The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce, carries out its mission of promoting U.S. innovation and industrial competitiveness by developing and…

Explores the research interface between computational chemistry and the mathematical sciences. Useful for non-specialists, this book documents some prominent examples of successful cross-fertilizations between the fields and explores the mathematical…

Electricity is the lifeblood of modern society, and for the vast majority of people that electricity is obtained from large, interconnected power grids. However, the grid that was developed in…

In June 2004, the President’s Commission issued a report recommending that NASA ask the National Research Council (NRC) to reevaluate space science priorities. The Congress also directed the NRC to…

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

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…

The information age is taking its toll on traditional office management techniques, where organizations have to devise a strategy for understanding how [a microcomputer’s] performance can be monitored. This book…

Improving State Voter Registration Databases outlines several actions that are needed to help make voter registration databases capable of sharing information within state agencies and across state lines. These include…