Vehicles
Since 1991, the National Research Council, under the auspices of the Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy, has undertaken a program of activities to improve policymakers’ understandings …
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€3.83
Committee on Competing in the 21st Century: Best Practice in State and Regional Innovation Initiatives & National Research Council: Building the U.S. Battery Industry for Electric Drive Vehicles
Since 1991, the National Research Council, under the auspices of the Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy, has undertaken a program of activities to improve policymakers’ understandings …
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€51.58
Committee on Comparative National Innovation Policies: Best Practice for the 21st Century & National Research Council: Rising to the Challenge
America’s position as the source of much of the world’s global innovation has been the foundation of its economic vitality and military power in the post-war. No longer is U.S. pre-eminence assured a …
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€3.85
National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: From Science to Business
Scientists, engineers, and medical professionals play a vital role in building the 21st- century science and technology enterprises that will create solutions and jobs critical to solving the large, …
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€3.82
National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: From Science to Business
Scientists, engineers, and medical professionals play a vital role in building the 21st- century science and technology enterprises that will create solutions and jobs critical to solving the large, …
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€33.13
Board on Higher Education and Workforce & Committee on Research Universities: Research Universities and the Future of America
Research Universities and the Future of America presents critically important strategies for ensuring that our nation’s research universities contribute strongly to America’s prosperity, security, an …
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€3.84
Board on Higher Education and Workforce & Committee on Research Universities: Research Universities and the Future of America
Research Universities and the Future of America presents critically important strategies for ensuring that our nation’s research universities contribute strongly to America’s prosperity, security, an …
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€51.67
Board on Higher Education and Workforce & Board on Life Sciences: Community Colleges in the Evolving STEM Education Landscape
The National Research Council (NRC) and National Academy of Engineering (NAE) have released a new report, Community Colleges in the Evolving STEM Education Landscape: Summary of a Summit. Based on a …
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€3.82
Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources & Board on Higher Education and Workforce: Workforce Needs in Veterinary Medicine
The U.S. veterinary medical profession contributes to society in diverse ways, from developing drugs and protecting the food supply to treating companion animals and investigating animal diseases in …
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€3.84
Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources & Board on Higher Education and Workforce: Workforce Needs in Veterinary Medicine
The U.S. veterinary medical profession contributes to society in diverse ways, from developing drugs and protecting the food supply to treating companion animals and investigating animal diseases in …
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€63.04
Committee on Increasing National Resilience to Hazards and Disasters & National Academies: Disaster Resilience
No person or place is immune from disasters or disaster-related losses. Infectious disease outbreaks, acts of terrorism, social unrest, or financial disasters in addition to natural hazards can all l …
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€3.84
Committee on Increasing National Resilience to Hazards and Disasters & National Academies: Disaster Resilience
No person or place is immune from disasters or disaster-related losses. Infectious disease outbreaks, acts of terrorism, social unrest, or financial disasters in addition to natural hazards can all l …
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€51.07
Board on Higher Education and Workforce & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Assuring the U.S. Department of Defense a Strong Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Workforce
The ability of the nation’s military to prevail during future conflicts, and to fulfill its humanitarian and other missions, depends on continued advances in the nation’s technology base. A workforce …
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€3.84
Board on Higher Education and Workforce & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Assuring the U.S. Department of Defense a Strong Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Workforce
The ability of the nation’s military to prevail during future conflicts, and to fulfill its humanitarian and other missions, depends on continued advances in the nation’s technology base. A workforce …
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€46.31
Committee on Sustainability Linkages in the Federal Government & National Research Council: Sustainability for the Nation
A "sustainable society, " according to one definition, "is one that can persist over generations; one that is far-seeing enough, flexible enough, and wise enough not to undermine eithe …
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€3.85
Committee on Sustainability Linkages in the Federal Government & National Research Council: Sustainability for the Nation
A "sustainable society, " according to one definition, "is one that can persist over generations; one that is far-seeing enough, flexible enough, and wise enough not to undermine eithe …
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€47.51
Board on Global Science and Technology & Committee on Global Approaches to Advanced Computing: New Global Ecosystem in Advanced Computing
Computing and information and communications technology (ICT) has dramatically changed how we work and live, has had profound effects on nearly every sector of society, has transformed whole industri …
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€3.83
Board on Global Science and Technology & Committee on Global Approaches to Advanced Computing: New Global Ecosystem in Advanced Computing
Computing and information and communications technology (ICT) has dramatically changed how we work and live, has had profound effects on nearly every sector of society, has transformed whole industri …
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€42.06
Committee on Fostering Sustainability Considerations into Public and Private Sector Procurement Tools and Capabilities & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Sustainability Considerations for Procurement Tools and Capabilities
Federal laws, regulations, and executive orders have imposed requirements for federal agencies to move toward the sustainable acquisition of goods and services, including the incorporation of sustain …
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€3.84
Committee on Fostering Sustainability Considerations into Public and Private Sector Procurement Tools and Capabilities & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Sustainability Considerations for Procurement Tools and Capabilities
Federal laws, regulations, and executive orders have imposed requirements for federal agencies to move toward the sustainable acquisition of goods and services, including the incorporation of sustain …
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€38.68
Board on Global Science and Technology & National Research Council: Intelligent Human-Machine Collaboration
On June 12-14, 2012, the Board on Global Science and Technology held an international, multidisciplinary workshop in Washington, D.C., to explore the challenges and advances in intelligent human-mach …
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€3.85
Board on Global Science and Technology & National Research Council: Intelligent Human-Machine Collaboration
On June 12-14, 2012, the Board on Global Science and Technology held an international, multidisciplinary workshop in Washington, D.C., to explore the challenges and advances in intelligent human-mach …
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€30.71
Committee on Comparative National Innovation Policies: Best Practice for the 21st Century & National Research Council: Meeting Global Challenges
While nations have always competed for territory, mineral riches, water, and other physical assets, they compete most vigorously today for technology-based innovations and the value that flows from t …
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€3.80
Committee on Comparative National Innovation Policies: Best Practice for the 21st Century & National Research Council: Meeting Global Challenges
While nations have always competed for territory, mineral riches, water, and other physical assets, they compete most vigorously today for technology-based innovations and the value that flows from t …
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€51.36
Committee on Competing in the 21st Century: Best Practice in State and Regional Innovation Initiatives & National Research Council: Building the Arkansas Innovation Economy
A committee under the auspices of the Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy (STEP), is conducting a study of selected state and regional programs in order to identify best practices with …
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€3.85
Committee on Competing in the 21st Century: Best Practice in State and Regional Innovation Initiatives & National Research Council: Building the Arkansas Innovation Economy
A committee under the auspices of the Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy (STEP), is conducting a study of selected state and regional programs in order to identify best practices with …
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€45.89
Committee on Competing in the 21st Century: Best Practice in State and Regional Innovation Initiatives & National Research Council: Building the Ohio Innovation Economy
Since 1991, the National Research Council, under the auspices of the Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy, has undertaken a program of activities to improve policymakers’ understandings …
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€3.82
Committee on Competing in the 21st Century: Best Practice in State and Regional Innovation Initiatives & National Research Council: Building the Ohio Innovation Economy
Since 1991, the National Research Council, under the auspices of the Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy, has undertaken a program of activities to improve policymakers’ understandings …
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€47.50
Board on Research Data and Information & National Research Council: For Attribution
The growth of electronic publishing of literature has created new challenges, such as the need for mechanisms for citing online references in ways that can assure discoverability and retrieval for ma …
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€3.83
Board on Research Data and Information & National Research Council: For Attribution
The growth of electronic publishing of literature has created new challenges, such as the need for mechanisms for citing online references in ways that can assure discoverability and retrieval for ma …
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€50.08
Board on Earth Sciences and Resources & Board on Higher Education and Workforce: Emerging Workforce Trends in the U.S. Energy and Mining Industries
Energy and mineral resources are essential for the nation’s fundamental functions, its economy, and security. Nonfuel minerals are essential for the existence and operations of products that are used …
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€3.85
Board on Earth Sciences and Resources & Board on Higher Education and Workforce: Emerging Workforce Trends in the U.S. Energy and Mining Industries
Energy and mineral resources are essential for the nation’s fundamental functions, its economy, and security. Nonfuel minerals are essential for the existence and operations of products that are used …
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€70.23
Board on Global Health & Board on Life Sciences: Perspectives on Research with H5N1 Avian Influenza
When, in late 2011, it became public knowledge that two research groups had submitted for publication manuscripts that reported on their work on mammalian transmissibility of a lethal H5N1 avian infl …
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€3.82
Board on Global Health & Board on Life Sciences: Perspectives on Research with H5N1 Avian Influenza
When, in late 2011, it became public knowledge that two research groups had submitted for publication manuscripts that reported on their work on mammalian transmissibility of a lethal H5N1 avian infl …
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€41.08
Board on Research Data and Information & National Research Council: Future of Scientific Knowledge Discovery in Open Networked Environments
Digital technologies and networks are now part of everyday work in the sciences, and have enhanced access to and use of scientific data, information, and literature significantly. They offer the prom …
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€3.84
Board on Research Data and Information & National Research Council: Future of Scientific Knowledge Discovery in Open Networked Environments
Digital technologies and networks are now part of everyday work in the sciences, and have enhanced access to and use of scientific data, information, and literature significantly. They offer the prom …
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€50.26
Board on Earth Sciences and Resources & Board on Higher Education and Workforce: Future U.S. Workforce for Geospatial Intelligence
We live in a changing world with multiple and evolving threats to national security, including terrorism, asymmetrical warfare (conflicts between agents with different military powers or tactics), an …
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€3.85
Committee on U.S.-Russia Bioengagement & National Research Council: Unique U.S.-Russian Relationship in Biological Science and Biotechnology
In the fall of 2010, the U.S. National Academies (consisting of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine) and the Russian Academy of Scienc …
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€3.84
Committee on U.S.-Russia Bioengagement & National Research Council: Unique U.S.-Russian Relationship in Biological Science and Biotechnology
In the fall of 2010, the U.S. National Academies (consisting of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine) and the Russian Academy of Scienc …
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€56.62
Committee on Competing in the 21st Century: Best Practice in State and Regional Innovation Initiatives & National Research Council: Building the Illinois Innovation Economy
Responding to the challenges of fostering regional growth and employment in an increasingly competitive global economy, many U.S. states and regions have developed programs to attract and grow compan …
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€3.84
Committee on Competing in the 21st Century: Best Practice in State and Regional Innovation Initiatives & National Research Council: Building the Illinois Innovation Economy
Responding to the challenges of fostering regional growth and employment in an increasingly competitive global economy, many U.S. states and regions have developed programs to attract and grow compan …
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€48.63
Committee on the Impact of Copyright Policy on Innovation in the Digital Era & National Research Council: Copyright in the Digital Era
Over the course of several decades, copyright protection has been expanded and extended through legislative changes occasioned by national and international developments. The content and technology i …
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€3.84
Committee on the Impact of Copyright Policy on Innovation in the Digital Era & National Research Council: Copyright in the Digital Era
Over the course of several decades, copyright protection has been expanded and extended through legislative changes occasioned by national and international developments. The content and technology i …
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€37.26
Committee on the Effects of Provisions in the Internal Revenue Code on Greenhouse Gas Emissions & National Research Council: Effects of U.S. Tax Policy on Greenhouse Gas Emissions
The U.S. Congress charged the National Academies with conducting a review of the Internal Revenue Code to identify the types of and specific tax provisions that have the largest effects on carbon and …
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€3.84
Committee on the Effects of Provisions in the Internal Revenue Code on Greenhouse Gas Emissions & National Research Council: Effects of U.S. Tax Policy on Greenhouse Gas Emissions
The U.S. Congress charged the National Academies with conducting a review of the Internal Revenue Code to identify the types of and specific tax provisions that have the largest effects on carbon and …
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€51.47
Committee on Best Practice in National Innovation Programs for Flexible Electronics & National Research Council: Flexible Electronics for Security, Manufacturing, and Growth in the United States
Flexible Electronics for Security, Manufacturing, and Growth in the United States is the summary of a workshop convened in September 2010 by Policy and Global Affairs’ Board on Science, Technology, a …
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€3.81
Committee on Best Practice in National Innovation Programs for Flexible Electronics & National Research Council: Flexible Electronics for Security, Manufacturing, and Growth in the United States
Flexible Electronics for Security, Manufacturing, and Growth in the United States is the summary of a workshop convened in September 2010 by Policy and Global Affairs’ Board on Science, Technology, a …
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€42.24
Committee on 21st Century Manufacturing: The Role of the Manufacturing Extension Partnership Program of the National Institute of Standards and Technology & National Research Council: Strengthening American Manufacturing
The Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP)a program of the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)has sought for more than two decades to strengthen Ame …
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€3.83
Committee on 21st Century Manufacturing: The Role of the Manufacturing Extension Partnership Program of the National Institute of Standards and Technology & National Research Council: Strengthening American Manufacturing
The Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP)a program of the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)has sought for more than two decades to strengthen Ame …
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€45.13
Committee on Competing in the 21st Century: Best Practice in State and Regional Innovation Initiatives & National Research Council: Best Practices in State and Regional Innovation Initiatives
Most of the policy discussion about stimulating innovation has focused on the federal level. This study focuses on the significant activity at the state level, with the goal of improving the public’s …
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€3.84
Committee on Competing in the 21st Century: Best Practice in State and Regional Innovation Initiatives & National Research Council: Best Practices in State and Regional Innovation Initiatives
Most of the policy discussion about stimulating innovation has focused on the federal level. This study focuses on the significant activity at the state level, with the goal of improving the public’s …
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€53.59
Committee to Evaluate the Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) and Similar Federal Agency Programs & Institute of Medicine: Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research
