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On October 25-26, 2005, the Chemical Sciences Roundtable held a workshop to explore issues involving those who use and contribute to chemical literature, as well as those who publish and disseminate chemical journals. A summary was written to capture the presentations and discussions that occurred during the workshop.

Communicating Toxicogenomics Information to Nonexperts

Evaluates the performance of the US CLIVAR Project Office (PO) in fulfilling its charge from supporting agencies. This report concludes that the project office is vital for coordinating US CLIVAR activities and is effective despite limited resources.

In Africa many of the refugee flows in have had a strong ethnic dimension; interethnic conflict or conflict between politically powerful groups with minority populations. This report focuses on the experience of a single persecuted population whose sociopolitical history, with their underlying marital and fertility regimes, responses to conflict.

The announcement of a hydrogen fuel initiative in the President's 2003 State of the Union speech substantially increased interest in the potential for hydrogen to play a major role in the nation's long-term energy future. This report provides an assessment of hydrogen as a fuel in the nation's future energy economy.

Presents some of the critical issues in responding to the psychological needs that result from terrorism and provides options for intervention. This book offers an example for a public health strategy to serve as a base from which plans to prevent and respond to the psychological consequences of a variety of terrorism events can be formulated.

The childhood cancer survivors who experience late effects as a result of their disease, its treatment, or both, are the focus of this report. It outlines a policy agenda that links improved health care delivery and follow-up, investments in education and training for health care providers, and research to improve the long-term outlook.

The Institute of Medicine study Crossing the Quality Chasm (2001) recommended that an interdisciplinary summit be held to further reform of health professions education in order to enhance quality and patient safety. This work is the follow up to that summit, held in June 2002. It recommends a mix of approaches to health education improvement.

In the fall of 1933 the newly founded Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, welcomed its first faculty member, Albert Einstein. With this superstar on the roster, the Institute was able to attract many more of the greatest scholars, scientists, and poets from around the world.

Offers an overview of the public health education, assessing its readiness to provide the training and education needed to prepare men and women to face 21st century challenges. This work examines areas of public health education such as: informatics, communication, cultural competence, community-based participatory research, and others.

Racial and ethnic disparities in health care are known to reflect access to care and other issues that arise from differing socioeconomic conditions. This book explores how persons of color experience the health care environment. It offers recommendations for improvements in medical care financing, allocation of care, and other arenas.

The death of a child is a special sorrow. No matter the circumstances, a child's death is a life-altering experience. This book examines what we know about the needs of these children and their families, the extent to which such needs are - and are not - being met, and what can be done to provide more competent, compassionate, and consistent care.

Examines approaches to protecting children and teens from internet pornography, threats from sexual predators operating on-line, and other inappropriate material on the internet. This book discusses strategies, tools, and options for how to teach children to make safe and appropriate decisions about what they see and experience on the internet.

It sounds simple: Women who drink while pregnant may give birth to children with defects, so women should not drink during pregnancy. This volume discusses fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) and other possibly alcohol-related effects from two perspectives: diagnosis and surveillance, and prevention and treatment.

To help assess priorities for health policy, the Committee on Population organized two workshops. This volume consists of selected papers presented at the workshops. They assess the reliability of data on mortality, morbidity, and disability, and analyze regional patterns and trends in mortality rates and causes of death.

Offers guidance to students on planning careers. This booklet is designed for graduate science and engineering students currently in or soon to graduate from a university, as well as undergraduates in their third or fourth year of study who are deciding whether or not to pursue graduate education.

Examines industrial circulation of materials, energy efficiency strategies, "green" accounting, life-cycle analysis, and other approaches for preventing pollution and improving performance. This book also looks at issues of special concern to business, such as measuring and shaping public perceptions and marketing "green" products to consumers.

Maintaining the United States' lead in information technology requires federal support of research in this area, most of which is funded under the High Performance Computing and Communications Initiative (HPCCI). This book provides 13 major recommendations for refining both HPCCI and support of information technology research in general.

Presents an agenda for research that aims to provide information to formulate policy and design conservation programs in the Third World. This book includes discussions of research needs in the biological sciences, as well as economics and anthropology, areas of critical importance to conservation and sustainable development.

Environmental information is important for successful planning and execution of naval operations. This title examines the issues such as: how environmental data are used in mine warfare doctrine, and the capabilities of the Navy's oceanographic community to provide supporting information for mine warfare operations.

A key technical issue for future Air Force systems is to improve their ability to survive. Use of stealth technology is proposed by many to be the major element in efforts to enhance survivability for future systems. This report presents a review of stealth technology development and includes a discussion of possible future missions and threats.

Offers a picture of what we know about teaching and learning science from kindergarten through eighth grade. By looking at a range of questions, this book provides a basic foundation for guiding science teaching and supporting students in their learning. It is helpful for those involved in K-8 science education.

In this volume, practical questions that confront every mathematics teacher are addressed using the latest research on cognition, teaching, and learning.

Results from national and international assessments indicate that school children in the United States are not learning mathematics well enough. This book provides information to improve school mathematics from pre-kindergarten through eighth grade. It explains the five strands of mathematical proficiency.