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Provides an overview of the technologies and practices under precision agriculture, exploring the implications of their adoption by farmers and agricultural managers. This volume discusses how precision agriculture could affect decisionmaking in irrigation, crop selection, pest management, environmental issues, and pricing and market conditions.

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.

This volume explores both entertainment and military applications of modelling and simulation technologies and examines the ways in which the two communities can better leverage each other's capabilities to strengthen the overall technology base.

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.

Presents the summary of a workshop convened by the Space Studies Board of the National Research Council in May 2013.

Assesses and provides recommendations regarding the need for revised, refocused, and newly developed indicators of STI activities that would enable National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) to respond to changing policy concerns.

Presents the summary of a workshop convened by the Air Force Studies Board of the National Academies' National Research Council in September 2013 to enhance Air Force and Department of Defense (DoD) prototyping for the new defense strategy.

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) program develops toxicologic assessments of environmental contaminants. This title evaluates critical scientific issues in assessing cancer and noncancer effects of oral exposure to inorganic arsenic.

Summarizes a workshop convened in June 2013 to consider options for a design for a new national survey on social mobility.

Presents the summary of a 2013 conference convened by the Committee on Women in Science, Engineering and Medicine of the National Research Council to discuss the current status of women of color in academia.

Presents the summary of a workshop convened in June 2013 by the Forum on Aging, Disability, and Independence of the Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council to examine the financing of long-term services and supports for working-age individuals with disabilities and among individuals who are developing disabilities as they age.

Presents the summary of a workshop convened in February 2013 as a follow-up to the release of the National Research Council report Terrorism and the Electric Power Delivery System.

Presents the summary of a workshop convened in April 2013 by the Institute of Medicine's Forum on Global Violence Prevention.

Examines how leading national and multinational standard-setting organizations (SSOs) address patent disclosures, licensing terms, transfers of patent ownership, and other issues that arise in connection with developing technical standards for consumer and other microelectronic products, and associated software and components.

Presents the summary of a 2013 symposium convened by the National Research Council Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy and members of the Nano Consortium that drew state officials and staff, business leaders, and leading national figures in early-stage finance, technology, engineering, education, and state and federal policies.

The aging of the population of the United States is occurring at a time of major economic and social changes. This book evaluates the contributions of social demography, social epidemiology and sociology to the study of aging and identifies promising research directions in these sub-fields.

Section 141 of The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 20101 provides funding for a research program on the causes and consequences of childhood hunger and food insecurity, and the characteristics of households with childhood hunger and food insecurity. This title presents the summary of that workshop, convened in Fall 2012.

The US Air force invests significantly in science and technology for directed-energy weapon (DEW) systems. This title presents the summary of three workshop sessions convened between February and April, 2013 by the Air Force Studies Board of the National Academies' National Research Council.

The BioWatch program, funded and overseen by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), has three main elements - sampling, analysis, and response - each coordinated by different agencies. This title coordinates analysis and laboratory testing of the samples, though testing is actually carried out in state and local public health laboratories.