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    Evaluating Welfare Reform: A Framework and Review of Current Work, Interim Report

    Panel on Data and Methods for Measuring the Effects of Changes in Social Welfare Programs,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on National Statistics,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,National Research Council

    The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996 fundamentally changed the nation’s social welfare system, replacing a federal entitlement program for low-income families, called Aid to Families…

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    Understanding Business Dynamics: An Integrated Data System for America’s Future

    Panel on Measuring Business Formation, Dynamics, and Performance,National Research Council

    Presents strategies for improving the accuracy, timeliness, coverage, and integration of data that are used in constructing aggregate economic statistics. This book also presents analysis of topics ranging from job…

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    Measuring Respirator Use in the Workplace

    Panel on Review of the National Institute of Occupation Safety and Health,Bureau of Labor Statistics Respirator Use Survey

    Respirators are used in a variety of workplaces including emergency response, mining operations, construction, manufacturing, and hospitals. In 2001, National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and Bureau of…

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    Estimating Eligibility and Participation for the WIC Program: Phase I Report

    Panel to Evaluate the USDA's Methodology for Estimating Eligibility and Participation for the WIC Program,Committee on National Statistics,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education

    Each year the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) must estimate the number of people who are eligible to participate in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children…

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    AIDS: The Second Decade

    Committee on AIDS Research and the Behavioral, Social, and Statistical Sciences,National Research Council

    Reports the changing trends in AIDS cases and HIV infection among the homosexual community, intravenous drug users, women, minorities, and other groups. This volume presents an overview of a range…

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    AIDS, Sexual Behavior, and Intravenous Drug Use

    Committee on AIDS Research and the Behavioral, Social, and Statistical Sciences,National Research Council

    The AIDS virus is spread by human behaviors enacted in a variety of social situations. In order to prevent further infection, we need to know more about these behaviors. This…

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    Coverage Measurement in the 2010 Census

    Panel on Coverage Evaluation and Correlation Bias in the 2010 Census,National Research Council

    For the 2010 census coverage measurement program, the Census Bureau is planning to focus on the goal of improving census processes. This book details the findings of the National Research…

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    Improving Measurement of Productivity in Higher Education

    National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Board on Testing and Assessment,Committee on National Statistics,Panel on Measuring Higher Education Productivity: Conceptual Framework and Data Needs

    Committee on National Statistics, Board on Testing and Assessment, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education.

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    Protecting Participants and Facilitating Social and Behavioral Sciences Research

    Panel on Institutional Review Boards, Surveys, and Social Science Research,National Research Council

    Examines three key issues related to human participation in social, behavioral, and economic sciences research. This report is suitable for policy makers, research administrators, research sponsors, IRB members, and investigators.

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    National Children’s Study 2014: An Assessment

    Panel on the Design of the National Children's Study and Implications for the Generalizability of Results,Committee on National Statistics,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Board on Children, Youth, and Families,Institute of Medicine

    The National Children’s Study (NCS) was authorized by the Children’s Health Act of 2000 and is being implemented by a dedicated Program Office in the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute…

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    Food Insecurity and Hunger in the United States: An Assessment of the Measure

    Panel to Review U.S Department of Agriculture's Measurement of Food Insecurity and Hunger,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

    Food Insecurity and Hunger in the United States: An Assessment of the Measure (2006)

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    Medical Care Economic Risk: Measuring Financial Vulnerability from Spending on Medical Care

    National Research Council,Institute of Medicine,Board on Health Care Services,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on National Statistics

    The United States has seen major advances in medical care during the past decades, but access to care at an affordable cost is not universal. Many Americans lack health care…

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    Uncertainty Management in Remote Sensing of Climate Data: Summary of a Workshop

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    Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, Climate Research Committee, Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications, Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics, Space Studies Board, Committee on Earth Studies, Division…

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    Effective Tracking of Building Energy Use: Improving the Commercial Buildings and Residential Energy Consumption Surveys

    Panel on Redesigning the Commercial Buildings and Residential Energy Consumption Surveys of the Energy Information Administration,National Research Council

    The United States is responsible for nearly one-fifth of the world’s energy consumption. Population growth, and the associated growth in housing, commercial floor space, transportation, goods, and services is expected…

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    Evaluating AIDS Prevention Programs

    Panel on the Evaluation of AIDS Interventions,Committee on AIDS Research and the Behavioral, Social, and Statistical Sciences

    Offering a discussion of program evaluation and the efforts of the Centers for Disease Control, this book presents a set of recommendations to help ensure that the substantial resources devoted…

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    Envisioning the 2020 Census

    Panel on the Design of the 2010 Census Program of Evaluations

    The project that is the subject of this report was supported by contract no. YA1323-06-CN-0031 between the U.S. Census Bureau and the National Academy of Sciences –T.p. verso.

