Author: National Research Council

Many people in the United States are exposed to formaldehyde. Exposure can occur from environmental sources (for example, combustion processes, bui...

Many people in the United States are exposed to styrene. Sources of environmental exposure included food (from migration of styrene from polymer pa...

The Cost of Inaction for Young Children Globally is the summary of a workshop hosted by the Institute of Medicine Forum on Investing in Young Child...

Every day in the United States, children and adolescents are victims of commercial sexual exploitation and sex trafficking. These are not only ille...

In its current strategic plan, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) describes a cross-agency strategy to advance sustainable environmenta...

Over the last three decades, researchers have made remarkable progress in creating and testing family-focused programs aimed at fostering the cogni...

The ability of the United States Air Force (USAF) to keep its aircraft operating at an acceptable operational tempo, in wartime and in peacetime, h...

Select Agents are defined in regulations through a list of names of particularly dangerous known bacteria, viruses, toxins, and fungi. However, nat...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Center for Neutron Research (NCNR) is a national user facility whose mission is to ensure...

The rapid growth of home health care has raised many unsolved issues and will have consequences that are far too broad for any one group to analyze...

Each year, child protective services receive reports of child abuse and neglect involving six million children, and many more go unreported. The lo...

Every day in the United States, children and adolescents are victims of commercial sexual exploitation and sex trafficking. Despite the serious and...

On July 26, 2011, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued an advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPRM) with the purpose of soli...

Most of the policy discussion about stimulating innovation has focused on the federal level. This study focuses on the significant activity at the ...

Data mining of massive data sets is transforming the way we think about crisis response, marketing, entertainment, cybersecurity and national intel...

Expanding water reusethe use of treated wastewater for beneficial purposes including irrigation, industrial uses, and drinking water augmentationco...

The homeland security mission of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is paradoxical: Its mission space is uniquely focused on the domestic co...

The mathematical sciences are part of everyday life. Modern communication, transportation, science, engineering, technology, medicine, manufacturin...

The growing use of nuclear medicine, the potential expansion of nuclear power generation, and the urgent needs to protect the nation against extern...

Across the United States, impacts of climate change are already evident. Heat waves have become more frequent and intense, cold extremes have becom...

NASA's current missions to the International Space Station (ISS) and potential future exploration missions involving extended stays by astronauts o...

The human-mediated introduction of species to regions of the world they could never reach by natural means has had great impacts on the environment...

The ongoing development of military aerospace platforms requires continuous technology advances in order to provide the nation's war fighters with ...

Intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities have expanded situation awareness for U.S. forces, provided for more precise comb...