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The Effects of Commuting on Pilot Fatigue
Board on Human-Systems IntegrationCurrent price €46.79Original price €51.99Nearly everyone experiences fatigue, but some professionssuch as aviation, medicine and the militarydemand alert, precise, rapid, and well-informed...
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Advancing Strategic Science: A Spatial Data Infrastructure Roadmap for the U.S. Geological Survey
Board on Earth Sciences and ResourcesCurrent price €40.84Original price €42.99Science is increasingly driven by data, and spatial data underpin the science directions laid out in the 2007 U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Science...
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Getting Value Out of Value-Added: Report of a Workshop
and Educational AccountabilityCurrent price €27.59Original price €29.99Value-added methods refer to efforts to estimate the relative contributions of specific teachers, schools, or programs to student test performance....
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The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty: Technical Issues for the United States
Committee on Reviewing and Updating Technical Issues Related to the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban TreatyCurrent price €42.29Original price €46.99This report reviews and updates the 2002 National Research Council report, Technical Issues Related to the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (C...
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Copyright in the Digital Era: Building Evidence for Policy
and Economic Policy€38.99Over the course of several decades, copyright protection has been expanded and extended through legislative changes occasioned by national and inte...
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Transitions to Alternative Vehicles and Fuels
Board on Energy and Environmental SystemsCurrent price €56.69Original price €62.99For a century, almost all light-duty vehicles (LDVs) have been powered by internal combustion engines operating on petroleum fuels. Energy securit...
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Thinking Evolutionarily: Evolution Education Across the Life Sciences: Summary of a Convocation
Board on Life SciencesCurrent price €36.79Original price €39.99Evolution is the central unifying theme of biology. Yet today, more than a century and a half after Charles Darwin proposed the idea of evolution t...
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Research at the Intersection of the Physical and Life Sciences
Board on Chemical Sciences and TechnologyCurrent price €44.64Original price €46.99Traditionally, the natural sciences have been divided into two branches: the biological sciences and the physical sciences. Today, an increasing nu...
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Allocating Federal Funds for State Programs for English Language Learners
Board on Testing and AssessmentCurrent price €35.09Original price €38.99As the United States continues to be a nation of immigrants and their children, the nation's school systems face increased enrollments of students ...
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Grand Challenges of Our Aging Society: Workshop Summary
and International StudiesCurrent price €26.99Original price €29.99Aging populations are generating both challenges and opportunities for societies around the globe. Increases in longevity and improvements in healt...
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Understanding Climate''s Influence on Human Evolution
Board on Earth Sciences and ResourcesCurrent price €44.64Original price €46.99The hominin fossil record documents a history of critical evolutionary events that have ultimately shaped and defined what it means to be human, in...
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Realizing the Potential of the American Community Survey: Challenges, Tradeoffs, and Opportunities
Committee on National StatisticsCurrent price €53.09Original price €58.99The American Community Survey (ACS) was conceptualized as a replacement to the census long form, which collected detailed population and housing da...
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Measuring Research and Development Expenditures in the U.S. Nonprofit Sector: Conceptual and Design Issues: Summary of a Workshop
Committee on National StatisticsCurrent price €46.79Original price €51.99National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) of the National Science Foundation is responsible for national reporting of the rese...
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Review of the Draft 2014 Science Mission Directorate Science Plan
Committee on the Assessment of the NASA Science Mission Directorate 2014 Science PlanCurrent price €33.24Original price €34.99NASA's Science Mission Directorate (SMD) is engaged in the final stages of a comprehensive, agency-wide effort to develop a new strategic plan at a...
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Building the U.S. Battery Industry for Electric Drive Vehicles: Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities: Summary of a Symposium
and Economic PolicyCurrent price €46.79Original price €51.99Since 1991, the National Research Council, under the auspices of the Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy, has undertaken a program of...
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Emerging and Readily Available Technologies and National Security: A Framework for Addressing Ethical, Legal, and Societal Issues
and LawCurrent price €59.39Original price €65.99Emerging and Readily Available Technologies and National Security is a study on the ethical, legal, and societal issues relating to the research on...
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Proposed Revisions to the Common Rule for the Protection of Human Subjects in the Behavioral and Social Sciences
and Sensory SciencesCurrent price €46.79Original price €51.99Proposed Revisions to the Common Rule for the Protection of Human Subjects in the Behavioral and Social Sciences examines how to update human subje...
