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    Tools and Methods for Estimating Populations at Risk from Natural Disasters and Complex Humanitarian Crises

    Committee on the Effective Use of Data, Methodologies, and Technologies to Estimate Subnational Populations at Risk,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

    Worldwide, millions of people are displaced annually because of natural or industrial disasters or social upheaval. This book reviews various methods and tools for making estimates of subnational populations and…

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    Racial and Ethnic Differences in the Health of Older Americans

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

    Examines trends in mortality rates and selected causes of disability (cardiovascular disease, dementia) for older people of different racial and ethnic groups. This volume provides an understanding of research bearing…

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    Welfare, the Family, and Reproductive Behavior: Report of a Meeting

    Committee on Population,National Research Council and Institute of Medicine,National Academy of Sciences,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education

    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 book of…

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    The Demography of Forced Migration: Summary of a Workshop

    Committee on Population,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education

    To explore a range of issues about internally displaced persons and refugees, the Committee on Population of the National Research Council organized a Workshop on the Demography of Forced Migration…

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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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    Proposed Revisions to the Common Rule for the Protection of Human Subjects in the Behavioral and Social Sciences

    National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on Population,Committee on National Statistics,Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences

    Examines how to update human subjects protections regulations so that they effectively respond to current research contexts and methods. This book addresses the dramatic alterations in the research landscapes that…

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    Human Factors Research Needs for an Aging Population

    Panel on Human Factors Research Issues for an Aging Population,Committee on Human Factors,National Research Council,Sara J. Czaja,National Academy of Sciences

    Describes the demographic, sociological, and ecological background of the aging society and identifies human factors problems associated with aging. This book summarizes relevant information and also recommends directions for research.

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    Attitudes, Aptitudes and Aspirations of American Youth: Implications for Military Recruitment

    Committee on the Youth Population and Military Recruitment,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

    Offers an overview of issues for military recruiters, touching on a number of important topics including - sex and race, education and aptitude, physical and moral attributes, and military life…

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    Multiple Origins, Uncertain Destinies: Hispanics and the American Future

    Committee on Transforming Our Common Destiny: Hispanics in the United States,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

    Looks at the diverse populations encompassed by the term Hispanic. This title describes the trajectory of the younger generations and established residents, and it projects long-term trends in population aging…

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    Changing Numbers, Changing Needs: American Indian Demography and Public Health

    National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on Population

    Presents a summary of what is known about the demography of American Indian and Alaska Native population, their geographic distributions, household structure, employment, and disability and disease patterns. This volume…

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    Can Earth’s and Society’s Systems Meet the Needs of 10 Billion People?: Summary of a Workshop

    National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Board on Life Sciences,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on Population

    The Earth’s population, currently 7.2 billion, is expected to rise at a rapid rate over the next 40 years. Current projections state that the Earth will need to support 9.6…

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    Measuring the Group Quarters Population in the American Community Survey: Interim Report

    Panel on Statistical Methods for Measuring the Group Quarters Population in the American Community Survey,National Research Council

    Advance copy, not for public release before Monday, December 27, 2010.

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    Small Populations, Large Effects: Improving the Measurement of the Group Quarters Population in the American Community Survey

    Panel on Statistical Methods for Measuring the Group Quarters Population in the American Community Survey,Committee on National Statistics,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,National Research Council

    In the early 1990s, the Census Bureau proposed a program of continuous measurement as a possible alternative to the gathering of detailed social, economic, and housing data from a sample…

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    Growing Up Global: The Changing Transitions to Adulthood in Developing Countries

    Panel on Transitions to Adulthood in Developing Countries,National Research Council

    Highlights the persistent disadvantages for young women relative to young men, the special needs of the poor, and youth living in sub-Saharan Africa, in the context of the transition to…

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    Initial Steps in Rebuilding the Health Sector in East Timor

    Roundtable on the Demography of Forced Migration,National Research Council,Program on Forced Migration and Health at the Mailman School of Public Health,Columbia University,National Academy of Sciences

    In May 2002 Timor Leste (East Timor) emerged as a new nation after centuries of foreign rule and decades of struggle for independence. Its birth was a painful one; a…

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    U.S. Health in International Perspective: Shorter Lives, Poorer Health

    Panel on Understanding Cross-National Health Differences Among High-Income Countries,Committee on Population,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,National Research Council,Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice

