Evaluates the changes, and assesses the adequacy of marine salvage in the United States. Among the issues addressed in this book are conditions in the salvage industry; emergency response-time; national…

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…

Explores the potential of networked systems of embedded computers and the research challenges arising from embedding computation and communications technology into a variety of applications. This book describes how these…

Presents a review of the understanding of the early earth and moon; the identification of science concepts and goals for moon exploration. This report offers an assessment of implementation options…

Examines the provision of national aviation weather services and related research and technology development efforts. This book discusses responsibilities and resources. It develops an approach whereby the federal government could…

Examines the emerging visions for e-government, the technologies required to implement them, and approaches that can be taken to accelerate innovation and the transition of innovative information technologies from the…

The Office of Industrial Technologies (OIT) of the U. S. Department of Energy commissioned the National Research Council (NRC) to undertake a study on required technologies for the Mining Industries…

Examines work and assesses the state of the art in potential applications of concentrated solar energy in nonelectric areas, such as water and waste treatment, photochemical processes, and materials processing…