To begin to address these challenges, the Federal Facilities Council (FFC) sponsored a symposium entitled "Emerging Information Technologies for Facilities Owners: Research and Practical Applications" at the National Academy of Sciences in ...
Sea Change addresses the strategic investments necessary at NSF to ensure a robust ocean scientific enterprise over the next decade.
International Marine Science Affairs: A Report
Supporting Local Health Care in a Chronic Crisis: Management and Financing Approaches in the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo concentrates more on how the relationship between the supporting NGOs and the local health system actually ...
This is applicable to the United States, which should adapt its own standards to its own circumstances and goals.
As a society, we have made amazing gains in being able to detect and treat cancer. Even so, about half the people who are told by their doctors that they have cancer will die within a few years.
... Indian Economic Reforms Mr. Ahluwalia noted that his talk would focus on the economic reforms that have been critical to altering perceptions in the United States and elsewhere of the state of India's economy and of its relevance to the ...
Protection of the critical information infrastructure (CIIP), therefore, is of prime concern. To help with this step, the National Academy of Engineering asked the NRC to assess the various legal issues associated with CIIP.
... costs of research communication, emerging opportunities, and benefits. 2 The aims of the project were to explore and, where possible, to quantify the costs associated with research communication, focusing mainly on scientific publishing ...
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations.
Mathematical sciences play a key role in many important areas of Homeland Security including data mining and image analysis and voice recognition for intelligence analysis, encryption and decryption for intelligence gathering and computer ...
This volume will be of interest to anyone involved in food and health issues: policymakers, regulators, researchers, nutrition professionals, and health advocates.
Improved Seismic Monitoringâ€"Improved Decision-Making, describes and assesses the varied economic benefits potentially derived from modernizing and expanding seismic monitoring activities in the United States.
Losses of life and property from natural disasters in the United States-and throughout the world-have been enormous and the potential for substantially greater future losses looms.
... Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, Committee on Improving ... Skills, Concepts, and Capabilities.2 The University of Washington course for 2006 based on this book ... Fluency with Information Technology (and Cybersecurity), 126.
This volume offers important guidance to anyone working with this emerging law enforcement tool: policymakers, specialists in criminal law, forensic scientists, geneticists, researchers, faculty, and students.
This book synthesizes the findings of three workshops on research issues in high-performance computing and communications (HPCC).
This book defines a process by which knowledge from all relevant AID-supported programs could be integrated and applied to advance profitable farming systems that improve local conditions and contribute to environmental goals.
This volume will be an important and thought-provoking guide for policymakers and agencies working with statistics as well as researchers and concerned individuals.
This book assesses the public health effects of the Army's tests, including the toxicity of ZnCdS, the toxicity of surrogate cadmium compounds, the environmental fate of ZnCdS, the extent of public exposures from the dispersion tests, and ...