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Provides a factual summary of the workshop proceedings and hints at the contours of the American Community Survey (ACS) user constituency, providing important input to the ongoing review and refinement of the ACS program.

The National Academy of Engineering's 2012 forum, "Educating Engineers: Preparing 21st Century Leaders in the Context of New Modes of Learning," opened with presentations by six speakers who looked at the future of engineering and engineering education from their perspectives as educators, administrators, entrepreneurs, and innovators.

Intended to generate a better understanding of the challenges associated with the transition of research into products, this title explains of the study, which is to improve the operation of state and regional programs and, collectively, enhance their impact.

Identifies methods to facilitate development of corresponding animal and clinical endpoints, indentifies methods that would maximize bidirectional translation between basic and clinical research and determines the next steps that can be critical for improvement of the development and testing of animal models of disorders of the nervous system.

Extends the proof-of-concept presented in the Phase I report, which was based on multi-attribute utility theory. This title refines a beta version of the model developed in the Phase I report and presents its next iteration, Smart Vaccines 1.0. It discusses the methods underlying the development, validation, and evaluation of Smart Vaccines 1.0.

"Forum on drug discovery, development, and translation."--Cover.

"Workshop on using data sharing to improve coordination in peacebuilding of the National Academies and United States Insitute of Peace, May 23, 2012, Washington, D.C."--Page 41.

Reviews the science that underpins the Bureau of Land Management's oversight of free-ranging horses and burros on federal public lands in the western United States.

Manufacturing is in a period of dramatic transformation. But in the United States, public and political dialogue is simplistically focused almost entirely on the movement of certain manufacturing jobs overseas to low-wage countries. This title summarizes the workshop and the topics discussed by participants.

Summary of symposium presentation and an introduction examining the policy issues raised in the conference, held by Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy (STEP).