1,925 หนังสืออิเล็กทรอนิกส์โดย Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences
Board on Manufacturing and Engineering Design & Committee on Technologies to Deter Currency Counterfeiting: Path to the Next Generation of U.S. Banknotes
The rapid pace at which digital printing is advancing is posing a very serious challenge to the U.S. Department of the Treasurys Bureau of Printing (BEP). The BEP needs to stay ahead of the evolving …
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€66.41
Board on Army Science and Technology & Committee on Review of Chemical Agent Secondary Waste Disposal and Regulatory Requirements: Review of Chemical Agent Secondary Waste Disposal and Regulatory Requirements
Under the direction of the U.S. Army’s Chemical Materials Agency (CMA) and mandated by Congress, the nation is destroying its chemical weapons stockpile. Large quantities of secondary waste are being …
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€24.90
Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment & Committee on Assessing the Results of External Independent Reviews for U.S. Department of Energy Projects: Assessment of the Results of External Independent Reviews for U.S. Department of Energy Pr
Peer review is an essential component of engineering practice and other scientific and technical undertakings. Peer reviews are conducted to ensure that activities are technically adequate, …
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€24.88
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Research Council: Decadal Science Strategy Surveys
The Workshop on Decadal Science Strategy Surveys was held on November 14-16, 2006, to promote discussions of the use of National Research Council (NRC) decadal surveys for developing and implementing …
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Board on Army Science and Technology & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Strategy for an Army Center for Network Science, Technology, and Experimentation
The U.S. military has committed to a strategy of network-centric warfare. As a result, the Army has become increasingly interested in the critical role of network science. To a significant extent, …
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€24.72
Committee on Nanophotonics Accessibility and Applicability & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Nanophotonics
The Committee on Technology Insight-Gauge, Evaluate & Review set up by the NRC at the request of the Defense Intelligence Agency, has selected a number of emerging technologies to investigate for …
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€58.79
Committee on NASA Astronomy Science Centers & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Portals to the Universe
The astronomy science centers established by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to serve as the interfaces between astronomy missions and the community of scientists who utilize …
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€24.88
Committee on Assessment of Security Technologies for Transportation & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Fusion of Security System Data to Improve Airport Security
The security of the U.S. commercial aviation system has been a growing concern since the 1970’s when the hijacking of aircraft became a serious problem. Over that period, federal aviation officials …
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€24.60
Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: New Directions for Understanding Systemic Risk
The stability of the financial system and the potential for systemic events to alter its function have long been critical issues for central bankers and researchers. Recent events suggest that older …
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€36.08
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee on Meeting the Workforce Needs for the National Vision for Space Exploration: Building a Better NASA Workforce
The Vision for Space Exploration (VSE) announced by President George W. Bush in 2004 sets NASA and the nation on a bold path to return to the Moon and one day put a human on Mars. The long-term …
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€24.75
Committee on Advancing Software-Intensive Systems Producibility & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Summary of a Workshop on Software-Intensive Systems and Uncertainty at Scale
The growing scale and complexity of software-intensive systems are introducing fundamental new challenges of uncertainty and scale that are particularly demanding for defense systems. To assist in …
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€24.68
Board on Life Sciences & Committee on an Astrobiology Strategy for the Exploration of Mars: Astrobiology Strategy for the Exploration of Mars
Three recent developments have greatly increased interest in the search for life on Mars. The first is new information about the Martian environment including evidence of a watery past and the …
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€38.25
Corrosion Education Workshop Organizing Panel & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Proceedings of the Materials Forum 2007
The U.S. industrial complex and its associated infrastructure are essential to the nation’s quality of life, its industrial productivity, international competitiveness, and security. Each component …
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€17.33
Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology & Committee on Defeating Improvised Explosive Devices: Basic Research to Interrupt the IED Delivery Chain: Countering the Threat of Improvised Explosive Devices
Attacks in London, Madrid, Bali, Oklahoma City and other places indicate that improvised explosive devices (IEDs) are among the weapons of choice of terrorists throughout the world. Scientists and …
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€24.86
Committee on the Scientific Context for Exploration of the Moon & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Scientific Context for Exploration of the Moon
Because of the Moons unique place in the evolution of rocky worlds, it is a prime focus of NASAs space exploration vision. Currently NASA is defining and implementing a series of robotic orbital and …
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€35.82
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Plasma Science
As part of its current physics decadal survey, Physics 2010, the NRC was asked by the DOE, NSF, and NASA to carry out an assessment of and outlook for the broad field of plasma science and …
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€44.19
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: National Science Foundation’s Materials Research Science and Engineering Centers Program
The Materials Research Science and Engineering Centers (MRSEC) Impact Assessment Committee was convened by the National Research Council in response to an informal request from the National Science …
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€59.17
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Committee on CMMP 2010: Condensed-Matter and Materials Physics
The development of transistors, the integrated circuit, liquid-crystal displays, and even DVD players can be traced back to fundamental research pioneered in the field of condensed-matter and …
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€59.71
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Committee on Review of DOE’s Nuclear Energy Research and Development Program: Review of DOE’s Nuclear Energy Research and Development Program
There has been a substantial resurgence of interest in nuclear power in the United States over the past few years. One consequence has been a rapid growth in the research budget of DOE’s Office of …
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€32.39
Computer Science and Telecommunications Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Strategic Management of Information and Communication Technology
Although Y2K did not result in major disruptions, the event is a rich source of critical lessons for strategic management of information and communication technology (ICT), many of which apply to …
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€40.31
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Committee on NASA’s Beyond Einstein Program: An Architecture for Implementation: NASA’s Beyond Einstein Program
"Beyond Einstein science" is a term that applies to a set of new scientific challenges at the intersection of physics and astrophysics. Observations of the cosmos now have the potential to …
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€48.75
Board on Army Science and Technology & Committee on Directed Energy Technology for Countering Indirect Weapons: Review of Directed Energy Technology for Countering Rockets, Artillery, and Mortars (RAM)
The United States Army is looking for ways to defend against missile and mortar attacks. In this book, the National Research Council assesses a plan to create a 100 k W mobile, solid-state, laser …
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€17.16
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & Laboratory Assessments Board: Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Chemical Science and Technology Laboratory
The report on the CSTL presents an assessment of the Labs five divisions, covering"where appropriate"how well each division addresses national priorities, its impact and level of …
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€17.21
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & Laboratory Assessments Board: Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Center for Neutron Research
The book on the NCNR presents a general assessment of the Lab, followed by assessments of its facilities and personnel, its role as a user facility, and its science and technology. The book notes …
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€17.14
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & Laboratory Assessments Board: Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Electronics and Electrical Engineering Laboratory
The report on the EEEL presents an assessment of the Labs four divisions. The assessment is based on four criteria: alignment with national priorities, motivation of its programs, technical merit, …
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€17.15
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & Laboratory Assessments Board: Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Information Technology Laboratory
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; …
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€17.17
Committee on Assessing the Need for a Defense Stockpile & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Managing Materials for a Twenty-first Century Military
Since 1939, the U.S. government, using the National Defense Stockpile (NDS), has been stockpiling critical strategic materials for national defense. The economic and national security environments, …
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€53.48
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Research Council: Maritime Security Partnerships
To offer security in the maritime domain, governments around the world need the capabilities to directly confront common threats like piracy, drug-trafficking, and illegal immigration. No single navy …
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€60.12
Committee on Manpower and Personnel Needs for a Transformed Naval Force & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Manpower and Personnel Needs for a Transformed Naval Force
The Department of Defense (DOD) is committed to transforming the nation’s armed forces to meet the military challenges of the future. One approach to achieving this transformation is by leveraging …
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€45.58
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Research Council: Options to Ensure the Climate Record from the NPOESS and GOES-R Spacecraft
In 2000, the nation’s next-generation National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) program anticipated purchasing six satellites for $6.5 billion, with a first launch …
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€21.11
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee to Conduct an Independent Assessment of the Nation’s Wake Turbulence Research and Development Program: Wake Turbulence
Without major changes, the current air transportation system will be unable to accommodate the expected increase in demand by 2025. One proposal to address this problem is to use the Global …
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€32.32
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee on the Evaluation of Radiation Shielding for Space Exploration: Managing Space Radiation Risk in the New Era of Space Exploration
As part of the Vision for Space Exploration (VSE), NASA is planning for humans to revisit the Moon and someday go to Mars. An important consideration in this effort is protection against the exposure …
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€38.07
Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Core Competencies for Federal Facilities Asset Management Through 2020
The U.S. government is faced with growing challenges to managing its facilities and infrastructure. A number of factors such as shrinking budgets, an aging workforce, and increasing costs demand new …
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€33.95
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Committee on Enhancing the Robustness and Resilience of Future Electrical Transmission and Distribution in the United States to Terrorist Attack: Terrorism and the Electric Power Delivery System
The electric power delivery system that carries electricity from large central generators to customers could be severely damaged by a small number of well-informed attackers. The system is inherently …
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€3.71
Committee on Conventional Prompt Global Strike Capability & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: U.S. Conventional Prompt Global Strike
Conventional prompt global strike (CPGS) is a military option under consideration by the U.S. Department of Defense. This book, the final report from the National Research Council’s Committee on …
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€58.98
Air Force Studies Board & Committee on Pre-Milestone A Systems Engineering: A Retrospective Review and Benefits for Future Air Force Systems Acquisition: Pre-Milestone A and Early-Phase Systems Engineering
The ability of U.S. military forces to field new weapons systems quickly and to contain their cost growth has declined significantly over the past few decades. There are many causes including …
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€41.94
Committee on Assessing the Solar System Exploration Program & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Grading NASA’s Solar System Exploration Program
The NASA Authorization Act of 2005 directed the agency to ask the NRC to assess the performance of each division in the NASA Science directorate at five-year intervals. In this connection, NASA …
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€24.66
Committee on the Review of the NASA Astrobiology Institute & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Assessment of the NASA Astrobiology Institute
Astrobiology is a scientific discipline devoted to the study of life in the universe – its origin, evolution, distribution, and future. In 1997, NASA established an Astrobiology program (the NASA …
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€24.90
Board on Army Science and Technology & Committee to Review and Assess Developmental Issues Concerning the Metal Parts Treater Design for the Blue Grass Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plant: Review and Assessment of Developmental Issues Concerning the Me
The United States is in the process of destroying its chemical weapons stockpile. In 1996, Congress mandated that DOD demonstrate and select alternative methods to incineration at the Blue Grass and …
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€24.64
Committee on America’s Energy Future & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: America’s Energy Future
For multi-user PDF licensing, please contact customer service. Energy touches our lives in countless ways and its costs are felt when we fill up at the gas pump, pay our home heating bills, and keep …
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€80.70
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Research Council: Space Science and the International Traffic in Arms Regulations
ITAR, which controls defense trade, includes the U.S. Munitions List (USML) which specifies categories of defense articles and services covered by the regulations. In 1999, space satellites were …
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€17.16
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Review of the Research Program of the FreedomCAR and Fuel Partnership
The Freedom CAR and Fuel Partnership is a collaborative effort among the Department of Energy (DOE), the U.S. Council for Automotive Research (USCAR), and five major energy companies to manage …
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€44.79
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee on Science Opportunities Enabled by NASA’s Constellation System: Launching Science
In January 2004 NASA was given a new policy direction known as the Vision for Space Exploration. That plan, now renamed the United States Space Exploration Policy, called for sending human and …
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€42.32
Committee on Forecasting Future Disruptive Technologies & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Persistent Forecasting of Disruptive Technologies
Technological innovations are key causal agents of surprise and disruption. In the recent past, the United States military has encountered unexpected challenges in the battlefield due in part to the …
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€39.18
Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Review of the Federal Strategy for Nanotechnology-Related Environmental, Health, and Safety Research
This new book from the National Research Council finds serious weaknesses in the government’s plan for research on the potential health and environmental risks posed by nanomaterials, which are …
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€38.48
Board on Life Sciences & Board on Physics and Astronomy: Inspired by Biology
Scientists have long desired to create synthetic systems that function with the precision and efficiency of biological systems. Using new techniques, researchers are now uncovering principles that …
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€67.95
Committee on Law and Justice & Committee on National Statistics: Ballistic Imaging
Ballistic Imaging assesses the state of computer-based imaging technology in forensic firearms identification. The book evaluates the current law enforcement database of images of crime-related …
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€68.60
Committee on State Voter Registration Databases & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: State Voter Registration Databases
The Help America Vote Act of 2002 requires the states to develop a single, computerized voter registration data base (VRD) that is defined, maintained, and administered at the state level. To help …
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€24.72
Committee on Assessing the Impacts of Changes in the Information Technology Research and Development Ecosystem & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Assessing the Impacts of Changes in the Information Technology R&D Ecosystem
The U.S. information technology (IT) research and development (R&D) ecosystem was the envy of the world in 1995. However, this position of leadership is not a birthright, and it is now under …
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€52.21
Committee on New Opportunities in Solar System Exploration: An Evaluation of the New Frontiers Announcement of Opportunity & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Opening New Frontiers in Space
The New Frontiers Program was created by NASA in 2002 at the recommendation of the NRC’s decadal survey for solar system research. In order to optimize solar system research, the NRC recommended a …
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€24.66
Committee on Military and Intelligence Methodology for Emergent Neurophysiological and Cognitive & Neural Science Research in the Next Two Decades: Emerging Cognitive Neuroscience and Related Technologies
Emerging Cognitive Neuroscience and Related Technologies, from the National Research Council, identifies and explores several specific research areas that have implications for U.S. national …
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€56.38
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee for the Assessment of NASA’s Aeronautics Research Program: NASA Aeronautics Research
In 2006, the NRC published a Decadal Survey of Civil Aeronautics: Foundation for the Future, which set out six strategic objectives for the next decade of civil aeronautics research and technology. …
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€36.94
Committee on Assessing Corrosion Education & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Assessment of Corrosion Education
The threat from the degradation of materials in the engineered products that drive our economy, keep our citizenry healthy, and keep us safe from terrorism and belligerent threats has been well …
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€44.35
Committee on Integrated Computational Materials Engineering & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Integrated Computational Materials Engineering
Integrated computational materials engineering (ICME) is an emerging discipline that can accelerate materials development and unify design and manufacturing. Developing ICME is a grand challenge that …
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€39.92
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee on Science Opportunities Enabled by NASA’s Constellation System: Science Opportunities Enabled by NASA’s Constellation System
To begin implementation of the Vision for Space Exploration (recently renamed "United States Space Exploration Policy"), NASA has begun development of new launch vehicles and a …
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€24.86
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: United States Civil Space Policy
In 2004, the NRC released a workshop report about the future direction of the U.S. civil space program. At the same time, the Administration announced the Vision for Space Exploration, and in June …
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€17.26
Board on Life Sciences & Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications: Department of Homeland Security Bioterrorism Risk Assessment
The mission of Department of Homeland Security Bioterrorism Risk Assessment: A Call for Change, the book published in December 2008, is to independently and scientifically review the methodology that …
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€46.01
Board on Army Science and Technology & Committee to Review Secondary Waste Disposal and Regulatory Requirements for the Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives Program: Review of Secondary Waste Disposal Planning for the Blue Grass and Pueblo Chemical Age
The U.S. Army Program Manager for Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives (PMACWA) is charged with disposing of chemical weapons as stored at two sites: Pueblo, Colorado, and Blue Grass, Kentucky. In …
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€24.68
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Committee on Assessment of Resource Needs for Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Technologies: Transitions to Alternative Transportation Technologies
Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles (HFCVs) could alleviate the nation’s dependence on oil and reduce U.S. emissions of carbon dioxide, the major greenhouse gas. Industry-and government-sponsored research …
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€45.29
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Materials Advisory Board: Proceedings of a Workshop on Materials State Awareness
In order to ensure effective military operations and continued warfighter safety, the functionality and integrity of the equipment used must also be ensured. For the past several years, the …
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€24.63
Committee on a Strategy to Mitigate the Impact of Sensor Descopes and Demanifests on the NPOESS and GOES-R Spacecraft & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Ensuring the Climate Record from the NPOESS and GOES-R Spacecraft
In 2000, the nation’s next-generation National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) program anticipated purchasing six satellites for $6.5 billion, with a first launch …
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€49.43
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Committee to Review the 21st Century Truck Partnership: Review of the 21st Century Truck Partnership
The 21st Century Truck Partnership (21CTP), a cooperative research and development partnership formed by four federal agencies with 15 industrial partners, was launched in the year 2000 with high …
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€38.49
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Assessing the Research and Development Plan for the Next Generation Air Transportation System
The U.S. aviation industry, airline passengers, aircraft pilots, airports, and airline companies are all facing challenges. The air transportation system is experiencing unprecedented and increasing …
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€17.17
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Committee to Review the U.S. ITER Science Participation Planning Process: Review of the DOE Plan for U.S. Fusion Community Participation in the ITER Program
ITER presents the United States and its international partners with the opportunity to explore new and exciting frontiers of plasma science while bringing the promise of fusion energy closer to …
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€24.89
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Committee for The National Academies Summit on America’s Energy Future: National Academies Summit on America’s Energy Future
There is a growing sense of national urgency about the role of energy in long-term U.S. economic vitality, national security, and climate change. This urgency is the consequence of many factors, …
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€46.28
Committee on the Potential Impact of High-End Computing on Illustrative Fields of Science and Engineering & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Potential Impact of High-End Capability Computing on Four Illustrative Fields of Science and Engineering
Many federal funding requests for more advanced computer resources assume implicitly that greater computing power creates opportunities for advancement in science and engineering. This has often been …
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€45.21
Committee on Law and Justice & Committee on National Statistics: Protecting Individual Privacy in the Struggle Against Terrorists
All U.S. agencies with counterterrorism programs that collect or "mine" personal data — such as phone records or Web sites visited — should be required to evaluate the programs’ …
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€55.97
Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment & Committee on the Assessment of the Bureau of Reclamation’s Security Program: Assessment of the Bureau of Reclamation’s Security Program
The water impounded behind a dam can be used to generate power and to provide water for drinking, irrigation, commerce, industry, and recreation. However, if a dam fails, the water that would be …
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€41.46
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee to Review NASA’s Exploration Technology Development Program: Constrained Space Exploration Technology Program
In January 2004, President George W. Bush announced the Vision for Space Exploration (VSE), which instructed NASA to "Extend human presence across the solar system, starting with a human return …
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€43.01
Board on Army Science and Technology & Committee to Review Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives Program Detonation Technologies: Assessment of Explosive Destruction Technologies for Specific Munitions at the Blue Grass and Pueblo Chemical Agent Destruc
The Army’s ability to meet public and congressional demands to destroy expeditiously all of the U.S. declared chemical weapons would be enhanced by the selection and acquisition of appropriate …
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€38.89
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Committee on a Scientific Assessment of Free-Electron Laser Technology for Naval Applications: Scientific Assessment of High-Power Free-Electron Laser Technology
This book presents a scientific assessment of free-electron-laser technology for naval applications. The charge from the Office of Naval Research was to assess whether the desired performance …
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€32.09
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Assessing Economic Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Mitigation
Many economic models exist to estimate the cost and effectiveness of different policies for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Some approaches incorporate rich technological detail, others …
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€24.65
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & Laboratory Assessments Board: Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Center for Neutron Research
The National Institute of Standards and Technology [NIST] Center for Neutron Research (NCNR) is a national user facility whose mission is to ensure the availability of neutron measurement …
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€17.23
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & Laboratory Assessments Board: Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory
The Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory (MSEL) of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) works with industry, standards bodies, universities, and other government …
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€17.22
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & Laboratory Assessments Board: Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory
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 …
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€17.33
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & Laboratory Assessments Board: Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Building and Fire Research Laboratory
A panel of experts appointed by the National Research Council assessed the scientific and technical work of the Building and Fire Research Laboratory (BFRL) of the National Institute of Standards and …
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Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & Laboratory Assessments Board: Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Physics Laboratory
The mission of the NIST Physics Laboratory is to support U.S. industry, government, and the scientific community by providing measurement services and research for electronic, optical, and radiation …
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Board on Army Science and Technology & Committee on Opportunities in Neuroscience for Future Army Applications: Opportunities in Neuroscience for Future Army Applications
Advances and major investments in the field of neuroscience can enhance traditional behavioral science approaches to training, learning, and other applications of value to the Army. Neural-behavioral …
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€38.81
Committee on the Societal and Economic Impacts of Severe Space Weather Events: A Workshop & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Severe Space Weather Events
The adverse effects of extreme space weather on modern technology–power grid outages, high-frequency communication blackouts, spacecraft anomalies–are well known and well documented, and the …
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€40.75
Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment & Committee to Review the NIOSH Construction Research Program: Construction Research at NIOSH
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) conducts construction-relevant research activities. From 1996 through 2005, the program focused on four research goals:reducing …
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€46.80
Committee on the Evaluation of Quantification of Margins and Uncertainties Methodology for Assessing and Certifying the Reliability of the Nuclear Stockpile & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Evaluation of Quantification of Margins and Uncer
Maintaining the capabilities of the nuclear weapons stockpile and performing the annual assessment for the stockpile’s certification involves a wide range of processes, technologies, and expertise. …
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€24.88
Committee on Engaging the Computer Science Research Community in Health Care Informatics & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Computational Technology for Effective Health Care
Despite a strong commitment to delivering quality health care, persistent problems involving medical errors and ineffective treatment continue to plague the industry. Many of these problems are the …
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€40.69
Committee on the Review of Planetary Protection Requirements for Mars Sample Return Missions & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Assessment of Planetary Protection Requirements for Mars Sample Return Missions
NASA maintains a planetary protection policy to avoid the forward biological contamination of other worlds by terrestrial organisms, and back biological contamination of Earth from the return of …
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€24.86
Board on Army Science and Technology & Committee on Evaluation of the Safety and Environmental Metrics for Potential Application at Chemical Agent Disposal Facilities: Evaluation of Safety and Environmental Metrics for Potential Application at Chemical Ag
By the end of 2009, more than 60 percent of the global chemical weapons stockpile declared by signatories to the Chemical Weapons Convention will have been destroyed, and of the 184 signatories, only …
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Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics & Committee on Identifying the Needs of the Forensic Sciences Community: Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States
Scores of talented and dedicated people serve the forensic science community, performing vitally important work. However, they are often constrained by lack of adequate resources, sound policies, and …
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€40.09
Committee on the Review of the Bureau of Reclamation’s Corrosion Prevention Standards for Ductile Iron Pipe & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Review of the Bureau of Reclamation’s Corrosion Prevention Standards for Ductile Iron Pipe
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Committee on Universal Radio Frequency System for Special Operations Forces & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Toward a Universal Radio Frequency System for Special Operations Forces
The U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) was formed in response to the failed rescue attempt in 1980 of American hostages held by Iran. Among its key responsibilities, SOCOM plans and synchronizes …
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Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Assessment of Research Needs for Wind Turbine Rotor Materials Technology: Assessment of Research Needs for Wind Turbine Rotor Materials Technology
Wind-driven power systems represent a renewable energy technology. Arrays of interconnected wind turbines can convert power carried by the wind into electricity. This book defines a research and …
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Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Measuring and Improving Infrastructure Performance: Measuring and Improving Infrastructure Performance
The nation’s physical infrastructure facilitates movement of people and goods; provides safe water; provides energy when and where needed; removes wastes; enables rapid communications; and generally …
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Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Feasibility of Applying Blast-Mitigating Technologies and Design Methodologies from Military Facilities to Civilian Buildings: Protecting Buildings from Bomb Damage
This book provides a brief overview of worldwide terrorist activity and reviews technologies and methods for designing blast resistant buildings. These techniques, primarily developed by the …
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Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Laboratory Design, Construction, and Renovation
Laboratory facilities are complex, technically sophisticated, and mechanically intensive structures that are expensive to build and to maintain. Hundreds of decisions must be made before and during …
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Committee on Performance Indicators for Federal Real Property Asset Management & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Key Performance Indicators for Federal Facilities Portfolios
More than 30 federal departments and agencies with a wide range of missions and programs manage large inventories of facilities, also called portfolios. These portfolios range in size from a few …
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Board on Army Science and Technology & Committee on Network Science for Future Army Applications: Network Science
The military is currently attempting to develop itself into a force capable of networkcentric operations. While this effort has highlighted the militarys dependence on interacting networks, it has …
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€58.39
Committee on Privacy in the Information Age & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Engaging Privacy and Information Technology in a Digital Age
Privacy is a growing concern in the United States and around the world. The spread of the Internet and the seemingly boundaryless options for collecting, saving, sharing, and comparing information …
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Board on Physics and Astronomy & Committee on CMMP 2010: Condensed-Matter and Materials Physics
The development of transistors, the integrated circuit, liquid-crystal displays, and even DVD players can be traced back to fundamental research pioneered in the field of condensed-matter and …
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€82.26
Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Core Competencies for Federal Facilities Asset Management Through 2020
The U.S. government is faced with growing challenges to managing its facilities and infrastructure. A number of factors such as shrinking budgets, an aging workforce, and increasing costs demand new …
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Board on Life Sciences & Board on Physics and Astronomy: Inspired by Biology
Scientists have long desired to create synthetic systems that function with the precision and efficiency of biological systems. Using new techniques, researchers are now uncovering principles that …
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Committee on Law and Justice & Committee on National Statistics: Ballistic Imaging
Ballistic Imaging assesses the state of computer-based imaging technology in forensic firearms identification. The book evaluates the current law enforcement database of images of crime-related …
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€74.64
Committee on Military and Intelligence Methodology for Emergent Neurophysiological and Cognitive & Neural Science Research in the Next Two Decades: Emerging Cognitive Neuroscience and Related Technologies
Emerging Cognitive Neuroscience and Related Technologies, from the National Research Council, identifies and explores several specific research areas that have implications for U.S. national …
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€82.96
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Committee on Assessment of Resource Needs for Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Technologies: Transitions to Alternative Transportation Technologies
Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles (HFCVs) could alleviate the nation’s dependence on oil and reduce U.S. emissions of carbon dioxide, the major greenhouse gas. Industry-and government-sponsored research …
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€64.13
Committee on the Potential Impact of High-End Computing on Illustrative Fields of Science and Engineering & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Potential Impact of High-End Capability Computing on Four Illustrative Fields of Science and Engineering
Many federal funding requests for more advanced computer resources assume implicitly that greater computing power creates opportunities for advancement in science and engineering. This has often been …
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Committee on Law and Justice & Committee on National Statistics: Protecting Individual Privacy in the Struggle Against Terrorists
All U.S. agencies with counterterrorism programs that collect or "mine" personal data — such as phone records or Web sites visited — should be required to evaluate the programs’ …
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€82.26
Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment & Committee for Review of the Project Management Practices Employed on the Boston Central Artery: Completing the "Big Dig"
Boston’s Central Artery/Tunnel Project, a 7.8 mile system of bridges and underground highways and ramps, is the most expensive public works project ever undertaken in the United States. The original …
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€57.26
Committee on Heliophysics Performance Assessment & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Performance Assessment of NASA’s Heliophysics Program
Since the 1990s, the pace of discovery in the field of solar and space physics has accelerated, largely owing to NASA investments in its Heliophysics Great Observatory fleet of spacecraft. These …
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€24.91
Committee on Information Assurance for Network-Centric Naval Forces & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Information Assurance for Network-Centric Naval Forces
Owing to the expansion of network-centric operating concepts across the Department of Defense (DOD) and the growing threat to information and cybersecurity from lone actors, groups of like-minded …
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€52.39
Committee on Experimentation and Rapid Prototyping in Support of Counterterrorism & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Experimentation and Rapid Prototyping in Support of Counterterrorism
The U.S. military forces currently face a nontraditional threat from insurgents and terrorists who primarily employ improvised explosive devices, and have shown a cycle of adaptation of less than 12 …
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€33.90
Committee on Sensing and Communications Capabilities for Special Operations Forces & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Sensing and Supporting Communications Capabilities for Special Operations Forces
Among its key responsibilities, The U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) plans and synchronizes operations against terrorist networks. At any given moment, SOF are likely to be engaged in some …
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€17.16
Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Sustainable Critical Infrastructure Systems
For the people of the United States, the 20th century was one of unprecedented population growth, economic development, and improved quality of life. The critical infrastructure systems-water, …
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€29.93
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Committee for an Assessment of and Outlook for New Materials Synthesis and Crystal Growth: Frontiers in Crystalline Matter
For much of the past 60 years, the U.S. research community dominated the discovery of new crystalline materials and the growth of large single crystals, placing the country at the forefront of …
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€50.01
Committee on the Societal and Economic Impacts of Severe Space Weather Events: A Workshop & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Severe Space Weather EventsaUnderstanding Societal and Economic Impacts
The adverse effects of extreme space weather on modern technology–power grid outages, high-frequency communication blackouts, spacecraft anomalies–are well known and well documented, and the …
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€17.18
Board on Army Science and Technology & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Disposal of Activated Carbon from Chemical Agent Disposal Facilities
For the last two decades, the United States has been destroying its entire stockpile of chemical agents. At the facilities where these agents are being destroyed, effluent gas streams pass through …
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€24.80
Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment & Committee on New Orleans Regional Hurricane Protection Projects: New Orleans Hurricane Protection System
Hurricane Katrina, which struck New Orleans and surrounding areas in August 2005, ranks as one of the nation’s most devastating natural disasters. Shortly after the storm, the U.S. Army Corps of …
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Committee on Offensive Information Warfare & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Technology, Policy, Law, and Ethics Regarding U.S. Acquisition and Use of Cyberattack Capabilities
The United States is increasingly dependent on information and information technology for both civilian and military purposes, as are many other nations. Although there is a substantial literature on …
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€55.97
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Radioisotope Power Systems
Spacecraft require electrical energy. This energy must be available in the outer reaches of the solar system where sunlight is very faint. It must be available through lunar nights that last for 14 …
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€24.87
Air Force Studies Board & Committee on Optimizing U.S. Air Force and Department of Defense Review of Air Force Acquisition Programs: Optimizing U.S. Air Force and Department of Defense Review of Air Force Acquisition Programs
The Department of Defense (DOD) spends over $300 billion each year to develop, produce, field and sustain weapons systems (the U.S. Air Force over $100 billion per year). DOD and Air Force …
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Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Forging the Future of Space Science
From September 2007 to June 2008 the Space Studies Board conducted an international public seminar series, with each monthly talk highlighting a different topic in space and Earth science. The …
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€45.62
Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate & Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications: Uncertainty Management in Remote Sensing of Climate Data
Great advances have been made in our understanding of the climate system over the past few decades, and remotely sensed data have played a key role in supporting many of these advances. Improvements …
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€24.72
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Approaches to Future Space Cooperation and Competition in a Globalizing World
Numerous countries and regions now have very active space programs, and the number is increasing. These maturing capabilities around the world create a plethora of potential partners for cooperative …
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Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee on the Rationale and Goals of the U.S. Civil Space Program: America’s Future in Space
As civil space policies and programs have evolved, the geopolitical environment has changed dramatically. Although the U.S. space program was originally driven in large part by competition with the …
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€32.67
Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment & Committee on New Orleans Regional Hurricane Protection Projects: New Orleans Hurricane Protection System
Hurricane Katrina, which struck New Orleans and surrounding areas in August 2005, ranks as one of the nation’s most devastating natural disasters. Shortly after the storm, the U.S. Army Corps of …
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Board on Army Science and Technology & Committee on Evaluation of the Safety and Environmental Metrics for Potential Application at Chemical Agent Disposal Facilities: Evaluation of Safety and Environmental Metrics for Potential Application at Chemical Ag
By the end of 2009, more than 60 percent of the global chemical weapons stockpile declared by signatories to the Chemical Weapons Convention will have been destroyed, and of the 184 signatories, only …
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Board on Army Science and Technology & Committee on Opportunities in Neuroscience for Future Army Applications: Opportunities in Neuroscience for Future Army Applications
Advances and major investments in the field of neuroscience can enhance traditional behavioral science approaches to training, learning, and other applications of value to the Army. Neural-behavioral …
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€54.93
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee to Review the NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts: Fostering Visions for the Future
The NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts (NIAC) was formed in 1998 to provide an independent source of advanced aeronautical and space concepts that could dramatically impact how NASA develops and …
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€24.50
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Approaches to Future Space Cooperation and Competition in a Globalizing World
Numerous countries and regions now have very active space programs, and the number is increasing. These maturing capabilities around the world create a plethora of potential partners for cooperative …
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€35.86
Air Force Studies Board & Committee on Optimizing U.S. Air Force and Department of Defense Review of Air Force Acquisition Programs: Optimizing U.S. Air Force and Department of Defense Review of Air Force Acquisition Programs
The Department of Defense (DOD) spends over $300 billion each year to develop, produce, field and sustain weapons systems (the U.S. Air Force over $100 billion per year). DOD and Air Force …
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€52.71
Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Sustainable Critical Infrastructure Systems
For the people of the United States, the 20th century was one of unprecedented population growth, economic development, and improved quality of life. The critical infrastructure systems-water, …
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€43.67
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Assessing Economic Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Mitigation
Many economic models exist to estimate the cost and effectiveness of different policies for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Some approaches incorporate rich technological detail, others …
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€36.22
Committee on the Societal and Economic Impacts of Severe Space Weather Events: A Workshop & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Severe Space Weather Events
The adverse effects of extreme space weather on modern technology–power grid outages, high-frequency communication blackouts, spacecraft anomalies–are well known and well documented, and the …
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€53.75
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Radioisotope Power Systems
Spacecraft require electrical energy. This energy must be available in the outer reaches of the solar system where sunlight is very faint. It must be available through lunar nights that last for 14 …
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€36.14
Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications & Committee to Evaluate the NSF’s Vertically Integrated Grants for Research and Education (VIGRE) Program: Evaluation of NSF’s Program of Grants for Vertical Integration of Research and Education in th
In 1998, the National Science Foundation (NSF) launched a program of Grants for Vertical Integration of Research and Education in the Mathematical Sciences (VIGRE). These grants were designed for …
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€38.10
Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment & Committee on Advancing the Productivity and Competitiveness of the U.S. Industry Workshop: Advancing the Competitiveness and Efficiency of the U.S. Construction Industry
Construction productivity–how well, how quickly, and at what cost buildings and infrastructure can be constructed–directly affects prices for homes and consumer goods and the robustness of the …
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€35.95
Air Force Studies Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Examination of the U.S. Air Force’s Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Workforce Needs in the Future and Its Strategy to Meet Those Needs
The Air Force requires technical skills and expertise across the entire range of activities and processes associated with the development, fielding, and employment of air, space, and cyber …
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Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment & Committee on the Evaluation of Future Strategic and Energy Efficient Alternatives for the U.S Capitol Power Plant: Evaluation of Future Strategic and Energy Efficient Options for the U.S. Capitol P
The U.S. Capitol Complex in Washington, D.C., comprises some of the most historic and symbolic buildings in the nation. The steam and chilled water required to heat and cool these buildings and …
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Computer Science and Telecommunications Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Biometric Recognition
Biometric recognition–the automated recognition of individuals based on their behavioral and biological characteristic–is promoted as a way to help identify terrorists, provide better control of …
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Committee for the Symposium on Avoiding Technology Surprise for Tomorrow’s Warfighter & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Avoiding Technology Surprise for Tomorrow’s Warfighter
On April 29, 2009 the National Research Council held a 1-day symposium titled, ‘Avoiding Technology Surprise for Tomorrow’s Warfighter.’ This volume, a report of the symposium, highlights key …
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Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics & Committee on Identifying the Needs of the Forensic Sciences Community: Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States
Scores of talented and dedicated people serve the forensic science community, performing vitally important work. However, they are often constrained by lack of adequate resources, sound policies, and …
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Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee to Review Near-Earth Object Surveys and Hazard Mitigation Strategies: Near-Earth Object Surveys and Hazard Mitigation Strategies
The United States is currently the only country with an active, government-sponsored effort to detect and track potentially hazardous near-Earth objects (NEOs). Congress has mandated that NASA detect …
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€24.70
Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment & Committee on the Evaluation of Future Strategic and Energy Efficient Alternatives for the U.S Capitol Power Plant: Evaluation of Future Strategic and Energy Efficient Options for the U.S. Capitol P
The U.S. Capitol Complex in Washington, D.C., comprises some of the most historic and symbolic buildings in the nation. The steam and chilled water required to heat and cool these buildings and …
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€25.23
Army Research Laboratory Technical Assessment Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: 2007-2008 Assessment of the Army Research Laboratory
This volume is the latest in a series of biennial assessments of the scientific and technical quality of the Army Research Laboratory (ARL). The current report summarizes findings for the 2007-2008 …
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€38.20
Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate & Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications: Uncertainty Management in Remote Sensing of Climate Data
Great advances have been made in our understanding of the climate system over the past few decades, and remotely sensed data have played a key role in supporting many of these advances. Improvements …
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€36.22
Board on Army Science and Technology & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Disposal of Activated Carbon from Chemical Agent Disposal Facilities
For the last two decades, the United States has been destroying its entire stockpile of chemical agents. At the facilities where these agents are being destroyed, effluent gas streams pass through …
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€36.22
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & Laboratory Assessments Board: Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Center for Neutron Research
The National Institute of Standards and Technology [NIST] Center for Neutron Research (NCNR) is a national user facility whose mission is to ensure the availability of neutron measurement …
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Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & Laboratory Assessments Board: Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology
The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST’s) Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology (CNST) was founded on May 1, 2007, and remains in development with respect to projects and …
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Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & Laboratory Assessments Board: Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Electronics and Electrical Engineering Laboratory
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 …
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Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & Laboratory Assessments Board: Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Information Technology Laboratory
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 …
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Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & Laboratory Assessments Board: Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Chemical Science and Technology Laboratory
An Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Chemical Science and Technology Laboratory examines the operations of the Chemical Science and Technology Laboratory (CSTL) of the …
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Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee on the Rationale and Goals of the U.S. Civil Space Program: America’s Future in Space
As civil space policies and programs have evolved, the geopolitical environment has changed dramatically. Although the U.S. space program was originally driven in large part by competition with the …
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€47.90
Committee for the Symposium on Avoiding Technology Surprise for Tomorrow’s Warfighter & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Avoiding Technology Surprise for Tomorrow’s Warfighter
On April 29, 2009 the National Research Council held a 1-day symposium titled, ‘Avoiding Technology Surprise for Tomorrow’s Warfighter.’ This volume, a report of the symposium, highlights key …
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€35.78
Committee on Universal Radio Frequency System for Special Operations Forces & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Toward a Universal Radio Frequency System for Special Operations Forces
The U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) was formed in response to the failed rescue attempt in 1980 of American hostages held by Iran. Among its key responsibilities, SOCOM plans and synchronizes …
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€25.33
Committee on Sensing and Communications Capabilities for Special Operations Forces & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Sensing and Supporting Communications Capabilities for Special Operations Forces
Among its key responsibilities, The U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) plans and synchronizes operations against terrorist networks. At any given moment, SOF are likely to be engaged in some …
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€25.44
Committee on State Voter Registration Databases & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Improving State Voter Registration Databases
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 …
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Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology: Hidden Costs of Energy
Despite the many benefits of energy, most of which are reflected in energy market prices, the production, distribution, and use of energy causes negative effects. Many of these negative effects are …
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€53.91
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee on NASA’s National Aviation Operations Monitoring Service (NAOMS) Project: An Independent Assessment: Assessment of NASA’s National Aviation Operations Monitoring Service
The National Research Council of the National Academies was requested by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to perform an independent assessment of NASA’s National Aviation …
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€43.42
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee to Review the NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts: Fostering Visions for the Future
The NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts (NIAC) was formed in 1998 to provide an independent source of advanced aeronautical and space concepts that could dramatically impact how NASA develops and …
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€36.16
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Committee on Radio Frequencies: Spectrum Management for Science in the 21st Century
Radio observations of the cosmos are gathered by geoscientists using complex earth-orbiting satellites and ground-based equipment, and by radio astronomers using large ground-based radio telescopes. …
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€61.01
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Committee for an Assessment of and Outlook for New Materials Synthesis and Crystal Growth: Frontiers in Crystalline Matter
For much of the past 60 years, the U.S. research community dominated the discovery of new crystalline materials and the growth of large single crystals, placing the country at the forefront of …
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€72.36
Army Research Laboratory Technical Assessment Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: 2007-2008 Assessment of the Army Research Laboratory
This volume is the latest in a series of biennial assessments of the scientific and technical quality of the Army Research Laboratory (ARL). The current report summarizes findings for the 2007-2008 …
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€54.30
Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment & Committee on Advancing the Productivity and Competitiveness of the U.S. Industry Workshop: Advancing the Competitiveness and Efficiency of the U.S. Construction Industry
Construction productivity–how well, how quickly, and at what cost buildings and infrastructure can be constructed–directly affects prices for homes and consumer goods and the robustness of the …
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Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology & Board on Life Sciences: Research at the Intersection of the Physical and Life Sciences
Traditionally, the natural sciences have been divided into two branches: the biological sciences and the physical sciences. Today, an increasing number of scientists are addressing problems lying at …
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Committee on the Review of the Bureau of Reclamation’s Corrosion Prevention Standards for Ductile Iron Pipe & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Review of the Bureau of Reclamation’s Corrosion Prevention Standards for Ductile Iron Pipe
Ductile iron pipe (DIP) was introduced about 50 years ago as a more economical and better-performing product for water transmission and distribution. As with iron or steel pipes, DIP is subject to …
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Committee on Experimentation and Rapid Prototyping in Support of Counterterrorism & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Experimentation and Rapid Prototyping in Support of Counterterrorism
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€48.29
Committee on the Role and Scope of Mission-Enabling Activities in NASA’s Space and Earth Science Missions & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Enabling Foundation for NASA’s Earth and Space Science Missions
NASA’s space and Earth science program is composed of two principal components: spaceflight projects and mission-enabling activities. Most of the budget of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate (SMD) is …
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Committee on Improving Processes and Policies for the Acquisition and Test of Information Technologies in the Department of Defense & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Achieving Effective Acquisition of Information Technology in the Departmen
In the military, information technology (IT) has enabled profound advances in weapons systems and the management and operation of the defense enterprise. A significant portion of the Department of …
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Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Committee on Assessment of Resource Needs for Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Technologies: Transitions to Alternative Transportation TechnologiesaPlug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles
The nation has compelling reasons to reduce its consumption of oil and emissions of carbon dioxide. Plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) promise to contribute to both goals by allowing some miles …
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Committee on Forecasting Future Disruptive Technologies & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Persistent Forecasting of Disruptive TechnologiesaReport 2
The term "disruptive technology" describes a technology that results in a sudden change affecting already established technologies or markets. Disruptive technologies cause one or more …
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Committee on America’s Energy Future & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: America’s Energy Future
For multi-user PDF licensing, please contact customer service. Energy touches our lives in countless ways and its costs are felt when we fill up at the gas pump, pay our home heating bills, and keep …
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Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications & Committee to Evaluate the NSF’s Vertically Integrated Grants for Research and Education (VIGRE) Program: Evaluation of NSF’s Program of Grants for Vertical Integration of Research and Education in th
In 1998, the National Science Foundation (NSF) launched a program of Grants for Vertical Integration of Research and Education in the Mathematical Sciences (VIGRE). These grants were designed for …
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Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee on NASA’s National Aviation Operations Monitoring Service (NAOMS) Project: An Independent Assessment: Assessment of NASA’s National Aviation Operations Monitoring Service
The National Research Council of the National Academies was requested by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to perform an independent assessment of NASA’s National Aviation …
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Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee to Review Near-Earth Object Surveys and Hazard Mitigation Strategies: Near-Earth Object Surveys and Hazard Mitigation Strategies
The United States is currently the only country with an active, government-sponsored effort to detect and track potentially hazardous near-Earth objects (NEOs). Congress has mandated that NASA detect …
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Committee for the Workshops on Computational Thinking & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Report of a Workshop on the Scope and Nature of Computational Thinking
Report of a Workshop on the Scope and Nature of Computational Thinking presents a number of perspectives on the definition and applicability of computational thinking. For example, one idea expressed …
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€34.72
Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Technical Capabilities Necessary for Regulation of Systemic Financial Risk
The financial reform plans currently under discussion in the United States recognize the need for monitoring and regulating systemic risk in the financial sector. To inform those discussions, the …
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€17.28
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee to Review Near-Earth-Object Surveys and Hazard Mitigation Strategies: Defending Planet Earth
The United States spends approximately $4 million each year searching for near-Earth objects (NEOs). The objective is to detect those that may collide with Earth. The majority of this funding …
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€41.94
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Committee on Understanding the Impact of Selling the Helium Reserve: Selling the Nation’s Helium Reserve
Helium has long been the subject of public policy deliberation and management, largely because of its many strategic uses and its unusual source-it is a derived product of natural gas and its market …
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€39.69
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Committee to Assess Fuel Economy Technologies for Medium- and Heavy-Duty Vehicles: Technologies and Approaches to Reducing the Fuel Consumption of Medium- and Heavy-Duty Vehicles
Technologies and Approaches to Reducing the Fuel Consumption of Medium- and Heavy-Duty Vehicles evaluates various technologies and methods that could improve the fuel economy of medium- and …
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€57.78
Committee on Forecasting Future Disruptive Technologies & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Persistent Forecasting of Disruptive Technologies
Technological innovations are key causal agents of surprise and disruption. In the recent past, the United States military has encountered unexpected challenges in the battlefield due in part to the …
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€55.39
Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Technical Capabilities Necessary for Regulation of Systemic Financial Risk
The financial reform plans currently under discussion in the United States recognize the need for monitoring and regulating systemic risk in the financial sector. To inform those discussions, the …
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€25.54
Committee on State Voter Registration Databases & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Improving State Voter Registration Databases
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 …
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€53.92
Committee on NASA’s Suborbital Research Capabilities & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Revitalizing NASA’s Suborbital Program
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 …
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€24.91
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Committee on Radio Frequencies: Spectrum Management for Science in the 21st Century
Radio observations of the cosmos are gathered by geoscientists using complex earth-orbiting satellites and ground-based equipment, and by radio astronomers using large ground-based radio telescopes. …
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€71.99
Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology & Board on Life Sciences: Research at the Intersection of the Physical and Life Sciences
Traditionally, the natural sciences have been divided into two branches: the biological sciences and the physical sciences. Today, an increasing number of scientists are addressing problems lying at …
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€54.29
Committee on the Role and Scope of Mission-Enabling Activities in NASA’s Space and Earth Science Missions & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Enabling Foundation for NASA’s Earth and Space Science Missions
NASA’s space and Earth science program is composed of two principal components: spaceflight projects and mission-enabling activities. Most of the budget of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate (SMD) is …
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€35.87
Committee on Information Assurance for Network-Centric Naval Forces & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Information Assurance for Network-Centric Naval Forces
Owing to the expansion of network-centric operating concepts across the Department of Defense (DOD) and the growing threat to information and cybersecurity from lone actors, groups of like-minded …
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€74.56
Committee on NASA’s Suborbital Research Capabilities & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Revitalizing NASA’s Suborbital Program
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 …
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€36.02
Committee on Developments in Detector Technologies & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Seeing Photons
The Department of Defense recently highlighted intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities as a top priority for U.S. warfighters. Contributions provided by ISR assets in the …
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€50.16
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee on the Assessment of NASA Laboratory Capabilities: Capabilities for the Future
Over the past 5 years or more, there has been a steady and significant decrease in NASA’s laboratory capabilities, including equipment, maintenance, and facility upgrades. This adversely affects the …
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€34.15
Committee for the Workshops on Computational Thinking & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Report of a Workshop on the Scope and Nature of Computational Thinking
Report of a Workshop on the Scope and Nature of Computational Thinking presents a number of perspectives on the definition and applicability of computational thinking. For example, one idea expressed …
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€49.74
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Committee on Assessment of Resource Needs for Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Technologies: Transitions to Alternative Transportation TechnologiesaPlug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles
The nation has compelling reasons to reduce its consumption of oil and emissions of carbon dioxide. Plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) promise to contribute to both goals by allowing some miles …
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€48.98
Committee on National Security Implications of Climate Change for U.S. Naval Forces & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: National Security Implications of Climate Change for U.S. Naval Forces
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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€49.50
Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Steps Toward Large-Scale Data Integration in the Sciences
Steps Toward Large-Scale Data Integration in the Sciences summarizes a National Research Council (NRC) workshop to identify some of the major challenges that hinder large-scale data integration in …
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€24.65
Committee for the Symposium on Avoiding Technology Surprise for Tomorrow’s Warfightera¬&2010 & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Avoiding Technology Surprise for Tomorrow’s Warfighter
The Symposium on Avoiding Technology Surprise for Tomorrow’s Warfighter is a forum for consumers and producers of scientific and technical intelligence to exchange perspectives on the potential …
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€24.63
Committee on Global Science and Technology Strategies and Their Effect on U.S. National Security & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: S&T Strategies of Six Countries
An increase in global access to goods and knowledge is transforming world-class science and technology (S&T) by bringing it within the capability of an unprecedented number of global parties who must …
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€36.58
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology: Hidden Costs of Energy
Despite the many benefits of energy, most of which are reflected in energy market prices, the production, distribution, and use of energy causes negative effects. Many of these negative effects are …
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€74.99
Committee on Engaging the Computer Science Research Community in Health Care Informatics & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Computational Technology for Effective Health Care
Despite a strong commitment to delivering quality health care, persistent problems involving medical errors and ineffective treatment continue to plague the industry. Many of these problems are the …
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€58.21
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Committee on the Assessment of Technologies for Improving Light-Duty Vehicle Fuel Economy: Assessment of Fuel Economy Technologies for Light-Duty Vehicles
Various combinations of commercially available technologies could greatly reduce fuel consumption in passenger cars, sport-utility vehicles, minivans, and other light-duty vehicles without …
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€69.39
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee on the Assessment of NASA Laboratory Capabilities: Capabilities for the Future
Over the past 5 years or more, there has been a steady and significant decrease in NASA’s laboratory capabilities, including equipment, maintenance, and facility upgrades. This adversely affects the …
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€49.49
Committee on Improving Processes and Policies for the Acquisition and Test of Information Technologies in the Department of Defense & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Achieving Effective Acquisition of Information Technology in the Departmen
In the military, information technology (IT) has enabled profound advances in weapons systems and the management and operation of the defense enterprise. A significant portion of the Department of …
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€63.35
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Review of the Research Program of the FreedomCAR and Fuel Partnership
The public-private partnership to develop vehicles that require less petroleum-based fuel and emit fewer greenhouse gases should continue to include fuel cells and other hydrogen technologies in its …
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€57.48
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee for the Decadal Survey on Biological and Physical Sciences in Space: Life and Physical Sciences Research for a New Era of Space Exploration
In response to requests from Congress, NASA asked the National Research Council to undertake a decadal survey of life and physical sciences in microgravity. Developed in consultation with members of …
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€17.93
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee to Review Near-Earth-Object Surveys and Hazard Mitigation Strategies: Defending Planet Earth
The United States spends approximately $4 million each year searching for near-Earth objects (NEOs). The objective is to detect those that may collide with Earth. The majority of this funding …
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€60.34
Committee on Cost Growth in NASA Earth and Space Science Missions & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Controlling Cost Growth of NASA Earth and Space Science Missions
Cost and schedule growth is a problem experienced by many types of projects in many fields of endeavor. Based on prior studies of cost growth in NASA and Department of Defense projects, this book …
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€24.86
Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Steps Toward Large-Scale Data Integration in the Sciences
Steps Toward Large-Scale Data Integration in the Sciences summarizes a National Research Council (NRC) workshop to identify some of the major challenges that hinder large-scale data integration in …
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€35.89
Committee on Forecasting Future Disruptive Technologies & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Persistent Forecasting of Disruptive TechnologiesaReport 2
The term "disruptive technology" describes a technology that results in a sudden change affecting already established technologies or markets. Disruptive technologies cause one or more …
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€35.89
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Committee on Understanding the Impact of Selling the Helium Reserve: Selling the Nation’s Helium Reserve
Helium has long been the subject of public policy deliberation and management, largely because of its many strategic uses and its unusual source-it is a derived product of natural gas and its market …
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€56.67
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee for the Review of NASA’s Aviation Safety-Related Programs: Advancing Aeronautical Safety
Advancing the state of aviation safety is a central mission of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Congress requested this review of NASA’s aviation safety-related research …
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€24.71
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Committee for a Decadal Survey of Astronomy and Astrophysics: New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Driven by discoveries, and enabled by leaps in technology and imagination, our understanding of the universe has changed dramatically during the course of the last few decades. The fields of …
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€46.73
Board on Army Science and Technology & Committee to Review and Assess Closure Plans for the Tooele Chemical Agent Disposal Facility and the Chemical Agent Munitions Disposal System: Review of Closure Plans for the Baseline Incineration Chemical Agent Disp
This book responds to a request by the director of the U.S. Army Chemical Materials Agency (CMA) for the National Research Council to examine and evaluate the ongoing planning for closure of the four …
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€33.00
Committee on Department of Defense Basic Research & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Assessment of Department of Defense Basic Research
The Department of Defense (DOD) supports basic research to advance fundamental knowledge in fields important to national defense. Over the past six years, however, several groups have raised concern …
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€35.98
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee for the Decadal Survey on Biological and Physical Sciences in Space: Life and Physical Sciences Research for a New Era of Space Exploration
In response to requests from Congress, NASA asked the National Research Council to undertake a decadal survey of life and physical sciences in microgravity. Developed in consultation with members of …
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€25.54
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Committee to Assess Fuel Economy Technologies for Medium- and Heavy-Duty Vehicles: Technologies and Approaches to Reducing the Fuel Consumption of Medium- and Heavy-Duty Vehicles
Technologies and Approaches to Reducing the Fuel Consumption of Medium- and Heavy-Duty Vehicles evaluates various technologies and methods that could improve the fuel economy of medium- and …
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€82.09
Committee for Advancing Software-Intensive Systems Producibility & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Critical Code
Critical Code contemplates Department of Defense (Do D) needs and priorities for software research and suggests a research agenda and related actions. Building on two prior books–Summary of a …
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€40.73
Committee on Sustaining Growth in Computing Performance & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Future of Computing Performance
The end of dramatic exponential growth in single-processor performance marks the end of the dominance of the single microprocessor in computing. The era of sequential computing must give way to a new …
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€42.02
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Committee for a Decadal Survey of Astronomy and Astrophysics: Panel ReportsaNew Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Every 10 years the National Research Council releases a survey of astronomy and astrophysics outlining priorities for the coming decade. The most recent survey, titled New Worlds, New Horizons in …
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€64.02
Committee on Deterring Cyberattacks: Informing Strategies and Developing Options for U.S. Policy & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Proceedings of a Workshop on Deterring Cyberattacks
In a world of increasing dependence on information technology, the prevention of cyberattacks on a nation’s important computer and communications systems and networks is a problem that looms large. …
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€90.23
Computer Science and Telecommunications Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Toward Better Usability, Security, and Privacy of Information Technology
Despite many advances, security and privacy often remain too complex for individuals or enterprises to manage effectively or to use conveniently. Security is hard for users, administrators, and …
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€24.68
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Committee on Radio Frequencies: Views of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Engineering on Agenda Items at Issue at the World Radiocommunication Conference 2012
The passive, receive-only Radio Astronomy Service (RAS) and the Earth Exploration-Satellite Service (EESS) provide otherwise impossible scientific observations of the Universe and Earth through the …
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€3.72
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & Laboratory Assessments Board: Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Physics Laboratory
The mission of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Physics Laboratory is to support U.S. industry, government, and the scientific community by providing measurement services and …
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€24.63
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & Laboratory Assessments Board: Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory
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 …
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€17.21
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & Laboratory Assessments Board: Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory
The Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory (MSEL) of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) works with industry, standards bodies, universities, and other government …
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€17.17
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & Laboratory Assessments Board: Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Building and Fire Research Laboratory
A panel of experts appointed by the National Research Council assessed the scientific and technical work of the Building and Fire Research Laboratory (BFRL) of the National Institute of Standards and …
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€24.61
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & Laboratory Assessments Board: Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Center for Neutron Research
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Center for Neutron Research (NCNR) is a national user facility whose mission is to ensure the availability of neutron measurement …
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€17.32
Committee on Cost Growth in NASA Earth and Space Science Missions & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Controlling Cost Growth of NASA Earth and Space Science Missions
Cost and schedule growth is a problem experienced by many types of projects in many fields of endeavor. Based on prior studies of cost growth in NASA and Department of Defense projects, this book …
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€35.89
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee for the Review of NASA’s Aviation Safety-Related Programs: Advancing Aeronautical Safety
Advancing the state of aviation safety is a central mission of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Congress requested this review of NASA’s aviation safety-related research …
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€35.91
Committee on Developments in Detector Technologies & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Seeing Photons
The Department of Defense recently highlighted intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities as a top priority for U.S. warfighters. Contributions provided by ISR assets in the …
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€71.72
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Research Council: Modeling the Economics of Greenhouse Gas Mitigation
Models are fundamental for estimating the possible costs and effectiveness of different policies for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. There is a wide array of models to perform such analysis, …
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€40.39
Committee on Global Science and Technology Strategies and Their Effect on U.S. National Security & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: S&T Strategies of Six Countries