The primary federal program designed to ensure that all states are capable of participating the nation’s research enterprise fall under the general rubric of the Experimental Program to Stimulate Com …
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€3.84
Committee to Evaluate the Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) and Similar Federal Agency Programs & Institute of Medicine: Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research
The primary federal program designed to ensure that all states are capable of participating the nation’s research enterprise fall under the general rubric of the Experimental Program to Stimulate Com …
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€47.60
Indonesian Academy of Sciences & Joint Committee on Reducing Maternal and Neonatal Mortality in Indonesia: Reducing Maternal and Neonatal Mortality in Indonesia
The Republic of Indonesia, home to over 240 million people, is the world’s fourth most populous nation. Ethnically, culturally, and economically diverse, the Indonesian people are broadly dispersed a …
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€3.85
Indonesian Academy of Sciences & Joint Committee on Reducing Maternal and Neonatal Mortality in Indonesia: Reducing Maternal and Neonatal Mortality in Indonesia
The Republic of Indonesia, home to over 240 million people, is the world’s fourth most populous nation. Ethnically, culturally, and economically diverse, the Indonesian people are broadly dispersed a …
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€42.34
Committee on 21st Century Manufacturing: The Role of the Manufacturing Extension Partnership Program of the National Institute of Standards and Technology & National Research Council: 21st Century Manufacturing
The Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) – a program of the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology – has sought for more than two decades to strengthen Amer …
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€3.81
Committee on 21st Century Manufacturing: The Role of the Manufacturing Extension Partnership Program of the National Institute of Standards and Technology & National Research Council: 21st Century Manufacturing
The Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) – a program of the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology – has sought for more than two decades to strengthen Amer …
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€77.02
Institute of Medicine & National Academy of Engineering: Trends in the Innovation Ecosystem
Innovation has been a major engine of American economic and societal progress. It has increased per capita income more than sevenfold since the 19th century, has added three decades to the average li …
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€3.84
Institute of Medicine & National Academy of Engineering: Trends in the Innovation Ecosystem
Innovation has been a major engine of American economic and societal progress. It has increased per capita income more than sevenfold since the 19th century, has added three decades to the average li …
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€33.45
Committee on Intellectual Property Management in Standard-Setting Processes & National Research Council: Patent Challenges for Standard-Setting in the Global Economy
Patent Challenges for Standard-Setting in the Global Economy: Lessons from Information and Communication Technology examines how leading national and multinational standard-setting organizations (SSO …
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€3.84
Committee on Intellectual Property Management in Standard-Setting Processes & National Research Council: Patent Challenges for Standard-Setting in the Global Economy
Patent Challenges for Standard-Setting in the Global Economy: Lessons from Information and Communication Technology examines how leading national and multinational standard-setting organizations (SSO …
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€46.31
Committee on Competing in the 21st Century: Best Practice in State and Regional Innovation Initiatives & National Research Council: New York’s Nanotechnology Model
New York’s Nanotechnology Model: Building the Innovation Economy is the summary of a 2013 symposium convened by the National Research Council Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy and mem …
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€3.84
Committee on Competing in the 21st Century: Best Practice in State and Regional Innovation Initiatives & National Research Council: New York’s Nanotechnology Model
New York’s Nanotechnology Model: Building the Innovation Economy is the summary of a 2013 symposium convened by the National Research Council Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy and mem …
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€50.26
Committee on Advancing Institutional Transformation for Minority Women in Academia & National Research Council: Seeking Solutions
Seeking Solutions: Maximizing American Talent by Advancing Women of Color in Academia is the summary of a 2013 conference convened by the Committee on Women in Science, Engineering and Medicine of th …
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€3.86
Committee on Advancing Institutional Transformation for Minority Women in Academia & National Research Council: Seeking Solutions
Seeking Solutions: Maximizing American Talent by Advancing Women of Color in Academia is the summary of a 2013 conference convened by the Committee on Women in Science, Engineering and Medicine of th …
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€59.71
Board on Research Data and Information & Committee on Future Career Opportunities and Educational Requirements for Digital Curation: Preparing the Workforce for Digital Curation
The massive increase in digital information in the last decade has created new requirements for institutional and technological structures and workforce skills. Preparing the Workforce for Digital Cu …
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€3.85
Board on Research Data and Information & Committee on Future Career Opportunities and Educational Requirements for Digital Curation: Preparing the Workforce for Digital Curation
The massive increase in digital information in the last decade has created new requirements for institutional and technological structures and workforce skills. Preparing the Workforce for Digital Cu …
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€37.30
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Capturing Change in Science, Technology, and Innovation
Since the 1950s, under congressional mandate, the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) – through its National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) and predecessor agencies – has pr …
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€3.84
Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Capturing Change in Science, Technology, and Innovation
Since the 1950s, under congressional mandate, the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) – through its National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) and predecessor agencies – has pr …
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€64.00
Institute of Medicine & National Academy of Engineering: Arc of the Academic Research Career
America’s research universities have undergone striking change in recent decades, as have many aspects of the society that surrounds them. This change has important implications for the heart of ever …
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Institute of Medicine & National Academy of Engineering: Arc of the Academic Research Career
America’s research universities have undergone striking change in recent decades, as have many aspects of the society that surrounds them. This change has important implications for the heart of ever …
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€42.36
Committee on Regional Approaches to Urban Sustainability: A Focus on Portland & National Research Council: Pathways to Urban Sustainability
Pathways to Urban Sustainability: Perspective from Portland and the Pacific Northwest is the summary of a workshop convened by the National Research Council’s Science and Technology for Sustainabilit …
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€3.85
Committee on Regional Approaches to Urban Sustainability: A Focus on Portland & National Research Council: Pathways to Urban Sustainability
Pathways to Urban Sustainability: Perspective from Portland and the Pacific Northwest is the summary of a workshop convened by the National Research Council’s Science and Technology for Sustainabilit …
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€43.65
Board on International Scientific Organizations & Board on Research Data and Information: Case for International Sharing of Scientific Data
The theme of this international symposium is the promotion of greater sharing of scientific data for the benefit of research and broader development, particularly in the developing world. This is an …
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€3.84
Board on International Scientific Organizations & Board on Research Data and Information: Case for International Sharing of Scientific Data
The theme of this international symposium is the promotion of greater sharing of scientific data for the benefit of research and broader development, particularly in the developing world. This is an …
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€46.50
Division on Earth and Life Studies & National Research Council: Best Practices for Risk-Informed Decision Making Regarding Contaminated Sites
The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management’s (EM) mission is the safe cleanup of sites associated with the government-led development of nuclear weapons and nuclear energy. While m …
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€3.84
Division on Earth and Life Studies & National Research Council: Best Practices for Risk-Informed Decision Making Regarding Contaminated Sites
The Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management’s (EM) mission is the safe cleanup of sites associated with the government-led development of nuclear weapons and nuclear energy. While m …
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€52.74
Committee on Career Outcomes of Female Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Recipients & National Academy of Engineering: Career Choices of Female Engineers
Despite decades of government, university, and employer efforts to close the gender gap in engineering, women make up only 11 percent of practicing engineers in the United States. What factors influe …
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€3.84
Committee on Career Outcomes of Female Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Recipients & National Academy of Engineering: Career Choices of Female Engineers
Despite decades of government, university, and employer efforts to close the gender gap in engineering, women make up only 11 percent of practicing engineers in the United States. What factors influe …
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€51.34
Board on Global Science and Technology & Committee on Globalization of Science and Technology: Opportunities and Challenges for the Department of Defense: Strategic Engagement in Global S&T
According to recent reports, the United States currently accounts for less than one-third of global research and development spending, and it is projected that this fraction will decline to 18% by 20 …
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€3.83
Board on Global Science and Technology & Committee on Globalization of Science and Technology: Opportunities and Challenges for the Department of Defense: Strategic Engagement in Global S&T
According to recent reports, the United States currently accounts for less than one-third of global research and development spending, and it is projected that this fraction will decline to 18% by 20 …
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€47.03
National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: SBIR at the Department of Defense
Created in 1982 through the Small Business Innovation Development Act, the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program remains the nation’s single largest innovation program for small business. …
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€3.84
National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: SBIR at the Department of Defense
Created in 1982 through the Small Business Innovation Development Act, the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program remains the nation’s single largest innovation program for small business. …
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€64.18
Board on Global Science and Technology & National Research Council: Complex Operational Decision Making in Networked Systems of Humans and Machines
Over the last two decades, computers have become omnipresent in daily life. Their increased power and accessibility have enabled the accumulation, organization, and analysis of massive amounts of dat …
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€3.84
Board on Global Science and Technology & National Research Council: Complex Operational Decision Making in Networked Systems of Humans and Machines
Over the last two decades, computers have become omnipresent in daily life. Their increased power and accessibility have enabled the accumulation, organization, and analysis of massive amounts of dat …
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€45.75
Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable & Institute of Medicine: Culture Matters
In an increasingly interconnected world, science and technology research often transects international boundaries and involves researchers from multiple nations. This paradigm provides both new oppor …
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€3.79
Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable & Institute of Medicine: Culture Matters
In an increasingly interconnected world, science and technology research often transects international boundaries and involves researchers from multiple nations. This paradigm provides both new oppor …
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€41.07
Committee on Law and Justice & Committee on Scientific Approaches to Understanding and Maximizing the Validity and Reliability of Eyewitness Identification in Law Enforcement and the Courts: Identifying the Culprit
Identifying the Culprit: Assessing Eyewitness Identification makes the case that better data collection and research on eyewitness identification, new law enforcement training protocols, standardized …
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€3.82
Committee on Law and Justice & Committee on Scientific Approaches to Understanding and Maximizing the Validity and Reliability of Eyewitness Identification in Law Enforcement and the Courts: Identifying the Culprit
Identifying the Culprit: Assessing Eyewitness Identification makes the case that better data collection and research on eyewitness identification, new law enforcement training protocols, standardized …
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€47.20
Policy and Global Affairs & Technology, and Economic Policy Board on Science: SBIR at the National Science Foundation
The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program is one of the largest examples of U.S. public-private partnerships, and was established in 1982 to encourage small businesses to develop new proc …
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€3.84
Policy and Global Affairs & Technology, and Economic Policy Board on Science: SBIR at the National Science Foundation
The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program is one of the largest examples of U.S. public-private partnerships, and was established in 1982 to encourage small businesses to develop new proc …
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€76.99
Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology & Committee on Scientific Tools and Approaches for Sustainability: Sustainability Concepts in Decision-Making
In its current strategic plan, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) describes a cross-agency strategy to advance sustainable environmental outcomes and optimize economic and social outcomes …
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€3.85
Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology & Committee on Scientific Tools and Approaches for Sustainability: Sustainability Concepts in Decision-Making
In its current strategic plan, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) describes a cross-agency strategy to advance sustainable environmental outcomes and optimize economic and social outcomes …
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€50.13
Committee on Pathways to Urban Sustainability: A Focus on the Houston Metropolitan Region & National Research Council: Pathways to Urban Sustainability
The workshop was convened to explore the region’s approach to urban sustainability, with an emphasis on building the evidence base upon which new policies and programs might be developed. Participant …
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€3.81
Committee on Pathways to Urban Sustainability: A Focus on the Houston Metropolitan Region & National Research Council: Pathways to Urban Sustainability
The workshop was convened to explore the region’s approach to urban sustainability, with an emphasis on building the evidence base upon which new policies and programs might be developed. Participant …
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€40.04
Board on International Scientific Organizations & National Research Council: Building Infrastructure for International Collaborative Research in the Social and Behavioral Sciences
In recent years, as science becomes increasingly international and collaborative, the importance of projects that involve research teams and research subjects from different countries has grown marke …
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€3.85
Board on International Scientific Organizations & National Research Council: Building Infrastructure for International Collaborative Research in the Social and Behavioral Sciences
In recent years, as science becomes increasingly international and collaborative, the importance of projects that involve research teams and research subjects from different countries has grown marke …
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€30.81
Gulf Research Program & National Research Council: Opportunities for the Gulf Research Program: Middle-Skilled Workforce Needs
During the period 1990 to 2010, U.S. job growth occurred primarily in the high-skilled and low-skilled sectors. Yet, one-third of projected job growth for the period 2010-2020 will require middle-ski …
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€3.84
Gulf Research Program & National Research Council: Opportunities for the Gulf Research Program: Middle-Skilled Workforce Needs
During the period 1990 to 2010, U.S. job growth occurred primarily in the high-skilled and low-skilled sectors. Yet, one-third of projected job growth for the period 2010-2020 will require middle-ski …
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€29.46
Committee to Review the State of Postdoctoral Experience in Scientists and Engineers & Institute of Medicine: Postdoctoral Experience Revisited
The Postdoctoral Experience Revisited builds on the 2000 report Enhancing the Postdoctoral Experience for Scientists and Engineers. That ground-breaking report assessed the postdoctoral experience an …
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€3.85
Committee to Review the State of Postdoctoral Experience in Scientists and Engineers & Institute of Medicine: Postdoctoral Experience Revisited
The Postdoctoral Experience Revisited builds on the 2000 report Enhancing the Postdoctoral Experience for Scientists and Engineers. That ground-breaking report assessed the postdoctoral experience an …
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€52.53
Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources & Committee on Considerations for the Future of Animal Science Research: Critical Role of Animal Science Research in Food Security and Sustainability
By 2050 the world’s population is projected to grow by one-third, reaching between 9 and 10 billion. With globalization and expected growth in global affluence, a substantial increase in per capita m …
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€3.81
Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources & Committee on Considerations for the Future of Animal Science Research: Critical Role of Animal Science Research in Food Security and Sustainability
