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Air Force Software Sustainment and Maintenance of Weapons Systems by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Booksplease Price: $55.12Modern software engineering practices, pioneered by the commercial software community, have begun transforming Department of Defense (DoD) software development, integration processes, and deployment... -
Building the Workforce We Need to Care for People with Serious Illness: Proceedings of a Workshop by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Booksplease Price: $55.12The United States faces a significantly aging population as well as a growing share of the population that is living longer with multiple chronic conditions. To provide high-quality care to people of... -
U.S. Army Futures Command Research Program Realignment by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Booksplease Price: $42.13The 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... -
The Impact of the Affordable Care Act on Cancer Prevention and Cancer Care: Proceedings of a Workshop by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Booksplease Price: $44.22The National Cancer Policy Forum of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a virtual workshop in March 2021 to examine the existing evidence base on how the Patient... -
Population Health Science in the United States: Trends, Evidence, and Implications for Policy: Proceedings of a Joint Symposium by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Booksplease Price: $55.12On October 3, 2018, the Roundtable on Population Health Improvement of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and the Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health... -
The Public Health Effects of Food Deserts: Workshop Summary by National Research Council 9780309137287
Booksplease Price: $54.17In the United States, people living in low-income neighborhoods frequently do not have access to affordable healthy food venues, such as supermarkets. Instead, those living in "food deserts" must... -
A Pragmatic Future for NAEP: Containing Costs and Updating Technologies by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine 9780309275323
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $17.35The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) - often called "The Nation's Report Card" - is the largest nationally representative and continuing assessment of what students in public and... -
Physics of Life by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine 9780309274005
RRP: $63.21Booksplease Price: $50.04Biological 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,... -
Oil in the Sea IV: Inputs, Fates, and Effects by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine 9780309274296
RRP: $78.69Booksplease Price: $61.38Oil and natural gas represent more than 50 percent of the worldwide energy supply, with high energy demand driven by population growth and improving standards of living. Despite significant progress... -
Exploring the Role of Health Professional Students and Trainees as Members of the Health Workforce During Crises: Proceedings of a Workshop by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine 9780309692984
Booksplease Price: $33.29The onset of COVID-19 pandemic and inundation of the U.S. health care system emphasized infrastructural and health professional education vulnerabilities. A planning committee of the National... -
Data and Management Strategies for Recreational Fisheries with Annual Catch Limits by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine 9780309671576
RRP: $52.89Booksplease Price: $41.78Marine recreational fishing is a popular activity enjoyed by more than 9 million Americans annually and is a driver of the American ocean-or blue-economy. To ensure that fish populations are not... -
Laying the Foundation for New and Advanced Nuclear Reactors in the United States by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine 9780309690775
Booksplease Price: $49.68The 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... -
Education and Delinquency:: Summary of a Workshop by Panel on Juvenile Crime: Prevention, Treatment, and Control 9780309071932
Booksplease Price: $57.30The Panel on Juvenile Crime: Prevention, Treatment, and Control convened a workshop on October 2, 1998, to explore issues related to educational performance, school climate, school practices,... -
Food Safety Policy, Science, and Risk Assessment:: Strengthening the Connection: Workshop Proceedings by Food and Nutrition Board 9780309073233
Booksplease Price: $57.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780309073233Author Food and Nutrition BoardFormat PaperbackPage Count 50 -
Science and Technology for DOE Site Cleanup: Workshop Summary by National Research Council 9780309108218
Booksplease Price: $35.66The Department of Energy's Office of Environmental Management is developing a technology roadmap to guide planning and possible future congressional appropriations for its technology development... -
Neuroscience Biomarkers and Biosignatures: Converging Technologies, Emerging Partnerships: Workshop Summary by Forum on Neuroscience and Nervous System Disorders 9780309108898
Booksplease Price: $56.23Biomarkers, or biological markers, are quantitative measurements that offer researchers and clinicians valuable insight into diagnosis, treatment and prognosis for many disorders and diseases. A... -
Communicating to Advance the Public's Health: Workshop Summary by Institute of Medicine 9780309368674
Booksplease Price: $51.42The Institute of Medicine's Roundtable on Population Health Improvement brings together individuals and organizations that represent different sectors in a dialogue about what is needed to improve... -
Building the Ohio Innovation Economy: Summary of a Symposium by Committee on Competing in the 21st Century: Best Practice in State and Regional Innovation Initiatives 9780309266765
Booksplease Price: $55.47Since 1991, the National Research Council, under the auspices of the Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy, has undertaken a program of activities to improve policymakers' understandings... -
Delta Waters: Research to Support Integrated Water and Environmental Management in the Lower Mississippi River by Committee on Strategic Research for Integrated Water Resources Management 9780309292160
Booksplease Price: $53.55The Water Institute of the Gulf is a not-for-profit, independent research institute dedicated to advancing the understanding of coastal, deltaic, river and water resource systems, both within the... -
Assessing Medical Preparedness to Respond to a Terrorist Nuclear Event: Workshop Report by Institute of Medicine 9780309130882
Booksplease Price: $67.57A nuclear attack on a large U.S. city by terrorists-even with a low-yield improvised nuclear device (IND) of 10 kilotons or less-would cause a large number of deaths and severe injuries. The large... -
Cross-Sector Responses to Obesity: Models for Change: Workshop Summary by Institute of Medicine 9780309371056