An increase in global access to goods and knowledge is transforming world-class science and technology (S&T) by bringing it within the capability of an unprecedented number of global parties who must …
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€53.99
Air Force Studies Board & Committee on Evaluation of U.S. Air Force Preacquisition Technology Development: Evaluation of U.S. Air Force Preacquisition Technology Development
From the days of biplanes and open cockpits, the air forces of the United States have relied on the mastery of technology. From design to operation, a project can stretch to 20 years and more, with …
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€38.61
Committee on Research Opportunities in Corrosion Science and Engineering & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Research Opportunities in Corrosion Science and Engineering
The field of corrosion science and engineering is on the threshold of important advances. Advances in lifetime prediction and technological solutions, as enabled by the convergence of experimental …
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€46.28
Computer Science and Telecommunications Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Toward Better Usability, Security, and Privacy of Information Technology
Despite many advances, security and privacy often remain too complex for individuals or enterprises to manage effectively or to use conveniently. Security is hard for users, administrators, and …
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€35.91
Committee for Advancing Software-Intensive Systems Producibility & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Critical Code
Critical Code contemplates Department of Defense (Do D) needs and priorities for software research and suggests a research agenda and related actions. Building on two prior books–Summary of a …
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€56.83
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & Laboratory Assessments Board: Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Physics Laboratory
The mission of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Physics Laboratory is to support U.S. industry, government, and the scientific community by providing measurement services and …
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€35.93
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & Laboratory Assessments Board: Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory
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 …
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€25.39
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & Laboratory Assessments Board: Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory
The Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory (MSEL) of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) works with industry, standards bodies, universities, and other government …
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€25.44
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & Laboratory Assessments Board: Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Building and Fire Research Laboratory
A panel of experts appointed by the National Research Council assessed the scientific and technical work of the Building and Fire Research Laboratory (BFRL) of the National Institute of Standards and …
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€36.14
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & Laboratory Assessments Board: Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Center for Neutron Research
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Center for Neutron Research (NCNR) is a national user facility whose mission is to ensure the availability of neutron measurement …
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€25.44
Board on Army Science and Technology & Committee to Assess Process Safety Metrics for the Blue Grass and Pueblo Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plants: Assessment of Approaches for Using Process Safety Metrics at the Blue Grass and Pueblo Chemical Agent
The Department of Defense, through the Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives program, is currently in the process of constructing two full-scale pilot plants at the Pueblo Chemical Depot in …
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€24.88
Committee on Assessment of Impediments to Interagency Cooperation on Space and Earth Science Missions & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Assessment of Impediments to Interagency Collaboration on Space and Earth Science Missions
Through an examination of case studies, agency briefings, and existing reports, and drawing on personal knowledge and direct experience, the Committee on Assessment of Impediments to Interagency …
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€28.63
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Report of the Panel on Implementing Recommendations from the New Worlds, New Horizons Decadal Survey
The 2010 Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey report, New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics (NWNH), outlines a scientifically exciting and programmatically integrated plan for …
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€3.72
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee for the Decadal Survey on Biological and Physical Sciences in Space: Recapturing a Future for Space Exploration
More than four decades have passed since a human first set foot on the Moon. Great strides have been made in our understanding of what is required to support an enduring human presence in space, as …
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€3.72
Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology & Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications: Transforming Combustion Research through Cyberinfrastructure
Combustion has provided society with most of its energy needs for millenia, from igniting the fires of cave dwellers to propelling the rockets that traveled to the Moon. Even in the face of climate …
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€35.05
Committee on Wireless Technology Prospects and Policy Options & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Wireless Technology Prospects and Policy Options
The use of radio-frequency communication–commonly referred to as wireless communication–is becoming more pervasive as well as more economically and socially important. Technological progress over …
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€30.94
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee on a Decadal Strategy for Solar and Space Physics (Heliophysics): Solar and Space Physics
From the interior of the Sun, to the upper atmosphere and near-space environment of Earth, and outward to a region far beyond Pluto where the Sun’s influence wanes, advances during the past decade in …
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€3.73
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Plasma Science
As part of its current physics decadal survey, Physics 2010, the NRC was asked by the DOE, NSF, and NASA to carry out an assessment of and outlook for the broad field of plasma science and …
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€63.34
Committee on Using Information Technology to Enhance Disaster Management & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Improving Disaster Management
Information technology (IT) has the potential to play a critical role in managing natural and human-made disasters. Damage to communications infrastructure, along with other communications problems …
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€53.68
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Committee on AMO 2010: Controlling the Quantum World
As part of the Physics 2010 decadal survey project, the Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation requested that the National Research Council assess the opportunities, over roughly …
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€65.82
Committee on Frontiers at the Interface of Computing and Biology & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Catalyzing Inquiry at the Interface of Computing and Biology
Advances in computer science and technology and in biology over the last several years have opened up the possibility for computing to help answer fundamental questions in biology and for biology to …
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€89.56
Committee on Globalization of Materials Research and Development & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Globalization of Materials R&D
Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) R&D is spreading globally at an accelerating rate. As a result, the relative U.S. position in a number of MSE subfields is in a state of flux. To understand …
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€63.40
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Committee on Smaller Facilities: Midsize Facilities
Most of the instruments now used for materials research are too complex and expensive for individual investigators to own, operate, and maintain them. Consequently, they have become increasingly …
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€82.97
Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications & Committee on Mathematical Sciences Research for DOE’s Computational Biology: Mathematics and 21st Century Biology
The exponentially increasing amounts of biological data along with comparable advances in computing power are making possible the construction of quantitative, predictive biological systems models. …
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€58.39
Committee on the Scientific Context for Space Exploration & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Science in NASA’s Vision for Space Exploration
In January 2004, President Bush announced a new space policy directed at human and robotic exploration of space. The National Academies released a report at the same time that independently addressed …
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€25.36
Board on Army Science and Technology & Committee to Assess Designs for Pueblo and Blue Grass Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plants: Interim Design Assessment for the Pueblo Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plant
In 1996, Congress enacted directing the Department of Defense to assess and demonstrate technology alternatives to incineration for destruction of the chemical weapons stored at Pueblo Chemical and …
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€35.78
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Committee on Opportunities in High Magnetic Field Science: Opportunities in High Magnetic Field Science
High-field magnets"those that operate at the limits of the mechanical and/or electromagnetic properties of their structural materials"are used as research tools in a variety of scientific …
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€64.31
Board on Manufacturing and Engineering Design & Committee on Materials and Manufacturing Processes for Advanced Sensors: Sensor Systems for Biological Agent Attacks
Over the last ten years, there has been growing concern about potential biological attacks on the nations population and its military facilities. It is now possible to detect such attacks quickly …
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€82.02
Committee on Radio Frequency Identification Technologies & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Radio Frequency Identification Technologies
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology is gaining rapid acceptance as a means to track a wide array of manufactured objects. Currently, RFID technologies have shown promise in …
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€35.81
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate: Utilization of Operational Environmental Satellite Data
The system of satellites in place to provide environmental data-data to monitor events such as forest fires and floods; to make weather predictions; and to assess crops, transportation impacts, …
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€70.86
Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment & Committee on the Renewal of Department of Energy Infrastructure: Intelligent Sustainment and Renewal of Department of Energy Facilities and Infrastructure
The United States Department of Energy’s (DOE) facilities stewardship is extremely important to the department’s ability to achieve its mission of protecting national, energy, and economic security …
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€52.71
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee on the Assessment of Options for Extending the Life of the Hubble Space Telescope: Assessment of Options for Extending the Life of the Hubble Space Telescope
The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has operated continuously since 1990. During that time, four space shuttle-based service missions were launched, three of which added major observational …
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€54.22
Committee on the Future of Supercomputing & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Getting Up to Speed
Supercomputers play a significant and growing role in a variety of areas important to the nation. They are used to address challenging science and technology problems. In recent years, however, …
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€58.41
Committee on Solar and Space Physics & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Exploration of the Outer Heliosphere and the Local Interstellar Medium
This report is the summary of a workshop held in May 2003 by the Space Studies Board’s Committee on Solar and Space Physics to synthesize understanding of the physics of the outer heliosphere and the …
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€36.18
Committee on Certifiably Dependable Software Systems & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Summary of a Workshop on Software Certification and Dependability
Certification of critical software systems (e.g., for safety and security) is important to help ensure their dependability. Today, certification relies as much on evaluation of the software …
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Committee for the Role of Experimentation in Building Future Naval Forces & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Role of Experimentation in Building Future Naval Forces
The Department of Defense is in the process of transforming the nations armed forces to meet the military challenges of the 21st century. Currently, the opportunity exists to carry out experiments at …
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€66.12
Board on Manufacturing and Engineering Design & Committee on Accelerating Technology Transition: Accelerating Technology Transition
Accelerating the transition of new technologies into systems and products will be crucial to the Department of Defenses development of a lighter, more flexible fighting force. Current long transition …
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€42.24
Committee on the Fundamentals of Computer Science: Challenges and Opportunities & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Computer Science
Computer Science: Reflections on the Field, Reflections from the Field provides a concise characterization of key ideas that lie at the core of computer science (CS) research. The book offers a …
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€58.21
Committee on the Assessment of the Role of Solar and Space Physics in NASA’s Space Exploration Initiative & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Solar and Space Physics and Its Role in Space Exploration
In February 2004, the President announced a new goal for NASA; to use humans and robots together to explore the Moon, Mars, and beyond. In response to this initiative, NASA has adopted new …
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€36.20
Board on Army Science and Technology & Committee on Soldier Power: Meeting the Energy Needs of Future Warriors
The central characteristic of the evolution of the combat soldier in recent years is an increasingly sophisticated array of sensing, communications, and related electronics for use in battlefield …
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€55.37
Board on Manufacturing and Engineering Design & Committee on Capturing the Full Power of Biomaterials for Military Medical Needs: Capturing the Full Power of Biomaterials for Military Medicine
Recent results in biomaterials R&D suggest that there are exceptional opportunities for these emerging materials in military medicine. To facilitate this possibility, the National Research Council …
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Board on Army Science and Technology & Committee on Army Science and Technology for Homeland Defense — C4ISR: Army Science and Technology for Homeland Security
Shortly after the events of September 11, 2001, the U.S. Army asked the National Research Council (NRC) for a series of reports on how science and technology could assist the Army meet its Homeland …
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€65.69
Committee for an Assessment of Naval Forces’ Defense Capabilities Against Chemical and Biological Warfare Threats & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Naval Forces’ Defense Capabilities Against Chemical and Biological Warfare Threats
U.S. naval forces must be prepared to respond to a broad array of threats. Of increasing importance are those from chemical and biological warfare (CW and BW). To help review its current state of …
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€75.16
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Materials Advisory Board: Summary of the Sensing and Positioning Technology Workshop of the Committee on Nanotechnology for the Intelligence Community
The emergence of nanotechnology as a major science and technology research topic has sparked substantial interest by the intelligence community. In particular the community is interested both in the …
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€25.23
Board on Manufacturing and Engineering Design & Committee on New Directions in Manufacturing: New Directions in Manufacturing
The processes and techniques of manufacturing have changed substantially over the decades and that evolution continues today. In order to examine the potential impacts of these changes, the …
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€61.35
Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment & Committee on Business Strategies for Public Capital Investment: Investments in Federal Facilities
Facilities now owned by the Federal Government are valued at over $300 billion. It also spends over $25 billion per year for acquisition, renovation, and upkeep. Despite the size of these sums, there …
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€54.27
Committee on Criteria for the Management of Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Maintaining High Scientific Quality at Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories
In recent years, there has been concern about security and operations management at Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories (LANL and LLNL). As a result, Congress directed the …
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€36.18
Committee on Assessment of Security Technologies for Transportation & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Opportunities to Improve Airport Passenger Screening with Mass Spectrometry
Protection of the traveling public from terrorist threats involving explosives is a major goal of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). For 20 years, the TSA (and the Federal Aviation …
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€36.21
Committee on Solar and Space Physics & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Plasma Physics of the Local Cosmos
Solar and space physics is the study of solar system phenomena that occur in the plasma state. Examples include sunspots, the solar wind, planetary magnetospheres, radiation belts, and the aurora. …
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€35.81
Alan Shaw & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: University Research Centers of Excellence for Homeland Security
In establishing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Administration and Congress determined that science and technology should play a key role in the nations efforts to counter terrorism. …
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€25.44
Air Force Science and Technology Board & Committee on the National Aerospace Initiative: Evaluation of the National Aerospace Initiative
The National Aerospace Initiative (NAI) was conceived as a joint effort between the Department of Defense (DOD) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to sustain the aerospace …
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€62.87
Committee on Earth Studies & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Steps to Facilitate Principal-Investigator-Led Earth Science Missions
Principal-investigator (PI) Earth science missions are small, focused science projects involving relatively small spacecraft. The selected PI is responsible for the scientific and programmatic …
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€35.82
Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment & Committee for Oversight and Assessment of U.S. Department of Energy Project Management: Progress in Improving Project Management at the Department of Energy
In 1997, Congress, in the conference report, H.R. 105-271, to the FY1998 Energy and Water Development Appropriation Bill, directed the NRC to carry out a series of assessments of project management …
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€53.83
Board on Manufacturing and Engineering Design & Committee on Advanced Energetic Materials and Manufacturing Technologies: Advanced Energetic Materials
Advanced energetic materials"explosive fill and propellants"are a critical technology for national security. While several new promising concepts and formulations have emerged in recent …
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€35.91
Committee on Nanotechnology for the Intelligence Community & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Summary of the Power Systems Workshop on Nanotechnology for the Intelligence Community
The emergence of nanotechnology as a major science and technology research topic has sparked substantial interest by the intelligence community. In particular the community is interested both in the …
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€25.37
Board on Army Science and Technology & Committee on Review and Evaluation of the Army Chemical Stockpile Disposal Program: Effects of Degraded Agent and Munitions Anomalies on Chemical Stockpile Disposal Operations
The U.S. Army is in the process of destroying its entire stock of chemical weapons. To help with stockpile disposal, the Armys Chemical Stockpile Disposal Program (CSDP), in 1987, asked the National …
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€35.86
Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Starting Smart
Although most federal facilities projects are successfully completed (i.e., they reasonably meet the agency’s requirements and expectations), the perception is that development of the scope of work …
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€35.91
Committee on Solar and Space Physics & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Sun to the Earth a and Beyond
This volume, The Sun to the Earth-and Beyond: Panel Reports, is a compilation of the reports from five National Research Council (NRC) panels convened as part of a survey in solar and space physics …
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€90.19
Board on Army Science and Technology & Committee on Review of Army Planning for the Disposal of M55 Rockets at the Anniston Chemical Agent Disposal Facility: Assessment of Processing Gelled GB M55 Rockets at Anniston
In 1985, Congress mandated the destruction of the stockpile of M55 rockets stored at several chemical weapons storage sites in the United States and its possessions because of the risk that the …
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€36.18
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Burning Plasma Assessment Committee: Burning Plasma
Significant advances have been made in fusion science, and a point has been reached when we need to decide if the United States is ready to begin a burning plasma experiment. A burning plasma"in …
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€74.56
Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics & Committee on National Statistics: Innovations in Software Engineering for Defense Systems
Recent rough estimates are that the U.S. Department of Defense (Do D) spends at least $38 billion a year on the research, development, testing, and evaluation of new defense systems; approximately 40 …
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Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment & Committee to Develop a Long-Term Research Agenda for the Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES): Preventing Earthquake Disasters: The Grand Challenge in Earthquake Engineering
The Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES), administered by the National Science Foundation (NSF), is scheduled to become operational in 2004. These network sites will perform a range …
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€68.66
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Carbon Dioxide Dilemma
Growing concerns about climate change partly as a result of anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions has prompted the research community to assess technologies and policies for sequestration. This …
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€59.82
Computer Science and Telecommunications Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Innovation in Information Technology
Progress in information technology (IT) has been remarkable, but the best truly is yet to come: the power of IT as a human enabler is just beginning to be realized. Whether the nation builds on this …
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Center for Education & Committee on Improving Learning with Information Technology: Planning for Two Transformations in Education and Learning Technology
In response to concerns about the continued unrealized potential of IT in K-12 education, the National Research Councils Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Center for Education …
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€58.85
Committee on the Future of Supercomputing & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Future of Supercomputing
The Committee on the Future of Supercomputing was tasked to assess prospects for supercomputing technology research and development in support of U.S. needs, to examine key elements of context–the …
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€56.71
Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment & Committee to Identify Innovative Research Needs to Foster Improved Fire Safety in the United States: Making the Nation Safe from Fire
The committee that prepared this report was charged with assessing the state of fire safety research and describing the potential role of the NSF in improving fire safety in the United States. This …
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€35.87
Committee on Planetary and Lunar Exploration & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Assessment of Mars Science and Mission Priorities
Within the Office of Space Science of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) special importance is attached to exploration of the planet Mars, because it is the most like Earth of …
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€58.79
Committee on Digital Archiving and the National Archives and Records Administration & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Building an Electronic Records Archive at the National Archives and Records Administration
Like its constituent agencies and other organizations, the federal government generates and increasingly saves a large and growing fraction of its records in electronic form. Recognizing the greater …
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€35.90
Board on Earth Sciences and Resources & Board on Energy and Environmental Systems: Novel Approaches to Carbon Management
The National Research Council’s (NRC’s) Committee on Novel Approaches to the Management of Greenhouse Gases from Energy Systems held a workshop at the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center in Irvine, …
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€36.16
Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment & Committee for Review and Assessment of the Partnership for Advancing Technology in Housing: Promoting Innovation
The application of technology to housing design, construction, and operation offers opportunities for improving affordability, energy efficiency, comfort, safety, and convenience for consumers. New …
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€36.14
Committee on Critical Information Infrastructure Protection and the Law & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Critical Information Infrastructure Protection and the Law
All critical infrastructures are increasingly dependent on the information infrastructure for information management, communications, and control functions. Protection of the critical information …
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€53.75
Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment & Committee to Review the Security Design Criteria of the Interagency Security Committee: ISC Security Design Criteria for New Federal Office Buildings and Major Modernization Projects
In November 1999, GSA and the U.S. Department of State convened a symposium to discuss the apparently conflicting objectives of security from terrorist attack and the design of public buildings in an …
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€57.12
Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology & Committee on Toxicology: Acute Exposure Guideline Levels for Selected Airborne Chemicals
This report reviews documents on acute exposure guideline levels (AEGLs) for nerve agents GA (tabun), GB (sarin), GD (soman), GD, and VX, sulfur mustard, diborane, and methyl isocyanate. The …
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€150.94
Committee on Information Technology and Creativity & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Beyond Productivity
Computer science has drawn from and contributed to many disciplines and practices since it emerged as a field in the middle of the 20th century. Those interactions, in turn, have contributed to the …
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€58.85
Committee on Lightweight Materials for 21st Century Army Trucks & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Use of Lightweight Materials in 21st Century Army Trucks
In order to achieve the Armys envisioned Objective Force related to deployability, transportability, and mobility, the Committee on Lightweight Materials for the 21st Century Army Trucks was asked to …
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€49.42
Committee on Intersections Between Geospatial Information and Information Technology & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: IT Roadmap to a Geospatial Future
A grand challenge for science is to understand the human implications of global environmental change and to help society cope with those changes. Virtually all the scientific questions associated …
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€55.22
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate: Satellite Observations of the Earth’s Environment
This report addresses the transition of research satellites, instruments, and calculations into operational service for accurately observing and predicting the Earths environment. These transitions, …
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Committee on Authentication Technologies and Their Privacy Implications & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Who Goes There?
Who Goes There?: Authentication Through the Lens of Privacy explores authentication technologies (passwords, PKI, biometrics, etc.) and their implications for the privacy of the individuals being …
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€58.22
Board on Army Science and Technology & Committee on Army Science and Technology for Homeland Defense: Science and Technology for Army Homeland Security
The confluence of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack and the U.S. Armys historic role to support civil authorities has resulted in substantial new challenges for the Army. To help meet these …
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€68.30
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Research Council: Using Remote Sensing in State and Local Government
Advances in spatial, spectral, and temporal resolution over the past several years have greatly expanded opportunities for practical applications of remote sensing data. To explore the implications …
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€49.78
Committee on the Role of Information Technology in Responding to Terrorism & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Information Technology for Counterterrorism
Information technology (IT) is essential to virtually all of the nations critical infrastructures making them vulnerable by a terrorist attack on their IT system. An attack could be on the system …
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€53.90
Committee to Review the U.S. Climate Change Science Program Strategic Plan & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Implementing Climate and Global Change Research
The report reviews a draft strategic plan from the U.S. Climate Change Science Program, a program formed in 2002 to coordinate and direct U.S. efforts in climate change and global change research. …
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€49.24
Committee on Materials Research for Defense After Next & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Materials Research to Meet 21st-Century Defense Needs
In order to achieve the revolutionary new defense capabilities offered by materials science and engineering, innovative management to reduce the risks associated with translating research results …
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€105.19
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Committee to Review DOE’s Vision 21 R&D Program — Phase I: Review of DOE’s Vision 21 Research and Development Program
The Vision 21 Program is a relatively new research and development (R&D) program. It is funded through the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Fossil Energy and its National Energy …
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€47.99
Committee for the Review of ONR’s Air and Surface Weapons Technology Program & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: 2002 Assessment of the Office of Naval Research’s Air and Surface Weapons Technology Program
The Office of Naval Research (ONR) contracted with the Naval Studies Board (NSB) of the National Research Council (NRC) to establish a committee to review ONR’s Air and Surface Weapons Technology …
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Board on Army Science and Technology & Committee on Army Unmanned Ground Vehicle Technology: Technology Development for Army Unmanned Ground Vehicles
Unmanned ground vehicles (UGV) are expected to play a key role in the Armys Objective Force structure. These UGVs would be used for weapons platforms, logistics carriers, and reconnaissance, …
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€67.37
Air Force Science and Technology Board & Committee on Implications of Emerging Micro- and Nanotechnologies: Implications of Emerging Micro- and Nanotechnologies
Expansion of micro-technology applications and rapid advances in nano-science have generated considerable interest by the Air Force in how these developments will affect the nature of warfare and how …
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€60.38
Board on Army Science and Technology & Committee on Evaluation of Chemical Events at Army Chemical Agent Disposal Facilities: Evaluation of Chemical Events at Army Chemical Agent Disposal Facilities
For over a decade the Army has been carrying out a program aimed at the destruction of accumulated chemical weapons stored at several sites. While destruction by incineration has been successful, …
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Committee on the Internet Under Crisis Conditions: Learning from September 11 & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Internet Under Crisis Conditions
This report presents findings of a workshop featuring representatives of Internet Service Providers and others with access to data and insights about how the Internet performed on and immediately …
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Board on Physics and Astronomy & Committee on High Energy Density Plasma Physics: Frontiers in High Energy Density Physics
Recent scientific and technical advances have made it possible to create matter in the laboratory under conditions relevant to astrophysical systems such as supernovae and black holes. These advances …
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Committee for an Assessment of Precision Time and Time Interval Science and Technology & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Assessment of Precision Time and Time Interval Science and Technology
Knowledge of time is essential to precise knowledge of location, and for this reason the Navy, with its need to navigate on the high seas, has historically played an important role in the development …
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Committee for an Assessment of Non-Lethal Weapons Science and Technology & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Assessment of Non-Lethal Weapons Science and Technology
Non-lethal weapons (NLWs) are designed to minimize fatalities and other undesired collateral damage when used. Events of the last few years including the attack on the USS Cole have raised ideas …
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Board on Army Science and Technology & Committee on Review and Evaluation of Alternative Technologies for Demilitarization of Assembled Chemical Weapons: Phase II: Analysis of Engineering Design Studies for Demilitarization of Assembled Chemical Weapons a
The U.S. Army is in the process of destroying the nation’s stockpile of aging chemical weapons stored at eight locations in the continental United States and on Johnston Atoll in the Pacific. …
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Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Research Council: Toward New Partnerships In Remote Sensing
The technical, scientific, policy, and institutional environment for conducting Earth science research has been changing rapidly over the past few decades. Changes in the technical environment are …
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Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Research Council: Sun to the Earth — and Beyond
The sun is the source of energy for life on earth and is the strongest modulator of the human physical environment. In fact, the Suns influence extends throughout the solar system, both through …
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Board on Manufacturing and Engineering Design & Committee on Modeling and Simulation Enhancements for 21st Century Manufacturing and Acquisition: Modeling and Simulation in Manufacturing and Defense Acquisition
The Committee on Modeling and Simulation Enhancements for 21st Century Manufacturing and Acquisition was formed by the NRC in response to a request from the Defense Modeling and Simulation Office …
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Board on Army Science and Technology & Committee on Review and Evaluation of the Army Non-Stockpile Chemical Materiel Disposal Program: Systems and Technologies for the Treatment of Non-Stockpile Chemical Warfare Materiel
The main approach adopted by the U.S. Army for destruction of all declared chemical weapon materiel (CWM) is incineration. There has been considerable public opposition to this approach, however, and …
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Committee for the Review of the National Nanotechnology Initiative & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Small Wonders, Endless Frontiers
Nanoscale science and technology, often referred to as "nanoscience" or "nanotechnology, " are science and engineering enabled by our relatively new ability to manipulate and …
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Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee on Precursor Measurements Necessary to Support Human Operations on the Surface of Mars: Safe on Mars
This study, commissioned by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), examines the role of robotic exploration missions in assessing the risks to the first human missions to Mars. …
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Committee on Computing and Communications Research to Enable Better Use of Information Technology in Government & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Information Technology Research, Innovation, and E-Government
Governments have done much to leverage information technology to deploy e-government services, but much work remains before the vision of e-government can be fully realized. Information Technology …
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Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee on Aeronautics Research and Technology for Environmental Compatibility: For Greener Skies
Each new generation of commercial aircraft produces less noise and fewer emissions per passenger-kilometer (or ton-kilometer of cargo) than the previous generation. However, the demand for air …
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Board on Army Science and Technology & Committee on Review and Evaluation of the Army Chemical Stockpile Disposal Program: Closure and Johnston Atoll Chemical Agent Disposal System
Johnston Atoll Chemical Agent Disposal System (JACADS), the first fully integrated chemical agent disposal facility, is located on Johnston Island some 800 miles southwest of Hawaii. JACADS completed …
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€35.89
Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment & Committee for Oversight and Assessment of U.S. Department of Energy Project Management: Proceedings of Government/Industry Forum
Recurrent problems with project performance in the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) in the 1990s raised questions in Congress about the practices and processes used by the department to manage …
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Board on Manufacturing and Engineering Design & Committee on Integration of Commercial and Military Manufacturing in 2010 and Beyond: Equipping Tomorrow’s Military Force
Owing to the expected nature of combat in 2010, U.S. military forces face a pressing need to transform themselves for rapid response to an unpredictable threat. Rapid advances in commercial …
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Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Committee on Alternatives for Controlling the Release of Solid Materials from Nuclear Regulatory Commission-Licensed Facilities: Disposition Dilemma
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (USNRC) and its predecessor, the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), have attempted since the 1970s to give greater uniformity to the policy and regulatory …
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€89.75
Committee to Study Tools and Strategies for Protecting Kids from Pornography and Their Applicability to Other Inappropriate Internet Content & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Technical, Business, and Legal Dimensions of Protecting Children
In response to a mandate from Congress in conjunction with the Protection of Children from Sexual Predators Act of 1998, the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB) and the Board on …
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€58.60
Committee on Future Environments for the National Institute of Standards and Technology & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Future R&D Environments
In September 2000, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) asked the National Research Council to assemble a committee to study the trends and forces in science and technology …
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Computer Science and Telecommunications Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Cybersecurity Today and Tomorrow
This report reviews past NRC studies that have examined various dimensions of computer and network security and vulnerability and brings the results forward into the context of the current …
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Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment & Committee for Oversight and Assessment of U.S. Department of Energy Project Management: Progress in Improving Project Management at the Department of Energy
The Department of Energy (DOE) is engaged in numerous multimillion- and even multibillion-dollar projects that are one of a kind or first of a kind and require cutting-edge technology. The projects …
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€59.89
Board on Life Sciences & Committee on the Origins and Evolution of Life: Signs of Life
A workshop to assess the science and technology of life detection techniques was organized by the Committee on the Origins and Evolution of Life (COEL) of the Board on Life Sciences (BLS) and the …
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€36.18
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee on Thermionic Research and Technology: Thermionics Quo Vadis?
This report evaluates the Defense Threat Reduction Agency prior and present sponsored efforts; assess the present state of the art in thermionic energy conversion systems; assess the technical …
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€57.12
Committee on Broadband Last Mile Technology & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Broadband
Broadband communication expands our opportunities for entertainment, e-commerce and work at home, health care, education, and even e-government. It can make the Internet more useful to more people. …
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Board on Army Science and Technology & Committee on Review and Evaluation of Alternative Technologies for Demilitarization of Assembled Chemical Weapons: Phase II: Evaluation of Demonstration Test Results of Alternative Technologies for Demilitarization o
By direction of Congress, the U.S. Department of Defense’s (Do D’s) program manager for the Assembled Chemical Weapons Assessment (PMACWA) asked the National Research Council (NRC) Committee on …
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€36.22
Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment & Committee for Oversight and Assessment of Blast-effects and Related Research: Protecting People and Buildings from Terrorism
Concerned with the vulnerability of U.S. civilian and military personnel to terrorist bombing attacks, the U.S. Congress directed the Department of Defense to undertake a comprehensive research and …
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€46.20
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee for the Assessment of NASA’s Space Solar Power Investment Strategy: Laying the Foundation for Space Solar Power
In March 2000, NASA’s Office of Space Flight asked the Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board of the National Research Council to perform an independent assessment of the space solar power program’s …
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€35.92
Air Force Science and Technology Board & Committee on the Future of the U.S. Aerospace Infrastructure and Aerospace Engineering Disciplines to Meet the Needs of the Air Force and the Department of Defense: Review of the Future of the U.S. Aerospace Infras
The Principal Deputy to the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition requested that the National Research Council (NRC) review the Air Force’s planned acquisition programs to determine …
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€56.84
Committee on Networked Systems of Embedded Computers & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Embedded, Everywhere
Advances in the miniaturization and networking of microprocessors promise a _day when networked computers are embedded throughout the everyday world. However, our current understanding of what such …
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€58.86
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Materials Advisory Board: Materials in the New Millennium
This book details the forum that was held by the National Materials Advisory Board at the National Academy of Sciences. The purpose of this forum was to bring the importance of materials to the …
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€35.78
Committee on Research Horizons in Networking & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Looking Over the Fence at Networks
A remarkable creation, the Internet encompasses a diversity of networks, technologies, and organizations. The enormous volume and great variety of data carried over it give it a rich complexity and …
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€56.64
Board on Army Science and Technology & Committee on Review and Evaluation of Alternative Technologies for the Demilitarization of Assembled Chemical Weapons: Phase II: Analysis of Engineering Design Studies for Demilitarization of Assembled Chemical Weapo
The Program Manager for Assembled Chemical Weapons Assessment (PMACWA) of the Department of Defense (DOD) requested the National Research Council (NRC) to assess the engineering design studies (EDSs) …
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€49.31
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & Transportation Research Board: Review of the Research Program of the Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles
This is the most recent report of the National Research Councils Standing Committee to Review the Research Program of the Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles (PNGV), which has conducted …
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€53.90
Air Force Science and Technology Board & Air and Space Systems Science and Technology Program: Review of the U.S. Department of Defense Air, Space, and Supporting Information Systems Science and Technology Program
Since the mid-1940s, when Vannevar Bush and Theodore von Karman wrote Science, the Endless Frontier and Toward New Horizons, respectively, there has been a consensus that strong Department of Defense …
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€57.31
Committee for Mine Warfare Assessment & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Naval Mine Warfare
Sea mines have been important in naval warfare throughout history and continue to be so today. They have caused major damage to naval forces, slowed or stopped naval actions and commercial shipping, …
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€105.22
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Committee on the Effectiveness and Impact of Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) Standards: Effectiveness and Impact of Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) Standards
Since CAFE standards were established 25 years ago, there have been significant changes in motor vehicle technology, globalization of the industry, the mix and characteristics of vehicle sales, …
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€71.85
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems: Energy Research at DOE
In legislation appropriating funds for DOE’s fiscal year (FY) 2000 energy R&D budget, the House Interior Appropriations Subcommittee directed an evaluation of the benefits that have accrued to the …
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€73.85
Board on Army Science and Technology & Committee on Opportunities in Biotechnology for Future Army Applications: Opportunities in Biotechnology for Future Army Applications
This report surveys opportunities for future Army applications in biotechnology, including sensors, electronics and computers, materials, logistics, and medical therapeutics, by matching commercial …
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€67.91
Committee on Planetary and Lunar Exploration & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Quarantine and Certification of Martian Samples
One of the highest-priority activities in the planetary sciences identified in published reports of the Space Studies Board’s Committee on Planetary and Lunar Exploration (COMPLEX) and in reports of …
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€35.86
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Physics in a New Era
Physics at the beginning of the twenty-first century has reached new levels of accomplishment and impact in a society and nation that are changing rapidly. Accomplishments have led us into the …
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€59.70
Air Force Science and Technology Board & Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems: Aging Avionics in Military Aircraft
Extending the life of an airframe has proven challenging and costly. Extending the life of an avionics system, however, is one of the most critical and difficult aspects of extending total aircraft …
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€57.22
Board on Army Science and Technology & Committee on Review and Evaluation of the Army Non-Stockpile Chemical Materiel Disposal Program: Disposal of Neutralent Wastes
Chemical warfare materiel (CWM) is a collection of diverse items that were used during 60 years of efforts by the United States to develop a capability for conducting chemical warfare. Nonstockpile …
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€35.82
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Committee on the Physics of the Universe: Connecting Quarks with the Cosmos
Advances made by physicists in understanding matter, space, and time and by astronomers in understanding the universe as a whole have closely intertwined the question being asked about the universe …
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€64.76
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Alternative Technologies to Replace Antipersonnel Landmines: Alternative Technologies to Replace Antipersonnel Landmines
This book examines potential technologies for replacing antipersonnel landmines by 2006, the U.S. target date for signing an international treaty banning these weapons. Alternative Technologies to …
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€68.75
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Academy of Engineering: Frontiers of Engineering
In 1995 the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) initiated the Frontiers of Engineering Symposium program, which every year brings together 100 of the nation’s future engineering leaders to learn …
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€58.87
Committee to Study Global Networks and Local Values & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Global Networks and Local Values
Whether you call it the third wave, the information revolution, or the virtually connected world, the implications of a global information network are profound. As a society, we want to forestall the …
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€54.27
Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment & Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems: Outsourcing Management Functions for the Acquisition of Federal Facilities
In this study outsourcing is defined as the organizational practice of contracting for services from an external entity while retaining control over assets and oversight of the services being …
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€55.15
Committee on Earth Studies & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Issues in the Integration of Research and Operational Satellite Systems for Climate Research
Currently, the Departments of Defense (DOD) and Commerce (DOC) acquire and operate separate polarorbiting environmental satellite systems that collect data needed for military and civil weather …
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€59.39
Committee on Space Biology and Medicine & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Review of NASA’s Biomedical Research Program
The 1998 Committee on Space Biology and Medicine (CSBM) report A Strategy for Research in Space Biology and Medicine in the New Century assessed the known and potential effects of spaceflight on …
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€54.04
Committee on an Information Technology Strategy for the Library of Congress & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: LC21
Digital information and networks challenge the core practices of libraries, archives, and all organizations with intensive information management needs in many respects"not only in terms of …
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€65.81
Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology & Chemical Sciences Roundtable: Graduate Education in the Chemical Sciences
Graduate Education in the Chemical Sciences is a summary of the December 1999 workshop, "Graduate Education in the Chemical Sciences: Issues for the 21st Century, "This workshop discussed …
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€59.70
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems: Uninhabited Air Vehicles
U.S. Air Force (USAF) planners have envisioned that uninhabited air vehicles (UAVs), working in concert with inhabited vehicles, will become an integral part of the future force structure. Current …
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€52.18
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems: Design in the New Millennium
America is changing. Many of the most noticeable changes in day-to-day life are associated with the advancing capabilities of computer systems, the growing variety of tasks they can accomplish, and …
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€57.35
Committee on Network-Centric Naval Forces & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Network-Centric Naval Forces
Network-Centric Naval Forces: A Transition Strategy for Enhancing Operational Capabilities is a study to advise the Department of the Navy regarding its transition strategy to achieve a …
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€163.32
Committee for Undersea Weapons Science and Technology & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Assessment of Undersea Weapons Science and Technology
The Department of the Navy strives to maintain, through its Office of Naval Research (ONR), a vigorous science and technology (S&T) program in those areas considered critically important to U.S. …
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€57.28
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems: Vision 21
Vision 21reviews the goals of the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Vision 21 Program (DOE’s vision for the future of coal-based power generation) and to recommend systems and approaches for moving from …
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€59.89
Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment & Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems: Blast Mitigation for Structures
The Blast Mitigation for Structures Program (BMSP) is a research and development activity conducted by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) to improve the performance of buildings that are …
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€57.36
Board on Army Science and Technology & Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems: Integrated Design of Alternative Technologies for Bulk-Only Chemical Agent Disposal Facilities
The U.S. Army is pilot testing chemical hydrolysis as a method for destroying the chemical agents stockpiled at Aberdeen, Maryland (HD mustard agent), and Newport, Indiana (VX nerve agent). The …
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€35.87
Committee on the Internet in the Evolving Information Infrastructure & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Internet’s Coming of Age
What most of us know as "the Internet" is actually a set of largely autonomous, loosely coordinated communication networks. As the influence of the Internet continues to grow, understanding …
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€58.27
Committee for Naval Hydromechanics Science and Technology & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Assessment of Naval Hydromechanics Science and Technology
The Department of the Navy maintains a vigorous science and technology (S&T) research program in those areas that are critically important to ensuring U.S. naval superiority in the maritime …
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€57.28
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems: Streamlining Space Launch Range Safety
The U.S. space program is rapidly changing from an activity driven by federal government launches to one driven by commercial launches. In 1997, for the first time commercial launches outnumbered …
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€43.73
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Research Council: Future Biotechnology Research on the International Space Station
Under current NASA plans, investigations in the area of biotechnology will be a significant component of the life sciences research to be conducted on the International Space Station (ISS). They …
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€56.88
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Review and Evaluation of Alternative Technologies for Demilitarization of Assembled Chemical Weapons: Evaluation of Demonstration Test Results of Alternative Technologies for Demilitarization
In 1996, the U.S. Congress enacted two laws, Public Law 104-201 (authorization legislation) and Public Law 104-208 (appropriation legislation), mandating that the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) …
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€56.78
Chemical Sciences Roundtable & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Research Teams and Partnerships
The third workshop of the Chemical Sciences Roundtable, Research Teams and Partnerships was held in Irvine, California, on May 2-3, 1999. The presentations and discussions at the workshop considered …
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€61.20
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Research Council: Materials in a New Era
The 1999 Solid State Sciences Committee Forum, entitled "Materials in a New Era, " was held at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C., on February 16-17, 1999. The forum was …
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€35.98
Committee on Computing and Communications Research to Enable Better Use of Information Technology in Government & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Summary of a Workshop on Information Technology Research for Crisis Management
This workshop summary was produced in the course of a broader study that is exploring how information technology research can foster new and improved government services, operations, and interactions …
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€47.76
Committee on Solar and Space Physics and Committee on Solar-Terrestrial Research & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Radiation and the International Space Station
A major objective of the International Space Station is learning how to cope with the inherent risks of human spaceflight–how to live and work in space for extended periods. The construction of the …
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€47.51
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Materials Science and Engineering: Forging Stronger Links to Users: Materials Science and Engineering
Materials are the foundation and fabric of manufactured products. In fact, many leading commercial products and military systems could not exist without advanced materials and many of the new …
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€48.19
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Department of Military Science and Technology: Strategies to Protect the Health of Deployed U.S. Forces
Since Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm, Gulf War veterans have expressed concerns that their postdeployment medical symptoms could have been caused by hazardous exposures or other …
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€90.42
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee to Review the R&D Strategy for Biomass-Derived Ethanol and Biodiesel Transportation Fuels: Review of the Research Strategy for Biomass-Derived Transportation Fuels
The Office of Fuels Development (OFD), a component of the U.S. Department of Energy’ s (DOE) Office of Transportation Technologies, manages the federal government’s effort to make biomass-based …
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€36.22
Committee on Developing a Federal Materials Facilities Strategy & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Cooperative Stewardship
The Committee on Developing a Federal Materials Facilities Strategy was appointed by the National Research Council (NRC) in response to a request by the federal agencies involved in funding and …
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€57.01
Committee for a Study on Promoting Access to Scientific and Technical Data for the Public Interest & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Question of Balance
New legal approaches, such as the European Union’s 1996 Directive on the Legal Protection of Databases, and other legal initiatives now being considered in the United States at the federal and state …
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€54.22
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on R&D Strategies to Improve Surface Transportation Security: Improving Surface Transportation Security
The surface transportation system is vital to our nation’s economy, defense, and quality of life. Because threats against the system have hitherto been perceived as minor, little attention has been …
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€25.65
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Committee on Gravitational Physics: Gravitational Physics
Gravitational Physics assesses the achievements of the field over the past decade in both theory and experiment, identifies the most promising opportunities for research in the next decade, and …
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€64.76
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Industrial Technology Assessments: Industrial Technology Assessments
In 1993, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Industrial Technology (OIT) established a group of seven industries designated as Industries of the Future (IOF). These industries were selected …
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€35.89
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Review and Evaluation of the Army Chemical Stockpile Disposal Program: Carbon Filtration for Reducing Emissions from Chemical Agent Incineration
This report reviews the Army’s evaluation of carbon filters for use in the baseline incineration PAS, as well as the Army’s change management process (the Army’s tool for evaluating major equipment …
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€61.88
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Spills of Nonfloating Oils
In the Coast Guard Authorization Act of 1996, the United States Coast Guard (USCG) was directed to assess the risk of spills for oils that may sink or be negatively buoyant, to examine and evaluate …
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€35.82
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Research Council: Size Limits of Very Small Microorganisms
How small can a free-living organism be? On the surface, this question is straightforward-in principle, the smallest cells can be identified and measured. But understanding what factors determine …
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€63.13
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Meeting Research and Education Needs in Coastal Engineering
After discussions with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the U.S. Geological Survey, and the Office of Naval Research, the National Research …
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€56.64
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Advanced Engineering Environments: Advanced Engineering Environments
Advances in the capabilities of technologies applicable to distributed networking, telecommunications, multi-user computer applications, and interactive virtual reality are creating opportunities for …
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€56.72
Committee on Microgravity Research & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Microgravity Research in Support of Technologies for the Human Exploration and Development of Space and Planetary Bodies
The frontier represented by the near solar system confronts humanity with intriguing challenges and opportunities. With the inception of the Human Exploration and Development of Space (HEDS) …
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€82.32
Committee on Planetary and Lunar Exploration & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Science Strategy for the Exploration of Europa
Since its discovery in 1610, Europa – one of Jupiter’s four large moons – has been an object of interest to astronomers and planetary scientists. Much of this interest stems from observations made by …
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€56.41
Committee to Review DOD C4I Plans and Programs & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Realizing the Potential of C4I
Rapid progress in information and communications technologies is dramatically enhancing the strategic role of information, positioning effective exploitation of these technology advances as a …
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€60.33
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Applying Advanced Information Systems to Ports and Waterways Management
The future safety of maritime transportation in the United States-a major factor in the nation’s international trade and economic well-being-will depend heavily on the quality of port and waterways …
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€57.11
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Vision for the National Weather Service
In this study, the committee explores ways the National Weather Service (NWS) can take advantage of continuing advances in science and technology to meet the challenges of the future. The predictions …
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€57.26
Committee on Planetary and Lunar Exploration & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Scientific Rationale for Mobility in Planetary Environments
For the last several decades, the Committee on Planetary and Lunar Exploration (COMPLEX) has advocated a systematic approach to exploration of the solar system; that is, the information and …
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€57.35
Committee on Naval Expeditionary Logistics & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Naval Expeditionary Logistics
At the request of the Chief of Naval Operations, the National Research Council (NRC) conducted a study to determine the technological requirements, operational changes, and combat service support …
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€64.17
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee to Perform a Technology Assessment Focused on Logistics Support Requirements for Future Army Combat Systems: Reducing the Logistics Burden for the Army After Next
This study assesses the potential of new technology to reduce logistics support requirements for future Army combat systems. It describes and recommends areas of research and technology development …
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€105.61
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Industrial Technology Assessments: Separation Technologies for the Industries of the Future
Separation processes"or processes that use physical, chemical, or electrical forces to isolate or concentrate selected constituents of a mixture"are essential to the chemical, petroleum …
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€60.33
Board on Manufacturing and Engineering Design & Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems: Defense Manufacturing in 2010 and Beyond
The end of the Cold War, the evolving mission of the U.S. Armed Services, the dramatic improvements in commercial manufacturing–these and other trends are changing how we provide for the common …
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€66.12
Board on Manufacturing and Engineering Design & Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems: Surviving Supply Chain Integration
The managed flow of goods and information from raw material to final sale also known as a "supply chain" affects everything–from the U.S. gross domestic product to where you can buy your …
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€63.13
Board on Manufacturing and Engineering Design & Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems: Visionary Manufacturing Challenges for 2020
Manufacturing will unquestionably be a very different enterprise in 2020 from what it is today. This book presents an exciting picture of the profitable and productive potential of manufacturing two …
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€62.35
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Oil Spill Risks From Tank Vessel Lightering
The safety record of lightering (the transfer of petroleum cargo at sea from a large tanker to smaller ones) has been excellent in U.S. waters in recent years, as evidenced by the very low rate of …
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€57.28
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Research Council: Supporting Research and Data Analysis in NASA’s Science Programs
Effective science, clearly a mandate for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), involves asking significant questions about the physical and biological world and seeking definitive …
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€50.85
Committee on Smokeless and Black Powder & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Black and Smokeless Powders
Some 600 pipe bomb explosions have occurred annually in the United States during the past several years. How can technology help protect the public from these homemade devices?This book, a response …
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€54.22
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Committee on Nuclear Physics: Nuclear Physics
Dramatic progress has been made in all branches of physics since the National Research Council’s 1986 decadal survey of the field. The Physics in a New Era series explores these advances and looks …
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€72.15
Committee on Space Biology and Medicine & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Strategy for Research in Space Biology and Medicine in the New Century
Construction of the international space station, scheduled to start in late 1998, ushers in a new era for laboratory sciences in space. This is especially true for space life sciences, which include …
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€82.38
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Research Council: Evaluating the Biological Potential in Samples Returned from Planetary Satellites and Small Solar System Bodies
For the first time since the Apollo program, NASA and space agencies abroad have plans to bring samples to Earth from elsewhere in the solar system. There are missions in various stages of definition …
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€59.88
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Research Council: Fostering Research on the Economic and Social Impacts of Information Technology
The tremendous growth in use of information technology (IT) has led to an increased interest in understanding its social and economic impacts. This book presents examples of crosscutting research …
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€58.49
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Aircraft Certification Safety Management: Improving the Continued Airworthiness of Civil Aircraft
As part of the national effort to improve aviation safety, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) chartered the National Research Council to examine and recommend improvements in the aircraft …
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€56.88
Board on Manufacturing and Engineering Design & Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems: Manufacturing Process Controls for the Industries of the Future
Manufacturing process controls include all systems and software that exert control over production processes. Control systems include process sensors, data processing equipment, actuators, networks …
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€57.12
Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology & Chemical Sciences Roundtable: Assessing the Value of Research in the Chemical Sciences
This book captures the messages from a workshop that brought together research managers from government, industry, and academia to review and discuss the mechanisms that have been proposed or used to …
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€58.20
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Review and Evaluation of the Air Force Hypersonic Technology Program: Review and Evaluation of the Air Force Hypersonic Technology Program
This study was undertaken in response to a request by the U.S. Air Force that the National Research Council (NRC) examine whether the technologies that underlie the concept of a hypersonic, …
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€47.89
Committee on Information Systems Trustworthiness & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Trust in Cyberspace
Whether or not you use a computer, you probably use a telephone, electric power, and a bank. Although you may not be aware of their presence, networked computer systems are increasingly becoming an …
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€104.81
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Review and Evaluation of the Army Chemical Stockpile Disposal Program: Using Supercritical Water Oxidation to Treat Hydrolysate from VX Neutralization
The U.S. Army has asked the National Research Council (NRC) to evaluate whether supercritical water oxidation (SCWO) is an effective and appropriate means of eliminating hazardous or toxic organic …
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€56.72
Committee on Planetary and Lunar Exploration & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Exploration of Near Earth Objects
Comets and asteroids are in some sense the fossils of the solar system. They have avoided most of the drastic physical processing that shaped the planets and thus represent more closely the …
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€56.88
Committee on Planetary and Lunar Exploration & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Exploring the Trans-Neptunian Solar System
In the last decade, our knowledge of the outer solar system has been transformed as a result of the Voyager 2 encounter with Neptune and its satellite Triton and from Earth-based observations of the …
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€57.26
Computer Science and Telecommunications Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Unpredictable Certainty
This book contains a key component of the NII 2000 project of the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, a set of white papers that contributed to and complements the project’s final report, …
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€143.29
Committee on Human Exploration & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Human Exploration of Space
During 1988, the National Research Council’s Space Science Board reorganized itself to more effectively address NASA’s advisory needs. The Board’s scope was broadened: it was renamed the Space …
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€65.87
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Committee on Elementary-Particle Physics: Elementary-Particle Physics
Part of the Physics in a New Era series of assessments of the various branches of the field, Elementary-Particle Physics reviews progress in the field over the past 10 years and recommends actions …
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€64.63
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Advanced Fibers for High-Temperature Ceramic Composites: Ceramic Fibers and Coatings
High-temperature ceramic fibers are the key components of ceramic matrix composites (CMCs). Ceramic fiber properties (strength, temperature and creep resistance, for example)-along with the debonding …
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€66.04
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Advanced Materials and Fabrication Methods for Microelectromechanical Systems: Microelectromechanical Systems
Microelectromenchanical systems (MEMS) is a revolutionary field that adapts for new uses a technology already optimized to accomplish a specific set of objectives. The silicon-based integrated …
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€56.71
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Research Council: Containing the Threat from Illegal Bombings
In response to the rising concern of the American public over illegal bombings, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms asked the National Research Council to examine possible mechanisms for …
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€97.68
Committee on Optical Science and Engineering & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Harnessing Light
Optical science and engineering affect almost every aspect of our lives. Millions of miles of optical fiber carry voice and data signals around the world. Lasers are used in surgery of the retina, …
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Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Technical Assessment of the Man-in-Simulant Test Program
The cornerstone of chemical and biological defense strategy is protection (i.e., insulating personnel from chemical and biological agents using individual clothing ensembles and respirators, as well …
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€57.33
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Aging of U.S. Air Force Aircraft: Aging of U.S. Air Force Aircraft
Many of the aircraft that form the backbone of the U.S. Air Force operational fleet are 25 years old or older. A few of these will be replaced with new aircraft, but many are expected to remain in …
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Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Electric Power for the Dismounted Soldier: Energy-Efficient Technologies for the Dismounted Soldier
This book documents electric power requirements for the dismounted soldier on future Army battlefields, describes advanced energy concepts, and provides an integrated assessment of technologies …
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€89.43
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Aviation Fuels with Improved Fire Safety: Aviation Fuels with Improved Fire Safety
The reduction of the fire hazard of fuel is critical to improving survivability in impact-survivable aircraft accidents. Despite current fire prevention and mitigation approaches, fuel flammability …
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Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Advanced Technology for Human Support in Space: Advanced Technology for Human Support in Space
Advanced Technology for Human Support in Space was written in response to a request from NASA’s Office of Life and Microgravity Sciences and Applications (OLMSA) to evaluate its Advanced Human …
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Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Double-Hull Tanker Legislation
The passage of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (OPA 90) by Congress and subsequent modifications of international maritime regulations resulted in a far-reaching change in the design of tank vessels. …
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Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Striking a Balance
America’s ocean and coastal regions–which provide wildlife habitat, commercial fish stocks, mineral reserves, travelways, recreation, and more–are under increasing pressure as more and more people …
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Board on Mathematical Sciences & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Motion, Control, and Geometry
Some of the modem developments described in Motion, Control, and Geometry include the geometric control of robot motion and craft orientation, how high-power precision micromotors are engineered for …
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Committee on Maintaining Privacy and Security in Health Care Applications of the National Information Infrastructure & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: For the Record
When you visit the doctor, information about you may be recorded in an office computer. Your tests may be sent to a laboratory or consulting physician. Relevant information may be transmitted to your …
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Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Research Council: Mars Sample Return
The Space Studies Board of the National Research Council (NRC) serves as the primary adviser to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on planetary protection policy, the purpose of …
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Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Nonconventional Concrete Technologies for Renewal of the Highway Infrastructure: Nonconventional Concrete Technologies
Nonconventional Concrete Technologies: Renewal of the Highway Infrastructure identifies research and development opportunities in innovative, nonconventional materials and processes that have the …
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€70.40
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Research Council: Radiation Hazards to Crews of Interplanetary Missions
NASA’s long-range plans include possible human exploratory missions to the moon and Mars within the next quarter century. Such missions beyond low Earth orbit will expose crews to transient radiation …
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Committee on Issues in the Transborder Flow of Scientific Data & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Bits of Power
Since Galileo corresponded with Kepler, the community of scientists has become increasingly international. A DNA sequence is as significant to a researcher in Novosibirsk as it is to one in Pasadena. …
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€90.45
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Assessment of Hydrologic and Hydrometeorological Operations and Services
Floods are by far the most devastating of all weather-related hazards in the United States. The National Weather Service (NWS) is charged by Congress to provide river and flood forecasts and warnings …
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Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on the Effects of Aircraft-Pilot Coupling on Flight Safety: Aviation Safety and Pilot Control
Adverse aircraft-pilot coupling (APC) events include a broad set of undesirable and sometimes hazardous phenomena that originate in anomalous interactions between pilots and aircraft. As civil and …
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Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Research Council: Post-Cold War Conflict Deterrence
Deterrence as a strategic concept evolved during the Cold War. During that period, deterrence strategy was aimed mainly at preventing aggression against the United States and its close allies by the …
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Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Research Council: Database Needs for Modeling and Simulation of Plasma Processing
In spite of its high cost and technical importance, plasma equipment is still largely designed empirically, with little help from computer simulation. Plasma process control is rudimentary. …
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Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Application of Digital Instrumentation and Control Systems to Nuclear Power Plant Operations and Safety: Digital Instrumentation and Control Systems in Nuclear Power Plants
The nuclear industry and the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (USNRC) have been working for several years on the development of an adequate process to guide the replacement of aging analog …
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Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment & Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems: Financing Tomorrow’s Infrastructure: Challenges and Issues
With the current emphasis on a balanced federal budget and correspondingly decreased federal participation in financing local infrastructure systems, infrastructure providers are faced with the …
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Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Contaminated Sediments in Ports and Waterways
Contaminated marine sediments threaten ecosystems, marine resources, and human health. They can have major economic impacts when controversies over risks and costs of sediment management interfere …
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€82.10
Computer Science and Telecommunications Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Computing and Communications in the Extreme
This book synthesizes the findings of three workshops on research issues in high-performance computing and communications (HPCC). It focuses on the role that computing and communications can play in …
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Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Review and Evaluation of Alternative Chemical Disposal Technologies
In 1994 the National Research Council published Recommendations for the Disposal of Chemical Agents and Munitions, which assessed the status of various alternative destruction technologies in …
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€66.33
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Review and Evaluation of the Army Chemical Stockpile Disposal Program: Review of Systemization of the Tooele Chemical Agent Disposal Facility
In 1993, at Tooele Army Depot, Utah, the Army completed construction of the Tooele Chemical Agent Disposal Facility (TOCDF), the first complete facility for destruction of lethal unitary chemical …
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€55.28
Committee to Study National Cryptography Policy & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Cryptography’s Role in Securing the Information Society
For every opportunity presented by the information age, there is an opening to invade the privacy and threaten the security of the nation, U.S. businesses, and citizens in their private lives. The …
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€97.28
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Commercial Aviation Security: Airline Passenger Security Screening
This book addresses new technologies being considered by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for screening airport passengers for concealed weapons and explosives. The FAA is supporting the …
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€50.90
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Reusable Launch Vehicle Technology and Test Program: Reusable Launch Vehicle
The key to opening the use of space to private enterprise and to broader public uses lies in reducing the cost of the transportation to space. More routine, affordable access to space will entail …
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€41.83
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Decontamination and Decommissioning of Uranium Enrichment Facilities: Affordable Cleanup?