    The United States is among the wealthiest nations in the world, but it is far from the healthiest. Although life expectancy and survival rates in the United States have improved…

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    Biosocial Surveys

    Committee on Advances in Collecting and Utilizing Biological Indicators and Genetic Information in Social Science Surveys,National Research Council

    Serves as a follow-up to the 2003 volume, Cells and Surveys: Should Biological Measures Be Included in Social Science Research? and asks these questions: What have the social sciences, especially…

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    Evaluating Military Advertising and Recruiting: Theory and Methodology

    Committee on the Youth Population and Military Recruitment - Phase II,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

    Helps the DoD improve its research on advertising and recruiting policies. This book presents a framework for evaluation that links different types of research questions to various research methodologies.

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    The Changing Transitions to Adulthood in Developing Countries: Selected Studies

    Panel on Transitions to Adulthood in Developing Countries

    Explores how the transition to adulthood is changing in developing countries in light of globalization and what the implications of these changes might be for those responsible for designing youth…

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    International Differences in Mortality at Older Ages: Dimensions and Sources

    Panel on Understanding Divergent Trends in Longevity in High-Income Countries,National Research Council

    In 1950 men and women in the United States had a combined life expectancy of 68.9 years, the 12th highest life expectancy at birth in the world. Today, life expectancy…

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    Explaining Divergent Levels of Longevity in High-Income Countries

    Panel on Understanding Divergent Trends in Longevity in High-Income Countries,National Research Council

    Panel on Understanding Divergent Trends in Longevity in High-Income Countries, Committee on Population, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council of the National Academies.

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    Health and Incarceration: A Workshop Summary

    Committee on Causes and Consequences of High Rates of Incarceration,Committee on Law and Justice,Division on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,National Research Council,Board on the Health of Select Populations

    Presents the summary of a workshop jointly sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences(NAS) Committee on Law and Justice and the Institute of Medicine(IOM) Board on Health and Select Populations…

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    Understanding Racial and Ethnic Differences in Health in Late Life: A Research Agenda

    Panel on Race, Ethnicity, and Health in Later Life,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

    Considers possible explanations for racial and ethnic health differentials within an integrated framework. This book recommends looking at health differentials across the life course and deciphering the links between factors…

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    Critical Perspectives on Schooling and Fertility in the Developing World

    Committee on Population

    Assesses the evidence, and possible mechanisms, for the associations between women’s education, fertility preferences, and fertility in developing countries, and how these associations vary across regions. This book discusses the…

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    Himalayan Glaciers: Climate Change, Water Resources, and Water Security

    National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on Population,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Water Science and Technology Board

    Scientific evidence shows that most glaciers in South Asia’s Hindu Kush Himalayan region are retreating, but the consequences for the region’s water supply are unclear, this report finds. The Hindu…

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    Assessing Fitness for Military Enlistment: Physical, Medical, and Mental Health Standards

    Committee on Youth Population and Military Recruitment: Physical, Medical, and Mental Health Standards,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

    Examines the physical, medical, and mental health standards for military enlistment in light of trends in the physical condition of the youth population; and medical advances for treating certain conditions…

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    Psychosocial Concepts in Humanitarian Work with Children: A Review of the Concepts and Related Literature

    Roundtable on the Demography of Forced Migration,National Research Council,Program on Forced Migration and Health at the Mailman School of Public Health,Committee on Population,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education

    Concerned with reviewing psychosocial concepts in research related to humanitarian work, this report emphasises on research related to children affected by prolonged violence and armed conflict.

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    Critical Perspectives on Racial and Ethnic Differences in Health in Late Life

    Panel on Race, Ethnicity, and Health in Later Life,National Research Council

    In their later years, Americans of different racial and ethnic backgrounds are not in equally good–or equally poor–health. There is wide variation, but on average older Whites are healthier than…

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    Electrodynamics of Moving Media

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

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    Electrodynamics of Moving Media

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

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    Local Government Actions to Prevent Childhood Obesity

    The prevalence of childhood obesity is so high in the United States that it may reduce the life expectancy of today’s generation of children. Local Government Actions to Prevent Childhood…

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    Tooele Chemical Agent Disposal Facility: Update on National Research Council Recommendations

    National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems,Committee on Review and Evaluation of the Army Chemical Stockpile Disposal Program,National Academy of Sciences

    This report reviews the status of the U.S. Army Chemical Stockpile Disposal Program (CSDP) operations at Tooele, Utah, with respect to previous recommendations and observations made by the National Research…

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    Radioactivity: Report of Committee on X-Rays and Radioactivity, National Research Council

    A F Kovarik,L W McKeehan

    Bulletin Of The National Research Council, V10, Part 1, No. 51.

