Author: National Research Council

Many racial and ethnic groups in the United States, including blacks, Hispanics, Asians, American Indians, and others, have historically faced seve...

The worldwide expansion of nuclear energy has been accompanied by concerns about nuclear weapons proliferation. If sited in states that do not poss...

A nuclear weapon or a significant quantity of special nuclear material (SNM) would be of great value to a terrorist or other adversary. It might ha...

In response to the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO), the National Research Council appointed a committee operating under the auspices of the Naval S...

The charge of the Army Research Laboratory Technical Assessment Board (ARLTAB) is to provide biannual assessments of the scientific and technical q...

Sponsored by the Census Bureau and charged to evaluate the 2010 U.S. census with an eye toward suggesting research and development for the 2020 cen...

How we raise young children is one of today's most highly personalized and sharply politicized issues, in part because each of us can claim some le...

Is rapid world population growth actually coming to an end? As population growth and its consequences have become front-page issues, projections of...

This report addresses the question of what terrorists hold in value. This question is posed in order to assess some means and strategies for deterr...

Results from national and international assessments indicate that school children in the United States are not learning mathematics well enough. Ma...

The rapid evolution of information technology (IT) is transforming our society and its institutions. For the most knowledge-intensive entities of a...

Who Goes There?: Authentication Through the Lens of Privacy explores authentication technologies (passwords, PKI, biometrics, etc.) and their impli...

In the quest to reduce costs and improve the efficiency of water and wastewater services, many communities in the United States are exploring the p...

How well does the consumer price index (CPI) reflect the changes that people actually face in living costs—from apples to computers to health care?...

How should the war on drugs be fought? Everyone seems to agree that the United States ought to use a combination of several different approaches to...

Advances in the miniaturization and networking of microprocessors promise a day when networked computers are embedded throughout the everyday world...

Total quality management (TQM), reengineering, the workplace of the twenty-first century—the 1990s have brought a sense of urgency to organizations...

This volume summarizes a range of scientific perspectives on the important goal of achieving high educational standards for all students. Based on ...

Digital information and networks challenge the core practices of libraries, archives, and all organizations with intensive information management n...

The Society Security disability program faces urgent challenges: more people receiving benefits than ever before, the prospect of even more claiman...

A workshop to assess the science and technology of life detection techniques was organized by the Committee on the Origins and Evolution of Life (C...

In recent years the number of complex humanitarian emergencies around the world has been steadily increasing. War and political, ethnic, racial, an...

How do you get a fourth-grader excited about history? How do you even begin to persuade high school students that mathematical functions are releva...

The Internet has changed the way we access the world. This is especially true for kids, who soak up new technologies like eager little sponges. The...

Broadband communication expands our opportunities for entertainment, e-commerce and work at home, health care, education, and even e-government. It...

In this new book, a distinguished panel makes recommendations for the nation's programs in astronomy and astrophysics, including a number of new in...

In June 2001 the National Academies and the Russian Academy of Sciences held a bilateral workshop in Moscow on terrorism in a high—technology socie...

Publicly available statistics from government agencies that are credible, relevant, accurate, and timely are essential for policy makers, individua...

From a military operational standpoint, surprise is an event or capability that could affect the outcome of a mission or campaign for which prepara...

Within the Office of Space Science of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) special importance is attached to exploration of the...

This report examines the portfolio of research and development (R&D) expenditure surveys at the National Science Foundation (NSF), identifying ...

Millions of Americans experience some degree of hearing loss. The Social Security Administration (SSA) operates programs that provide cash disabili...

ITER presents the United States and its international partners with the opportunity to explore new and exciting frontiers of plasma science while b...

Computer Science: Reflections on the Field, Reflections from the Field provides a concise characterization of key ideas that lie at the core of com...

An NRC ad hoc committee analyzed the current status and future development potential of Armenia's science and technology base, including human and ...

In response to a request from the U.S. Congress, this book examines how the unique experience and extensive capabilities of the Department of Defen...

This book reviews the evaluation research literature that has accumulated around 19 K-12 mathematics curricula and breaks new ground in framing an ...

The national income and product accounts that underlie gross domestic product (GDP), together with other key economic data—price and employment sta...

The Symposium on Avoiding Technology Surprise for Tomorrow's Warfighter is a forum for consumers and producers of scientific and technical intellig...

International trade plays a substantial role in the economy of the United States. More than 1.6 billion tons of international merchandise was conve...

Preservation of and open access to digital scientific resources are essential to global research, yet the challenges in storing and maintaining acc...

The Committee on National Statistics (CNSTAT) of the National Research Council (NRC) convened a workshop on June 15-16, 2004, to review federal res...

The U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) was formed in response to the failed rescue attempt in 1980 of American hostages held by Iran. Among it...

The deficiencies that many children experience from birth to school age—in health care, nutrition, emotional support, and intellectual stimulation,...

In spite of its high cost and technical importance, plasma equipment is still largely designed empirically, with little help from computer simulati...

The financial reform plans currently under discussion in the United States recognize the need for monitoring and regulating systemic risk in the fi...