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    Biomedical Models and Resources: Current Needs and Future Opportunities

    National Research Council,Commission on Life Sciences,Institute for Laboratory Animal Research,Committee on New and Emerging Models in Biomedical and Behavioral Research

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    Meeting the Nation’s Needs for Biomedical and Behavioral Scientists

    Committee on National Needs for Biomedical and Behavioral Research Personnel,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

    Assesses the nation’s future needs for biomedical and behavioral scientists and the role the National Research Service Awards (NRSA) program can play in meeting those needs. The NRSA program has…

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    National Earthquake Resilience: Research, Implementation, and Outreach

    Committee on National Earthquake Resilience--Research, Implementation, and Outreach,Committee on Seismology and Geodynamics,National Research Council

    The United States will certainly be subject to damaging earthquakes in the future. Some of these earthquakes will occur in highly populated and vulnerable areas. Coping with moderate earthquakes is…

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    An Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Information Technology Laboratory: Fiscal Year 2007

    Panel on Information Technology,National Research Council

    The report on the ITL presents a general assessment of the laboratory including a look at its research strategies, opportunities, planning for growth, research culture, and computing infrastructure; and provides…

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    An Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory: Fiscal Year 2008

    Panel on Manufacturing Engineering,National Research Council

    The Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory is organized in five divisions - Intelligent Systems, Manufacturing Metrology, Manufacturing Systems Integration, Precision Engineering, and Fabrication Technology. This book assesses the first four divisions.

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    An Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Information Technology Laboratory: Fiscal Year 2009

    Panel on Information Technology,National Research Council

    An Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Information Technology Laboratory evaluates The Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Six divisions…

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    An Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory: Fiscal Year 2010

    Panel on Manufacturing Engineering,National Research Council

    The mission of the Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory (MEL) of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is to promote innovation and the competitiveness of U.S. manufacturing through measurement science…

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    An Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Information Technology Laboratory: Fiscal Year 2011

    Panel on Information Technology,National Research Council

    Since 1959, the National Research Council (NRC), at the request of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), has annually assembled panels of experts to assess the quality and…

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    A Biological Survey for the Nation

    Committee on the Formation of the National Biological Survey,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

    Discusses key issues and problems for which an improved assessment of the nation’s biological resources is needed; the kinds of efforts in research and information management needed to create that…

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    Status of the Dosimetry for the Radiation Effects Research Foundation (DS86)

    National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Board on Radiation Effects Research,Committee on Dosimetry for the Radiation Effects Research Foundation,National Academy of Sciences

    The Committee on Dosimetry for the Radiation Effects Research Foundation (RERF) was charged with monitoring work and experimental results related to the Dosimetry System 1986 (DS86) used by RERF to…

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    Condensed-Matter and Materials Physics: Basic Research for Tomorrow’s Technology

    Committee on Condensed-Matter and Materials Physics,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

    Identifies opportunities, priorities, and challenges for the field of condensed-matter and materials physics. Topics discussed in this book include technology, novel quantum phenomena and experimental and computational tools. It also…

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    Respiratory Diseases Research at NIOSH: Reviews of Research Programs of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health

    Committee to Review the NIOSH Respiratory Disease Research Program,National Research Council,Institute of Medicine,National Academies

    Respiratory diseases caused by exposures to dangerous materials in the workplace have implications for worker health and, by extension, the national economy. This book reviews the RDRP to evaluate the…

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    National Science Education Standards

    National Committee on Science Education Standards and Assessment,National Research Council

    Aiming to offer a coherent vision of what it means to be scientifically literate, this book describes what all students should understand and be able to do at different grade…

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    Choosing the Nation’s Fiscal Future

    Committee on the Fiscal Future of the United States

    Assesses the options and possibilities for a sustainable federal budget. This comprehensive book considers a range of policy changes that could help put the budget on a sustainable path: reforms…

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    Real-Time Embedded Systems: Open-Source Operating Systems Perspective

    Ivan Cibrario Bertolotti (IEIIT - National Research Council, Torino, Italy),Gabriele Manduchi (National Research Council of Italy (Institute of Ionized Gases), University of Padova)

    This book provides the reader with a hands-on knowledge about real-time operating systems and their possible application in the embedded system domain. Besides analyzing in detail one or a few…

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    Real-Time Embedded Systems: Open-Source Operating Systems Perspective

    Ivan Cibrario Bertolotti (IEIIT - National Research Council, Torino, Italy),Gabriele Manduchi (National Research Council of Italy (Institute of Ionized Gases), University of Padova)