By 2050 the world’s population is projected to grow by one-third, reaching between 9 and 10 billion. With globalization and expected growth in global affluence, a substantial increase in per capita m …
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€83.63
Committee on High-Skilled Immigration Policy and the Global Competition for Talent & Policy and Global Affairs: Immigration Policy and the Search for Skilled Workers
The market for high-skilled workers is becoming increasingly global, as are the markets for knowledge and ideas. While high-skilled immigrants in the United States represent a much smaller proportion …
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€3.83
Committee on High-Skilled Immigration Policy and the Global Competition for Talent & Policy and Global Affairs: Immigration Policy and the Search for Skilled Workers
The market for high-skilled workers is becoming increasingly global, as are the markets for knowledge and ideas. While high-skilled immigrants in the United States represent a much smaller proportion …
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€57.74
Committee on Measures of Community Resilience: From Lessons Learned to Lessons Applied & National Research Council: Developing a Framework for Measuring Community Resilience
The 2012 National Research Council report Disaster Resilience: A National Imperative highlighted the challenges of increasing national resilience in the United States. One finding of the report was t …
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€3.83
Committee on Measures of Community Resilience: From Lessons Learned to Lessons Applied & National Research Council: Developing a Framework for Measuring Community Resilience
The 2012 National Research Council report Disaster Resilience: A National Imperative highlighted the challenges of increasing national resilience in the United States. One finding of the report was t …
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€43.82
Board on Health Sciences Policy & Board on Life Sciences: Potential Risks and Benefits of Gain-of-Function Research
On October 17, 2014, spurred by incidents at U.S. government laboratories that raised serious biosafety concerns, the United States government launched a one-year deliberative process to address the …
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€3.85
Board on Health Sciences Policy & Board on Life Sciences: Potential Risks and Benefits of Gain-of-Function Research
On October 17, 2014, spurred by incidents at U.S. government laboratories that raised serious biosafety concerns, the United States government launched a one-year deliberative process to address the …
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€46.30
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Committee on Determinants of Market Adoption of Advanced Energy Efficiency and Clean Energy Technologies: Power of Change
Electricity, supplied reliably and affordably, is foundational to the U.S. economy and is utterly indispensable to modern society. However, emissions resulting from many forms of electricity generati …
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€3.84
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Committee on Determinants of Market Adoption of Advanced Energy Efficiency and Clean Energy Technologies: Power of Change
Electricity, supplied reliably and affordably, is foundational to the U.S. economy and is utterly indispensable to modern society. However, emissions resulting from many forms of electricity generati …
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€88.93
Committee on Science and Technology Capabilities at the Department of State & National Research Council: Diplomacy for the 21st Century
Diplomacy for the 21st Century recommends steps that the Department of State should embrace to take full advantage of the leading science and technology (S&T) capabilities of the United States. These …
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€3.83
Committee on Science and Technology Capabilities at the Department of State & National Research Council: Diplomacy for the 21st Century
Diplomacy for the 21st Century recommends steps that the Department of State should embrace to take full advantage of the leading science and technology (S&T) capabilities of the United States. These …
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€49.56
Policy and Global Affairs & Technology, and Economic Policy Board on Science: Innovation, Diversity, and the SBIR/STTR Programs
The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs provide federal research and development funding to small businesses. One of the the goals of thes …
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€3.79
Policy and Global Affairs & Technology, and Economic Policy Board on Science: Innovation, Diversity, and the SBIR/STTR Programs
The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs provide federal research and development funding to small businesses. One of the the goals of thes …
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€42.36
Board on Higher Education and Workforce & Board on Science Education: Barriers and Opportunities for 2-Year and 4-Year STEM Degrees
Nearly 40 percent of the students entering 2- and 4-year postsecondary institutions indicated their intention to major in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) in 2012. But the bar …
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€3.85
Board on Higher Education and Workforce & Board on Science Education: Barriers and Opportunities for 2-Year and 4-Year STEM Degrees
Nearly 40 percent of the students entering 2- and 4-year postsecondary institutions indicated their intention to major in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) in 2012. But the bar …
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€56.61
Board on International Scientific Organizations & Policy and Global Affairs: Mathematics Curriculum, Teacher Professionalism, and Supporting Policies in Korea and the United States
On July 15-17, 2012 the United States National Commission on Mathematics Instruction and Seoul National University held a joint Korea-U.S. workshop on Mathematics Teaching and Curriculum. The worksho …
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€3.85
Board on International Scientific Organizations & Policy and Global Affairs: Mathematics Curriculum, Teacher Professionalism, and Supporting Policies in Korea and the United States
On July 15-17, 2012 the United States National Commission on Mathematics Instruction and Seoul National University held a joint Korea-U.S. workshop on Mathematics Teaching and Curriculum. The worksho …
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€46.20
Instituto de Pesquisas Energéticas e Nucleares & National Academy of Sciences: Brazil-U.S. Workshop on Strengthening the Culture of Nuclear Safety and Security
On August 25-26, 2014, the Instituto de Pesquisas Energéticas e Nucleares (IPEN) and the National Research Council of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences convened the Brazil-U.S. Workshop on …
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€3.85
Instituto de Pesquisas Energéticas e Nucleares & National Academy of Sciences: Brazil-U.S. Workshop on Strengthening the Culture of Nuclear Safety and Security
On August 25-26, 2014, the Instituto de Pesquisas Energéticas e Nucleares (IPEN) and the National Research Council of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences convened the Brazil-U.S. Workshop on …
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€43.62
Policy and Global Affairs & Technology, and Economic Policy Board on Science: SBIR at NASA
The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program is one of the largest examples of U.S. public-private partnerships, and was established in 1982 to encourage small businesses to develop new proc …
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€3.84
Policy and Global Affairs & Technology, and Economic Policy Board on Science: SBIR at NASA
The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program is one of the largest examples of U.S. public-private partnerships, and was established in 1982 to encourage small businesses to develop new proc …
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€76.48
Committee on India-United States Cooperation on Challenges of Emerging Infections and Global Health Safety & Indian National Science Academy: Indo-U.S. Workshop on Challenges of Emerging Infections and Global Health Safety
The United States and India have pledged to deepen the linkages between their people, their businesses, and their governments for the mutual benefit of both countries and for the promotion of global …
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€3.86
Committee on India-United States Cooperation on Challenges of Emerging Infections and Global Health Safety & Indian National Science Academy: Indo-U.S. Workshop on Challenges of Emerging Infections and Global Health Safety
The United States and India have pledged to deepen the linkages between their people, their businesses, and their governments for the mutual benefit of both countries and for the promotion of global …
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€56.70
Policy and Global Affairs & Technology, and Economic Policy Board on Science: SBIR/STTR at the National Institutes of Health
The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs provide federal research and development funding to small businesses. In 2008, the National Resear …
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€3.86
Policy and Global Affairs & Technology, and Economic Policy Board on Science: SBIR/STTR at the National Institutes of Health
The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs provide federal research and development funding to small businesses. In 2008, the National Resear …
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€90.08
Board on Higher Education and Workforce & Committee on Federal Research Regulations and Reporting Requirements: A New Framework for Research Universities in the 21st Century: Optimizing the Nation’s Investment in Academic Research
Research universities are critical contributors to our national research enterprise. They are the principal source of a world-class labor force and fundamental discoveries that enhance our lives and …
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€3.84
Board on Higher Education and Workforce & Committee on Federal Research Regulations and Reporting Requirements: A New Framework for Research Universities in the 21st Century: Optimizing the Nation’s Investment in Academic Research
Research universities are critical contributors to our national research enterprise. They are the principal source of a world-class labor force and fundamental discoveries that enhance our lives and …
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€69.74
Policy and Global Affairs & Technology, and Economic Policy Board on Science: STTR: An Assessment of the Small Business Technology Transfer Program
Today’s knowledge economy is driven in large part by the nation’s capacity to innovate. One of the defining features of the U.S. economy is a high level of entrepreneurial activity. Entrepreneurs in …
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€3.82
Policy and Global Affairs & Technology, and Economic Policy Board on Science: STTR: An Assessment of the Small Business Technology Transfer Program
Today’s knowledge economy is driven in large part by the nation’s capacity to innovate. One of the defining features of the U.S. economy is a high level of entrepreneurial activity. Entrepreneurs in …
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€70.77
Board on Higher Education and Workforce & Committee on Improving Higher Education’s Responsiveness to STEM Workforce Needs: Identifying Analytical Tools and Regional Best Practices: Promising Practices for Strengthening the Regional STEM Workforce Develop
U.S. strength in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines has formed the basis of innovations, technologies, and industries that have spurred the nation’s economic growth …
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€3.83
Board on Higher Education and Workforce & Committee on Improving Higher Education’s Responsiveness to STEM Workforce Needs: Identifying Analytical Tools and Regional Best Practices: Promising Practices for Strengthening the Regional STEM Workforce Develop
U.S. strength in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines has formed the basis of innovations, technologies, and industries that have spurred the nation’s economic growth …
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€51.47
Committee on Responsible Science & Policy and Global Affairs: Fostering Integrity in Research
The integrity of knowledge that emerges from research is based on individual and collective adherence to core values of objectivity, honesty, openness, fairness, accountability, and stewardship. Inte …
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€3.85
Committee on Responsible Science & Policy and Global Affairs: Fostering Integrity in Research
The integrity of knowledge that emerges from research is based on individual and collective adherence to core values of objectivity, honesty, openness, fairness, accountability, and stewardship. Inte …
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€56.47
Board on Higher Education and Workforce & Planning Committee for the National Summit on Developing a STEM Workforce Strategy: Developing a National STEM Workforce Strategy
The future competitiveness of the United States in an increasingly interconnected global economy depends on the nation fostering a workforce with strong capabilities and skills in science, technology …
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€3.82
Board on Higher Education and Workforce & Planning Committee for the National Summit on Developing a STEM Workforce Strategy: Developing a National STEM Workforce Strategy
The future competitiveness of the United States in an increasingly interconnected global economy depends on the nation fostering a workforce with strong capabilities and skills in science, technology …
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€55.79
Committee on the Practice of Sustainability Science & Policy and Global Affairs: Integrating Landscape Approaches and Multi-Resource Analysis into Natural Resource Management
The responsible management of natural resources for present-day needs and future generations requires integrated approaches that are place-based, embrace systems thinking, and incorporate the social, …
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€3.85
Committee on the Practice of Sustainability Science & Policy and Global Affairs: Integrating Landscape Approaches and Multi-Resource Analysis into Natural Resource Management
The responsible management of natural resources for present-day needs and future generations requires integrated approaches that are place-based, embrace systems thinking, and incorporate the social, …
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€63.40
Policy and Global Affairs & Technology, and Economic Policy Board on Science: SBIR/STTR at the Department of Energy
The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program is one of the largest examples of U.S. public-private partnerships, and was established in 1982 to encourage small businesses to develop new proc …
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€3.84
Policy and Global Affairs & Technology, and Economic Policy Board on Science: SBIR/STTR at the Department of Energy
The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program is one of the largest examples of U.S. public-private partnerships, and was established in 1982 to encourage small businesses to develop new proc …
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€70.41
Board on Higher Education and Workforce & Board on Science Education: Building America’s Skilled Technical Workforce
Skilled technical occupationsdefined as occupations that require a high level of knowledge in a technical domain but do not require a bachelor’s degree for entryare a key component of the U.S. econom …
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€3.84
Board on Higher Education and Workforce & Board on Science Education: Building America’s Skilled Technical Workforce
Skilled technical occupationsdefined as occupations that require a high level of knowledge in a technical domain but do not require a bachelor’s degree for entryare a key component of the U.S. econom …
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€70.50
Board on Health Sciences Policy & Board on Life Sciences: Gain-of-Function Research
On March 10-11, 2016, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a public symposium on potential U.S. government policies for the oversight of gain-of- function (GOF) research …
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€3.86
Board on Health Sciences Policy & Board on Life Sciences: Gain-of-Function Research
On March 10-11, 2016, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a public symposium on potential U.S. government policies for the oversight of gain-of- function (GOF) research …
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€62.91
Board on Higher Education and Workforce & Policy and Global Affairs: Quality in the Undergraduate Experience
Students, parents, and government agencies need as much information as possible about the outcomes of the higher education experience and the extent to which they can expect a fair return on their in …
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€3.83
Board on Higher Education and Workforce & Policy and Global Affairs: Quality in the Undergraduate Experience
Students, parents, and government agencies need as much information as possible about the outcomes of the higher education experience and the extent to which they can expect a fair return on their in …
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€50.99
Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate & Committee on Transition Toward Sustainability After 15 Years: Where Do We Stand in Advancing the Scientific Foundation: Transitioning Toward Sustainability
In 1999 the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine released a landmark report, Our Common Journey: A Transition toward Sustainability, which attempted to "reinvigorate the ess …
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€3.80
Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate & Committee on Transition Toward Sustainability After 15 Years: Where Do We Stand in Advancing the Scientific Foundation: Transitioning Toward Sustainability
In 1999 the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine released a landmark report, Our Common Journey: A Transition toward Sustainability, which attempted to "reinvigorate the ess …
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€50.18
Committee on Pathways to Urban Sustainability: Challenges and Opportunities & Policy and Global Affairs: Pathways to Urban Sustainability
Cities have experienced an unprecedented rate of growth in the last decade. More than half the world’s population lives in urban areas, with the U.S. percentage at 80 percent. Cities have captured mo …
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€3.84
Committee on Pathways to Urban Sustainability: Challenges and Opportunities & Policy and Global Affairs: Pathways to Urban Sustainability
Cities have experienced an unprecedented rate of growth in the last decade. More than half the world’s population lives in urban areas, with the U.S. percentage at 80 percent. Cities have captured mo …
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€70.69
Board on International Scientific Organizations & Policy and Global Affairs: Predictive Theoretical and Computational Approaches for Additive Manufacturing
Additive manufacturing (AM) methods have great potential for promoting transformative research in many fields across the vast spectrum of engineering and materials science. AM is one of the leading f …
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€3.84
Board on International Scientific Organizations & Policy and Global Affairs: Predictive Theoretical and Computational Approaches for Additive Manufacturing
Additive manufacturing (AM) methods have great potential for promoting transformative research in many fields across the vast spectrum of engineering and materials science. AM is one of the leading f …
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€49.70
Policy and Global Affairs & Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (STIP) for Development and Implications for the Future of USAID Committee on the Review of Science: Role of Science, Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships in the Future of USAID
