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The Pueblo Chemical Depot (PCD) in Colorado is one of two sites that features U.S. stockpile of chemical weapons that need to be destroyed. The PCD features about 2,600 tons of mustard-including agent. This report includes diagrams of the Biotreatment area, the BRS, and WRS; a table of materials of construction, and more.

Includes raising the level of nutrition among low-income households and maintaining adequate levels of nutrition by increasing the food purchasing power of low-income families. This title reviews the current evidence, including the peer-reviewed published literature and peer-reviewed government reports.

The Roundtable held a workshop March 29, 2012, to explore the field of oral health literacy.

"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.

A "sustainable society," according to one definition, "is one that can persist over generations; one that is far-seeing enough, flexible enough, and wise enough not to undermine either its physical or its social system of support." This book presents the committee's report on the issue.

Builds on the 2008 NAE publication, Changing the Conversation: Messages for Improving Public Understanding of Engineering (CTC), which presented the results of a research-based effort to develop and test effective messages about engineering. This report summarizes progress in implementing the CTC messages.

The central goal of the In the Light of Evolution (ILE) series is to promote the evolutionary sciences through colloquia. This title focuses on the field of evolutionary neuroscience that includes an array of different approaches, data types, and species.

Review of the Child and Adult Care Food Program: Future Research Needs Workshop Agenda session occurred on February 7, 2012 in Washington, D.C.