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    …the presentation of real-time scheduling is probably the best in terms of clarity I have ever read in the professional literature. Easy to understand, which is important…

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    Diet, Nutrition, and Cancer: Directions for Research

    Committee on Diet, Nutrition, and Cancer,Commission on Life Sciences,Division on Earth and Life Studies,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

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    Research Ethics in Complex Humanitarian Emergencies: Summary of a Workshop

    Roundtable on the Demography of Forced Migration,Committee on Population,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

    Situations involving conflict and forced migration have become increasingly commonplace in world. The Roundtable on the Demography of Forced Migration, under the aegis of the Committee on Population of the…

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    Big Data in Materials Research and Development: Summary of a Workshop

    National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,National Materials and Manufacturing Board,Defense Materials Manufacturing and Infrastructure Standing Committee

    Big Data in Materials Research and Development is the summary of a workshop convened by the National Research Council Standing Committee on Defense Materials Manufacturing and Infrastructure in February 2014…

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    The New Engineering Research Centers: Purposes, Goals and Expectations

    Cross-Disciplinary Engineering Research Committee,Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

    Within a decade, six Engineering Research Centers opened on university campuses across the United States. This volume discusses the challenges facing American industry; the roots and early development of the…

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    Love as a Collective Action: Latin America, Emotions and Interstitial Practices

    Adrian Scribano (National Scientific and Technical Research Council, Argentina)

    This book makes evident how love, as an interstitial practice, produces a set of collective practices and how, through a mapping of these practices, it is possible to observe the…

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    Love as a Collective Action: Latin America, Emotions and Interstitial Practices

    Adrian Scribano (National Scientific and Technical Research Council, Argentina)

    This book makes evident how love, as an interstitial practice, produces a set of collective practices and how, through a mapping of these practices, it is possible to observe the…

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    Colonization of the Inner Planet: 21st Century Social Theory from the Politics of Sensibilities

    Adrian Scribano (National Scientific and Technical Research Council, Argentina)

    This book explores the conquest, predation and management of human bodies and emotions by the growing capitalist digital community. It seeks to understand the debate between various forms of the…

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    Welfare, the Family and Reproductive Behavior: Research Perspectives

    Committee on Population,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

    The design of welfare programs in an era of reform and devolution to the states must take into account the likely effects of programs on demographic behavior. This work contains…

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    Population, Land Use, and Environment: Research Directions

    National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

    Offers recommendations for research to improve understanding of how changes in human populations affect the natural environment by means of changes in land use, such as deforestation, urban development, and…

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    Recapturing NASA’s Aeronautics Flight Research Capabilities

    Committee to Assess NASA's Aeronautics Flight Research Capabilities,National Research Council,National Academies

    In the five decades since NASA was created, the agency has sustained its legacy from the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics (NACA) in playing a major role in U.S. aeronautics…

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    Hazardous Waste Site Management: Water Quality Issues

    Water Science and Technology Board,National Research Council

    Addresses several methods used in the regulatory process with respect to water quality cleanup levels. Information and perspectives on the adequacy of these methods are provided by representatives from water…

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    Forest Trees

    Committee on Managing Global Genetic Resources: Agricultural Imperatives,National Research Council

    Assesses the status of the world’s tree genetic resources and management efforts. Strategies for meeting the needs and alternatives to harvesting natural forests are presented. This book also outlines methods…

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    Moving Beyond Myths: Revitalizing Undergraduate Mathematics

    Committee on the Mathematical Sciences in the Year 2000,National Research Council,Mathematical Sciences Education Board

    Acknowledging the weaknesses in the college mathematics curriculum and the ways in which it is taught, this book cites programs that point the way toward achieving the world-wide preeminence for…

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    Publications of the United States Patent Association. ..; Volume 1

    Henry 1823-1885 Howson,John S Perry (formerly National Research Council, USA)

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    Reduced Tar And Nicotine Cigarettes: Smoking Behavior And Health

    Dean R Gerstein

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

    This work is in the public…

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    Selenium in Nutrition

    Subcommittee on Selenium,Committee on Animal Nutrition,Board on Agriculture,National Research Council,J.E. Oldfield

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    Soil and Water Quality: An Agenda for Agriculture

    Committee on Long-Range Soil and Water Conservation Policy,National Research Council

    Offers four strategies that serve as the basis for a national policy to protect soil and water quality, while maintaining US agricultural productivity and competitiveness. This volume is of interest…

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    Building a Diverse Work Force: Scientists & Engineers in off

    No reliable acute-exposure1 standards have been established for the particular purpose of protecting soldiers from toxic exposures to chemical warfare (CW) agents. Some human-toxicity estimates are available for the most…

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    Persistent Forecasting of Disruptive Technologies

    Committee on Forecasting Future Disruptive Technologies,National Research Council

    Accompanying CD-ROM contains figures from chapter 2 and appendix F and transcripts from appendixes D and E.