The Energy Policy Act of 1992 called on the National Academy of Sciences to conduct a study and provide recommendations for reducing the costs of decontaminating and decommissioning (D&D) the …
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€105.61
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Fire and Smoke Resistant Materials for Commercial Aircraft Interiors: Fire- and Smoke-Resistant Interior Materials for Commercial Transport Aircraft
The two principal objectives of this book were (1) to identify promising materials technologies, design issues (both overall and for individual components), and fire performance parameters (both full …
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€64.38
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on New Materials for Advanced Civil Aircraft: New Materials for Next-Generation Commercial Transports
The major objective of this book was to identify issues related to the introduction of new materials and the effects that advanced materials will have on the durability and technical risk of future …
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Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Undersea Vehicles and National Needs: Undersea Vehicles and National Needs
The United States faces decisions requiring information about the oceans in vastly expanded scales of time and space and from oceanic sectors not accessible with the suite of tools now used by …
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Committee on the Mathematics and Physics of Emerging Dynamic Biomedical Imaging & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Mathematics and Physics of Emerging Biomedical Imaging
This cross-disciplinary book documents the key research challenges in the mathematical sciences and physics that could enable the economical development of novel biomedical imaging devices. It is …
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Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Simulated Voyages
This book assesses the state of practice and use of ship-bridge simulators in the professional development and licensing of deck officers and marine pilots. It focuses on full-mission computer-based …
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Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Shipbuilding Technology and Education
The U.S. shipbuilding industry now confronts grave challenges in providing essential support of national objectives. With recent emphasis on renewal of the U.S. naval fleet, followed by the defense …
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Committee on Criteria for Federal Support of Research and Development & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Allocating Federal Funds for Science and Technology
The United States faces a new challenge–maintaining the vitality of its system for supporting science and technology despite fiscal stringency during the next several years. To address this change, …
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Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Coatings for High-Temperature Structural Materials: Coatings for High-Temperature Structural Materials
This book assesses the state of the art of coatings materials and processes for gas-turbine blades and vanes, determines potential applications of coatings in high-temperature environments, …
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Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Aviation Weather Services
Each time we see grim pictures of aircraft wreckage on a rain-drenched crash site, or scenes of tired holiday travelers stranded in snow-covered airports, we are reminded of the harsh impact that …
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Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Materials for High-Temperature Semiconductor Devices: Materials for High-Temperature Semiconductor Devices
Major benefits to system architecture would result if cooling systems for components could be eliminated without compromising performance. This book surveys the state-of-the-art for the three major …
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Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Research Council: Statistical Software Engineering
This book identifies challenges and opportunities in the development and implementation of software that contain significant statistical content. While emphasizing the relevance of using rigorous …
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Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Beach Nourishment and Protection
Many coastal communities have built structures at their beaches and added quantities of sand in contoured designs to combat erosion. Are such beach nourishment projects technically and economically …
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Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on the Study of Live Fire Survivability Testing of the F-22 Aircraft: Live Fire Testing of the F-22
The Live Fire Test Law mandates realistic survivability and lethality testing of covered systems or programs. A provision of the law permits the Secretary of Defense to waive tests if live fire …
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Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Fire- and Smoke-Resistant Materials for Commercial Aircraft Interiors: Improved Fire- and Smoke-Resistant Materials for Commercial Aircraft Interiors
This book describes the Conference on Fire and Smoke-Resistant Materials held at the National Academy of Sciences on November 8-10, 1994. The purpose of this conference was to identify trends in …
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Board on Physics and Astronomy & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Plasma Science
Plasma science is the study of ionized states of matter. This book discusses the field’s potential contributions to society and recommends actions that would optimize those contributions. It includes …
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Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems: Global Positioning System
The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a satellite-based navigation system that was originally designed for the U.S. military. However, the number of civilian GPS users now exceeds the military …
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Board on Engineering Education & Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems: Engineering Education
Traditionally, engineering education books describe and reinforce unchanging principles that are basic to the field. However, the dramatic changes in the engineering environment during the last …
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Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Safety in the Underground Construction and Operation of the Exploratory Studies Facility at Yucca Mountain
Yucca Mountain, located on the Nevada Test Site, is being considered as a potential repository site for spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste. To determine the suitability of Yucca …
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Committee for a Pilot Study on Database Interfaces & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Finding the Forest in the Trees
During the last few decades of the 20th century, the development of an array of technologies has made it possible to observe the Earth, collect large quantities of data related to components and …
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Committee on Mathematical Challenges from Computational Chemistry & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Mathematical Challenges from Theoretical/Computational Chemistry
Computational methods are rapidly becoming major tools of theoretical, pharmaceutical, materials, and biological chemists. Accordingly, the mathematical models and numerical analysis that underlie …
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Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Research Council: Preserving Scientific Data on Our Physical Universe
This book advises the National Archives and Records Administration and federal R&D agencies on the long-term retention of scientific and technical data, particularly in electronic formats. It …
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Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Application of Expert Systems to Materials Selection During Structural Design: Computer-Aided Materials Selection During Structural Design
The selection of the proper materials for a structural component is a critical activity that is governed by many, often conflicting factors. Incorporating materials expert systems into CAD/CAM …
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Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Currency Features Usable by the Visually Impaired: Currency Features for Visually Impaired People
The Committee on Currency Features for the Visually Impaired evaluated features that could be incorporated in the production of U.S. banknotes that would enable blind and visually disabled people to …
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Board on Manufacturing and Engineering Design & Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems: Unit Manufacturing Processes
Manufacturing, reduced to its simplest form, involves the sequencing of product forms through a number of different processes. Each individual step, known as an unit manufacturing process, can be …
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Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on New Sensor Technologies: Materials and Applications: Expanding the Vision of Sensor Materials
Advances in materials science and engineering have paved the way for the development of new and more capable sensors. Drawing upon case studies from manufacturing and structural monitoring and …
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Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Clean Ships, Clean Ports, Clean Oceans
Marine debris is a serious environmental problem. To do its part, the United States has agreed to abide by the international treaty for garbage control at sea, known as MARPOL 73/78 Annex V.Clean …
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Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Space Debris: Orbital Debris
Since the beginning of space flight, the collision hazard in Earth orbit has increased as the number of artificial objects orbiting the Earth has grown. Spacecraft performing communications, …
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Computer Science and Telecommunications Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Preliminary Observations on Information Technology Needs and Priorities at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Increasingly, the core mission of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), an agency of the Department of Health and Human Services, is expanding from one of focusing on prompt claims …
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Air Force Studies Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Examination of the U.S. Air Force’s Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Workforce Needs in the Future and Its Strategy to Meet Those Needs
The Air Force requires technical skills and expertise across the entire range of activities and processes associated with the development, fielding, and employment of air, space, and cyber …
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Computer Science and Telecommunications Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Biometric Recognition
Biometric recognition–the automated recognition of individuals based on their behavioral and biological characteristic–is promoted as a way to help identify terrorists, provide better control of …
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Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Review of the Research Program of the FreedomCAR and Fuel Partnership
The public-private partnership to develop vehicles that require less petroleum-based fuel and emit fewer greenhouse gases should continue to include fuel cells and other hydrogen technologies in its …
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Committee on Assessing the Impacts of Changes in the Information Technology Research and Development Ecosystem & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Assessing the Impacts of Changes in the Information Technology R&D Ecosystem
The U.S. information technology (IT) research and development (R&D) ecosystem was the envy of the world in 1995. However, this position of leadership is not a birthright, and it is now under …
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Committee on Assessing Corrosion Education & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Assessment of Corrosion Education
The threat from the degradation of materials in the engineered products that drive our economy, keep our citizenry healthy, and keep us safe from terrorism and belligerent threats has been well …
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Board on Army Science and Technology & Committee to Review Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives Program Detonation Technologies: Assessment of Explosive Destruction Technologies for Specific Munitions at the Blue Grass and Pueblo Chemical Agent Destruc
The Army’s ability to meet public and congressional demands to destroy expeditiously all of the U.S. declared chemical weapons would be enhanced by the selection and acquisition of appropriate …
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Board on Physics and Astronomy & Committee on a Scientific Assessment of Free-Electron Laser Technology for Naval Applications: Scientific Assessment of High-Power Free-Electron Laser Technology
This book presents a scientific assessment of free-electron-laser technology for naval applications. The charge from the Office of Naval Research was to assess whether the desired performance …
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€46.78
Committee on Heliophysics Performance Assessment & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Performance Assessment of NASA’s Heliophysics Program
Since the 1990s, the pace of discovery in the field of solar and space physics has accelerated, largely owing to NASA investments in its Heliophysics Great Observatory fleet of spacecraft. These …
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Committee on the Review of Planetary Protection Requirements for Mars Sample Return Missions & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Assessment of Planetary Protection Requirements for Mars Sample Return Missions
NASA maintains a planetary protection policy to avoid the forward biological contamination of other worlds by terrestrial organisms, and back biological contamination of Earth from the return of …
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Committee on the Societal and Economic Impacts of Severe Space Weather Events: A Workshop & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Severe Space Weather EventsaUnderstanding Societal and Economic Impacts
The adverse effects of extreme space weather on modern technology–power grid outages, high-frequency communication blackouts, spacecraft anomalies–are well known and well documented, and the …
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Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Research Council: Maritime Security Partnerships
To offer security in the maritime domain, governments around the world need the capabilities to directly confront common threats like piracy, drug-trafficking, and illegal immigration. No single navy …
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Committee on Nanophotonics Accessibility and Applicability & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Nanophotonics
The Committee on Technology Insight-Gauge, Evaluate & Review set up by the NRC at the request of the Defense Intelligence Agency, has selected a number of emerging technologies to investigate for …
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Committee on Assessing the Need for a Defense Stockpile & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Managing Materials for a Twenty-first Century Military
Since 1939, the U.S. government, using the National Defense Stockpile (NDS), has been stockpiling critical strategic materials for national defense. The economic and national security environments, …
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Committee on a Strategy to Mitigate the Impact of Sensor Descopes and Demanifests on the NPOESS and GOES-R Spacecraft & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Ensuring the Climate Record from the NPOESS and GOES-R Spacecraft
In 2000, the nation’s next-generation National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) program anticipated purchasing six satellites for $6.5 billion, with a first launch …
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Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment & Committee to Review the NIOSH Construction Research Program: Construction Research at NIOSH
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) conducts construction-relevant research activities. From 1996 through 2005, the program focused on four research goals:reducing …
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Committee on Manpower and Personnel Needs for a Transformed Naval Force & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Manpower and Personnel Needs for a Transformed Naval Force
The Department of Defense (DOD) is committed to transforming the nation’s armed forces to meet the military challenges of the future. One approach to achieving this transformation is by leveraging …
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Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee on Science Opportunities Enabled by NASA’s Constellation System: Launching Science
In January 2004 NASA was given a new policy direction known as the Vision for Space Exploration. That plan, now renamed the United States Space Exploration Policy, called for sending human and …
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€61.41
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee to Review NASA’s Exploration Technology Development Program: Constrained Space Exploration Technology Program
In January 2004, President George W. Bush announced the Vision for Space Exploration (VSE), which instructed NASA to "Extend human presence across the solar system, starting with a human return …
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€60.10
Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment & Committee on the Assessment of the Bureau of Reclamation’s Security Program: Assessment of the Bureau of Reclamation’s Security Program
The water impounded behind a dam can be used to generate power and to provide water for drinking, irrigation, commerce, industry, and recreation. However, if a dam fails, the water that would be …
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€58.39
Committee on Integrated Computational Materials Engineering & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Integrated Computational Materials Engineering
Integrated computational materials engineering (ICME) is an emerging discipline that can accelerate materials development and unify design and manufacturing. Developing ICME is a grand challenge that …
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Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Committee to Review the 21st Century Truck Partnership: Review of the 21st Century Truck Partnership
The 21st Century Truck Partnership (21CTP), a cooperative research and development partnership formed by four federal agencies with 15 industrial partners, was launched in the year 2000 with high …
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€54.35
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee for the Assessment of NASA’s Aeronautics Research Program: NASA Aeronautics Research
In 2006, the NRC published a Decadal Survey of Civil Aeronautics: Foundation for the Future, which set out six strategic objectives for the next decade of civil aeronautics research and technology. …
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Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee to Conduct an Independent Assessment of the Nation’s Wake Turbulence Research and Development Program: Wake Turbulence
Without major changes, the current air transportation system will be unable to accommodate the expected increase in demand by 2025. One proposal to address this problem is to use the Global …
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Committee on the Evaluation of Quantification of Margins and Uncertainties Methodology for Assessing and Certifying the Reliability of the Nuclear Stockpile & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Evaluation of Quantification of Margins and Uncer
Maintaining the capabilities of the nuclear weapons stockpile and performing the annual assessment for the stockpile’s certification involves a wide range of processes, technologies, and expertise. …
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Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & Laboratory Assessments Board: Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Physics Laboratory
The mission of the NIST Physics Laboratory is to support U.S. industry, government, and the scientific community by providing measurement services and research for electronic, optical, and radiation …
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Board on Physics and Astronomy & Committee to Review the U.S. ITER Science Participation Planning Process: Review of the DOE Plan for U.S. Fusion Community Participation in the ITER Program
ITER presents the United States and its international partners with the opportunity to explore new and exciting frontiers of plasma science while bringing the promise of fusion energy closer to …
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Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Materials Advisory Board: Proceedings of a Workshop on Materials State Awareness
In order to ensure effective military operations and continued warfighter safety, the functionality and integrity of the equipment used must also be ensured. For the past several years, the …
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Board on Army Science and Technology & Committee to Review Secondary Waste Disposal and Regulatory Requirements for the Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives Program: Review of Secondary Waste Disposal Planning for the Blue Grass and Pueblo Chemical Age
The U.S. Army Program Manager for Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives (PMACWA) is charged with disposing of chemical weapons as stored at two sites: Pueblo, Colorado, and Blue Grass, Kentucky. In …
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Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee on Science Opportunities Enabled by NASA’s Constellation System: Science Opportunities Enabled by NASA’s Constellation System
To begin implementation of the Vision for Space Exploration (recently renamed "United States Space Exploration Policy"), NASA has begun development of new launch vehicles and a …
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Committee on State Voter Registration Databases & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: State Voter Registration Databases
The Help America Vote Act of 2002 requires the states to develop a single, computerized voter registration data base (VRD) that is defined, maintained, and administered at the state level. To help …
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Board on Army Science and Technology & Committee to Review and Assess Developmental Issues Concerning the Metal Parts Treater Design for the Blue Grass Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plant: Review and Assessment of Developmental Issues Concerning the Me
The United States is in the process of destroying its chemical weapons stockpile. In 1996, Congress mandated that DOD demonstrate and select alternative methods to incineration at the Blue Grass and …
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Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee to Review NASA’s Exploration Technology Development Program: Review of NASA’s Exploration Technology Development Program
To meet the objectives of the Vision for Space Exploration (VSE), NASA must develop a wide array of enabling technologies. For this purpose, NASA established the Exploration Technology Development …
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Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & Laboratory Assessments Board: Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Building and Fire Research Laboratory
A panel of experts appointed by the National Research Council assessed the scientific and technical work of the Building and Fire Research Laboratory (BFRL) of the National Institute of Standards and …
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€25.23
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & Laboratory Assessments Board: Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory
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 …
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€25.49
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & Laboratory Assessments Board: Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory
The Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory (MSEL) of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) works with industry, standards bodies, universities, and other government …
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€25.61
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & Laboratory Assessments Board: Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Center for Neutron Research
The National Institute of Standards and Technology [NIST] Center for Neutron Research (NCNR) is a national user facility whose mission is to ensure the availability of neutron measurement …
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€25.65
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Assessing the Research and Development Plan for the Next Generation Air Transportation System
The U.S. aviation industry, airline passengers, aircraft pilots, airports, and airline companies are all facing challenges. The air transportation system is experiencing unprecedented and increasing …
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€25.34
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: United States Civil Space Policy
In 2004, the NRC released a workshop report about the future direction of the U.S. civil space program. At the same time, the Administration announced the Vision for Space Exploration, and in June …
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€25.44
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Research Council: Space Science and the International Traffic in Arms Regulations
ITAR, which controls defense trade, includes the U.S. Munitions List (USML) which specifies categories of defense articles and services covered by the regulations. In 1999, space satellites were …
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€25.62
Board on Army Science and Technology & Committee on Directed Energy Technology for Countering Indirect Weapons: Review of Directed Energy Technology for Countering Rockets, Artillery, and Mortars (RAM)
The United States Army is looking for ways to defend against missile and mortar attacks. In this book, the National Research Council assesses a plan to create a 100 k W mobile, solid-state, laser …
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€25.43
Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications & Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics: Proceedings of a Workshop on Statistics on Networks (CD-ROM)
A large number of biological, physical, and social systems contain complex networks. Knowledge about how these networks operate is critical for advancing a more general understanding of network …
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€149.75
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: National Science Foundation’s Materials Research Science and Engineering Centers Program
The Materials Research Science and Engineering Centers (MRSEC) Impact Assessment Committee was convened by the National Research Council in response to an informal request from the National Science …
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€82.67
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Committee on Prospective Benefits of DOE’s Energy Efficiency and Fossil Energy R&D Programs (Phase Two): Prospective Evaluation of Applied Energy Research and Development at DOE (Phase Two)
Since its inception in 1977 from an amalgam of federal authorities, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has administered numerous programs aimed at developing applied energy technologies. In recent …
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€82.18
Air Force Studies Board & Committee on Analysis of Air Force Engine Efficiency Improvement Options for Large Non-fighter Aircraft: Improving the Efficiency of Engines for Large Nonfighter Aircraft
Because of the important national defense contribution of large, non-fighter aircraft, rapidly increasing fuel costs and increasing dependence on imported oil have triggered significant interest in …
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€72.36
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Committee on NASA’s Beyond Einstein Program: An Architecture for Implementation: NASA’s Beyond Einstein Program
"Beyond Einstein science" is a term that applies to a set of new scientific challenges at the intersection of physics and astrophysics. Observations of the cosmos now have the potential to …
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€70.37
Committee on the Social Security Administration’s E-Government Strategy and Planning for the Future & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Social Security Administration Electronic Service Provision
Social Security Administration Electronic Service Provision examines the Social Security Administration’s (SSA’s) proposed e-government strategy and provides advice on how the SSA can best deliver …
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€65.32
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Scientific Opportunities with a Rare-Isotope Facility in the United States
Over ten years ago, U.S. nuclear scientists proposed construction of a new rare isotope accelerator in the United States, which would enable experiments to elucidate the important questions in …
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€59.64
Committee on Certifiably Dependable Software Systems & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Software for Dependable Systems
The focus of Software for Dependable Systems is a set of fundamental principles that underlie software system dependability and that suggest a different approach to the development and assessment of …
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€55.21
Computer Science and Telecommunications Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Strategic Management of Information and Communication Technology
Although Y2K did not result in major disruptions, the event is a rich source of critical lessons for strategic management of information and communication technology (ICT), many of which apply to …
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€57.28
Board on Life Sciences & Committee on an Astrobiology Strategy for the Exploration of Mars: Astrobiology Strategy for the Exploration of Mars
Three recent developments have greatly increased interest in the search for life on Mars. The first is new information about the Martian environment including evidence of a watery past and the …
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€53.68
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Committee on Radio Frequencies: Handbook of Frequency Allocations and Spectrum Protection for Scientific Uses
The electromagnetic spectrum is a vital part of our environment. Information encoded in the spectrum of radiation arriving at earth from the universe is the means by which we learn about its workings …
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€53.90
Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: New Directions for Understanding Systemic Risk
The stability of the financial system and the potential for systemic events to alter its function have long been critical issues for central bankers and researchers. Recent events suggest that older …
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€50.86
Board on Life Sciences & Committee on the Limits of Organic Life in Planetary Systems: Limits of Organic Life in Planetary Systems
The search for life in the solar system and beyond has to date been governed by a model based on what we know about life on Earth (terran life). Most of NASA’s mission planning is focused on …
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€49.70
Air Force Studies Board & Committee on Assessment of Aircraft Winglets for Large Aircraft Fuel Efficiency: Assessment of Wingtip Modifications to Increase the Fuel Efficiency of Air Force Aircraft
The high cost of aviation fuel has resulted in increased attention by Congress and the Air Force on improving military aircraft fuel efficiency. One action considered is modification of the aircrafts …
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€49.21
Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology & Committee on Defeating Improvised Explosive Devices: Basic Research to Interrupt the IED Delivery Chain: Countering the Threat of Improvised Explosive Devices
Attacks in London, Madrid, Bali, Oklahoma City and other places indicate that improvised explosive devices (IEDs) are among the weapons of choice of terrorists throughout the world. Scientists and …
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€35.89
Committee on Advancing Software-Intensive Systems Producibility & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Summary of a Workshop on Software-Intensive Systems and Uncertainty at Scale
The growing scale and complexity of software-intensive systems are introducing fundamental new challenges of uncertainty and scale that are particularly demanding for defense systems. To assist in …
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€35.82
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee on Meeting the Workforce Needs for the National Vision for Space Exploration: Building a Better NASA Workforce
The Vision for Space Exploration (VSE) announced by President George W. Bush in 2004 sets NASA and the nation on a bold path to return to the Moon and one day put a human on Mars. The long-term …
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€35.81
Committee on Assessment of Security Technologies for Transportation & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Fusion of Security System Data to Improve Airport Security
The security of the U.S. commercial aviation system has been a growing concern since the 1970’s when the hijacking of aircraft became a serious problem. Over that period, federal aviation officials …
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€36.14
Committee on NASA Astronomy Science Centers & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Portals to the Universe
The astronomy science centers established by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to serve as the interfaces between astronomy missions and the community of scientists who utilize …
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€36.07
Board on Army Science and Technology & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Strategy for an Army Center for Network Science, Technology, and Experimentation
The U.S. military has committed to a strategy of network-centric warfare. As a result, the Army has become increasingly interested in the critical role of network science. To a significant extent, …
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€35.81
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Research Council: Decadal Science Strategy Surveys
The Workshop on Decadal Science Strategy Surveys was held on November 14-16, 2006, to promote discussions of the use of National Research Council (NRC) decadal surveys for developing and implementing …
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Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment & Committee on Assessing the Results of External Independent Reviews for U.S. Department of Energy Projects: Assessment of the Results of External Independent Reviews for U.S. Department of Energy Pr
Peer review is an essential component of engineering practice and other scientific and technical undertakings. Peer reviews are conducted to ensure that activities are technically adequate, …
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€36.07
Board on Army Science and Technology & Committee on Review of Chemical Agent Secondary Waste Disposal and Regulatory Requirements: Review of Chemical Agent Secondary Waste Disposal and Regulatory Requirements
Under the direction of the U.S. Army’s Chemical Materials Agency (CMA) and mandated by Congress, the nation is destroying its chemical weapons stockpile. Large quantities of secondary waste are being …
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€36.22
Board on Army Science and Technology & Committee on Continuing Operability of Chemical Agent Disposal Facilities and Equipment: Assessment of the Continuing Operability of Chemical Agent Disposal Facilities and Equipment
The U.S. Armys Chemical Materials Agency (CMA) currently oversees contracts for the operation of chemical agent stockpile incineration facilities at four disposal sites. Because the period of time …
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€36.18
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Performance Assessment of NASA’s Astrophysics Program
While a number of remarkable discoveries in astronomy and astrophysics have taken place over the past 20 years, many important questions remain. Continued progress in these fields will require NASAs …
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€35.93
Committee on Assessment of Security Technologies for Transportation & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Assessment of Millimeter-Wave and Terahertz Technology for Detection and Identification of Concealed Explosives and Weapons
The security of the U.S. commercial aviation system has been a growing concern since the 1970’s when the hijacking of aircraft became a serious problem. Over that period, federal aviation officials …
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€36.06
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Research Council: Options to Ensure the Climate Record from the NPOESS and GOES-R Spacecraft
In 2000, the nation’s next-generation National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) program anticipated purchasing six satellites for $6.5 billion, with a first launch …
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€29.87
Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Reducing Construction Costs
The National Academy of Construction (NAC) has determined that disputes, and their accompanying inefficiencies and costs, constitute a significant problem for the industry. In 2002, the NAC assessed …
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Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & Laboratory Assessments Board: Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Information Technology Laboratory
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; …
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Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & Laboratory Assessments Board: Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Electronics and Electrical Engineering Laboratory
The report on the EEEL presents an assessment of the Labs four divisions. The assessment is based on four criteria: alignment with national priorities, motivation of its programs, technical merit, …
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Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & Laboratory Assessments Board: Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Center for Neutron Research
The book on the NCNR presents a general assessment of the Lab, followed by assessments of its facilities and personnel, its role as a user facility, and its science and technology. The book notes …
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Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & Laboratory Assessments Board: Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Chemical Science and Technology Laboratory
The report on the CSTL presents an assessment of the Labs five divisions, covering"where appropriate"how well each division addresses national priorities, its impact and level of …
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Corrosion Education Workshop Organizing Panel & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Proceedings of the Materials Forum 2007
The U.S. industrial complex and its associated infrastructure are essential to the nation’s quality of life, its industrial productivity, international competitiveness, and security. Each component …
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Committee on the Role of Naval Forces in the Global War on Terror & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Role of Naval Forces in the Global War on Terror
The growth of the terrorism threat to the nations security has created significant strategic challenges for U.S. armed forces in fighting this global war on terrorism (GWOT). For the Navy, the …
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€25.36
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee on Priorities for Space Science Enabled by Nuclear Power and Propulsion: Priorities in Space Science Enabled by Nuclear Power and Propulsion
In 2003, NASA began an R&D effort to develop nuclear power and propulsion systems for solar system exploration. This activity, renamed Project Prometheus in 2004, was initiated because of the …
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€82.10
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Decadal Survey of Civil Aeronautics
The U.S. air transportation system is very important for our economic well-being and national security. The nation is also the global leader in civil and military aeronautics, a position that needs …
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€74.99
Committee to Review the National Nanotechnology Initiative & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Matter of Size
The National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) was created in 2000 to focus and coordinate the nanoscience and nanotechnology research and development (R&D) activities being funded by several federal …
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Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment & Committee to Review and Assess the Health and Productivity Benefits of Green Schools: Green Schools
Evidence has accumulated that shows that the quality of indoor environments can affect the health and productivity of adults and children. One consequence is that a movement has emerged to promote …
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Committee on Preventing the Forward Contamination of Mars & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Preventing the Forward Contamination of Mars
Recent spacecraft and robotic probes to Mars have yielded data that are changing our understanding significantly about the possibility of existing or past life on that planet. Coupled with advances …
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Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment & Committee on Organizing to Manage Construction and Infrastructure in the 21st Century Bureau of Reclamation: Managing Construction and Infrastructure in the 21st Century Bureau of Reclamation (ePUB
In the more than 100 years since its formation, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation of the Department of Interior (DOI), through its construction program, has brought water, electric power, and recreation …
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Board on Assessment of NIST Programs & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Measurement and Standards Laboratories
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Measurements and Standards Laboratories (MSL) provide technical leadership for the nations measurement and standards infrastructure and …
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Committee on Principal-Investigator-Led Missions in the Space Sciences & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Principal-Investigator-Led Missions in the Space Sciences
Principal Investigator-Led (PI-led) missions are an important element of NASAs space science enterprise. While several NRC studies have considered aspects of PI-led missions in the course of other …
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Board on Army Science and Technology & Committee on Review and Evaluation of International Technologies for the Destruction of Non-Stockpile Chemical Materiel: Review of International Technologies for Destruction of Recovered Chemical Warfare Materiel (eP
The Chemical Weapons Convention requires, among other things, that the signatories to the convention–which includes the United States–destroy by April 29, 2007, or as soon possible thereafter, any …
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Air Force Studies Board & Committee on Future Air Force Needs for Survivability: Future Air Force Needs for Survivability
A key technical issue for future Air Force systems is to improve their ability to survive. Increased use of stealth technology is proposed by many to be the major element in efforts to enhance …
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€49.70
Committee on Identification of Promising Naval Aviation Science and Technology Opportunities & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Identification of Promising Naval Aviation Science and Technology Opportunities
The Department of Defense is developing the means to transform the nations armed forces to meet future military challenges. For the Navy and Marine Corps, this vision is encompassed in Naval Power …
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Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Proceedings of a Workshop to Review PATH Strategy, Operating Plan, and Performance Measures
The National Research Council’s (NRC’s) involvement with the Partnership for Advancing Technology in Housing (PATH) started in 2000 with a three-year review and assessment of the PATH program. The …
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€47.51
Ad Hoc Committee on the Solar System Radiation Environment and NASA’s Vision for Space Exploration: A Workshop & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Space Radiation Hazards and the Vision for Space Exploration
Fulfilling the Presidents Vision for Space Exploration (VSE) will require overcoming many challenges. Among these are the hazards of space radiation to crews traveling to the Moon and Mars. To …
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€48.01
Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications & Committee on Modeling and Simulation for Defense Transformation: Defense Modeling, Simulation, and Analysis
Modeling, simulation, and analysis (MS&A) is a crucial tool for military affairs. MS&A is one of the announced pillars of a strategy for transforming the U.S. military. Yet changes in the enterprise …
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Board on Manufacturing and Engineering Design & Committee on Technologies to Deter Currency Counterfeiting: Is That Real?
A key mission of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing of the Department of the Treasury is the design and printing of U.S. banknotes. The BEP is responsible for producing easily recognizable currency …
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Air Force Studies Board & Committee on Air Force and Department of Defense Aerospace Propulsion Needs: Review of United States Air Force and Department of Defense Aerospace Propulsion Needs
Rocket and air-breathing propulsion systems are the foundation on which planning for future aerospace systems rests. A Review of United States Air Force and Department of Defense Aerospace Propulsion …
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Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee to Review NASA’s Space Communications Program: Review of the Space Communications Program of NASA’s Space Operations Mission Directorate
The Space Communications Office (SCO) at NASA has two primary roles. The first is to manage two of the communications networks that enable spaceflight operations and research, and the second is to …
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Committee to Review the Next Decade Mars Architecture & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Assessment of NASA’s Mars Architecture 2007-2016
The United States and the former Soviet Union have sent spacecraft to mars as early as 1966, with Mars’ exploration being priority for NASA spacecraft. Both sides, however, have failed as well as …
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Committee on Telecommunications Research and Development & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Renewing U.S. Telecommunications Research
The modern telecommunications infrastructure"made possible by research performed over the last several decades"is an essential element of the U.S. economy. The U.S. position as a leader in …
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Board on Physics and Astronomy & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Instrumentation for a Better Tomorrow
On November 15, 2004, the National Academies sponsored a symposium at the Beckman Center in honor of Arnold O. Beckman. The symposium concentrated on the wide-ranging practical applications of …
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Committee on Critical Technology Accessibility & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Critical Technology Accessibility
In 2003, the Defense Intelligence Agency asked the NRC to form a standing committee to help develop study topics about technology warning. One issue that was identified was the growing dependence on …
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Committee on an Assessment of Balance in NASA’s Science Programs & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Assessment of Balance in NASA’s Science Programs
When the space exploration initiative was announced, Congress asked the NRC to review the science NASA proposed to carryout under the initiative. It also asked the NRC to assess whether this program …
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Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee on Meeting the Workforce Needs for the National Vision for Space Exploration: Issues Affecting the Future of the U.S. Space Science and Engineering Workforce
In January 2006, the President announced a new civilian space policy focusing on exploration. As part of its preparations to implement that policy, NASA asked the NRC to explore long-range science …
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Ad Hoc Committee on Distributed Arrays of Small Instruments for Research and Monitoring in Solar-Terrestrial Physics: A Workshop & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Distributed Arrays of Small Instruments for Solar-Terrestrial Research
A recommendation of the NRCs decadal survey in solar and space physics, published in 2002, was the Small Instrument Distributed Ground-Based Network, which would provide global-scale ionospheric and …
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Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Trends in Oil Supply and Demand, the Potential for Peaking of Conventional Oil Production, and Possible Mitigation Options
Recent events and analyses have suggested that global production of oil might peak sometime within the next few years to the next one or two decades. Other analyses, however, conclude that oil supply …
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Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment & Committee to Review and Assess the Health and Productivity Benefits of Green Schools: Review and Assessment of the Health and Productivity Benefits of Green Schools
Some educational professionals have suggested that so-called green schools would result in superior performance and increased health for students and teachers. While there is no commonly accepted …
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€35.81
Computer Science and Telecommunications Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Summary of a Workshop on the Technology, Policy, and Cultural Dimensions of Biometric Systems
Biometrics"the use of physiological and behavioral characteristics for identification purposes"has been promoted as a way to enhance security and identification efficiency. There are …
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Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Research Council: Review of NASA Plans for the International Space Station
In January 2004, President Bush announced a new space policy directed at human and robotic exploration of space. In June 2004, the Presidents Commission on Implementation of United States Space …
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Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Research Council: Review of Goals and Plans for NASA’s Space and Earth Sciences
Both the Presidents commission on how to implement the Presidents space exploration initiative and Congress asked the NRC undertake an assessment and review of the science proposed to be carried out …
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Committee on Assessment of Security Technologies for Transportation & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Defending the U.S. Air Transportation System Against Chemical and Biological Threats
Historically, most terrorist attacks on civilian targets have involved the use of firearms or explosives, and current defensive strategies are aimed at preventing attacks perpetrated by such means. …
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Committee on the Navy’s Needs in Space for Providing Future Capabilities & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Navy’s Needs in Space for Providing Future Capabilities
The United States must operate successfully in space to help assure its security and economic well being. The Department of the Navy is a major user of space capabilities, although those capabilities …
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€81.98
Committee on the FORCEnet Implementation Strategy & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: FORCEnet Implementation Strategy
<p>FORCEnet is currently defined as the operational construct and architectural framework for naval warfare in the information age that integrates warriors, sensors, networks, command and …
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€66.33
Committee on Autonomous Vehicles in Support of Naval Operations & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Autonomous Vehicles in Support of Naval Operations
Autonomous vehicles (AVs) have been used in military operations for more than 60 years, with torpedoes, cruise missiles, satellites, and target drones being early examples.1 They have also been …
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€82.91
Committee on Internet Navigation and the Domain Name System: Technical Alternatives and Policy Implications & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Signposts in Cyberspace
The Domain Name System (DNS) enables user-friendly alphanumeric names"domain names"to be assigned to Internet sites. Many of these names have gained economic, social, and political value, …
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€83.03
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Committee on Prospective Benefits of DOE’s Energy Efficiency and Fossil Energy R&D Programs: Prospective Evaluation of Applied Energy Research and Development at DOE (Phase One)
In 2001, the National Research Council (NRC) completed a congressionally mandated assessment of the benefits and costs of DOEs fossil energy and energy efficiency R&D programs, Energy Research at …
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€67.37
Committee on a Framework for Understanding Electronic Voting & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Asking the Right Questions About Electronic Voting
Many election officials look to electronic voting systems as a means for improving their ability to more effectively conduct and administer elections. At the same time, many information technologists …
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€51.09
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Review of the Research Program of the FreedomCAR and Fuel Partnership
The Freedom CAR and Fuel Partnership is a collaborative effort among the Department of Energy (DOE), the U.S. Council for Automotive Research (USCAR), and five major energy companies to manage …
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Committee on the Effects of Nuclear Earth-Penetrator and Other Weapons & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Effects of Nuclear Earth-Penetrator and Other Weapons
Underground facilities are used extensively by many nations to conceal and protect strategic military functions and weapons’ stockpiles. Because of their depth and hardened status, however, many of …
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Committee on Defense Intelligence Agency Technology Forecasts and Reviews & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Avoiding Surprise in an Era of Global Technology Advances
The global spread of science and technology expertise and the growing commercial access to advanced technologies with possible military application are creating potentially serious threats to the …
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Board on Army Science and Technology & Committee on Review and Assessment of the Army Non-Stockpile Chemical Materiel Demilitarization Program: Workplace Monitoring: Impact of Revised Airborne Exposure Limits on Non-Stockpile Chemical Materiel Program Act
The U.S. Army’s Non-Stockpile Chemical Materiel program is responsible for dismantling former chemical agent production facilities and destroying recovered chemical materiel. In response to …
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€47.86
Board on Army Science and Technology & Committee on Monitoring at Chemical Agent Disposal Facilities: Monitoring at Chemical Agent Disposal Facilities
Under the direction of the U.S. Armys Chemical Materials Agency (CMA) and mandated by Congress, the nation is destroying its chemical weapons stockpile. Over the past several years, the Army has …
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€48.24
Committee on Sea Basing: Ensuring Joint Force Access from the Sea & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Sea Basing
The availability of land bases from which to launch and maintain military, diplomatic, and humanitarian relief operations is becoming increasingly uncertain because of physical or political …
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€47.75
Committee on Naval Analytical Capabilities and Improving Capabilities-Based Planning & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Naval Analytical Capabilities
Naval Analytical Capabilities assesses current Department of Defense initiatives and the Department of the Navy’s progress in transitioning from a requirements-based to a capabilities-based …
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€46.31
Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment & Committee for Oversight and Assessment of U.S. Department of Energy Project Management: Owner’s Role in Project Risk Management
Effective risk management is essential for the success of large projects built and operated by the Department of Energy (DOE), particularly for the one-of-a-kind projects that characterize much of …
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€46.58
Committee on Earth Science and Applications from Space: A Community Assessment and Strategy for the Future & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Earth Science and Applications from Space
The Earth is a dynamic planet whose changes and variations affect our communications, energy, health, food, housing, and transportation infrastructure. Understanding these changes requires a range of …
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€43.71
Board on Manufacturing and Engineering Design & Committee on Manufacturing Trends in Printed Circuit Technology: Linkages
Over the past two decades, the Department of Defense has been moving toward commercial-military integration for manufacturing, while at the same time, the printed circuit board industry has been …
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€36.22
Board on Army Science and Technology & Committee to Assess Designs for Pueblo and Blue Grass Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plants: Interim Design Assessment for the Blue Grass Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plant
Because of concerns about incineration, the Department of Defense plans to use alternative means to destroy the chemical agent stockpiles at the Pueblo and Blue Grass facilities. The DOD contracted …
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€35.87
Committee on Durability and Life Prediction of Polymer Matrix Composites in Extreme Environments & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Going to Extremes
Advanced polymer matrix composites (PMC) have many advantages such as light weight and high specific strength that make them useful for many aerospace applications. Enormous uncertainty exists, …
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€35.98
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee on Technology Pathways: Assessing the Integrated Plan for a Next Generation Air Transportation System: Technology Pathways
In 2003, Congress directed the Secretary of Transportation to establish the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NGATS) Joint Planning and Development Office (JDPO) to plan the development of …
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€36.19
Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment & Committee for Oversight and Assessment of U.S. Department of Energy Project Management: Measuring Performance and Benchmarking Project Management at the Department of Energy
In 1997, Congress, in the conference report, H.R. 105-271, to the FY1998 Energy and Water Development Appropriation Bill, directed the National Research Council (NRC) to carry out a series of …
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€36.22
Board on Life Sciences & Committee on the Origins and Evolution of Life: Astrophysical Context of Life
In 1997, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) formed the National Astrobiology Institute to coordinate and fund research into the origins, distribution, and fate of life in the …
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€35.81
Committee on High-Performance Structural Fibers for Advanced Polymer Matrix Composites & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: High-Performance Structural Fibers for Advanced Polymer Matrix Composites
Military use of advanced polymer matrix composites (PMC)"consisting of a resin matrix reinforced by high-performance carbon or organic fibers"while extensive, accounts for less that 10 …
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€35.86
Board on Manufacturing and Engineering Design & Committee for Review of the Department of Energy’s Industrial Technologies Program: Decreasing Energy Intensity in Manufacturing
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has supported the Industrial Technologies Program (ITP) for more than a decade. This program supports R&D into energy efficiency technologies designed to decrease …
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€35.87
Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Implementing Health-Protective Features and Practices in Buildings
Indoor environmental quality (IEQ) is influenced by building design; heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning systems; and construction materials, as well as by building operations, maintenance, …
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€35.92
Board on Manufacturing and Engineering Design & Committee on National Laboratories and Universities: National Laboratories and Universities
This volume is a report of a workshop held in 2003 to address best practices and remaining challenges with respect to national laboratory-university …
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€35.81
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Government/Industry/Academic Relationships for Technology Development
NASAs Human Exploration and Development of Space (HEDS) program within the Office of Space Flight has proposed a new framework for space technology and systems development"Advanced Systems, …
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€35.91
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Committee on Astronomy and Astrophysics: Atacama Large Millimeter Array
The 1991 NRC decadal survey for astronomy and astrophysics included a project called the Millimeter Array (MMA). This instrument would be an array of millimeter-wavelength telescopes intended to …
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€25.43
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Committee on Setting Priorities for NSF-Sponsored Large Research Facility Projects: Setting Priorities for Large Research Facility Projects Supported by the National Science Foundation
In 1995, the National Science Foundation (NSF) created a special account to fund large (several tens of millions of dollars) research facilities. Over the years, these facilities have come to …
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€81.98
Committee for the Review of ONR’s Marine Corps Science and Technology Program & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: 2003 Assessment of the Office of Naval Research’s Marine Corps Science and Technology Program
The Office of Naval Research (ONR) funds research across a broad range of scientific and engineering disciplines in support of the Navy and Marine Corps. To ensure that its investments are serving …
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€54.27
Board on Manufacturing and Engineering Design & Committee on Bridging Design and Manufacturing: Retooling Manufacturing
As the Department of Defense continues development of the future warrior system, the difficulty of moving rapidly from design to manufacturing for complex technologies is becoming a major concern. In …
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€52.24
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Stepping-Stones to the Future of Space Exploration
NASAs Human Exploration and Development of Space (HEDS) program within the Office of Space Flight has proposed a new framework for space technology and systems development"Advanced Systems, …
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€35.62
Committee on the FBI’s Trilogy Information Technology Modernization Program & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Review of the FBI’s Trilogy Information Technology Modernization Program
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is in the process of developing a modern information technology (IT) system"the Trilogy program" that is designed to provide a high-speed network, …
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€35.93
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee for the Review of NASA’s Pioneering Revolutionary Technology (PRT) Program: Review of NASA’s Aerospace Technology Enterprise
The Committee for the Review of NASA’s Pioneering Revolutionary Technology (PRT) Program and its three supporting panels were charged by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) with …
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€55.15
Board on Life Sciences & Board on Physics and Astronomy: Funding Smithsonian Scientific Research
This report assesses whether the Smithsonian Institution should continue to receive direct federal appropriations for its scientific research programs or if this funding should be transferred to a …
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€49.25
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Neutrinos and Beyond
The President’s FY 2003 Budget Request for the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Major Research Equipment and Facilities Construction Account called for a National Research Council (NRC) …
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€48.22
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee on Aeronautics Research and Technology for Vision 2050: Securing the Future of U.S. Air Transportation
As recently as the summer of 2001, many travelers were dreading air transportation because of extensive delays associated with undercapacity of the system. That all changed on 9/11, and demand for …
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€35.87
Committee of Achieving Compatibility in IT-Based Educational Materials & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Information Technology (IT)-Based Educational Materials
In the last half-century, we have witnessed the birth and development of a new era: the information age. Information Technology (IT), the primary vehicle of the information age, has transformed the …
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€36.07
Board on Assessment of NIST Programs & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Measurement and Standards Laboratories
This assessment of the technical quality and relevance of the programs of the Measurement and Standards Laboratories of the National Institute of Standards and Technology is the work of the 165 …
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€119.65
Committee on Science and Technology for Countering Terrorism & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Making the Nation Safer
Vulnerabilities abound in U.S. society. The openness and efficiency of our key infrastructures " transportation, information and telecommunications systems, health systems, the electric power …
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€82.67
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Atoms, Molecules, and Light
With the publication in 1994 of Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Science: An Investment in the Future (the FAMOS report), the National Research Council launched the series Physics in a New Era, its …
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€36.20
Board on Manufacturing and Engineering Design & Committee to Evaluate Transfer of Pollution Prevention Technology for the U.S. Army: Transfer of Pollution Prevention Technologies
The activities of the Department of Defense (DOD) and its contractors in manufacturing, testing, maintaining, and disposing of military equipment make up a significant portion of the industrial …
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€36.01
Astronomy and Astrophysics Survey Committee & Board on Physics and Astronomy: Astronomy and Astrophysics in the New Millennium
In preparing the report, Astronomy and Astrophysics in the New Millenium , the AASC made use of a series of panel reports that address various aspects of ground- and space-based astronomy and …
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€82.08
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Assessment of the Department of Energy’s Office of Fusion Energy Sciences Program
The purpose of this assessment of the fusion energy sciences program of the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Science is to evaluate the quality of the research program and to provide guidance …
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€49.32
Committee for the Review of ONR’s Aircraft Technology Program & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: 2001 Assessment of the Office of Naval Research’s Aircraft Technology Program
The Office of Naval Research (ONR) contracted with the Naval Studies Board (NSB) of the National Research Council (NRC) to establish a committee to review ONR’s Aircraft Technology Program (ATP). The …
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€36.06
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Committee on the Organization and Management of Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics: U.S. Astronomy and Astrophysics
In its fiscal year 2002 budget summary document the Bush administration expressed concern-based in part on the findings and conclusions of two National Research Council studies-about recent trends in …
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€36.21
Board on Army Science and Technology & Committee on Review and Evaluation of the Army Chemical Stockpile Disposal Program: Modified Baseline Incineration Process for Mustard Projectiles at Pueblo Chemical Depot
The United States has maintained a stockpile of chemical warfare agents and munitions since World War I. The Army leadership has sought outside, unbiased advice on how best to dispose of the …
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€35.93
Board on Army Science and Technology & Committee on Review and Evaluation of the Army Chemical Stockpile Disposal Program: Occupational Health and Workplace Monitoring at Chemical Agent Disposal Facilities
In keeping with a congressional mandate (Public Law 104-484) and the Chemical Weapons Convention, the United States is currently destroying its chemical weapons stockpile. The Army must ensure that …
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€36.20
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee on Breakthrough Technology for Commercial Supersonic Aircraft: Commercial Supersonic Technology
High-speed flight is a major technological challenge for both commercial and business aviation. As a first step in revitalizing efforts by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to …
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€48.26
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems: Review of the Research Program of the Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles
Review of the Research Program of the Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles reviews the Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles (PNGV). The PNGV program is a cooperative research and …
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€58.79
Committee on Strengthening the Linkages Between the Sciences and the Mathematical Sciences & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Strengthening the Linkages Between the Sciences and the Mathematical Sciences
Over three hundred years ago, Galileo is reported to have said, "The laws of nature are written in the language of mathematics." Often mathematics and science go hand in hand, with one …
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€55.33
Committee on Electrometallurgical Techniques for DOE Spent Fuel Treatment & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Electrometallurgical Techniques for DOE Spent Fuel Treatment
The Committee on Electrometallurgical Techniques for DOE Spent Fuel Treatment was formed in September 1994 in response to a request made to the National Research Council (NRC) by the U.S. Department …
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€53.92
Committee for the Review of ONR’s Marine Corps Science and Technology Program & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: 2000 Assessment of the Office of Naval Research’s Marine Corps Science and Technology Program
This review of the Science and Technology (S&T) program of the Office of Naval Research’s (ONR’s) Expeditionary Warfare Operations Technology Division, Code 353, comes at a time of considerable …
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€53.66
Committee on Earth Studies & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Role of Small Satellites in NASA and NOAA Earth Observation Programs
Remote observations of Earth from space serve an extraordinarily broad range of purposes, resulting in extraordinary demands on those at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the …
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€47.76
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Research Council: Assessment of Mission Size Trade-offs for NASA’s Earth and Space Science Missions
Assessment of Mission Size Trade-offs for NASA’s Earth and Space Science Missions addresses fundamental issues of mission architecture in the nation’s scientific space program and responds to the …
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€47.99
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems: Review of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Heavy Vehicle Technologies Program
As national priorities have been focused both on reducing fuel consumption and improving air quality, attention has increased on reducing emissions from many types of vehicles, including light-duty, …
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€36.18
Committee on Earth Studies & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Issues in the Integration of Research and Operational Satellite Systems for Climate Research
This is the second of two Space Studies Board reports that address the complex issue of incorporating the needs of climate research into the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental …
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€35.86
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Committee on Astronomy and Astrophysics: Federal Funding of Astronomical Research
The Committee on Astronomy and Astrophysics (CAA), at its meeting on September 8, 1997, was briefed on the legislative report accompanying the bill to authorize appropriations for fiscal years 1998 …
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€35.89
Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment & Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems: Partnership for Advancing Technology in Housing
In response to HUD’s request, the NRC assembled a panel of experts, the Committee for Oversight and Assessment of the Partnership for Advancing Technology in Housing, under the auspices of the Board …
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€56.89
Arthur C. Gossard & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Advanced Epitaxy for Future Electronics, Optics, and Quantum Physics
The future development of electronics, optics, and, quite probably, quantum physics is being driven by advances in epitaxial materials. Band gap engineering, wafer bonding techniques, and epitaxial …
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€25.61
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Review and Evaluation of Alternative Technologies for Demilitarization of Assembled Chemical Weapons: Review and Evaluation of Alternative Technologies for Demilitarization of Assembled Chemic
This report examines seven disposal technologies being considered by the U.S. government as alternative methods to the process of incineration for destroying mortars, rockets, land mines, and other …
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€89.47
Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment & Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems: Research Agenda for Test Methods and Models to Simulate the Accelerated Aging of Infrastructure Materials
In the next several decades, a significant percentage of the country’s transportation, communications, environmental, and power system infrastructures, as well as public buildings and facilities, …
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€61.41
Board on Army Science and Technology & Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems: Review of the Army Non-Stockpile Chemical Materiel Disposal Program
This study is a review and evaluation of the U.S. Army’s Report to Congress on Alternative Approaches for the Treatment and Disposal of Chemical Agent Identification Sets (CAIS). CAIS are test kits …
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€59.87
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Review of the Research Program of the Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles
This fifth review of the Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles assesses progress made in the program towards the development of high fuel economy vehicles. One of the goals of the program is …
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€53.68
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Environmental Management Systems and ISO 14001
In 1996, the Federal Facilities Council (FFC), which operates under the aegis of the National Research Council, established a standing committee on Environmental Engineering with the express purpose …
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€43.43
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Space Shuttle Upgrades: Upgrading the Space Shuttle
The space shuttle is a unique national resource. One of only two operating vehicles that carries humans into space, the space shuttle functions as a scientific laboratory and as a base for …
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€56.71
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Review and Evaluation of the Army Chemical Stockpile Disposal Program: Tooele Chemical Agent Disposal Facility
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 …
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€35.89
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Reserve Forces for 2010 and Beyond: Technology-Based Pilot Programs
As the twenty-first century approaches, the number of full-time, active duty personnel in the U.S. military (excluding the Reserves and National Guard) is about 1.4 million, the lowest level since …
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Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Research Council: Twenty-Second Symposium on Naval Hydrodynamics
The Twenty-Second Symposium on Naval Hydrodynamics was held in Washington, D.C., from August 9-14, 1998. It coincided with the 100th anniversary of the David Taylor Model Basin. This international …
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€239.59
Committee on U.S. Mathematical Sciences Research Institutes & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: U.S. Research Institutes in the Mathematical Sciences
This report is the result of a fast-track study of U.S. mathematical sciences research institutes done in response to a request from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The task of the Committee …
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€25.23
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Review of the Draft Plan for the Modernization and Associated Restructuring Demonstration
The public law that authorized the National Weather Service (NWS) to modernize its technical systems and restructure its field office organization set the requirements for what has become known as …
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€25.64
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee to Review the Need for a Large-scale Test Facility for Research on the Effects of Extreme Winds on Structures: Review of the Need for a Large-Scale Test Facility for Research on the Effects of Ex
The Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory (INEEL), through the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), has proposed that a large-scale wind test facility (LSWTF) be constructed to study, …
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€50.76
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Research Council: Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence
The focus of this report is on artificial intelligence (AI) and human-computer interface (HCI) technology. Observations, conclusions, and recommendations regarding AI and HCI are presented in terms …
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€57.11
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems: Maintaining U.S. Leadership in Aeronautics
After the completion of the National Research Council (NRC) report, Maintaining U.S. Leadership in Aeronautics: Scenario-Based Strategic Planning for NASA’s Aeronautics Enterprise (1997), the …
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€82.65
Committee on Public Response to Alerts and Warnings on Mobile Devices: Current Knowledge and Research Gaps & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Public Response to Alerts and Warnings on Mobile Devices
This book presents a summary of the Workshop on Public Response to Alerts and Warnings on Mobile Devices: Current Knowledge and Research Gaps, held April 13 and 14, 2010, in Washington, D.C., under …
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€24.63
Board on Army Science and Technology & Committee to Review and Assess Closure Plans for the Tooele Chemical Agent Disposal Facility and the Chemical Agent Munitions Disposal System: Review of Closure Plans for the Baseline Incineration Chemical Agent Disp
This book responds to a request by the director of the U.S. Army Chemical Materials Agency (CMA) for the National Research Council to examine and evaluate the ongoing planning for closure of the four …
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€47.85
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Committee for The National Academies Summit on America’s Energy Future: National Academies Summit on America’s Energy Future
