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Contains 15 papers from the National Academy of Engineering's 2006 US Frontiers of Engineering (USFOE) Symposium held in September 2006. This title contains papers that describe research on commercializing auditory neuroscience, developments in bionanotechnology, sustainable urban transportation, and managing disruptions to supply chains.

Dietary Reference Intakes Research Synthesis: Workshop Summary

One of the key recommendations of the joint IOM and NRC book, "From Cancer Patient to Cancer Survivor: Lost in Transition", is that patients completing their primary treatment for cancer be given a summary of their treatment and a comprehensive plan for follow-up. This book answers practical questions about how this 'Survivorship Care Plan'.

Noting that resources and therefore efforts to monitor medications' risk benefit profiles taper off after approval, this book offers a set of recommendations to ensure that consideration of safety extends from before product approval through the entire time the product is marketed and used.

Protecting and maintaining water distributions systems is crucial to ensuring high quality drinking water. This report evaluates approaches for risk characterization and data, and it identifies a variety of strategies that could be considered to reduce the risks posed by water-quality deteriorating events in distribution systems.

Modeling, simulation, and analysis (MS&A) is a crucial tool for military affairs. This report presents topics such as identification of high-level opportunities for MS&A research to address the expanded mission, approaches for improving the interface between MS&A practitioners and decision makers, and others.

The electromagnetic spectrum is a vital part of our environment. This handbook contains practical information in this area including a description of regulatory bodies and issues, a discussion of the relevant scientific background, a list of science spectrum allocations in the United States, and an analysis of spectrum protection issues.

As our nation enters an era of medical science that offers the real prospect of personalized health care, we will be confronted by an increasingly complex array of health care options and decisions. This title focuses on issues important to improving the development and application of evidence in health care decision making.

The Space Communications Office (SCO) at NASA has two primary roles. The first is to manage two of the communications networks that enable spaceflight operations and research, and the second is to integrate agency-wide telecommunications issues. This report presents a review of each of the program elements within the SCO and the space network.

Provides evidence for the decline of some pollinator species in North America, including America's most important managed pollinator, the honeybee, as well as some butterflies, bats, and hummingbirds. This book outlines priorities for research and monitoring useful to improve information on the status of pollinators.

Evidence shows that the quality of indoor environments can affect the health and productivity of adults and children. One consequence is that a movement has emerged to promote the design of schools that have fewer adverse environmental effects. This report provides an analysis of the complexity of making such a determination.

Trichloroethylene is a chlorinated solvent widely used as a degreasing agent in industrial and manufacturing settings. This title identifies and assesses the key scientific issues relevant to analyzing the human health risks of trichloroethylene, considering pertinent toxicologic, epidemiologic, population susceptibility, and other information.

Adverse Drug Event Reporting: The Roles of Consumers and Health-Care Professionals

Hearing Loss Research at NIOSH: Reviews of Research Programs of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health

Is the Mars architecture reflective of the strategies, priorities, and guidelines put forward by the National Research Council's solar system exploration decadal survey and related science strategies and NASA plans? and Does the Mars architecture represent a reasonably balanced mission portfolio? This title deals with these questions.

Biomonitoring - a method for measuring amounts of toxic chemicals in human tissues is a tool for studying harmful environmental chemicals. This book provides a framework for improving the use of biomonitoring data including developing and using biomarkers (measures of exposure), research to improve the interpretation of data, and more.

As part of the Physics 2010 decadal survey project, the Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation requested that National Research Council assess opportunities in atomic, molecular, and optical (AMO) science and technology. This book discusses both the roles and challenges for AMO science in instrumentation.

Presents a discussion of radiation risks for the Vision for Space Exploration (VSE). This workshop report also gives an assessment of specifying and predicting the space radiation environment, an analysis of operational strategies for space weather support, and a summary and conclusions of the workshop.

The National Weather Service can take a leading role in the transition to widespread, effective incorporation of uncertainty information into predictions. This book makes recommendations to the National Weather Service and the broader prediction community on how to make this transition.

ICT Fluency and High Schools: A Workshop Summary

Presents a discussion of the chemistry of carbon; an analysis of the formation, modification, and preservation of organic compounds in the solar system; and an assessment of research opportunities and strategies for enhancing our understanding of organic material in the solar system.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) collects and manages a wide range of environmental and geospatial data to fulfill its mission requirements. This book offers preliminary principles and guidelines that NOAA and its partners can use to plan specific archiving strategies for the data streams they collect.