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Assessment of Proposed Partnerships to Implement a Nation...

National Research Council / Division On Earth And Life Studies / Board On Earth Sciences And Resources
Assessment of Proposed Partnerships to Implement a National Landslide Hazards Mitigation Strategy: Interim Report
Landslides are a component of those agents of nature that transport rock and soil from mountains or hillsides to streams, lakes and seas, where new sedimentary rocks begin to form. Therefore, as well as destructive forces that can be induced by human activity, landslides are part of the earth's natural cyclic process of uplift, erosion, and sedimentation. With the growth of human population and the increasing habitation of ever-steeper slopes ...

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Signs of Life: A Report Based on the April 2000 Workshop ...

National Research Council / Division On Earth And Life Studies / Board On Life Sciences
Signs of Life: A Report Based on the April 2000 Workshop on Life Detection Techniques
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 Space Studies Board (SSB). Topics discussed in the workshop included the search for extraterrestrial life in situ and in the laboratory, extant life and the signature of extinct life, and determination of the point of origin (terrestrial or not) of de...

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Review of Earthscope Integrated Science

National Research Council / Division On Earth And Life Studies / Board On Earth Sciences And Resources
Review of Earthscope Integrated Science
EarthScope is a major science initiative in the solid-earth sciences and has been described as "a new earth science initiative that will dramatically advance our physical understanding of the North American continent by exploring its three-dimensional structure through time". The initiative proposes to cover the United States with an array of instruments created to reveal how the continent was put together, how the continent is moving now, and...

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Review of EPA Homeland Security Efforts: Safe Buildings P...

National Research Council / Division On Earth And Life Studies / Board On Chemical Sciences And Technolog
Review of EPA Homeland Security Efforts: Safe Buildings Program Research Implementation Plan
The report examines the Environmental Protection Agency's three-year plan for a comprehensive response to a chemical or biological attack on a civilian or public sector facility. The report states that EPA has correctly identified the essential major research areas (detection, containment, decontamination, and disposal) but calls for an initial focus on decontamination and disposal efforts and a longer term research program.

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Sharing Publication-Related Data and Materials: Responsib...

National Research Council / Division On Earth And Life Studies / Board On Life Sciences
Sharing Publication-Related Data and Materials: Responsibilities of Authorship in the Life Sciences
Biologists communicate to the research community and document their scientific accomplishments by publishing in scholarly journals. This report explores the responsibilities of authors to share data, software, and materials related to their publications. In addition to describing the principles that support community standards for sharing different kinds of data and materials, the report makes recommendations for ways to facilitate sharing in ...

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Testing and Evaluation of Standoff Chemical Agent Detectors

National Research Council / Division On Earth And Life Studies / Board On Chemical Sciences And Technolog
Testing and Evaluation of Standoff Chemical Agent Detectors
The report provides an independent assessment of suitable test protocols that might be useful and reliable for the testing and evaluation of standoff chemical agent detectors. The report proposes two testing protocols, one for passive detectors and one for active detectors, to help ensure the reliable detection of a release of chemical warfare agents. The report determined that testing these detectors by release of chemical warfare agents into...

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Exploring Horizons for Domestic Animal Genomics: Workshop...

National Research Council / Division On Earth And Life Studies / Board On Life Sciences
Exploring Horizons for Domestic Animal Genomics: Workshop Summary
Recognizing the important contributions that genomic analysis can make to agriculture, production and companion animal science, evolutionary biology, and human health with respect to the creation of models for genetic disorders, the National Academies convened a group of individuals to plan a public workshop that would: (1) assess these contributions, (2) identify potential research directions for existing genomics programs, and (3) highlight ...

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National Spatial Data Infrastructure Partnership Programs...

National Research Council / Division On Earth And Life Studies / Board On Earth Sciences And Resources
National Spatial Data Infrastructure Partnership Programs: Rethinking the Focus
The National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) was envisioned as a way of enhancing the accessibility, communication, and use of geospatial data to support a wide variety of decisions at all levels of society. The goals of the NSDI are to reduce redundancy in geospatial data creation and maintenance, reduce the costs of geospatial data creation and maintenance, improve access to geospatial data, and improve the accuracy of geospatial data use...

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Adequacy of Climate Observing Systems

National Research Council / Division On Earth And Life Studies / Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climat
Adequacy of Climate Observing Systems
The 1997 Conference on the World Climate Research Programme to the Third Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change concluded that the global capacity to observe the Earth's climate system is inadequate and is deteriorating worldwide. As a result, the chair of the subcommittee of the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) requested a National Research Council study to assess the current status ...

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Environmental Contamination, Biotechnology, and the Law: ...