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Sustainability Considerations for Procurement Tools and Capabilities: Summary of a Workshop
Committee on Fostering Sustainability Considerations into Public and Private Sector Procurement Tools and Capabilities€30.99Federal laws, regulations, and executive orders have imposed requirements for federal agencies to move toward the sustainable acquisition of goods ...
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Measuring the Risks and Causes of Premature Death: Summary of Workshops
Board on Health Care ServicesCurrent price €38.69Original price €42.99Measuring the Risks and Causes of Premature Death is the summary of two workshops conducted by The Committee on Population of the National Research...
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The Quality of Science and Engineering at the NNSA National Security Laboratories
Committee to Review the Quality of the Management and of the Science and Engineering Research at the Department of Energy's National Security Laboratories--Phase IICurrent price €35.09Original price €38.99The three National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) national security laboratoriesLos Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Lawrence Livermore N...
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New York''s Nanotechnology Model: Building the Innovation Economy: Summary of a Symposium
and Economic PolicyCurrent price €45.89Original price €50.99New York's Nanotechnology Model: Building the Innovation Economy is the summary of a 2013 symposium convened by the National Research Council Board...
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The Resilience of the Electric Power Delivery System in Response to Terrorism and Natural Disasters: Summary of a Workshop
Board on Energy and Environmental SystemsCurrent price €42.29Original price €46.99The Resilience of the Electric Power Delivery System in Response to Terrorism and Natural Disasters is the summary of a workshop convened in Februa...
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Evaluation of the Implementation of WFIRST/AFTA in the Context of New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Board on Physics and AstronomyCurrent price €48.44Original price €50.99Evaluation of the Implementation of WFIRST in the Context of New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics assesses whether the proposed A...
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Overcoming Barriers to Electric-Vehicle Deployment: Interim Report
Board on Energy and Environmental SystemsCurrent price €35.99Original price €39.99The electric vehicle offers many promisesincreasing U.S. energy security by reducing petroleum dependence, contributing to climate-change initiativ...
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Assessment of Agent Monitoring Strategies for the Blue Grass and Pueblo Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plants
Board on Army Science and TechnologyCurrent price €45.59Original price €47.99January 2012 saw the completion of the U.S. Army's Chemical Materials Agency's (CMA's) task to destroy 90 percent of the nation's stockpile of chem...
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Convergence: Facilitating Transdisciplinary Integration of Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, Engineering, and Beyond
Board on Life SciencesCurrent price €44.64Original price €46.99Convergence of the life sciences with fields including physical, chemical, mathematical, computational, engineering, and social sciences is a key s...
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21st Century Manufacturing: The Role of the Manufacturing Extension Partnership Program
and Economic PolicyCurrent price €69.34Original price €72.99The Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) - a program of the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology - has...
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2011-2012 Assessment of the Army Research Laboratory
Army Research Laboratory Technical Assessment BoardCurrent price €42.29Original price €46.99The charge of the Army Research Laboratory Technical Assessment Board (ARLTAB) is to provide biennial assessments of the scientific and technical q...
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Effective Tracking of Building Energy Use: Improving the Commercial Buildings and Residential Energy Consumption Surveys
Board on Energy and Environmental SystemsCurrent price €35.09Original price €38.99The United States is responsible for nearly one-fifth of the world's energy consumption. Population growth, and the associated growth in housing, c...
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Management and Effects of Coalbed Methane Produced Water in the Western United States
Board on Earth Sciences and ResourcesCurrent price €52.24Original price €54.99In some coalbeds, naturally occurring water pressure holds methanethe main component of natural gasfixed to coal surfaces and within the coal. In a...
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Scientific Ocean Drilling: Accomplishments and Challenges
Committee on the Review of the Scientific Accomplishments and Assessment of the Potential for Future Transformative Discoveries with U.S.-Supported Scientific Ocean DrillingCurrent price €47.49Original price €49.99Through direct exploration of the subseafloor, U.S.-supported scientific ocean drilling programs have significantly contributed to a broad range of...
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Managing for High-Quality Science and Engineering at the NNSA National Security Laboratories
Committee to Review the Quality of the Management and of the Science and Engineering Research at the Department of Energy's National Security LaboratoriesPhase ICurrent price €40.84Original price €42.99The three National Security LaboratoriesLos Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), and Lawrence Livermore National ...
