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SBIR at the Department of Defense
and Economic PolicyCurrent price €60.29Original price €66.99Created in 1982 through the Small Business Innovation Development Act, the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program remains the nation's s...
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Robust Methods for the Analysis of Images and Videos for Fisheries Stock Assessment: Summary of a Workshop
Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their ApplicationsCurrent price €43.19Original price €47.99The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) is responsible for the stewardship of the nation's living marine resources and their habitat. As part ...
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Exploring Opportunities for STEM Teacher Leadership: Summary of a Convocation
Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and EducationCurrent price €35.87Original price €38.99Many national initiatives in K-12 science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education have emphasized the connections between teache...
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The Context of Military Environments: An Agenda for Basic Research on Social and Organizational Factors Relevant to Small Units
and Sensory SciencesCurrent price €38.69Original price €42.99The United States Army faces a variety of challenges to maintain a ready and capable force into the future. Missions are increasingly diverse, rang...
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Sustainable Infrastructures for Life Science Communication: Workshop Summary
Board on Life SciencesCurrent price €39.55Original price €42.99Advances in the life sciences - from the human genome to biotechnology to personalized medicine and sustainable communities - have profound implica...
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Continuing Kepler''s Quest: Assessing Air Force Space Command''s Astrodynamics Standards
Aeronautics and Space Engineering BoardCurrent price €40.84Original price €42.99In February 2009, the commercial communications satellite Iridium 33 collided with the Russian military communications satellite Cosmos 2251. The c...
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Proceedings of a Workshop on Deterring Cyberattacks: Informing Strategies and Developing Options for U.S. Policy
Committee on Deterring Cyberattacks: Informing Strategies and Developing Options for U.S. PolicyCurrent price €71.09Original price €78.99In a world of increasing dependence on information technology, the prevention of cyberattacks on a nation's important computer and communications s...
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Exploring the Intersection of Science Education and 21st Century Skills: A Workshop Summary
Board on Science EducationCurrent price €43.23Original price €46.99An emerging body of research suggests that a set of broad 21st century skillssuch as adaptability, complex communication skills, and the ability to...
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Views of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Engineering on Agenda Items at Issue at the World Radiocommunication Conference 2012
Board on Physics and AstronomyCurrent price €30.39Original price €31.99The passive, receive-only Radio Astronomy Service (RAS) and the Earth Exploration-Satellite Service (EESS) provide otherwise impossible scientific ...
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Monitoring Climate Change Impacts: Metrics at the Intersection of the Human and Earth Systems
Board on Atmospheric Sciences and ClimateCurrent price €40.84Original price €42.99The stresses associated with climate change are expected to be felt keenly as human population grows to a projected 9 billion by the middle of this...
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Report of a Workshop on the Scope and Nature of Computational Thinking
Committee for the Workshops on Computational ThinkingCurrent price €40.47Original price €43.99Report of a Workshop on the Scope and Nature of Computational Thinking presents a number of perspectives on the definition and applicability of com...
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Facilitating Climate Change Responses: A Report of Two Workshops on Knowledge from the Social and Behavioral Sciences
Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global ChangeCurrent price €50.34Original price €52.99The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, understanding the need for policy makers at the national level to entrain the behavioral and social scien...
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Intelligence Analysis for Tomorrow: Advances from the Behavioral and Social Sciences
and Sensory SciencesCurrent price €38.69Original price €42.99The intelligence community (IC) plays an essential role in the national security of the United States. Decision makers rely on IC analyses and pred...
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High School Dropout, Graduation, and Completion Rates: Better Data, Better Measures, Better Decisions
Center for EducationCurrent price €43.23Original price €46.99High school graduation and dropout rates have long been used as indicators of educational system productivity and effectiveness and of social and e...
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Preparing Teachers: Building Evidence for Sound Policy
Center for EducationCurrent price €57.95Original price €62.99Teachers make a difference. The success of any plan for improving educational outcomes depends on the teachers who carry it out and thus on the abi...
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Disposal Options for the Rocket Motors From Nerve Agent Rockets Stored at Blue Grass Army Depot
Board on Army Science and TechnologyCurrent price €38.69Original price €42.99The Blue Grass Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant (BGCAPP) is under construction near Richmond, Kentucky, two dispose of one of the two remaini...
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Public Response to Alerts and Warnings on Mobile Devices: Summary of a Workshop on Current Knowledge and Research Gaps
Committee on Public Response to Alerts and Warnings on Mobile Devices: Current Knowledge and Research GapsCurrent price €38.69Original price €42.99This book presents a summary of the Workshop on Public Response to Alerts and Warnings on Mobile Devices: Current Knowledge and Research Gaps, held...
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Envisioning the 2020 Census
Committee on National StatisticsCurrent price €84.59Original price €93.99Planning for the 2020 census is already beginning. This book from the National Research Council examines several aspects of census planning, includ...
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Understanding the Changing Planet: Strategic Directions for the Geographical Sciences
Board on Earth Sciences and ResourcesCurrent price €57.95Original price €62.99From the oceans to continental heartlands, human activities have altered the physical characteristics of Earth's surface. With Earth's population p...
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Strategic Planning for the Florida Citrus Industry: Addressing Citrus Greening Disease
Board on Agriculture and Natural ResourcesCurrent price €67.44Original price €70.99Citrus greening, a disease that reduces yield, compromises the flavor, color, and size of citrus fruit and eventually kills the citrus tree, is now...
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Managing University Intellectual Property in the Public Interest
and DialogueCurrent price €42.31Original price €45.99Thirty years ago federal policy underwent a major change through the Bayh-Dole Act of 1980, which fostered greater uniformity in the way research a...
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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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