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Assuring the U.S. Department of Defense a Strong Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Workforce
and Mathematics Workforce Needs for the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Defense Industrial BaseCurrent price €43.23Original price €46.99The ability of the nation's military to prevail during future conflicts, and to fulfill its humanitarian and other missions, depends on continued a...
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The Mathematical Sciences in 2025
Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their ApplicationsCurrent price €48.44Original price €50.99The mathematical sciences are part of nearly all aspects of everyday life--the discipline has underpinned such beneficial modern capabilities as In...
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High Magnetic Field Science and Its Application in the United States: Current Status and Future Directions
Board on Physics and AstronomyCurrent price €49.39Original price €51.99The Committee to Assess the Current Status and Future Direction of High Magnetic Field Science in the United States was convened by the National Re...
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Geotargeted Alerts and Warnings: Report of a Workshop on Current Knowledge and Research Gaps
Committee on Geotargeted Disaster Alerts and Warnings: A Workshop on Current Knowledge and Research GapsCurrent price €27.89Original price €30.99Geotargeted Alerts and Warnings: Report of a Workshop on Current Knowledge and Research Gaps is the summary of a February, 2013 workshop convened b...
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Engineering Aviation Security Environments--Reduction of False Alarms in Computed Tomography-Based Screening of Checked Baggage
Committee on Engineering Aviation Security Environments--False Positives from Explosive Detection SystemsCurrent price €41.79Original price €43.99On November 19, 2001 the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) was created as a separate entity within the U.S. Department of Transportation...
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Opportunities in Protection Materials Science and Technology for Future Army Applications
Board on Army Science and TechnologyCurrent price €41.79Original price €43.99Armor plays a significant role in the protection of warriors. During the course of history, the introduction of new materials and improvements in t...
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Persistent Forecasting of Disruptive Technologies
Air Force Studies BoardCurrent price €43.19Original price €47.99Technological innovations are key causal agents of surprise and disruption. In the recent past, the United States military has encountered unexpect...
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Force Multiplying Technologies for Logistics Support to Military Operations
Board on Army Science and TechnologyCurrent price €53.09Original price €58.99The mission of the United States Army is to fight and win our nation's wars by providing prompt, sustained land dominance across the full range of ...
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Review of Army Research Laboratory Programs for Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Minority Institutions
Committee on Review of Army Research Laboratory Programs for Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Minority InstitutionsCurrent price €36.79Original price €39.99Review of Army Research Laboratory Programs for Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Minority Institutions examines the ways in which h...
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Reducing the Fuel Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Medium- and Heavy-Duty Vehicles: First Report
Board on Energy and Environmental SystemsCurrent price €42.29Original price €46.99Medium- and heavy-duty trucks, motor coaches, and transit buses - collectively, medium- and heavy-duty vehicles, or MHDVs - are used in every secto...
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Autonomy Research for Civil Aviation: Toward a New Era of Flight
Aeronautics and Space Engineering BoardCurrent price €44.64Original price €46.99The development and application of increasingly autonomous (IA) systems for civil aviation is proceeding at an accelerating pace, driven by the exp...
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Aligning the Governance Structure of the Nnsa Laboratories to Meet 21st Century National Security Challenges
Committee On Assessment Of The Governance Structure Of The NNSA National Security LaboratoriesCurrent price €38.69Original price €42.99Aligning the Governance Structure of the NNSA Laboratories to Meet 21st Century National Security Challenges is an independent assessment regarding...
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U.S. Air Force Strategic Deterrence Analytic Capabilities: An Assessment of Tools, Methods, and Approaches for the 21st Century Security Environment
Air Force Studies BoardCurrent price €51.29Original price €56.99Since the early 1960s, the U.S. strategic nuclear posture has been composed of a triad of nuclear-certified long-range bombers, intercontinental ba...
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Best Practices in Assessment of Research and Development Organizations
Division on Engineering and Physical SciencesCurrent price €29.44Original price €30.99Research and development (R&D) organizations are operated by government, business, academe, and independent institutes. The success of their pa...
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Best Practices in Assessment of Research and Development Organizations: Summary of a Workshop
Division on Engineering and Physical SciencesCurrent price €28.49Original price €29.99The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)recognizing that information and insights gained through continual examination of practice...
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Renewable Fuel Standard: Potential Economic and Environmental Effects of U.S. Biofuel Policy
Board on Agriculture and Natural ResourcesCurrent price €66.49Original price €69.99In the United States, we have come to depend on plentiful and inexpensive energy to support our economy and lifestyles. In recent years, many quest...
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Big Data in Materials Research and Development: Summary of a Workshop
Defense Materials Manufacturing and Infrastructure Standing CommitteeCurrent price €44.64Original price €46.99Big Data in Materials Research and Development is the summary of a workshop convened by the National Research Council Standing Committee on Defense...