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Best Practices for State Assessment Systems, Part I: Summary of a Workshop
Center for EducationCurrent price €32.19Original price €34.99Educators and policy makers in the United States have relied on tests to measure educational progress for more than 150 years. During the twentieth...
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Animal Research in a Global Environment: Meeting the Challenges: Proceedings of the November 2008 International Workshop
Division on Earth and Life StudiesCurrent price €44.64Original price €46.99Animal research will play an essential role in efforts to meet increasing demands for global health care. Yet the animal research community faces t...
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Wireless Technology Prospects and Policy Options
Committee on Wireless Technology Prospects and Policy OptionsCurrent price €29.44Original price €30.99The use of radio-frequency communicationcommonly referred to as wireless communicationis becoming more pervasive as well as more economically and s...
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The Future of Scientific Knowledge Discovery in Open Networked Environments: Summary of a Workshop
Board on Research Data and InformationCurrent price €48.44Original price €50.99Digital technologies and networks are now part of everyday work in the sciences, and have enhanced access to and use of scientific data, informatio...
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A Plan for Evaluating the District of Columbia''s Public Schools: From Impressions to Evidence
Committee on the Independent Evaluation of DC Public SchoolsCurrent price €44.15Original price €47.99The District of Columbia (DC) has struggled for decades to improve its public education system. In 2007 the DC government made a bold change in the...
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Exploring Health and Environmental Costs of Food: Workshop Summary
Board on Agriculture and Natural ResourcesCurrent price €40.84Original price €42.99The U.S. food system provides many benefits, not the least of which is a safe, nutritious and consistent food supply. However, the same system also...
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Biometric Recognition: Challenges and Opportunities
Computer Science and Telecommunications BoardCurrent price €42.29Original price €46.99Biometric recognitionthe automated recognition of individuals based on their behavioral and biological characteristicis promoted as a way to help i...
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Pathways to Urban Sustainability: A Focus on the Houston Metropolitan Region: Summary of a Workshop
Committee on Pathways to Urban Sustainability: A Focus on the Houston Metropolitan RegionCurrent price €39.89Original price €41.99The workshop was convened to explore the region's approach to urban sustainability, with an emphasis on building the evidence base upon which new p...
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Big Data: A Workshop Report
Committee for Science and Technology Challenges to U.S. National Security InterestsCurrent price €25.18Original price €26.50In 2012, the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) approached the National Research Council's TIGER standing committee and asked it to develop a list o...
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The Case for International Sharing of Scientific Data: A Focus on Developing Countries: Proceedings of a Symposium
Board on International Scientific OrganizationsCurrent price €44.64Original price €46.99The theme of this international symposium is the promotion of greater sharing of scientific data for the benefit of research and broader developmen...
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Seasonal to Decadal Predictions of Arctic Sea Ice: Challenges and Strategies
Committee on the Future of Arctic Sea Ice Research in Support of Seasonal to Decadal PredictionCurrent price €40.84Original price €42.99Recent well documented reductions in the thickness and extent of Arctic sea ice cover, which can be linked to the warming climate, are affecting th...
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Report of a Workshop on the Pedagogical Aspects of Computational Thinking
Committee for the Workshops on Computational ThinkingCurrent price €41.39Original price €44.99In 2008, the Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate of the National Science Foundation asked the National Research Council (N...
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Materials and Manufacturing Capabilities for Sustaining Defense Systems: Summary of a Workshop
Defense Materials Manufacturing and Infrastructure Standing CommitteeCurrent price €40.49Original price €44.99The Standing Committee on Defense Materials Manufacturing and Infrastructure (DMMI) conducted a workshop on July 23-24, 2012, to share information ...
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Building the Arkansas Innovation Economy: Summary of a Symposium
and Economic PolicyCurrent price €42.29Original price €46.99A committee under the auspices of the Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy (STEP), is conducting a study of selected state and regiona...
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For Attribution: Developing Data Attribution and Citation Practices and Standards: Summary of an International Workshop
Board on Research Data and InformationCurrent price €48.44Original price €50.99The growth of electronic publishing of literature has created new challenges, such as the need for mechanisms for citing online references in ways ...
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Explaining Divergent Levels of Longevity in High-Income Countries
Committee on PopulationCurrent price €38.69Original price €42.99During the last 25 years, life expectancy at age 50 in the United States has been rising, but at a slower pace than in many other high-income count...
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