Booksplease Price: $58.41Obesity affects 17 percent of children and adolescents and almost 36 percent of adults in the United States. Conservative estimates suggest that obesity now accounts for almost 20 percent of national... -
Strategies for Scaling Effective Family-Focused Preventive Interventions to Promote Children's Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Health: Workshop Summary by National Research Council 9780309305440
Booksplease Price: $49.45Over the last three decades, researchers have made remarkable progress in creating and testing family-focused programs aimed at fostering the cognitive, affective, and behavioral health of children... -
Career Choices of Female Engineers: A Summary of a Workshop by Committee on Career Outcomes of Female Engineering Bachelor's Degree Recipients 9780309305815
Booksplease Price: $59.44Despite decades of government, university, and employer efforts to close the gender gap in engineering, women make up only 11 percent of practicing engineers in the United States. What factors... -
Methodological Advances in Cross-National Surveys of Educational Achievement by Board on International Comparative Studies in Education 9780309083331
Booksplease Price: $81.36In November 2000, the Board on International Comparative Studies in Education (BICSE) held a symposium to draw on the wealth of experience gathered over a four--decade period, to evaluate improvement... -
Public Health Effectiveness of the FDA 510(k) Clearance Process: Balancing Patient Safety and Innovation: Workshop Report by Institute of Medicine 9780309158497
Booksplease Price: $55.86The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is responsible for assuring that medical devices are safe and effective before they go on the market. As part of its assessment of FDA's premarket clearance... -
Developing a Framework for Measuring Community Resilience: Summary of a Workshop by Committee On Measures Of Community Resilience: From Lessons Learned To Lessons Applied 9780309347389
Booksplease Price: $49.85The 2012 National Research Council report Disaster Resilience: A National Imperative highlighted the challenges of increasing national resilience in the United States. One finding of the report was... -
Equality of Opportunity and the Importance of Place: Summary of a Workshop by Jane L. Ross 9780309084673
Booksplease Price: $57.30The National Research Council (NRC) recently conducted several projects concerning urban poverty, racial disparities, and opportunities to change metropolitan areas in ways that have positive effects... -
Modeling and Simulation in Manufacturing and Defense Acquisition: Pathways to Success by Committee on Modeling and Simulation Enhancements for 21st Century Manufacturing and Defense Acquisition 9780309084826
Booksplease Price: $85.10The 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... -
Enhancing Participation in the U.S. Global Change Research Program by Committee to Advise the U.S. Global Change Research Program 9780309380263
Booksplease Price: $46.44The US Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) is a collection of 13 Federal entities charged by law to assist the United States and the world to understand, assess, predict, and respond to... -
Measuring Trauma: Workshop Summary by Krisztina Marton 9780309443371
Booksplease Price: $54.05The Workshop on Integrating New Measures of Trauma into the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's (SAMHSA) Data Collection Programs, held in Washington, D.C. in December 2015,... -
Assessment of Millimeter-Wave and Terahertz Technology for Detection and Identification of Concealed Explosives and Weapons by National Research Council 9780309104692
Booksplease Price: $36.30The 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 of Testing and Evaluation Methodology for Biological Point Detectors: Abbreviated Summary by National Research Council 9780309091794
Booksplease Price: $23.54This report examines the proposed testing methodology and facility that the Department of Defense (DOD) will use to test and evaluate the effectiveness of its detection system against biological... -
Prudent Practices in the Laboratory: Handling and Management of Chemical Hazards, Updated Version by The Committee on Prudent Practices in the Laboratory: An Update 9780309138642
RRP: $104.49Booksplease Price: $82.01Prudent Practices in the Laboratory-the book that has served for decades as the standard for chemical laboratory safety practice-now features updates and new topics. This revised edition has an... -
How Far Have We Come in Reducing Health Disparities?: Progress Since 2000: Workshop Summary by Institute of Medicine 9780309255301
Booksplease Price: $45.25At the turn of the 21st century, several important reports and events designed to raise awareness of health disparities and to describe initial efforts to reduce health disparities took place. The... -
Measuring Specific Mental Illness Diagnoses with Functional Impairment: Workshop Summary by Committee on National Statistics 9780309392396
RRP: $47.73Booksplease Price: $42.34The workshop summarized in this report was organized as part of a study sponsored by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and the Office of the Assistant Secretary... -
An Update on Research Issues in the Assessment of Birth Settings: Workshop Summary by National Research Council 9780309287395
Booksplease Price: $53.16More than 30 years ago, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and the National Research Council (NRC) convened a committee to determine methodologies and research needed to evaluate childbirth settings in... -
Knowing What Students Know: The Science and Design of Educational Assessment by Committee on the Foundations of Assessment 9780309293228
Booksplease Price: $62.31Education is a hot topic. From the stage of presidential debates to tonight's dinner table, it is an issue that most Americans are deeply concerned about. While there are many strategies for... -
SBIR at the National Science Foundation by Committee on Capitalizing on Science, Technology, and Innovation: An Assessment of the Small Business Innovation Research Program 9780309311960
RRP: $78.69Booksplease Price: $61.38The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program is one of the largest examples of U.S. public-private partnerships, and was established in 1982 to encourage small businesses to develop new... -
Confronting Commercial Sexual Exploitation and Sex Trafficking of Minors in the United States: A Guide for the Legal Sector by National Research Council 9780309313407
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.44Every day in the United States, children and adolescents are victims of commercial sexual exploitation and sex trafficking. These are not only illegal activities, but also forms of violence and abuse... -
Review of WIC Food Packages: An Evaluation of White Potatoes in the Cash Value Voucher: Letter Report by Institute of Medicine 9780309339247
RRP: $42.57Booksplease Price: $33.54Review of WIC Food Packages: An Evaluation of White Potatoes in the Cash Value Voucher assesses the impact of 2009 regulation to allow the purchase of vegetables and fruits, excluding white potatoes,...