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The destructive force of earthquakes has stimulated human inquiry since ancient times. This book describes the growth and origins of earthquake science and identifies research and data collection efforts that strengthen the scientific and social contributions of this discipline.

Provides a picture of how cancer care is delivered. This book explains how lack of medical coverage, social and economic status, patient beliefs, physician decision-making, and other factors can affect the best possible care. The National Cancer Policy Board defines quality care and recommends how to monitor, measure, and extend quality care.

Focuses on data and information system issues at the federal, state, and local levels. This book includes recommendations that address: policy framework for selecting performance measures and using performance measurement; operational principles related to data and data systems that support performance measurement; and more.

How can we understand and rise to the environmental challenges of global change? This book offers a comprehensive overview of global change research, and provides a framework for answering questions. It highlights the research imperatives and strategies for investigators in the areas of atmospheric chemistry, climate, ecosystem studies, and more.

Providing nutrient guidelines, this book presents what is known about how the nutrient functions in the human body, the best method to determine its requirements, which factors may affect how it works, and how the nutrient may be related to chronic disease. It presents information about thiamin, riboflavin, niacin, vitamin B6, folate, and more.

Providing nutrient guidelines, this title presents the nutrient functions in the human body, the best method to determine its requirements, and how the nutrient may be related to chronic disease. It examines the relationship between dose and response in determining adequacy and the hazards of excess intake for each nutrient.

Presents a preliminary assessment of what is known about the relationship between musculoskeletal disorders and what may cause them. This book includes papers and a workshop summary of findings from orthopedic surgery, public health, occupational medicine, epidemiology, risk analysis, ergonomics, and human factors.

Describes the state to which US and Russian nuclear forces and policies. This book evaluates constraints for US nuclear weapons policy that includes reductions in nuclear forces, changes in nuclear operations to preserve deterrence but enhance operational safety, and measures to prevent proliferation of nuclear weapons.

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.

Examines what immigrants gain by coming to the United States and what they contribute to the country, the skills of immigrants and those of native-born Americans, and the experiences of immigrant women. This book includes information on topics such as immigration policies and practices, and data on where immigrants come from and what they do.

Evaluates the extent to which state efforts have been effective in reducing the perinatal transmission of HIV. This book is of interest to federal, state, and local health policymakers, prenatal care providers, maternal and child health specialists, public health practitioners, and advocates for HIV/AIDS patients.

States that everyone is in favor of 'high education standards' and 'fair testing' of student achievement, but there is little agreement as to what these terms actually mean. This book looks at how testing affects critical decisions for American students.

Examines the history of computing since World War II to elucidate the federal government's role in funding computing research, supporting the education of computer scientists and engineers, and equipping university research labs. This work contains a series of case studies in relational databases, the Internet, and theoretical computer science.

The federal government has invested in facilities worldwide to support the provision of government services. This book identifies factors contributing to this deterioration and recommends a framework of strategies to foster acccountability for the stewardship of federal facilities and to allocate resources for their maintenance and repair.

Describes an approach for identifying technology development needs that is both systematic and transparent to enhance the cleanup and remediation of the tank contents and their sites.

In response to the rising concern of the American public over illegal bombings, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms asked the National Research Council to examine mechanisms for reducing this threat. The committee examined four approaches to reducing the bombing threat. This book makes recommendations to reduce criminal bombings.

The adverse effects of micronutrient deficiencies are profound. This book examines key elements in the design and implementation of micronutrient interventions, including such issues as: the importance of iron, vitamin A, and iodine to health; populations at risk for micronutrient deficiency; and characteristics of successful interventions.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is developing advanced technologies to form the foundation for the breakthrough in civil aviation. This book examines aircraft design requirements, assesses the program's planning and progress, and recommends changes that helps the program achieve its overall objectives.

The reduction of the fire hazard of fuel is critical to improving survivability in impact-survivable aircraft accidents. This title reviews the state of development, technological needs, and promising technology for the future development of aviation fuels that are most resistant to ignition during a crash.

Determining the health risks to humans of exposure to toxic substances in the environment is made difficult by problems such as measuring the degree to which people have been exposed and determining causation. This volume describes effective epidemiological methods for analyzing data and focuses on errors that may occur in the course of analyses.