Author: Engineering

Evidence from the public health sector demonstrates that health care is only one of the determinants of health, which also include genes, behavior,...

Recent health care payment reforms aim to improve the alignment of Medicare payment strategies with goals to improve the quality of care provided, ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Army Research Laboratory Technical Assessment Board (ARLTAB) provides biennial asse...

At the request of the Advisory Committee for Geosciences of the National Science Foundation (NSF), a review of the Geospace Section of the NSF Divi...

Our world is changing at an accelerating rate. The global human population has grown from 6.1 billion to 7.1 billion in the last 15 years and is pr...

Most countries in the world use the SI (Système International, also known as the metric system) units for radiation measurements in commercial and ...

Cyber-physical systems (CPS) are engineered systems that are built from, and depend upon, the seamless integration of computational algorithms and ...

Undergraduate research has a rich history, and many practicing researchers point to undergraduate research experiences (UREs) as crucial to their o...

Nanoscale science, engineering, and technology, often referred to simply as nanotechnology, is the understanding, characterization, and control of ...

Cardiac arrest often strikes seemingly healthy individuals without warning and without regard to age, gender, race, or health status. Representing ...

Countering violent extremism consists of various prevention and intervention approaches to increase the resilience of communities and individuals t...

Additive manufacturing (AM) methods have great potential for promoting transformative research in many fields across the vast spectrum of engineeri...

The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is responsible for collecting informatio...

On January 20, 2015, President Obama announced the Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI) in his State of the Union address. The PMI, by developing ne...

It is not yet 60 years since the first artificial satellite was placed into Earth orbit. In just over a half century, mankind has gone from no pres...

A critical component of the nation's economic vitality is ensuring that all Americans can contribute and prosper. Such contributions presuppose an ...

The future security, economic growth, and competitiveness of the United States depend on its capacity to innovate. Major sources of innovative capa...

America's research universities have undergone striking change in recent decades, as have many aspects of the society that surrounds them. This cha...

Volcanic eruptions are common, with more than 50 volcanic eruptions in the United States alone in the past 31 years. These eruptions can have devas...

Review of the Research Program of the U.S. DRIVE Partnership: Fifth Report follows on four previous reviews of the FreedomCAR and Fuel Partnership,...

Attaining meaningful cybersecurity presents a broad societal challenge. Its complexity and the range of systems and sectors in which it is needed m...

In the coming years, complex domestic and international environments and challenges to national security will continue. Intelligence analysts and t...