Bøger af Policy and Global Affairs

Offers helpful advice on how teachers, administrators, and career advisers in science and engineering can become better mentors to their students. This guide covers topics on career planning, time management, writing development, and responsible scientific conduct. It also includes a list of bibliographical and Internet resources on mentoring.

Assesses the supply of expertise in 10 geospatial intelligence (Geoint) fields, including 5 traditional areas (geodesy and geophysics, photogrammetry, remote sensing, cartographic science, and geographic information systems and geospatial analysis) and 5 areas that could improve geospatial intelligence.

"On June 12-14, 2012, the Board on Global Science and Technology held an international, multidisciplinary workshop in Washington, D.C., to explore the challenges in intelligent human-machine collaboration (IH-MC), particularly as it applies to unstructured environments"--P. 1.

As a better understanding of the global synthetic biology landscape could lead to tremendous benefits, six academies organized a series of international symposia on the scientific, technical, and policy issues associated with synthetic biology. This book summarizes the symposia proceedings.

Provides a plan for addressing these needs and suggests the creation of a new government entity, the National Institute of Forensic Science, to establish and enforce standards within the forensic science community.

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.

The National Research Council's Roundtable on Science and Technology for Sustainability hosted Transitioning to Sustainability through Research and Development on Ecosystem Services and Biofuels: The National Academies' 1st Federal Sustainability Research and Development Forum on October 2007. This book summarizes the discussions from the forum.

What are employer needs for staff trained in the natural sciences at the master's degree level? How do master's level professionals in the natural sciences contribute in the workplace? How do master's programs meet or support educational and career goals? This book examines the role of master's education in the natural sciences.

Recommends 13 actions that policy-makers, courts, universities, and health and patent officials should take to prevent the complex web of IP protections from getting in the way of potential breakthroughs in genomic and proteomic research. This report urges patent holders to allow others to perform the tests for purposes of verifying the results.

The US economy relies on the productivity, entrepreneurship, and creativity of its people. This book explains that eliminating gender bias in academia requires immediate overarching reform, including decisive action by university administrators, professional societies, federal funding agencies and foundations, government agencies, and Congress.

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.

While the National Research Service Awards program now supports only a fraction of the training in the biomedical, clinical, behavioral, and social sciences, it sets a high standard for the training in all doctoral programs in these fields. This book takes into account the national and international health care needs.

Due to the combination of improved treatments and the benefits of mammography screening, breast cancer mortality has decreased steadily since 1989. Building on the 2001 report "Mammography and Beyond", this book examines ways to improve implementation and use of breast cancer detection technologies.

Recommends that the government expand regulations and rely on self-governance by scientists rather than adopt intrusive new policies.

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.

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.

Based on a series of workshops and conferences that brought together policymakers along with leaders of industry and academia in a select number of states, this study highlights a variety of policy initiatives underway at the state and regional level to foster knowledge based growth and employment.

The neem tree, one of the most promising of all plants, may eventually benefit every person on the planet. Probably no other plant yields as many varied products or has as many exploitable by-products. This book aims to marshal the various facts about this species, to help illuminate its future promise, and to speed realization of its potential.