The United States has long recognized that the nation’s prosperity and security depend on how we address challenges of disasters, poverty, famine, and disease around the world. The U.S. Agency for In …
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€3.84
Policy and Global Affairs & Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (STIP) for Development and Implications for the Future of USAID Committee on the Review of Science: Role of Science, Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships in the Future of USAID (ePUB
The United States has long recognized that the nation’s prosperity and security depend on how we address challenges of disasters, poverty, famine, and disease around the world. The U.S. Agency for In …
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€59.90
Board on Higher Education and Workforce & Policy and Global Affairs: Data-Based Assessment of Research-Doctorate Programs in the United States (with CD)
A Data-Based Assessment of Research-Doctorate Programs in the United States provides an unparalleled dataset that can be used to assess the quality and effectiveness of doctoral programs based on mea …
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€3.79
Committee on Dual Use Research of Concern: Options for Future Management & Policy and Global Affairs: Dual Use Research of Concern in the Life Sciences
The potential misuse of advances in life sciences research is raising concerns about national security threats. Dual Use Research of Concern in the Life Sciences: Current Issues and Controversies exa …
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€3.85
Committee on Dual Use Research of Concern: Options for Future Management & Policy and Global Affairs: Dual Use Research of Concern in the Life Sciences
The potential misuse of advances in life sciences research is raising concerns about national security threats. Dual Use Research of Concern in the Life Sciences: Current Issues and Controversies exa …
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€47.55
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Committee on Evaluation of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E): Assessment of ARPA-E
In 2005, the National Research Council report Rising Above the Gathering Storm recommended a new way for the federal government to spur technological breakthroughs in the energy sector. It recommende …
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€3.82
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Committee on Evaluation of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E): Assessment of ARPA-E
In 2005, the National Research Council report Rising Above the Gathering Storm recommended a new way for the federal government to spur technological breakthroughs in the energy sector. It recommende …
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€64.44
Glenn E. Schweitzer & Policy and Global Affairs: U.S.-Iran Engagement in Science, Engineering, and Health (2010-2016)
In 2010, the National Research Council published the report U.S-Iran Engagement in Science, Engineering, and Medicine (2000-2009). The review of the program described in detail the National Academies …
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€3.83
Glenn E. Schweitzer & Policy and Global Affairs: U.S.-Iran Engagement in Science, Engineering, and Health (2010-2016)
In 2010, the National Research Council published the report U.S-Iran Engagement in Science, Engineering, and Medicine (2000-2009). The review of the program described in detail the National Academies …
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€76.26
Innovation Policy Forum & Policy and Global Affairs: Securing Advanced Manufacturing in the United States
The Manufacturing USA initiative seeks to reinforce U.S.-based advanced manufacturing through partnerships among industry, academia, and government. Started in 2012 and established with bipartisan su …
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€3.82
Innovation Policy Forum & Policy and Global Affairs: Securing Advanced Manufacturing in the United States
The Manufacturing USA initiative seeks to reinforce U.S.-based advanced manufacturing through partnerships among industry, academia, and government. Started in 2012 and established with bipartisan su …
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€55.79
Board on International Scientific Organizations & Policy and Global Affairs: Supporting Mathematics Teachers in the United States and Finland
For the past 17 years, the U.S. National Commission on Mathematics Instruction (USNC/MI) has held workshops with mathematics educators from countries that typically perform well on international asse …
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Board on International Scientific Organizations & Policy and Global Affairs: Supporting Mathematics Teachers in the United States and Finland
For the past 17 years, the U.S. National Commission on Mathematics Instruction (USNC/MI) has held workshops with mathematics educators from countries that typically perform well on international asse …
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€57.88
Board on Higher Education and Workforce & Committee on the Growth of Computer Science Undergraduate Enrollments: Assessing and Responding to the Growth of Computer Science Undergraduate Enrollments
The field of computer science (CS) is currently experiencing a surge in undergraduate degree production and course enrollments, which is straining program resources at many institutions and causing c …
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€3.84
Board on Higher Education and Workforce & Committee on the Growth of Computer Science Undergraduate Enrollments: Assessing and Responding to the Growth of Computer Science Undergraduate Enrollments
The field of computer science (CS) is currently experiencing a surge in undergraduate degree production and course enrollments, which is straining program resources at many institutions and causing c …
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€70.42
Board on Higher Education and Workforce & Policy and Global Affairs: Integration of the Humanities and Arts with Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in Higher Education
In the United States, broad study in an array of different disciplines arts, humanities, science, mathematics, engineering as well as an in-depth study within a special area of interest, have been de …
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€3.85
Board on Higher Education and Workforce & Policy and Global Affairs: Integration of the Humanities and Arts with Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in Higher Education
In the United States, broad study in an array of different disciplines arts, humanities, science, mathematics, engineering as well as an in-depth study within a special area of interest, have been de …
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€70.62
Committee on the Impacts of Sexual Harassment in Academia & Policy and Global Affairs: Sexual Harassment of Women
Over the last few decades, research, activity, and funding has been devoted to improving the recruitment, retention, and advancement of women in the fields of science, engineering, and medicine. In r …
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€3.85
Committee on the Impacts of Sexual Harassment in Academia & Policy and Global Affairs: Sexual Harassment of Women
Over the last few decades, research, activity, and funding has been devoted to improving the recruitment, retention, and advancement of women in the fields of science, engineering, and medicine. In r …
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€57.65
Board on Higher Education and Workforce & Committee on the Next Generation Initiative: Next Generation of Biomedical and Behavioral Sciences Researchers
Since the end of the Second World War, the United States has developed the world’s preeminent system for biomedical research, one that has given rise to revolutionary medical advances as well as a dy …
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€3.84
Board on Higher Education and Workforce & Committee on the Next Generation Initiative: Next Generation of Biomedical and Behavioral Sciences Researchers
Since the end of the Second World War, the United States has developed the world’s preeminent system for biomedical research, one that has given rise to revolutionary medical advances as well as a dy …
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€52.26
Board on Higher Education and Workforce & Committee on Revitalizing Graduate STEM Education for the 21st Century: Graduate STEM Education for the 21st Century
The U.S. system of graduate education in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) has served the nation and its science and engineering enterprise extremely well. Over the course of t …
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€3.85
Board on Higher Education and Workforce & Committee on Revitalizing Graduate STEM Education for the 21st Century: Graduate STEM Education for the 21st Century
The U.S. system of graduate education in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) has served the nation and its science and engineering enterprise extremely well. Over the course of t …
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€57.76
Policy and Global Affairs & Engineering, and Medicine National Academies of Sciences: State of Resilience
Over the past decade, resilience has gained significant traction across the nation and innovative programs are showing exciting progress in building resilient communities. For communities to be prepa …
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€3.83
Policy and Global Affairs & Engineering, and Medicine National Academies of Sciences: State of Resilience
Over the past decade, resilience has gained significant traction across the nation and innovative programs are showing exciting progress in building resilient communities. For communities to be prepa …
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€57.78
Board on Research Data and Information & Committee on Toward an Open Science Enterprise: Open Science by Design
Openness and sharing of information are fundamental to the progress of science and to the effective functioning of the research enterprise. The advent of scientific journals in the 17th century helpe …
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€3.85
Board on Research Data and Information & Committee on Toward an Open Science Enterprise: Open Science by Design
Openness and sharing of information are fundamental to the progress of science and to the effective functioning of the research enterprise. The advent of scientific journals in the 17th century helpe …
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€57.59
Computer Science and Telecommunications Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Securing the Vote
During the 2016 presidential election, America’s election infrastructure was targeted by actors sponsored by the Russian government. Securing the Vote: Protecting American Democracy examines the chal …
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Computer Science and Telecommunications Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Securing the Vote
During the 2016 presidential election, America’s election infrastructure was targeted by actors sponsored by the Russian government. Securing the Vote: Protecting American Democracy examines the chal …
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€52.64
Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice & Committee on an Evaluation of Permanent Supportive Housing Programs for Homeless Individuals: Permanent Supportive Housing
Chronic homelessness is a highly complex social problem of national importance. The problem has elicited a variety of societal and public policy responses over the years, concomitant with fluctuation …
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€3.82
Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice & Committee on an Evaluation of Permanent Supportive Housing Programs for Homeless Individuals: Permanent Supportive Housing
Chronic homelessness is a highly complex social problem of national importance. The problem has elicited a variety of societal and public policy responses over the years, concomitant with fluctuation …
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€62.89
Board on Health Sciences Policy & Forum on Neuroscience and Nervous System Disorders: Neuroforensics
Technological advances in noninvasive neuroimaging, neurophysiology, genome sequencing, and other methods together with rapid progress in computational and statistical methods and data storage have f …
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€3.85
Board on Health Sciences Policy & Forum on Neuroscience and Nervous System Disorders: Neuroforensics
Technological advances in noninvasive neuroimaging, neurophysiology, genome sequencing, and other methods together with rapid progress in computational and statistical methods and data storage have f …
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€47.68
Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable & Policy and Global Affairs: Data Matters
In an increasingly interconnected world, perhaps it should come as no surprise that international collaboration in science and technology research is growing at a remarkable rate. As science and tech …
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€3.81
Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable & Policy and Global Affairs: Data Matters
In an increasingly interconnected world, perhaps it should come as no surprise that international collaboration in science and technology research is growing at a remarkable rate. As science and tech …
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€62.72
Board on Higher Education and Workforce & Committee on Closing the Equity Gap: Securing Our STEM Education and Workforce Readiness Infrastructure in the Nation’s Minority Serving Institutions: Minority Serving Institutions
There are over 20 million young people of color in the United States whose representation in STEM education pathways and in the STEM workforce is still far below their numbers in the general populati …
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€3.85
Board on Higher Education and Workforce & Committee on Closing the Equity Gap: Securing Our STEM Education and Workforce Readiness Infrastructure in the Nation’s Minority Serving Institutions: Minority Serving Institutions
There are over 20 million young people of color in the United States whose representation in STEM education pathways and in the STEM workforce is still far below their numbers in the general populati …
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€70.17
Board on Life Sciences & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Developing Norms for the Provision of Biological Laboratories in Low-Resource Contexts
On June 27-28, 2018, the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (the National Academies) convened an international workshop in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, on developing norms …
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€3.86
Board on Life Sciences & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Developing Norms for the Provision of Biological Laboratories in Low-Resource Contexts
On June 27-28, 2018, the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (the National Academies) convened an international workshop in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, on developing norms …
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€62.73
Committee on Urban Flooding in the United States & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Framing the Challenge of Urban Flooding in the United States
Flooding is the natural hazard with the greatest economic and social impact in the United States, and these impacts are becoming more severe over time. Catastrophic flooding from recent hurricanes, i …
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€3.83
Committee on Urban Flooding in the United States & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Framing the Challenge of Urban Flooding in the United States
Flooding is the natural hazard with the greatest economic and social impact in the United States, and these impacts are becoming more severe over time. Catastrophic flooding from recent hurricanes, i …
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€60.34
Committee on Measuring Community Resilience & Office of Special Projects: Building and Measuring Community Resilience
The frequency and severity of disasters over the last few decades have presented unprecedented challenges for communities across the United States. In 2005, Hurricane Katrina exposed the complexity a …
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€3.81
Committee on Measuring Community Resilience & Office of Special Projects: Building and Measuring Community Resilience
The frequency and severity of disasters over the last few decades have presented unprecedented challenges for communities across the United States. In 2005, Hurricane Katrina exposed the complexity a …
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€62.98
Committee on Reducing Food Loss and Waste: A Workshop on Impacts & Policy and Global Affairs: Reducing Impacts of Food Loss and Waste
Even as malnutrition in the form of hunger and obesity affect the health and well-being of millions of people worldwide, a significant amount of food is lost or wasted every day, in every country, an …
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€3.84
Committee on Reducing Food Loss and Waste: A Workshop on Impacts & Policy and Global Affairs: Reducing Impacts of Food Loss and Waste
Even as malnutrition in the form of hunger and obesity affect the health and well-being of millions of people worldwide, a significant amount of food is lost or wasted every day, in every country, an …
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€64.18
Innovation Policy Forum & Policy and Global Affairs: Revisiting the Manufacturing USA Institutes
The Manufacturing USA initiative seeks to reinforce U.S.-based advanced manufacturing through partnerships among industry, academia, and government. Started in 2012 and established with bipartisan su …
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€3.83
Committee on Trends in Federal Spending on Scientific and Engineering Research & National Research Council: Trends in Federal Support of Research and Graduate Education
The Board on Science, Technology and Economic Policy updated its 1999 analysis (Appendix A, Securing America’s Industrial Strength, 1999) of changes since 1990 in the distribution of federal research …
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€39.22
Committee for Survey and Analysis of Science Advice on Sustainable Development to International Organizations & National Research Council: Knowledge and Diplomacy
In the international effort to advance human health, welfare, and development while better managing and conserving the environment and natural resources, there is a clear and growing recognition of t …
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€30.72
National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: Government-Industry Partnerships for the Development of New Technologies
This report reviews a variety of partnership programs in the United States, and finds that partnerships constitute a vital positive element of public policy, helping to address major challenges and o …
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€39.81
Committee on International Security and Arms Control & Committee on Technical Issues Related to Ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty: Technical Issues Related to the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
Drawing upon the considerable existing body of technical material related to the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, the National Academy of Sciences reviewed and assessed the key technical issues that ar …
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€20.93
Committee on Small Innovative Firms in Russian Nuclear Cities & National Research Council: Successes and Difficulties of Small Innovative Firms in Russian Nuclear Cities
This workshop report focuses on successes and failures of small innovative firms in five science cities in Russia. The workshop was organized by the NRC with the cooperation of Minatom. …
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€52.76
Committee on Women in Science and Engineering & National Academy of Sciences: Who Will Do the Science of the Future?
