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9780309380102 | Natl Academy Pr, June 1, 2016, cover price $50.00
Product Description: Tobacco consumption continues to be the leading cause of preventable disease and death in the United States. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulates the manufacture, distribution, and marketing of tobacco products - specifically cigarettes, cigarette tobacco, roll-your-own tobacco, and smokeless tobacco - to protect public health and reduce tobacco use in the United States...read more
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9780309317221 | 1 edition (Natl Academy Pr, December 31, 2015), cover price $55.00 | About this edition: Tobacco consumption continues to be the leading cause of preventable disease and death in the United States.
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9780309373623 | Natl Academy Pr, December 15, 2015, cover price $29.00
Product Description: U.S. Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, located in eastern North Carolina, is a large installation that covers 156,000 acres and is home at any given time to a population of about 170,000 active-duty personnel, family members, retirees, and civilian employees living on base or in the surrounding community...read more
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9780309316002 | Natl Academy Pr, March 26, 2015, cover price $44.00 | About this edition: U.
Product Description: It is probably only a matter of time before we witness the next event in which large numbers of people are exposed to ionizing radiation. In the past, planning a response to such an occurrence would have likely focused on the management of casualties from high-dose exposure...read more
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9780309302098 | 1 edition (Natl Academy Pr, December 19, 2014), cover price $50.00 | About this edition: It is probably only a matter of time before we witness the next event in which large numbers of people are exposed to ionizing radiation.
Product Description: Summary of a Workshop on Mississippi River Water Quality Science and Interstate Collaboration summarizes presentations and discussions of Mississippi River and basin water quality management, monitoring, and evaluation programs that took place at a workshop that was held in St...read more
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9780309304849 | Natl Academy Pr, June 30, 2014, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Summary of a Workshop on Mississippi River Water Quality Science and Interstate Collaboration summarizes presentations and discussions of Mississippi River and basin water quality management, monitoring, and evaluation programs that took place at a workshop that was held in St.
Product Description: STEM Integration in K-12 Education examines current efforts to connect the STEM disciplines in K-12 education. This report identifies and characterizes existing approaches to integrated STEM education, both in formal and after- and out-of-school settings...read more
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9780309297967 | Natl Academy Pr, June 30, 2014, cover price $47.00 | About this edition: STEM Integration in K-12 Education examines current efforts to connect the STEM disciplines in K-12 education.
Product Description: Since the United States began combat operations in Afghanistan in October 2001 and then in Iraq in March 2003, the numbers of US soldiers killed exceed 6,700 and of US soldiers wounded 50,500. Although all wars since World War I have involved the use of explosives by the enemy, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq differ from previous wars in which the United States has been involved because of the enemy's use of improvised explosive devices (IEDs)...read more
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9780309267649 | Natl Academy Pr, April 28, 2014, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Since the United States began combat operations in Afghanistan in October 2001 and then in Iraq in March 2003, the numbers of US soldiers killed exceed 6,700 and of US soldiers wounded 50,500.
Product Description: 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, which led to today's Kevlar-based helmets...read more
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9780309298667 | Natl Academy Pr, April 14, 2014, cover price $54.00 | About this edition: Combat helmets have evolved considerably over the years from those used in World War I to today's Advanced Combat Helmet.
Product Description: People are constantly changing the land surface through construction, agriculture, energy production, and other activities. Changes both in how land is used by people (land use) and in the vegetation, rock, buildings, and other physical material that cover the Earth's surface (land cover) can be described and future land change can be projected using land-change models (LCMs)...read more
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9780309288330 | Natl Academy Pr, April 14, 2014, cover price $42.00 | About this edition: People are constantly changing the land surface through construction, agriculture, energy production, and other activities.
Product Description: Successful scientists must be effective communicators within their professions. Without those skills, they could not write papers and funding proposals, give talks and field questions, or teach classes and mentor students. However, communicating with audiences outside their profession - people who may not share scientists' interests, technical background, cultural assumptions, and modes of expression - presents different challenges and requires additional skills...read more
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9780309292009 | 1 edition (Natl Academy Pr, February 26, 2014), cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Successful scientists must be effective communicators within their professions.
Product Description: 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 Council in May 2013. The request for this workshop was informed by the sponsors' awareness of the possibility that tight budgets would result in the Department of Defense's curtailment or even termination1 of support for the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP), which includes the world's highest-power and most capable high-frequency transmitter - "heater" - for ionospheric research...read more
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9780309298599 | Natl Academy Pr, February 25, 2014, cover price $39.00 | About this edition: 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 Council in May 2013.
Product Description: Sharing data generated through the conduct of clinical trials offers the promise of placing evidence about the safety and efficacy of therapies and clinical interventions on a firmer basis and enhancing the benefits of clinical trials...read more
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9780309297790 | 1 edition (Natl Academy Pr, February 5, 2014), cover price $39.00 | About this edition: Sharing data generated through the conduct of clinical trials offers the promise of placing evidence about the safety and efficacy of therapies and clinical interventions on a firmer basis and enhancing the benefits of clinical trials.