There is a growing sense of national urgency about the role of energy in long-term U.S. economic vitality, national security, and climate change. This urgency is the consequence of many factors, …
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€65.87
Air Force Studies Board & Committee on Pre-Milestone A Systems Engineering: A Retrospective Review and Benefits for Future Air Force Systems Acquisition: Pre-Milestone A and Early-Phase Systems Engineering
The ability of U.S. military forces to field new weapons systems quickly and to contain their cost growth has declined significantly over the past few decades. There are many causes including …
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€59.82
Committee on Improving Cybersecurity Research in the United States & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Toward a Safer and More Secure Cyberspace
Given the growing importance of cyberspace to nearly all aspects of national life, a secure cyberspace is vitally important to the nation, but cyberspace is far from secure today. The United States …
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€83.03
Board on Manufacturing and Engineering Design & Committee on Technologies to Deter Currency Counterfeiting: Path to the Next Generation of U.S. Banknotes
The rapid pace at which digital printing is advancing is posing a very serious challenge to the U.S. Department of the Treasurys Bureau of Printing (BEP). The BEP needs to stay ahead of the evolving …
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€90.17
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee on the Evaluation of Radiation Shielding for Space Exploration: Managing Space Radiation Risk in the New Era of Space Exploration
As part of the Vision for Space Exploration (VSE), NASA is planning for humans to revisit the Moon and someday go to Mars. An important consideration in this effort is protection against the exposure …
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€54.33
Board on Life Sciences & Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications: Department of Homeland Security Bioterrorism Risk Assessment
The mission of Department of Homeland Security Bioterrorism Risk Assessment: A Call for Change, the book published in December 2008, is to independently and scientifically review the methodology that …
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€65.87
Committee on the Scientific Context for Exploration of the Moon & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Scientific Context for Exploration of the Moon
Because of the Moons unique place in the evolution of rocky worlds, it is a prime focus of NASAs space exploration vision. Currently NASA is defining and implementing a series of robotic orbital and …
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€73.36
Committee on New Opportunities in Solar System Exploration: An Evaluation of the New Frontiers Announcement of Opportunity & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Opening New Frontiers in Space
The New Frontiers Program was created by NASA in 2002 at the recommendation of the NRC’s decadal survey for solar system research. In order to optimize solar system research, the NRC recommended a …
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€35.81
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Committee on Review of DOE’s Nuclear Energy Research and Development Program: Review of DOE’s Nuclear Energy Research and Development Program
There has been a substantial resurgence of interest in nuclear power in the United States over the past few years. One consequence has been a rapid growth in the research budget of DOE’s Office of …
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€46.71
Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Review of the Federal Strategy for Nanotechnology-Related Environmental, Health, and Safety Research
This new book from the National Research Council finds serious weaknesses in the government’s plan for research on the potential health and environmental risks posed by nanomaterials, which are …
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€54.33
Committee on Conventional Prompt Global Strike Capability & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: U.S. Conventional Prompt Global Strike
Conventional prompt global strike (CPGS) is a military option under consideration by the U.S. Department of Defense. This book, the final report from the National Research Council’s Committee on …
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€82.99
Committee on C4ISR for Future Naval Strike Groups & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: C4ISR for Future Naval Strike Groups
The Navy has put forth a new construct for its strike forces that enables more effective forward deterrence and rapid response. A key aspect of this construct is the need for flexible, adaptive …
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€82.02
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Review of the Research Program of the FreedomCAR and Fuel Partnership
The Freedom CAR and Fuel Partnership is a collaborative effort among the Department of Energy (DOE), the U.S. Council for Automotive Research (USCAR), and five major energy companies to manage …
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€64.37
Committee for the Symposium on Avoiding Technology Surprise for Tomorrow’s Warfightera¬&2010 & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Avoiding Technology Surprise for Tomorrow’s Warfighter
The Symposium on Avoiding Technology Surprise for Tomorrow’s Warfighter is a forum for consumers and producers of scientific and technical intelligence to exchange perspectives on the potential …
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€35.92
Computer Science and Telecommunications Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Preliminary Observations on Information Technology Needs and Priorities at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Increasingly, the core mission of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), an agency of the Department of Health and Human Services, is expanding from one of focusing on prompt claims …
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€25.23
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Committee for a Decadal Survey of Astronomy and Astrophysics: New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Driven by discoveries, and enabled by leaps in technology and imagination, our understanding of the universe has changed dramatically during the course of the last few decades. The fields of …
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€65.68
Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources & Board on Energy and Environmental Systems: Renewable Fuel Standard
In the United States, we have come to depend on plentiful and inexpensive energy to support our economy and lifestyles. In recent years, many questions have been raised regarding the sustainability …
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€3.73
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Research Council: Modeling the Economics of Greenhouse Gas Mitigation
Models are fundamental for estimating the possible costs and effectiveness of different policies for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. There is a wide array of models to perform such analysis, …
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€57.11
Committee on Research Opportunities in Corrosion Science and Engineering & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Research Opportunities in Corrosion Science and Engineering
The field of corrosion science and engineering is on the threshold of important advances. Advances in lifetime prediction and technological solutions, as enabled by the convergence of experimental …
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€56.41
Committee on the Planetary Science Decadal Survey & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Vision and Voyages for Planetary Science in the Decade 2013-2022
In recent years, planetary science has seen a tremendous growth in new knowledge. Deposits of water ice exist at the Moon’s poles. Discoveries on the surface of Mars point to an early warm wet …
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€3.77
Committee on the Planetary Science Decadal Survey & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Vision and Voyages for Planetary Science in the Decade 2013-2022
In recent years, planetary science has seen a tremendous growth in new knowledge. Deposits of water ice exist at the Moon’s poles. Discoveries on the surface of Mars point to an early warm wet …
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€67.30
Committee on Wireless Technology Prospects and Policy Options & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Wireless Technology Prospects and Policy Options
The use of radio-frequency communication–commonly referred to as wireless communication–is becoming more pervasive as well as more economically and socially important. Technological progress over …
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€44.91
Air Force Studies Board & Committee on Evaluation of U.S. Air Force Preacquisition Technology Development: Evaluation of U.S. Air Force Preacquisition Technology Development
From the days of biplanes and open cockpits, the air forces of the United States have relied on the mastery of technology. From design to operation, a project can stretch to 20 years and more, with …
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€54.93
Committee on Assessing Requirements for Sustained Ocean Color Research and Operations & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Assessing the Requirements for Sustained Ocean Color Research and Operations
The ocean is a fundamental component of the earth’s biosphere. It covers roughly 70 percent of Earth’s surface and plays a pivotal role in the cycling of life’s building blocks, such as nitrogen, …
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€47.50
Committee on Assessing Requirements for Sustained Ocean Color Research and Operations & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Assessing the Requirements for Sustained Ocean Color Research and Operations
The ocean is a fundamental component of the earth’s biosphere. It covers roughly 70 percent of Earth’s surface and plays a pivotal role in the cycling of life’s building blocks, such as nitrogen, …
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€49.78
Army Research Laboratory Technical Assessment Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: 2009-2010 Assessment of the Army Research Laboratory
The charge of the Army Research Laboratory Technical Assessment Board (ARLTAB) is to provide biannual assessments of the scientific and technical quality of the research, development, and analysis …
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€39.03
Army Research Laboratory Technical Assessment Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: 2009-2010 Assessment of the Army Research Laboratory
The charge of the Army Research Laboratory Technical Assessment Board (ARLTAB) is to provide biannual assessments of the scientific and technical quality of the research, development, and analysis …
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€42.25
Committee on Public Response to Alerts and Warnings on Mobile Devices: Current Knowledge and Research Gaps & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Public Response to Alerts and Warnings on Mobile Devices
This book presents a summary of the Workshop on Public Response to Alerts and Warnings on Mobile Devices: Current Knowledge and Research Gaps, held April 13 and 14, 2010, in Washington, D.C., under …
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€48.24
Committee on Sustaining Growth in Computing Performance & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Future of Computing Performance
The end of dramatic exponential growth in single-processor performance marks the end of the dominance of the single microprocessor in computing. The era of sequential computing must give way to a new …
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€55.78
Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment & Committee on High-Performance Green Federal Buildings: Strategies and Approaches for Meeting Federal Objectives: Achieving High-Performance Federal Facilities
The design, construction, operation, and retrofit of buildings is evolving in response to ever-increasing knowledge about the impact of indoor environments on people and the impact of buildings on …
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€3.73
Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment & Committee on High-Performance Green Federal Buildings: Strategies and Approaches for Meeting Federal Objectives: Achieving High-Performance Federal Facilities
The design, construction, operation, and retrofit of buildings is evolving in response to ever-increasing knowledge about the impact of indoor environments on people and the impact of buildings on …
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€46.51
Committee on Materials Needs and R&D Strategy for Future Military Aerospace Propulsion Systems & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Materials Needs and R&D Strategy for Future Military Aerospace Propulsion Systems
The ongoing development of military aerospace platforms requires continuous technology advances in order to provide the nation’s war fighters with the desired advantage. Significant advances in the …
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€54.23
Committee on Materials Needs and R&D Strategy for Future Military Aerospace Propulsion Systems & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Materials Needs and R&D Strategy for Future Military Aerospace Propulsion Systems
The ongoing development of military aerospace platforms requires continuous technology advances in order to provide the nation’s war fighters with the desired advantage. Significant advances in the …
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€57.01
Board on Army Science and Technology & Committee on Opportunities in Protection Materials Science and Technology for Future Army Applications: Opportunities in Protection Materials Science and Technology for Future Army Applications
Armor plays a significant role in the protection of warriors. During the course of history, the introduction of new materials and improvements in the materials already used to construct armor has led …
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€46.79
Board on Army Science and Technology & Committee on Opportunities in Protection Materials Science and Technology for Future Army Applications: Opportunities in Protection Materials Science and Technology for Future Army Applications
Armor plays a significant role in the protection of warriors. During the course of history, the introduction of new materials and improvements in the materials already used to construct armor has led …
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€49.25
Committee for the Workshops on Computational Thinking & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Report of a Workshop on the Pedagogical Aspects of Computational Thinking
In 2008, the Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate of the National Science Foundation asked the National Research Council (NRC) to conduct two workshops to explore the nature …
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€49.07
Committee for the Workshops on Computational Thinking & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Report of a Workshop on the Pedagogical Aspects of Computational Thinking
In 2008, the Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate of the National Science Foundation asked the National Research Council (NRC) to conduct two workshops to explore the nature …
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€51.25
Committee on Engineering Aviation Security Environmentsa¬&False Positives from Explosive Detection Systems & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Engineering Aviation Security EnvironmentsaReduction of False Alarms in Computed Tomography-Based
On November 19, 2001 the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) was created as a separate entity within the U.S. Department of Transportation through the Aviation and Transportation Security …
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Committee on Engineering Aviation Security Environmentsa¬&False Positives from Explosive Detection Systems & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Engineering Aviation Security EnvironmentsaReduction of False Alarms in Computed Tomography-Based
On November 19, 2001 the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) was created as a separate entity within the U.S. Department of Transportation through the Aviation and Transportation Security …
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Board on Army Science and Technology & Committee to Assess Process Safety Metrics for the Blue Grass and Pueblo Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plants: Assessment of Approaches for Using Process Safety Metrics at the Blue Grass and Pueblo Chemical Agent
The Department of Defense, through the Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives program, is currently in the process of constructing two full-scale pilot plants at the Pueblo Chemical Depot in …
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€25.66
Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology & Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications: Transforming Combustion Research through Cyberinfrastructure
Combustion has provided society with most of its energy needs for millenia, from igniting the fires of cave dwellers to propelling the rockets that traveled to the Moon. Even in the face of climate …
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€37.43
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee for the Assessment of NASA’s Orbital Debris Programs: Summary of the Workshop to Identify Gaps and Possible Directions for NASA’s Meteoroid and Orbital Debris Programs
A Summary of the Workshop to Identify the Gaps and Possible Directions for NASA’s Meteoroid and Orbital Debris Programs summarizes the two-day workshop held on March 9-10, 2011, where various …
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€17.28
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee for the Assessment of NASA’s Orbital Debris Programs: Summary of the Workshop to Identify Gaps and Possible Directions for NASA’s Meteoroid and Orbital Debris Programs
A Summary of the Workshop to Identify the Gaps and Possible Directions for NASA’s Meteoroid and Orbital Debris Programs summarizes the two-day workshop held on March 9-10, 2011, where various …
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€18.09
Air Force Studies Board & Committee on Examination of the U.S. Air Force’s Aircraft Sustainment Needs in the Future and Its Strategy to Meet Those Needs: Examination of the U.S. Air Force’s Aircraft Sustainment Needs in the Future and Its Strategy to Meet
The ability of the United States Air Force (USAF) to keep its aircraft operating at an acceptable operational tempo, in wartime and in peacetime, has been important to the Air Force since its …
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€60.34
Air Force Studies Board & Committee on Examination of the U.S. Air Force’s Aircraft Sustainment Needs in the Future and Its Strategy to Meet Those Needs: Examination of the U.S. Air Force’s Aircraft Sustainment Needs in the Future and Its Strategy to Meet
The ability of the United States Air Force (USAF) to keep its aircraft operating at an acceptable operational tempo, in wartime and in peacetime, has been important to the Air Force since its …
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€63.40
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Committee for a Decadal Survey of Astronomy and Astrophysics: Panel ReportsaNew Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Every 10 years the National Research Council releases a survey of astronomy and astrophysics outlining priorities for the coming decade. The most recent survey, titled New Worlds, New Horizons in …
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€66.36
Committee on National Security Implications of Climate Change for U.S. Naval Forces & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: National Security Implications of Climate Change for U.S. Naval Forces
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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€52.36
Committee on Improving the Decision Making Abilities of Small Unit Leaders & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Improving the Decision Making Abilities of Small Unit Leaders
For the past decade, the U.S. Marine Corps and its sister services have been engaged in what has been termed "hybrid warfare, " which ranges from active combat to civilian support. Hybrid …
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€3.70
Committee on Improving the Decision Making Abilities of Small Unit Leaders & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Improving the Decision Making Abilities of Small Unit Leaders
For the past decade, the U.S. Marine Corps and its sister services have been engaged in what has been termed "hybrid warfare, " which ranges from active combat to civilian support. Hybrid …
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€51.25
Committee on an Assessment of Concepts and Systems for U.S. Boost-Phase Missile Defense in Comparison to Other Alternatives & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Making Sense of Ballistic Missile Defense
The Committee on an Assessment of Concepts and Systems for U.S. Boost-Phase Missile Defense in Comparison to Other Alternatives set forth to provide an assessment of the feasibility, practicality, …
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Committee on an Assessment of Concepts and Systems for U.S. Boost-Phase Missile Defense in Comparison to Other Alternatives & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Making Sense of Ballistic Missile Defense
The Committee on an Assessment of Concepts and Systems for U.S. Boost-Phase Missile Defense in Comparison to Other Alternatives set forth to provide an assessment of the feasibility, practicality, …
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€74.85
Committee on Assessment of Impediments to Interagency Cooperation on Space and Earth Science Missions & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Assessment of Impediments to Interagency Collaboration on Space and Earth Science Missions
Through an examination of case studies, agency briefings, and existing reports, and drawing on personal knowledge and direct experience, the Committee on Assessment of Impediments to Interagency …
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€30.17
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Committee on the Assessment of Technologies for Improving Light-Duty Vehicle Fuel Economy: Assessment of Fuel Economy Technologies for Light-Duty Vehicles
Various combinations of commercially available technologies could greatly reduce fuel consumption in passenger cars, sport-utility vehicles, minivans, and other light-duty vehicles without …
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€72.46
Ad Hoc Committee to Assess the Science Proposed for a Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory (DUSEL) & Board on Physics and Astronomy: Assessment of the Science Proposed for the Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory (DUSEL) (PDF
According to the big bang theory, our Universe began in a state of unimaginably high energy and density, contained in a space of subatomic dimensions. At that time, unlike today, the fundamental …
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Ad Hoc Committee to Assess the Science Proposed for a Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory (DUSEL) & Board on Physics and Astronomy: Assessment of the Science Proposed for the Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory (DUSEL) (ePU
According to the big bang theory, our Universe began in a state of unimaginably high energy and density, contained in a space of subatomic dimensions. At that time, unlike today, the fundamental …
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€51.31
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee on Human Spaceflight Crew Operations: Preparing for the High Frontier
As the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) retires the Space Shuttle and shifts involvement in International Space Station (ISS) operations, changes in the role and requirements of …
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€44.83
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Interim Report on NASA’s Draft Space Technology Roadmaps
For the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to achieve many of its space science and exploration goals over the next several decades, dramatic advances in space technology will be …
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€32.67
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Interim Report on NASA’s Draft Space Technology Roadmaps
For the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to achieve many of its space science and exploration goals over the next several decades, dramatic advances in space technology will be …
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€35.91
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee for the Assessment of NASA’s Orbital Debris Programs: Limiting Future Collision Risk to Spacecraft
Derelict satellites, equipment and other debris orbiting Earth (aka space junk) have been accumulating for many decades and could damage or even possibly destroy satellites and human spacecraft if …
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€51.61
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee for the Assessment of NASA’s Orbital Debris Programs: Limiting Future Collision Risk to Spacecraft
Derelict satellites, equipment and other debris orbiting Earth (aka space junk) have been accumulating for many decades and could damage or even possibly destroy satellites and human spacecraft if …
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€54.25
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & Laboratory Assessments Board: Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Information Technology Laboratory
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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€26.91
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & Laboratory Assessments Board: Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Information Technology Laboratory
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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€28.34
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & Laboratory Assessments Board: Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology
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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€27.05
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & Laboratory Assessments Board: Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology
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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€28.38
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & Laboratory Assessments Board: Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Center for Neutron Research
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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€27.14
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & Laboratory Assessments Board: Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Center for Neutron Research
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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€28.36
Committee for the Review of the Master’s Degree Program for Science and Technology Intelligence Professionals & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Review of the National Defense Intelligence College’s Master’s Degree in Science and Technology
The National Research Council (NRC) was asked by the National Defense Intelligence College (NDIC) to convene a committee to review the curriculum and syllabi for their proposed master of science …
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€28.68
Committee for the Review of the Master’s Degree Program for Science and Technology Intelligence Professionals & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Review of the National Defense Intelligence College’s Master’s Degree in Science and Technology
The National Research Council (NRC) was asked by the National Defense Intelligence College (NDIC) to convene a committee to review the curriculum and syllabi for their proposed master of science …
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€31.34
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Research Council: Sharing the Adventure with the Public
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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Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Research Council: Sharing the Adventure with the Public
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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€60.10
Committee on Benchmarking the Technology and Application of Lightweighting & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Application of Lightweighting Technology to Military Aircraft, Vessels, and Vehicles
Lightweighting is a concept well known to structural designers and engineers in all applications areas, from laptops to bicycles to automobiles to buildings and airplanes. Reducing the weight of …
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€3.75
Committee on Benchmarking the Technology and Application of Lightweighting & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Application of Lightweighting Technology to Military Aircraft, Vessels, and Vehicles
Lightweighting is a concept well known to structural designers and engineers in all applications areas, from laptops to bicycles to automobiles to buildings and airplanes. Reducing the weight of …
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€53.83
Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment & Committee on Predicting Outcomes of Investments in Maintenance and Repair for Federal Facilities: Predicting Outcomes of Investments in Maintenance and Repair of Federal Facilities
The deteriorating condition of federal facilities poses economic, safety, operational, and environmental risks to the federal government, to the achievement of the missions of federal agencies, and …
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€3.76
Computer Science and Telecommunications Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Strategies and Priorities for Information Technology at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is the agency in the Department of Health and Human Services responsible for providing health coverage for seniors and people with disabilities, …
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€3.72
Computer Science and Telecommunications Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Strategies and Priorities for Information Technology at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is the agency in the Department of Health and Human Services responsible for providing health coverage for seniors and people with disabilities, …
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€55.39
Committee on National Statistics & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Communicating Science and Engineering Data in the Information Age
The National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) of the National Science Foundation (NSF) communicates its science and engineering (S&E) information to data users in a very fluid …
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€36.23
Committee on National Statistics & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Communicating Science and Engineering Data in the Information Age
The National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) of the National Science Foundation (NSF) communicates its science and engineering (S&E) information to data users in a very fluid …
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€46.73
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Review of the 21st Century Truck Partnership, Second Report
In July 2010, the National Research Council (NRC) appointed the Committee to Review the 21st Century Truck Partnership, Phase 2, to conduct an independent review of the 21st Century Truck Partnership …
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Board on Army Science and Technology & Committee on National Statistics: Industrial Methods for the Effective Development and Testing of Defense Systems
During the past decade and a half, the National Research Council, through its Committee on National Statistics, has carried out a number of studies on the application of statistical methods to …
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€24.75
Board on Army Science and Technology & Committee on National Statistics: Industrial Methods for the Effective Development and Testing of Defense Systems
During the past decade and a half, the National Research Council, through its Committee on National Statistics, has carried out a number of studies on the application of statistical methods to …
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€41.75
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee on Human Spaceflight Crew Operations: Preparing for the High Frontier
As the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) retires the Space Shuttle and shifts involvement in International Space Station (ISS) operations, changes in the role and requirements of …
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€42.93
Committee for Evaluation of Space Radiation Cancer Risk Model & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Technical Evaluation of the NASA Model for Cancer Risk to Astronauts Due to Space Radiation
NASA’s current missions to the International Space Station (ISS) and potential future exploration missions involving extended stays by astronauts on the lunar surface, as well as the possibility of …
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€3.75
Committee for Evaluation of Space Radiation Cancer Risk Model & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Technical Evaluation of the NASA Model for Cancer Risk to Astronauts Due to Space Radiation
NASA’s current missions to the International Space Station (ISS) and potential future exploration missions involving extended stays by astronauts on the lunar surface, as well as the possibility of …
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€43.76
Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology & Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology: Research Strategy for Environmental, Health, and Safety Aspects of Engineered Nanomaterials
The nanotechnology sector, which generated about $225 billion in product sales in 2009, is predicted to expand rapidly over the next decade with the development of new technologies that have new …
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Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology & Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology: Research Strategy for Environmental, Health, and Safety Aspects of Engineered Nanomaterials
The nanotechnology sector, which generated about $225 billion in product sales in 2009, is predicted to expand rapidly over the next decade with the development of new technologies that have new …
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€68.85
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: NASA Space Technology Roadmaps and Priorities
NASA’s Office of the Chief Technologist (OCT) has begun to rebuild the advanced space technology program in the agency with plans laid out in 14 draft technology roadmaps. It has been years since …
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Board on Physics and Astronomy & Committee on the Assessment of a Plan for U.S. Participation in Euclid: Assessment of a Plan for U.S. Participation in Euclid
NASA proposed to make a hardware contribution to the European Space Agency’s (ESA’s) Euclid mission in exchange for U.S. membership on the Euclid Science Team and science data access. The Euclid …
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Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Committee on National Statistics: Effective Tracking of Building Energy Use
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 …
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Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Committee on National Statistics: Effective Tracking of Building Energy Use
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 …
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Committee to Review the Quality of the Management and of the Science and Engineering Research at the Department of Energy’s National Security Laboratoriesa¬&Phase I & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Managing for High-Quality Science and En
The three National Security Laboratories–Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)–are managed by private-sector …
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Committee to Review the Quality of the Management and of the Science and Engineering Research at the Department of Energy’s National Security Laboratoriesa¬&Phase I & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Managing for High-Quality Science and En
The three National Security Laboratories–Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)–are managed by private-sector …
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Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Board on Physics and Astronomy: Interim ReportaStatus of the Study "An Assessment of the Prospects for Inertial Fusion Energy"
The scientific and technological progress in inertial confinement fusion has been substantial during the past decade. However, many of the technologies needed for an integrated inertial fusion energy …
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Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Board on Physics and Astronomy: Interim ReportaStatus of the Study "An Assessment of the Prospects for Inertial Fusion Energy"
The scientific and technological progress in inertial confinement fusion has been substantial during the past decade. However, many of the technologies needed for an integrated inertial fusion energy …
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€42.23
Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications & Committee on the Mathematical Sciences in 2025: Fueling Innovation and Discovery
The mathematical sciences are part of everyday life. Modern communication, transportation, science, engineering, technology, medicine, manufacturing, security, and finance all depend on the …
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Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications & Committee on the Mathematical Sciences in 2025: Fueling Innovation and Discovery
The mathematical sciences are part of everyday life. Modern communication, transportation, science, engineering, technology, medicine, manufacturing, security, and finance all depend on the …
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€25.36
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee to Assess NASA’s Aeronautics Flight Research Capabilities: Recapturing NASA’s Aeronautics Flight Research Capabilities
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 research and has …
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Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee to Assess NASA’s Aeronautics Flight Research Capabilities: Recapturing NASA’s Aeronautics Flight Research Capabilities
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 research and has …
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€48.19
Board on Army Science and Technology & Committee on National Statistics: Testing of Body Armor Materials
In 2009, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released the report Warfighter Support: Independent Expert Assessment of Army Body Armor Test Results and Procedures Needed Before Fielding, which …
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€3.72
Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Assessing the Reliability of Complex Models
Advances in computing hardware and algorithms have dramatically improved the ability to simulate complex processes computationally. Today’s simulation capabilities offer the prospect of addressing …
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Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Assessing the Reliability of Complex Models
Advances in computing hardware and algorithms have dramatically improved the ability to simulate complex processes computationally. Today’s simulation capabilities offer the prospect of addressing …
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€50.76
Committee on Planetary Protection Standards for Icy Bodies in the Outer Solar System & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Assessment of Planetary Protection Requirements for Spacecraft Missions to Icy Solar System Bodies
NASA’s exploration of planets and satellites during the past 50 years has led to the discovery of traces of water ice throughout the solar system and prospects for large liquid water reservoirs …
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€3.76
Committee on Planetary Protection Standards for Icy Bodies in the Outer Solar System & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Assessment of Planetary Protection Requirements for Spacecraft Missions to Icy Solar System Bodies
NASA’s exploration of planets and satellites during the past 50 years has led to the discovery of traces of water ice throughout the solar system and prospects for large liquid water reservoirs …
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€52.42
Committee on the Assessment of NASA’s Earth Science Program & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Earth Science and Applications from Space
Understanding the effects of natural and human-induced changes on the global environment and their implications requires a foundation of integrated observations of land, sea, air and space, on which …
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€3.77
Committee on the Assessment of NASA’s Earth Science Program & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Earth Science and Applications from Space
Understanding the effects of natural and human-induced changes on the global environment and their implications requires a foundation of integrated observations of land, sea, air and space, on which …
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€53.90
Committee on Computing Research for Environmental and Societal Sustainability & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Computing Research for Sustainability
A broad and growing literature describes the deep and multidisciplinary nature of the sustainability challenges faced by the United States and the world. Despite the profound technical challenges …
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€3.72
Committee on Computing Research for Environmental and Societal Sustainability & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Computing Research for Sustainability
A broad and growing literature describes the deep and multidisciplinary nature of the sustainability challenges faced by the United States and the world. Despite the profound technical challenges …
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€58.61
Board on Army Science and Technology & Committee on Review of the Conduct of Operations for Remediation of Recovered Chemical Warfare Materiel from Burial Sites: Remediation of Buried Chemical Warfare Materiel
As the result of disposal practices from the early to mid-twentieth century, approximately 250 sites in 40 states, the District of Columbia, and 3 territories are known or suspected to have buried …
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€3.73
Board on Army Science and Technology & Committee on Review of the Conduct of Operations for Remediation of Recovered Chemical Warfare Materiel from Burial Sites: Remediation of Buried Chemical Warfare Materiel
As the result of disposal practices from the early to mid-twentieth century, approximately 250 sites in 40 states, the District of Columbia, and 3 territories are known or suspected to have buried …
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€54.29
Air Force Studies Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Capability Planning and Analysis to Optimize Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Investments
Intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities have expanded situation awareness for U.S. forces, provided for more precise combat effects, and enabled better decision making both …
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€3.75
Air Force Studies Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Capability Planning and Analysis to Optimize Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Investments
Intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities have expanded situation awareness for U.S. forces, provided for more precise combat effects, and enabled better decision making both …
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€57.28
Committee on Depicting Innovation in Information Technology & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Continuing Innovation in Information Technology
Information technology (IT) is widely understood to be the enabling technology of the 21st century. IT has transformed, and continues to transform, all aspects of our lives: commerce and finance, …
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€3.76
Committee on Depicting Innovation in Information Technology & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Continuing Innovation in Information Technology
Information technology (IT) is widely understood to be the enabling technology of the 21st century. IT has transformed, and continues to transform, all aspects of our lives: commerce and finance, …
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€33.16
Board on Army Science and Technology & Committee on Assessment of Agent Monitoring Strategies for the Blue Grass and Pueblo Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plants: Assessment of Agent Monitoring Strategies for the Blue Grass and Pueblo Chemical Agent Des
January 2012 saw the completion of the U.S. Army’s Chemical Materials Agency’s (CMA’s) task to destroy 90 percent of the nation’s stockpile of chemical weapons. CMA completed destruction of the …
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€3.72
Board on Army Science and Technology & Committee on Assessment of Agent Monitoring Strategies for the Blue Grass and Pueblo Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plants: Assessment of Agent Monitoring Strategies for the Blue Grass and Pueblo Chemical Agent Des
January 2012 saw the completion of the U.S. Army’s Chemical Materials Agency’s (CMA’s) task to destroy 90 percent of the nation’s stockpile of chemical weapons. CMA completed destruction of the …
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€55.51
Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources & Board on Energy and Environmental Systems: Sustainable Development of Algal Biofuels in the United States
Biofuels made from algae are gaining attention as a domestic source of renewable fuel. However, with current technologies, scaling up production of algal biofuels to meet even 5 percent of U.S. …
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€3.72
Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources & Board on Energy and Environmental Systems: Sustainable Development of Algal Biofuels in the United States
Biofuels made from algae are gaining attention as a domestic source of renewable fuel. However, with current technologies, scaling up production of algal biofuels to meet even 5 percent of U.S. …
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€74.56
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Committee on the Assessment of and Outlook for Nuclear Physics: Nuclear Physics
The principal goals of the study were to articulate the scientific rationale and objectives of the field and then to take a long-term strategic view of U.S. nuclear science in the global context for …
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€3.72
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Committee on the Assessment of and Outlook for Nuclear Physics: Nuclear Physics
The principal goals of the study were to articulate the scientific rationale and objectives of the field and then to take a long-term strategic view of U.S. nuclear science in the global context for …
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€74.85
Board on Army Science and Technology & Committee on Disposal Options for the Rocket Motors of Nerve Agent Rockets at Blue Grass Army Depot: Disposal Options for the Rocket Motors From Nerve Agent Rockets Stored at Blue Grass Army Depot
The Blue Grass Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant (BGCAPP) is under construction near Richmond, Kentucky, two dispose of one of the two remaining stockpiles of chemical munitions in the United …
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€3.76
Board on Army Science and Technology & Committee on Disposal Options for the Rocket Motors of Nerve Agent Rockets at Blue Grass Army Depot: Disposal Options for the Rocket Motors From Nerve Agent Rockets Stored at Blue Grass Army Depot
The Blue Grass Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant (BGCAPP) is under construction near Richmond, Kentucky, two dispose of one of the two remaining stockpiles of chemical munitions in the United …
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€47.88
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee for the Assessment of the U.S. Air Force’s Astrodynamic Standards: Continuing Kepler’s Quest
In February 2009, the commercial communications satellite Iridium 33 collided with the Russian military communications satellite Cosmos 2251. The collision, which was not the first recorded between …
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€3.73
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee for the Assessment of the U.S. Air Force’s Astrodynamic Standards: Continuing Kepler’s Quest
In February 2009, the commercial communications satellite Iridium 33 collided with the Russian military communications satellite Cosmos 2251. The collision, which was not the first recorded between …
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€47.93
Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications & Committee on Population: Aging and the Macroeconomy
The United States is in the midst of a major demographic shift. In the coming decades, people aged 65 and over will make up an increasingly large percentage of the population: The ratio of people …
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€3.73
Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications & Committee on Population: Aging and the Macroeconomy
The United States is in the midst of a major demographic shift. In the coming decades, people aged 65 and over will make up an increasingly large percentage of the population: The ratio of people …
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€59.70
Board on Higher Education and Workforce & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Assuring the U.S. Department of Defense a Strong Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Workforce
The ability of the nation’s military to prevail during future conflicts, and to fulfill its humanitarian and other missions, depends on continued advances in the nation’s technology base. A workforce …
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€3.76
Board on Higher Education and Workforce & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Assuring the U.S. Department of Defense a Strong Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Workforce
The ability of the nation’s military to prevail during future conflicts, and to fulfill its humanitarian and other missions, depends on continued advances in the nation’s technology base. A workforce …
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€54.29
Committee on Fostering Sustainability Considerations into Public and Private Sector Procurement Tools and Capabilities & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Sustainability Considerations for Procurement Tools and Capabilities
Federal laws, regulations, and executive orders have imposed requirements for federal agencies to move toward the sustainable acquisition of goods and services, including the incorporation of …
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€3.72
Committee on Fostering Sustainability Considerations into Public and Private Sector Procurement Tools and Capabilities & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Sustainability Considerations for Procurement Tools and Capabilities
Federal laws, regulations, and executive orders have imposed requirements for federal agencies to move toward the sustainable acquisition of goods and services, including the incorporation of …
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€44.72
Committee on Assessing Foreign Technology Development in Human Performance Modification & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Human Performance Modification
The development of technologies to modify natural human physical and cognitive performance is one of increasing interest and concern, especially among military services that may be called on to …
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€3.73
Committee on Assessing Foreign Technology Development in Human Performance Modification & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Human Performance Modification
The development of technologies to modify natural human physical and cognitive performance is one of increasing interest and concern, especially among military services that may be called on to …
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€38.81
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee on a Decadal Strategy for Solar and Space Physics (Heliophysics): Solar and Space Physics
From the interior of the Sun, to the upper atmosphere and near-space environment of Earth, and outward to a region far beyond Pluto where the Sun’s influence wanes, advances during the past decade in …
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€104.76
Committee on Harnessing Light: Capitalizing on Optical Science Trends and Challenges for Future Research & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Optics and Photonics
Optics and photonics technologies are ubiquitous: they are responsible for the displays on smart phones and computing devices, optical fiber that carries the information in the internet, advanced …
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€3.73
Board on Army Science and Technology & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Review of Biotreatment, Water Recovery, and Brine Reduction Systems for the Pueblo Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plant
The Pueblo Chemical Depot (PCD) in Colorado is one of two sites that features U.S. stockpile of chemical weapons that need to be destroyed. The PCD features about 2, 600 tons of mustard-including …
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€3.75
Board on Army Science and Technology & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Review of Biotreatment, Water Recovery, and Brine Reduction Systems for the Pueblo Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plant
The Pueblo Chemical Depot (PCD) in Colorado is one of two sites that features U.S. stockpile of chemical weapons that need to be destroyed. The PCD features about 2, 600 tons of mustard-including …
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€48.28
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Committee on Enhancing the Robustness and Resilience of Future Electrical Transmission and Distribution in the United States to Terrorist Attack: Terrorism and the Electric Power Delivery System
The electric power delivery system that carries electricity from large central generators to customers could be severely damaged by a small number of well-informed attackers. The system is inherently …
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€59.88
Committee on Triennial Review of the National Nanotechnology Initiative: Phase II & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Interim Report on the Second Triennial Review of the National Nanotechnology Initiative
Nanotechnology has become one of the defining ideas in global R&D over the past decade. In 2001 the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) was established as the U.S. government interagency program …
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€3.72
Committee on the Effects of Solar Variability on Earth’s Climate & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Effects of Solar Variability on Earth’s Climate
On September 8-9, 2011, experts in solar physics, climate models, paleoclimatology, and atmospheric science assembled at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado for a …
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€3.76
Committee on the Effects of Solar Variability on Earth’s Climate & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Effects of Solar Variability on Earth’s Climate
On September 8-9, 2011, experts in solar physics, climate models, paleoclimatology, and atmospheric science assembled at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado for a …
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€44.78
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & Laboratory Assessments Board: Best Practices in Assessment of Research and Development Organizations
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)–recognizing that information and insights gained through continual examination of practices for organizational assessment are useful for …
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€3.76
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & Laboratory Assessments Board: Best Practices in Assessment of Research and Development Organizations
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)–recognizing that information and insights gained through continual examination of practices for organizational assessment are useful for …
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€36.16
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & Laboratory Assessments Board: Best Practices in Assessment of Research and Development Organizations
Research and development (R&D) organizations are operated by government, business, academe, and independent institutes. The success of their parent organizations is closely tied to the success of …
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€3.73
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & Laboratory Assessments Board: Best Practices in Assessment of Research and Development Organizations
Research and development (R&D) organizations are operated by government, business, academe, and independent institutes. The success of their parent organizations is closely tied to the success of …
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€45.08
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee for the Reusable Booster System: Review and Assessment: Reusable Booster System
On June 15, 2011, the Air Force Space Command established a new vision, mission, and set of goals to ensure continued U.S. dominance in space and cyberspace mission areas. Subsequently, and in …
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€3.76
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee for the Reusable Booster System: Review and Assessment: Reusable Booster System
On June 15, 2011, the Air Force Space Command established a new vision, mission, and set of goals to ensure continued U.S. dominance in space and cyberspace mission areas. Subsequently, and in …
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€50.79
Committee for Science and Technology Challenges to U.S. National Security Interests & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Big Data
In 2012, the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) approached the National Research Council’s TIGER standing committee and asked it to develop a list of workshop topics to explore the impact of emerging …
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€3.72
Committee for Science and Technology Challenges to U.S. National Security Interests & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Big Data
In 2012, the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) approached the National Research Council’s TIGER standing committee and asked it to develop a list of workshop topics to explore the impact of emerging …
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€30.11
Defense Materials Manufacturing and Infrastructure Standing Committee & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Materials and Manufacturing Capabilities for Sustaining Defense Systems
The Standing Committee on Defense Materials Manufacturing and Infrastructure (DMMI) conducted a workshop on July 23-24, 2012, to share information and gather perspectives on issues concerning …
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€3.73
Defense Materials Manufacturing and Infrastructure Standing Committee & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Materials and Manufacturing Capabilities for Sustaining Defense Systems
The Standing Committee on Defense Materials Manufacturing and Infrastructure (DMMI) conducted a workshop on July 23-24, 2012, to share information and gather perspectives on issues concerning …
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€51.24
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Review of the Research Program of the U.S. DRIVE Partnership
Review of the Research Program of the U.S. DRIVE Partnership: Fourth Report follows on three previous NRC reviews of the Freedom CAR and Fuel Partnership, which was the predecessor of the U.S. DRIVE …
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€3.72
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Review of the Research Program of the U.S. DRIVE Partnership
Review of the Research Program of the U.S. DRIVE Partnership: Fourth Report follows on three previous NRC reviews of the Freedom CAR and Fuel Partnership, which was the predecessor of the U.S. DRIVE …
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€58.21
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Committee on Transitions to Alternative Vehicles and Fuels: Transitions to Alternative Vehicles and Fuels
For a century, almost all light-duty vehicles (LDVs) have been powered by internal combustion engines operating on petroleum fuels. Energy security concerns about petroleum imports and the effect of …
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€3.72
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Committee on Transitions to Alternative Vehicles and Fuels: Transitions to Alternative Vehicles and Fuels
For a century, almost all light-duty vehicles (LDVs) have been powered by internal combustion engines operating on petroleum fuels. Energy security concerns about petroleum imports and the effect of …
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€71.89
Army Research Laboratory Technical Assessment Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: 2011-2012 Assessment of the Army Research Laboratory
The charge of the Army Research Laboratory Technical Assessment Board (ARLTAB) is to provide biennial assessments of the scientific and technical quality of the research, development, and analysis …
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€3.70
Army Research Laboratory Technical Assessment Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: 2011-2012 Assessment of the Army Research Laboratory
The charge of the Army Research Laboratory Technical Assessment Board (ARLTAB) is to provide biennial assessments of the scientific and technical quality of the research, development, and analysis …
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€53.74
Committee on Triennial Review of the National Nanotechnology Initiative: Phase II & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Triennial Review of the National Nanotechnology Initiative
The National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) is a multiagency, multidisciplinary federal initiative comprising a collection of research programs and other activities funded by the participating …
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€3.73
Committee on Triennial Review of the National Nanotechnology Initiative: Phase II & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Triennial Review of the National Nanotechnology Initiative
The National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) is a multiagency, multidisciplinary federal initiative comprising a collection of research programs and other activities funded by the participating …
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€56.41
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Evaluation of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Marine and Hydrokinetic Resource Assessments
Increasing renewable energy development, both within the United States and abroad, has rekindled interest in the potential for marine and hydrokinetic (MHK) resources to contribute to electricity …
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€3.76
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Evaluation of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Marine and Hydrokinetic Resource Assessments
Increasing renewable energy development, both within the United States and abroad, has rekindled interest in the potential for marine and hydrokinetic (MHK) resources to contribute to electricity …
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€61.11
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Committee on Assessment of Solid-State Lighting: Assessment of Advanced Solid-State Lighting
The standard incandescent light bulb, which still works mainly as Thomas Edison invented it, converts more than 90% of the consumed electricity into heat. Given the availability of newer lighting …
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€3.71
Air Force Studies Board & Committee on Energy Reduction at U.S. Air Force Facilities Using Industrial Processes: A Workshop: Energy Reduction at U.S. Air Force Facilities Using Industrial Processes
The Department of Defense (Do D) is the largest consumer of energy in the federal government. In turn, the U.S. Air Force is the largest consumer of energy in the Do D, with a total annual energy …
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€3.70
Air Force Studies Board & Committee on Energy Reduction at U.S. Air Force Facilities Using Industrial Processes: A Workshop: Energy Reduction at U.S. Air Force Facilities Using Industrial Processes
The Department of Defense (Do D) is the largest consumer of energy in the federal government. In turn, the U.S. Air Force is the largest consumer of energy in the Do D, with a total annual energy …
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€48.09
Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment & Committee to Evaluate Energy-Efficiency and Sustainability Standards Used by the Department of Defense for Military Construction and Repair: Energy-Efficiency Standards and Green Building Certifica
Congress has an ongoing interest in ensuring that the 500, 000 buildings and other structures owned and operated by the Department of Defense (DOD) are operated effectively in terms of cost and …
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€3.77
Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment & Committee to Evaluate Energy-Efficiency and Sustainability Standards Used by the Department of Defense for Military Construction and Repair: Energy-Efficiency Standards and Green Building Certifica
Congress has an ongoing interest in ensuring that the 500, 000 buildings and other structures owned and operated by the Department of Defense (DOD) are operated effectively in terms of cost and …
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€54.35
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Board on Physics and Astronomy: Assessment of Inertial Confinement Fusion Targets
In the fall of 2010, the Office of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Secretary for Science asked for a National Research Council (NRC) committee to investigate the prospects for generating …
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€3.71
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Board on Physics and Astronomy: Assessment of Inertial Confinement Fusion Targets
In the fall of 2010, the Office of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Secretary for Science asked for a National Research Council (NRC) committee to investigate the prospects for generating …
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€54.35
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Board on Physics and Astronomy: Assessment of the Prospects for Inertial Fusion Energy
The potential for using fusion energy to produce commercial electric power was first explored in the 1950s. Harnessing fusion energy offers the prospect of a nearly carbon-free energy source with a …
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€3.71
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Board on Physics and Astronomy: Assessment of the Prospects for Inertial Fusion Energy
The potential for using fusion energy to produce commercial electric power was first explored in the 1950s. Harnessing fusion energy offers the prospect of a nearly carbon-free energy source with a …
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€72.36
Air Force Studies Board & Committee on Zero-Sustainment Aircraft for the U.S. Air Force: A Workshop: Zero-Sustainment Aircraft for the U.S. Air Force
Overall Air Force weapon system sustainment (WSS) costs are growing at more than 4 percent per year, while budgets have remained essentially flat. The cost growth is due partly to aging of the …
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€3.77
Air Force Studies Board & Committee on Zero-Sustainment Aircraft for the U.S. Air Force: A Workshop: Zero-Sustainment Aircraft for the U.S. Air Force
Overall Air Force weapon system sustainment (WSS) costs are growing at more than 4 percent per year, while budgets have remained essentially flat. The cost growth is due partly to aging of the …
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€39.08
Committee on Capability Surprise on U.S. Naval Forces & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Responding to Capability Surprise
From a military operational standpoint, surprise is an event or capability that could affect the outcome of a mission or campaign for which preparations are not in place. By definition, it is not …
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€3.70
Committee on Capability Surprise on U.S. Naval Forces & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Responding to Capability Surprise
From a military operational standpoint, surprise is an event or capability that could affect the outcome of a mission or campaign for which preparations are not in place. By definition, it is not …
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€59.64
Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources & Board on Energy and Environmental Systems: Renewable Fuel Standard
In the United States, we have come to depend on plentiful and inexpensive energy to support our economy and lifestyles. In recent years, many questions have been raised regarding the sustainability …
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€82.34
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee for the Decadal Survey on Biological and Physical Sciences in Space: Recapturing a Future for Space Exploration
More than four decades have passed since a human first set foot on the Moon. Great strides have been made in our understanding of what is required to support an enduring human presence in space, as …
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€82.34
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Committee on Undergraduate Physics Education Research and Implementation: Adapting to a Changing World
Adapting to a Changing World was commissioned by the National Science Foundation to examine the present status of undergraduate physics education, including the state of physics education research, …
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€3.76
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Committee on Undergraduate Physics Education Research and Implementation: Adapting to a Changing World
Adapting to a Changing World was commissioned by the National Science Foundation to examine the present status of undergraduate physics education, including the state of physics education research, …
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€55.23
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Committee on Overcoming Barriers to Electric-Vehicle Deployment: Overcoming Barriers to Electric-Vehicle Deployment
The electric vehicle offers many promises-increasing U.S. energy security by reducing petroleum dependence, contributing to climate-change initiatives by decreasing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, …
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€3.77
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Committee on Overcoming Barriers to Electric-Vehicle Deployment: Overcoming Barriers to Electric-Vehicle Deployment
The electric vehicle offers many promises-increasing U.S. energy security by reducing petroleum dependence, contributing to climate-change initiatives by decreasing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, …
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€43.71
Board on Army Science and Technology & Committee on Making the Soldier Decisive on Future Battlefields: Making the Soldier Decisive on Future Battlefields
The U.S. military does not believe its soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines should be engaged in combat with adversaries on a "level playing field." Our combat individuals enter …
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€3.71
Board on Army Science and Technology & Committee on Making the Soldier Decisive on Future Battlefields: Making the Soldier Decisive on Future Battlefields
The U.S. military does not believe its soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines should be engaged in combat with adversaries on a "level playing field." Our combat individuals enter …
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€61.80
Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications & Committee on the Mathematical Sciences in 2025: Mathematical Sciences in 2025
The mathematical sciences are part of nearly all aspects of everyday life–the discipline has underpinned such beneficial modern capabilities as Internet search, medical imaging, computer animation, …
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€3.72
Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications & Committee on the Mathematical Sciences in 2025: Mathematical Sciences in 2025
The mathematical sciences are part of nearly all aspects of everyday life–the discipline has underpinned such beneficial modern capabilities as Internet search, medical imaging, computer animation, …
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€58.34
Air Force Studies Board & Committee on U.S. Air Force Strategic Deterrence Capabilities in the 21st Century Security Environment: A Workshop: U.S. Air Force Strategic Deterrence Capabilities in the 21st Century Security Environment
Changes in the 21st century security environment require new analytic approaches to support strategic deterrence. Because current adversaries may be deterred from the use of nuclear weapons …
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€3.76
Air Force Studies Board & Committee on U.S. Air Force Strategic Deterrence Capabilities in the 21st Century Security Environment: A Workshop: U.S. Air Force Strategic Deterrence Capabilities in the 21st Century Security Environment
Changes in the 21st century security environment require new analytic approaches to support strategic deterrence. Because current adversaries may be deterred from the use of nuclear weapons …
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€41.99
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Materials and Manufacturing Board: Novel Processes for Advanced Manufacturing
The Standing Committee on Defense Materials Manufacturing and Infrastructure (the DMMI standing committee) of the National Materials and Manufacturing Board of the National Research Council (NRC) …
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Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Materials and Manufacturing Board: Novel Processes for Advanced Manufacturing
The Standing Committee on Defense Materials Manufacturing and Infrastructure (the DMMI standing committee) of the National Materials and Manufacturing Board of the National Research Council (NRC) …
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€48.28
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Committee to Assess the Current Status and Future Direction of High Magnetic Field Science in the United States: High Magnetic Field Science and Its Application in the United States
The Committee to Assess the Current Status and Future Direction of High Magnetic Field Science in the United States was convened by the National Research Council in response to a request by the …
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€3.73
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Committee to Assess the Current Status and Future Direction of High Magnetic Field Science in the United States: High Magnetic Field Science and Its Application in the United States
The Committee to Assess the Current Status and Future Direction of High Magnetic Field Science in the United States was convened by the National Research Council in response to a request by the …
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€61.85
Board on Army Science and Technology & Committee to Assess Supercritical Water Oxidation System Testing for the Blue Grass Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plant: Assessment of Supercritical Water Oxidation System Testing for the Blue Grass Chemical Agent
Assessment of Supercritical Water Oxidation System Testing for the Blue Grass Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plant reviews and evaluates the results of the tests conducted on one of the SCWO units …
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€3.72
Board on Army Science and Technology & Committee to Assess Supercritical Water Oxidation System Testing for the Blue Grass Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plant: Assessment of Supercritical Water Oxidation System Testing for the Blue Grass Chemical Agent
Assessment of Supercritical Water Oxidation System Testing for the Blue Grass Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plant reviews and evaluates the results of the tests conducted on one of the SCWO units …
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€39.24
Committee on Technology for Future Naval Forces & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Technology for the United States Navy and Marine Corps, 2000-2035 Becoming a 21st-Century Force
The future national security environment will present the naval forces with operational challenges that can best be met through the development of military capabilities that effectively leverage …
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€3.73
Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications & Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics: Frontiers in Massive Data Analysis
Data mining of massive data sets is transforming the way we think about crisis response, marketing, entertainment, cybersecurity and national intelligence. Collections of documents, images, videos, …
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€3.77
Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications & Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics: Frontiers in Massive Data Analysis
Data mining of massive data sets is transforming the way we think about crisis response, marketing, entertainment, cybersecurity and national intelligence. Collections of documents, images, videos, …
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€55.39
Committee on Geotargeted Disaster Alerts and Warnings: A Workshop on Current Knowledge and Research Gaps & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Geotargeted Alerts and Warnings
Geotargeted Alerts and Warnings: Report of a Workshop on Current Knowledge and Research Gaps is the summary of a February, 2013 workshop convened by the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board …
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€3.76
Committee on Geotargeted Disaster Alerts and Warnings: A Workshop on Current Knowledge and Research Gaps & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Geotargeted Alerts and Warnings
Geotargeted Alerts and Warnings: Report of a Workshop on Current Knowledge and Research Gaps is the summary of a February, 2013 workshop convened by the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board …
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€45.09
Committee on Implementation of a Sustained Land Imaging Program & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Landsat and Beyond
In 1972 NASA launched the Earth Resources Technology Satellite (ETRS), now known as Landsat 1, and on February 11, 2013 launched Landsat 8. Currently the United States has collected 40 continuous …
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€3.76
Committee on Implementation of a Sustained Land Imaging Program & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Landsat and Beyond
In 1972 NASA launched the Earth Resources Technology Satellite (ETRS), now known as Landsat 1, and on February 11, 2013 launched Landsat 8. Currently the United States has collected 40 continuous …
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€46.36
Committee on Public Response to Alerts and Warnings Using Social Media: Current Knowledge and Research Gaps & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Public Response to Alerts and Warnings Using Social Media
Following an earlier NRC workshop on public response to alerts and warnings delivered to mobile devices, a related workshop was held on February 28 and 29, 2012 to look at the role of social media in …
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€3.76
Committee on Public Response to Alerts and Warnings Using Social Media: Current Knowledge and Research Gaps & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Public Response to Alerts and Warnings Using Social Media
Following an earlier NRC workshop on public response to alerts and warnings delivered to mobile devices, a related workshop was held on February 28 and 29, 2012 to look at the role of social media in …
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€46.35
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Lessons Learned in Decadal Planning in Space Science
The National Research Council (NRC) has been conducting decadal surveys in the Earth and space sciences since 1964, and released the latest five surveys in the past 5 years, four of which were only …
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€3.76
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Lessons Learned in Decadal Planning in Space Science
The National Research Council (NRC) has been conducting decadal surveys in the Earth and space sciences since 1964, and released the latest five surveys in the past 5 years, four of which were only …
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€52.53
Committee to Review the Quality of the Management and of the Science and Engineering Research at the Department of Energy’s National Security Laboratories–Phase II & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Quality of Science and Engineering at the
The three National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) national security laboratories–Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), and Sandia National …
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€3.73
Committee to Review the Quality of the Management and of the Science and Engineering Research at the Department of Energy’s National Security Laboratories–Phase II & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Quality of Science and Engineering at the
The three National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) national security laboratories–Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), and Sandia National …
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€42.22
Committee on Professionalizing the Nation’s Cybersecurity Workforce: Criteria for Future Decision-Making & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Professionalizing the Nation’s Cybersecurity Workforce?
Professionalizing the Nation’s Cybersecurity Workforce? Criteria for Decision-Making considers approaches to increasing the professionalization of the nation’s cybersecurity workforce. This report …
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€3.76
Committee on Professionalizing the Nation’s Cybersecurity Workforce: Criteria for Future Decision-Making & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Professionalizing the Nation’s Cybersecurity Workforce?