Who Will Do the Science of the Future? is the summary of a symposium on careers of women in science. The symposium incorporated three panels of presenters: one focusing on the next generation, Scienc …
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€28.25
National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: Using Human Resource Data to Track Innovation
Despite the fact that technology is embodied in human as well as physical capital and that interactions among technically trained people are critical to innovation and technology diffusion, data on s …
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€21.19
National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: Review of the New Initiatives at the NASA Ames Research Center
NASA Ames Research Center, in the heart of Silicon Valley, is embarking on a program to develop a science and technology park bringing together leading companies and universities to capitalize on Ame …
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€37.96
Committee on Women in Science and Engineering & National Research Council: From Scarcity to Visibility
Although women have made important inroads in science and engineering since the early 1970s, their progress in these fields has stalled over the past several years. This study looks at women in scien …
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€44.50
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 & Policy Division: Small Business Innovation Research Program
In 1992, Congress for the first time explicitly directed the federal agencies making SBIR grants to use commercial potential as a criterion for granting SBIR awards. In response, the Department of De …
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€72.02
Committee on National Needs for Biomedical and Behavioral Scientists & Education and Career Studies Unit: Addressing the Nation’s Changing Needs for Biomedical and Behavioral Scientists
As biomedical and behavioral research progresses into new areas, the number of scientists active in various fields rises and falls, and the health needs of the U.S. population evolve, it is important …
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€36.68
National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: Advanced Technology Program
This report examines the operations of the APT, reviews its extensive assessment program, and provides NRC Committee findings concerning the ATP’s operations and recommendations for potential improve …
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€65.02
Center for Education & Committee on Attracting Science and Mathematics PhDs to K-12 Education: From Analysis to Implementation: Attracting PhDs to K-12 Education
The National Research Council (NRC) has undertaken a three-phase project to explore the possibility of a program to attract science, mathematics and engineering Ph Ds to careers in K-12 education. Th …
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€28.95
National Research Council & Panel on the Impact of Information Technology on the Future of the Research University: Preparing for the Revolution
The rapid evolution of information technology (IT) is transforming our society and its institutions. For the most knowledge-intensive entities of all, research universities, profound IT-related chall …
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€28.15
Chinese Academy of Engineering & National Academy of Engineering: Personal Cars and China
This collaborative study between the NRC and the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE) addresses the problems facing China in the next twenty years as it attempts to provide personal transport desired …
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€57.18
Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable & National Academy of Sciences: Envisioning a 21st Century Science and Engineering Workforce for the United States
At the request of the Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable (GUIRR), Shirley Ann Jackson, President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, presents in this brief paper her views of the cha …
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€25.80
National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: Measuring and Sustaining the New Economy
Sustaining the New Economy will require public policies that remain relevant to the rapid technological changes that characterize it. While data and its timely analysis are key to effective policy-ma …
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€56.20
National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: Partnership for Solid-State Lighting
As part of its analysis of public-private partnerships, the Academies convened leading academic researchers, government officials and policy makers, and representatives from large and small firms to …
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€34.83
National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: Age of Expert Testimony
The federal courts are seeking ways to increase the ability of judges to deal with difficult issues of scientific expert testimony. The workshop explored the new environment judges, plaintiffs, defen …
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€34.67
Board on Radioactive Waste Management & Committee on End Points for Spent Nuclear Fuel and High-Level Radioactive Waste in Russia and the United States: End Points for Spent Nuclear Fuel and High-Level Radioactive Waste in Russia and the United States (PD
End Points for spent Nuclear Fuel and High-Level Radioactive Waste in Russian and the United States provides an analysis of the management of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste in Ru …
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€36.73
Ad Hoc Committee on Ensuring the Quality of Government Information & National Research Council: Ensuring the Quality of Data Disseminated by the Federal Government
The National Academies Science, Technology, and Law Program convened three workshops focusing on specific aspects of OMB’s "Guidelines for Ensuring and Maximizing the Quality, Objectivity, Utili …
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€34.67
Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education & National Research Council: Monitoring International Labor Standards
The NRC has convened the Committee on Monitoring International Labor Standards to provide expert, science-based advice on monitoring compliance with international labor standards. The committee held …
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€34.75
National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: Access to Research Data in the 21st Century
In the years since the Shelby Amendment, scientists, industry, and policy makers have struggled over how the public’s new right of access should be applied to scientific data. There is loose agreemen …
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€21.19
Committee on Confronting Terrorism in Russia & National Research Council: High-Impact Terrorism
In June 2001 the National Academies and the Russian Academy of Sciences held a bilateral workshop in Moscow on terrorism in a hightechnology society and modern methods to prevent and respond to it. T …
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€45.98
Committee on Intellectual Property Rights in the Knowledge-Based Economy & National Research Council: Patents in the Knowledge-Based Economy
This volume assembles papers commissioned by the National Research Council’s Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy (STEP) to inform judgments about the significant institutional and polic …
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€69.23
National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: Capitalizing on New Needs and New Opportunities
This report addresses a topic of recognized policy concern. To capture the benefits of substantial U.S. investments in biomedical R&D, parallel investments in a wide range of seemingly unrelated disc …
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€69.91
Board on International Scientific Organizations & Center for Education: Studying Classroom Teaching as a Medium for Professional Development
The Mathematical Sciences Education Board (MSEB) and the U.S. National Commission on Mathematics Instruction (USNCMI) took advantage of a unique opportunity to bring educators together. In August 200 …
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€43.84
Committee on the Federal Science and Technology Budget & Institute of Medicine: Observations on the President’s Fiscal Year 2002 Federal Science and Technology Budget
Fourth in a series of annual reports, this study provides observations on the Administration’s FY 2002 budget proposal for federal science and technology (FS&T) programs. The report comments first on …
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€14.58
Board on Life Sciences & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Scientific and Medical Aspects of Human Reproductive Cloning
Human reproductive cloning is an assisted reproductive technology that would be carried out with the goal of creating a newborn genetically identical to another human being. It is currently the subje …
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€34.68
Institute of Medicine & National Academy of Engineering: Implementing the Government Performance and Results Act for Research
As requested by Congress and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), this report assists federal agencies in crafting plans and reports that are responsive to the Government P …
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€60.46
National Research Council & Office of Special Projects: Issues for Science and Engineering Researchers in the Digital Age
This guide for students and faculty discusses opportunities and implications of conducting research in a digital environment. …
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€34.68
National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: Securing the Future
Based on the deliberations of a high-level international conference, this report summarizes the presentations of an exceptional group of experts, convened by Intel’s Chairman Emeritus Gordon Moore an …
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€68.14
Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable & Policy Division: Overcoming Barriers to Collaborative Research
This report summarizes discussions and insights from the workshop on Overcoming Barriers to Collaborative Research held March 23-24, 1998, in Irvine, California. The workshop was organized by the Gov …
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€20.93
Board on Sustainable Development & National Research Council: Our Common Journey
World human population is expected to reach upwards of 9 billion by 2050 and then level off over the next half-century. How can the transition to a stabilizing population also be a transition to sust …
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€49.13
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
National Research Council & Office of Scientific and Engineering Personnel: Forecasting Demand and Supply of Doctoral Scientists and Engineers
This report is the summary of a workshop conducted by the National Research Council in order to learn from both forecast makers and forecast users about improvements that can be made in understanding …
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€28.28
Committee on Balancing Scientific Openness and National Security & Institute of Medicine: Balancing Scientific Openness and National Security Controls at the Nuclear Weapons Laboratories
This report addresses consequences of current and proposed restrictions on international contacts by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) national laboratories and explores methods of best serving n …
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€34.74
Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education & National Research Council: Monitoring International Labor Standards
Over the past half century, the international flow of goods, services, and capital has grown rapidly. Globalization creates new economic, cultural, and social opportunities, but also poses the challe …
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€38.32
Committee on Conflict and Reconstruction in Multiethnic Societies & National Research Council: Conflict and Reconstruction in Multiethnic Societies
This report is the proceedings of a December 2001 international symposium in Washington, DC organized by the National Academies and the Russian Academy of Sciences. The symposium addressed (1) charac …
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€50.27
Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education & National Research Council: Monitoring International Labor Standards
The National Research Council has convened the Committee on Monitoring International Labor Standards to provide expert, science-based advice on monitoringcompliance with international labor standards …
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€21.27
Board on Sustainable Development & Committee on Global Change Research: Global Environmental Change
How can we understand and rise to the environmental challenges of global change? One clear answer is to understand the science of global change, not solely in terms of the processes that control chan …
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€88.61
Committee on Knowledge Assessment & National Research Council: Lighting the Way
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Committee on Harnessing Science and Technology for America’s Economic Future & National Forum on Science and Technology Goals: Harnessing Science and Technology for America’s Economic Future
This book is largely based on a 1998 forum where participants from across America discussed ways to improve the utilization of science and technology for economic growth over the next several decades …
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€28.95
National Research Council & National Research Council: Linking Science and Technology to Society’s Environmental Goals
Where should the United States focus its long-term efforts to improve the nation’s environment? What are the nation’s most important environmental issues? What role should science and technology play …
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€73.63
Institute of Medicine & National Academy of Engineering: Careers in Science and Engineering
As science and technology advance, the needs of employers change, and these changes continually reshape the job market for scientists and engineers. Such shifts present challenges for students as the …
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€12.27
National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: Industry-Laboratory Partnerships
The Sandia National Laboratories asked the Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy (STEP) to hold a one-day symposium to review Sandia’s proposal to develop a science and technology park. I …
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€30.82
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
Board on International Scientific Organizations & National Research Council: Role of Scientific and Technical Data and Information in the Public Domain
This symposium brought together leading experts and managers from the public and private sectors who are involved in the creation, dissemination, and use of scientific and technical data and informat …
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€50.58
Committee on Counterterrorism Challenges for Russia and the United States & National Research Council: Terrorism: Reducing Vulnerabilities and Improving Responses
This book is devoted primarily to papers prepared by American and Russian specialists on cyber terrorism and urban terrorism. It also includes papers on biological and radiological terrorism from the …
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€44.47
Committee on Research Standards and Practices to Prevent the Destructive Application of Biotechnology & National Research Council: Biotechnology Research in an Age of Terrorism
In recent years much has happened to justify an examination of biological researchin light of national security concerns. The destructive application of biotechnologyresearch includes activities such …
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€34.75
Charlotte V. Kuh & Committee to Examine the Methodology for the Assessment of Research-Doctorate Programs: Assessing Research-Doctorate Programs
How should we assess and present information about the quality of research-doctorate programs? In recommending that the 1995 NRC rankings in Assessing the Quality of Research-Doctorate Programs: Cont …
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€34.74
Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education & National Research Council: Monitoring International Labor Standards: Human Capital Investment
An increasingly globalized world economy creates new economic, cultural, and social opportunities. Globalization also poses the challenge of ensuring that workers throughout the world share in these …
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€21.04
Glenn E. Schweitzer & National Research Council: Scientists, Engineers, and Track-Two Diplomacy
This report is intended to provide a brief historical perspective of the evolution of the interacademy program during the past half-century, recognizing that many legacies of the Soviet era continue …
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€38.76
Board on Higher Education and Workforce & Committee on the Evaluation of the Lucille P. Markey Charitable Trust Programs in Biomedical Sciences: Bridging the Bed-Bench Gap
Since the 1970s there has been a serious gap between fundamental biological research and its clinical application. In response to this gap the Lucille P. Markey Charitable Trust instituted the Genera …
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€33.33
National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: SBIR Program Diversity and Assessment Challenges
In response to a Congressional mandate, the National Research Council conducted a review of the Small Business Innovation Research Program (SBIR) at the five federal agencies with SBIR programs with …
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€44.23
Center for Education & Committee on Monitoring International Labor Standards: Monitoring International Labor Standards
This new report provides a framework within which to assess compliance with coreinternational labor standards and succeeds in taking an enormous step toward interpretingall relevant information into …
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€44.28
Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education & National Research Council: Monitoring International Labor Standards
In February and March 2003, the Committee on Monitoring International Labor Standards (CMILS) of the National Research Council (NRC) convened regional forums in Costa Rica, Sri Lanka, and South Afric …
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€30.59
Committee on the Use of Third Party Toxicity Research with Human Research Participants & National Research Council: Intentional Human Dosing Studies for EPA Regulatory Purposes
The EPA commissioned The National Academies to provide advice on the vexing question of whether and, if so, under what circumstances EPA should accept and consider intentional human dosing studies co …
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€48.34
Board on Higher Education and Workforce & Committee for the Evaluation of the Lucille P. Markey Programs in Biomedical Sciences: Markey Scholars Conference
This is the second of five reports to emerge from the evaluation of the Markey Trust. As part of this assessment, the NRC hosted a scientific conference for Markey Scholars and Visiting Fellows in Ri …
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€39.69
Committee on Women in Science and Engineering & National Research Council: Achieving XXcellence in Science
This report is the proceedings of a July 2002 workshop of the Committee on AXXS 2002: A Workshop for Clinical Societies to Enhance Women’s Contributions to Science and their Profession. The workshop …
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€29.17
National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: Overcoming Impediments to U.S.-Russian Cooperation on Nuclear Nonproliferation
The U.S. National Academies and the Russian Academy of Sciences convened a joint workshop to identify methods of overcoming impediments to cooperation between the United States and Russia on nonproli …
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€32.82
Committee on New Approaches to Early Detection and Diagnosis of Breast Cancer & Institute of Medicine: Saving Women’s Lives
The outlook for women with breast cancer has improved in recent years. Due to the combination of improved treatments and the benefits of mammographyscreening, breast cancer mortality has decreased st …
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€47.62
National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: Electronic Scientific, Technical, and Medical Journal Publishing and Its Implications
This report is the proceedings of a 2003 symposium on "Electronic Scientific, Technical, and Medical Journal Publishing and Its Implications, " which brought together experts in STM publish …
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€33.46
Board on Health Sciences Policy & Committee on Opportunities to Address Clinical Research Workforce Diversity Needs for 2010: Opportunities to Address Clinical Research Workforce Diversity Needs for 2010
Based on a 2003 workshop, this study describes current public and private programs and recommends ways to recruit and retain more women and underrepresented minorities into clinical research, especia …
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€35.26
Committee on Deconstructing the Computer & Committee on Measuring and Sustaining the New Economy: Deconstructing the Computer
Starting in the mid 1990s, the United States economy experienced an unprecedented upsurge in economic productivity. Rapid technological change in communications, computing, and information management …
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€41.10
Board on Science and Technology for International Development & National Research Council: Fisheries Technologies for Developing Countries
In developing countries, traditional fishermen are important food contributors, yet technological information and development assistance to third-world nations often focuses on agriculture and indust …
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€48.94
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Committee on Setting Priorities for NSF-Sponsored Large Research Facility Projects: Setting Priorities for Large Research Facility Projects Supported by the National Science Foundation
In 1995, the National Science Foundation (NSF) created a special account to fund large (several tens of millions of dollars) research facilities. Over the years, these facilities have come to represe …
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€49.77
