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Evaluation of the Transport Airplane Risk Assessment Methodology by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Booksplease Price: €27.12The 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... -
Suicide Prevention in Indigenous Communities: Proceedings of a Workshop by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Booksplease Price: €27.76Indigenous communities experience higher risks for suicide compared to the general U.S. population, with suicide as the second-leading cause of death among Indigenous children and young adults in... -
Understanding Risk: Informing Decisions in a Democratic Society by Committee on Risk Characterization 9780309089562
Booksplease Price: €114.66Understanding Risk addresses a central dilemma of risk decisionmaking in a democracy: detailed scientific and technical information is essential for making decisions, but the people who make and live... -
Nutrient Requirements of Dogs and Cats by National Research Council 9780309086288
RRP: €143.99Booksplease Price: €111.81Updating recommendations last made by the National Research Council in the mid-1980s, this report provides nutrient recommendations based on physical activity and stage in life, major factors that... -
Next Generation Science Standards: For States, By States by NGSS 9780309272278
RRP: €53.55Booksplease Price: €43.30Next Generation Science Standards identifies the science all K-12 students should know. These new standards are based on the National Research Council's A Framework for K-12 Science Education. The... -
Evaluation of the Health and Safety Risks of the New USAMRIID High Containment Facilities at Fort Detrick, Maryland by Committee to Review the Health and Safety Risks of High Biocontainment Laboratories at Fort Detrick 9780309151450
Booksplease Price: €41.40The U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases in Frederick, Maryland, is designed to handle pathogens that cause serious or potentially lethal diseases, which require the research... -
From Molecular Insights to Patient Stratification for Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders: Proceedings of a Workshop by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine 9780309277556
RRP: €24.98Booksplease Price: €19.81While significant progress has been seen in fields such as cardiovascular medicine and cancer in improving patient stratification and developing targeted drugs based on genetic findings, progress... -
Enabling Discovery, Development, and Translation of Treatments for Cognitive Dysfunction in Depression: Workshop Summary by The National Academies of Sciences Engineering, and Medicine 9780309373937
Booksplease Price: €51.87Major depressive disorder (MDD) is recognized worldwide as a major cause of disability, morbidity, and mortality. According to the World Health Organization, unipolar depressive disorders affect more... -
Improving State Voter Registration Databases: Final Report by Committee on State Voter Registration Databases 9780309146210
Booksplease Price: €49.28Improving 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... -
Family-Focused Interventions to Prevent Substance Use Disorders in Adolescence: Proceedings of a Workshop by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine 9780309691932
Booksplease Price: €27.70Adolescence is a crucial period of life for the prevention of substance use disorders. Research has shown that early intervention can significantly reduce rates of substance use disorder in adulthood... -
Reckoning with the U.S. Role in Global Ocean Plastic Waste by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine 9780309458856
RRP: €34.51Booksplease Price: €28.08An estimated 8 million metric tons (MMT) of plastic waste enters the world's ocean each year - the equivalent of dumping a garbage truck of plastic waste into the ocean every minute. Plastic waste is... -
Microbial Threats to Health: Emergence, Detection, and Response by Committee on Emerging Microbial Threats to Health in the 21st Century 9780309088640
Booksplease Price: €75.05Infectious diseases are a global hazard that puts every nation and every person at risk. The recent SARS outbreak is a prime example. Knowing neither geographic nor political borders, often arriving... -
Providing National Statistics on Health and Social Welfare Programs in an Era of Change: Summary of a Workshop by National Research Council 9780309060400
Booksplease Price: €52.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780309060400Author National Research CouncilFormat PaperbackPage Count 72< -
Dietary Reference Intakes for Calcium, Phosphorus, Magnesium, Vitamin D, and Fluoride by Institute of Medicine 9780309064033
Booksplease Price: €113.11Since 1941, Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDAs) has been recognized as the most authoritative source of information on nutrient levels for healthy people. Since publication of the 10th edition in... -
Surface Coal Mining Effects on Groundwater Recharge by Water Science and Technology Board 9780309042376
Booksplease Price: €55.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780309042376Author Water Science and Technology BoardFormat PaperbackPage Coun -
Breast Cancer: Setting Priorities for Effectiveness Research by Division of Health Care Services 9780309078702
Booksplease Price: €141.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorDivision of Health Care ServicesBook InformationISBN 9780309078702Author Division of Healt -
Research on Power-Frequency Fields Completed Under the Energy Policy Act of 1992 by Committee to Review the Research Activities Completed Under the Energy Policy Act of 1992 9780309065436
Booksplease Price: €55.88Since the 1970s, concerns about health hazards associated with electric and magnetic fields from power lines and from workplace, school, and household use of electricity have led to many studies and... -
Protecting Data Privacy in Health Services Research by Committee on the Role of Institutional Review Boards in Health Services Research Data Privacy Protection 9780309071871
Booksplease Price: €110.86The need for quality improvement and for cost saving are driving both individual choices and health system dynamics. The health services research that we need to support informed choices depends on... -
Neurological, Psychiatric, and Developmental Disorders: Meeting the Challenge in the Developing World by Committee on Nervous System Disorders in Developing Countries 9780309071925
Booksplease Price: €75.05Brain disorders-neurological, psychiatric, and developmental-now affect at least 250 million people in the developing world, and this number is expected to rise as life expectancy increases. Yet... -