Professionalizing the Nation’s Cybersecurity Workforce? Criteria for Decision-Making considers approaches to increasing the professionalization of the nation’s cybersecurity workforce. This report …
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€41.79
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Committee on the Views of the U.S. NAS and NAE on Agenda Items at Issue at the World Radiocommunication Conference 2015: Views of the U.S. NAS and NAE on Agenda Items at the World Radiocommunication Conference 2015
The World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC) is a meeting of official delegations from over 140 nations and is organized by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). Delegates meet every few …
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€3.73
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Committee on the Views of the U.S. NAS and NAE on Agenda Items at Issue at the World Radiocommunication Conference 2015: Views of the U.S. NAS and NAE on Agenda Items at the World Radiocommunication Conference 2015
The World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC) is a meeting of official delegations from over 140 nations and is organized by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). Delegates meet every few …
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€43.67
Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology & Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology: Research Progress on Environmental, Health, and Safety Aspects of Engineered Nanomaterials
Despite the increase in funding for research and the rising numbers of peer-reviewed publications over the past decade that address the environmental, health, and safety aspects of engineered …
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€3.77
Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology & Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology: Research Progress on Environmental, Health, and Safety Aspects of Engineered Nanomaterials
Despite the increase in funding for research and the rising numbers of peer-reviewed publications over the past decade that address the environmental, health, and safety aspects of engineered …
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€58.37
Air Force Studies Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Selected Directed Energy Research and Development for U.S. Air Force Aircraft Applications
The U. S. Air force currently invests significantly in science and technology for directed-energy weapon (DEW) systems. Key elements of this investment include high-energy lasers and high-power …
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€3.73
Air Force Studies Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Selected Directed Energy Research and Development for U.S. Air Force Aircraft Applications
The U. S. Air force currently invests significantly in science and technology for directed-energy weapon (DEW) systems. Key elements of this investment include high-energy lasers and high-power …
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€41.78
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Resilience of the Electric Power Delivery System in Response to Terrorism and Natural Disasters
The Resilience of the Electric Power Delivery System in Response to Terrorism and Natural Disasters is the summary of a workshop convened in February 2013 as a follow-up to the release of the …
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€3.73
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Resilience of the Electric Power Delivery System in Response to Terrorism and Natural Disasters
The Resilience of the Electric Power Delivery System in Response to Terrorism and Natural Disasters is the summary of a workshop convened in February 2013 as a follow-up to the release of the …
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€55.84
Air Force Studies Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Assessment to Enhance Air Force and Department of Defense Prototyping for the New Defense Strategy
Assessment to Enhance Air Force and Department of Defense Prototyping for the New Defense Strategy is the summary of a workshop convened by the Air Force Studies Board of the National Academies’ …
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€3.72
Air Force Studies Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Assessment to Enhance Air Force and Department of Defense Prototyping for the New Defense Strategy
Assessment to Enhance Air Force and Department of Defense Prototyping for the New Defense Strategy is the summary of a workshop convened by the Air Force Studies Board of the National Academies’ …
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€36.18
Committee on the Assessment of the NASA Science Mission Directorate 2014 Science Plan & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Review of the Draft 2014 Science Mission Directorate Science Plan
NASA’s Science Mission Directorate (SMD) is engaged in the final stages of a comprehensive, agency-wide effort to develop a new strategic plan at a time when its budget is under considerable stress. …
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€3.76
Committee on the Assessment of the NASA Science Mission Directorate 2014 Science Plan & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Review of the Draft 2014 Science Mission Directorate Science Plan
NASA’s Science Mission Directorate (SMD) is engaged in the final stages of a comprehensive, agency-wide effort to develop a new strategic plan at a time when its budget is under considerable stress. …
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€39.08
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Committee on Radio Frequencies: Views of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Engineering on Agenda Items at Issue at the World Radiocommunication Conference 2012
The passive, receive-only Radio Astronomy Service (RAS) and the Earth Exploration-Satellite Service (EESS) provide otherwise impossible scientific observations of the Universe and Earth through the …
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€36.01
Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications & Committee on Planning a Global Library of the Mathematical Sciences: Developing a 21st Century Global Library for Mathematics Research
Like most areas of scholarship, mathematics is a cumulative discipline: new research is reliant on well-organized and well-curated literature. Because of the precise definitions and structures within …
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€3.73
Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications & Committee on Planning a Global Library of the Mathematical Sciences: Developing a 21st Century Global Library for Mathematics Research
Like most areas of scholarship, mathematics is a cumulative discipline: new research is reliant on well-organized and well-curated literature. Because of the precise definitions and structures within …
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€52.24
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Research Council: Opportunities for High-Power, High-Frequency Transmitters to Advance Ionospheric/Thermospheric Research
Opportunities for High-Power, High-Frequency Transmitters to Advance Ionospheric/Thermospheric Research is the summary of a workshop convened by the Space Studies Board of the National Research …
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€3.73
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Research Council: Opportunities for High-Power, High-Frequency Transmitters to Advance Ionospheric/Thermospheric Research
Opportunities for High-Power, High-Frequency Transmitters to Advance Ionospheric/Thermospheric Research is the summary of a workshop convened by the Space Studies Board of the National Research …
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€48.29
Board on Army Science and Technology & Committee on Review of Test Protocols Used by the DoD to Test Combat Helmets: Review of Department of Defense Test Protocols for Combat Helmets
Combat helmets have evolved considerably over the years from those used in World War I to today’s Advanced Combat Helmet. One of the key advances was the development of aramid fibers in the 1960s, …
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€3.72
Board on Army Science and Technology & Committee on Review of Test Protocols Used by the DoD to Test Combat Helmets: Review of Department of Defense Test Protocols for Combat Helmets
Combat helmets have evolved considerably over the years from those used in World War I to today’s Advanced Combat Helmet. One of the key advances was the development of aramid fibers in the 1960s, …
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€65.85
Air Force Studies Board & Committee on U.S. Air Force Strategic Deterrence Military Capabilities in the 21st Century Security Environment: U.S. Air Force Strategic Deterrence Analytic Capabilities
Since the early 1960s, the U.S. strategic nuclear posture has been composed of a triad of nuclear-certified long-range bombers, intercontinental ballistic missiles, and submarine-launched ballistic …
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€3.72
Air Force Studies Board & Committee on U.S. Air Force Strategic Deterrence Military Capabilities in the 21st Century Security Environment: U.S. Air Force Strategic Deterrence Analytic Capabilities
Since the early 1960s, the U.S. strategic nuclear posture has been composed of a triad of nuclear-certified long-range bombers, intercontinental ballistic missiles, and submarine-launched ballistic …
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€66.12
Army Research Laboratory Technical Assessment Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: 2013-2014 Assessment of the Army Research Laboratory
The National Research Council’s Army Research Laboratory Technical Assessment Board provides biennial assessments of the scientific and technical quality of the research, development, and analysis …
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€3.72
Army Research Laboratory Technical Assessment Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: 2013-2014 Assessment of the Army Research Laboratory
The National Research Council’s Army Research Laboratory Technical Assessment Board provides biennial assessments of the scientific and technical quality of the research, development, and analysis …
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€41.83
Defense Materials Manufacturing and Infrastructure Standing Committee & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Limited Affordable Low-Volume Manufacturing
Limited Affordable Low-Volume Manufacturing is the summary of a workshop convened by the National Materials and Manufacturing Board of the National Research Council in August 2013 to discuss …
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€3.72
Defense Materials Manufacturing and Infrastructure Standing Committee & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Limited Affordable Low-Volume Manufacturing
Limited Affordable Low-Volume Manufacturing is the summary of a workshop convened by the National Materials and Manufacturing Board of the National Research Council in August 2013 to discuss …
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€48.27
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Committee on an Assessment of the Astrophysics Focused Telescope Assets (AFTA) Mission Concepts: Evaluation of the Implementation of WFIRST/AFTA in the Context of New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics (PDF
Evaluation of the Implementation of WFIRST in the Context of New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics assesses whether the proposed Astrophysics Focused Telescope Assets (AFTA) design …
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€3.70
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Committee on an Assessment of the Astrophysics Focused Telescope Assets (AFTA) Mission Concepts: Evaluation of the Implementation of WFIRST/AFTA in the Context of New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics (ePU
Evaluation of the Implementation of WFIRST in the Context of New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics assesses whether the proposed Astrophysics Focused Telescope Assets (AFTA) design …
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€58.79
Committee on Review of Advancements in Active Electro-Optical Systems to Avoid Technological Surprise Adverse to U.S. National Security & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Laser Radar
In today’s world, the range of technologies with the potential to threaten the security of U.S. military forces is extremely broad. These include developments in explosive materials, sensors, control …
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€3.76
Committee on Review of Advancements in Active Electro-Optical Systems to Avoid Technological Surprise Adverse to U.S. National Security & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Laser Radar
In today’s world, the range of technologies with the potential to threaten the security of U.S. military forces is extremely broad. These include developments in explosive materials, sensors, control …
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€89.68
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Reducing the Fuel Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Medium- and Heavy-Duty Vehicles, Phase Two
Medium- and heavy-duty trucks, motor coaches, and transit buses – collectively, "medium- and heavy-duty vehicles", or MHDVs – are used in every sector of the economy. The fuel consumption …
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€3.77
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Reducing the Fuel Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Medium- and Heavy-Duty Vehicles, Phase Two
Medium- and heavy-duty trucks, motor coaches, and transit buses – collectively, "medium- and heavy-duty vehicles", or MHDVs – are used in every sector of the economy. The fuel consumption …
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€54.33
Committee on Developing a Cybersecurity Primer: Leveraging Two Decades of National Academies Work & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: At the Nexus of Cybersecurity and Public Policy
We depend on information and information technology (IT) to make many of our day-to-day tasks easier and more convenient. Computers play key roles in transportation, health care, banking, and energy. …
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€3.73
Committee on Developing a Cybersecurity Primer: Leveraging Two Decades of National Academies Work & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: At the Nexus of Cybersecurity and Public Policy
We depend on information and information technology (IT) to make many of our day-to-day tasks easier and more convenient. Computers play key roles in transportation, health care, banking, and energy. …
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€53.66
Committee on Review of Specialized Degree-Granting Graduate Programs of the DoD in STEM and Management & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Review of Specialized Degree-Granting Graduate Programs of the Department of Defense in STEM and Manage
The United States military is arguably the most intensely technological, complex enterprise in existence. When compared to the gross domestic products of other countries, the Department of Defense …
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€3.76
Committee on Review of Specialized Degree-Granting Graduate Programs of the DoD in STEM and Management & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Review of Specialized Degree-Granting Graduate Programs of the Department of Defense in STEM and Manage
The United States military is arguably the most intensely technological, complex enterprise in existence. When compared to the gross domestic products of other countries, the Department of Defense …
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€58.86
Defense Materials Manufacturing and Infrastructure Standing Committee & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Big Data in Materials Research and Development
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 …
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€3.73
Defense Materials Manufacturing and Infrastructure Standing Committee & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Big Data in Materials Research and Development
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 …
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€54.31
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee on Human Spaceflight: Pathways to Exploration
The United States has publicly funded its human spaceflight program on a continuous basis for more than a half-century, through three wars and a half-dozen recessions, from the early Mercury and …
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€3.77
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee on Human Spaceflight: Pathways to Exploration
The United States has publicly funded its human spaceflight program on a continuous basis for more than a half-century, through three wars and a half-dozen recessions, from the early Mercury and …
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€82.91
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee on Autonomy Research for Civil Aviation: Autonomy Research for Civil Aviation
The development and application of increasingly autonomous (IA) systems for civil aviation is proceeding at an accelerating pace, driven by the expectation that such systems will return significant …
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€3.73
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee on Autonomy Research for Civil Aviation: Autonomy Research for Civil Aviation
The development and application of increasingly autonomous (IA) systems for civil aviation is proceeding at an accelerating pace, driven by the expectation that such systems will return significant …
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€53.72
Board on Army Science and Technology & Committee on Force Multiplying Technologies for Logistics Support to Military Operations: Force Multiplying Technologies for Logistics Support to Military Operations
The mission of the United States Army is to fight and win our nation’s wars by providing prompt, sustained land dominance across the full range of military operations and spectrum of conflict in …
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€67.10
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee on Space-Based Additive Manufacturing: 3D Printing in Space
Additive manufacturing has the potential to positively affect human spaceflight operations by enabling the in-orbit manufacture of replacement parts and tools, which could reduce existing logistics …
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€3.73
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee on Space-Based Additive Manufacturing: 3D Printing in Space
Additive manufacturing has the potential to positively affect human spaceflight operations by enabling the in-orbit manufacture of replacement parts and tools, which could reduce existing logistics …
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€59.78
Army Research Laboratory Technical Assessment Board & Committee on Review of Army Research Laboratory Programs for Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Minority Institutions: Review of Army Research Laboratory Programs for Historically Black C
Review of Army Research Laboratory Programs for Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Minority Institutions examines the ways in which historically black colleges and universities and …
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€3.72
Army Research Laboratory Technical Assessment Board & Committee on Review of Army Research Laboratory Programs for Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Minority Institutions: Review of Army Research Laboratory Programs for Historically Black C
Review of Army Research Laboratory Programs for Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Minority Institutions examines the ways in which historically black colleges and universities and …
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€43.71
Committee on NASA’s Strategic Direction & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: NASA’s Strategic Direction and the Need for a National Consensus
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is widely admired for astonishing accomplishments since its formation in 1958. Looking ahead over a comparable period of time, what can the …
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€3.77
Committee on NASA’s Strategic Direction & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: NASA’s Strategic Direction and the Need for a National Consensus
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is widely admired for astonishing accomplishments since its formation in 1958. Looking ahead over a comparable period of time, what can the …
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€42.01
Air Force Studies Board & Committee on Improving the Effectiveness and Efficiency of U.S. Air Force Pre-Acquisition Development Planning: Development Planning
The development and application of technology has been an essential part of U.S. airpower, leading to a century of air supremacy. But that developmental path has rarely been straight, and it has …
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€3.76
Air Force Studies Board & Committee on Improving the Effectiveness and Efficiency of U.S. Air Force Pre-Acquisition Development Planning: Development Planning
The development and application of technology has been an essential part of U.S. airpower, leading to a century of air supremacy. But that developmental path has rarely been straight, and it has …
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€60.33
Committee on Future Directions for NSF Advanced Computing Infrastructure to Support U.S. Science in 2017-2020 & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Future Directions for NSF Advanced Computing Infrastructure to Support U.S. Science and Engineer
Advanced computing capabilities are used to tackle a rapidly growing range of challenging science and engineering problems, many of which are compute- and data-intensive as well. Demand for advanced …
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€3.73
Committee on Future Directions for NSF Advanced Computing Infrastructure to Support U.S. Science in 2017-2020 & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Future Directions for NSF Advanced Computing Infrastructure to Support U.S. Science and Engineer
Advanced computing capabilities are used to tackle a rapidly growing range of challenging science and engineering problems, many of which are compute- and data-intensive as well. Demand for advanced …
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€35.92
Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications & Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics: Training Students to Extract Value from Big Data
As the availability of high-throughput data-collection technologies, such as information-sensing mobile devices, remote sensing, internet log records, and wireless sensor networks has grown, science, …
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€3.71
Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications & Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics: Training Students to Extract Value from Big Data
As the availability of high-throughput data-collection technologies, such as information-sensing mobile devices, remote sensing, internet log records, and wireless sensor networks has grown, science, …
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€41.75
Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications & Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics: Robust Methods for the Analysis of Images and Videos for Fisheries Stock Assessment
The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) is responsible for the stewardship of the nation’s living marine resources and their habitat. As part of this charge, NMFS conducts stock assessments of …
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€3.75
Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications & Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics: Robust Methods for the Analysis of Images and Videos for Fisheries Stock Assessment
The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) is responsible for the stewardship of the nation’s living marine resources and their habitat. As part of this charge, NMFS conducts stock assessments of …
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€55.78
Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications & Committee on Population: Growing Gap in Life Expectancy by Income
The U.S. population is aging. Social Security projections suggest that between 2013 and 2050, the population aged 65 and over will almost double, from 45 million to 86 million. One key driver of …
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€3.72
Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications & Committee on Population: Growing Gap in Life Expectancy by Income
The U.S. population is aging. Social Security projections suggest that between 2013 and 2050, the population aged 65 and over will almost double, from 45 million to 86 million. One key driver of …
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€74.73
Board on Army Science and Technology & Committee on Review Criteria for Successful Treatment of Hydrolysate at the Pueblo and Blue Grass Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plants: Review Criteria for Successful Treatment of Hydrolysate at the Pueblo Chemica
One of the last two sites with chemical munitions and chemical materiel is the Pueblo Chemical Depot in Pueblo, Colorado. The stockpile at this location consists of about 800, 000 projectiles and …
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€3.73
Board on Army Science and Technology & Committee on Review Criteria for Successful Treatment of Hydrolysate at the Pueblo and Blue Grass Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plants: Review Criteria for Successful Treatment of Hydrolysate at the Pueblo Chemica
One of the last two sites with chemical munitions and chemical materiel is the Pueblo Chemical Depot in Pueblo, Colorado. The stockpile at this location consists of about 800, 000 projectiles and …
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€54.31
Committee on Assessment of the Governance Structure of the NNSA National Security Laboratories & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Aligning the Governance Structure of the NNSA Laboratories to Meet 21st Century National Security Challenges (P
Aligning the Governance Structure of the NNSA Laboratories to Meet 21st Century National Security Challenges is an independent assessment regarding the transition of the National Nuclear Security …
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Committee on Assessment of the Governance Structure of the NNSA National Security Laboratories & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Aligning the Governance Structure of the NNSA Laboratories to Meet 21st Century National Security Challenges (e
Aligning the Governance Structure of the NNSA Laboratories to Meet 21st Century National Security Challenges is an independent assessment regarding the transition of the National Nuclear Security …
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€47.89
Committee on Responding to Section 5(d) of Presidential Policy Directive 28: The Feasibility of Software to Provide Alternatives to Bulk Signals Intelligence Collection & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Bulk Collection of Signals Intelligen
The Bulk Collection of Signals Intelligence: Technical Options study is a result of an activity called for in Presidential Policy Directive 28 (PPD-28), issued by President Obama in January 2014, to …
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€3.71
Committee on Responding to Section 5(d) of Presidential Policy Directive 28: The Feasibility of Software to Provide Alternatives to Bulk Signals Intelligence Collection & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Bulk Collection of Signals Intelligen
The Bulk Collection of Signals Intelligence: Technical Options study is a result of an activity called for in Presidential Policy Directive 28 (PPD-28), issued by President Obama in January 2014, to …
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€54.33
Committee on NIST Technical Programs & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Engineering Laboratory
The mission of the Engineering Laboratory of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is to promote U.S. innovation and industrial competitiveness through measurement science and …
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€3.72
Committee on NIST Technical Programs & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Engineering Laboratory
The mission of the Engineering Laboratory of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is to promote U.S. innovation and industrial competitiveness through measurement science and …
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€47.76
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & Laboratory Assessments Board: Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Material Measurement Laboratory
The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST’s) Material Measurement Laboratory (MML) is our nation’s reference laboratory for measurements in the chemical, biological, and materials …
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€3.71
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & Laboratory Assessments Board: Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Material Measurement Laboratory
The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST’s) Material Measurement Laboratory (MML) is our nation’s reference laboratory for measurements in the chemical, biological, and materials …
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€48.19
Air Force Studies Board & Committee on Opportunities for the Employment of Simulation in U.S. Air Force Training Environments: A Workshop: Opportunities for the Employment of Simulation in U.S. Air Force Training Environments
Simulators currently provide an alternative to aircraft when it comes to training requirements, both for the military and for commercial airlines. For the U.S. Air Force, in particular, simulation …
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€3.73
Air Force Studies Board & Committee on Opportunities for the Employment of Simulation in U.S. Air Force Training Environments: A Workshop: Opportunities for the Employment of Simulation in U.S. Air Force Training Environments
Simulators currently provide an alternative to aircraft when it comes to training requirements, both for the military and for commercial airlines. For the U.S. Air Force, in particular, simulation …
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€48.27
Army Research Laboratory Technical Assessment Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: 2013-2014 Assessment of the Army Research Laboratory
The National Research Council’s Army Research Laboratory Technical Assessment Board (ARLTAB) provides biennial assessments of the scientific and technical quality of the research, development, and …
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€3.77
Army Research Laboratory Technical Assessment Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: 2013-2014 Assessment of the Army Research Laboratory
The National Research Council’s Army Research Laboratory Technical Assessment Board (ARLTAB) provides biennial assessments of the scientific and technical quality of the research, development, and …
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€60.29
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Review of the Research Program of the Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles
This book examines the state of development and research progress of technologies being considered for a new generation of vehicles that could achieve up to three times the fuel economy of comparable …
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€3.72
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems: U.S. Supersonic Commercial Aircraft
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is currently developing advanced technologies to form the foundation for the next breakthrough in civil aviation: an economically viable, …
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€3.76
Committee on International Space Programs & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: U.S.-European Collaboration in Space Science
U.S.-European Collaboration in Space Science reviews the past 30 years of space-based research across the Atlantic. The book, which was prepared jointly with the European Space Science Committee …
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€3.72
Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications & Committee on National Statistics: Affordability of National Flood Insurance Program Premiums
The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) is housed within the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and offers insurance policies that are marketed and sold through private insurers, but with …
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€3.72
Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications & Committee on National Statistics: Affordability of National Flood Insurance Program Premiums
The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) is housed within the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and offers insurance policies that are marketed and sold through private insurers, but with …
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€59.64
Committee on Airport Passenger Screening: Backscatter X-Ray Machines & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Airport Passenger Screening Using Backscatter X-Ray Machines
Passenger screening at commercial airports in the United States has gone through significant changes since the events of September 11, 2001. In response to increased concern over terrorist attacks on …
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€3.73
Committee on Airport Passenger Screening: Backscatter X-Ray Machines & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Airport Passenger Screening Using Backscatter X-Ray Machines
Passenger screening at commercial airports in the United States has gone through significant changes since the events of September 11, 2001. In response to increased concern over terrorist attacks on …
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€82.38
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Committee on Determinants of Market Adoption of Advanced Energy Efficiency and Clean Energy Technologies: Power of Change
Electricity, supplied reliably and affordably, is foundational to the U.S. economy and is utterly indispensable to modern society. However, emissions resulting from many forms of electricity …
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€3.72
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Committee on Determinants of Market Adoption of Advanced Energy Efficiency and Clean Energy Technologies: Power of Change
Electricity, supplied reliably and affordably, is foundational to the U.S. economy and is utterly indispensable to modern society. However, emissions resulting from many forms of electricity …
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€105.04
Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications & Committee on Risk-Based Methods for Insurance Premiums of Negatively Elevated Structures in the National Flood Insurance Program: Tying Flood Insurance to Flood Risk for Low-Lying Structures in the F
Floods take a heavy toll on society, costing lives, damaging buildings and property, disrupting livelihoods, and sometimes necessitating federal disaster relief, which has risen to record levels in …
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€3.76
Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications & Committee on Risk-Based Methods for Insurance Premiums of Negatively Elevated Structures in the National Flood Insurance Program: Tying Flood Insurance to Flood Risk for Low-Lying Structures in the F
Floods take a heavy toll on society, costing lives, damaging buildings and property, disrupting livelihoods, and sometimes necessitating federal disaster relief, which has risen to record levels in …
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€52.84
Computer Science and Telecommunications Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Review of the Next Generation Air Transportation System
The Next Generation Air Transportation System’s (Next Gen) goal is the transformation of the U.S. national airspace system through programs and initiatives that could make it possible to shorten …
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€3.73
Computer Science and Telecommunications Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Review of the Next Generation Air Transportation System
The Next Generation Air Transportation System’s (Next Gen) goal is the transformation of the U.S. national airspace system through programs and initiatives that could make it possible to shorten …
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€50.90
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Committee on a Strategy to Optimize the U.S. Optical and Infrared System in the Era of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST): Optimizing the U.S. Ground-Based Optical and Infrared Astronomy System
New astronomical facilities, such as the under-construction Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and planned 30-meter-class telescopes, and new instrumentation on existing optical and infrared (OIR) …
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€3.72
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Committee on a Strategy to Optimize the U.S. Optical and Infrared System in the Era of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST): Optimizing the U.S. Ground-Based Optical and Infrared Astronomy System
New astronomical facilities, such as the under-construction Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and planned 30-meter-class telescopes, and new instrumentation on existing optical and infrared (OIR) …
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€59.71
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Committee on Overcoming Barriers to Electric-Vehicle Deployment: Overcoming Barriers to Deployment of Plug-in Electric Vehicles
In the past few years, interest in plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) has grown. Advances in battery and other technologies, new federal standards for carbon-dioxide emissions and fuel economy, state …
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€3.71
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Committee on Overcoming Barriers to Electric-Vehicle Deployment: Overcoming Barriers to Deployment of Plug-in Electric Vehicles
In the past few years, interest in plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) has grown. Advances in battery and other technologies, new federal standards for carbon-dioxide emissions and fuel economy, state …
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€71.99
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Committee on a Survey of the Active Sensing Uses of the Radio Spectrum: Strategy for Active Remote Sensing Amid Increased Demand for Radio Spectrum
Active remote sensing is the principal tool used to study and to predict short- and long-term changes in the environment of Earth – the atmosphere, the oceans and the land surfaces – as well as the …
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€3.76
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Committee on a Survey of the Active Sensing Uses of the Radio Spectrum: Strategy for Active Remote Sensing Amid Increased Demand for Radio Spectrum
Active remote sensing is the principal tool used to study and to predict short- and long-term changes in the environment of Earth – the atmosphere, the oceans and the land surfaces – as well as the …
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€82.91
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Cost, Effectiveness, and Deployment of Fuel Economy Technologies for Light-Duty Vehicles
The light-duty vehicle fleet is expected to undergo substantial technological changes over the next several decades. New powertrain designs, alternative fuels, advanced materials and significant …
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€3.72
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Cost, Effectiveness, and Deployment of Fuel Economy Technologies for Light-Duty Vehicles
The light-duty vehicle fleet is expected to undergo substantial technological changes over the next several decades. New powertrain designs, alternative fuels, advanced materials and significant …
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€150.32
Board on Science Education & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Sharing the Adventure with the Student
On December 2-3, 2014, the Space Studies Board and the Board on Science Education of the National Research Council held a workshop on the NASA Science Mission Directorate (SMD) education program – …
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€3.76
Board on Science Education & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Sharing the Adventure with the Student
On December 2-3, 2014, the Space Studies Board and the Board on Science Education of the National Research Council held a workshop on the NASA Science Mission Directorate (SMD) education program – …
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€53.74
Air Force Studies Board & Committee on Owning the Technical Baseline in the U.S. Air Force: A Workshop: Owning the Technical Baseline for Acquisition Programs in the U.S. Air Force
The U.S. Air Force has experienced many acquisition program failures – cost overruns, schedule delays, system performance problems, and sustainability concerns – over program lifetimes. A key …
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€3.77
Air Force Studies Board & Committee on Owning the Technical Baseline in the U.S. Air Force: A Workshop: Owning the Technical Baseline for Acquisition Programs in the U.S. Air Force
The U.S. Air Force has experienced many acquisition program failures – cost overruns, schedule delays, system performance problems, and sustainability concerns – over program lifetimes. A key …
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€42.08
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee to Review the Federal Aviation Administration Research Plan on Certification of New Technologies into the National Airspace System: Transformation in the Air
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is currently undertaking a broad program known as Next Generation Air Transportation System (Next Gen) to develop, introduce, and certify new technologies …
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€3.73
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee to Review the Federal Aviation Administration Research Plan on Certification of New Technologies into the National Airspace System: Transformation in the Air
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is currently undertaking a broad program known as Next Generation Air Transportation System (Next Gen) to develop, introduce, and certify new technologies …
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€47.51
Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications & Committee on Community-Based Flood Insurance Options: Community-Based Flood Insurance Option
River and coastal floods are among the nation’s most costly natural disasters. One component in the nation’s approach to managing flood risk is availability of flood insurance policies, which are …
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€3.73
Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications & Committee on Community-Based Flood Insurance Options: Community-Based Flood Insurance Option
River and coastal floods are among the nation’s most costly natural disasters. One component in the nation’s approach to managing flood risk is availability of flood insurance policies, which are …
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€65.68
Committee on 21st Century Cyber-Physical Systems Education & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Interim Report on 21st Century Cyber-Physical Systems Education
Cyber-physical systems (CPS) are increasingly relied on to provide the functionality and value to products, systems, and infrastructure in sectors including transportation, health care, …
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€3.73
Committee on 21st Century Cyber-Physical Systems Education & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Interim Report on 21st Century Cyber-Physical Systems Education
Cyber-physical systems (CPS) are increasingly relied on to provide the functionality and value to products, systems, and infrastructure in sectors including transportation, health care, …
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€46.79
Board on Army Science and Technology & Committee on Review Criteria for Successful Treatment of Hydrolysate at the Pueblo and Blue Grass Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plants: Review Criteria for Successful Treatment of Hydrolysate at the Blue Grass Che
In 1993, the United States signed the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), an international treaty outlawing the production, stockpiling, and use of chemical weapons. The chemical weapons stockpiles at …
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€3.73
Board on Army Science and Technology & Committee on Review Criteria for Successful Treatment of Hydrolysate at the Pueblo and Blue Grass Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plants: Review Criteria for Successful Treatment of Hydrolysate at the Blue Grass Che
In 1993, the United States signed the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), an international treaty outlawing the production, stockpiling, and use of chemical weapons. The chemical weapons stockpiles at …
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€59.83
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Committee on Radio Frequencies: Handbook of Frequency Allocations and Spectrum Protection for Scientific Uses
The electromagnetic spectrum is a vital part of our environment. Measures of radio frequency emissions from natural phenomena enable both practical applications, such as weather predictions and …
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Board on Physics and Astronomy & Committee on Radio Frequencies: Handbook of Frequency Allocations and Spectrum Protection for Scientific Uses
The electromagnetic spectrum is a vital part of our environment. Measures of radio frequency emissions from natural phenomena enable both practical applications, such as weather predictions and …
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€90.55
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Review of the 21st Century Truck Partnership
The 21st Century Truck Partnership (21CTP) works to reduce fuel consumption and emissions, increase heavy-duty vehicle safety, and support research, development, and demonstration to initiate …
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€3.75
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Review of the 21st Century Truck Partnership
The 21st Century Truck Partnership (21CTP) works to reduce fuel consumption and emissions, increase heavy-duty vehicle safety, and support research, development, and demonstration to initiate …
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€82.84
Committee on Survey of Surveys: Lessons Learned from the Decadal Survey Process & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Space Science Decadal Surveys
The National Research Council has conducted 11 decadal surveys in the Earth and space sciences since 1964 and released the latest four surveys in the past 8 years. The decadal surveys are notable in …
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€3.76
Committee on Survey of Surveys: Lessons Learned from the Decadal Survey Process & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Space Science Decadal Surveys
The National Research Council has conducted 11 decadal surveys in the Earth and space sciences since 1964 and released the latest four surveys in the past 8 years. The decadal surveys are notable in …
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€71.73
Committee on a Framework for Analyzing the Needs for Continuity of NASA-Sustained Remote Sensing Observations of the Earth from Space & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Continuity of NASA Earth Observations from Space
NASA’s Earth Science Division (ESD) conducts a wide range of satellite and suborbital missions to observe Earth’s land surface and interior, biosphere, atmosphere, cryosphere, and oceans as part of a …
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€3.73
Committee on a Framework for Analyzing the Needs for Continuity of NASA-Sustained Remote Sensing Observations of the Earth from Space & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Continuity of NASA Earth Observations from Space
NASA’s Earth Science Division (ESD) conducts a wide range of satellite and suborbital missions to observe Earth’s land surface and interior, biosphere, atmosphere, cryosphere, and oceans as part of a …
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€63.30
Air Force Studies Board & Committee on Improving the Air Force Scientific Discovery Mission: Leveraging Best Practices in Basic Research Management: A Workshop: Improving the Air Force Scientific Discovery Mission
In 2015, the Air Force Studies Board conducted a workshop, consisting of two data-gathering sessions, to review current research practices employed by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research …
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Air Force Studies Board & Committee on Improving the Air Force Scientific Discovery Mission: Leveraging Best Practices in Basic Research Management: A Workshop: Improving the Air Force Scientific Discovery Mission
In 2015, the Air Force Studies Board conducted a workshop, consisting of two data-gathering sessions, to review current research practices employed by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research …
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€55.22
Committee on Peer Review and Design Competition Related to Nuclear Weapons & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Peer Review and Design Competition in the NNSA National Security Laboratories
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is responsible for providing and maintaining the capabilities necessary to sustain a safe, secure, and reliable nuclear weapons stockpile for the …
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€3.76
Committee on Peer Review and Design Competition Related to Nuclear Weapons & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Peer Review and Design Competition in the NNSA National Security Laboratories
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is responsible for providing and maintaining the capabilities necessary to sustain a safe, secure, and reliable nuclear weapons stockpile for the …
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€47.75
Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications & Committee on Analytical Research Foundations for the Next-Generation Electric Grid: Mathematical Sciences Research Challenges for the Next-Generation Electric Grid
If the United States is to sustain its economic prosperity, quality of life, and global competitiveness, it must continue to have an abundance of secure, reliable, and affordable energy resources. …
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€3.75
Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications & Committee on Analytical Research Foundations for the Next-Generation Electric Grid: Mathematical Sciences Research Challenges for the Next-Generation Electric Grid
If the United States is to sustain its economic prosperity, quality of life, and global competitiveness, it must continue to have an abundance of secure, reliable, and affordable energy resources. …
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€65.81
Committee to Review the MEPAG Report on Mars Special Regions & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Review of the MEPAG Report on Mars Special Regions
Planetary protection is a guiding principle in the design of an interplanetary mission, aiming to prevent biological contamination of both the target celestial body and the Earth. The protection of …
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€3.73
Committee to Review the MEPAG Report on Mars Special Regions & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Review of the MEPAG Report on Mars Special Regions
Planetary protection is a guiding principle in the design of an interplanetary mission, aiming to prevent biological contamination of both the target celestial body and the Earth. The protection of …
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€58.85
Defense Materials Manufacturing and Infrastructure Standing Committee & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Applying Materials State Awareness to Condition-Based Maintenance and System Life Cycle Management
In August 2014, the committee on Defense Materials Manufacturing and Infrastructure convened a workshop to discuss issues related to applying materials state awareness to condition-based maintenance …
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Defense Materials Manufacturing and Infrastructure Standing Committee & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Applying Materials State Awareness to Condition-Based Maintenance and System Life Cycle Management
In August 2014, the committee on Defense Materials Manufacturing and Infrastructure convened a workshop to discuss issues related to applying materials state awareness to condition-based maintenance …
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€59.88
Committee on Telecommunications Research and Engineering at the Department of Commerce’s Boulder Laboratories & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Telecommunications Research and Engineering at the Communications Technology Laboratory of the D
The Department of Commerce operates two telecommunications research laboratories located at the Department of Commerce’s Boulder, Colorado, campus: the National Telecommunications and Information …
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€3.73
Committee on Telecommunications Research and Engineering at the Department of Commerce’s Boulder Laboratories & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Telecommunications Research and Engineering at the Communications Technology Laboratory of the D
The Department of Commerce operates two telecommunications research laboratories located at the Department of Commerce’s Boulder, Colorado, campus: the National Telecommunications and Information …
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€38.77
Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications & Committee on Affordability of National Flood Insurance Program Premiums: Affordability of National Flood Insurance Program Premiums
When Congress authorized the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) in 1968, it intended for the program to encourage community initiatives in flood risk management, charge insurance premiums …
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€3.72
Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications & Committee on Affordability of National Flood Insurance Program Premiums: Affordability of National Flood Insurance Program Premiums
When Congress authorized the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) in 1968, it intended for the program to encourage community initiatives in flood risk management, charge insurance premiums …
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€60.37
Committee on Telecommunications Research and Engineering at the Department of Commerce’s Boulder Laboratories & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Telecommunications Research and Engineering at the Institute for Telecommunication Sciences of t
The Department of Commerce operates two telecommunications research laboratories located at the Department of Commerce’s Boulder, Colorado, campus: the National Telecommunications and Information …
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€3.72
Committee on Telecommunications Research and Engineering at the Department of Commerce’s Boulder Laboratories & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Telecommunications Research and Engineering at the Institute for Telecommunication Sciences of t
The Department of Commerce operates two telecommunications research laboratories located at the Department of Commerce’s Boulder, Colorado, campus: the National Telecommunications and Information …
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€40.72
Air Force Studies Board & Committee on Strategies to Enhance Air Force Communication with Internal and External Audiences: A Workshop: Strategies to Enhance Air Force Communication with Internal and External Audiences
The U.S. Air Force (USAF) helps defend the United States and its interests by organizing, training, and equipping forces for operations in and through three distinct domains — air, space, and …
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€3.76
Air Force Studies Board & Committee on Strategies to Enhance Air Force Communication with Internal and External Audiences: A Workshop: Strategies to Enhance Air Force Communication with Internal and External Audiences
The U.S. Air Force (USAF) helps defend the United States and its interests by organizing, training, and equipping forces for operations in and through three distinct domains — air, space, and …
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€55.28
Committee on NIST Technical Programs & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Review of Three Divisions of the Information Technology Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology
At the request of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has, since 1959, annually assembled panels of experts from …
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€3.76
Committee on NIST Technical Programs & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Review of Three Divisions of the Information Technology Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology
At the request of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has, since 1959, annually assembled panels of experts from …
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€32.95
Committee on NIST Technical Programs & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Center for Neutron Research
At the request of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has, since 1959 annually assembled panels of experts from …
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Committee on NIST Technical Programs & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Center for Neutron Research
At the request of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has, since 1959 annually assembled panels of experts from …
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€33.14
Computer Science and Telecommunications Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Privacy Research and Best Practices
Recent disclosures about the bulk collection of domestic phone call records and other signals intelligence programs have stimulated widespread debate about the implications of such practices for the …
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Computer Science and Telecommunications Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Privacy Research and Best Practices
Recent disclosures about the bulk collection of domestic phone call records and other signals intelligence programs have stimulated widespread debate about the implications of such practices for the …
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€48.28
Board on Army Science and Technology & Committee on Effects of the Deletion of Chemical Agent Washout on Operations at the Blue Grass Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plant: Effects of the Deletion of Chemical Agent Washout on Operations at the Blue Grass
The United States manufactured significant quantities of chemical weapons during the Cold War and the years prior. Because the chemical weapons are aging, storage constitutes an ongoing risk to the …
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€3.73
Board on Army Science and Technology & Committee on Effects of the Deletion of Chemical Agent Washout on Operations at the Blue Grass Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plant: Effects of the Deletion of Chemical Agent Washout on Operations at the Blue Grass
The United States manufactured significant quantities of chemical weapons during the Cold War and the years prior. Because the chemical weapons are aging, storage constitutes an ongoing risk to the …
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€48.19
Committee on Future Directions for NSF Advanced Computing Infrastructure to Support U.S. Science in 2017-2020 & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Future Directions for NSF Advanced Computing Infrastructure to Support U.S. Science and Engineer
Advanced computing capabilities are used to tackle a rapidly growing range of challenging science and engineering problems, many of which are compute- and data-intensive as well. Demand for advanced …
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€3.72
Committee on Future Directions for NSF Advanced Computing Infrastructure to Support U.S. Science in 2017-2020 & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Future Directions for NSF Advanced Computing Infrastructure to Support U.S. Science and Engineer
Advanced computing capabilities are used to tackle a rapidly growing range of challenging science and engineering problems, many of which are compute- and data-intensive as well. Demand for advanced …
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€58.20
Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications & Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics: Statistical Challenges in Assessing and Fostering the Reproducibility of Scientific Results
Questions about the reproducibility of scientific research have been raised in numerous settings and have gained visibility through several high-profile journal and popular press articles. …
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€3.71
Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications & Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics: Statistical Challenges in Assessing and Fostering the Reproducibility of Scientific Results
Questions about the reproducibility of scientific research have been raised in numerous settings and have gained visibility through several high-profile journal and popular press articles. …
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€50.88
Army Research Laboratory Technical Assessment Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: 2015-2016 Assessment of the Army Research Laboratory
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Army Research Laboratory Technical Assessment Board (ARLTAB) provides biennial assessments of the scientific and technical quality of …
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€3.73
Army Research Laboratory Technical Assessment Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: 2015-2016 Assessment of the Army Research Laboratory
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Army Research Laboratory Technical Assessment Board (ARLTAB) provides biennial assessments of the scientific and technical quality of …
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€73.30
Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications & Committee on Analytical Research Foundations for the Next-Generation Electric Grid: Analytic Research Foundations for the Next-Generation Electric Grid
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 the …
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€3.72
Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications & Committee on Analytical Research Foundations for the Next-Generation Electric Grid: Analytic Research Foundations for the Next-Generation Electric Grid
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 the …
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€89.08
Committee on Continuing Innovation in Information Technology & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Continuing Innovation in Information Technology
The 2012 National Research Council report Continuing Innovation in Information Technology illustrates how fundamental research in information technology (IT), conducted at industry and universities, …
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€3.72
Committee on Continuing Innovation in Information Technology & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Continuing Innovation in Information Technology
The 2012 National Research Council report Continuing Innovation in Information Technology illustrates how fundamental research in information technology (IT), conducted at industry and universities, …
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€53.79
Committee on NIST Technical Programs & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Physical Measurement Laboratory
The Physical Measurement Laboratory (PML) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is dedicated to three fundamental and complementary tasks: (1) increase the accuracy of our …
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€3.73
Committee on NIST Technical Programs & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Physical Measurement Laboratory
The Physical Measurement Laboratory (PML) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is dedicated to three fundamental and complementary tasks: (1) increase the accuracy of our …
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€42.23
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee on Propulsion and Energy Systems to Reduce Commercial Aviation Carbon Emissions: Commercial Aircraft Propulsion and Energy Systems Research
The primary human activities that release carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere are the combustion of fossil fuels (coal, natural gas, and oil) to generate electricity, the provision of energy for …
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€3.70
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee on Propulsion and Energy Systems to Reduce Commercial Aviation Carbon Emissions: Commercial Aircraft Propulsion and Energy Systems Research
The primary human activities that release carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere are the combustion of fossil fuels (coal, natural gas, and oil) to generate electricity, the provision of energy for …
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€72.29
Committee on Achieving Science Goals with CubeSats & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Achieving Science with CubeSats
Space-based observations have transformed our understanding of Earth, its environment, the solar system and the universe at large. During past decades, driven by increasingly advanced science …
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€3.77
Committee on Achieving Science Goals with CubeSats & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Achieving Science with CubeSats
Space-based observations have transformed our understanding of Earth, its environment, the solar system and the universe at large. During past decades, driven by increasingly advanced science …
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€104.69
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: New Worlds, New Horizons
New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics (NWNH), the report of the 2010 decadal survey of astronomy and astrophysics, put forward a vision for a decade of transformative exploration at …
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€3.76
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: New Worlds, New Horizons
New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics (NWNH), the report of the 2010 decadal survey of astronomy and astrophysics, put forward a vision for a decade of transformative exploration at …
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€59.91
Air Force Studies Board & Committee on Optimizing the Air Force Acquisition Strategy of Secure and Reliable Electronic Components: A Workshop: Optimizing the Air Force Acquisition Strategy of Secure and Reliable Electronic Components
In 2012, the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), section 818, outlined new requirements for industry to serve as the lead in averting counterfeits in the defense supply chain. Subsequently, …
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€3.73
Air Force Studies Board & Committee on Optimizing the Air Force Acquisition Strategy of Secure and Reliable Electronic Components: A Workshop: Optimizing the Air Force Acquisition Strategy of Secure and Reliable Electronic Components
In 2012, the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), section 818, outlined new requirements for industry to serve as the lead in averting counterfeits in the defense supply chain. Subsequently, …
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€47.85
Defense Materials Manufacturing and Infrastructure Standing Committee & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Combat Vehicle Weight Reduction by Materials Substitution
Vehicle weight reduction is an effective strategy for reducing fuel consumption in civilian vehicles. For combat vehicles, it presents not only an important opportunity to reduce fuel use and …
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€3.72
Defense Materials Manufacturing and Infrastructure Standing Committee & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Combat Vehicle Weight Reduction by Materials Substitution
Vehicle weight reduction is an effective strategy for reducing fuel consumption in civilian vehicles. For combat vehicles, it presents not only an important opportunity to reduce fuel use and …
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€82.38
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee on NASA Technology Roadmaps: NASA Space Technology Roadmaps and Priorities Revisited
Historically, the United States has been a world leader in aerospace endeavors in both the government and commercial sectors. A key factor in aerospace leadership is continuous development of …
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€3.77
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee on NASA Technology Roadmaps: NASA Space Technology Roadmaps and Priorities Revisited
Historically, the United States has been a world leader in aerospace endeavors in both the government and commercial sectors. A key factor in aerospace leadership is continuous development of …
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€65.68
Computer Science and Telecommunications Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Exploring Encryption and Potential Mechanisms for Authorized Government Access to Plaintext
In June 2016 the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened the Workshop on Encryption and Mechanisms for Authorized Government Access to Plaintext. Participants at this …
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€3.73
Computer Science and Telecommunications Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Exploring Encryption and Potential Mechanisms for Authorized Government Access to Plaintext
In June 2016 the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened the Workshop on Encryption and Mechanisms for Authorized Government Access to Plaintext. Participants at this …
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€50.99
Committee on National Security Space Defense and Protection & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: National Security Space Defense and Protection
It is not yet 60 years since the first artificial satellite was placed into Earth orbit. In just over a half century, mankind has gone from no presence in outer space to a condition of high …
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€3.72
Committee on National Security Space Defense and Protection & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: National Security Space Defense and Protection
It is not yet 60 years since the first artificial satellite was placed into Earth orbit. In just over a half century, mankind has gone from no presence in outer space to a condition of high …
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€60.29
Committee on Triennial Review of the National Nanotechnology Initiative & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Triennial Review of the National Nanotechnology Initiative
Nanoscale science, engineering, and technology, often referred to simply as nanotechnology, is the understanding, characterization, and control of matter at the scale of nanometers, the dimension of …
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€3.73
Committee on Triennial Review of the National Nanotechnology Initiative & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Triennial Review of the National Nanotechnology Initiative
Nanoscale science, engineering, and technology, often referred to simply as nanotechnology, is the understanding, characterization, and control of matter at the scale of nanometers, the dimension of …
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€65.76
Committee on NASA Science Mission Extensions & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Extending Science
NASA operates a large number of space science missions, approximately three-quarters of which are currently in their extended operations phase. They represent not only a majority of operational space …
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€3.75
Committee on NASA Science Mission Extensions & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Extending Science
NASA operates a large number of space science missions, approximately three-quarters of which are currently in their extended operations phase. They represent not only a majority of operational space …
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€61.75
Air Force Studies Board & Committee on Owning the Technical Baseline for Acquisition Programs in the U.S. Air Force: A Study: Owning the Technical Baseline for Acquisition Programs in the U.S. Air Force
While there are examples of successful weapon systems acquisition programs within the U.S. Air Force (USAF), many of the programs are still incurring cost growth, schedule delays, and performance …
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€3.72
Air Force Studies Board & Committee on Owning the Technical Baseline for Acquisition Programs in the U.S. Air Force: A Study: Owning the Technical Baseline for Acquisition Programs in the U.S. Air Force
While there are examples of successful weapon systems acquisition programs within the U.S. Air Force (USAF), many of the programs are still incurring cost growth, schedule delays, and performance …
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€55.30
Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology & Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment: Microbiomes of the Built Environment
Peoples desire to understand the environments in which they live is a natural one. People spend most of their time in spaces and structures designed, built, and managed by humans, and it is estimated …
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€3.76
Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology & Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment: Microbiomes of the Built Environment
Peoples desire to understand the environments in which they live is a natural one. People spend most of their time in spaces and structures designed, built, and managed by humans, and it is estimated …
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€81.66
Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications & Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics: Strengthening Data Science Methods for Department of Defense Personnel and Readiness Missions
The Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Personnel & Readiness), referred to throughout this report as P&R, is responsible for the total force management of all Department of Defense (Do D) …
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€3.75
Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications & Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics: Strengthening Data Science Methods for Department of Defense Personnel and Readiness Missions
The Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Personnel & Readiness), referred to throughout this report as P&R, is responsible for the total force management of all Department of Defense (Do D) …
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€61.18
Air Force Studies Board & Committee on the Role of Experimentation Campaigns in the Air Force Innovation Life Cycle: A Study: Role of Experimentation Campaigns in the Air Force Innovation Life Cycle
The Air Force (USAF) has continuously sought to improve the speed with which it develops new capabilities to accomplish its various missions in air, space, and cyberspace. Historically, innovation …
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€3.71
Air Force Studies Board & Committee on the Role of Experimentation Campaigns in the Air Force Innovation Life Cycle: A Study: Role of Experimentation Campaigns in the Air Force Innovation Life Cycle
The Air Force (USAF) has continuously sought to improve the speed with which it develops new capabilities to accomplish its various missions in air, space, and cyberspace. Historically, innovation …
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€65.87
Committee on 21st Century Cyber-Physical Systems Education & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: 21st Century Cyber-Physical Systems Education
Cyber-physical systems (CPS) are engineered systems that are built from, and depend upon, the seamless integration of computational algorithms and physical components. CPS can be small and closed, …
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€3.70
Committee on 21st Century Cyber-Physical Systems Education & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: 21st Century Cyber-Physical Systems Education
Cyber-physical systems (CPS) are engineered systems that are built from, and depend upon, the seamless integration of computational algorithms and physical components. CPS can be small and closed, …
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€59.89
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Assessment of Solid-State Lighting, Phase Two
The standard incandescent light bulb, which still works mainly as Thomas Edison invented it, converts more than 90% of the consumed electricity into heat. Given the availability of newer lighting …
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€3.72
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Assessment of Solid-State Lighting, Phase Two
The standard incandescent light bulb, which still works mainly as Thomas Edison invented it, converts more than 90% of the consumed electricity into heat. Given the availability of newer lighting …
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€82.11
Computer Science and Telecommunications Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Information Technology and the U.S. Workforce
Recent years have yielded significant advances in computing and communication technologies, with profound impacts on society. Technology is transforming the way we work, play, and interact with …
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€3.70
Computer Science and Telecommunications Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Information Technology and the U.S. Workforce
Recent years have yielded significant advances in computing and communication technologies, with profound impacts on society. Technology is transforming the way we work, play, and interact with …
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€82.20
Army Research Laboratory Technical Assessment Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: 2015-2016 Assessment of the Army Research Laboratory
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Army Research Laboratory Technical Assessment Board (ARLTAB) provides biennial assessments of the scientific and technical quality of …
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€3.72
Army Research Laboratory Technical Assessment Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: 2015-2016 Assessment of the Army Research Laboratory
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Army Research Laboratory Technical Assessment Board (ARLTAB) provides biennial assessments of the scientific and technical quality of …
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€82.02
Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications & Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics: Refining the Concept of Scientific Inference When Working with Big Data
The concept of utilizing big data to enable scientific discovery has generated tremendous excitement and investment from both private and public sectors over the past decade, and expectations …
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€3.77
Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications & Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics: Refining the Concept of Scientific Inference When Working with Big Data
The concept of utilizing big data to enable scientific discovery has generated tremendous excitement and investment from both private and public sectors over the past decade, and expectations …
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€61.38
Committee on Assessment of the National Science Foundation’s 2015 Geospace Portfolio Review & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Assessment of the National Science Foundation’s 2015 Geospace Portfolio Review
At the request of the Advisory Committee for Geosciences of the National Science Foundation (NSF), a review of the Geospace Section of the NSF Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences was …
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€3.75
Committee on Assessment of the National Science Foundation’s 2015 Geospace Portfolio Review & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Assessment of the National Science Foundation’s 2015 Geospace Portfolio Review
At the request of the Advisory Committee for Geosciences of the National Science Foundation (NSF), a review of the Geospace Section of the NSF Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences was …
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€82.11
Computer Science and Telecommunications Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Foundational Cybersecurity Research
Attaining meaningful cybersecurity presents a broad societal challenge. Its complexity and the range of systems and sectors in which it is needed mean that successful approaches are necessarily …
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€3.75
Computer Science and Telecommunications Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Foundational Cybersecurity Research
Attaining meaningful cybersecurity presents a broad societal challenge. Its complexity and the range of systems and sectors in which it is needed mean that successful approaches are necessarily …
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€57.27
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Review of the Research Program of the U.S. DRIVE Partnership
Review of the Research Program of the U.S. DRIVE Partnership: Fifth Report follows on four previous reviews of the Freedom CAR and Fuel Partnership, which was the predecessor of the U.S. DRIVE …
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€3.72
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Review of the Research Program of the U.S. DRIVE Partnership
Review of the Research Program of the U.S. DRIVE Partnership: Fifth Report follows on four previous reviews of the Freedom CAR and Fuel Partnership, which was the predecessor of the U.S. DRIVE …
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€82.32
Committee on the Review of NASA’s Planetary Science Division’s Restructured Research and Analysis Program & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Review of the Restructured Research and Analysis Programs of NASA’s Planetary Science Division
The Research and Analysis (R&A) program managed by NASAs Planetary Science Division (PSD), supports a broad range of planetary science activities, including the analysis of data from past and current …
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€3.75
Committee on the Review of NASA’s Planetary Science Division’s Restructured Research and Analysis Program & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Review of the Restructured Research and Analysis Programs of NASA’s Planetary Science Division (ePUB
The Research and Analysis (R&A) program managed by NASAs Planetary Science Division (PSD), supports a broad range of planetary science activities, including the analysis of data from past and current …
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€82.49
Committee on a Vision for the Future of Center-Based Multidisciplinary Engineering Research & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: New Vision for Center-Based Engineering Research
The future security, economic growth, and competitiveness of the United States depend on its capacity to innovate. Major sources of innovative capacity are the new knowledge and trained students …
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€3.72
Committee on a Vision for the Future of Center-Based Multidisciplinary Engineering Research & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: New Vision for Center-Based Engineering Research
The future security, economic growth, and competitiveness of the United States depend on its capacity to innovate. Major sources of innovative capacity are the new knowledge and trained students …
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€55.21
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Committee on Evaluation of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E): Assessment of ARPA-E
In 2005, the National Research Council report Rising Above the Gathering Storm recommended a new way for the federal government to spur technological breakthroughs in the energy sector. It …
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€3.73
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Committee on Evaluation of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E): Assessment of ARPA-E
In 2005, the National Research Council report Rising Above the Gathering Storm recommended a new way for the federal government to spur technological breakthroughs in the energy sector. It …
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€74.63
Committee on Cyber Resilience Workshop Series & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Software Update as a Mechanism for Resilience and Security
Software update is an important mechanism by which security changes and improvements are made in software, and this seemingly simple concept encompasses a wide variety of practices, mechanisms, …
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€3.75
Committee on Cyber Resilience Workshop Series & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Software Update as a Mechanism for Resilience and Security
Software update is an important mechanism by which security changes and improvements are made in software, and this seemingly simple concept encompasses a wide variety of practices, mechanisms, …
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€73.86
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Committee on Enhancing the Resilience of the Nation’s Electric Power Transmission and Distribution System: Enhancing the Resilience of the Nation’s Electricity System
Americans safety, productivity, comfort, and convenience depend on the reliable supply of electric power. The electric power system is a complex cyber-physical system composed of a network of …
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€3.72
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Committee on Enhancing the Resilience of the Nation’s Electric Power Transmission and Distribution System: Enhancing the Resilience of the Nation’s Electricity System
Americans safety, productivity, comfort, and convenience depend on the reliable supply of electric power. The electric power system is a complex cyber-physical system composed of a network of …
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€89.58
Committee on Large Strategic NASA Science Missions: Science Value and Role in a Balanced Portfolio & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Powering Science
NASAs Science Mission Directorate (SMD) currently operates over five dozen missions, with approximately two dozen additional missions in development. These missions span the scientific fields …
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€3.76
Committee on Large Strategic NASA Science Missions: Science Value and Role in a Balanced Portfolio & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Powering Science
NASAs Science Mission Directorate (SMD) currently operates over five dozen missions, with approximately two dozen additional missions in development. These missions span the scientific fields …
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€90.44
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & Space Studies Board: Searching for Life Across Space and Time
The search for life is one of the most active fields in space science and involves a wide variety of scientific disciplines, including planetary science, astronomy and astrophysics, chemistry, …
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€3.73
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & Space Studies Board: Searching for Life Across Space and Time
The search for life is one of the most active fields in space science and involves a wide variety of scientific disciplines, including planetary science, astronomy and astrophysics, chemistry, …
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€70.14
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Academy of Engineering: Bolting Reliability for Offshore Oil and Natural Gas Operations
The Planning Committee on Connector Reliability for Offshore Oil and Natural Gas Operations held the Workshop on Bolting Reliability for Offshore Oil and Natural Gas Operations in Washington, D.C., …
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€3.70
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Academy of Engineering: Bolting Reliability for Offshore Oil and Natural Gas Operations
The Planning Committee on Connector Reliability for Offshore Oil and Natural Gas Operations held the Workshop on Bolting Reliability for Offshore Oil and Natural Gas Operations in Washington, D.C., …
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€67.81
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Committee on the Views on the World Radiocommunication Conference 2019: Views of the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine on Agenda Items of Interest to the Science Services at the World Radiocomm
The radio frequency spectrum is a limited resource with ever increasing demand from an expansive range of applications"all the way from commercial, such as mobile phones, to scientific, such as …
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€3.76
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Committee on the Views on the World Radiocommunication Conference 2019: Views of the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine on Agenda Items of Interest to the Science Services at the World Radiocomm
The radio frequency spectrum is a limited resource with ever increasing demand from an expansive range of applications"all the way from commercial, such as mobile phones, to scientific, such as …
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€67.81
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & Intelligence Community Studies Board: Challenges in Machine Generation of Analytic Products from Multi-Source Data
The Intelligence Community Studies Board of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a workshop on August 9-10, 2017 to examine challenges in machine generation of …
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€3.71
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & Intelligence Community Studies Board: Challenges in Machine Generation of Analytic Products from Multi-Source Data
The Intelligence Community Studies Board of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a workshop on August 9-10, 2017 to examine challenges in machine generation of …
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€67.24
Board on Higher Education and Workforce & Committee on the Growth of Computer Science Undergraduate Enrollments: Assessing and Responding to the Growth of Computer Science Undergraduate Enrollments
The field of computer science (CS) is currently experiencing a surge in undergraduate degree production and course enrollments, which is straining program resources at many institutions and causing …
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€3.75
Board on Higher Education and Workforce & Committee on the Growth of Computer Science Undergraduate Enrollments: Assessing and Responding to the Growth of Computer Science Undergraduate Enrollments
The field of computer science (CS) is currently experiencing a surge in undergraduate degree production and course enrollments, which is straining program resources at many institutions and causing …
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€82.49
Committee on the Future of Emergency Alert and Warning Systems: Research Directions & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Emergency Alert and Warning Systems
Following a series of natural disasters, including Hurricane Katrina, that revealed shortcomings in the nations ability to effectively alert populations at risk, Congress passed the Warning, Alert, …
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€3.77
Committee on the Future of Emergency Alert and Warning Systems: Research Directions & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Emergency Alert and Warning Systems
Following a series of natural disasters, including Hurricane Katrina, that revealed shortcomings in the nations ability to effectively alert populations at risk, Congress passed the Warning, Alert, …
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€58.49
Committee on Airport Passenger Screening: Millimeter Wave Machines & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Airport Passenger Screening Using Millimeter Wave Machines
The Transportation Security Administration requested a study by the National Research Council (NRC) to establish the Committee on Airport Passenger Screening: Millimeter Wave Machines to evaluate two …
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€3.73
Committee on Airport Passenger Screening: Millimeter Wave Machines & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Airport Passenger Screening Using Millimeter Wave Machines
The Transportation Security Administration requested a study by the National Research Council (NRC) to establish the Committee on Airport Passenger Screening: Millimeter Wave Machines to evaluate two …
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€103.93
Committee on the Decadal Survey for Earth Science and Applications from Space & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Thriving on Our Changing Planet
We live on a dynamic Earth shaped by both natural processes and the impacts of humans on their environment. It is in our collective interest to observe and understand our planet, and to predict …
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€3.76
Committee on the Decadal Survey for Earth Science and Applications from Space & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Thriving on Our Changing Planet
We live on a dynamic Earth shaped by both natural processes and the impacts of humans on their environment. It is in our collective interest to observe and understand our planet, and to predict …
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€211.07
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Opportunities in Intense Ultrafast Lasers
The laser has revolutionized many areas of science and society, providing bright and versatile light sources that transform the ways we investigate science and enables trillions of dollars of …
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€3.72
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Opportunities in Intense Ultrafast Lasers
The laser has revolutionized many areas of science and society, providing bright and versatile light sources that transform the ways we investigate science and enables trillions of dollars of …
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€181.00
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Aviation Safety Assurance Committee: In-Time Aviation Safety Management
Decades of continuous efforts to address known hazards in the national airspace system (NAS) and to respond to issues illuminated by analysis of incidents and accidents have made commercial airlines …