Institute of Medicine & National Academy of Engineering: Finding Common Ground
Protecting U.S. security by controlling technology export has long been a major issue. But the threat of the Soviet sphere is rapidly being superseded by state-sponsored terrorism; nuclear, chemical, …
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€34.75
David W. Cash & James Buizer: Knowledge-Action Systems for Seasonal to Interannual Climate Forecasting
The National Academies’ Roundtable on Science and Technology for Sustainability hosted a workshop "Knowledge Action Systems for Seasonal to Interannual Climate Forecasting" in 2004 to disco …
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€14.82
Committee on Measuring and Sustaining the New Economy & National Research Council: Productivity and Cyclicality in Semiconductors
Hosted by Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, this symposium brought together leading technologists and economists to review technical challenges facing the semiconductor industry, the …
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€45.98
Committee on Science and Technology in Armenia & National Research Council: Science and Technology in Armenia
An NRC ad hoc committee analyzed the current status and future development potential of Armenia’s science and technology base, including human and infrastructural resources and research and education …
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€33.05
Academy of Sciences of the Islamic Republic of Iran & Committee on US-Iranian Workshop on Water Conservation and Recycling: Water Conservation, Reuse, and Recycling
In December 2002, a group of specialists on water resources from the United States and Iran met in Tunis, Tunisia, for an interacademy workshop on water resources management, conservation, and recycl …
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€59.09
Committee on Educational Paradigms for Homeland Security & National Research Council: Frameworks for Higher Education in Homeland Security
This report explores whether there are core pedagogical and skill-based homeland security program needs; examines current and proposed education programs focusing on various aspects of homeland secur …
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€20.93
Board on Life Sciences & Committee on Genomics Databases for Bioterrorism Threat Agents: Seeking Security
Within the last 30 years, the genomes of thousands of organisms, from viruses, to bacteria, to humans, have been sequenced or partially sequenced and deposited in databases freely accessible to scien …
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€21.07
Board on Manufacturing and Engineering Design & Committee on National Laboratories and Universities: National Laboratories and Universities
This volume is a report of a workshop held in 2003 to address best practices and remaining challenges with respect to national laboratory-university collaborations. …
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€20.93
National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: Assessment of the Small Business Innovation Research Program
In response to a Congressional mandate, the National Research Council conducted a review of the SBIR program at the five federal agencies with SBIR programs with budgets in excess of $100 million (DO …
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€31.13
Chinese Academy of Engineering & Chinese Academy of Sciences: Urbanization, Energy, and Air Pollution in China
In October 2003, a group of experts met in Beijing under the auspices of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Engineering, and National Academy of Engineering (NAE)/National Research C …
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€61.89
Board on Higher Education and Workforce & National Research Council: Advancing the Nation’s Health Needs
This report is the twelfth assessment of the National Institutes of Health National Research Service Awards program. The research training needs of the country in basic biomedical, clinical, and beha …
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€36.33
Charles W. Wessner & Committee on Government-Industry Partnerships for the Development of New Technologies: Partnering Against Terrorism
Terrorism and the measures needed to prevent terrorist attacks pose a central policy challenge for the U.S. To meet this unprecedented challenge, the U.S. has great technological assets. What is need …
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€35.96
Ad Hoc Panel of the Advisory Committee on Technology Innovation & Board on Science and Technology for International Development: Lost Crops of the Incas
This fascinating, readable volume is filled with enticing, detailed information about more than 30 different Incan crops that promise to follow the potato’s lead and become important contributors to …
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€106.15
Committee on Women in Science and Engineering & Committee on the Guide to Recruiting and Advancing Women Scientists and Engineers in Academia: To Recruit and Advance
Although more women than men participate in higher education in the United States, the same is not true when it comes to pursuing careers in science and engineering. To Recruit and Advance: Women Stu …
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€29.65
Board on Higher Education and Workforce & Committee on Engineering Education: Enhancing the Community College Pathway to Engineering Careers
Community colleges play an important role in starting students on the road toengineering careers, but students often face obstacles in transferring to four-yeareducational institutions to continue th …
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€32.74
Institute of Medicine & National Cancer Policy Board: Economic Models of Colorectal Cancer Screening in Average-Risk Adults
The National Cancer Policy Board and the Board on Science, Engineering, and Economic Policy convened a workshop in January 2004 on "Economic Models of Colorectal Cancer (CRC) Screening in Averag …
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€62.27
Committee on International Security and Arms Control & National Research Council: Monitoring Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear-Explosive Materials
In this study, CISAC tackles the technical dimensions of a longstanding controversy: To what extent could existing and plausibly attainable measures for transparency and monitoring make possible the …
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€54.54
Board on Higher Education and Workforce & Committee on Policy Implications of International Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Scholars in the United States: Policy Implications of International Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Scholars in the United St
Policy Implications of International Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Scholars in the United States explores the role and impact of students and scholars on US educational institutions and the US e …
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€41.85
National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: Research and Development Data Needs
This report contains the proceedings of a one-day workshop organized by the National Research Council’s Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy (STEP), in conjunction with a study by a pane …
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€21.06
National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: Strengthening U.S.-Russian Cooperation on Nuclear Nonproliferation
Strengthening U.S.-Russian Cooperation on Nuclear Nonproliferation: Recommendations for Action offers the consensus findings and recommendations of a joint committee established by the U.S. National …
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€37.28
Board on Global Health & Committee on Advances in Technology and the Prevention of Their Application to Next Generation Biowarfare Threats: International Perspective on Advancing Technologies and Strategies for Managing Dual-Use Risks
As part of a study of current and future research in the life sciences that contains applications relevant to development of agents of biological origin 5 to 10 years into the future, an NRC/IOM comm …
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€36.59
Committee on the Scientific Aspects of an International Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage Facility in Russia & National Research Council: International Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage Facility
As part of a long-standing collaboration on nuclear nonproliferation, the National Academy of Sciences and the Russian Academy of Sciences held a joint workshop in Moscow in 2003 on the scientific as …
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€60.36
Board on Higher Education and Workforce & Committee for the Assessment of NIH Minority Research Training Programs: Assessment of NIH Minority Research and Training Programs
This report provides an assessment of NIH’s programs for increasing the participation in biomedical science of individuals from underrepresented minority groups. The report examines, using available …
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€50.95
National Research Council & Office for Central Europe and Eurasia: Biological Science and Biotechnology in Russia
In July 2005, the National Academies released the report Biological Science and Biotechnology in Russia: Controlling Diseases and Enhancing Security. The report offered a number of recommendations th …
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€41.73
Committee on Indigenization of Programs to Prevent Leakage of Plutonium and Highly Enriched Uranium from Russian Facilities & National Research Council: Strengthening Long-Term Nuclear Security
In July 2005, the National Academies released the report Strengthening Long-term Nuclear Security: Protecting Weapon-Usable Material in Russia. The report highlighted several obstacles in the transit …
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€34.03
National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: Protection, Control, and Accounting of Nuclear Materials
The U.S. and Russian academies convened a workshop in 2003 for sharing best practices in nuclear materials protection, control, and accounting (MPCA), including the status and application of remote m …
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€21.11
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
Institute of Medicine & National Academy of Engineering: Policy Implications of Greenhouse Warming
Global warming continues to gain importance on the international agenda and calls for action are heightening. Yet, there is still controversy over what must be done and what is needed to proceed.Poli …
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€98.41
Policy and Global Affairs: Convergence of Science and Law
This report is a summary of the first meeting of the Science, Technology, and Law Panel. The Policy Division of the National Research Council established the panel to bring the science and engineerin …
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€14.83
Institute of Medicine & National Academy of Engineering: Science and Technology in the National Interest
This report is the second edition of the 1992 COSEPUP report "Science and Technology Leadership in American Government: Ensuring the Best Presidential Appointments." As was the case with th …
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€14.72
Board on International Scientific Organizations & National Research Council: Scientific Data for Decision Making Toward Sustainable Development: Senegal River Basin Case Study
Scientific databases relating to the environment, natural resources, and public health on the African continent are, for various reasons, difficult to create and manage effectively. Yet the creation …
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€21.28
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
Center for Education & Committee on Attracting Science and Mathematics Ph.D.s to Secondary School Teaching: Attracting Science and Mathematics Ph.D.s to Secondary School Education
The National Research Council conducted a study to identify a set of incentives that state governments and local school districts can use to attract Ph.D. scientists and mathematicians to secondary s …
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€53.14
Committee on Global Change Research & National Research Council: Science of Regional and Global Change
This report is intended to promote a dialogue between the scientific community and the government officials who will lead our nation in the coming years on global change research. The first section o …
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€34.57
Committee on Improving the Effectiveness of Environmental Nongovernmental Organizations in Russia & National Research Council: Role of Environmental NGOs: Russian Challenges, American Lessons
An NRC committee was established to work with a Russian counterpart group in conducting a workshop in Moscow on the effectiveness of Russian environmental NGOs in environmental decision-making and pr …
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€46.92
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
Committee on Intellectual Property Rights in the Knowledge-Based Economy & National Research Council: Patent System for the 21st Century
The U.S. patent system is in an accelerating race with human ingenuity and investments in innovation. In many respects the system has responded with admirable flexibility, but the strain of continual …
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€34.42
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
Institute of Medicine & National Academy of Engineering: Reshaping the Graduate Education of Scientists and Engineers
Are we producing too many Ph Ds? Does the current graduate education system adequately prepare science and engineering students for today’s marketplace? How do foreign students enter the picture? Wha …
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€59.20
Chinese Academy of Sciences & Indian National Science Academy: Growing Populations, Changing Landscapes
As the world’s population exceeds an incredible 6 billion people, governmentsand scientistseverywhere are concerned about the prospects for sustainable development. The science academies of the three …
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€34.56
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
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: Food Aid Projections for the Decade of the 1990s
This book presents the results of a meeting held by the Board on Science and Technology for International Development. At this meeting, six groups of modelers presented their best estimates of the fo …
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€19.94
Institute of Medicine & National Academy of Engineering: Policy Implications of Greenhouse Warming
Readily accessible to any interested reader, this volume offers an analysis of the major issues surrounding greenhouse warming and presents the authoring panel’s recommendations for U.S. policy.Recom …
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€17.75
Committee on Women in Science and Engineering & National Research Council: Women in Science and Engineering: Increasing Their Numbers in the 1990s
From time to time, it is necessary to alert the research and policy communities to opportunities for action in areas of mutual concern. One such area is the participation and utilization of women in …
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€48.16
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
Ad Hoc Panel on Interventions & Committee on Women in Science and Engineering: Science and Engineering Programs
Based primarily on a conference, this book examines the need for interventions to increase the number of U.S. students, both males and females, pursuing careers in the sciences and engineering and de …
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€28.71
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
Committee on Women in Science and Engineering & National Research Council: Women Scientists and Engineers Employed in Industry
This book, based on a conference, examines both quantitative and qualitative evidence regarding the low employment of women scientists and engineers in the industrial work force of the United States, …
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€28.71
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
Ad Hoc Panel on Graduate Attrition Advisory Committee & Board on Higher Education and Workforce: Path to the Ph.D.
There is a growing concern among educators and policymakers about the level of attrition from Ph.D. programs in the sciences and humanities at some U.S. universities. Reliable estimates of graduate s …
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€28.60
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
Institute of Medicine & National Academy of Engineering: Adviser, Teacher, Role Model, Friend
This guide offers helpful advice on how teachers, administrators, and career advisers in science and engineering can become better mentors to their students. It starts with the premise that a success …
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€19.70
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
Institute of Medicine & National Academy of Engineering: Scientific Communication and National Security
The military, political, and economic preeminence of the United States during the post-World War II era is based to a substantial degree on its superior rate of achievement in science and technology, …
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€55.55
Committee on National Statistics & Committee to Assess the Portfolio of The Division of Science Resources Studies of NSF: Measuring the Science and Engineering Enterprise
The science and engineering enterprise has continued to evolve, responding over the last decade to increased economic globalization, a post-cold war military, federal budget fluctuations, and structu …
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€36.78
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 Scientific and Engineering Personnel: On Time to the Doctorate
A need exists for better models of what contributes to changes in the time that students take to complete doctorate degrees. Utilizing numerous data sources, On Time to the Doctorate presents a new m …
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€19.20
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 Scientists and Engineers in the Federal Government & National Research Council: Improving the Recruitment, Retention, and Utilization of Federal Scientists and Engineers
This book assesses the capacity of the federal government to recruit and retain highly qualified scientists and engineers for federal service. It recommends more vigorous use of the existing Federal …
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€23.68
Committee on National Needs for Biomedical and Behavioral Research Personnel & National Research Council: Meeting the Nation’s Needs for Biomedical and Behavioral Scientists
This book assesses the nation’s future needs for biomedical and behavioral scientists and the role the National Research Service Awards (NRSA) program can play in meeting those needs. The year 1994 m …
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€26.63
Board on Science and Technology for International Development & National Research Council: Vetiver Grass
For developing nations, soil erosion is among the most chronic environmental and economic burdens. Vast amounts of topsoil are washed or blown away from arable land only to accumulate in rivers, rese …
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€14.80
Committee on Innovating for Profit in Russia: Encouraging a & National Research Council: Innovating for Profit in Russia
The National Research Council hosted an interacademy workshop in Yekaterinburg, Russia together with the Russian Academy of Sciences in October 2004 as a means of exploring various aspects of industr …
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€21.31
Committee on Measuring and Sustaining the New Economy & National Research Council: Software, Growth, and the Future of the U.S Economy
Starting in the mid 1990s, the United States economy experienced an unprecedented upsurge in economic productivity. Rapid technological change in communications, computing, and information management …
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€48.14
Board on Global Health & Committee on Advances in Technology and the Prevention of Their Application to Next Generation Biowarfare Threats: Globalization, Biosecurity, and the Future of the Life Sciences
Biomedical advances have made it possible to identify and manipulate features of living organisms in useful waysleading to improvements in public health, agriculture, and other areas. The globalizati …
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€55.35
Food and Agriculture Organization & National Research Council: Food Safety and Foodborne Disease Surveillance Systems
In October 2004 the Research Center for Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases of Shaheed Beheshti University hosted in Tehran an Iranian-American workshop on Food Safety and Surveillance Systems for Fo …
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€44.70
Committee on Intellectual Property Rights in Genomic and Protein Research and Innovation & National Research Council: Reaping the Benefits of Genomic and Proteomic Research
The patenting and licensing of human genetic material and proteins represents an extension of intellectual property (IP) rights to naturally occurring biological material and scientific information, …
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€42.45
Committee on Measuring and Sustaining the New Economy & Committee on The Telecommunications Challenge: Changing Technologies and Evolving Policies: Telecommunications Challenge
Starting in the mid 1990s, the United States economy experienced an unprecedented upsurge in economic productivity. Rapid technological change in communications, computing, and information management …
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€47.05
Board on Higher Education and Workforce & Committee for the Evaluation of the Lucille P. Markey Charitable Trust Programs in Biomedical Sciences: Enhancing Philanthropy’s Support of Biomedical Scientists
During an interval of 15 years, the Lucille P. Markey Charitable Trust spent over $500 million on four programs in the basic biomedical sciences that support the education and research of graduate st …
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€35.12
Committee on Science and Technology in Foreign Assistance & National Research Council: Fundamental Role of Science and Technology in International Development
In October 2003 the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the National Research Council (NRC) entered into a cooperative agreement. The agreement called for the NRC to examine selecte …
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€43.84
Emory University & Georgia Institute of Technology: Here or There?
