Bøker av National Research Council

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.

Provides a contemporary snapshot of technologies, strategies, and policies for improving our communications and information infrastructure. This book explores the potential benefits of broadband, existing and projected demand, progress and failures in deployment, competition in the broadband industry, and costs and who pays them.

Explains what it means to be a technologically-literate citizen. Including three case studies, this book highlights specific issues of concern such as: the state of technological studies in K-12 schools; the reach of the Internet into our homes and lives; and the crucial role of technology in economy and workforce.

Discusses concepts that undergird community life and offers recommendations for collaborative planning across space and time. This book explores livability as an ensemble concept, embracing notions such as quality of place and sustainability. It examines how to translate broad ideas about livability into guidelines for policymaking.

Addressing major controversies, this book includes a detailed look at how significantly cancer could be reduced through lifestyle changes, evaluating approaches used to alter eating, smoking, and exercise habits. It is of interest to policy analysts, cancer and public health specialists, health care administrators and providers, and researchers.

Covers the engineering practices and standards for coal waste impoundments and ways to evaluate, improve, and monitor them; the accuracy of mine maps and ways to improve surveying and mapping of mines; and alternative technologies for coal slurry disposal and utilization.

How pervasive is sex segregation in the workplace? Does the concentration of women into a few professions reflect their personal preferences, the "tastes" of employers, or sex-role socialization? This volume raises the important policy and research questions. It is aimed at policymakers, researchers, personnel directors, union leaders, and others.

The Space Station Freedom program is a major US manned space initiative. This book summarizes the findings and recommendations of a workshop that examined the space station program with a view toward identifying engineering issues related to the design and operation of the station.

Reports on the state of the new biology, taking a look at the disciplines of biology. This volume examines the advances made in medicine, agriculture, and other fields. It serves as a useful resource for students, teachers, and researchers in subdisciplines of biology as well as for research administrators and those in funding agencies.

Studies both sides of the engineering equation, education and utilization. This volume presents a discussion of the development of engineering in the United States followed by an examination of the status of engineering. It looks at the strengths and weaknesses of engineering and evaluates trends in the composition of the engineering work force.

Explaining dietary habits, this volume examines the impact of fast-food proliferation and the changing role of women as it affects dietary behavior, and analyzes the nutritional consequences of national dietary trends. It focuses on the factors that shape eating patterns, eating trends such as snacking and food variety, nutrition policy, and more.

Describes and evaluates models of human performance and their use in the design and evaluation of human-technology systems. This book focuses on the modeling of system operators who perform supervisory and manual control tasks. It describes information processing, control theory, task network, and knowledge-based models.

Assesses the problems relating to petroleum-derived hydrocarbons in the marine environment. This book examines the inputs, analytical methods, fates, and effects of petroleum in the marine environment. It reflects the scientific effort put forth in determining the effects of petroleum on marine organisms.

Presents an overview of geography's renewed importance. This book illustrates geography's impact on international trade, environmental change, population growth, information infrastructure, the condition of cities, the spread of AIDS, and more. It also provides a blueprint for the future of the discipline.

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.

Identifies criteria for the USNRC's (US Nuclear Regulatory Commission) review and acceptance of digital applications in nuclear power plants. This book focuses on different areas: software quality assurance, common-mode software failure potential, systems aspects of digital instrumentation and control technology, and more.

Addressing the design and delivery of reproductive health services, this volume presents lessons learned from past programs and offers principles for deciding how to spend limited available funds. It is of special interest to policymakers, health care professionals, and researchers working on reproductive issues in the developing world.

Brings together in one volume what researchers have learned about workers, employers, and retirees that is important for formulating retirement income policies. This volume covers such behaviors as workers' decisions to retire, people's choices of saving over consumption, and employers' decisions about hiring older workers and more.