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€3.76
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Aviation Safety Assurance Committee: In-Time Aviation Safety Management
Decades of continuous efforts to address known hazards in the national airspace system (NAS) and to respond to issues illuminated by analysis of incidents and accidents have made commercial airlines …
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€61.18
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee on a Midterm Assessment of Implementation of the Decadal Survey on Life and Physical Sciences Research at NASA: Midterm Assessment of Implementation of the Decadal Survey on Life and Physical Sciences Re
The 2011 National Research Council decadal survey on biological and physical sciences in space, Recapturing a Future for Space Exploration: Life and Physical Sciences Research for a New Era, was …
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€3.76
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee on a Midterm Assessment of Implementation of the Decadal Survey on Life and Physical Sciences Research at NASA: Midterm Assessment of Implementation of the Decadal Survey on Life and Physical Sciences Re
The 2011 National Research Council decadal survey on biological and physical sciences in space, Recapturing a Future for Space Exploration: Life and Physical Sciences Research for a New Era, was …
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€73.80
Committee on Space Radiation Effects Testing Infrastructure for the U.S. Space Program & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Testing at the Speed of Light
Spacecraft depend on electronic components that must perform reliably over missions measured in years and decades. Space radiation is a primary source of degradation, reliability issues, and …
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€3.76
Committee on Space Radiation Effects Testing Infrastructure for the U.S. Space Program & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Testing at the Speed of Light
Spacecraft depend on electronic components that must perform reliably over missions measured in years and decades. Space radiation is a primary source of degradation, reliability issues, and …
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€82.67
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Board on Human-Systems Integration: Human-Automation Interaction Considerations for Unmanned Aerial System Integration into the National Airspace System
Prior to 2012, unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) technology had been primarily used by the military and hobbyists, but it has more recently transitioned to broader application, including commercial and …
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€3.73
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Board on Human-Systems Integration: Human-Automation Interaction Considerations for Unmanned Aerial System Integration into the National Airspace System
Prior to 2012, unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) technology had been primarily used by the military and hobbyists, but it has more recently transitioned to broader application, including commercial and …
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€90.42
Committee on Law Enforcement and Intelligence Access to Plaintext Information & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Decrypting the Encryption Debate
Encryption protects information stored on smartphones, laptops, and other devices – in some cases by default. Encrypted communications are provided by widely used computing devices and services – …
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€3.70
Committee on Law Enforcement and Intelligence Access to Plaintext Information & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Decrypting the Encryption Debate
Encryption protects information stored on smartphones, laptops, and other devices – in some cases by default. Encrypted communications are provided by widely used computing devices and services – …
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€55.17
Army Research Laboratory Technical Assessment Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: 2017-2018 Assessment of the Army Research Laboratory
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Army Research Laboratory Technical Assessment Board (ARLTAB) provides biennial assessments of the scientific and technical quality of …
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€3.73
Army Research Laboratory Technical Assessment Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: 2017-2018 Assessment of the Army Research Laboratory
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Army Research Laboratory Technical Assessment Board (ARLTAB) provides biennial assessments of the scientific and technical quality of …
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€61.31
Committee on Connector Reliability for Offshore Oil and Natural Gas Operations & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: High-Performance Bolting Technology for Offshore Oil and Natural Gas Operations
Commercially significant amounts of crude oil and natural gas lie under the continental shelf of the United States. Advances in locating deposits, and improvements in drilling and recovery …
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€3.77
Committee on Connector Reliability for Offshore Oil and Natural Gas Operations & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: High-Performance Bolting Technology for Offshore Oil and Natural Gas Operations
Commercially significant amounts of crude oil and natural gas lie under the continental shelf of the United States. Advances in locating deposits, and improvements in drilling and recovery …
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€82.99
Defense Materials Manufacturing and Infrastructure Standing Committee & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Globalization of Defense Materials and Manufacturing
Emerging economies, social and political transitions, and new ways of doing business are changing the world dramatically. To be the leader in this competitive climate, a defense manufacturing …
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€3.72
Defense Materials Manufacturing and Infrastructure Standing Committee & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Globalization of Defense Materials and Manufacturing
Emerging economies, social and political transitions, and new ways of doing business are changing the world dramatically. To be the leader in this competitive climate, a defense manufacturing …
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€73.23
Board on Mathematical Sciences and Analytics & Board on Science Education: Data Science for Undergraduates
Data science is emerging as a field that is revolutionizing science and industries alike. Work across nearly all domains is becoming more data driven, affecting both the jobs that are available and …
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€3.73
Board on Mathematical Sciences and Analytics & Board on Science Education: Data Science for Undergraduates
Data science is emerging as a field that is revolutionizing science and industries alike. Work across nearly all domains is becoming more data driven, affecting both the jobs that are available and …
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€55.30
Defense Materials Manufacturing and Infrastructure Standing Committee & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: 21st Century Paradigm Change in Performance and Design Metrics
In September 2015, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a two-day workshop on evolving paradigms for design and manufacturing. Participants discussed ways to lower …
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€3.76
Defense Materials Manufacturing and Infrastructure Standing Committee & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: 21st Century Paradigm Change in Performance and Design Metrics
In September 2015, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a two-day workshop on evolving paradigms for design and manufacturing. Participants discussed ways to lower …
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€82.49
Computer Science and Telecommunications Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Securing the Vote
During the 2016 presidential election, America’s election infrastructure was targeted by actors sponsored by the Russian government. Securing the Vote: Protecting American Democracy examines the …
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€3.72
Computer Science and Telecommunications Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Securing the Vote
During the 2016 presidential election, America’s election infrastructure was targeted by actors sponsored by the Russian government. Securing the Vote: Protecting American Democracy examines the …
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€61.41
Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources & Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate: Environmental Engineering for the 21st Century
Environmental engineers support the well-being of people and the planet in areas where the two intersect. Over the decades the field has improved countless lives through innovative systems for …
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€3.71
Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources & Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate: Environmental Engineering for the 21st Century
Environmental engineers support the well-being of people and the planet in areas where the two intersect. Over the decades the field has improved countless lives through innovative systems for …
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€55.21
Board on Army Science and Technology & Committee on Alternatives for the Demilitarization of Conventional Munitions: Alternatives for the Demilitarization of Conventional Munitions
The U.S. military has a stockpile of approximately 400, 000 tons of excess, obsolete, or unserviceable munitions. About 60, 000 tons are added to the stockpile each year. Munitions include …
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€3.75
Board on Army Science and Technology & Committee on Alternatives for the Demilitarization of Conventional Munitions: Alternatives for the Demilitarization of Conventional Munitions
The U.S. military has a stockpile of approximately 400, 000 tons of excess, obsolete, or unserviceable munitions. About 60, 000 tons are added to the stockpile each year. Munitions include …
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€89.57
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee on Assessing the Risks of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Integration: Assessing the Risks of Integrating Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) into the National Airspace System
When discussing the risk of introducing drones into the National Airspace System, it is necessary to consider the increase in risk to people in manned aircraft and on the ground as well as the …
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€3.71
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee on Assessing the Risks of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Integration: Assessing the Risks of Integrating Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) into the National Airspace System
When discussing the risk of introducing drones into the National Airspace System, it is necessary to consider the increase in risk to people in manned aircraft and on the ground as well as the …
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€82.34
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Committee on U.S.-Based Electron-Ion Collider Science Assessment: Assessment of U.S.-Based Electron-Ion Collider Science
Understanding of protons and neutrons, or nucleons"the building blocks of atomic nuclei"has advanced dramatically, both theoretically and experimentally, in the past half century. A central …
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€3.76
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Committee on U.S.-Based Electron-Ion Collider Science Assessment: Assessment of U.S.-Based Electron-Ion Collider Science
Understanding of protons and neutrons, or nucleons"the building blocks of atomic nuclei"has advanced dramatically, both theoretically and experimentally, in the past half century. A central …
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€82.87
Committee on the Review of Planetary Protection Policy Development Processes & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Review and Assessment of Planetary Protection Policy Development Processes
Protecting Earths environment and other solar system bodies from harmful contamination has been an important principle throughout the history of space exploration. For decades, the scientific, …
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€3.71
Committee on the Review of Planetary Protection Policy Development Processes & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Review and Assessment of Planetary Protection Policy Development Processes
Protecting Earths environment and other solar system bodies from harmful contamination has been an important principle throughout the history of space exploration. For decades, the scientific, …
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€73.04
Committee on the Review of Progress Toward Implementing the Decadal Survey Vision and Voyages for Planetary Sciences & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Visions into Voyages for Planetary Science in the Decade 2013-2022
In spring 2011 the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine produced a report outlining the next decade in planetary sciences. That report, titled Vision and Voyages for Planetary …
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€3.76
Committee on the Review of Progress Toward Implementing the Decadal Survey Vision and Voyages for Planetary Sciences & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Visions into Voyages for Planetary Science in the Decade 2013-2022
In spring 2011 the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine produced a report outlining the next decade in planetary sciences. That report, titled Vision and Voyages for Planetary …
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€89.08
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Committee on Exoplanet Science Strategy: Exoplanet Science Strategy
The past decade has delivered remarkable discoveries in the study of exoplanets. Hand-in-hand with these advances, a theoretical understanding of the myriad of processes that dictate the formation …
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€3.72
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Committee on Exoplanet Science Strategy: Exoplanet Science Strategy
The past decade has delivered remarkable discoveries in the study of exoplanets. Hand-in-hand with these advances, a theoretical understanding of the myriad of processes that dictate the formation …
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€82.34
Committee on Technical Assessment of the Feasibility and Implications of Quantum Computing & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Quantum Computing
Quantum mechanics, the subfield of physics that describes the behavior of very small (quantum) particles, provides the basis for a new paradigm of computing. First proposed in the 1980s as a way to …
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€3.73
Committee on Best Practices for a Future Open Code Policy for NASA Space Science & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Open Source Software Policy Options for NASA Earth and Space Sciences
Modern science is ever more driven by computations and simulations. In particular, the state of the art in space and Earth science often arises from complex simulations of climate, space weather, and …
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€3.73
Committee on Best Practices for a Future Open Code Policy for NASA Space Science & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Open Source Software Policy Options for NASA Earth and Space Sciences
Modern science is ever more driven by computations and simulations. In particular, the state of the art in space and Earth science often arises from complex simulations of climate, space weather, and …
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€49.78
Committee on Cyber Resilience Workshop Series & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Recoverability as a First-Class Security Objective
The Forum on Cyber Resilience of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine hosted the Workshop on Recoverability as a First-Class Security Objective on February 8, 2018, in …
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€3.72
Committee on Cyber Resilience Workshop Series & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Recoverability as a First-Class Security Objective
The Forum on Cyber Resilience of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine hosted the Workshop on Recoverability as a First-Class Security Objective on February 8, 2018, in …
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€49.78
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Committee on Frontiers of Materials Research: A Decadal Survey: Frontiers of Materials Research
Modern materials science builds on knowledge from physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics, computer and data science, and engineering sciences to enable us to understand, control, and expand the …
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€104.69
Committee on Astrobiology Science Strategy for the Search for Life in the Universe & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Astrobiology Strategy for the Search for Life in the Universe
Astrobiology is the study of the origin, evolution, distribution, and future of life in the universe. It is an inherently interdisciplinary field that encompasses astronomy, biology, geology, …
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€3.76
Committee on Astrobiology Science Strategy for the Search for Life in the Universe & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Astrobiology Strategy for the Search for Life in the Universe
Astrobiology is the study of the origin, evolution, distribution, and future of life in the universe. It is an inherently interdisciplinary field that encompasses astronomy, biology, geology, …
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€97.99
Committee on NIST Technical Programs & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Assessment of Four Divisions of the Physical Measurement Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology
An Assessment of Four Divisions of the Physical Measurement Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology: Fiscal Year 2018 assesses the scientific and technical work performed by …
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€3.76
Committee on NIST Technical Programs & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Assessment of Four Divisions of the Physical Measurement Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology
An Assessment of Four Divisions of the Physical Measurement Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology: Fiscal Year 2018 assesses the scientific and technical work performed by …
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€49.70
Committee on Extraterrestrial Sample Analysis Facilities & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Strategic Investments in Instrumentation and Facilities for Extraterrestrial Sample Curation and Analysis
The United States possesses a treasure-trove of extraterrestrial samples that were returned to Earth via space missions over the past four decades. Analyses of these previously returned samples have …
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€3.71
Committee on Extraterrestrial Sample Analysis Facilities & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Strategic Investments in Instrumentation and Facilities for Extraterrestrial Sample Curation and Analysis
The United States possesses a treasure-trove of extraterrestrial samples that were returned to Earth via space missions over the past four decades. Analyses of these previously returned samples have …
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€82.96
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Making Climate Assessments Work
Climate assessment activities are increasingly driven by subnational organizations"city, county, and state governments; utilities and private companies; and stakeholder groups and engaged …
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€3.73
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Making Climate Assessments Work
Climate assessment activities are increasingly driven by subnational organizations"city, county, and state governments; utilities and private companies; and stakeholder groups and engaged …
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€55.39
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Committee on a Strategic Plan for U.S. Burning Plasma Research: Final Report of the Committee on a Strategic Plan for U.S. Burning Plasma Research
Fusion offers the prospect of virtually unlimited energy. The United States and many nations around the world have made enormous progress toward achieving fusion energy. With ITER scheduled to go …
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€3.73
Committee on Planetary Protection Requirements for Sample-Return Missions from Martian Moons & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Planetary Protection Classification of Sample Return Missions from the Martian Moons
An international consensus policy to prevent the biological cross-contamination of planetary bodies exists and is maintained by the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) of the International Council …
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€3.75
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & Laboratory Assessments Board: Report 3 on Tracking and Assessing Governance and Management Reform in the Nuclear Security Enterprise
The congressionally mandated report A New Foundation for the Nuclear Enterprise (the "Augustine-Mies" report), released in November 2014, concluded that "the existing governance …
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€3.73
Committee on Strategic Long-Term Participation by DoD in Its Manufacturing Innovation Institutes & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Strategic Long-Term Participation by DoD in Its Manufacturing USA Institutes
To effectively mature and transition Do D manufacturing science and technology advances into production, Do D must have access to a robust and responsive U.S. industrial base which is often driven by …
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€3.72
Committee on Strategic Long-Term Participation by DoD in Its Manufacturing Innovation Institutes & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Strategic Long-Term Participation by DoD in Its Manufacturing USA Institutes
To effectively mature and transition Do D manufacturing science and technology advances into production, Do D must have access to a robust and responsive U.S. industrial base which is often driven by …
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€82.27
Army Research Laboratory Technical Assessment Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: 2017-2018 Assessment of the Army Research Laboratory
The Army Research Laboratory (ARL) is the corporate laboratory for the U.S. army, which bridges scientific and military communities. The ARL is critical in maintaining the United States dominant …
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€3.72
Army Research Laboratory Technical Assessment Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: 2017-2018 Assessment of the Army Research Laboratory
The Army Research Laboratory (ARL) is the corporate laboratory for the U.S. army, which bridges scientific and military communities. The ARL is critical in maintaining the United States dominant …
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€82.26
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Materials and Manufacturing Board: Strategic Long-Term Participation by DoD in Its Manufacturing USA Institutes
The U.S. Department of Defense (Do D) Manufacturing USA Institutes aim to protect national security and increase U.S. competitiveness in manufacturing. The domestic industrial base is critical to …
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€3.72
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Materials and Manufacturing Board: Strategic Long-Term Participation by DoD in Its Manufacturing USA Institutes
The U.S. Department of Defense (Do D) Manufacturing USA Institutes aim to protect national security and increase U.S. competitiveness in manufacturing. The domestic industrial base is critical to …
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€73.21
Board on Human-Systems Integration & Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment: Facilities Staffing Requirements for the Veterans Health AdministrationaResourcing, Workforce Modeling, and Staffing
In January 2019, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened the 2-day Workshop on Resourcing, Workforce Modeling, and Staffing. This workshop is one of several …
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€55.73
Air Force Studies Board & Committee on a Strategy for Acquiring Secure and Reliable Electronic Components for Air Force Weapon Systems: Growing Threat to Air Force Mission-Critical Electronics
High-performance electronics are key to the U.S. Air Forces (USAFs) ability to deliver lethal effects at the time and location of their choosing. Additionally, these electronic systems must be able …
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€3.77
Air Force Studies Board & Committee on a Strategy for Acquiring Secure and Reliable Electronic Components for Air Force Weapon Systems: Growing Threat to Air Force Mission-Critical Electronics
High-performance electronics are key to the U.S. Air Forces (USAFs) ability to deliver lethal effects at the time and location of their choosing. Additionally, these electronic systems must be able …
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€73.04
Board on Mathematical Sciences and Analytics & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Robust Machine Learning Algorithms and Systems for Detection and Mitigation of Adversarial Attacks and Anomalies
The Intelligence Community Studies Board (ICSB) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a workshop on December 11"12, 2018, in Berkeley, California, to discuss …
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€22.38
Committee on Computing and Communications Research to Enable Better Use of Information Technology in Government & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Information Technology Research, Innovation, and E-Government
Governments have done much to leverage information technology to deploy e-government services, but much work remains before the vision of e-government can be fully realized. Information Technology …
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€30.14
Board on Manufacturing and Engineering Design & Committee to Evaluate Transfer of Pollution Prevention Technology for the U.S. Army: Transfer of Pollution Prevention Technologies
The activities of the Department of Defense (DOD) and its contractors in manufacturing, testing, maintaining, and disposing of military equipment make up a significant portion of the industrial …
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€24.80
Board on Army Science and Technology & Committee on Review and Evaluation of the Army Chemical Stockpile Disposal Program: Closure and Johnston Atoll Chemical Agent Disposal System
Johnston Atoll Chemical Agent Disposal System (JACADS), the first fully integrated chemical agent disposal facility, is located on Johnston Island some 800 miles southwest of Hawaii. JACADS completed …
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€24.90
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Committee on Alternatives for Controlling the Release of Solid Materials from Nuclear Regulatory Commission-Licensed Facilities: Disposition Dilemma
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (USNRC) and its predecessor, the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), have attempted since the 1970s to give greater uniformity to the policy and regulatory …
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€80.86
Committee for the Review of ONR’s Marine Corps Science and Technology Program & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: 2000 Assessment of the Office of Naval Research’s Marine Corps Science and Technology Program
This review of the Science and Technology (S&T) program of the Office of Naval Research’s (ONR’s) Expeditionary Warfare Operations Technology Division, Code 353, comes at a time of considerable …
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€32.88
Committee on Space Biology and Medicine & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Review of NASA’s Biomedical Research Program
The 1998 Committee on Space Biology and Medicine (CSBM) report A Strategy for Research in Space Biology and Medicine in the New Century assessed the known and potential effects of spaceflight on …
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€37.70
Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment & Committee for Oversight and Assessment of U.S. Department of Energy Project Management: Proceedings of Government/Industry Forum
Recurrent problems with project performance in the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) in the 1990s raised questions in Congress about the practices and processes used by the department to manage …
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€17.36
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee on Precursor Measurements Necessary to Support Human Operations on the Surface of Mars: Safe on Mars
This study, commissioned by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), examines the role of robotic exploration missions in assessing the risks to the first human missions to Mars. …
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€40.59
Board on Army Science and Technology & Committee on Review and Evaluation of the Army Non-Stockpile Chemical Materiel Disposal Program: Systems and Technologies for the Treatment of Non-Stockpile Chemical Warfare Materiel
The main approach adopted by the U.S. Army for destruction of all declared chemical weapon materiel (CWM) is incineration. There has been considerable public opposition to this approach, however, and …
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€36.94
Committee for the Review of the National Nanotechnology Initiative & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Small Wonders, Endless Frontiers
Nanoscale science and technology, often referred to as "nanoscience" or "nanotechnology, " are science and engineering enabled by our relatively new ability to manipulate and …
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€40.67
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Academy of Engineering: Frontiers of Engineering
In 1995 the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) initiated the Frontiers of Engineering Symposium program, which every year brings together 100 of the nation’s future engineering leaders to learn …
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€40.45
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Assessment of the Department of Energy’s Office of Fusion Energy Sciences Program
The purpose of this assessment of the fusion energy sciences program of the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Science is to evaluate the quality of the research program and to provide guidance …
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€35.12
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Alternative Technologies to Replace Antipersonnel Landmines: Alternative Technologies to Replace Antipersonnel Landmines
This book examines potential technologies for replacing antipersonnel landmines by 2006, the U.S. target date for signing an international treaty banning these weapons. Alternative Technologies to …
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€48.58
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems: Energy Research at DOE
In legislation appropriating funds for DOE’s fiscal year (FY) 2000 energy R&D budget, the House Interior Appropriations Subcommittee directed an evaluation of the benefits that have accrued to the …
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€51.99
Board on Army Science and Technology & Committee on Opportunities in Biotechnology for Future Army Applications: Opportunities in Biotechnology for Future Army Applications
This report surveys opportunities for future Army applications in biotechnology, including sensors, electronics and computers, materials, logistics, and medical therapeutics, by matching commercial …
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€47.12
Committee for Mine Warfare Assessment & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Naval Mine Warfare
Sea mines have been important in naval warfare throughout history and continue to be so today. They have caused major damage to naval forces, slowed or stopped naval actions and commercial shipping, …
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€73.38
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Research Council: Toward New Partnerships In Remote Sensing
The technical, scientific, policy, and institutional environment for conducting Earth science research has been changing rapidly over the past few decades. Changes in the technical environment are …
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€40.36
Committee for an Assessment of Precision Time and Time Interval Science and Technology & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Assessment of Precision Time and Time Interval Science and Technology
Knowledge of time is essential to precise knowledge of location, and for this reason the Navy, with its need to navigate on the high seas, has historically played an important role in the development …
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€40.50
Board on Assessment of NIST Programs & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Measurement and Standards Laboratories
This assessment of the technical quality and relevance of the programs of the Measurement and Standards Laboratories of the National Institute of Standards and Technology is the work of the 165 …
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€83.72
Board on Army Science and Technology & Committee on Review and Evaluation of Alternative Technologies for Demilitarization of Assembled Chemical Weapons: Phase II: Analysis of Engineering Design Studies for Demilitarization of Assembled Chemical Weapons a
The U.S. Army is in the process of destroying the nation’s stockpile of aging chemical weapons stored at eight locations in the continental United States and on Johnston Atoll in the Pacific. …
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€45.29
Committee for the Review of ONR’s Air and Surface Weapons Technology Program & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: 2002 Assessment of the Office of Naval Research’s Air and Surface Weapons Technology Program
The Office of Naval Research (ONR) contracted with the Naval Studies Board (NSB) of the National Research Council (NRC) to establish a committee to review ONR’s Air and Surface Weapons Technology …
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€24.86
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Atoms, Molecules, and Light
With the publication in 1994 of Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Science: An Investment in the Future (the FAMOS report), the National Research Council launched the series Physics in a New Era, its …
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€24.60
Board on Army Science and Technology & Committee on Army Unmanned Ground Vehicle Technology: Technology Development for Army Unmanned Ground Vehicles
Unmanned ground vehicles (UGV) are expected to play a key role in the Armys Objective Force structure. These UGVs would be used for weapons platforms, logistics carriers, and reconnaissance, …
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€48.20
Board on Army Science and Technology & Committee on Evaluation of Chemical Events at Army Chemical Agent Disposal Facilities: Evaluation of Chemical Events at Army Chemical Agent Disposal Facilities
For over a decade the Army has been carrying out a program aimed at the destruction of accumulated chemical weapons stored at several sites. While destruction by incineration has been successful, …
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€38.89
Board on Life Sciences & Board on Physics and Astronomy: Funding Smithsonian Scientific Research
This report assesses whether the Smithsonian Institution should continue to receive direct federal appropriations for its scientific research programs or if this funding should be transferred to a …
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€35.16
Committee on the Internet Under Crisis Conditions: Learning from September 11 & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Internet Under Crisis Conditions
This report presents findings of a workshop featuring representatives of Internet Service Providers and others with access to data and insights about how the Internet performed on and immediately …
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€24.91
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Neutrinos and Beyond
The President’s FY 2003 Budget Request for the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Major Research Equipment and Facilities Construction Account called for a National Research Council (NRC) …
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€32.80
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Committee to Review DOE’s Vision 21 R&D Program — Phase I: Review of DOE’s Vision 21 Research and Development Program
The Vision 21 Program is a relatively new research and development (R&D) program. It is funded through the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Fossil Energy and its National Energy …
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€33.82
Committee on the Role of Information Technology in Responding to Terrorism & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Information Technology for Counterterrorism
Information technology (IT) is essential to virtually all of the nations critical infrastructures making them vulnerable by a terrorist attack on their IT system. An attack could be on the system …
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€36.70
Committee on the Internet in the Evolving Information Infrastructure & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Internet’s Coming of Age
What most of us know as "the Internet" is actually a set of largely autonomous, loosely coordinated communication networks. As the influence of the Internet continues to grow, understanding …
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€40.38
Air Force Science and Technology Board & Committee on Implications of Emerging Micro- and Nanotechnologies: Implications of Emerging Micro- and Nanotechnologies
Expansion of micro-technology applications and rapid advances in nano-science have generated considerable interest by the Air Force in how these developments will affect the nature of warfare and how …
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€61.90
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Research Council: Using Remote Sensing in State and Local Government
Advances in spatial, spectral, and temporal resolution over the past several years have greatly expanded opportunities for practical applications of remote sensing data. To explore the implications …
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€34.69
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Committee on the Physics of the Universe: Connecting Quarks with the Cosmos
Advances made by physicists in understanding matter, space, and time and by astronomers in understanding the universe as a whole have closely intertwined the question being asked about the universe …
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€44.94
Committee on Materials Research for Defense After Next & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Materials Research to Meet 21st-Century Defense Needs
In order to achieve the revolutionary new defense capabilities offered by materials science and engineering, innovative management to reduce the risks associated with translating research results …
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€103.35
Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment & Committee for Oversight and Assessment of U.S. Department of Energy Project Management: Progress in Improving Project Management at the Department of Energy
In 1997, Congress, in the conference report, H.R. 105-271, to the FY1998 Energy and Water Development Appropriation Bill, directed the NRC to carry out a series of assessments of project management …
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€36.69
Committee on Lightweight Materials for 21st Century Army Trucks & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Use of Lightweight Materials in 21st Century Army Trucks
In order to achieve the Armys envisioned Objective Force related to deployability, transportability, and mobility, the Committee on Lightweight Materials for the 21st Century Army Trucks was asked to …
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€34.44
Committee on Intersections Between Geospatial Information and Information Technology & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: IT Roadmap to a Geospatial Future
A grand challenge for science is to understand the human implications of global environmental change and to help society cope with those changes. Virtually all the scientific questions associated …
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€39.26
Committee to Study Tools and Strategies for Protecting Kids from Pornography and Their Applicability to Other Inappropriate Internet Content & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Technical, Business, and Legal Dimensions of Protecting Children
In response to a mandate from Congress in conjunction with the Protection of Children from Sexual Predators Act of 1998, the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB) and the Board on …
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€40.35
Air Force Science and Technology Board & Committee on Review of the Effectiveness of Air Force Science and Technology Program Changes: Effectiveness of Air Force Science and Technology Program Changes
Under mandate of Section 253, Study and Report on Effectiveness of Air Force Science and Technology Program Changes, of the Fiscal Year 2002 National Defense Authorization Act, the U.S. Air Force …
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€24.68
Committee on Information Technology and Creativity & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Beyond Productivity
Computer science has drawn from and contributed to many disciplines and practices since it emerged as a field in the middle of the 20th century. Those interactions, in turn, have contributed to the …
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€40.42
Board on Army Science and Technology & Committee on Army Science and Technology for Homeland Defense: Science and Technology for Army Homeland Security
The confluence of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack and the U.S. Armys historic role to support civil authorities has resulted in substantial new challenges for the Army. To help meet these …
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€48.47
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Research Council: Sun to the Earth — and Beyond
The sun is the source of energy for life on earth and is the strongest modulator of the human physical environment. In fact, the Suns influence extends throughout the solar system, both through …
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€34.67
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee on Aeronautics Research and Technology for Environmental Compatibility: For Greener Skies
Each new generation of commercial aircraft produces less noise and fewer emissions per passenger-kilometer (or ton-kilometer of cargo) than the previous generation. However, the demand for air …
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€40.52
Committee on Future Environments for the National Institute of Standards and Technology & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Future R&D Environments
In September 2000, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) asked the National Research Council to assemble a committee to study the trends and forces in science and technology …
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€57.54
Committee on Planetary and Lunar Exploration & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Assessment of Mars Science and Mission Priorities
Within the Office of Space Science of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) special importance is attached to exploration of the planet Mars, because it is the most like Earth of …
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€40.71
Board on Army Science and Technology & Committee on Review and Evaluation of the Army Chemical Stockpile Disposal Program: Effects of Degraded Agent and Munitions Anomalies on Chemical Stockpile Disposal Operations
The U.S. Army is in the process of destroying its entire stock of chemical weapons. To help with stockpile disposal, the Armys Chemical Stockpile Disposal Program (CSDP), in 1987, asked the National …
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€24.50
Committee for the Role of Experimentation in Building Future Naval Forces & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Role of Experimentation in Building Future Naval Forces
The Department of Defense is in the process of transforming the nations armed forces to meet the military challenges of the 21st century. Currently, the opportunity exists to carry out experiments at …
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€61.96
Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Starting Smart
Although most federal facilities projects are successfully completed (i.e., they reasonably meet the agency’s requirements and expectations), the perception is that development of the scope of work …
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€24.77
Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment & Committee on Business Strategies for Public Capital Investment: Investments in Federal Facilities
Facilities now owned by the Federal Government are valued at over $300 billion. It also spends over $25 billion per year for acquisition, renovation, and upkeep. Despite the size of these sums, there …
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€43.43
Committee for an Assessment of Naval Forces’ Defense Capabilities Against Chemical and Biological Warfare Threats & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Naval Forces’ Defense Capabilities Against Chemical and Biological Warfare Threats
U.S. naval forces must be prepared to respond to a broad array of threats. Of increasing importance are those from chemical and biological warfare (CW and BW). To help review its current state of …
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€53.90
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Carbon Dioxide Dilemma
Growing concerns about climate change partly as a result of anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions has prompted the research community to assess technologies and policies for sequestration. This …
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€41.80
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee on Breakthrough Technology for Commercial Supersonic Aircraft: Commercial Supersonic Technology
High-speed flight is a major technological challenge for both commercial and business aviation. As a first step in revitalizing efforts by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to …
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€40.41
Committee on Broadband Last Mile Technology & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Broadband
Broadband communication expands our opportunities for entertainment, e-commerce and work at home, health care, education, and even e-government. It can make the Internet more useful to more people. …
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€40.44
Division on Earth and Life Studies & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Transforming Remote Sensing Data into Information and Applications
Over the past decade renewed interest in practical applications of Earth observations from space has coincided with and been fueled by significant improvements in the availability of remote sensing …
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€20.96
Board on Manufacturing and Engineering Design & Committee on Integration of Commercial and Military Manufacturing in 2010 and Beyond: Equipping Tomorrow’s Military Force
Owing to the expected nature of combat in 2010, U.S. military forces face a pressing need to transform themselves for rapid response to an unpredictable threat. Rapid advances in commercial …
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€40.44
Board on Army Science and Technology & Committee on Review and Evaluation of the Army Non-Stockpile Chemical Materiel Disposal Program: Evaluation of Alternative Technologies for Disposal of Liquid Wastes from the Explosive Destruction System
Chemical warfare materiel (CWM) encompasses diverse items that were used during 60 years of efforts by the United States to develop a capability for conducting chemical warfare. Non-Stockpile CWM …
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€24.91
Computer Science and Telecommunications Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Cybersecurity Today and Tomorrow
This report reviews past NRC studies that have examined various dimensions of computer and network security and vulnerability and brings the results forward into the context of the current …
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€17.25
Board on Life Sciences & Committee on the Origins and Evolution of Life: Signs of Life
A workshop to assess the science and technology of life detection techniques was organized by the Committee on the Origins and Evolution of Life (COEL) of the Board on Life Sciences (BLS) and the …
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€24.50
Committee for an Assessment of Non-Lethal Weapons Science and Technology & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Assessment of Non-Lethal Weapons Science and Technology
Non-lethal weapons (NLWs) are designed to minimize fatalities and other undesired collateral damage when used. Events of the last few years including the attack on the USS Cole have raised ideas …
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€51.29
Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment & Committee for Oversight and Assessment of Blast-effects and Related Research: Protecting People and Buildings from Terrorism
Concerned with the vulnerability of U.S. civilian and military personnel to terrorist bombing attacks, the U.S. Congress directed the Department of Defense to undertake a comprehensive research and …
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€32.39
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee on Thermionic Research and Technology: Thermionics Quo Vadis?
This report evaluates the Defense Threat Reduction Agency prior and present sponsored efforts; assess the present state of the art in thermionic energy conversion systems; assess the technical …
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€40.59
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Committee on the Organization and Management of Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics: U.S. Astronomy and Astrophysics
In its fiscal year 2002 budget summary document the Bush administration expressed concern-based in part on the findings and conclusions of two National Research Council studies-about recent trends in …
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€24.75
Committee for the Review of ONR’s Aircraft Technology Program & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: 2001 Assessment of the Office of Naval Research’s Aircraft Technology Program
The Office of Naval Research (ONR) contracted with the Naval Studies Board (NSB) of the National Research Council (NRC) to establish a committee to review ONR’s Aircraft Technology Program (ATP). The …
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€24.80
Committee on Research Horizons in Networking & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Looking Over the Fence at Networks
A remarkable creation, the Internet encompasses a diversity of networks, technologies, and organizations. The enormous volume and great variety of data carried over it give it a rich complexity and …
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€40.71
Air Force Science and Technology Board & Air and Space Systems Science and Technology Program: Review of the U.S. Department of Defense Air, Space, and Supporting Information Systems Science and Technology Program
Since the mid-1940s, when Vannevar Bush and Theodore von Karman wrote Science, the Endless Frontier and Toward New Horizons, respectively, there has been a consensus that strong Department of Defense …
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€40.44
Board on Army Science and Technology & Committee on Review and Evaluation of Alternative Technologies for the Demilitarization of Assembled Chemical Weapons: Phase II: Analysis of Engineering Design Studies for Demilitarization of Assembled Chemical Weapo
The Program Manager for Assembled Chemical Weapons Assessment (PMACWA) of the Department of Defense (DOD) requested the National Research Council (NRC) to assess the engineering design studies (EDSs) …
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€34.35
Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment & Committee for Oversight and Assessment of U.S. Department of Energy Project Management: Progress in Improving Project Management at the Department of Energy
The Department of Energy (DOE) is engaged in numerous multimillion- and even multibillion-dollar projects that are one of a kind or first of a kind and require cutting-edge technology. The projects …
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€53.17
Air Force Science and Technology Board & Committee on the Future of the U.S. Aerospace Infrastructure and Aerospace Engineering Disciplines to Meet the Needs of the Air Force and the Department of Defense: Review of the Future of the U.S. Aerospace Infras
The Principal Deputy to the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition requested that the National Research Council (NRC) review the Air Force’s planned acquisition programs to determine …
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€40.27
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & Transportation Research Board: Review of the Research Program of the Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles
This is the most recent report of the National Research Councils Standing Committee to Review the Research Program of the Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles (PNGV), which has conducted …
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€36.66
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Committee on the Effectiveness and Impact of Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) Standards: Effectiveness and Impact of Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) Standards
Since CAFE standards were established 25 years ago, there have been significant changes in motor vehicle technology, globalization of the industry, the mix and characteristics of vehicle sales, …
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€64.64
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee for the Assessment of NASA’s Space Solar Power Investment Strategy: Laying the Foundation for Space Solar Power
In March 2000, NASA’s Office of Space Flight asked the Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board of the National Research Council to perform an independent assessment of the space solar power program’s …
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€24.61
Board on Army Science and Technology & Committee on Review and Evaluation of Alternative Technologies for Demilitarization of Assembled Chemical Weapons: Phase II: Evaluation of Demonstration Test Results of Alternative Technologies for Demilitarization o
By direction of Congress, the U.S. Department of Defense’s (Do D’s) program manager for the Assembled Chemical Weapons Assessment (PMACWA) asked the National Research Council (NRC) Committee on …
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€24.71
Board on Army Science and Technology & Committee on Review and Evaluation of the Army Chemical Stockpile Disposal Program: Occupational Health and Workplace Monitoring at Chemical Agent Disposal Facilities
In keeping with a congressional mandate (Public Law 104-484) and the Chemical Weapons Convention, the United States is currently destroying its chemical weapons stockpile. The Army must ensure that …
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€24.66
Committee on Networked Systems of Embedded Computers & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Embedded, Everywhere
Advances in the miniaturization and networking of microprocessors promise a _day when networked computers are embedded throughout the everyday world. However, our current understanding of what such …
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€40.25
Committee to Study Global Networks and Local Values & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Global Networks and Local Values
Whether you call it the third wave, the information revolution, or the virtually connected world, the implications of a global information network are profound. As a society, we want to forestall the …
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€36.90
Committee on Planetary and Lunar Exploration & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Quarantine and Certification of Martian Samples
One of the highest-priority activities in the planetary sciences identified in published reports of the Space Studies Board’s Committee on Planetary and Lunar Exploration (COMPLEX) and in reports of …
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€24.80
Board on Army Science and Technology & Committee on Review and Evaluation of the Army Non-Stockpile Chemical Materiel Disposal Program: Disposal of Neutralent Wastes
Chemical warfare materiel (CWM) is a collection of diverse items that were used during 60 years of efforts by the United States to develop a capability for conducting chemical warfare. Nonstockpile …
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€24.76
Air Force Science and Technology Board & Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems: Aging Avionics in Military Aircraft
Extending the life of an airframe has proven challenging and costly. Extending the life of an avionics system, however, is one of the most critical and difficult aspects of extending total aircraft …
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€40.31
Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment & Committee to Review the Security Design Criteria of the Interagency Security Committee: ISC Security Design Criteria for New Federal Office Buildings and Major Modernization Projects
In November 1999, GSA and the U.S. Department of State convened a symposium to discuss the apparently conflicting objectives of security from terrorist attack and the design of public buildings in an …
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€40.67
Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment & Committee for Review and Assessment of the Partnership for Advancing Technology in Housing: Promoting Innovation
The application of technology to housing design, construction, and operation offers opportunities for improving affordability, energy efficiency, comfort, safety, and convenience for consumers. New …
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€24.71
Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment & Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems: Outsourcing Management Functions for the Acquisition of Federal Facilities
In this study outsourcing is defined as the organizational practice of contracting for services from an external entity while retaining control over assets and oversight of the services being …
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€39.99
Arthur C. Gossard & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Advanced Epitaxy for Future Electronics, Optics, and Quantum Physics
The future development of electronics, optics, and, quite probably, quantum physics is being driven by advances in epitaxial materials. Band gap engineering, wafer bonding techniques, and epitaxial …
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€17.17
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems: Review of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Heavy Vehicle Technologies Program
As national priorities have been focused both on reducing fuel consumption and improving air quality, attention has increased on reducing emissions from many types of vehicles, including light-duty, …
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€24.80
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Physics in a New Era
Physics at the beginning of the twenty-first century has reached new levels of accomplishment and impact in a society and nation that are changing rapidly. Accomplishments have led us into the …
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€53.90
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Committee on High Energy Density Plasma Physics: Frontiers in High Energy Density Physics
Recent scientific and technical advances have made it possible to create matter in the laboratory under conditions relevant to astrophysical systems such as supernovae and black holes. These advances …
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€44.93
Committee on Critical Information Infrastructure Protection and the Law & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Critical Information Infrastructure Protection and the Law
All critical infrastructures are increasingly dependent on the information infrastructure for information management, communications, and control functions. Protection of the critical information …
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€43.34
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee to Review the R&D Strategy for Biomass-Derived Ethanol and Biodiesel Transportation Fuels: Review of the Research Strategy for Biomass-Derived Transportation Fuels
The Office of Fuels Development (OFD), a component of the U.S. Department of Energy’ s (DOE) Office of Transportation Technologies, manages the federal government’s effort to make biomass-based …
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€24.68
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Research Council: Size Limits of Very Small Microorganisms
How small can a free-living organism be? On the surface, this question is straightforward-in principle, the smallest cells can be identified and measured. But understanding what factors determine …
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€43.98
Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Laboratory Design, Construction, and Renovation
Laboratory facilities are complex, technically sophisticated, and mechanically intensive structures that are expensive to build and to maintain. Hundreds of decisions must be made before and during …
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€42.54
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Industrial Technology Assessments: Industrial Technology Assessments
In 1993, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Industrial Technology (OIT) established a group of seven industries designated as Industries of the Future (IOF). These industries were selected …
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€24.89
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Committee on Gravitational Physics: Gravitational Physics
Gravitational Physics assesses the achievements of the field over the past decade in both theory and experiment, identifies the most promising opportunities for research in the next decade, and …
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€45.23
Committee on an Information Technology Strategy for the Library of Congress & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: LC21
Digital information and networks challenge the core practices of libraries, archives, and all organizations with intensive information management needs in many respects"not only in terms of …
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€40.27
Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology & Chemical Sciences Roundtable: Graduate Education in the Chemical Sciences
Graduate Education in the Chemical Sciences is a summary of the December 1999 workshop, "Graduate Education in the Chemical Sciences: Issues for the 21st Century, "This workshop discussed …
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€48.85
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems: Design in the New Millennium
America is changing. Many of the most noticeable changes in day-to-day life are associated with the advancing capabilities of computer systems, the growing variety of tasks they can accomplish, and …
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€40.76
Committee on Electrometallurgical Techniques for DOE Spent Fuel Treatment & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Electrometallurgical Techniques for DOE Spent Fuel Treatment
The Committee on Electrometallurgical Techniques for DOE Spent Fuel Treatment was formed in September 1994 in response to a request made to the National Research Council (NRC) by the U.S. Department …
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€37.45
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems: Review of the Research Program of the Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles
Review of the Research Program of the Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles reviews the Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles (PNGV). The PNGV program is a cooperative research and …
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€40.31
Astronomy and Astrophysics Survey Committee & Board on Physics and Astronomy: Astronomy and Astrophysics in the New Millennium
In preparing the report, Astronomy and Astrophysics in the New Millenium , the AASC made use of a series of panel reports that address various aspects of ground- and space-based astronomy and …
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€56.49
Committee on Earth Studies & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Issues in the Integration of Research and Operational Satellite Systems for Climate Research
Currently, the Departments of Defense (DOD) and Commerce (DOC) acquire and operate separate polarorbiting environmental satellite systems that collect data needed for military and civil weather …
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€55.99
Committee on Solar and Space Physics and Committee on Solar-Terrestrial Research & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Radiation and the International Space Station
A major objective of the International Space Station is learning how to cope with the inherent risks of human spaceflight–how to live and work in space for extended periods. The construction of the …
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€32.84
Board on Manufacturing and Engineering Design & Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems: Surviving Supply Chain Integration
The managed flow of goods and information from raw material to final sale also known as a "supply chain" affects everything–from the U.S. gross domestic product to where you can buy your …
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€44.44
Committee on Developing a Federal Materials Facilities Strategy & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Cooperative Stewardship
The Committee on Developing a Federal Materials Facilities Strategy was appointed by the National Research Council (NRC) in response to a request by the federal agencies involved in funding and …
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€40.71
Chemical Sciences Roundtable & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Research Teams and Partnerships
The third workshop of the Chemical Sciences Roundtable, Research Teams and Partnerships was held in Irvine, California, on May 2-3, 1999. The presentations and discussions at the workshop considered …
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€43.42
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Materials Science and Engineering: Forging Stronger Links to Users: Materials Science and Engineering
Materials are the foundation and fabric of manufactured products. In fact, many leading commercial products and military systems could not exist without advanced materials and many of the new …
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€33.56
Committee for a Study on Promoting Access to Scientific and Technical Data for the Public Interest & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Question of Balance
New legal approaches, such as the European Union’s 1996 Directive on the Legal Protection of Databases, and other legal initiatives now being considered in the United States at the federal and state …
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€36.52
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Research Council: Materials in a New Era
The 1999 Solid State Sciences Committee Forum, entitled "Materials in a New Era, " was held at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C., on February 16-17, 1999. The forum was …
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€24.61
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems: Uninhabited Air Vehicles
U.S. Air Force (USAF) planners have envisioned that uninhabited air vehicles (UAVs), working in concert with inhabited vehicles, will become an integral part of the future force structure. Current …
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€36.69
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems: Vision 21
Vision 21reviews the goals of the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Vision 21 Program (DOE’s vision for the future of coal-based power generation) and to recommend systems and approaches for moving from …
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€43.44
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Research Council: Assessment of Mission Size Trade-offs for NASA’s Earth and Space Science Missions
Assessment of Mission Size Trade-offs for NASA’s Earth and Space Science Missions addresses fundamental issues of mission architecture in the nation’s scientific space program and responds to the …
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€33.17
Board on Army Science and Technology & Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems: Integrated Design of Alternative Technologies for Bulk-Only Chemical Agent Disposal Facilities
The U.S. Army is pilot testing chemical hydrolysis as a method for destroying the chemical agents stockpiled at Aberdeen, Maryland (HD mustard agent), and Newport, Indiana (VX nerve agent). The …
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€24.66
Committee on Computing and Communications Research to Enable Better Use of Information Technology in Government & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Summary of a Workshop on Information Technology Research for Crisis Management
This workshop summary was produced in the course of a broader study that is exploring how information technology research can foster new and improved government services, operations, and interactions …
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€33.06
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems: Engineering Challenges to the Long-Term Operation of the International Space Station
The International Space Station (ISS) is truly an international undertaking. The project is being led by the United States, with the participation of Japan, the European Space Agency, Canada, Italy, …
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€24.71
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems: Streamlining Space Launch Range Safety
The U.S. space program is rapidly changing from an activity driven by federal government launches to one driven by commercial launches. In 1997, for the first time commercial launches outnumbered …
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€30.14
Committee for Naval Hydromechanics Science and Technology & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Assessment of Naval Hydromechanics Science and Technology
The Department of the Navy maintains a vigorous science and technology (S&T) research program in those areas that are critically important to ensuring U.S. naval superiority in the maritime …
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€40.72
Committee for Undersea Weapons Science and Technology & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Assessment of Undersea Weapons Science and Technology
The Department of the Navy strives to maintain, through its Office of Naval Research (ONR), a vigorous science and technology (S&T) program in those areas considered critically important to U.S. …
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€40.31
Committee on Planetary and Lunar Exploration & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Science Strategy for the Exploration of Europa
Since its discovery in 1610, Europa – one of Jupiter’s four large moons – has been an object of interest to astronomers and planetary scientists. Much of this interest stems from observations made by …
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€40.38
Committee on Network-Centric Naval Forces & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Network-Centric Naval Forces
Network-Centric Naval Forces: A Transition Strategy for Enhancing Operational Capabilities is a study to advise the Department of the Navy regarding its transition strategy to achieve a …
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€149.76
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Review and Evaluation of Alternative Technologies for Demilitarization of Assembled Chemical Weapons: Evaluation of Demonstration Test Results of Alternative Technologies for Demilitarization
In 1996, the U.S. Congress enacted two laws, Public Law 104-201 (authorization legislation) and Public Law 104-208 (appropriation legislation), mandating that the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) …
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€40.73
Committee on Digital Archiving and the National Archives and Records Administration & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Building an Electronic Records Archive at the National Archives and Records Administration
Like its constituent agencies and other organizations, the federal government generates and increasingly saves a large and growing fraction of its records in electronic form. Recognizing the greater …
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€24.91
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Space Shuttle Upgrades: Upgrading the Space Shuttle
The space shuttle is a unique national resource. One of only two operating vehicles that carries humans into space, the space shuttle functions as a scientific laboratory and as a base for …
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€40.67
Committee on Naval Expeditionary Logistics & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Naval Expeditionary Logistics
At the request of the Chief of Naval Operations, the National Research Council (NRC) conducted a study to determine the technological requirements, operational changes, and combat service support …
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€44.88
Committee on Planetary and Lunar Exploration & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Scientific Rationale for Mobility in Planetary Environments
For the last several decades, the Committee on Planetary and Lunar Exploration (COMPLEX) has advocated a systematic approach to exploration of the solar system; that is, the information and …
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€40.38
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Meeting Research and Education Needs in Coastal Engineering
After discussions with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the U.S. Geological Survey, and the Office of Naval Research, the National Research …
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€40.75
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Applying Advanced Information Systems to Ports and Waterways Management
The future safety of maritime transportation in the United States-a major factor in the nation’s international trade and economic well-being-will depend heavily on the quality of port and waterways …
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€40.71
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Vision for the National Weather Service
In this study, the committee explores ways the National Weather Service (NWS) can take advantage of continuing advances in science and technology to meet the challenges of the future. The predictions …
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€40.71
Board on Manufacturing and Engineering Design & Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems: Defense Manufacturing in 2010 and Beyond
The end of the Cold War, the evolving mission of the U.S. Armed Services, the dramatic improvements in commercial manufacturing–these and other trends are changing how we provide for the common …
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€46.79
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Double-Hull Tanker Legislation
The passage of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (OPA 90) by Congress and subsequent modifications of international maritime regulations resulted in a far-reaching change in the design of tank vessels. …
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€54.05
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Striking a Balance
America’s ocean and coastal regions–which provide wildlife habitat, commercial fish stocks, mineral reserves, travelways, recreation, and more–are under increasing pressure as more and more people …
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€51.62
Committee on Microgravity Research & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Microgravity Research in Support of Technologies for the Human Exploration and Development of Space and Planetary Bodies
The frontier represented by the near solar system confronts humanity with intriguing challenges and opportunities. With the inception of the Human Exploration and Development of Space (HEDS) …
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€75.39
Committee to Review DOD C4I Plans and Programs & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Realizing the Potential of C4I
Rapid progress in information and communications technologies is dramatically enhancing the strategic role of information, positioning effective exploitation of these technology advances as a …
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€50.69
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Review of the Draft Plan for the Modernization and Associated Restructuring Demonstration
The public law that authorized the National Weather Service (NWS) to modernize its technical systems and restructure its field office organization set the requirements for what has become known as …
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€17.22
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Practicality of Pulsed Fast Neutron Transmission Spectroscopy for Aviation Security
A major goal of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), and now the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), is the development of technologies for detecting explosives and illegal drugs in …
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€40.76
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Review of the Research Program of the Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles
This fifth review of the Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles assesses progress made in the program towards the development of high fuel economy vehicles. One of the goals of the program is …
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€36.65
Center for Education & Committee on Improving Learning with Information Technology: Planning for Two Transformations in Education and Learning Technology
In response to concerns about the continued unrealized potential of IT in K-12 education, the National Research Councils Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Center for Education …
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€40.75
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Advanced Engineering Environments: Advanced Engineering Environments
Advances in the capabilities of technologies applicable to distributed networking, telecommunications, multi-user computer applications, and interactive virtual reality are creating opportunities for …
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€40.38
Committee on Information Systems Trustworthiness & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Trust in Cyberspace
Whether or not you use a computer, you probably use a telephone, electric power, and a bank. Although you may not be aware of their presence, networked computer systems are increasingly becoming an …
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€103.33
Committee on Criteria for Federal Support of Research and Development & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Allocating Federal Funds for Science and Technology
The United States faces a new challenge–maintaining the vitality of its system for supporting science and technology despite fiscal stringency during the next several years. To address this change, …
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€40.09
Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology & Chemical Sciences Roundtable: Assessing the Value of Research in the Chemical Sciences
This book captures the messages from a workshop that brought together research managers from government, industry, and academia to review and discuss the mechanisms that have been proposed or used to …
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€40.59
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Reserve Forces for 2010 and Beyond: Technology-Based Pilot Programs
As the twenty-first century approaches, the number of full-time, active duty personnel in the U.S. military (excluding the Reserves and National Guard) is about 1.4 million, the lowest level since …
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€24.63
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Spills of Nonfloating Oils
In the Coast Guard Authorization Act of 1996, the United States Coast Guard (USCG) was directed to assess the risk of spills for oils that may sink or be negatively buoyant, to examine and evaluate …
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€24.91
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Review and Evaluation of the Army Chemical Stockpile Disposal Program: Carbon Filtration for Reducing Emissions from Chemical Agent Incineration
This report reviews the Army’s evaluation of carbon filters for use in the baseline incineration PAS, as well as the Army’s change management process (the Army’s tool for evaluating major equipment …
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€42.32
Board on Engineering Education & Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems: Engineering Education
Traditionally, engineering education books describe and reinforce unchanging principles that are basic to the field. However, the dramatic changes in the engineering environment during the last …
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€31.42
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Research Council: Preserving Scientific Data on Our Physical Universe
This book advises the National Archives and Records Administration and federal R&D agencies on the long-term retention of scientific and technical data, particularly in electronic formats. It …
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€29.11
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Committee on Condensed-Matter and Materials Physics: Condensed-Matter and Materials Physics
This book identifies opportunities, priorities, and challenges for the field of condensed-matter and materials physics. It highlights exciting recent scientific and technological developments and …
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€62.25
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Shipbuilding Technology and Education
The U.S. shipbuilding industry now confronts grave challenges in providing essential support of national objectives. With recent emphasis on renewal of the U.S. naval fleet, followed by the defense …
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€39.57
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Simulated Voyages
This book assesses the state of practice and use of ship-bridge simulators in the professional development and licensing of deck officers and marine pilots. It focuses on full-mission computer-based …
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€44.09
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Research Council: Fostering Research on the Economic and Social Impacts of Information Technology
The tremendous growth in use of information technology (IT) has led to an increased interest in understanding its social and economic impacts. This book presents examples of crosscutting research …
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€40.45
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Committee on Elementary-Particle Physics: Elementary-Particle Physics
Part of the Physics in a New Era series of assessments of the various branches of the field, Elementary-Particle Physics reviews progress in the field over the past 10 years and recommends actions …
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€44.84
Committee on Planetary and Lunar Exploration & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Exploring the Trans-Neptunian Solar System
In the last decade, our knowledge of the outer solar system has been transformed as a result of the Voyager 2 encounter with Neptune and its satellite Triton and from Earth-based observations of the …
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€40.38
Committee on Space Biology and Medicine & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Strategy for Research in Space Biology and Medicine in the New Century
Construction of the international space station, scheduled to start in late 1998, ushers in a new era for laboratory sciences in space. This is especially true for space life sciences, which include …
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€56.57
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Research Council: Containing the Threat from Illegal Bombings
In response to the rising concern of the American public over illegal bombings, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms asked the National Research Council to examine possible mechanisms for …
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€48.45
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Review and Evaluation of the Air Force Hypersonic Technology Program: Review and Evaluation of the Air Force Hypersonic Technology Program
This study was undertaken in response to a request by the U.S. Air Force that the National Research Council (NRC) examine whether the technologies that underlie the concept of a hypersonic, …
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€40.31
Committee to Study National Cryptography Policy & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Cryptography’s Role in Securing the Information Society
For every opportunity presented by the information age, there is an opening to invade the privacy and threaten the security of the nation, U.S. businesses, and citizens in their private lives. The …
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€51.43
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Contaminated Sediments in Ports and Waterways
Contaminated marine sediments threaten ecosystems, marine resources, and human health. They can have major economic impacts when controversies over risks and costs of sediment management interfere …
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€58.03
Board on Manufacturing and Engineering Design & Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems: Visionary Manufacturing Challenges for 2020
Manufacturing will unquestionably be a very different enterprise in 2020 from what it is today. This book presents an exciting picture of the profitable and productive potential of manufacturing two …
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€44.04
Board on Manufacturing and Engineering Design & Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems: Manufacturing Process Controls for the Industries of the Future
Manufacturing process controls include all systems and software that exert control over production processes. Control systems include process sensors, data processing equipment, actuators, networks …
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€40.75
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Aircraft Certification Safety Management: Improving the Continued Airworthiness of Civil Aircraft
As part of the national effort to improve aviation safety, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) chartered the National Research Council to examine and recommend improvements in the aircraft …
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€40.25
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Oil Spill Risks From Tank Vessel Lightering
The safety record of lightering (the transfer of petroleum cargo at sea from a large tanker to smaller ones) has been excellent in U.S. waters in recent years, as evidenced by the very low rate of …
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€53.91
Committee on Issues in the Transborder Flow of Scientific Data & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Bits of Power
Since Galileo corresponded with Kepler, the community of scientists has become increasingly international. A DNA sequence is as significant to a researcher in Novosibirsk as it is to one in Pasadena. …
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€63.44
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Review of the Research Program of the Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles
This book examines the state of development and research progress of technologies being considered for a new generation of vehicles that could achieve up to three times the fuel economy of comparable …
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€36.57
Committee on Planetary and Lunar Exploration & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Exploration of Near Earth Objects
Comets and asteroids are in some sense the fossils of the solar system. They have avoided most of the drastic physical processing that shaped the planets and thus represent more closely the …
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€40.71
Committee on Maintaining Privacy and Security in Health Care Applications of the National Information Infrastructure & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: For the Record
When you visit the doctor, information about you may be recorded in an office computer. Your tests may be sent to a laboratory or consulting physician. Relevant information may be transmitted to your …
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€38.20
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Research Council: Radiation Hazards to Crews of Interplanetary Missions
NASA’s long-range plans include possible human exploratory missions to the moon and Mars within the next quarter century. Such missions beyond low Earth orbit will expose crews to transient radiation …
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€40.76
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Application of Digital Instrumentation and Control Systems to Nuclear Power Plant Operations and Safety: Digital Instrumentation and Control Systems in Nuclear Power Plants
The nuclear industry and the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (USNRC) have been working for several years on the development of an adequate process to guide the replacement of aging analog …
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€45.28
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Research Council: Mars Sample Return
The Space Studies Board of the National Research Council (NRC) serves as the primary adviser to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on planetary protection policy, the purpose of …
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€40.69
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Advanced Technology for Human Support in Space: Advanced Technology for Human Support in Space
Advanced Technology for Human Support in Space was written in response to a request from NASA’s Office of Life and Microgravity Sciences and Applications (OLMSA) to evaluate its Advanced Human …
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€42.68
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate: Satellite Observations of the Earth’s Environment
This report addresses the transition of research satellites, instruments, and calculations into operational service for accurately observing and predicting the Earths environment. These transitions, …
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€49.01
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Committee on Nuclear Physics: Nuclear Physics
Dramatic progress has been made in all branches of physics since the National Research Council’s 1986 decadal survey of the field. The Physics in a New Era series explores these advances and looks …
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€51.10
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Research Council: Supporting Research and Data Analysis in NASA’s Science Programs
Effective science, clearly a mandate for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), involves asking significant questions about the physical and biological world and seeking definitive …
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€35.79
Committee on Smokeless and Black Powder & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Black and Smokeless Powders
Some 600 pipe bomb explosions have occurred annually in the United States during the past several years. How can technology help protect the public from these homemade devices?This book, a response …
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€38.15
Committee on Microgravity Research & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Assessment of Directions in Microgravity and Physical Sciences Research at NASA
For thirty years the NASA microgravity program has used space as a tool to study fundamental flow phenomena that are important to fields ranging from combustion science to biotechnology. This book …
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€36.23
Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment & Committee to Identify Innovative Research Needs to Foster Improved Fire Safety in the United States: Making the Nation Safe from Fire
The committee that prepared this report was charged with assessing the state of fire safety research and describing the potential role of the NSF in improving fire safety in the United States. This …
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€24.66
Computer Science and Telecommunications Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Innovation in Information Technology
Progress in information technology (IT) has been remarkable, but the best truly is yet to come: the power of IT as a human enabler is just beginning to be realized. Whether the nation builds on this …
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€40.36
Committee for the Review of ONR’s Marine Corps Science and Technology Program & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: 2003 Assessment of the Office of Naval Research’s Marine Corps Science and Technology Program
The Office of Naval Research (ONR) funds research across a broad range of scientific and engineering disciplines in support of the Navy and Marine Corps. To ensure that its investments are serving …
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€38.41
Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics & Committee on National Statistics: Innovations in Software Engineering for Defense Systems
Recent rough estimates are that the U.S. Department of Defense (Do D) spends at least $38 billion a year on the research, development, testing, and evaluation of new defense systems; approximately 40 …
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€40.59
Committee on Authentication Technologies and Their Privacy Implications & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Who Goes There?