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9780309296038 | Natl Academy Pr, February 2, 2014, cover price $45.00
Product Description: 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 years to negotiate proposals to changes in international radio spectrum regulations; changes that would be enforced by the ITU internationally if approved...read more
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9780309291125 | Natl Academy Pr, January 30, 2014, cover price $36.00 | About this edition: The World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC) is a meeting of official delegations from over 140 nations and is organized by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU).
Product Description: 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 virtually unlimited supply of fuel...read more
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9780309270816 | Natl Academy Pr, December 31, 2013, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: The potential for using fusion energy to produce commercial electric power was first explored in the 1950s.
Product Description: The US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) are responsible for protecting species that are listed as endangered or threatened under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) and for protecting habitats that are critical for their survival...read more
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9780309285834 | 1 edition (Natl Academy Pr, December 31, 2013), cover price $53.00 | About this edition: The US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) are responsible for protecting species that are listed as endangered or threatened under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) and for protecting habitats that are critical for their survival.
Product Description: The National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) is a multiagency, multidisciplinary federal initiative comprising a collection of research programs and other activities funded by the participating agencies and linked by the vision of "a future in which the ability to understand and control matter at the nanoscale leads to a revolution in technology and industry that benefits society...read more
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9780309269223 | Natl Academy Pr, December 31, 2013, cover price $47.00 | About this edition: The National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) is a multiagency, multidisciplinary federal initiative comprising a collection of research programs and other activities funded by the participating agencies and linked by the vision of "a future in which the ability to understand and control matter at the nanoscale leads to a revolution in technology and industry that benefits society.
Product Description: 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 resource use. Section 2830 of the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year requires the Secretary of Defense to submit a report to the congressional defense committees on the energy-efficiency and sustainability standards used by DOD for military construction and major renovations of buildings...read more
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9780309270380 | Natl Academy Pr, December 31, 2013, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: 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 resource use.
Product Description: Using Science to Improve the BLM Wild Horse and Burro Program: A Way Forward reviews the science that underpins the Bureau of Land Management's oversight of free-ranging horses and burros on federal public lands in the western United States, concluding that constructive changes could be implemented...read more
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9780309264945 | 1 edition (Natl Academy Pr, October 8, 2013), cover price $69.00 | About this edition: Using Science to Improve the BLM Wild Horse and Burro Program: A Way Forward reviews the science that underpins the Bureau of Land Management's oversight of free-ranging horses and burros on federal public lands in the western United States, concluding that constructive changes could be implemented.
Product Description: The Institute of Medicine (IOM) Committee on Quality Measures for the Healthy People Leading Health Indicators was charged by the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health to identify measures of quality for the 12 Leading Health Indicator (LHI) topics and 26 Leading Health Indicators in Healthy People 2020 (HP2020), the current version of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) 10-year agenda for improving the nation's health...read more
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9780309285575 | 1 edition (Natl Academy Pr, September 30, 2013), cover price $42.00 | About this edition: The Institute of Medicine (IOM) Committee on Quality Measures for the Healthy People Leading Health Indicators was charged by the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health to identify measures of quality for the 12 Leading Health Indicator (LHI) topics and 26 Leading Health Indicators in Healthy People 2020 (HP2020), the current version of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) 10-year agenda for improving the nation's health.
Product Description: 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, and networks are being thought of not merely as bit strings to be stored, indexed, and retrieved, but as potential sources of discovery and knowledge, requiring sophisticated analysis techniques that go far beyond classical indexing and keyword counting, aiming to find relational and semantic interpretations of the phenomena underlying the data...read more
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9780309287784 | Natl Academy Pr, September 30, 2013, cover price $46.00 | About this edition: Data mining of massive data sets is transforming the way we think about crisis response, marketing, entertainment, cybersecurity and national intelligence.
Product Description: 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 agent. The PCD also features a pilot plant, the Pueblo Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plant (PCAPP), which has been set up to destroy the agent and munition bodies using novel processes...read more
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9780309263931 | Natl Academy Pr, July 31, 2013, cover price $39.00 | About this edition: The Pueblo Chemical Depot (PCD) in Colorado is one of two sites that features U.
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9780309272278 | Spiral-bound edition (Natl Academy Pr, July 15, 2013), cover price $49.95
Product Description: A "sustainable society," according to one definition, "is one that can persist over generations; one that is far-seeing enough, flexible enough, and wise enough not to undermine either its physical or its social system of support...read more
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9780309262309 | Natl Academy Pr, June 30, 2013, cover price $46.00 | About this edition: A "sustainable society," according to one definition, "is one that can persist over generations; one that is far-seeing enough, flexible enough, and wise enough not to undermine either its physical or its social system of support.
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