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    Enhancing the Effectiveness of Sustainability Partnerships: Summary of a Workshop

    Science and Technology for Sustainability Program,National Research Council

    Sustainable development—meeting human needs while nurturing and restoring the planet’s life support systems—requires a continuous process of scientific innovation, new knowledge and learning, and collaborative approaches to implementing technologies and…

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    Sharing the Adventure with the Public: The Value and Excitement of ‘Grand Questions’ of Space Science and Exploration: Summary of a Workshop

    National Research Council

    On November 8-10, 2010, the National Research Council’s Space Studies Board (SSB) held a public workshop on how NASA and its associated science and exploration communities communicate with the public…

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    Reduced Tar and Nicotine Cigarettes: Smoking Behavior and Health

    Dean R Gerstein

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…

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    The Minimum Protein Requirements of Cattle / Report of Committee on Animal Nutrition

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

    This work is in the public…

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    Livestock

    National Research Council,Board on Agriculture,Committee on Managing Global Genetic Resources: Agricultural Imperatives

    Explores the importance of animal genetic diversity and presents a blueprint for national and international efforts to conserve animal genetic resources. This volume also evaluates genetic techniques useful in conservation…

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    Managing Global Genetic Resources: Agricultural Crop Issues and Policies

    National Research Council,Board on Agriculture,Committee on Managing Global Genetic Resources: Agricultural Imperatives

    Examines the structure that underlies efforts to preserve genetic material, including the worldwide network of genetic collections; the role of biotechnology; and many issues that surround management and use. It…

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    The Lattice Boltzmann Equation: For Fluid Dynamics and Beyond

    Sauro Succi (Institute for Computing Applications,National Research Council,Rome,Italy)

    The first detailed survey of the Lattice Boltzmann Equation theory and its major applications to date. This book is accessible to a range of scientists dealing with complex system dynamics…

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    50 Years of Ocean Discovery: National Science Foundation 1950-2000

    Ocean Studies Board,National Research Council

    Describes the development of ocean sciences, highlighting the contributions of the National Science Foundation (NSF) to the field’s progress. This book also examines the institutional structures and technology that made…

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    Chimpanzees in Research: Strategies for Their Ethical Care, Management, and Use

    National Research Council,Commission on Life Sciences,Institute for Laboratory Animal Research,Committee on Long-Term Care of Chimpanzees

    Chimpanzees in biomedical and behavioral research constitute a national resource that has been valuable in addressing national health needs. Facilities that house chimpanzees owned and supported by the National Institutes…

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    The National Children’s Study Research Plan: A Review

    Panel to Review the National Children's Study Research Plan,National Research Council,Institute of Medicine

    The National Children’s Study (NCS) is planned to be the largest long-term study of environmental and genetic effects on children’s health ever conducted in the United States. This book evaluates…

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    Engineering High Quality Medical Software: Regulations, standards, methodologies and tools for certification

    Antonio Coronato (Researcher, Institute for High Performance Computing and Networking, National Research Council, Naples, Italy)

    This book focuses on high-confidence medical software in the growing field of e-health, telecare services and health technology. It covers the development of methodologies and engineering tasks together with standards…

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    Revitalizing NASA’s Suborbital Program: Advancing Science, Driving Innovation, and Developing a Workforce

    Committee on NASA's Suborbital Research Capabilities,National Research Council

    Suborbital flight activities, including the use of sounding rockets, aircraft, high-altitude balloons, and suborbital reusable launch vehicles, offer valuable opportunities to advance science, train the next generation of scientists and…

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    Recognition and Alleviation of Pain and Distress in Laboratory Animals

    National Research Council,Commission on Life Sciences,Institute for Laboratory Animal Research,Committee on Pain and Distress in Laboratory Animals

    Provides an overview of what we know about behavior, pain, and distress in laboratory animals. This volume explores topics such as stressors in the laboratory and the animal behaviors they…

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