This book contains an evaluation of the plan developed by the National Center for Health Statistics for restructuring its existing provider surveys.
In order to determine whether methods of job analysis and classification currently used are biased by traditional sex stereotypes or other factors, a committee assessed formal systems of job evaluation...
This report reviews the knowledge base regarding the effectiveness of interventions designed to promote peaceful, respectful relations among youth of different ethnic groups.
This report reviews the knowledge base regarding the effectiveness of interventions designed to promote peaceful, respectful relations among youth of different ethnic groups.
Adolescence is one of the most fascinating and complex transitions in the human life span. Its breathtaking pace of growth and change is second only to that of infancy.
This volume contains commissioned reviews of research on biological influences on violent or aggressive behavior.
Rethinking Urban Policy: Urban Development in an Advanced Economy
Policy Issues, Models, and Data Bases National Research Council, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, ... Grissmer, David W., and Sheila Nataraj Kirby 1991 Patterns of Attrition Among Indiana Teachers, 1965–1987.
In its evaluation, Enhancing Human Performance reviews the relevant materials, describes each technique, makes recommendations in some cases for further scientific research and investigation, and notes applications in military and ...
Procedures for Testing Color Vision: Report of Working Group 41
Nature's Numbers responds to concerns about how the United States should make these measurements. The book recommends how to incorporate environmental and other non-market measures into the nation's income and product accounts.
This volume consists of a committee report that sets forth an agenda of much-needed research on this issue, supported by six papers contributed by eminent social scientists.
The Local Fiscal Effects of Illegal Immigration workshop selected six studies for analysis.
The work of the committee is made possible by funding from several government agencies and private foundations.
Early Childhood Intervention discusses the diversity of working assumptions, theories of change, and views about child development and early intervention that currently shape a wide variety of social policies and service delivery systems ...
This book summarizes current understanding of the scientific, clinical, and technical issues surrounding the use of contact lenses.
These four papers supplement the book Contraception and Reproduction: Health Consequences for Women and Children in the Developing World by bringing together data and analyses that would otherwise be difficult to obtain in a single source.
In this study, subjects were first presented with a number of pairs of bets and asked to choose one bet out of each pair. Each of these pairs took the following form: versus where X and Y are respectively greater than x and y, ...
This volume, the last in the series Population Dynamics of Sub-Saharan Africa, examines key demographic changes in Senegal over the past several decades.
This book considers the issues surrounding the occurrence, progression, and predictability of myopia (near-sightedness), with special emphasis on the 16- to 26-year-old population.