Who Goes There?: Authentication Through the Lens of Privacy explores authentication technologies (passwords, PKI, biometrics, etc.) and their implications for the privacy of the individuals being …
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€40.42
Committee on the Future of Supercomputing & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Future of Supercomputing
The Committee on the Future of Supercomputing was tasked to assess prospects for supercomputing technology research and development in support of U.S. needs, to examine key elements of context–the …
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€40.45
Board on Army Science and Technology & Committee on Review of Army Planning for the Disposal of M55 Rockets at the Anniston Chemical Agent Disposal Facility: Assessment of Processing Gelled GB M55 Rockets at Anniston
In 1985, Congress mandated the destruction of the stockpile of M55 rockets stored at several chemical weapons storage sites in the United States and its possessions because of the risk that the …
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€24.88
Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment & Committee to Develop a Long-Term Research Agenda for the Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES): Preventing Earthquake Disasters: The Grand Challenge in Earthquake Engineering
The Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES), administered by the National Science Foundation (NSF), is scheduled to become operational in 2004. These network sites will perform a range …
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€49.07
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Burning Plasma Assessment Committee: Burning Plasma
Significant advances have been made in fusion science, and a point has been reached when we need to decide if the United States is ready to begin a burning plasma experiment. A burning plasma"in …
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€54.12
Committee on Solar and Space Physics & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Sun to the Earth a and Beyond
This volume, The Sun to the Earth-and Beyond: Panel Reports, is a compilation of the reports from five National Research Council (NRC) panels convened as part of a survey in solar and space physics …
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€63.59
Board on Army Science and Technology & Committee on Review and Assessment of the Army Non-Stockpile Chemical Materiel Demilitarization Program: Pine Bluff: Assessment of the Army Plan for the Pine Bluff Non-Stockpile Facility
The U.S. Army is in the process of destroying its chemical weapons stockpile and related, non-stockpile chemical materiel. At the request of the Army, the National Research Council (NRC) has …
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€24.71
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Issues and Opportunities Regarding the U.S. Space Program
Ever since the completion of the Apollo program, there has been a lack of consensus about the future of human spaceflight. The Columbia tragedy in February 2003 rekindled public debate about this …
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€24.86
Committee on Nanotechnology for the Intelligence Community & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Summary of the Power Systems Workshop on Nanotechnology for the Intelligence Community
The emergence of nanotechnology as a major science and technology research topic has sparked substantial interest by the intelligence community. In particular the community is interested both in the …
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€17.34
Board on Manufacturing and Engineering Design & Committee on Advanced Energetic Materials and Manufacturing Technologies: Advanced Energetic Materials
Advanced energetic materials"explosive fill and propellants"are a critical technology for national security. While several new promising concepts and formulations have emerged in recent …
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€24.91
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Committee on Alternatives and Strategies for Future Hydrogen Production and Use: Hydrogen Economy
The announcement of a hydrogen fuel initiative in the Presidents 2003 State of the Union speech substantially increased interest in the potential for hydrogen to play a major role in the nations …
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€40.67
Board on Army Science and Technology & Committee on Army Science and Technology for Homeland Defense — C4ISR: Army Science and Technology for Homeland Security
Shortly after the events of September 11, 2001, the U.S. Army asked the National Research Council (NRC) for a series of reports on how science and technology could assist the Army meet its Homeland …
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€45.99
Committee to Review the U.S. Climate Change Science Program Strategic Plan & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Implementing Climate and Global Change Research
The report reviews a draft strategic plan from the U.S. Climate Change Science Program, a program formed in 2002 to coordinate and direct U.S. efforts in climate change and global change research. …
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€34.40
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee for the Review of NASA’s Pioneering Revolutionary Technology (PRT) Program: Review of NASA’s Aerospace Technology Enterprise
The Committee for the Review of NASA’s Pioneering Revolutionary Technology (PRT) Program and its three supporting panels were charged by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) with …
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€39.92
Air Force Science and Technology Board & Committee on the National Aerospace Initiative: Evaluation of the National Aerospace Initiative
The National Aerospace Initiative (NAI) was conceived as a joint effort between the Department of Defense (DOD) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to sustain the aerospace …
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€44.16
Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment & Committee for Oversight and Assessment of U.S. Department of Energy Project Management: Progress in Improving Project Management at the Department of Energy
In 1997, Congress, in the conference report, H.R. 105-271, to the FY1998 Energy and Water Development Appropriation Bill, directed the NRC to carry out a series of assessments of project management …
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€38.50
Committee on Earth Studies & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Steps to Facilitate Principal-Investigator-Led Earth Science Missions
Principal-investigator (PI) Earth science missions are small, focused science projects involving relatively small spacecraft. The selected PI is responsible for the scientific and programmatic …
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€24.64
Committee on Solar and Space Physics & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Exploration of the Outer Heliosphere and the Local Interstellar Medium
This report is the summary of a workshop held in May 2003 by the Space Studies Board’s Committee on Solar and Space Physics to synthesize understanding of the physics of the outer heliosphere and the …
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€24.68
Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Mathematical Sciences’ Role in Homeland Security
Mathematical sciences play a key role in many important areas of Homeland Security including data mining and image analysis and voice recognition for intelligence analysis, encryption and decryption …
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€124.63
Committee on Solar and Space Physics & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Plasma Physics of the Local Cosmos
Solar and space physics is the study of solar system phenomena that occur in the plasma state. Examples include sunspots, the solar wind, planetary magnetospheres, radiation belts, and the aurora. …
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€24.76
Board on Manufacturing and Engineering Design & Committee on New Directions in Manufacturing: New Directions in Manufacturing
The processes and techniques of manufacturing have changed substantially over the decades and that evolution continues today. In order to examine the potential impacts of these changes, the …
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€42.54
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate: Utilization of Operational Environmental Satellite Data
The system of satellites in place to provide environmental data-data to monitor events such as forest fires and floods; to make weather predictions; and to assess crops, transportation impacts, …
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€49.07
Alan Shaw & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: University Research Centers of Excellence for Homeland Security
In establishing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Administration and Congress determined that science and technology should play a key role in the nations efforts to counter terrorism. …
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€17.18
Committee on Criteria for the Management of Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Maintaining High Scientific Quality at Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories
In recent years, there has been concern about security and operations management at Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories (LANL and LLNL). As a result, Congress directed the …
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€24.70
Committee on Assessment of Security Technologies for Transportation & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Opportunities to Improve Airport Passenger Screening with Mass Spectrometry
Protection of the traveling public from terrorist threats involving explosives is a major goal of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). For 20 years, the TSA (and the Federal Aviation …
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€24.63
Board on Manufacturing and Engineering Design & Committee on Bridging Design and Manufacturing: Retooling Manufacturing
As the Department of Defense continues development of the future warrior system, the difficulty of moving rapidly from design to manufacturing for complex technologies is becoming a major concern. In …
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€36.63
Board on Army Science and Technology & Committee on Soldier Power: Meeting the Energy Needs of Future Warriors
The central characteristic of the evolution of the combat soldier in recent years is an increasingly sophisticated array of sensing, communications, and related electronics for use in battlefield …
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€38.91
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on the Education and Utilization of the Engineer: Engineering Education and Practice in the United States
Both sides of the engineering equation–education and utilization–are studied in this unique volume. A brief discussion of the development of engineering in the United States is followed by an …
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€47.86
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on District Heating and Cooling: District Heating and Cooling in the United States
Used historically in urban areas but now mainly in institutions, district heating and cooling systems–efficient centralized energy systems that may use energy sources other than petroleum–have …
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€55.24
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Cross-Disciplinary Engineering Research Committee: New Engineering Research Centers
Within the past decade, six Engineering Research Centers opened on university campuses across the United States. This book reviews the lessons learned as the centers got under way, and examines the …
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€70.80
Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate & Committee on Global Change: Ozone Depletion, Greenhouse Gases, and Climate Change
Ozone depletion in the stratosphere and increases in greenhouse gases in the troposphere are both subjects of growing concern–even alarm–among scientists, policymakers, and the public. At the same …
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€47.19
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Ground Failure Hazards Mitigation Research: Snow Avalanche Hazards and Mitigation in the United States
The present mortality as a result of snow avalanches exceeds the average mortality caused by earthquakes as well as all other forms of slope failure combined. Snow avalanches can range from small …
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€17.21
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Nuclear Engineering Education: U.S. Nuclear Engineering Education
Given current downward trends in graduate and undergraduate enrollment in the nuclear engineering curriculum, there is a fundamental concern that there will not be enough nuclear engineering …
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€22.40
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Assessing Passenger Submersible Safety: Safety of Tourist Submersibles
Over the past four years more than three-quarters of a million tourists have viewed the colorful coral-lined seas off the U.S. coasts while sitting comfortably in submersibles designed to carry over …
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€22.45
Committee on Geodesy & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Geodesy in the Year 2000
Geodesy has undergone technological and theoretical changes of immense proportions since the launching of Sputnik. The accuracy of current satellite geodetic data has approached the centimeter level …
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€23.37
Committee on Optical Science and Engineering & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Harnessing Light
Optical science and engineering affect almost every aspect of our lives. Millions of miles of optical fiber carry voice and data signals around the world. Lasers are used in surgery of the retina, …
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€51.21
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee to Perform a Technology Assessment Focused on Logistics Support Requirements for Future Army Combat Systems: Reducing the Logistics Burden for the Army After Next
This study assesses the potential of new technology to reduce logistics support requirements for future Army combat systems. It describes and recommends areas of research and technology development …
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€74.65
Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology & Committee on Toxicology: Acute Exposure Guideline Levels for Selected Airborne Chemicals
This report reviews documents on acute exposure guideline levels (AEGLs) for nerve agents GA (tabun), GB (sarin), GD (soman), GD, and VX, sulfur mustard, diborane, and methyl isocyanate. The …
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€149.90
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Stepping-Stones to the Future of Space Exploration
NASAs Human Exploration and Development of Space (HEDS) program within the Office of Space Flight has proposed a new framework for space technology and systems development"Advanced Systems, …
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€24.80
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Committee on Setting Priorities for NSF-Sponsored Large Research Facility Projects: Setting Priorities for Large Research Facility Projects Supported by the National Science Foundation
In 1995, the National Science Foundation (NSF) created a special account to fund large (several tens of millions of dollars) research facilities. Over the years, these facilities have come to …
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€58.38
Board on Telecommunications and Computer Applications & Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems: Managing Microcomputers in Large Organizations
The information age is taking its toll on traditional office management techniques. According to Infosystems, "If you’re cautious of `experts’ who claim to have all the answers, then you’ll find …
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€50.48
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Overview
An Overview: Physics Through the 1990’s is part of an eight-volume research assessment of the major fields of physics that reviews the developments that have taken place and highlights research …
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€17.33
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Dredging Coastal Ports
Are the nation’s ports adequate for our present and future needs? This volume points out that no significant new deep-water construction has occurred for a decade, and provides the information and …
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€67.26
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Electricity in Economic Growth: Electricity in Economic Growth
This volume surveys the complex relationships between economic activity and electricity use, showing how trends in the growth of electricity demand may be affected by changes in the economy, and …
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€23.37
Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Mono Basin Ecosystem
Mono Basin is a closed hydrologic basin spanning the border between California and Nevada. Los Angeles has been diverting streams since 1941 that normally would flow into Mono Lake. It has been …
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€86.76
Committee on Global Change & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Global Change and Our Common Future
Global Change and Our Common Future includes 22 edited presentations from the Forum on Global Change and Our Common Future. The Forum, sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences, Smithsonian …
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€27.68
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Production Technologies for Liquid Transportation Fuels: Fuels to Drive Our Future
The American love affair with the automobile is powered by gasoline and diesel fuel, both produced from petroleum. But experts are turning more of their attention to alternative sources of liquid …
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€75.15
Continental Margins Committee & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Margins
Approximately 70 percent of the world’s population is concentrated in the coastal borderlands, which geologists recognize to be the present continental margins. This new book on these continental …
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€34.43
Committee on Global Change & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Research Strategies for the U.S. Global Change Research Program
This book recommends research priorities and scientific approaches for global change research. It addresses the scientific approaches for documenting global change, developing integrated earth system …
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€32.10
Board on Manufacturing and Engineering Design & Committee on Capturing the Full Power of Biomaterials for Military Medical Needs: Capturing the Full Power of Biomaterials for Military Medicine
Recent results in biomaterials R&D suggest that there are exceptional opportunities for these emerging materials in military medicine. To facilitate this possibility, the National Research Council …
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€24.89
Committee on the Fundamentals of Computer Science: Challenges and Opportunities & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Computer Science
Computer Science: Reflections on the Field, Reflections from the Field provides a concise characterization of key ideas that lie at the core of computer science (CS) research. The book offers a …
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€40.73
Board on Manufacturing and Engineering Design & Committee on National Laboratories and Universities: National Laboratories and Universities
This volume is a report of a workshop held in 2003 to address best practices and remaining challenges with respect to national laboratory-university …
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€24.86
Board on Manufacturing and Engineering Design & Committee on Accelerating Technology Transition: Accelerating Technology Transition
Accelerating the transition of new technologies into systems and products will be crucial to the Department of Defenses development of a lighter, more flexible fighting force. Current long transition …
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€29.19
Committee on the Assessment of the Role of Solar and Space Physics in NASA’s Space Exploration Initiative & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Solar and Space Physics and Its Role in Space Exploration
In February 2004, the President announced a new goal for NASA; to use humans and robots together to explore the Moon, Mars, and beyond. In response to this initiative, NASA has adopted new …
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€24.50
Committee on Certifiably Dependable Software Systems & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Summary of a Workshop on Software Certification and Dependability
Certification of critical software systems (e.g., for safety and security) is important to help ensure their dependability. Today, certification relies as much on evaluation of the software …
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€24.63
Committee on Department of Defense Basic Research & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Assessment of Department of Defense Basic Research
The Department of Defense (DOD) supports basic research to advance fundamental knowledge in fields important to national defense. Over the past six years, however, several groups have raised concern …
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€24.75
Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment & Committee on the Renewal of Department of Energy Infrastructure: Intelligent Sustainment and Renewal of Department of Energy Facilities and Infrastructure
The United States Department of Energy’s (DOE) facilities stewardship is extremely important to the department’s ability to achieve its mission of protecting national, energy, and economic security …
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€36.22
Board on Army Science and Technology & Committee to Assess Designs for Pueblo and Blue Grass Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plants: Interim Design Assessment for the Pueblo Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plant
In 1996, Congress enacted directing the Department of Defense to assess and demonstrate technology alternatives to incineration for destruction of the chemical weapons stored at Pueblo Chemical and …
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€24.77
Committee on the Future of Supercomputing & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Getting Up to Speed
Supercomputers play a significant and growing role in a variety of areas important to the nation. They are used to address challenging science and technology problems. In recent years, however, …
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€40.71
Committee on Naval Analytical Capabilities and Improving Capabilities-Based Planning & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Naval Analytical Capabilities
Naval Analytical Capabilities assesses current Department of Defense initiatives and the Department of the Navy’s progress in transitioning from a requirements-based to a capabilities-based …
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€32.44
Committee on Sea Basing: Ensuring Joint Force Access from the Sea & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Sea Basing
The availability of land bases from which to launch and maintain military, diplomatic, and humanitarian relief operations is becoming increasingly uncertain because of physical or political …
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€33.17
Committee on Performance Indicators for Federal Real Property Asset Management & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Key Performance Indicators for Federal Facilities Portfolios
More than 30 federal departments and agencies with a wide range of missions and programs manage large inventories of facilities, also called portfolios. These portfolios range in size from a few …
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€24.65
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee on the Assessment of Options for Extending the Life of the Hubble Space Telescope: Assessment of Options for Extending the Life of the Hubble Space Telescope
The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has operated continuously since 1990. During that time, four space shuttle-based service missions were launched, three of which added major observational …
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€43.59
Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment & Committee for Oversight and Assessment of U.S. Department of Energy Project Management: Owner’s Role in Project Risk Management
Effective risk management is essential for the success of large projects built and operated by the Department of Energy (DOE), particularly for the one-of-a-kind projects that characterize much of …
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€32.39
Committee on Radio Frequency Identification Technologies & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Radio Frequency Identification Technologies
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology is gaining rapid acceptance as a means to track a wide array of manufactured objects. Currently, RFID technologies have shown promise in …
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€24.68
Board on Army Science and Technology & Committee on Review and Assessment of the Army Non-Stockpile Chemical Materiel Demilitarization Program: Workplace Monitoring: Impact of Revised Airborne Exposure Limits on Non-Stockpile Chemical Materiel Program Act
The U.S. Army’s Non-Stockpile Chemical Materiel program is responsible for dismantling former chemical agent production facilities and destroying recovered chemical materiel. In response to …
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€33.60
Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Implementing Health-Protective Features and Practices in Buildings
Indoor environmental quality (IEQ) is influenced by building design; heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning systems; and construction materials, as well as by building operations, maintenance, …
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€24.80
Board on Manufacturing and Engineering Design & Committee on Materials and Manufacturing Processes for Advanced Sensors: Sensor Systems for Biological Agent Attacks
Over the last ten years, there has been growing concern about potential biological attacks on the nations population and its military facilities. It is now possible to detect such attacks quickly …
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€57.54
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Committee on Opportunities in High Magnetic Field Science: Opportunities in High Magnetic Field Science
High-field magnets"those that operate at the limits of the mechanical and/or electromagnetic properties of their structural materials"are used as research tools in a variety of scientific …
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€44.75
Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications & Committee on Mathematical Sciences Research for DOE’s Computational Biology: Mathematics and 21st Century Biology
The exponentially increasing amounts of biological data along with comparable advances in computing power are making possible the construction of quantitative, predictive biological systems models. …
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€40.59
Committee on the Scientific Context for Space Exploration & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Science in NASA’s Vision for Space Exploration
In January 2004, President Bush announced a new space policy directed at human and robotic exploration of space. The National Academies released a report at the same time that independently addressed …
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€17.36
Committee on C4ISR for Future Naval Strike Groups & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: C4ISR for Future Naval Strike Groups
The Navy has put forth a new construct for its strike forces that enables more effective forward deterrence and rapid response. A key aspect of this construct is the need for flexible, adaptive …
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€71.41
Committee on Globalization of Materials Research and Development & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Globalization of Materials R&D
Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) R&D is spreading globally at an accelerating rate. As a result, the relative U.S. position in a number of MSE subfields is in a state of flux. To understand …
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€44.08
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Committee on Prospective Benefits of DOE’s Energy Efficiency and Fossil Energy R&D Programs: Prospective Evaluation of Applied Energy Research and Development at DOE (Phase One)
In 2001, the National Research Council (NRC) completed a congressionally mandated assessment of the benefits and costs of DOEs fossil energy and energy efficiency R&D programs, Energy Research at …
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€47.08
Committee on Defense Intelligence Agency Technology Forecasts and Reviews & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Avoiding Surprise in an Era of Global Technology Advances
The global spread of science and technology expertise and the growing commercial access to advanced technologies with possible military application are creating potentially serious threats to the …
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€40.01
Committee on Frontiers at the Interface of Computing and Biology & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Catalyzing Inquiry at the Interface of Computing and Biology
Advances in computer science and technology and in biology over the last several years have opened up the possibility for computing to help answer fundamental questions in biology and for biology to …
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€79.36
Committee on High-Performance Structural Fibers for Advanced Polymer Matrix Composites & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: High-Performance Structural Fibers for Advanced Polymer Matrix Composites
Military use of advanced polymer matrix composites (PMC)"consisting of a resin matrix reinforced by high-performance carbon or organic fibers"while extensive, accounts for less that 10 …
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€24.72
Committee on Internet Navigation and the Domain Name System: Technical Alternatives and Policy Implications & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Signposts in Cyberspace
The Domain Name System (DNS) enables user-friendly alphanumeric names"domain names"to be assigned to Internet sites. Many of these names have gained economic, social, and political value, …
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€59.15
Board on Manufacturing and Engineering Design & Committee for Review of the Department of Energy’s Industrial Technologies Program: Decreasing Energy Intensity in Manufacturing
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has supported the Industrial Technologies Program (ITP) for more than a decade. This program supports R&D into energy efficiency technologies designed to decrease …
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€24.50
Committee on the Effects of Nuclear Earth-Penetrator and Other Weapons & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Effects of Nuclear Earth-Penetrator and Other Weapons
Underground facilities are used extensively by many nations to conceal and protect strategic military functions and weapons’ stockpiles. Because of their depth and hardened status, however, many of …
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€41.27
Committee on Autonomous Vehicles in Support of Naval Operations & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Autonomous Vehicles in Support of Naval Operations
Autonomous vehicles (AVs) have been used in military operations for more than 60 years, with torpedoes, cruise missiles, satellites, and target drones being early examples.1 They have also been …
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€61.76
Committee on the Navy’s Needs in Space for Providing Future Capabilities & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Navy’s Needs in Space for Providing Future Capabilities
The United States must operate successfully in space to help assure its security and economic well being. The Department of the Navy is a major user of space capabilities, although those capabilities …
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€64.19
Board on Life Sciences & Committee on the Origins and Evolution of Life: Astrophysical Context of Life
In 1997, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) formed the National Astrobiology Institute to coordinate and fund research into the origins, distribution, and fate of life in the …
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€24.80
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Committee on Astronomy and Astrophysics: Atacama Large Millimeter Array
The 1991 NRC decadal survey for astronomy and astrophysics included a project called the Millimeter Array (MMA). This instrument would be an array of millimeter-wavelength telescopes intended to …
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€17.22
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Committee on Smaller Facilities: Midsize Facilities
Most of the instruments now used for materials research are too complex and expensive for individual investigators to own, operate, and maintain them. Consequently, they have become increasingly …
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€56.60
Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment & Committee for Oversight and Assessment of U.S. Department of Energy Project Management: Measuring Performance and Benchmarking Project Management at the Department of Energy
In 1997, Congress, in the conference report, H.R. 105-271, to the FY1998 Energy and Water Development Appropriation Bill, directed the National Research Council (NRC) to carry out a series of …
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€24.91
Committee on Earth Science and Applications from Space: A Community Assessment and Strategy for the Future & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Earth Science and Applications from Space
The Earth is a dynamic planet whose changes and variations affect our communications, energy, health, food, housing, and transportation infrastructure. Understanding these changes requires a range of …
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€30.20
Committee on Durability and Life Prediction of Polymer Matrix Composites in Extreme Environments & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Going to Extremes
Advanced polymer matrix composites (PMC) have many advantages such as light weight and high specific strength that make them useful for many aerospace applications. Enormous uncertainty exists, …
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€24.89
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems: Global Positioning System
The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a satellite-based navigation system that was originally designed for the U.S. military. However, the number of civilian GPS users now exceeds the military …
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€51.23
Committee on the Mathematics and Physics of Emerging Dynamic Biomedical Imaging & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Mathematics and Physics of Emerging Biomedical Imaging
This cross-disciplinary book documents the key research challenges in the mathematical sciences and physics that could enable the economical development of novel biomedical imaging devices. It is …
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€42.75
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Decontamination and Decommissioning of Uranium Enrichment Facilities: Affordable Cleanup?
The Energy Policy Act of 1992 called on the National Academy of Sciences to conduct a study and provide recommendations for reducing the costs of decontaminating and decommissioning (D&D) the …
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€96.48
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Review and Evaluation of Alternative Chemical Disposal Technologies
In 1994 the National Research Council published Recommendations for the Disposal of Chemical Agents and Munitions, which assessed the status of various alternative destruction technologies in …
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€51.66
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Research Council: Post-Cold War Conflict Deterrence
Deterrence as a strategic concept evolved during the Cold War. During that period, deterrence strategy was aimed mainly at preventing aggression against the United States and its close allies by the …
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€56.58
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Aviation Fuels with Improved Fire Safety: Aviation Fuels with Improved Fire Safety
The reduction of the fire hazard of fuel is critical to improving survivability in impact-survivable aircraft accidents. Despite current fire prevention and mitigation approaches, fuel flammability …
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€45.09
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Competitive Status of the U.S. Steel Industry
This volume examines the influences of technology and international trade policies on the troubled U.S. steel industry. Does leadership in technology guarantee competitive advantage in industrial …
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€53.59
Commission on Physical Sciences & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Global Tropospheric Chemistry
In a giant step toward managing today’s pollution problems more effectively, this report lays out a framework to coordinate an interdisciplinary and international investigation of the chemical …
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€29.40
Committee on the Atmospheric Effects of Nuclear Explosions & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Effects on the Atmosphere of a Major Nuclear Exchange
Most of the earth’s population would survive the immediate horrors of a nuclear holocaust, but what long-term climatological changes would affect their ability to secure food and shelter? This …
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€62.61
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Safety Criteria for Dams: Safety of Dams
From earth tectonics and meteorology to risk, responsibility, and the role of government, this comprehensive and detailed book reviews current practices in designing dams to withstand extreme …
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€94.92
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Nuclear Physics
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€75.32
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Research Council: Antarctic Treaty System
The international agreements covering Antarctica are models of cooperation and joined purpose. Convening at the Beardmore South Field Camp, near the Transantarctic Mountains, the Polar Research Board …
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€131.27
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Directions in Engineering Research
Surveying the dynamic field of engineering research, Directions in Engineering Research first presents an overview of the status of engineering research today. It then examines research and needs in …
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€40.39
Committee on Chemical Engineering Frontiers: Research Needs and Opportunities & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Frontiers in Chemical Engineering
In the next 10 to 15 years, chemical engineers have the potential to affect every aspect of American life and promote the scientific and industrial leadership of the United States. Frontiers in …
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€34.57
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Effectiveness of Oil Spill Dispersants: Using Oil Spill Dispersants on the Sea
While major oil spills are rare, oil slicks can have disastrous environmental and economic consequences. This book summarizes research on the use of chemical dispersants: their effectiveness and …
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€104.11
Building Research Board & Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems: International Directory of Building Research Organizations
Construction is a multibillion dollar industry in the United States, yet building research is highly fragmented. This new book is a complete compilation of building research institutions. It contains …
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€34.65
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Planetary Sciences
This book contains the proceedings from a workshop on planetary sciences sponsored by the Academy of Sciences of the USSR and the National Academy of Sciences. The proceedings include papers written …
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€33.94
Board on Natural Disasters & Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems: Hurricane Hugo, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and Charleston, South Carolina, September 17-22, 1989
This volume provides an account of the 1989 Hurricane Hugo for historical purposes, evaluates the physical phenomena involved and the performance of structures and systems, and identifies and …
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€89.00
Board on Manufacturing and Engineering Design & Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems: Competitive Edge
To maintain competitiveness in the emerging global economy, U.S. manufacturing must rise to new standards of product quality, responsiveness to customers, and process flexibility. This volume …
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€29.08
Committee on the Mathematical Sciences in Genome and Protein Structure Research & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Calculating the Secrets of Life
As researchers have pursued biology’s secrets to the molecular level, mathematical and computer sciences have played an increasingly important role–in genome mapping, population genetics, and even …
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€90.04
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Beach Nourishment and Protection
Many coastal communities have built structures at their beaches and added quantities of sand in contoured designs to combat erosion. Are such beach nourishment projects technically and economically …
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€57.39
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Fire- and Smoke-Resistant Materials for Commercial Aircraft Interiors: Improved Fire- and Smoke-Resistant Materials for Commercial Aircraft Interiors
This book describes the Conference on Fire and Smoke-Resistant Materials held at the National Academy of Sciences on November 8-10, 1994. The purpose of this conference was to identify trends in …
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€51.97
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on the Safety of Existing Dams: Safety of Existing Dams
Written by civil engineers, dam safety officials, dam owners, geologists, hydraulic engineers, and risk analysts, this handbook is the first cooperative attempt to provide practical solutions to dam …
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€103.66
Committee on Monitoring and Assessment of Trends in Acid Deposition & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Acid Deposition
How damaging is acid rain? Current opinions differ widely, in part because for every proposed link between acid rain and adverse environmental effects an alternative explanation based on other …
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€40.38
Board on Mathematical Sciences & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Spatial Statistics and Digital Image Analysis
Spatial statistics is one of the most rapidly growing areas of statistics, rife with fascinating research opportunities. Yet many statisticians are unaware of those opportunities, and most students …
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€75.17
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Research Council: Oil in the Sea
This comprehensive volume follows up and expands on an earlier National Academy of Sciences book. It is the result of an intensive multidisciplinary effort to assess the problems relating to …
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€167.18
Commission on Physical Sciences & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Earth’s Electrical Environment
This latest addition to the Studies in Geophysics series explores in scientific detail the phenomenon of lightning, cloud, and thunderstorm electricity, and global and regional electrical processes. …
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€84.51
Committee on Science and Technology for Countering Terrorism & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Making the Nation Safer
Vulnerabilities abound in U.S. society. The openness and efficiency of our key infrastructures " transportation, information and telecommunications systems, health systems, the electric power …
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€53.57
Board on Army Science and Technology & Committee on Review and Evaluation of the Army Chemical Stockpile Disposal Program: Modified Baseline Incineration Process for Mustard Projectiles at Pueblo Chemical Depot
The United States has maintained a stockpile of chemical warfare agents and munitions since World War I. The Army leadership has sought outside, unbiased advice on how best to dispose of the …
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€24.88
Committee on Strengthening the Linkages Between the Sciences and the Mathematical Sciences & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Strengthening the Linkages Between the Sciences and the Mathematical Sciences
Over three hundred years ago, Galileo is reported to have said, "The laws of nature are written in the language of mathematics." Often mathematics and science go hand in hand, with one …
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€39.69
Committee on Earth Studies & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Issues in the Integration of Research and Operational Satellite Systems for Climate Research
This is the second of two Space Studies Board reports that address the complex issue of incorporating the needs of climate research into the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental …
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€24.63
Committee of Achieving Compatibility in IT-Based Educational Materials & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Information Technology (IT)-Based Educational Materials
In the last half-century, we have witnessed the birth and development of a new era: the information age. Information Technology (IT), the primary vehicle of the information age, has transformed the …
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€24.71
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & Mathematics, and Applications Commission on Physical Sciences: Biosafety in the Laboratory
Biosafety in the Laboratory is a concise set of practical guidelines for handling and disposing of biohazardous material. The consensus of top experts in laboratory safety, this volume provides the …
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€75.04
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Contaminated Marine Sediments: Contaminated Marine Sediments
The pervasive, widespread problem of contaminated marine sediments is an environmental issue of national importance, arising from decades of intentionally and unintentionally using coastal waters for …
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€144.81
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Tanker Spills
Can we design an oil tanker that meets our complex demands for environmental protection, economical operation, and crew safety? This volume evaluates and ranks a wide variety of tank ship hull …
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€46.69
Astronomy and Astrophysics Survey Committee & Board on Physics and Astronomy: Working Papers
This volume contains working papers on astronomy and astrophysics prepared by 15 non-National Research Council panels in areas ranging from radio astronomy to the status of the …
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€40.73
Committee on Mathematical Challenges from Computational Chemistry & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Mathematical Challenges from Theoretical/Computational Chemistry
Computational methods are rapidly becoming major tools of theoretical, pharmaceutical, materials, and biological chemists. Accordingly, the mathematical models and numerical analysis that underlie …
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€29.31
Board on Mathematical Sciences & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Large-Scale Structures in Acoustics and Electromagnetics
This book focuses on computational methods to determine the dynamics of large-scale electromagnetic, acoustic, and mechanical systems, including those with many substructures and characterized by an …
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€33.75
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Commercial Aviation Security: Airline Passenger Security Screening
This book addresses new technologies being considered by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for screening airport passengers for concealed weapons and explosives. The FAA is supporting the …
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€35.95
Computer Science and Telecommunications Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Unpredictable Certainty
This book contains a key component of the NII 2000 project of the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, a set of white papers that contributed to and complements the project’s final report, …
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€135.86
Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment & Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems: Research Agenda for Test Methods and Models to Simulate the Accelerated Aging of Infrastructure Materials
In the next several decades, a significant percentage of the country’s transportation, communications, environmental, and power system infrastructures, as well as public buildings and facilities, …
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€43.77
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Minding the Helm
Large ships transporting hazardous cargoes, notorious marine accidents, and damage to marine ecosystems from tanker spills have heightened public concern for the safe navigation of ships.This new …
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€147.79
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Synthetic Hierarchical Structures: Hierarchical Structures in Biology as a Guide for New Materials Technology
Hierarchical structures are those assemblages of molecular units or their aggregates embedded within other particles or aggregates that may, in turn, be part of even larger units of increasing levels …
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€46.69
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Nonconventional Concrete Technologies for Renewal of the Highway Infrastructure: Nonconventional Concrete Technologies
Nonconventional Concrete Technologies: Renewal of the Highway Infrastructure identifies research and development opportunities in innovative, nonconventional materials and processes that have the …
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€48.61
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Fishing Vessel Safety: Fishing Vessel Safety
In response to a continuing high loss of commercial fishing vessels and crews, the U.S. Congress has mandated development of new safety requirements for the industry. This volume provides a blueprint …
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€92.07
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Review and Evaluation of the Army Chemical Stockpile Disposal Program: Using Supercritical Water Oxidation to Treat Hydrolysate from VX Neutralization
The U.S. Army has asked the National Research Council (NRC) to evaluate whether supercritical water oxidation (SCWO) is an effective and appropriate means of eliminating hazardous or toxic organic …
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€40.67
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Committee on Astronomy and Astrophysics: Federal Funding of Astronomical Research
The Committee on Astronomy and Astrophysics (CAA), at its meeting on September 8, 1997, was briefed on the legislative report accompanying the bill to authorize appropriations for fiscal years 1998 …
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€24.88
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Next-Generation Currency Design: Counterfeit Deterrent Features for the Next-Generation Currency Design
Traditionally, counterfeit deterrent features restricted counterfeiting to only the dedicated craftsman. With the advent of highly sophisticated reprographic systems, this is no longer true. Redesign …
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€49.41
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Research Council: Future Biotechnology Research on the International Space Station
Under current NASA plans, investigations in the area of biotechnology will be a significant component of the life sciences research to be conducted on the International Space Station (ISS). They …
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€40.72
Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment & Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems: Blast Mitigation for Structures
The Blast Mitigation for Structures Program (BMSP) is a research and development activity conducted by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) to improve the performance of buildings that are …
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€40.42
Building Research Advisory Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Expansion Joints in Buildings
Many factors affect the amount of temperature-induced movement that occurs in a building and the extent to which this movement can occur before serious damage develops or extensive maintenance is …
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€40.32
Committee on Irrigation-Induced Water Quality Problems & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Irrigation-Induced Water Quality Problems
When waterfowl began to die from selenium poisoning at Kesterson National Wildlife Refuge in California’s San Joaquin Valley, considerable alarm arose among environmental and agricultural …
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€42.49
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems: Space Station Engineering Design Issues
The Space Station Freedom program is the next major U.S. manned space initiative. It has as its objective the establishment of a permanently manned facility in low earth orbit. This book summarizes …
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€36.24
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Natural Disasters: Hurricane Elena, Gulf Coast
Hurricane Elena, following an erratic and difficult-to-forecast course along an unusually large section of the Gulf Coast, posed special problems from New Orleans, Louisiana, to Sarasota, Florida, …
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€35.82
Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment & Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems: Partnership for Advancing Technology in Housing
In response to HUD’s request, the NRC assembled a panel of experts, the Committee for Oversight and Assessment of the Partnership for Advancing Technology in Housing, under the auspices of the Board …
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€40.73
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Materials Advisory Board: Materials in the New Millennium
This book details the forum that was held by the National Materials Advisory Board at the National Academy of Sciences. The purpose of this forum was to bring the importance of materials to the …
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€24.60
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Earthquake Engineering: Economic Consequences of a Catastrophic Earthquake
This book presents the proceedings of an August 1990 forum held at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C. Topics covered include the current and potential roles of the private sector …
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€63.40
Board on Manufacturing and Engineering Design & Committee on Modeling and Simulation Enhancements for 21st Century Manufacturing and Acquisition: Modeling and Simulation in Manufacturing and Defense Acquisition
The Committee on Modeling and Simulation Enhancements for 21st Century Manufacturing and Acquisition was formed by the NRC in response to a request from the Defense Modeling and Simulation Office …
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€68.70
Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment & Committee for Review of the Project Management Practices Employed on the Boston Central Artery: Completing the "Big Dig"
Boston’s Central Artery/Tunnel Project, a 7.8 mile system of bridges and underground highways and ramps, is the most expensive public works project ever undertaken in the United States. The original …
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€40.67
Committee on Polymer Science and Engineering & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Polymer Science and Engineering
Polymers are used in everything from nylon stockings to commercial aircraft to artificial heart valves, and they have a key role in addressing international competitiveness and other national …
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€62.17
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Science
This book responds to the call for a clear description of the role of basic science in meeting societal needs. It gives examples of societal benefits of atomic, molecular, and optical (AMO) science …
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€70.91
Commission on Physical Sciences & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Disposal of Industrial and Domestic Wastes
Can decision makers meaningfully compare land versus sea options for waste disposal? Using available scientific data on waste behavior and new studies from East and West Coast dump sites, this book …
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€67.17
Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology & Committee to Survey Opportunities in the Chemical Sciences: Opportunities in Chemistry
Opportunities in Chemistry is based on the contributions of hundreds of American chemists in academia and industry and should be taken as the best available consensus of the chemical community …
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€40.32
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Crew Size and Maritime Safety
U.S. oceangoing vessels have half the crew size of 30 years ago, thanks to automation and mechanization in the shipping industry. But are reductions in crew size increasing the risk of vessel …
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€61.06
Committee on Risk Perception and Communication & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Improving Risk Communication
Technological risk and the process of explaining risks to the public have become major public issues. The mention of Bhopal or Love Canal can provoke emotional arguments–not only about the hazards …
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€104.04
Committee on Ground Water Modeling Assessment & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Ground Water Models
The discovery of toxic pollution at Love Canal brought ground water contamination to the forefront of public attention. Since then, ground water science and modeling have become increasingly …
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€97.25
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Advanced Fibers for High-Temperature Ceramic Composites: Ceramic Fibers and Coatings
High-temperature ceramic fibers are the key components of ceramic matrix composites (CMCs). Ceramic fiber properties (strength, temperature and creep resistance, for example)-along with the debonding …
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€45.68
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Photonics
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€17.16
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Opportunities to Improve Marine Observations and Forecasting: Opportunities to Improve Marine Forecasting
Commerce and the general public–especially those living in increasingly crowded, highly developed low-lying coastal communities–rely heavily on accurate forecasts of marine conditions and weather …
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€17.22
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Managing Troubled Waters
Reports of closed beaches, restricted shellfish beds, oil spills, and ailing fisheries are some of the recent evidence that our marine environment is in trouble. More than $133 million is spent on …
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€47.50
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Coastal Engineering Measurement Systems: Measuring and Understanding Coastal Processes
Much of the U.S. coastline is rapidly changing–mostly eroding. That fact places increasing pressure on the planners and managers responsible for coastal development and protection, and could have a …
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€17.25
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Coastal Erosion Zone Management: Managing Coastal Erosion
More and more of the nation’s vast coastlines are being filled with homes and vacation resorts. The result is an increasing number of structures built on erosion-prone shores–with many of these …
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€65.53
Committee to Provide Interim Oversight of the DOE Nuclear Weapons Complex & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Nuclear Weapons Complex
In this volume, the National Research Council examines problems arising throughout government-owned, contractor-operated facilities in the United States engaged in activities to build nuclear …
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€22.64
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Materials with Submicron-Sized Microstructures: Research Opportunities for Materials with Ultrafine Microstructures
Materials with nanoscale structure (i.e. a structure of less than 100 nanometers in size) represent a new and exciting field of research. These materials can be produced in many ways, possess a …
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€22.44
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Competitiveness of the U.S. Minerals and Metals Industry: Competitiveness of the U.S. Minerals and Metals Industry
This book includes an assessment of the global minerals and metals industry; a review of technologies in use for exploration, mining, minerals processing, and metals extraction; and a look at …
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€26.95
Board on Telecommunications and Computer Applications & Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems: Office Workstations in the Home
Telecommuting–people working at home with computers connected to offices many miles away–could reshape the way America works. What are the effects of this phenomenon on workers, managers, and labor …
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€23.13
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Natural Disasters: Saragosa, Texas, Tornado May 22, 1987
The small community of Saragosa, Texas, was devastated by a violent multiple-vortex tornado on Friday, May 22, 1987. Despite the extensive warning dissemination efforts, which are documented in this …
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€22.40
Board on Manufacturing and Engineering Design & Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems: Improving Engineering Design
Effective design and manufacturing, both of which are necessary to produce high-quality products, are closely related. However, effective design is a prerequisite for effective manufacturing. This …
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€22.65
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Natural Disasters: Eruption of Nevado Del Ruiz Volcano Colombia, South America, November 13, 1985
On November 13, 1985, catastrophic mudflows swept down the slopes of the erupting Nevado del Ruiz volcano, destroying structures in their paths. Various estimates of deaths ranged as high as 24, 000 …
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€27.14
Board on Manufacturing and Engineering Design & Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems: Research Directions in Computational Mechanics
Computational mechanics is a scientific discipline that marries physics, computers, and mathematics to emulate natural physical phenomena. It is a technology that allows scientists to study and …
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€22.40
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems: From Earth to Orbit
If the United States hopes to continue as a leader in space, it must invest now in better earth-to-orbit technology by replacing obsolete launch facilities while also developing a new class of more …
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€22.40
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Natural Disasters: Wind and the Built Environment
This book assesses wind engineering research studies in the past two decades to identify an interdisciplinary research agenda and delineate an action plan for evaluation of critical wind engineering …
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€49.80
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Commercialization of New Materials for a Global Economy
Materials are important in the pursuit of virtually every human endeavor. Advances in materials are applied not only in advanced technological systems such as spacecraft, jet engines, computers, and …
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€29.20
A Workshop Prepared by the Steering Committee on Human Resources in Computer Science and Technology & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Computing Professionals
Surprisingly little is known about the people responsible for advancing the science, technology, and application of computing systems, despite their critical roles in the U.S. economy. As a group, …
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€22.40
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on New TechnologyInnovation in Building: Role of Public Agencies in Fostering New Technology and Innovation in Building
This book explores innovation in the U.S. construction-related industries (i.e., design services, construction, building materials and products manufacture, and facilities operation and maintenance) …
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€32.10
Board on Manufacturing and Engineering Design & Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems: Breaking the Mold
Given the dramatic changes in the environment for national defense, concurrent with rapid improvements in commercial manufacturing capabilities, the Department of Defense (DOD) requires a new …
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€27.68
Building Research Board & Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems: Fourth Dimension in Building
Public facilities are valuable assets that can provide decades of high quality of service if they are effectively utilized. Despite effective planning, design, and management, sometimes users or …
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€32.32
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Materials for the 21st Century: Materials Research Agenda for the Automobile and Aircraft Industries
This volume presents a materials research agenda for the commercial aircraft and automobile industries for the next two decades. Two case studies are used as a basis for discussion: the …
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€29.15
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Review and Evaluation of the Army Chemical Stockpile Disposal Program: Recommendations for the Disposal of Chemical Agents and Munitions
The U.S. Army’s chemical stockpile is aging and gradually deteriorating. Its elimination has public, political, and environmental ramifications. The U.S. Department of Defense has designated the …
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€39.84
Committee on Institutional Considerations in Reducing the Generation of Hazardous Industrial Wastes & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Reducing Hazardous Waste Generation
This is the first thorough exploration of how industry, government, and the public can use available nontechnical means to reduce significantly the amount of hazardous waste entering the environment. …
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€12.07
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee for an Infrastructure Technology Research Agenda: Toward Infrastructure Improvement
This book advises the federal government on a national infrastructure research agenda. It takes the position that the traditional disciplinary and institutional divisions among infrastructure modes …
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€34.30
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Safety in the Underground Construction and Operation of the Exploratory Studies Facility at Yucca Mountain
Yucca Mountain, located on the Nevada Test Site, is being considered as a potential repository site for spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste. To determine the suitability of Yucca …
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€39.57
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Research Council: Database Needs for Modeling and Simulation of Plasma Processing
In spite of its high cost and technical importance, plasma equipment is still largely designed empirically, with little help from computer simulation. Plasma process control is rudimentary. …
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€40.59
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems: Materials Science and Engineering for the 1990s
Materials science and engineering (MSE) contributes to our everyday lives by making possible technologies ranging from the automobiles we drive to the lasers our physicians use. Materials Science and …
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€95.79
Computer Science and Telecommunications Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Computers at Risk
Computers at Risk presents a comprehensive agenda for developing nationwide policies and practices for computer security. Specific recommendations are provided for industry and for government …
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€95.07
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Fuel Economy of Automobiles and Light Trucks: Automotive Fuel Economy
This volume presents realistic estimates for the level of fuel economy that is achievable in the next decade for cars and light trucks made in the United States and Canada.A source of objective and …
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€87.19
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Commercial Aviation Security: Detection of Explosives for Commercial Aviation Security
This book advises the Federal Aeronautics Administration (FAA) on the detection of small, concealed explosives that a terrorist could plant surreptitiously on a commercial airplane. The book …
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€49.33
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Plasma Science
Plasma science is the study of ionized states of matter. This book discusses the field’s potential contributions to society and recommends actions that would optimize those contributions. It includes …
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€70.93
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Coatings for High-Temperature Structural Materials: Coatings for High-Temperature Structural Materials
This book assesses the state of the art of coatings materials and processes for gas-turbine blades and vanes, determines potential applications of coatings in high-temperature environments, …
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€44.73
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Fire and Smoke Resistant Materials for Commercial Aircraft Interiors: Fire- and Smoke-Resistant Interior Materials for Commercial Transport Aircraft
The two principal objectives of this book were (1) to identify promising materials technologies, design issues (both overall and for individual components), and fire performance parameters (both full …
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€45.19
Computer Science and Telecommunications Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Computing and Communications in the Extreme
This book synthesizes the findings of three workshops on research issues in high-performance computing and communications (HPCC). It focuses on the role that computing and communications can play in …
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€57.49
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Technical Assessment of the Man-in-Simulant Test Program
The cornerstone of chemical and biological defense strategy is protection (i.e., insulating personnel from chemical and biological agents using individual clothing ensembles and respirators, as well …
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€40.67
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Preservation of Historical Records: Preservation of Historical Records
With discussion on how paper conservation procedures work, how they are put to use, and how deterioration may be prevented, this comprehensive volume examines how vast quantities of documentation can …
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€40.35
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Electrochemical aspects of Energy Conservation and Production: New Horizons in Electrochemical Science and Technology
Modern technology depends heavily on advances in the electrochemical field, but this field may not be receiving the research attention and funding it needs. This new book addresses this issue. It …
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€20.90
Building Research Board & Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems: Building for Tomorrow
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€17.37
Committee on Solar Physics & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Field of Solar Physics
Exciting new observational and theoretical advances lead today’s solar physicists to challenge many of the predictions of even recent models. This volume summarizes the major questions at the …
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€17.21
Committee on Onshore Oil and Gas Leasing & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Land Use Planning and Oil and Gas Leasing on Onshore Federal Lands
This book reviews the consideration of oil and gas leasing in the land use planning processes of the Bureau of Land Management and Forest Service. This volume was required by the Federal Onshore Oil …
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€29.17
Board on Earth Sciences and Resources & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: North American Continent-Ocean Transects Program
This book discusses the results of the transects program, which involves compilations of maps and cross sections showing geological, geophysical, and geochemical data and interpretations along 23 …
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€39.25
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Alternatives for Inspection of Outer Continental ShelfOperations: Alternatives for Inspecting Outer Continental Shelf Operations
Aggressive, effective safety inspection programs are key elements to ensuring that oil- and gas-producing platform operations on the outer continental shelf are conducted in a safe and …
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€17.33
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on High Performance Synthetic Fibers for Composites: High Performance Synthetic Fibers for Composites
High performance synthetic fibers are key components of composite materials–a class of materials vital for U.S. military technology and for the civilian economy. This book addresses the major …
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€22.64
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Natural Disasters: New Year’s Eve Flood on Oahu, Hawaii
The flood that greeted the new year in 1988 brought home the uncomfortable realization that many suburban areas of eastern Oahu are at risk from sudden and, in some cases, unpredictable flooding. …
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€22.63
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Assessment of Research Needs for Wind Turbine Rotor Materials Technology: Assessment of Research Needs for Wind Turbine Rotor Materials Technology
Wind-driven power systems represent a renewable energy technology. Arrays of interconnected wind turbines can convert power carried by the wind into electricity. This book defines a research and …
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€34.44
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Setting Federal Construction Standards to Control Building Life-Cycle Costs: Pay Now or Pay Later
Buildings and other public facilities can have very long and productive service lives, providing efficient shelter and serving a wide range of activities. To do so, however, these facilities must be …
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€24.66
Board on Mathematical Sciences & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Mathematical Sciences, Technology, and Economic Competitiveness
This book describes the contributions of mathematics to the nation’s advanced technology and to economic competitiveness. Examples from five industries–aircraft, petroleum, automotive, …
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€25.46
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Enabling Technologies for Unified Life-Cycle Engineering of Structural Components: Enabling Technologies for Unified Life-Cycle Engineering of Structural Components
Unified life-cycle engineering (ULCE), or concurrent engineering, is a design engineering environment in which computer-aided design technology is used to assess and improve the quality of a …
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€22.54
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Inspection for Quality Control on Federal Construction Projects: Inspection and Other Strategies for Assuring Quality in Government Construction
This book reports on the costs, effectiveness, and risks associated with agency and private sector inspection practices. It provides advice to senior and mid-level agency managers on the relative …
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€36.19
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Potential Applications of Concentrated Solar Photons: Potential Applications of Concentrated Solar Photons
This book reviews current 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 …
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€22.40
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on the Potential Applications of Concentrated Solar Photons: Potential Applications of Concentrated Solar Energy
This book assesses the current state of the field in a number of potential applications and discusses technologies for which concentrated solar energy might be utilized. It contains all the papers …
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€23.25
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Research Council: Catalysis Looks to the Future
The impact of catalysis on the nation’s economy is evidenced by the fact that catalytic technologies generate U.S. sales in excess of $400 billion per year and a net positive balance of trade of $16 …
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€22.28
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Plasma Processing of Materials
Plasma processing of materials is a critical technology to several of the largest manufacturing industries in the world–electronics, aerospace, automotive, steel, biomedical, and toxic waste …
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€35.90
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Research Council: Future of Statistical Software
This book presents guidelines for the development and evaluation of statistical software designed to ensure minimum acceptable statistical functionality as well as ease of interpretation and use. It …
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€22.44
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Beam Technologies: Opportunities in Attaining Fully Integrated Processing Systems: Beam Technologies for Integrated Processing
Beam technologies play an important role in microelectronic component fabrication and offer opportunities for application in other manufacturing schemes. Emerging beam technologies that incorporate …
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€22.54
Board on Manufacturing and Engineering Design & Committee on Comparative Cost Factors and Structures in Global Manufacturing: Dispelling the Manufacturing Myth
Conventional wisdom holds that high wages, high capital costs, and worker inflexibility have cost America its ability to compete in the world manufacturing marketplace. This book demonstrates that …
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€45.69
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Risk Appraisal in the Development of Facilities Design Criteria: Uses of Risk Analysis to Achieve Balanced Safety in Building Design and Operations
This volume considers engineering risk analysis applications to the field of building safety. Building codes and design criteria used by architects and engineers–standards of good practice defined …
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€22.40
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Aeronautical Technologies: Aeronautical Technologies for the Twenty-First Century
Prepared at the request of NASA, Aeronautical Technologies for the Twenty-First Century presents steps to help prevent the erosion of U.S. dominance in the global aeronautics market.The book …
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€44.47
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Restoring and Protecting Marine Habitat
Tremendous changes have occurred this century in the nation’s coastal habitats, in the way society views them, and in the way they are managed. This volume offers a complete, highly readable …
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€67.17
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on In Situ Bioremediation: In Situ Bioremediation
In situ bioremediation–the use of microorganisms for on-site removal of contaminants–is potentially cheaper, faster, and safer than conventional cleanup methods. But in situ bioremediation is also …
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€46.52
Committee on Mathematical Sciences Applied to Materials Science & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Mathematical Research in Materials Science
This book describes fruitful past collaborations between the mathematical and materials sciences and indicates future challenges. It seeks both to encourage mathematical sciences research that will …
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€26.84
Board on Manufacturing and Engineering Design & Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems: Learning to Change
Manufacturing firms–large and small–face massive change and adjustment as they move from a stable, fault-tolerant environment of long production runs to a volatile world in which production runs …
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€30.15
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Microwave Processing of Materials: An Emerging Industrial Technology: Microwave Processing of Materials
Microwaves can be effectively used in the processing of industrial materials under a wide range of conditions. However, microwave processing is complex and multidisciplinary in nature, and a high …
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€55.08
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics: Modern Interdisciplinary University Statistics Education
This book examines how the discipline of statistics should respond to the changing environment in which statisticians work. What does the academic, industry, and government customer need? How can the …
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€33.60
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Technology for Small Spacecraft
This book reviews the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) small spacecraft technology development. Included are assessments of NASA’s technology priorities for relevance to …
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€31.63
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Marine Salvage Issues: Purposeful Jettison of Petroleum Cargo
This book addresses the problem of deliberate discharge of petroleum cargo during salvage operations. It assesses the implications for shipping and marine environmental protection; documents the need …
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€38.34
Committee for a Pilot Study on Database Interfaces & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Finding the Forest in the Trees
During the last few decades of the 20th century, the development of an array of technologies has made it possible to observe the Earth, collect large quantities of data related to components and …
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€49.20
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Research Council: Rights and Responsibilities of Participants in Networked Communities
This book describes a number of social and legal issues as they relate to various members of electronically networked communities. After a brief introduction to relevant legal precedents and to the …
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€31.50
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Measuring and Improving Infrastructure Performance: Measuring and Improving Infrastructure Performance
The nation’s physical infrastructure facilitates movement of people and goods; provides safe water; provides energy when and where needed; removes wastes; enables rapid communications; and generally …
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€34.53
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Space Debris: Orbital Debris
Since the beginning of space flight, the collision hazard in Earth orbit has increased as the number of artificial objects orbiting the Earth has grown. Spacecraft performing communications, …
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€51.57
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Clean Ships, Clean Ports, Clean Oceans
Marine debris is a serious environmental problem. To do its part, the United States has agreed to abide by the international treaty for garbage control at sea, known as MARPOL 73/78 Annex V.Clean …
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€49.36
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Nautical Charts and Information: Charting a Course into the Digital Era
A number of trends and forces are converging to require change in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) nautical charting mission. The most salient among these are changes in …
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€52.07
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Marine Salvage Issues: Reassessment of the Marine Salvage Posture of the United States
Prompt and effective response to time-critical ship casualties and emergencies, for example, by refloating stranded ships, can prevent marine pollution and economic disruption of ports and waterways. …
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€38.18
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on New Sensor Technologies: Materials and Applications: Expanding the Vision of Sensor Materials
Advances in materials science and engineering have paved the way for the development of new and more capable sensors. Drawing upon case studies from manufacturing and structural monitoring and …
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€40.76
Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate & Committee on Solar-Terrestrial Research: Space Physics Paradox
This book investigates and analyzes several disturbing trends in government support for space physics research over the past decade. The authors identify funding and management problems that thwart …
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€33.93
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Application of Expert Systems to Materials Selection During Structural Design: Computer-Aided Materials Selection During Structural Design
The selection of the proper materials for a structural component is a critical activity that is governed by many, often conflicting factors. Incorporating materials expert systems into CAD/CAM …
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€33.96
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Currency Features Usable by the Visually Impaired: Currency Features for Visually Impaired People
The Committee on Currency Features for the Visually Impaired evaluated features that could be incorporated in the production of U.S. banknotes that would enable blind and visually disabled people to …
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€31.45
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & Geophysics Study Committee: Role of Fluids in Crustal Processes
Water and other fluids play a vital role in the processes that shape the earth’s crust, possibly even influencing earthquakes and volcanism. Fluids affect the movement of chemicals and heat in the …
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€34.43
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on the Study of Live Fire Survivability Testing of the F-22 Aircraft: Live Fire Testing of the F-22
The Live Fire Test Law mandates realistic survivability and lethality testing of covered systems or programs. A provision of the law permits the Secretary of Defense to waive tests if live fire …
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€40.41
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Research Council: Statistical Software Engineering
This book identifies challenges and opportunities in the development and implementation of software that contain significant statistical content. While emphasizing the relevance of using rigorous …
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€33.96
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Feasibility of Applying Blast-Mitigating Technologies and Design Methodologies from Military Facilities to Civilian Buildings: Protecting Buildings from Bomb Damage
This book provides a brief overview of worldwide terrorist activity and reviews technologies and methods for designing blast resistant buildings. These techniques, primarily developed by the …
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€41.16
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Review and Evaluation of Alternative Technologies for Demilitarization of Assembled Chemical Weapons: Review and Evaluation of Alternative Technologies for Demilitarization of Assembled Chemic
This report examines seven disposal technologies being considered by the U.S. government as alternative methods to the process of incineration for destroying mortars, rockets, land mines, and other …
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€85.54
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Undersea Vehicles and National Needs: Undersea Vehicles and National Needs
The United States faces decisions requiring information about the oceans in vastly expanded scales of time and space and from oceanic sectors not accessible with the suite of tools now used by …
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€45.27
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on New Materials for Advanced Civil Aircraft: New Materials for Next-Generation Commercial Transports
The major objective of this book was to identify issues related to the introduction of new materials and the effects that advanced materials will have on the durability and technical risk of future …
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€33.56
Board on Earth Sciences and Resources & Board on Energy and Environmental Systems: Novel Approaches to Carbon Management
The National Research Council’s (NRC’s) Committee on Novel Approaches to the Management of Greenhouse Gases from Energy Systems held a workshop at the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center in Irvine, …
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€24.70
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Reusable Launch Vehicle Technology and Test Program: Reusable Launch Vehicle
The key to opening the use of space to private enterprise and to broader public uses lies in reducing the cost of the transportation to space. More routine, affordable access to space will entail …
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€31.46
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Space Shuttle Meteoroid: Protecting the Space Shuttle from Meteoroids and Orbital Debris
The space shuttle orbiter has already been struck many times by small meteoroids and orbital debris, but it has not been damaged severely. There is a real risk, however, that a meteoroid or debris …
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€24.61
Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment & Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems: Financing Tomorrow’s Infrastructure: Challenges and Issues
With the current emphasis on a balanced federal budget and correspondingly decreased federal participation in financing local infrastructure systems, infrastructure providers are faced with the …
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€33.90
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Assessment of Hydrologic and Hydrometeorological Operations and Services
Floods are by far the most devastating of all weather-related hazards in the United States. The National Weather Service (NWS) is charged by Congress to provide river and flood forecasts and warnings …
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€40.38
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems: Maintaining U.S. Leadership in Aeronautics
Although the U.S. aeronautics industry has been one of the undisputed success stories in global competitiveness throughout the latter half of this century and is currently one of the largest positive …
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€52.84
Board on Mathematical Sciences & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Motion, Control, and Geometry
Some of the modem developments described in Motion, Control, and Geometry include the geometric control of robot motion and craft orientation, how high-power precision micromotors are engineered for …
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€40.67
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Research Council: Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence
The focus of this report is on artificial intelligence (AI) and human-computer interface (HCI) technology. Observations, conclusions, and recommendations regarding AI and HCI are presented in terms …
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€40.36
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Research Council: Nonlinear Science
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€40.72
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Electric Power for the Dismounted Soldier: Energy-Efficient Technologies for the Dismounted Soldier
This book documents electric power requirements for the dismounted soldier on future Army battlefields, describes advanced energy concepts, and provides an integrated assessment of technologies …
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€85.82
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Aging of U.S. Air Force Aircraft: Aging of U.S. Air Force Aircraft
Many of the aircraft that form the backbone of the U.S. Air Force operational fleet are 25 years old or older. A few of these will be replaced with new aircraft, but many are expected to remain in …
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€36.57
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Advanced Materials and Fabrication Methods for Microelectromechanical Systems: Microelectromechanical Systems
Microelectromenchanical systems (MEMS) is a revolutionary field that adapts for new uses a technology already optimized to accomplish a specific set of objectives. The silicon-based integrated …
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€40.50
Committee on Human Exploration & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Human Exploration of Space
During 1988, the National Research Council’s Space Science Board reorganized itself to more effectively address NASA’s advisory needs. The Board’s scope was broadened: it was renamed the Space …
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€46.37
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Research Council: Evaluating the Biological Potential in Samples Returned from Planetary Satellites and Small Solar System Bodies
For the first time since the Apollo program, NASA and space agencies abroad have plans to bring samples to Earth from elsewhere in the solar system. There are missions in various stages of definition …
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€42.68
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee to Assess Techniques for Developing Maintenance and Repair Budgets for Federal Facilities: Stewardship of Federal Facilities
The federal government has invested more than $300 billion in 500, 000 buildings and other facilities worldwide to support the provision of government services. Evidence is mounting that the physical …
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€40.39
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Configuration Management and Performance Verification of Explosives-Detection Systems
This report assesses the configuration-management and performance-verification options for the development and regulation of commercially available Explosive Detection Systems (EDS) and other systems …
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€40.31
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems: Maintaining U.S. Leadership in Aeronautics
After the completion of the National Research Council (NRC) report, Maintaining U.S. Leadership in Aeronautics: Scenario-Based Strategic Planning for NASA’s Aeronautics Enterprise (1997), the …
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€55.39
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Materials Advisory Board: Summary of the Sensing and Positioning Technology Workshop of the Committee on Nanotechnology for the Intelligence Community
The emergence of nanotechnology as a major science and technology research topic has sparked substantial interest by the intelligence community. In particular the community is interested both in the …
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€17.22
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Industrial Technology Assessments: Separation Technologies for the Industries of the Future
Separation processes"or processes that use physical, chemical, or electrical forces to isolate or concentrate selected constituents of a mixture"are essential to the chemical, petroleum …
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€43.01
Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Statistical Analysis of Massive Data Streams
Massive data streams, large quantities of data that arrive continuously, are becoming increasingly commonplace in many areas of science and technology. Consequently development of analytical methods …
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€86.82
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Environmental Management Systems and ISO 14001
In 1996, the Federal Facilities Council (FFC), which operates under the aegis of the National Research Council, established a standing committee on Environmental Engineering with the express purpose …
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€30.15
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee to Review the Need for a Large-scale Test Facility for Research on the Effects of Extreme Winds on Structures: Review of the Need for a Large-Scale Test Facility for Research on the Effects of Ex
The Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory (INEEL), through the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), has proposed that a large-scale wind test facility (LSWTF) be constructed to study, …
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€17.33
Committee on U.S. Mathematical Sciences Research Institutes & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: U.S. Research Institutes in the Mathematical Sciences
This report is the result of a fast-track study of U.S. mathematical sciences research institutes done in response to a request from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The task of the Committee …
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€17.22
Board on Army Science and Technology & Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems: Review of the Army Non-Stockpile Chemical Materiel Disposal Program
This study is a review and evaluation of the U.S. Army’s Report to Congress on Alternative Approaches for the Treatment and Disposal of Chemical Agent Identification Sets (CAIS). CAIS are test kits …
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€41.88
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Review and Evaluation of the Army Chemical Stockpile Disposal Program: Tooele Chemical Agent Disposal Facility
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 …
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€24.61
Committee on Earth Studies & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Role of Small Satellites in NASA and NOAA Earth Observation Programs
Remote observations of Earth from space serve an extraordinarily broad range of purposes, resulting in extraordinary demands on those at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the …
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€32.80
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee on Aeronautics Research and Technology for Vision 2050: Securing the Future of U.S. Air Transportation
As recently as the summer of 2001, many travelers were dreading air transportation because of extensive delays associated with undercapacity of the system. That all changed on 9/11, and demand for …
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€24.87
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee for the Review of NASA’s Revolutionize Aviation Program: Review of NASA’s Aerospace Technology Enterprise
The National Research Council (NRC) of the National Academies was asked by NASA and the Office of Management and Budget to perform an assessment of NASA’s Aerospace Technology Enterprise. The first …
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€40.67
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
The goals of atomic, molecular, and optical physics (AMO physics) are to elucidate the fundamental laws of physics, to understand the structure of matter and how matter evolves at the atomic and …
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€63.44
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & George C. Pimentel: Opportunities in Chemistry
Experts agree that the nation would benefit if more young people "turned on" to the sciences. This book is designed as a tool to do just that. It is based on Opportunities in Chemistry, a …
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€17.33
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Research Council: Life Sciences
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€23.21
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Advanced Space Based High Power Technologies: Advanced Power Sources for Space Missions
"Star Wars"–as the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) is dubbed–will require reliable sources of immense amounts of energy to power such advanced weapons as lasers and particle beams. Are …
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€27.11
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Earthquake Engineering: Earthquake Engineering for Concrete Dams
The hazard posed by large dams has long been known. Although no concrete dam has failed as a result of earthquake activity, there have been instances of significant damage. Concerns about the seismic …
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€22.64
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Future Nuclear Power Development: Nuclear Power
The construction of nuclear power plants in the United States is stopping, as regulators, reactor manufacturers, and operators sort out a host of technical and institutional problems.This volume …
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€31.57
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Natural Disasters: March 5, 1987, Ecuador Earthquakes
This book provides an account of the 1987 Ecuador earthquakes, evaluating the physical phenomena involved and the performance of structures and systems. It identifies and recommends cases where an …
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€22.46
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems: Assessment of Space Shuttle Flight Software Development Processes
Effective software is essential to the success and safety of the Space Shuttle, including its crew and its payloads. The on-board software continually monitors and controls critical systems …
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€40.50
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on the Safety of Marine Pipelines: Improving the Safety of Marine Pipelines
The safety of the U.S. undersea pipeline system is a major national interest and concern, whether the concern focuses on risk to human life or the potential for environmental pollution and damage. …
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€52.25
Board on Radioactive Waste Management & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Social and Economic Aspects of Radioactive Waste Disposal
To complement the growing body of knowledge on the physical aspects of radioactive waste disposal, this new report identifies the ;ITsocioeconomic and institutional;IT policy issues that must be …
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€23.17
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Engineering Implications of Changes in Relative Mean Sea Level: Responding to Changes in Sea Level
Over the last 100 years, sea level has risen approximately 12 centimeters and is expected to continue rising at an even faster rate. This situation has serious implications for human activity along …
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€29.20
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Film Badge Dosimetry in Atmospheric Nuclear Tests: Film Badge Dosimetry in Atmospheric Nuclear Tests
During the 18-year program of atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons (1945-1962), some of the 225, 000 participants were exposed to radiation. Many of these participants have been experiencing …
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€25.55
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Existing and Potential Uses of the Seafloor: Our Seabed Frontier
The establishment of the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) in 1983 "for the purpose of exploring, exploiting, conserving, and managing natural resources" presents the nation with an …
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€20.18
Bernard L. Madison & Committee on the Mathematical Sciences in the Year 2000: Challenge of Numbers
A Challenge of Numbers describes the circumstances and issues centered on people in the mathematical sciences, principally students and teachers at U.S. colleges and universities. A healthy flow of …
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€12.03
Astronomy and Astrophysics Survey Committee & Board on Physics and Astronomy: Decade of Discovery in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomers and astrophysicists are making revolutionary advances in our understanding of planets, stars, galaxies, and even the structure of the universe itself. The Decade of Discovery presents a …
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€34.43
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Research Council: Probability and Algorithms
Some of the hardest computational problems have been successfully attacked through the use of probabilistic algorithms, which have an element of randomness to them. Concepts from the field of …
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€60.54
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Alternative Chemical Demilitarization Technologies: Alternative Technologies for the Destruction of Chemical Agents and Munitions
The U.S. Army Chemical Stockpile Disposal Program was established with the goal of destroying the nation’s stockpile of lethal unitary chemical weapons. Since 1990 the U.S. Army has been testing a …
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€101.82
Board on Manufacturing and Engineering Design & Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems: Unit Manufacturing Processes
Manufacturing, reduced to its simplest form, involves the sequencing of product forms through a number of different processes. Each individual step, known as an unit manufacturing process, can be …
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€45.09
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Materials for High-Temperature Semiconductor Devices: Materials for High-Temperature Semiconductor Devices
Major benefits to system architecture would result if cooling systems for components could be eliminated without compromising performance. This book surveys the state-of-the-art for the three major …
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€39.56
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Future Technologies for Army Multimedia Communications: Commercial Multimedia Technologies for Twenty-First Century Army Battlefields
This book responds to an request by the U.S. Army to study the applicability of commercial multimedia technologies to command, control, communications and intelligence needs on future battlefields. …
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€33.68
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Aviation Weather Services
Each time we see grim pictures of aircraft wreckage on a rain-drenched crash site, or scenes of tired holiday travelers stranded in snow-covered airports, we are reminded of the harsh impact that …
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€34.43
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Review and Evaluation of the Army Chemical Stockpile Disposal Program: Review of Systemization of the Tooele Chemical Agent Disposal Facility
In 1993, at Tooele Army Depot, Utah, the Army completed construction of the Tooele Chemical Agent Disposal Facility (TOCDF), the first complete facility for destruction of lethal unitary chemical …
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€39.84
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on the Effects of Aircraft-Pilot Coupling on Flight Safety: Aviation Safety and Pilot Control
Adverse aircraft-pilot coupling (APC) events include a broad set of undesirable and sometimes hazardous phenomena that originate in anomalous interactions between pilots and aircraft. As civil and …
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€63.78
Committee on the FBI’s Trilogy Information Technology Modernization Program & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Review of the FBI’s Trilogy Information Technology Modernization Program
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is in the process of developing a modern information technology (IT) system"the Trilogy program" that is designed to provide a high-speed network, …
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€24.87
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Superhard Materials: Status and Applications of Diamond and Diamond-Like Materials
Recent discoveries enabling the growth of crystalline diamond by chemical vapor deposition offer the potential for a wide variety of new applications. This new book examines the state of the …
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€17.36
Committee on Planetary Biology and Chemical Evolution & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Search for Life’s Origins
The field of planetary biology and chemical evolution draws together experts in astronomy, paleobiology, biochemistry, and space science who work together to understand the evolution of living …
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€18.68
Board on Manufacturing and Engineering Design & Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems: Internationalization of U.S. Manufacturing
On the basis of discussions and analysis of the current environment for international competition, this book was written to dispel misconceptions regarding the motivating forces behind …
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€17.33
Committee on Planetary and Lunar Exploration & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Strategy for the Detection and Study of Other Planetary Systems and Extrasolar Planetary Materials
This volume addresses a new opportunity in the planetary sciences–to extend our exploration outward to discover and study planetary systems that may have formed or are forming around other stars.It …
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€17.16
Board on Army Science and Technology & Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems: STAR 21
Dramatic political and economic changes throughout the world, coupled with rapid advances in technology, pose an important question for the U.S. Army: What technologies are best suited to defending …
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€40.09
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Assessment of Technology and Opportunities for Marine Aquaculture in the United States: Marine Aquaculture
Coastal farming and ocean ranching of marine fish, shellfish, crustaceans, and seaweed are a major and growing industry worldwide. In the United States, freshwater aquaculture is rapidly becoming a …
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€44.47
Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education & Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems: National Energy Modeling System
This book addresses the process and actions for developing enhanced capabilities to analyze energy policy issues and perform strategic planning activities at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) on an …
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€22.45
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Assessment of Shiphandling Simulation: Shiphandling Simulation
As a result of major shipping disasters on all coasts, the safety of vessel operations in U.S. ports and waterways and the effectiveness of waterway designs are under increased scrutiny. But are …
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€27.18
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on Infrastructure: In Our Own Backyard
This volume takes a fresh look–primarily from a technological perspective–at the nation’s "infrastructure": a collection of diverse modes that function as a system supporting a wide range …
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€29.10
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Practical Lessons from the Loma Prieta Earthquake
The Loma Prieta earthquake struck the San Francisco area on October 17, 1989, causing 63 deaths and $10 billion worth of damage. This book reviews existing research on the Loma Prieta quake and draws …
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€51.66
Committee on Preventing the Forward Contamination of Mars & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Preventing the Forward Contamination of Mars
Recent spacecraft and robotic probes to Mars have yielded data that are changing our understanding significantly about the possibility of existing or past life on that planet. Coupled with advances …
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€45.00
Committee on Identification of Promising Naval Aviation Science and Technology Opportunities & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Identification of Promising Naval Aviation Science and Technology Opportunities
The Department of Defense is developing the means to transform the nations armed forces to meet future military challenges. For the Navy and Marine Corps, this vision is encompassed in Naval Power …
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€34.72
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Review of the Research Program of the FreedomCAR and Fuel Partnership
The Freedom CAR and Fuel Partnership is a collaborative effort among the Department of Energy (DOE), the U.S. Council for Automotive Research (USCAR), and five major energy companies to manage …
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€41.44
Board on Army Science and Technology & Committee on Monitoring at Chemical Agent Disposal Facilities: Monitoring at Chemical Agent Disposal Facilities
Under the direction of the U.S. Armys Chemical Materials Agency (CMA) and mandated by Congress, the nation is destroying its chemical weapons stockpile. Over the past several years, the Army has …
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€32.84
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee on Technology Pathways: Assessing the Integrated Plan for a Next Generation Air Transportation System: Technology Pathways
In 2003, Congress directed the Secretary of Transportation to establish the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NGATS) Joint Planning and Development Office (JDPO) to plan the development of …
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€24.71
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Research Council: Review of Goals and Plans for NASA’s Space and Earth Sciences
Both the Presidents commission on how to implement the Presidents space exploration initiative and Congress asked the NRC undertake an assessment and review of the science proposed to be carried out …
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€24.63
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee on Priorities for Space Science Enabled by Nuclear Power and Propulsion: Priorities in Space Science Enabled by Nuclear Power and Propulsion
In 2003, NASA began an R&D effort to develop nuclear power and propulsion systems for solar system exploration. This activity, renamed Project Prometheus in 2004, was initiated because of the …
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€75.54
Committee on the FORCEnet Implementation Strategy & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: FORCEnet Implementation Strategy
<p>FORCEnet is currently defined as the operational construct and architectural framework for naval warfare in the information age that integrates warriors, sensors, networks, command and …
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€63.27
Board on Army Science and Technology & Committee on Network Science for Future Army Applications: Network Science
The military is currently attempting to develop itself into a force capable of networkcentric operations. While this effort has highlighted the militarys dependence on interacting networks, it has …
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€40.50
Committee on a Framework for Understanding Electronic Voting & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Asking the Right Questions About Electronic Voting
Many election officials look to electronic voting systems as a means for improving their ability to more effectively conduct and administer elections. At the same time, many information technologists …
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€44.13
Board on Manufacturing and Engineering Design & Committee on Manufacturing Trends in Printed Circuit Technology: Linkages
Over the past two decades, the Department of Defense has been moving toward commercial-military integration for manufacturing, while at the same time, the printed circuit board industry has been …
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€24.91
Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment & Committee on Organizing to Manage Construction and Infrastructure in the 21st Century Bureau of Reclamation: Managing Construction and Infrastructure in the 21st Century Bureau of Reclamation
In the more than 100 years since its formation, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation of the Department of Interior (DOI), through its construction program, has brought water, electric power, and recreation …
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€42.97
Board on Assessment of NIST Programs & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Measurement and Standards Laboratories
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Measurements and Standards Laboratories (MSL) provide technical leadership for the nations measurement and standards infrastructure and …
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€38.93
Committee on Assessment of Security Technologies for Transportation & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Defending the U.S. Air Transportation System Against Chemical and Biological Threats
Historically, most terrorist attacks on civilian targets have involved the use of firearms or explosives, and current defensive strategies are aimed at preventing attacks perpetrated by such means. …
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€17.21
Board on Army Science and Technology & Committee to Assess Designs for Pueblo and Blue Grass Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plants: Interim Design Assessment for the Blue Grass Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plant
Because of concerns about incineration, the Department of Defense plans to use alternative means to destroy the chemical agent stockpiles at the Pueblo and Blue Grass facilities. The DOD contracted …
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€24.71
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Research Council: Review of NASA Plans for the International Space Station
In January 2004, President Bush announced a new space policy directed at human and robotic exploration of space. In June 2004, the Presidents Commission on Implementation of United States Space …
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€24.64
Committee on Principal-Investigator-Led Missions in the Space Sciences & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Principal-Investigator-Led Missions in the Space Sciences
Principal Investigator-Led (PI-led) missions are an important element of NASAs space science enterprise. While several NRC studies have considered aspects of PI-led missions in the course of other …
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€38.19
Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications & Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics: Proceedings of a Workshop on Statistics on Networks (CD-ROM)
A large number of biological, physical, and social systems contain complex networks. Knowledge about how these networks operate is critical for advancing a more general understanding of network …
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€104.25
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Instrumentation for a Better Tomorrow
On November 15, 2004, the National Academies sponsored a symposium at the Beckman Center in honor of Arnold O. Beckman. The symposium concentrated on the wide-ranging practical applications of …
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€24.86
Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment & Committee to Review and Assess the Health and Productivity Benefits of Green Schools: Review and Assessment of the Health and Productivity Benefits of Green Schools
Some educational professionals have suggested that so-called green schools would result in superior performance and increased health for students and teachers. While there is no commonly accepted …
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€24.90
Board on Manufacturing and Engineering Design & Committee on Technologies to Deter Currency Counterfeiting: Is That Real?