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Merits and Viability of Different Nuclear Fuel Cycles and Technology Options and the Waste Aspects of Advanced Nuclear Reactors
and MedicineCurrent price €43.19Original price €47.99The United States has deployed commercial nuclear power since the 1950s, and as of 2021, nuclear power accounts for approximately 20 percent of U.S...
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The Role of Net Metering in the Evolving Electricity System
and MedicineCurrent price €49.49Original price €54.99Over the last three decades, there have been fundamental shifts in the electricity system, including the growing adoption of clean distributed gene...
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Visions into Voyages for Planetary Science in the Decade 2013-2022: A Midterm Review
and MedicineCurrent price €71.24Original price €74.99In spring 2011 the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine produced a report outlining the next decade in planetary sciences. Tha...
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Report Series: Committee on Planetary Protection: Evaluation of Bioburden Requirements for Mars Missions
and MedicineCurrent price €41.79Original price €43.99Since the 1980s, national and international planetary protection policies have sought to avoid contamination by terrestrial organisms that could co...
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Thriving in Space: Ensuring the Future of Biological and Physical Sciences Research: A Decadal Survey for 2023-2032
Aeronautics and Space Engineering BoardCurrent price €59.84Original price €62.99Research in biological and physical sciences in space provides the critical scientific and technological foundations that make space exploration po...
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Laying the Foundation for New and Advanced Nuclear Reactors in the United States
and MedicineCurrent price €40.84Original price €42.99The world confronts an existential challenge in responding to climate change, resulting in an urgent need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from a...
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Roman Space Telescope Observations: Report Series?Committee on Astronomy and Astrophysics
and MedicineCurrent price €22.79Original price €23.99The Roman Space Telescope will measurably advance knowledge of dark energy and exoplanet demographics. Locally, it will likely enhance understandin...
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Risk Analysis Methods for Nuclear War and Nuclear Terrorism
and MedicineCurrent price €25.65Original price €28.50The assessment of risk is complex and often controversial. It is derived from the existence of a hazard, and it is characterized by the uncertainty...
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Strategic Investments in Instrumentation and Facilities for Extraterrestrial Sample Curation and Analysis
and MedicineCurrent price €63.64Original price €66.99The United States possesses a treasure-trove of extraterrestrial samples that were returned to Earth via space missions over the past four decades....
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Pathways to Discovery in Astronomy and Astrophysics for the 2020s
and MedicineCurrent price €86.44Original price €90.99We live in a time of extraordinary discovery and progress in astronomy and astrophysics. The next decade will transform our understanding of the un...
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Zero-Sustainment Aircraft for the U.S. Air Force: A Workshop Summary
Air Force Studies BoardCurrent price €31.49Original price €34.99Overall Air Force weapon system sustainment (WSS) costs are growing at more than 4 percent per year, while budgets have remained essentially flat. ...
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An Assessment of the Prospects for Inertial Fusion Energy
Board on Energy and Environmental SystemsCurrent price €59.84Original price €62.99The potential for using fusion energy to produce commercial electric power was first explored in the 1950s. Harnessing fusion energy offers the pro...
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Assessment of Inertial Confinement Fusion Targets
Board on Energy and Environmental SystemsCurrent price €44.64Original price €46.99In the fall of 2010, the Office of the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Secretary for Science asked for a National Research Council (NRC) commit...
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AI for Scientific Discovery: Proceedings of a Workshop
and MedicineCurrent price €22.79Original price €23.99Over the past century, artificial intelligence (AI) has evolved from computational theory to everyday conversational technologies, capturing the at...
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Research Progress on Environmental, Health, and Safety Aspects of Engineered Nanomaterials
and Safety Aspects of Engineered NanomaterialsCurrent price €48.44Original price €50.99Despite the increase in funding for research and the rising numbers of peer-reviewed publications over the past decade that address the environment...
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Assessment to Enhance Air Force and Department of Defense Prototyping for the New Defense Strategy: A Workshop Summary
Air Force Studies BoardCurrent price €28.79Original price €31.99Assessment to Enhance Air Force and Department of Defense Prototyping for the New Defense Strategy is the summary of a workshop convened by the Air...
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At the Nexus of Cybersecurity and Public Policy: Some Basic Concepts and Issues
Committee on Developing a Cybersecurity Primer: Leveraging Two Decades of National Academies WorkCurrent price €44.64Original price €46.99We depend on information and information technology (IT) to make many of our day-to-day tasks easier and more convenient. Computers play key roles ...
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Final Report of the Committee on a Strategic Plan for U.S. Burning Plasma Research
and MedicineCurrent price €86.44Original price €90.99Fusion offers the prospect of virtually unlimited energy. The United States and many nations around the world have made enormous progress toward ac...
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Achieving Science with CubeSats: Thinking Inside the Box
and MedicineCurrent price €78.84Original price €82.99Space-based observations have transformed our understanding of Earth, its environment, the solar system and the universe at large. During past deca...
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