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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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    Statistical Models and Analysis in Auditing: A Study of Statistical Models and Methods for Analyzing Nonstandard Mixtures of Distributions in Auditing

    National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications,Board on Mathematical Sciences,Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics

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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.

    This work is in the "public…

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    Discriminant Analysis and Clustering

    National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications,Board on Mathematical Sciences,Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics

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    Agricultural Biotechnology: Strategies for National Competitiveness

    National Research Council,Board on Agriculture,Committee on a National Strategy for Biotechnology in Agriculture,National Academy of Sciences

    Biotechnology offers tremendous potential for improving crop production, animal agriculture, and bioprocessing. This book explores the United States’ ability to solve important agricultural problems, use funds and institutional structures to…

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    Improving Measures of Science, Technology, and Innovation: Interim Report

    Panel on Developing Science, Technology, and Innovation Indicators for the Future,National Research Council

    The National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES), at the U.S. National Foundation, is 1 of 14 major statistical agencies in the federal government, of which at least 5…

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    Capturing Change in Science, Technology, and Innovation: Improving Indicators to Inform Policy

    Panel on Developing Science, Technology, and Innovation Indicators for the Future,Committee on National Statistics

    Assesses and provides recommendations regarding the need for revised, refocused, and newly developed indicators of STI activities that would enable National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) to respond…

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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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    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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    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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    Environmental Epidemiology

    Committee on Environmental Epidemiology,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

    Determining the health risks to humans of exposure to toxic substances in the environment is made difficult by problems such as measuring the degree to which people have been exposed…

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    Improving Aircraft Safety

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

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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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    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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    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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    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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    Biologic Markers in Pulmonary Toxicology

    Committee on Biologic Markers,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

    Biologic markers - indicators of biological exposure or change - offer the promise of early detection of disease caused by environmental exposure. Offering a comprehensive study of the use of…

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    Biologic Markers in Pulmonary Toxicology

    Committee on Biologic Markers,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

    Biologic markers - indicators of biological exposure or change - offer the promise of early detection of disease caused by environmental exposure. Offering a comprehensive study of the use of…

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    Soil Conservation: An Assessment of the National Resources Inventory, Volume 2

    National Research Council,Board on Agriculture,Committee on Conservation Needs and Opportunities

    Brings together the technical papers from which Volume 1 is drawn. This book covers 10 papers and discussion from a National Research Council symposium that cover topics such as soil…

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    The Role of Chromium in Animal Nutrition

    Committee on Animal Nutrition,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

    Animal health benefits have been attributed to chromium supplementation, including increased longevity; enhanced reproduction; decreased incidence of metabolic disorders, stress effects, and disease; reduced need for antibiotic usage; improved immune…

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    Research in Photosynthesis; Papers and Discussions Presented at the Gatlinburg Conference, October 25-29, 1955, Sponsored by the Committee on Photobiology of the National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council and Supported by the National Science

    H Gaffron

    The Gatlinburg Conference was a landmark event in the study of photosynthesis, bringing together leading researchers to discuss the latest findings and theories. This volume collects the papers and discussions…

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    Rangeland Heath: New Methods to Classify, Inventory and Monitor Rangelands

    National Research Council

    Rangelands comprise between 40 and 50 percent of all U.S. land and serve the nation both as productive areas for wildlife, recreational use, and livestock grazing and as watersheds. The…

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    National Security Implications of Climate Change for U.S. Naval Forces

    Committee on National Security Implications of Climate Change for U.S. Naval Forces,National Research Council

    In response to the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO), the National Research Council appointed a committee operating under the auspices of the Naval Studies Board to study the national security…

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    Monitoring Human Tissues for Toxic Substances

    Committee on National Monitoring of Human Tissues,Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology,Commission on Life Sciences,Division on Earth and Life Studies,National Research Council

    The National Human Monitoring Program (NHMP) identifies concentrations of specific chemicals in human tissues. This volume evaluates the contemporary activities of the NHMP; identifies important scientific, technical, and programmatic issues…

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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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    Nutrient Requirements of Rabbits

    Committee on Animal Nutrition,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

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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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    Perspectives on Urban Infrastructure

    Committee on National Urban Policy,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,National Research Council,R. Hanson

    Exposes the myths surrounding infrastructure crisis in urban public works. This work examines the evolution of the public works system, the limitations of urban needs studies, the financing of public…

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    Water Chemicals Codex

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

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