National Research Council / Division On Earth And Life Studies / Board On Life Sciences
Environmental Contamination, Biotechnology, and the Law: The Impact of Emerging Genomic Information: Summary of a Forum
On August 16, 2000, the Board on Life Sciences held a forum on "Environmental Contamination, Biotechnology, and the Law: The Impact of Emerging Genomic Information." The purpose of the forum was to explore the legal implications of current and developing biotechnology approaches to evaluating potential human health and environmental effects caused by exposure to environmental contaminants and to cleaning up contaminated areas. The forum brough...

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Global Air Quality: An Imperative for Long-Term Observati...

National Research Council / Division On Earth And Life Studies / Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climat
Global Air Quality: An Imperative for Long-Term Observational Strategies
The National Research Council's Committee on Atmospheric Chemistry (NRC/CAC) was established to serve as a focal point for NRC activities on issues related to atmospheric chemical change and its impacts on air quality, climate, stratospheric ozone depletion, and other related issues. The committee consists of 12 members with expertise covering the areas of tropospheric and stratospheric chemistry, urban/regional air pollution, modeling of clim...

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Drinking Water and Health

National Research Council / Division On Earth And Life Studies / Commission On Life Sciences / Board on Toxicology and Environmental Health Hazards / Safe Drinking Water Committee
Drinking Water and Health
The most recent volume in the Drinking Water and Health series contains the results of a two-part study on the toxicity of drinking water contaminants. The first part examines current practices in risk assessment, identifies new noncancerous toxic responses to chemicals found in drinking water, and discusses the use of pharmacokinetic data to estimate the delivered dose and response. The second part of the book provides risk assessments for 14...

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Drinking Water and Health

National Research Council / Division On Earth And Life Studies / Commission On Life Sciences / Board on Toxicology and Environmental Health Hazards / Safe Drinking Water Committee
Drinking Water and Health
The most recent volume in the Drinking Water and Health series contains the results of a two-part study on the toxicity of drinking water contaminants. The first part examines current practices in risk assessment, identifies new noncancerous toxic responses to chemicals found in drinking water, and discusses the use of pharmacokinetic data to estimate the delivered dose and response. The second part of the book provides risk assessments for 14...

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The Use and Storage of Methyl Isocyanate (MIC) at Bayer C...

National Research Council / Division On Earth And Life Studies / Board On Chemical Sciences And Technolog
The Use and Storage of Methyl Isocyanate (MIC) at Bayer Cropscience
The use of hazardous chemicals such as methyl isocyanate can be a significant concern to the residents of communities adjacent to chemical facilities, but is often an integral part of the chemical manufacturing process. In order to ensure that chemical manufacturing takes place in a manner that is safe for workers, members of the local community, and the environment, the philosophy of inherently safer processing can be used to identify opportu...

CHF 74.00

Weather Services for the Nation: Becoming Second to None

National Research Council / Division On Earth And Life Studies / Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climat
Weather Services for the Nation: Becoming Second to None
During the 1980s and 1990s, the National Weather Service (NWS) undertook a major program called the Modernization and Associated Restructuring (MAR). The MAR was officially completed in 2000. No comprehensive assessment of the execution of the MAR plan, or comparison of the promised benefits of the MAR to its actual impact, had ever been conducted. Therefore, Congress asked the National Academy of Sciences to conduct an end-to-end assessment. ...

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Challenges in Chemistry Graduate Education: A Workshop Su...

National Research Council / Division On Earth And Life Studies / Board On Chemical Sciences And Technolog
Challenges in Chemistry Graduate Education: A Workshop Summary
Chemistry graduate education is under considerable pressure. Pharmaceutical companies, long a major employer of synthetic organic chemists, are drastically paring back their research divisions to reduce costs. Chemical companies are opening new research and development facilities in Asia rather than in the United States to take advantage of growing markets and trained workforces there. Universities, especially public universities, are under si...

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Materials Science and Technology: Challenges for the Chem...

National Research Council / Division On Earth And Life Studies / Board On Chemical Sciences And Technolog
Materials Science and Technology: Challenges for the Chemical Sciences in the 21st Century
The report assesses the current state of chemistry and chemical engineering at the interface with materials science and identifies challenges for research. Recent advances are blurring the distinction between chemistry and materials science and are enabling the creation of new materials that, to date, have only been predicted by theory. These advances include a greater ability to construct materials from molecular components, to design materia...

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National Security and Homeland Defense: Challenges for th...

National Research Council / Division On Earth And Life Studies / Board On Chemical Sciences And Technolog
National Security and Homeland Defense: Challenges for the Chemical Sciences in the 21st Century
This is the first report of seven in the Challenges for the Chemical Sciences in the 21st Century series. The report is based on discussions and presentations at a workshop, and is intended to help scientists and funding agencies set short- and long-term research agendas. It focuses on the challenges for chemists and chemical engineers with respect to threat reduction, preparation, situational awareness, and threat neutralization and remediation

CHF 57.90