Immunization Safety Review: Measles, Mumps, Rubella, Vaccine and Autism by Immunization Safety Review Committee 9780309074476
Booksplease Price: €46.16Immunization is widely regarded as one of the most effective and beneficial tools for protecting the public's health. In the United States, immunization programs have resulted in the eradication of... -
The Impacts of Natural Disasters: A Framework for Loss Estimation by Committee on Assessing the Costs of Natural Disasters 9780309063944
Booksplease Price: €52.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780309063944Author Committee on Assessing the Costs of Natural DisastersFormat < -
Veterans and Agent Orange: Update 2012 by Committee to Review the Health Effects in Vietnam Veterans of Exposure to Herbicides (Ninth Biennial Update) 9780309288866
RRP: €140.42Booksplease Price: €108.96From 1962 to 1971, the US military sprayed herbicides over Vietnam to strip the thick jungle canopy that could conceal opposition forces, to destroy crops that those forces might depend on, and to... -
Progress in Preventing Childhood Obesity: Focus on Schools: Brief Summary: Institute of Medicine Regional Symposium by Kansas Health Foundation 9780309100403
Booksplease Price: €35.69Obesity is now an epidemic among children and adolescents in the United States. Nationwide, roughly nine million children over six years of age are obeseaEURO"with elevated risks of both health... -
Diffusion and Use of Genomic Innovations in Health and Medicine: Workshop Summary by Roundtable on Translating Genomic-Based Research for Health 9780309116763
Booksplease Price: €49.97Until fairly recently, genetic information was used primarily in the diagnosis of relatively rare genetic diseases, such as cystic fibrosis and Huntington's Disease, but a transformation in the use... -
Redesigning the Clinical Effectiveness Research Paradigm: Innovation and Practice-Based Approaches: Workshop Summary by LeighAnne Olsen 9780309119887
RRP: €83.30Booksplease Price: €82.67Recent scientific and technological advances have accelerated our understanding of the causes of disease development and progression, and resulted in innovative treatments and therapies. Ongoing work... -
Developing New Contraceptives: Obstacles and Opportunities by Committee on Contraceptive Development 9780309083522
Booksplease Price: €65.97There are numerous reasons to hasten the introduction of new and improved contraceptives-from health concerns about the pill to the continuing medical liability crisis. Yet, U.S. organizations are... -
Statistical Challenges in Assessing and Fostering the Reproducibility of Scientific Results: Summary of a Workshop by Michelle Schwalbe 9780309392020
Booksplease Price: €46.79Questions 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... -
Mapping the Brain and Its Functions: Integrating Enabling Technologies into Neuroscience Research by Institute of Medicine 9780309466196
Booksplease Price: €107.05Significant advances in brain research have been made, but investigators who face the resulting explosion of data need new methods to integrate the pieces of the "brain puzzle." Based on the... -
Hurricane Elena, Gulf Coast: August 29 - September 2, 1985 by Committee on Natural Disasters 9780309044349
Booksplease Price: €50.85Hurricane 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,... -
Monitoring International Labor Standards: Quality of Information, Summary of a Workshop by National Research Council 9780309088589
Booksplease Price: €52.86The NRC has convened the Committee on Monitoring International Labor Standards to provide expert, science-based advice on monitoring compliance with international labor standards. The committee held... -
Measuring and Improving Infrastructure Performance by National Research Council 9780309050982
Booksplease Price: €107.05The 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... -
Fusion of Security System Data to Improve Airport Security by Committee on Assessment of Security Technologies for Transportation 9780309107488
Booksplease Price: €41.40The 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... -
Review and Evaluation of the Air Force Hypersonic Technology Program by National Research Council 9780309061421
Booksplease Price: €103.24This 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,... -
Healers Abroad: Americans Responding to the Human Resource Crisis in HIV/AIDS by Committee on the Options for Overseas Placement of U.S Health Professionals 9780309096164
Booksplease Price: €54.72Healers Abroad:Americans Responding to the Human Resource Crisis in HIV/AIDS calls for the federal government to create and fund the United States Global Health Service (GHS) to mobilize the... -
Asking the Right Questions About Electronic Voting by Committee on a Framework for Understanding Electronic Voting 9780309100243
Booksplease Price: €46.61Many 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... -
Examining the Health Disparities Research Plan of the National Institutes of Health: Unfinished Business by Institute of Medicine 9780309101219
Booksplease Price: €64.24In the United States, health among racial and ethnic minorities, as well as poor people, is significantly worse than the overall U.S. population. Health disparities are reflected by indices such as... -
The Disposal of Activated Carbon from Chemical Agent Disposal Facilities by Committee to Examine the Disposal of Activated Carbon from the Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning Systems at Chemical Agent Disposal Facilities 9780309138185
Booksplease Price: €41.40For 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... -
Avoiding Technology Surprise for Tomorrow's Warfighter: A Symposium Report by Committee for the Symposium on Avoiding Technology Surprise for Tomorrow's Warfighter 9780309142281
Booksplease Price: €32.77On 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... -
Global Sources of Local Pollution: An Assessment of Long-Range Transport of Key Air Pollutants to and from the United States by Committee on the Significance of International Transport of Air Pollutants 9780309144018
Booksplease Price: €70.33Recent advances in air pollution monitoring and modeling capabilities have made it possible to show that air pollution can be transported long distances and that adverse impacts of emitted pollutants... -
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Rising Above the Gathering Storm, Revisited: Rapidly Approaching Category 5 by Members of the 2005 "Rising Above the Gathering Storm" Committee 9780309160971
Booksplease Price: €40.45In the face of so many daunting near-term challenges, U.S. government and industry are letting the crucial strategic issues of U.S. competitiveness slip below the surface. Five years ago, the...