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In October 2007, the US National Academies and the Iranian Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Science organized a series of planned US-Iranian workshops on the topic 'Science as a Gateway to Understanding'. This book includes papers that were presented at the workshop and summaries of the discussions that followed some of the presentations.

"This report presents the proceedings of the fourth U.S.-Russian interacademy workshop on the general theme of countering terrorism, which was held in Moscow in March 2007."--p. vii.

Explores specific programmatic, organizational, and personnel reforms that would increase the effective use of science and technology to meet the US Agency for International Development's goals while supporting larger US foreign policy objectives.

The National Research Council hosted an interacademy workshop in Yekaterinburg, Russia together with the Russian Academy of Sciences in October 2004 as a means of exploring various aspects of industrial innovation in the Urals region of Russia.

Highlights obstacles in the transition from a US-Russian cooperative program to a Russian-directed and Russian-funded indigenized program. This report recommends the establishment of a ten-year indigenization fund provided by Russia and its G-8 partners as a new mechanism for shifting the financial burden to the Russian Government.

Offers a number of recommendations that could help restore Russia's ability to join with the United States and the broader international community in leading an expanded global effort to control infectious diseases. This report proposes the establishment of two model State Sanitary Epidemiological Surveillance Centers in Russia.

In June 2001, the National Academies and the Russian Academy of Sciences held a bilateral workshop in Moscow on terrorism in a high-technology society and modern methods to prevent and respond to it. This volume includes papers presented at the workshop on various types of high-impact terrorism.