In this report to the Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable, authors Jerry Thursby and Marie Thursby summarize their research on the globalization of corporate R&D. The authors surveyed …
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€14.72
National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: Linking Knowledge with Action for Sustainable Development
This report summarizes a workshop organized by the National Academies’ Roundtable on Science and Technology for Sustainability. The workshop brought together a select group of program managers from t …
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€32.98
Board on Higher Education and Workforce & Committee for the Evaluation of the Lucille P. Markey Charitable Trust Programs in Biomedical Sciences: Funding Biomedical Research Programs
During an interval of 15 years, the Lucille P. Markey Charitable Trust spent over $500 million on four programs in the basic biomedical sciences that support the education and research of graduate st …
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€34.15
Committee on Innovation Models for Aerospace Technologies & National Research Council: Aeronautics Innovation
NASA is a global leader in aeronautics research and development fostering advances in aviation safety and emissions, propulsion technology, and many other areas. And the agency’s Aeronautics Research …
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€29.53
Committee on Measuring and Sustaining the New Economy & National Research Council: Enhancing Productivity Growth in the Information Age
This report summarizes a workshop Strengthening Science-Based Decision-Making: Implementing the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants held June 7-10, 2004, in Beijing, China. The pres …
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€37.77
Committee on Counterterrorism Challenges for Russia and the United States & National Research Council: Countering Urban Terrorism in Russia and the United States
In January-February 2005, the National Academies Committee on Counterterrorism Challenges for Russia and the United States and the Russian Academy of Sciences Standing Committee on Counterterrorism h …
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€52.65
Committee on Daubert Standards & National Research Council: Discussion of the Committee on Daubert Standards
In 1993, the U.S. Supreme Court in Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc., laid out a new test for federal trial judges to use when determining the admissibility of expert testimony. In Daubert …
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€14.79
Board on Higher Education and Workforce & Committee for the Evaluation of the Lucille P. Markey Charitable Trust Programs in Biomedical Sciences: Evaluation of the Markey Scholars Program
One of five in a series evaluating the grant programs of the Lucille P. Markey Charitable Trust, this report examines the Markey Scholars Awards in Biomedical Sciences. The Scholars program awarded m …
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€31.65
Committee on Comparative Innovation Policy: Best Practice for the 21st Century & National Research Council: Innovation Policies for the 21st Century
To mark the opening of a study of Comparative Innovation Policy: Best Practice for the 21st Century the Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy (STEP) convened a symposium providing an over …
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National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: Lost Crops of Africa
This report is the second in a series of three evaluating underexploited African plant resources that could help broaden and secure Africa’s food supply. The volume describes the characteristics of 1 …
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National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: SBIR and the Phase III Challenge of Commercialization
In response to a Congressional mandate, the National Research Council conducted a review of the Small Business Innovation Research Program (SBIR) at the five federal agencies with SBIR programs with …
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Committee on Opportunities for U.S.-Russian Collaboration in Combating Radiological Terrorism & National Research Council: U.S.-Russian Collaboration in Combating Radiological Terrorism
The International Atomic Energy Agency reports numerous incidents of illicit trafficking in radioactive materials, including ionizing radiation sources (IRSs) used in medical, agricultural, and indus …
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Committee on the Design of an NSF Innovation Prize & National Research Council: Innovation Inducement Prizes at the National Science Foundation
Following a congressional directive in its FY 2006 Appropriations Act, the National Science Foundation asked the STEP Board to "propose a plan for administering prizes to individuals or teams th …
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Committee on Science and Technology in Kazakhstan & National Research Council: Science and Technology in Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan has an ambitious program to increase its technological competitiveness in the global market place during the next few years, but achieving success will depend in large measure on the effec …
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National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: Implementing the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants
This report summarizes a workshop Strengthening Science-Based Decision-Making: Implementing the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants held June 7-10, 2004, in Beijing, China. The pres …
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Committee on Comparative Innovation Policy: Best Practice for the 21st Century & National Research Council: India’s Changing Innovation System
As part of its review of Comparative National Innovation Policies: Best Practice for the 21st Century, the Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy convened a major symposium in Washington t …
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National Research Council & Policy and Global Affairs: Assessment of the SBIR Program at the National Science Foundation
The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program is one of the largest examples of U.S. public-private partnerships. Founded in 1982, SBIR was designed to encourage small business to develop new …
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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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Board on Mathematical Sciences and Analytics & Board on Research Data and Information: Reproducibility and Replicability in Science
One of the pathways by which the scientific community confirms the validity of a new scientific discovery is by repeating the research that produced it. When a scientific effort fails to independentl …
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Board on Higher Education and Workforce & Committee on Effective Mentoring in STEMM: Science of Effective Mentorship in STEMM
Mentorship is a catalyst capable of unleashing one’s potential for discovery, curiosity, and participation in STEMM and subsequently improving the training environment in which that STEMM potential i …
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Committee on Applied Research Topics for Hazard Mitigation and Resilience & Policy and Global Affairs: Motivating Local Climate Adaptation and Strengthening Resilience
Local communities are already experiencing dire effects caused by climate change that are expected to increase in frequency, intensity, duration, and type. Public concern about climate-related challe …
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Committee on International Security and Arms Control & Policy and Global Affairs: Nuclear Proliferation and Arms Control Monitoring, Detection, and Verification
At the request of Congress, this report presents findings and recommendations related to governance of the U.S. government’s monitoring, detection, and verification (MDV) enterprise and offers findin …
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Board on Health Sciences Policy & Board on Higher Education and Workforce: Mental Health, Substance Use, and Wellbeing in Higher Education
Student wellbeing is foundational to academic success. One recent survey of postsecondary educators found that nearly 80 percent believed emotional wellbeing is a "very" or "extremely& …
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Board on Higher Education and Workforce & Board on Science Education: Undergraduate and Graduate STEM Studentsa Experiences During COVID-19
On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 to be a global pandemic. From that moment, leaders of institutions of higher education have had to make quick decisions about how to …
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Board on Higher Education and Workforce & Policy and Global Affairs: Meeting Regional STEMM Workforce Needs in the Wake of COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic is transforming the global economy and significantly shifting workforce demand, requiring quick, adaptive responses. The pandemic has revealed the vulnerabilities of many organi …
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Policy and Global Affairs & Engineering, and Medicine Committee on Investigating the Potential Impacts of COVID-19 on the Careers of Women in Academic Science: Impact of COVID-19 on the Careers of Women in Academic Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (ePU
The spring of 2020 marked a change in how almost everyone conducted their personal and professional lives, both within science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine (STEMM) and beyond. …
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Policy and Global Affairs & Legal, and Regulatory Issues Associated with Neural Chimeras and Organoids Committee on Ethical: Emerging Field of Human Neural Organoids, Transplants, and Chimeras
Each year, tens of millions of individuals in the U.S. suffer from neurological and psychiatric disorders including neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s Disease and Parkinson’s Disease, and …
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Committee on Applied Research Topics for Hazard Mitigation and Resilience & Policy and Global Affairs: Enhancing Community Resilience through Social Capital and Connectedness
Disasters caused by natural hazards and other large-scale emergencies are devastating communities in the United States. These events harm individuals, families, communities, and the entire country, i …
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Committee on International Security and Arms Control & Joint Committee on Ballistic Missile Defense in the Context of Strategic Stability: Regional Ballistic Missile Defense in the Context of Strategic Stability
As ballistic missile technology proliferates, and as ballistic missile defenses are deployed by both the Russian Federation and the United States, it is increasingly important for these two countries …
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Health and Medicine Division & Policy and Global Affairs: COVID-19 and the Present and Future of Black Communities: The Role of Black Physicians, Engineers, and Scientists
While the COVID-19 pandemic has had devastating health and economic impacts in the United States, communities of color, especially Black communities, have been disproportionately affected. On June 23 …
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Office of Special Projects & Policy and Global Affairs: Strengthening Post-Hurricane Supply Chain Resilience
Resilient supply chains are crucial to maintaining the consistent delivery of goods and services to the American people. The modern economy has made supply chains more interconnected than ever, while …
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Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources & Board on Health Sciences Policy: Safeguarding the Bioeconomy
Research and innovation in the life sciences is driving rapid growth in agriculture, biomedical science, information science and computing, energy, and other sectors of the U.S. economy. This economi …
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Policy and Global Affairs & Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Medicine (STEMM) Committee on Increasing the Number of Women in Science: Promising Practices for Addressing the Underrepresentation of Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine
Careers in science, engineering, and medicine offer opportunities to advance knowledge, contribute to the well-being of communities, and support the security, prosperity, and health of the United Sta …
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Board on Higher Education and Workforce & Board on Science Education: Changing Expectations for the K-12 Teacher Workforce
Teachers play a critical role in the success of their students, both academically and in regard to long term outcomes such as higher education participation and economic attainment. Expectations for …
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Board on Life Sciences & Board on Mathematical Sciences and Analytics: Life-Cycle Decisions for Biomedical Data
Biomedical research results in the collection and storage of increasingly large and complex data sets. Preserving those data so that they are discoverable, accessible, and interpretable accelerates s …
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Committee on the Review of the Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer Programs at the Department of Energy & Policy and Global Affairs: Review of the SBIR and STTR Programs at the Department of Energy
Since its founding in 1982, the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program has become the largest and most comprehensive public research and development funding program of small business resea …
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Committee on Enhancing Global Health Security through International Biosecurity and Health Engagement Programs & Committee on International Security and Arms Control: Strategic Vision for Biological Threat Reduction
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine was asked to articulate a 5-year strategic vision for international health security programs and provide findings and recommendations on …
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Board on Life Sciences & Board on Mathematical Sciences and Analytics: Planning for Long-Term Use of Biomedical Data
Biomedical research data sets are becoming larger and more complex, and computing capabilities are expanding to enable transformative scientific results. The National Institutes of Health’s (NIH’s) N …
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Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate & Committee on Developing a Research Agenda and Research Governance Approaches for Climate Intervention Strategies that Reflect Sunlight to Cool Earth: Reflecting Sunlight
Climate change is creating impacts that are widespread and severe for individuals, communities, economies, and ecosystems around the world. While efforts to reduce emissions and adapt to climate impa …
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Committee on Advancing Urban Sustainability in China and the United States: A Workshop & Policy and Global Affairs: Advancing Urban Sustainability in China and the United States
In November 2018, National Academy of Sciences (NAS) President Marcia Mc Nutt visited China for the first time in her official role. As part of this visit, the National Academies of Sciences, Enginee …
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Policy and Global Affairs & The Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences: Inclusion of Women in STEM in Kuwait and the United States
Women in the United States and Kuwait have made advances as researchers and leaders in science, engineering, and medical disciplines, yet challenges and barriers remain to enter and advance in these …
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Board on Higher Education and Workforce & Committee on Strengthening Sustainability Programs and Curricula at the Undergraduate and Graduate Levels: Strengthening Sustainability Programs and Curricula at the Undergraduate and Graduate Levels
Over the past decade there has been a growing interest in sustainability education in colleges and universities across the United States, with a marked increase in the number of undergraduate and gra …
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Health and Medicine Division & Policy and Global Affairs: Impacts of Racism and Bias on Black People Pursuing Careers in Science, Engineering, and Medicine
Despite the changing demographics of the nation and a growing appreciation for diversity and inclusion as drivers of excellence in science, engineering, and medicine, Black Americans are severely und …
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Committee on Advancing Commercialization from the Federal Laboratories & Policy and Global Affairs: Advancing Commercialization of Digital Products from Federal Laboratories
Federal laboratories play a unique role in the U.S. economy. Research and development conducted at these labs has contributed to the advancement or improvement of such key general-purpose technologie …
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Policy and Global Affairs & Engineering, and Medicine National Academies of Sciences: Role of Advanced Technologies in Structural Engineering for More Resilient Communities
In an effort to develop relationships and promote dialogue and community exchange, the National Academies’ Resilient America Roundtablein partnership with the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASC …
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Committee on Developing Evaluation Metrics for Sexual Harassment Prevention Efforts & Policy and Global Affairs: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Interventions to Prevent and Address Sexual Harassment
Rising awareness of and increased attention to sexual harassment has resulted in momentum to implement sexual harassment prevention efforts in higher education institutions. Work on preventing sexual …
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Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources & Board on Earth Sciences and Resources: Exploring a Dynamic Soil Information System
As a living substrate, soil is critical to the function of Earth’s geophysical and chemical properties. Soil also plays a major role in several human activities, including farming, forestry, and envi …
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Air Force Studies Board & Board on Higher Education and Workforce: Empowering the Defense Acquisition Workforce to Improve Mission Outcomes Using Data Science
The effective use of data science – the science and technology of extracting value from data – improves, enhances, and strengthens acquisition decision-making and outcomes. Using data science to supp …
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Board on International Scientific Organizations & Policy and Global Affairs: America’s Geoheritage II: Identifying, Developing, and Preserving America’s Natural Legacy
America is endowed with places that embody a rich geoheritage, from sites where indigenous people subsisted for millennia, to mines that furnished the raw materials that built U.S. industry, to mount …
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Committee on Enhancing U.S. Nuclear Forensics and Attribution Support Capabilities & Committee on International Security and Arms Control: Restoring and Improving Nuclear Forensics to Support Attribution and Deterrence