A key mission of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing of the Department of the Treasury is the design and printing of U.S. banknotes. The BEP is responsible for producing easily recognizable currency …
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€29.86
Computer Science and Telecommunications Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Summary of a Workshop on the Technology, Policy, and Cultural Dimensions of Biometric Systems
Biometrics"the use of physiological and behavioral characteristics for identification purposes"has been promoted as a way to enhance security and identification efficiency. There are …
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€24.91
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Trends in Oil Supply and Demand, the Potential for Peaking of Conventional Oil Production, and Possible Mitigation Options
Recent events and analyses have suggested that global production of oil might peak sometime within the next few years to the next one or two decades. Other analyses, however, conclude that oil supply …
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€24.68
Committee on Critical Technology Accessibility & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Critical Technology Accessibility
In 2003, the Defense Intelligence Agency asked the NRC to form a standing committee to help develop study topics about technology warning. One issue that was identified was the growing dependence on …
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€24.76
Ad Hoc Committee on Distributed Arrays of Small Instruments for Research and Monitoring in Solar-Terrestrial Physics: A Workshop & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Distributed Arrays of Small Instruments for Solar-Terrestrial Research
A recommendation of the NRCs decadal survey in solar and space physics, published in 2002, was the Small Instrument Distributed Ground-Based Network, which would provide global-scale ionospheric and …
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€24.91
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Decadal Survey of Civil Aeronautics
The U.S. air transportation system is very important for our economic well-being and national security. The nation is also the global leader in civil and military aeronautics, a position that needs …
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€54.28
Committee on the Role of Naval Forces in the Global War on Terror & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Role of Naval Forces in the Global War on Terror
The growth of the terrorism threat to the nations security has created significant strategic challenges for U.S. armed forces in fighting this global war on terrorism (GWOT). For the Navy, the …
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€17.22
Committee on Distributed Remote Sensing for Naval Undersea Warfare & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Distributed Remote Sensing for Naval Undersea Warfare
The widespread availability of quiet, diesel electric submarines and inexpensive mines is posing a growing threat to global access by the U.S. Navy. In response, the Navy has expanded its undersea …
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€24.71
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Committee on Elementary Particle Physics in the 21st Century: Revealing the Hidden Nature of Space and Time
As part of the Physics 2010 decadal survey project, the National Research Council was asked by the Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation to recommend priorities for the U.S. …
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€41.86
Board on Army Science and Technology & Committee on Review and Evaluation of International Technologies for the Destruction of Non-Stockpile Chemical Materiel: Review of International Technologies for Destruction of Recovered Chemical Warfare Materiel (PD
The Chemical Weapons Convention requires, among other things, that the signatories to the convention–which includes the United States–destroy by April 29, 2007, or as soon possible thereafter, any …
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€37.36
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee on Meeting the Workforce Needs for the National Vision for Space Exploration: Issues Affecting the Future of the U.S. Space Science and Engineering Workforce
In January 2006, the President announced a new civilian space policy focusing on exploration. As part of its preparations to implement that policy, NASA asked the NRC to explore long-range science …
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€24.65
Air Force Studies Board & Committee on Future Air Force Needs for Survivability: Future Air Force Needs for Survivability
A key technical issue for future Air Force systems is to improve their ability to survive. Increased use of stealth technology is proposed by many to be the major element in efforts to enhance …
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€35.15
Committee on an Assessment of Balance in NASA’s Science Programs & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Assessment of Balance in NASA’s Science Programs
When the space exploration initiative was announced, Congress asked the NRC to review the science NASA proposed to carryout under the initiative. It also asked the NRC to assess whether this program …
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€24.71
Committee to Review the National Nanotechnology Initiative & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Matter of Size
The National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) was created in 2000 to focus and coordinate the nanoscience and nanotechnology research and development (R&D) activities being funded by several federal …
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€51.78
Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Proceedings of a Workshop to Review PATH Strategy, Operating Plan, and Performance Measures
The National Research Council’s (NRC’s) involvement with the Partnership for Advancing Technology in Housing (PATH) started in 2000 with a three-year review and assessment of the PATH program. The …
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€33.97
Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology & Division on Earth and Life Studies: Exploring Organic Environments in the Solar System
The sources, distributions, and transformation of organic compounds in the solar system are active study areas as a means to provide information about the evolution of the solar system and the …
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€36.98
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Committee on Alternatives to Indian Point for Meeting Energy Needs: Alternatives to the Indian Point Energy Center for Meeting New York Electric Power Needs
Since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, many in the New York City area have become concerned about the possible consequences of a similar attack on the Indian Point …
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€50.01
Air Force Studies Board & Committee on Air Force and Department of Defense Aerospace Propulsion Needs: Review of United States Air Force and Department of Defense Aerospace Propulsion Needs
Rocket and air-breathing propulsion systems are the foundation on which planning for future aerospace systems rests. A Review of United States Air Force and Department of Defense Aerospace Propulsion …
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€24.86
Ad Hoc Committee on the Solar System Radiation Environment and NASA’s Vision for Space Exploration: A Workshop & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Space Radiation Hazards and the Vision for Space Exploration
Fulfilling the Presidents Vision for Space Exploration (VSE) will require overcoming many challenges. Among these are the hazards of space radiation to crews traveling to the Moon and Mars. To …
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€32.85
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Committee on AMO 2010: Controlling the Quantum World
As part of the Physics 2010 decadal survey project, the Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation requested that the National Research Council assess the opportunities, over roughly …
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€62.07
Committee to Review the Next Decade Mars Architecture & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Assessment of NASA’s Mars Architecture 2007-2016
The United States and the former Soviet Union have sent spacecraft to mars as early as 1966, with Mars’ exploration being priority for NASA spacecraft. Both sides, however, have failed as well as …
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€24.91
Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment & Committee to Review and Assess the Health and Productivity Benefits of Green Schools: Green Schools
Evidence has accumulated that shows that the quality of indoor environments can affect the health and productivity of adults and children. One consequence is that a movement has emerged to promote …
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€50.17
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Department of Military Science and Technology: Strategies to Protect the Health of Deployed U.S. Forces
Since Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm, Gulf War veterans have expressed concerns that their postdeployment medical symptoms could have been caused by hazardous exposures or other …
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€84.34
Committee on Telecommunications Research and Development & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Renewing U.S. Telecommunications Research
The modern telecommunications infrastructure"made possible by research performed over the last several decades"is an essential element of the U.S. economy. The U.S. position as a leader in …
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€24.70
Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications & Committee on Modeling and Simulation for Defense Transformation: Defense Modeling, Simulation, and Analysis
Modeling, simulation, and analysis (MS&A) is a crucial tool for military affairs. MS&A is one of the announced pillars of a strategy for transforming the U.S. military. Yet changes in the enterprise …
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€30.07
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee to Review NASA’s Space Communications Program: Review of the Space Communications Program of NASA’s Space Operations Mission Directorate
The Space Communications Office (SCO) at NASA has two primary roles. The first is to manage two of the communications networks that enable spaceflight operations and research, and the second is to …
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€24.88
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Committee on Radio Frequencies: Handbook of Frequency Allocations and Spectrum Protection for Scientific Uses
The electromagnetic spectrum is a vital part of our environment. Information encoded in the spectrum of radiation arriving at earth from the universe is the means by which we learn about its workings …
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€38.34
Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Reducing Construction Costs
The National Academy of Construction (NAC) has determined that disputes, and their accompanying inefficiencies and costs, constitute a significant problem for the industry. In 2002, the NAC assessed …
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€21.09
Committee on the Scientific Context for Exploration of the Moon & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Scientific Context for Exploration of the Moon
Because of the Moon’s unique place in the evolution of rocky worlds, it is a prime focus of NASA’s space exploration vision. Currently NASA is defining and implementing a series of robotic orbital …
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€17.16
Board on Army Science and Technology & Committee on Continuing Operability of Chemical Agent Disposal Facilities and Equipment: Assessment of the Continuing Operability of Chemical Agent Disposal Facilities and Equipment
The U.S. Armys Chemical Materials Agency (CMA) currently oversees contracts for the operation of chemical agent stockpile incineration facilities at four disposal sites. Because the period of time …
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€24.61
Committee on Earth Science and Applications from Space: A Community Assessment and Strategy for the Future & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Earth Science and Applications from Space
Natural and human-induced changes in Earth’s interior, land surface, biosphere, atmosphere, and oceans affect all aspects of life. Understanding these changes requires a range of observations …
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€49.20
Committee on Privacy in the Information Age & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Engaging Privacy and Information Technology in a Digital Age
Privacy is a growing concern in the United States and around the world. The spread of the Internet and the seemingly boundaryless options for collecting, saving, sharing, and comparing information …
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€57.48
Committee on the Social Security Administration’s E-Government Strategy and Planning for the Future & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Social Security Administration Electronic Service Provision
Social Security Administration Electronic Service Provision examines the Social Security Administration’s (SSA’s) proposed e-government strategy and provides advice on how the SSA can best deliver …
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€46.74
Committee on Certifiably Dependable Software Systems & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Software for Dependable Systems
The focus of Software for Dependable Systems is a set of fundamental principles that underlie software system dependability and that suggest a different approach to the development and assessment of …
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€41.17
Committee on Improving Cybersecurity Research in the United States & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Toward a Safer and More Secure Cyberspace
Given the growing importance of cyberspace to nearly all aspects of national life, a secure cyberspace is vitally important to the nation, but cyberspace is far from secure today. The United States …
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€66.28
Committee on Using Information Technology to Enhance Disaster Management & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Improving Disaster Management
Information technology (IT) has the potential to play a critical role in managing natural and human-made disasters. Damage to communications infrastructure, along with other communications problems …
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€50.55
Air Force Studies Board & Committee on Analysis of Air Force Engine Efficiency Improvement Options for Large Non-fighter Aircraft: Improving the Efficiency of Engines for Large Nonfighter Aircraft
Because of the important national defense contribution of large, non-fighter aircraft, rapidly increasing fuel costs and increasing dependence on imported oil have triggered significant interest in …
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€50.07
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Scientific Opportunities with a Rare-Isotope Facility in the United States
Over ten years ago, U.S. nuclear scientists proposed construction of a new rare isotope accelerator in the United States, which would enable experiments to elucidate the important questions in …
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€41.88
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Committee on Prospective Benefits of DOE’s Energy Efficiency and Fossil Energy R&D Programs (Phase Two): Prospective Evaluation of Applied Energy Research and Development at DOE (Phase Two)
Since its inception in 1977 from an amalgam of federal authorities, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has administered numerous programs aimed at developing applied energy technologies. In recent …
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€58.35
Committee on Assessment of Security Technologies for Transportation & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Assessment of Millimeter-Wave and Terahertz Technology for Detection and Identification of Concealed Explosives and Weapons
The security of the U.S. commercial aviation system has been a growing concern since the 1970’s when the hijacking of aircraft became a serious problem. Over that period, federal aviation officials …
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€24.60
Board on Life Sciences & Committee on the Limits of Organic Life in Planetary Systems: Limits of Organic Life in Planetary Systems
The search for life in the solar system and beyond has to date been governed by a model based on what we know about life on Earth (terran life). Most of NASA’s mission planning is focused on …
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€35.32
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Performance Assessment of NASA’s Astrophysics Program
While a number of remarkable discoveries in astronomy and astrophysics have taken place over the past 20 years, many important questions remain. Continued progress in these fields will require NASAs …
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€24.50
Air Force Studies Board & Committee on Assessment of Aircraft Winglets for Large Aircraft Fuel Efficiency: Assessment of Wingtip Modifications to Increase the Fuel Efficiency of Air Force Aircraft
The high cost of aviation fuel has resulted in increased attention by Congress and the Air Force on improving military aircraft fuel efficiency. One action considered is modification of the aircrafts …
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€34.45
Board on Human-Systems Integration & Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment: Facilities Staffing Requirements for the Veterans Health AdministrationaResource Planning and Methodology for the Future
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine was tasked by the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) to prepare a comprehensive resource planning and staffing methodology guidebook …
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€15.07
Board on Mathematical Sciences and Analytics & Board on Research Data and Information: Reproducibility and Replicability in Science
One of the pathways by which the scientific community confirms the validity of a new scientific discovery is by repeating the research that produced it. When a scientific effort fails to …
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€82.02
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Board on Mathematical Sciences and Analytics: Enhancing Urban Sustainability with Data, Modeling, and Simulation
On January 30-31, 2019 the Board on Mathematical Sciences and Analytics, in collaboration with the Board on Energy and Environmental Systems and the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, …
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€73.15
Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment & Committee on Assessing the Capital Needs of the National Institutes of Health: Managing the NIH Bethesda Campus Capital Assets for Success in a Highly Competitive Global Biomedical Research Environ
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and public health research. Founded in the late 1870s, NIH has produced …
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€97.04
Board on Mathematical Sciences and Analytics & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Data-Driven Modeling for Additive Manufacturing of Metals
Additive manufacturing (AM) is the process in which a three-dimensional object is built by adding subsequent layers of materials. AM enables novel material compositions and shapes, often without the …
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€82.67
Committee on Near Earth Object Observations in the Infrared and Visible Wavelengths & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Finding Hazardous Asteroids Using Infrared and Visible Wavelength Telescopes
Near Earth objects (NEOs) have the potential to cause significant damage on Earth. In December 2018, an asteroid exploded in the upper atmosphere over the Bering Sea (western Pacific Ocean) with the …
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€82.53
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Continuous Improvement of NASA’s Innovation Ecosystem
On November 29-30, 2018, in Washington, D.C., the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held the Workshop on the Continuous Improvement of NASAs Innovation Ecosystem. The workshop …
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€67.15
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Materials and Manufacturing Board: Domestic Manufacturing Capabilities for Critical DoD Applications
Recent advancements in quantum-enabled systems present a variety of new opportunities and challenges. These technologies are important developments for a variety of computing, communications, and …
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€73.96
Board on Mathematical Sciences and Analytics & Board on Science Education: Increasing Student Success in Developmental Mathematics
The Board on Science Education and the Board on Mathematical Sciences and Analytics of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened the Workshop on Increasing Student …
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€61.26
Defense Materials Manufacturing and Infrastructure Standing Committee & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: High-Entropy Materials, Ultra-Strong Molecules, and Nanoelectronics
High-entropy materials, ultra-strong molecules, and nanoelectronics have become a focus of active research because of their unique potential and applications. Global research is rapidly accelerating …
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€82.97
Defense Materials Manufacturing and Infrastructure Standing Committee & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Service Life Assessment and Predictive Modeling for an Aging Critical Infrastructure
The Defense Materials Manufacturing and Infrastructure standing and planning committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a workshop on May 19-20, 2016, to …
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€41.45
Committee on DOD Engagement with Its Manufacturing USA MIIs Phase 2 Study & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: DoD Engagement with Its Manufacturing Innovation Institutes
To better support the need for timely, effective manufacturing technology development and transition, the Department of Defense (Do D) has established nine Manufacturing Innovation Institutes (MIIs) …
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€18.70
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Condensed Matter and Materials Research Committee: Frontiers in Memristive Materials for Neuromorphic Processing Applications
Current von Neumann style computing is energy inefficient and bandwidth limited as information is physically shuttled via electrons between processor, short term non-volatile memory, and long-term …
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€46.01
Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment & Committee on Review of Effectiveness and Efficiency of Defense Environmental Cleanup Activities of the Department of Energy?s Office of Environmental Management: Effectiveness and Efficiency of Def
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and its predecessor agencies have conducted activities to develop atomic energy for civilian and defense purposes since the initiation of the World War II …
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€50.99
Board on Life Sciences & Committee on Planetary Protection: Report Series: Committee on Planetary Protection
Under U.S. policy and international treaty, the goals of planetary protection are to avoid both adverse changes in Earths environment caused by introducing extraterrestrial matter and harmful …
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€18.83
Committee on NIST Technical Programs & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Assessment of Selected Programs at the National Institute of Standards and Technology Engineering Laboratory
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Engineering Laboratory has a long and distinguished record of technological leadership, innovation, and experience in providing analysis and …
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€18.78
Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate & Committee on Future Use of NASA Airborne Platforms to Advance Earth Science Priorities: Airborne Platforms to Advance NASA Earth System Science Priorities
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and other U.S. science research agencies operate a fleet of research aircraft and other airborne platforms that offer diverse capabilities. To …
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€69.08
Committee for the Space Weather Operations and Research Infrastructure Workshop & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Planning the Future Space Weather Operations and Research Infrastructure
In response to a request from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration – and with the support of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the National Science Foundation – the …
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€51.50
Air Force Studies Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Adapting to Shorter Time Cycles in the United States Air Force
The Air Force Studies Board of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine hosted a three-part workshop series to investigate the changing paradigm of time and knowledge in …
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€68.60
Committee on Technical Assessment of the Feasibility and Implications of Quantum Computing & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Quantum Computing
Quantum mechanics, the subfield of physics that describes the behavior of very small (quantum) particles, provides the basis for a new paradigm of computing. First proposed in the 1980s as a way to …
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€56.08
Board on Human-Systems Integration & Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment: Facilities Staffing Requirements for the Veterans Health AdministrationaResource Planning and Methodology for the Future
The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) is America’s largest integrated health care system, providing care at 1, 243 health care facilities, including 172 medical centers and 1, 063 outpatient sites …
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€82.35
Computer Science and Telecommunications Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Implications of Artificial Intelligence for Cybersecurity
In recent years, interest and progress in the area of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) have boomed, with new applications vigorously pursued across many sectors. At the same …
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€82.08
Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources & Board on Health Sciences Policy: Safeguarding the Bioeconomy
Research and innovation in the life sciences is driving rapid growth in agriculture, biomedical science, information science and computing, energy, and other sectors of the U.S. economy. This …
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€89.83
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Reducing Fuel Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Medium- and Heavy-Duty Vehicles, Phase Two
Medium- and heavy-duty trucks, motor coaches, and transit buses – collectively, "medium- and heavy-duty vehicles", or MHDVs – are used in every sector of the economy. The fuel consumption …
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€124.83
Committee on the NASA Science Mission Directorate Science Plan & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Review of the Draft 2019 Science Mission Directorate Science Plan
NASAs Science Mission Directorate (SMD) ties together diverse researchers, sponsors, and resources to develop the science communitys understanding of the universe. Within scientific organizations …
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€14.89
Army Research Program Review and Analysis Committee & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Assessment of the In-House Laboratory Independent Research at the Army’s Research, Development, and Engineering Centers
This report evaluates the In-House Laboratory Independent Research (ILIR) conducted at the Research, Development, and Engineering Centers (RDECs) of the U.S. Armys Research, Development, and …
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Board on Physics and Astronomy & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Manipulating Quantum Systems
The field of atomic, molecular, and optical (AMO) science underpins many technologies and continues to progress at an exciting pace for both scientific discoveries and technological innovations. AMO …
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€87.38
Defense Materials Manufacturing and Infrastructure Standing Committee & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Data Analytics and What It Means to the Materials Community
Emerging techniques in data analytics, including machine learning and artificial intelligence, offer exciting opportunities for advancing scientific discovery and innovation in materials science. …
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€41.33
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee on Advanced Technologies for Gas Turbines: Advanced Technologies for Gas Turbines
Leadership in gas turbine technologies is of continuing importance as the value of gas turbine production is projected to grow substantially by 2030 and beyond. Power generation, aviation, and the …
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€90.03
Board on Life Sciences & Board on Mathematical Sciences and Analytics: Life-Cycle Decisions for Biomedical Data
Biomedical research results in the collection and storage of increasingly large and complex data sets. Preserving those data so that they are discoverable, accessible, and interpretable accelerates …
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€74.62
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee on Enhancing Air Mobilitya¬&A National Blueprint: Advancing Aerial Mobility
Advanced aerial mobility is a newly emerging industry that aims to develop and operate new air vehicles potentially capable of safe, reliable, and low-noise vertical flight. The world has seen a …
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€46.02
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Deployment of Deep Decarbonization Technologies
While progress has been made in the development of decarbonization technologies, much work remains in scale-up and deployment. For decarbonization technologies to reach meaningful scale, real-world …
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€61.38
Air Force Studies Board & Committee on Energy Challenges and Opportunities for Future Data-Driven Operations in the United States Air Force: Energizing Data-Driven Operations at the Tactical Edge
Significant efforts are ongoing within the U.S. Air Force (USAF) to improve national security and competitiveness by harnessing the growing power of information technologies, such as artificial …
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€36.39
Committee on the Review of Progress Toward Implementing the Decadal Survey a¬& Solar and Space Physics: A Science for a Technological Society & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Progress Toward Implementation of the 2013 Decadal Survey for S
The 2013 report Solar and Space Physics; A Science for a Technological Society outlined a program of basic and applied research for the period 2013-2022. This publication describes the most …
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€87.16
Board on Life Sciences & Board on Mathematical Sciences and Analytics: Planning for Long-Term Use of Biomedical Data
Biomedical research data sets are becoming larger and more complex, and computing capabilities are expanding to enable transformative scientific results. The National Institutes of Health’s (NIH’s) …
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€41.32
Committee on Solar and Space Physics & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Report Series: Committee on Solar and Space Physics
Report Series: Committee on Solar and Space Physics: Agile Responses to Short-Notice Rideshare Opportunities for the NASA Heliophysics Division explores the kinds of solar and space science that …
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€12.47
Committee on National Nanotechnology Initiative: A Quadrennial Review & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Quadrennial Review of the National Nanotechnology Initiative
Global advances in medicine, food, water, energy, microelectronics, communications, defense, and other important sectors of the economy are increasingly driven by discoveries in nanoscience and the …
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€68.74
Air Force Studies Board & Committee on USAF Sustainment Planning Early in the Development Life Cycle: Weapons System Sustainment Planning Early in the Development Life Cycle
According to the Government Accountability Office, sustainment of weapon systems accounts for approximately 70 percent of the total life-cycle costs. When sustainment is not considered early in the …
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€51.06
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & Laboratory Assessments Board: Assessment of the Material Measurement Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology
The Material Measurement Laboratory (MML) of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) comprises six technical divisions and two offices. The two offices manage programs related to …
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€18.63
Committee to Review the Report of the NASA Planetary Protection Independent Review Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Assessment of the Report of NASA’s Planetary Protection Independent Review Board
The goal of planetary protection is to control, to the degree possible, the biological cross-contamination of planetary bodies. Guidelines developed by the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) are …
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€46.02
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Committee on the Future of Electric Power in the U.S.: Communications, Cyber Resilience, and the Future of the U.S. Electric Power System
Electric power is a critical infrastructure that is vital to the U.S. economy and national security. Today, the nations electric power infrastructure is threatened by malicious attacks, accidents, …
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€46.11
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Committee on a Decadal Assessment of Plasma Science: Plasma Science
Plasma Science and Engineering transforms fundamental scientific research into powerful societal applications, from materials processing and healthcare to forecasting space weather. Plasma Science: …
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€119.35
Board on Mathematical Sciences and Analytics & Board on Science Education: Roundtable on Data Science Postsecondary Education
Established in December 2016, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Roundtable on Data Science Postsecondary Education was charged with identifying the challenges of and …
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€61.49
Air Force Studies Board & Committee on Software Sustainment and Maintenance of Weapons Systems: Air Force Software Sustainment and Maintenance of Weapons Systems
Modern software engineering practices, pioneered by the commercial software community, have begun transforming Department of Defense (Do D) software development, integration processes, and deployment …
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€45.98
Army Research Laboratory Technical Assessment Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: 2019-2020 Assessment of the Army Research Laboratory
The mission of Army Research Laboratory (ARL) is to discover, innovate, and transition science and technology to ensure dominant strategic land power. The ARL’s core competencies include network and …
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€46.48
Army Research Laboratory Technical Assessment Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Assessment of the Physical Sciences Directorate at the Army Research Office
This report summarizes the 2019 findings of the Panel on Review of Extramural Basic Research at the Army Research Laboratory, which reviewed the programs at the Army Research Offices Physical …
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€18.82
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics: Applying Big Data to Address the Social Determinants of Health in Oncology
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held the workshop Applying Big Data to Address the Social Determinants of Health in Oncology on October 28"29, 2019, in Washington, …
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€46.33
Committee on Astrobiology and Planetary Science & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Report Series: Committee on Astrobiology and Planetary Science
The Committee on Astrobiology and Planetary Sciences of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine is tasked with monitoring the progress in implementation of the recommendations …
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€12.45
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Committee on the Future of Electric Power in the U.S.: Models to Inform Planning for the Future of Electric Power in the United States
Providing a reliable and resilient supply of electric power to communities across the United States has always posed a complex challenge. Utilities must support daily operations to serve a diverse …
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€50.72
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & Health and Medicine Division: Assessment of Illness in U.S. Government Employees and Their Families at Overseas Embassies
In late 2016, U.S. Embassy personnel in Havana, Cuba, began to report the development of an unusual set of symptoms and clinical signs. For some of these patients, their case began with the sudden …
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€46.01
Board on Science Education & Committee on the Role of Authentic STEM Learning Experiences in Developing Interest and Competencies for Computing: Cultivating Interest and Competencies in Computing
Computing in some form touches nearly every aspect of day to day life and is reflected in the ubiquitous use of cell phones, the expansion of automation into many industries, and the vast amounts of …
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€55.92
Board on Army Research and Development & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Army Medical Research and Development Infrastructure Planning
At the request of the U.S. Army, the Board on Army Research and Development of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine conducted a 3-day workshop to explore how the Army can …
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€41.41
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Board on Environmental Change and Society: Accelerating Decarbonization of the U.S. Energy System
The world is transforming its energy system from one dominated by fossil fuel combustion to one with net-zero emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), the primary anthropogenic greenhouse gas. This energy …
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€81.39
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & Laboratory Assessments Board: Governance and Management of the Nuclear Security Enterprise
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)leads a nuclear security enterprise that includes three national laboratories, several production facilities, and an experimental test site. NNSA’s …
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€68.57
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & Intelligence Community Studies Board: Emerging Technology Intersections and Partnerships for Counterproliferation
The Intelligence Community Studies Board of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a workshop on February 27, 2020 to explore insights from world-class experts and …
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€18.70
Committee on Depicting Innovation in Information Technology & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Information Technology Innovation
Information technology (IT) is widely understood to be the enabling technology of the 21st century. IT has transformed, and continues to transform, all aspects of our lives: commerce and finance, …
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€87.90
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Enhancing Federal Clean Energy Innovation
A widespread and rapid transition to a low-carbon energy system by 2050 is essential to keep pace with ambitious policy goals and avoid the worst consequences of climate change. Innovation is …
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€61.12
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Space Nuclear Propulsion for Human Mars Exploration
Space Nuclear Propulsion for Human Mars Exploration identifies primary technical and programmatic challenges, merits, and risks for developing and demonstrating space nuclear propulsion technologies …
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Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee to Assess NASAa¬&s University Leadership Initiative: Assessing NASA’s University Leadership Initiative
NASA created the University Leadership Initiative (ULI) to engage creative and innovative minds in the academic arena to identify significant aeronautics and aviation research challenges and define …
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Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & Geophysics Research Forum: Active Tectonics
Over 250, 000 people were killed in the Tangshan, China earthquake of 1976, and other less active tectonic processes can disrupt river channels or have a grave impact on repositories of radioactive …
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Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Committee on the Future of Electric Power in the U.S.: Future of Electric Power in the United States
Electric power is essential for the lives and livelihoods of all Americans, and the need for electricity that is safe, clean, affordable, and reliable will only grow in the decades to come. At the …
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€80.87
Board on Army Research and Development & Committee on Powering the U.S. Army of the Future: Powering the U.S. Army of the Future
At the request of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Research and Technology, Powering the U.S. Army of the Future examines the U.S. Army’s future power requirements for sustaining a …
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€61.16
Board on Human-Systems Integration & Committee on Cybersecurity Workforce of the Federal Aviation Administration: Looking Ahead at the Cybersecurity Workforce at the Federal Aviation Administration
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has overseen significant upgrades to the technology used to manage aviation operations to increase the safety and efficiency of the National Airspace System …
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€26.39
Air Force Studies Board & Board on Higher Education and Workforce: Empowering the Defense Acquisition Workforce to Improve Mission Outcomes Using Data Science
The effective use of data science – the science and technology of extracting value from data – improves, enhances, and strengthens acquisition decision-making and outcomes. Using data science to …
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€51.09
2018 Panel on Review of Extramural Basic Research at the Army Research Laboratory & 2019 Panel on Review of Extramural Basic Research at the Army Research Laboratory: 2018-2020 Assessment of the Army Research Office
The mission of the Army Research Office (ARO), as part of the U.S. Army Futures Command?U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command?Army Research Laboratory (ARL), is to execute the Army’s …
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€50.19
Army Research Laboratory Technical Assessment Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: 2019-2020 Assessment of the Army Research Laboratory
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Army Research Laboratory Technical Assessment Board (ARLTAB) provides biennial assessments of the scientific and technical quality of …
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€44.00
Board on Health Care Services & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Opportunities and Challenges for Using Digital Health Applications in Oncology
Digital health encompasses a broad array of tools and strategies with the goals of advancing research, increasing health care access and quality, and making care more personalized. It encompasses …
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Committee on Biological and Physical Sciences in Space & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Report Series: Committee on Biological and Physical Sciences in Space: Using Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) to Achieve Lunar Biological and P
After several decades since the last human visit, NASA is planning to return to the Moon, this time not only to visit but also to carry out extensive scientific experiments, establish a habitat …
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Committee on NIST Technical Programs & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Assessment of Selected Divisions of the Physical Measurement Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology
At the request of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has, since 1959, annually assembled panels of experts from …
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Committee on NIST Technical Programs & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Assessment of Selected Divisions of the Information Technology Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology
At the request of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has, since 1959, annually assembled panels of experts from …
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€18.71
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on Building Data Capacity for Patient-Centered Outcomes Research: An Agenda for 2021 to 2030: Building Data Capacity for Patient-Centered Outcomes Research
The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE), in partnership with other agencies and divisions of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, coordinates a …
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Board on Army Research and Development & Committee on Assessing the Physical and Technical Suitability of DoD Test and Evaluation Ranges and Infrastructure: Necessary DoD Range Capabilities to Ensure Operational Superiority of U.S. Defense Systems
Rigorous operational testing (OT) of weapon systems procured by the U.S. Department of Defense (Do D) is fundamental to ensuring that these sophisticated systems not only meet their stated …
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€36.44
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Board on Physics and Astronomy: Bringing Fusion to the U.S. Grid
Fusion energy offers the prospect of addressing the nation’s energy needs and contributing to the transition to a low-carbon emission electrical generation infrastructure. Technology and research …
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€46.33
Committee on DoD Engagement with Its Manufacturing USA MIIs Phase 2 Study & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: DoD Engagement with Its Manufacturing Innovation Institutes
To better support the need for timely, effective manufacturing technology development and transition, the Department of Defense (Do D) has established nine Manufacturing Innovation Institutes (MIIs) …
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Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & Laboratory Assessments Board: Assessment of the Center for Neutron Research at the National Institute of Standards and Technology
At the request of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has, since 1959, annually assembled panels of experts from …
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€18.65
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Materials and Manufacturing Board: Exploiting Advanced Manufacturing Capabilities: Topology Optimization in Design
Topology optimization is a digital method for designing objects in order to achieve the best structural performance, sometimes in combination with other physical requirements. Topology optimization …
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Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Academy of Engineering: Materials Science and Engineering in a Post-Pandemic World: A DoD Perspective
Advances in materials science and engineering play a crucial role in supporting the U.S. economy and national security. To maintain its leading edge in the field, the United States relies on a rich …
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Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Aviation After a Year of Pandemic
Among the various segments of society affected by the COVID-19 pandemic over the past year and a half, few were hit as hard as the aviation industry. At its worst point, in March 2020, passenger …
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Board on Health Care Services & Committee on Building Data Capacity for Patient-Centered Outcomes Research: An Agenda for 2021 to 2030: Building Data Capacity for Patient-Centered Outcomes Research
The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE), in partnership with other agencies and divisions of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, coordinates a …
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€18.82
Board on Health Care Services & Committee on Building Data Capacity for Patient-Centered Outcomes Research: An Agenda for 2021 to 2030: Building Data Capacity for Patient-Centered Outcomes Research
The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE), in partnership with other agencies and divisions of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, coordinates a …
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Board on Army Research and Development & Committee on U.S. Army Futures Command Research Program Realignment: U.S. Army Futures Command Research Program Realignment
The U.S. Army Futures Command (AFC) leads a continuous effort to modernize and innovate to support future warfighters. AFC now oversees Combat Capability Development Command and has recently …
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€36.02
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Flying in the COVID-19 Era: Science-based Risk Assessments and Mitigation Strategies on the Ground and in the Air
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a workshop on February 4th and 5th, 2021 to review the issues related to safety of passengers and employees in commercial air …
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Board on Physics and Astronomy & Committee on the Views on the World Radiocommunication Conference 2023: Views of the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine on Agenda Items at Issue at the World Radiocommunication Conference 2023 (
The radio frequency spectrum is a limited resource for which there is an ever-increasing demand from an expansive range of applications – all the way from commercial, such as mobile phones, to …
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€46.44
Air Force Studies Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Digital Strategy for the Department of the Air Force
The Air Force Studies Board of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine hosted a three-part workshop series to examine the risks associated with the technical, programmatic, …
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€41.16
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee on Transport Airplane Risk Assessment Methodology: Evaluation of the Transport Airplane Risk Assessment Methodology
The Transport Airplane Risk Assessment Methodology (TARAM) is a process for calculating risk associated with continued operational safety issues in the U.S. transport airplane fleet. TARAM is …
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Committee on Advancing a Systems Approach to Studying the Earth: A Strategy for the National Science Foundation & Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education: Next Generation Earth Systems Science at the National Science Foundation
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has played a key role over the past several decades in advancing understanding of Earth’s systems by funding research on atmospheric, ocean, hydrologic, …
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€26.19
Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate & Board on Earth Sciences and Resources: Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence to Advance Earth System Science
The Earth system – the atmospheric, hydrologic, geologic, and biologic cycles that circulate energy, water, nutrients, and other trace substances – is a large, complex, multiscale system in space and …
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€22.38
Board on Science Education & Committee on Increasing Diversity and Inclusion in the Leadership of Competed Space Missions: Advancing Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility in the Leadership of Competed Space Missions
Fostering diverse and inclusive teams that are highly skilled, innovative, and productive is critical for maintaining U.S. leadership in space exploration. In recent years, NASA has taken steps to …
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€36.11
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems & Committee on R&D Strategies to Improve Surface Transportation Security: Improving Surface Transportation Security
The surface transportation system is vital to our nation’s economy, defense, and quality of life. Because threats against the system have hitherto been perceived as minor, little attention has been …
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Air Force Studies Board & Committee on Air Force Advanced Battle Management System: Advanced Battle Management System
The U.S. Department of Defense is pursuing an improved ability to more closely integrate and operate jointly against agile adversaries through Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2). This …
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Committee on the Review of Lessons-Learned in the Implementation of NASA’s Earth Venture Class & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Lessons Learned in the Implementation of NASA’s Earth Venture Class
The NASA Science Mission Directorate/Earth Science Division’s (SMD/ESD’s) Earth Venture (EV) is a program element within the Earth System Science Pathfinder Program. At the request of NASA, this …
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Committee on the Future of Encryption & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Cryptography and the Intelligence Community
Encryption is a process for making information unreadable by an adversary who does not possess a specific key that is required to make the encrypted information readable. The inverse process, making …
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Board on Mathematical Sciences and Analytics & Board on Research Data and Information: Automated Research Workflows for Accelerated Discovery
The needs and demands placed on science to address a range of urgent problems are growing. The world is faced with complex, interrelated challenges in which the way forward lies hidden or dispersed …
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Board on Health Care Services & Committee on Building Data Capacity for Patient-Centered Outcomes Research: An Agenda for 2021 to 2030: Building Data Capacity for Patient-Centered Outcomes Research
The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE), in partnership with other agencies and divisions of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, coordinates a …
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€46.50
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & Intelligence Community Studies Board: Anticipating Rare Events of Major Significance
The Intelligence Community Studies Board of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a 2-day virtual workshop on December 17 and 21, 2021, to explore insights from …
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€22.53
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Navigating an Electric Vehicle Future
The widespread adoption of electric vehicles will play a critical role in decarbonizing the transportation sector as the nation moves toward net-zero emissions. Recent announcements from automakers …
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€22.46
Committee on Responsible Computing Research: Ethics and Governance of Computing Research and Its Applications & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Fostering Responsible Computing Research
With computing technologies increasingly woven into our society and infrastructure, it is vital for the computing research community to be able to address the ethical and societal challenges that can …
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€41.32
Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources & Board on Energy and Environmental Systems: Current Methods for Life Cycle Analyses of Low-Carbon Transportation Fuels in the United States
Transportation is the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States, with petroleum accounting for 90 percent of transportation fuels. Policymakers encounter a range of questions as …
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€51.06
Committee on the Foundation for Assessing the Health and Vitality of the NASA Science Mission Directorate’s Research Communities & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Foundations of a Healthy and Vital Research Community for NASA Science
The U.S. space science community includes thousands of scientists across multiple disciplines that influence and are influenced by the many engineers, technicians, and support personnel that are part …
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€25.13
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Condensed Matter and Materials Research Committee: Frontiers in Synthetic Moir? Quantum Matter
On May 18-19, 2021, the Condensed Matter and Materials Research Committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a public workshop to examine the frontiers of …
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Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment & Committee on Review of Effectiveness and Efficiency of Defense Environmental Cleanup Activities of the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management: Effectiveness and Efficiency of Def
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management (DOE-EM) was established by Congress in 1989 to remediate waste and environmental contamination that have resulted from nuclear …
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€23.63
Committee on Protecting Critical Technologies for National Security in an Era of Openness and Competition & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Protecting U.S. Technological Advantage
U.S. leadership in technology innovation is central to our nation?s interests, including its security, economic prosperity, and quality of life. Our nation has created a science and technology …
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Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & Space Studies Board: Planning the Future Space Weather Operations and Research Infrastructure
Affecting technological systems at a global-scale, space weather can disrupt high-frequency radio signals, satellite-based communications, navigational satellite positioning and timing signals, …
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Board on Life Sciences & Board on Physics and Astronomy: Physics of Life
Biological physics, or the physics of living systems, has emerged fully as a field of physics, alongside more traditional fields of astrophysics and cosmology, atomic, molecular and optical physics, …
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Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Committee on Laying the Foundation for New and Advanced Nuclear Reactors in the United States: Understanding the Societal Challenges Facing Nuclear Power
Nuclear reactors can provide low-carbon energy, and advanced nuclear technologies could play an important role in moving the United States toward a zero-carbon future. Next-generation nuclear …
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€18.84
Board on Army Research and Development & Committee on Assessing the Feasibility of the Strategic Long Range Cannon: Assessing the Feasibility of the Strategic Long Range Cannon
The U.S. Army is working on a major science and technology development program to build the Strategic Long Range Cannon to fire a hypersonic projectile 1, 000 miles. At the request of the Deputy …
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€22.43
Air Force Studies Board & Board on Physics and Astronomy: Analysis of Potential Interference Issues Related to FCC Order 20-48
This report reviews Federal Communications Commission order FCC 20-48, which authorized Ligado Networks LLC to operate a low-power terrestrial radio network adjacent to the Global Positioning System …
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Board on Physics and Astronomy & Committee on Astronomy and Astrophysics: Roman Space Telescope Observing Time Allocation Principles
The Roman Space Telescope will measurably advance knowledge of dark energy and exoplanet demographics. Locally, it will likely enhance understanding of the structure and substructure of the Milky Way …
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Committee on Leveraging the Future Research and Development Ecosystem for the Intelligence Community & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Improving the Intelligence Community’s Leveraging of the Full Science and Technology Ecosystem
The agencies within the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) depend on advanced technology to achieve their goals. While AI, cloud computing, advanced sensors, and big data analytics will fundamentally …
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€22.45
2022 Panel on Review of the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Communications Technology Laboratory & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: 2022 Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Communications Techn
At the request of the director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, this report assesses the management of Standards and Technology Communications Technology Laboratory (CTL), …
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Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Committee on Merits and Viability of Different Nuclear Fuel Cycles and Technology Options and the Waste Aspects of Advanced Nuclear Reactors: Merits and Viability of Different Nuclear Fuel Cycles and Technology
The United States has deployed commercial nuclear power since the 1950s, and as of 2021, nuclear power accounts for approximately 20 percent of U.S. electricity generation. The current commercial …
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€46.44
Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment & Committee on Technical Assessment of the Capital Facility Needs of the National Institute of Standards and Technology: Technical Assessment of the Capital Facility Needs of the National Institute o
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) provides critical impact to the nation through standards development and cutting-edge research, with a mission to promote U.S. innovation and …
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€26.40
Board on Earth Sciences and Resources & Committee on Geological and Geotechnical Engineering: Corrosion of Buried Steel at New and In-Service Infrastructure
Steel is a common component of U.S. infrastructure, but that steel can corrode when buried in soil, rock, or fill. Steel corrosion is estimated to cost the United States 3-4 percent of its gross …
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€26.19
Committee on Strengthening the Talent for National Defense: Infusing Advanced Manufacturing in Engineering Education & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Infusing Advanced Manufacturing into Undergraduate Engineering Education
Cutting-edge technologies are reshaping manufacturing in the United States and around the world, with applications from medicine to defense. If the United States wants to further build upon these new …
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€23.89
Committee on Advising NSF on Its Efforts to Achieve the Nation’s Vision for the Materials Genome Initiative & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: NSF Efforts to Achieve the Nation’s Vision for the Materials Genome Initiative
The Materials Genome Initiative (MGI) was launched in 2011 by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy to help accelerate the design, discovery, development and deployment of advanced …
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€28.87
Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment & Board on Mathematical Sciences and Analytics: Enhancing Urban Sustainability Infrastructure: Mathematical Approaches for Optimizing Investments
The National Academies Board on Mathematical Sciences and Analytics and Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment convened a 3-day public workshop on July 13, 20, and 27, 2022, to …
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€24.94
Committee on Post-Exascale Computing for the National Nuclear Security Administration & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Charting a Path in a Shifting Technical and Geopolitical Landscape
In 2022, the United States installed its first exascale computing system for the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science, with an National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) system scheduled …
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€32.43
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Committee on the Assessment of High Energy Density Science: Fundamental Research in High Energy Density Science
High energy density (HED) science has critical applications for society from fusion energy to sustaining the US nuclear deterrent, while also contributing to broader scientific questions such as …
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Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Board on Environmental Change and Society: Role of Net Metering in the Evolving Electricity System
Over the last three decades, there have been fundamental shifts in the electricity system, including the growing adoption of clean distributed generation energy technologies such as rooftop solar. …
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€52.83
Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment & Committee on a Strategy to Renew Federal Facilities: Strategies to Renew Federal Facilities
The United States real property portfolio is critical infrastructure that provides places and means for the federal government to operate and generate the products, services, security, and assurances …
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€24.83
Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology & Board on Energy and Environmental Systems: Carbon Dioxide Utilization Markets and Infrastructure
Carbon materials pervade many aspects of modern life, from fuels and building materials to consumer goods and commodity chemicals. Reaching net-zero emissions will require replacing existing …
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€31.39
Board on Life Sciences & Committee on Planetary Protection: Planetary Protection Considerations for Missions to Solar System Small Bodies
The ultimate goal of planetary protection for outbound missions is to prevent harmful contamination that would inhibit future measurements designed to search for evidence of the existence or …
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€23.85
Board on Health Care Services & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Innovation in Electronic Health Records for Oncology Care, Research, and Surveillance
Electronic Health Records (EHRs) are used across a wide variety of activities in cancer care and cancer research, including communication among health care team members and patients, clinical …
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Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & National Materials and Manufacturing Board: Logistics and Manufacturing Under Attack: Future Pathways
The ability to deploy and maintain infrastructure and equipment is crucial to military operations and national security. However, the ability to make and repair equipment in a wide range of …
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€23.84
Committee for the Assessment of Partnership Options for a Small Satellite System for Collecting Scientific Quality Oceanic and Coastal Data & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Leveraging Commercial Space for Earth and Ocean Remote Sensing (eP
Within the past decade an ever-growing number of New Space organizations have emerged that are unencumbered by legacy practices and constraints. By reimagining, creating, and continuously improving …
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€26.16
Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate & Board on Environmental Change and Society: Climate Security in South Asia
The South Asia region presents a confluence of major climate impacts and key security issues. From a weather and climate standpoint, the region experiences a wide range of hazards, such as the recent …
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€21.35
Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate & Board on Energy and Environmental Systems: Pathways to an Equitable and Just Energy Transition
While technologies are clearly instrumental in transitioning away from fossil fuel-based energy and toward a decarbonized economy, decisions about which technologies are prioritized, how they are …
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€14.89
Committee on Earth Science and Applications from Space & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Assessment of Commercial Space Platforms for Earth Science Instruments
Space-based Earth observations enable global observations of the land surface, biosphere, solid Earth, atmosphere, cryosphere, and oceans. Earth observations from space, combined with data acquired …
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€18.82
Board on Mathematical Sciences and Analytics & Committee on International Security and Arms Control: Risk Analysis Methods for Nuclear War and Nuclear Terrorism
The assessment of risk is complex and often controversial. It is derived from the existence of a hazard, and it is characterized by the uncertainty of possible undesirable events and their outcomes. …
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€28.61
Committee on the Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Origins, Worlds, and Life
The next decade of planetary science and astrobiology holds tremendous promise. New research will expand our understanding of our solar system’s origins, how planets form and evolve, under what …
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€87.07
Board on Energy and Environmental Systems & Committee on Laying the Foundation for New and Advanced Nuclear Reactors in the United States: Laying the Foundation for New and Advanced Nuclear Reactors in the United States
The world confronts an existential challenge in responding to climate change, resulting in an urgent need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from all sectors of the economy. What will it take for new …
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€41.09
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Committee for a Decadal Survey on Astronomy and Astrophysics 2020 (Astro2020): Pathways to Discovery in Astronomy and Astrophysics for the 2020s
We live in a time of extraordinary discovery and progress in astronomy and astrophysics. The next decade will transform our understanding of the universe and humanity’s place in it. Every decade the …
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€93.31
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board & Committee on Biological and Physical Sciences Research in Space 2023?2032: Thriving in Space
Research in biological and physical sciences in space provides the critical scientific and technological foundations that make space exploration possible. As humanity looks towards the Moon and Mars …
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€60.95
Board on Physics and Astronomy & Condensed Matter and Materials Research Committee: Frontiers in Data Analytics and Monitoring Tools for Extreme Materials
One of the major challenges in materials science today is developing materials that can survive and function in extreme environments, such as the high-radiation environments found in a fission or …
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€26.11
Air Force Studies Board & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Test and Evaluation Challenges in Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Systems for the Department of the Air Force
The Department of the Air Force (DAF) is in the early stages of incorporating modern artificial intelligence (AI) technologies into its systems and operations. The integration of AI-enabled …
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€42.39
Board on Mathematical Sciences and Analytics & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Artificial Intelligence to Assist Mathematical Reasoning
Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to aid new mathematical discoveries. Particularly as the amount of data available grows beyond what any person can study, AI can be useful in its power …
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€22.41
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & Laboratory Assessments Board: Assessment of the Material Measurement Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology
Since 1959, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has annually engaged the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to assemble panels of experts to assess the …
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€44.02
Board on Mathematical Sciences and Analytics & Committee on International Security and Arms Control: Risk Analysis Methods for Nuclear War and Nuclear Terrorism
The Committee on Risk Analysis Methods for Nuclear War and Nuclear Terrorism was established and managed by the National Academies of Sciences, Medicine, and Engineering in response to a …
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€18.65
Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate & Board on Environmental Change and Society: Climate Security in Central America
To advance a systems understanding of climate-related security risks in the Central America region, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a workshop titled Climate …
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€23.73
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & Laboratory Assessments Board: Assessment of the Divisions of the Physical Measurement Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology Located in Boulder, Colorado
Since 1959, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has annually commissioned the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to assess its various measurements and …
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€18.84
Committee on Options for a National Plan for Smart Manufacturing & Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences: Options for a National Plan for Smart Manufacturing
Smart manufacturing technologies – from advanced sensors to new computing capabilities – have the potential to greatly improve the productivity, energy efficiency, and sustainability of the U.S. …
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€26.38
Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences & Laboratory Assessments Board: Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Center for Neutron Research
Since 1959, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has annually enlisted the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to convene expert panels comprising …
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€18.69
Committee on Law and Justice & Computer Science and Telecommunications Board: Facial Recognition Technology
Facial recognition technology is increasingly used for identity verification and identification, from aiding law enforcement investigations to identifying potential security threats at large venues. …
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€41.43