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    Radioactivity: Report of Committee on X-Rays and Radioactivity, National Research Council

    A F Kovarik,L W McKeehan

    Bulletin Of The National Research Council, V10, Part 1, No. 51.

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    Fertility of Malian Tamasheq Repatriated Refugees: The Impact of Forced Migration

    Program on Forced Migration and Health at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University,National Research Council,Committee on Population,Roundtable on the Demography of Forced Migration,Sara Randall

    In Africa many of the refugee flows in have had a strong ethnic dimension; interethnic conflict or conflict between politically powerful groups with minority populations. This report focuses on the…

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    War, Humanitarian Crises, Population Displacement, and Fertility: A Review of Evidence

    Program on Forced Migration and Health at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University,National Research Council,Committee on Population,Roundtable on the Demography of Forced Migration,Kenneth Hill

    Fertility and reproductive health issues more broadly have tended to be of low priority in humanitarian crises. This report reviews what evidence there is concerning the effects of humanitarian crisis…

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    Infrastructure for the 21st Century: Framework for a Research Agenda

    National Research Council,Committee on Infrastructure Innovation,National Academy of Sciences

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    Conducting Biosocial Surveys: Collecting, Storing, Accessing, and Protecting Biospecimens and Biodata

    Panel on Collecting, Storing, Accessing, and Protecting Biological Specimens and Biodata in Social Surveys,National Research Council

    Recent years have seen a growing tendency for social scientists to collect biological specimens such as blood, urine, and saliva as part of large-scale household surveys. By combining biological and…

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    Standards for K-12 Engineering Education?

    Committee on Standards for K-12 Engineering Education,National Research Council

    The goal of this study was to assess the value and feasibility of developing and implementing content standards for engineering education at the K-12 level. Content standards have been developed…

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    New Directions in the Sociology of Aging

    National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on Population,Panel on New Directions in Social Demography, Social Epidemiology, and the Sociology of Aging

    The aging of the population of the United States is occurring at a time of major economic and social changes. This book evaluates the contributions of social demography, social epidemiology…

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    Medically Assisted Conception: An Agenda for Research

    Committee on the Basic Science Foundations of Medically Assisted Conception,Institute of Medicine,National Research Council

    Presents a study by a committee of the Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council’s Board on Agriculture that examined the scientific foundations of medically assisted conception. This volume…

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    Improving Aircraft Safety

    Committee on FAA Airworthiness Certification Procedures,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

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    Forces Shaping the U.S.Academic Engineering Research Enterprise

    Committee on Academic Engineering Research,National Academy of Engineering,National Research Council

    Argues for many concrete actions on the part of universities, government, and industry to ensure the flow and relevance of technical talent to meet national social and economic goals, to…

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    Supporting Local Health Care in a Chronic Crisis: Management and Financing Approaches in the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo

    Roundtable on the Demography of Forced Migration,Program on Forced Migration and Health at the Mailman School of Public Health,Columbia University,Committee on Population,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education

    Supporting Local Health Care in a Chronic Crisis: Management and Financing Approaches in the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (2006)

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    Frontiers in Polar Biology in the Genomic Era

    National Research Council,Polar Research Board,Committee on Frontiers in Polar Biology,National Research Council

    Highlights research areas in polar biology that can benefit from genomic technologies and assesses the impediments to the conduct of polar genomic research. This work also emphasizes the importance of…

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    Industrial Environmental Performance Metrics: Challenges and Opportunities

    Committee on Industrial Environmental Performance Metrics,National Academy of Engineering,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

    Presents a corporate-focused analysis that aims to bring clarity and practicality to the complex issues of environmental metrics in industry. This book examines the metrics implications to businesses as their…

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    Water Chemicals Codex

    National Research Council,National Research Council (US), Committee on Water Treatment Chemicals

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    Thrombosis

    Sol Sherry

    Thrombosis is a groundbreaking study of blood clotting disorders, which can cause serious health problems such as heart attacks and strokes. Drawing on the latest research in the field, this…

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