Nuclear forensics is the analysis of nuclear materials, devices, emissions, and signals to determine the origin and history of those nuclear materials and devices. At the request of the Secretary of …
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Global Sustainability and Development & Policy and Global Affairs: 2021 Nobel Prize Summit: Our Planet, Our Future
Our future depends on our collective ability to become effective stewards of the global commons – the climate, ice, land, ocean, fresh water, forests, soils and rich diversity of life. Hosted by the …
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Health and Medicine Division & Policy and Global Affairs: Educational Pathways for Black Students in Science, Engineering, and Medicine
Academic preparation is critical to increase Black representation in Science, Engineering, and Medicine, but so, too, are such interrelated factors as providing mentoring and role models in sufficien …
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Glenn E. Schweitzer & Policy and Global Affairs: Roots and Trajectories of Violent Extremism and Terrorism
During the past 25 years, the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, in collaboration with the Russian Academy of Sciences, have carried out a wide variety of activities to i …
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Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Rental Eviction and the COVID-19 Pandemic
As the federal moratorium on rental eviction is set to expire on July 31st, 2021, actionable guidance is urgently needed on how to ensure that renters can stay in their homes and housing aid reaches …
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Health and Medicine Division & Policy and Global Affairs: Mentoring of Black Graduate and Medical Students, Postdoctoral Scholars, and Early-Career Faculty in Science, Engineering, and Medicine
On December 7 and 8, 2020, the Roundtable on Black Men and Black Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a virtual worksh …
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Gulf Research Program & Office of Special Projects: Investing in Resilient Infrastructure in the Gulf of Mexico
To help prioritize among possible investments to improve the resilience of built infrastructure in the Gulf of Mexico region, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a …
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Committee on Hazard Mitigation and Resilience Applied Research Topics & Policy and Global Affairs: Equitable and Resilient Infrastructure Investments
Communities across the United States are subject to ever-increasing human suffering and financial impacts of disasters caused by extreme weather events and other natural hazards amplified in frequenc …
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Committee on Advancing a Systems Approach to Studying the Earth: A Strategy for the National Science Foundation & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Next Generation Earth Systems Science at the National Science Foundation
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has played a key role over the past several decades in advancing understanding of Earth’s systems by funding research on atmospheric, ocean, hydrologic, geologic …
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Committee on Addressing the Underrepresentation of Women of Color in Tech & Policy and Global Affairs: Transforming Trajectories for Women of Color in Tech
Demand for tech professionals is expected to increase substantially over the next decade, and increasing the number of women of color in tech will be critical to building and maintaining a competitiv …
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Committee on the Assessment of the SBIR and STTR Programs at NIH & Policy and Global Affairs: Assessment of the SBIR and STTR Programs at the National Institutes of Health
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) asked the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to conduct a quadrennial review of its Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small …
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Committee on Improving the Representation of Women and Underrepresented Minorities in Clinical Trials and Research & Policy and Global Affairs: Improving Representation in Clinical Trials and Research
The United States has long made substantial investments in clinical research with the goal of improving the health and well-being of our nation. There is no doubt that these investments have contribu …
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Committee on National Statistics & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Innovation, Global Value Chains, and Globalization Measurement
In recent decades, production processes of intermediate and final products have been increasingly fragmented across countries in what are called global value chains (GVCs). GVCs may involve companies …
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Board on Mathematical Sciences and Analytics & Board on Research Data and Information: Automated Research Workflows for Accelerated Discovery
The needs and demands placed on science to address a range of urgent problems are growing. The world is faced with complex, interrelated challenges in which the way forward lies hidden or dispersed a …
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Health and Medicine Division & Policy and Global Affairs: Understanding and Offsetting Financial Barriers for Black Students in Science, Engineering, and Medicine
The number of Black students in science, engineering, and medicine in the United States has remained disproportionately low over the past several decades. A number of reasons have been identified as …
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Board on Higher Education and Workforce & Committee on Defense Research at Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Other Minority Institutions: Defense Research Capacity at Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Other Minority Instituti
Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and other minority institutions (MIs) represent a valuable resource to expand the Department of Defense’s (Do D) government and extramural workfor …
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Policy and Global Affairs & Science and Engineering Capacity Development Unit: Toward a Transformational Africa-U.S. STEM University Initiative
STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) plays a key role in accelerating economic growth and developing innovative solutions to pressing challenges facing the African continent. Over …
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Committee on Protecting Critical Technologies for National Security in an Era of Openness and Competition & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Protecting U.S. Technological Advantage
U.S. leadership in technology innovation is central to our nation’s interests, including its security, economic prosperity, and quality of life. Our nation has created a science and technology ecosys …
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Committee on Operationalizing Sustainable Development & Policy and Global Affairs: Operationalizing Sustainable Development to Benefit People and the Planet
The COVID-19 pandemic and overlapping global crises, including geopolitical conflict and climate change, have made achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) more challeng …
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Committee on Leveraging the Future Research and Development Ecosystem for the Intelligence Community & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Improving the Intelligence Community’s Leveraging of the Full Science and Technology Ecosystem
The agencies within the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) depend on advanced technology to achieve their goals. While AI, cloud computing, advanced sensors, and big data analytics will fundamentally c …
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Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources & Board on Higher Education and Workforce: Enhancing Coordination and Collaboration Across the Land-Grant System
Land-grant colleges and universities play a crucial role in addressing the complex challenges facing the U.S. agricultural system and global food security. Multidisciplinary collaboration involving a …
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Policy and Global Affairs & Engineering, and Medicine National Academies of Sciences: Transforming Research and Higher Education Institutions in the Next 75 Years
On September 22, 2022, the National Academy of Sciences held a symposium entitled Endless Frontier 2022: Research and Higher Education Institutions for the Next 75 Years. The event was a follow up to …
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Committee on the Review of the Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer Programs at the National Science Foundation & Policy and Global Affairs: Review of the SBIR and STTR Programs at the National Science Foundation (ePUB
The National Science Foundation (NSF) asked the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to conduct a quadrennial review of the NSF Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Smal …
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Committee on Hazard Mitigation and Resilience Applied Research Topics & Policy and Global Affairs: Resilience for Compounding and Cascading Events
A cascading hazard refers to a primary event, such as heavy rainfall, seismic activity, or rapid snowmelt, followed by a chain of consequences that may range from modest (lesser than the original eve …
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Health and Medicine Division & Policy and Global Affairs: State of Anti-Black Racism in the United States: Reflections and Solutions from the Roundtable on Black Men and Black Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine
The mission of the Roundtable on Black Men and Black Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine is to advance discussions on the barr …
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Committee on International Security and Arms Control & Policy and Global Affairs: Nuclear Proliferation and Arms Control Monitoring, Detection, and Verification: A National Security Priority
Robust monitoring, detection, and verification capabilities are necessary to provide decision makers with critical information regarding nuclear threats and to support deterrence and nonproliferation …
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Policy and Global Affairs & U.S. Science and Innovation Policy: Confucius Institutes at U.S. Institutions of Higher Education
More than 100 U.S. institutions of higher education hosted Confucius Institutes (CIs), Chinese government-funded language and culture centers, on campus during the late 2000s and 2010s. While CIs pro …
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Committee on Confucius Institutes at U.S. Institutions of Higher Education & Policy and Global Affairs: Foreign-Funded Language and Culture Institutes at U.S. Institutions of Higher Education
Foreign-funded language and culture institutes exist on U.S. campuses beyond Confucius Institutes (CIs)Chinese government-funded centers established by the Chinese Communist Party to extend the reach …
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Board on Mathematical Sciences and Analytics & Committee on International Security and Arms Control: Risk Analysis Methods for Nuclear War and Nuclear Terrorism
The assessment of risk is complex and often controversial. It is derived from the existence of a hazard, and it is characterized by the uncertainty of possible undesirable events and their outcomes. …
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Policy and Global Affairs & Engineering, and Medicine Committee on Policies and Practices for Supporting Caregivers Working in Science: Barriers, Challenges, and Supports for Family Caregivers in Science, Engineering, and Medicine
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, research demonstrated a significant impact of family caregiving responsibilities on the careers of professionals who work in science, technology, engineering, mathematic …
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Board on Mathematical Sciences and Analytics & Committee on International Security and Arms Control: Risk Analysis Methods for Nuclear War and Nuclear Terrorism
The Committee on Risk Analysis Methods for Nuclear War and Nuclear Terrorism was established and managed by the National Academies of Sciences, Medicine, and Engineering in response to a congressiona …
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Policy and Global Affairs & Technology, and Economic Policy Board on Science: Experimental Approaches to Improving Research Funding Programs
On March 14-15, 2023, the Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a 2-day workshop in Washington, DC to explore the use …
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Global Sustainability and Development & Policy and Global Affairs: 2023 Nobel Prize Summit: Truth, Trust, and Hope
On May 24-26, 2023, the Nobel Prize Summit entitled Truth, Trust, and Hope was convened as a hybrid event to examine misinformation and disinformation in the context of the broader information ecosys …
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Committee on Options for a National Plan for Smart Manufacturing & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Options for a National Plan for Smart Manufacturing
Smart manufacturing technologies – from advanced sensors to new computing capabilities – have the potential to greatly improve the productivity, energy efficiency, and sustainability of the U.S. manu …
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Health and Medicine Division & Policy and Global Affairs: Supporting Black Students Through Their Science, Engineering, and Medicine Career Journeys
Increasing the number of Black men and Black women who enter the fields of science, engineering, and medicine (SEM) will benefit the social and economic health of the nation. On May 2-3, 2022 the Rou …
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Committee on Law and Justice & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Facial Recognition Technology
Facial recognition technology is increasingly used for identity verification and identification, from aiding law enforcement investigations to identifying potential security threats at large venues. …
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Board on Research Data and Information & Committee on Developing a Toolkit for Fostering Open Science Practices: A Workshop: Developing a Toolkit for Fostering Open Science Practices
The National Academies Roundtable on Aligning Incentives for Open Science, established in 2019, has taken on an important role in addressing issues with open science. The roundtable convenes critical …
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Board on Higher Education and Workforce & Policy and Global Affairs: Building Defense Research Capacity at Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Tribal Colleges and Universities, and Minority-Serving Institutions
A planning committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a series of three hybrid workshops to examine the key issues highlighted in the National Academies 2022 …
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Health and Medicine Division & Policy and Global Affairs: Psychological Factors That Contribute to the Dearth of Black Students in Science, Engineering, and Medicine
Efforts over the last several decades to increase the participation and leadership of Black men and women in the scientific and medical workforce have had limited results. Despite many individual suc …
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Committee on Criteria for Community Participation in the Gulf Research Program’s Enhancing Community Resilience (EnCoRe) Initiative & Policy and Global Affairs: Strengthening Equitable Community Resilience
The Gulf Research Program of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has developed a program to strengthen community resilience, the Enhancing Community Resilience (En Co Re) in …
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Computer Science and Telecommunications Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: AI for Scientific Discovery
Over the past century, artificial intelligence (AI) has evolved from computational theory to everyday conversational technologies, capturing the attention and interest of the public and the media. It …
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Board on Life Sciences & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Engaging Scientists in Central Asia on Life Science Data Governance Principles
To facilitate scientific progress and collaboration while also protecting personal privacy, the integrity of research investments, and national security, it is important for life science data to be c …
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Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate & Board on Environmental Change and Society: Incorporating Climate Change and Climate Policy into Macroeconomic Modeling
Macroeconomic models, essential for decision making and federal budget planning, may not appropriately consider the wide breadth of climate-related impacts that potentially have large macroeconomic s …
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Board on Higher Education and Workforce & Board on Science Education: Disrupting Ableism and Advancing STEM: Promoting the Success of People with Disabilities in the STEM Workforce
People with disabilities are the largest minority group in the United States. While nothing about science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education, jobs, or workplaces would seem to …
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Board on Mathematical Sciences and Analytics & Committee on International Security and Arms Control: Risk Analysis Methods for Nuclear War and Nuclear Terrorism
The United States and the world face serious threats to nuclear stability and peace, now and in the coming decades. Within the nuclear arena, U.S. policy makers will need to make strategic decisions …
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Policy and Global Affairs & Engineering, and Medicine Committee on Policies and Practices for Supporting Caregivers Working in Science: Supporting Family Caregivers in STEMM
Family caregiving is not simply an outside obligation that has no bearing on the workings of academic science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine (STEMM) as it affects the lives of so …
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Board on Life Sciences & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Engaging Scientists in Central Asia on Life Science Data Governance Principles: Russian Version
To facilitate scientific progress and collaboration while also protecting personal privacy, the integrity of research investments, and national security, it is important for life science data to be c …
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Health and Medicine Division & Policy and Global Affairs: Community Support, Partnerships, and Inclusive Environments for Black Students and Professionals in Science, Engineering, and Medicine
Individuals, institutions, and communities all have a role in strengthening representation of Black men and Black women in science, engineering, and medicine (SEM). The SEM workplace has historically …
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Board on Health Sciences Policy & Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice: Preparing the Future Workforce in Drug Research and Development
Despite advances over the past several decades, the clinical trials enterprise has struggled to meet the needs of an increasingly diverse U.S. population. To help address this issue, a 2023 National …
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