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Promising and Best Practices in Total Worker Health: Workshop Summary - Bok av Institute of Medicine - Häftad

Promising and Best Practices in Total Worker Health: Workshop Summary - Bok av Institute of Medicine - Häftad

\Combined with the more traditional employer occupational safety and health protection activities are newer employment-based programs to promote better health through helping workers quit smoking, lose weight, reduce stress, or exercise more regularly. In support of these efforts, some employers have made changes in their policies and facilities to support physical activity and healthier eating, and some employers connect with community resources for health education, health fairs, and other services...

SEK 440.00
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Launching Science - Science Opportunities Provided by NASA's Constellation System - Bok av Committee on Science Opportunities Enabled by NASA's Conste

Launching Science - Science Opportunities Provided by NASA's Constellation System - Bok av Committee on Science Opportunities Enabled by NASA's Conste

The National Research Council (NRC) committee evaluated a total of 17 mission concepts for space science missions. Of those, the committee determined that 12 would benefit from the Constellation System and 5 would not. This book presents the committee's findings and recommendations, including a review of the technical feasibility of each mission.

SEK 570.00
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Managing for High-Quality Science and Engineering at the NNSA National Security Laboratories - Bok av National Research Council - Häftad

Managing for High-Quality Science and Engineering at the NNSA National Security Laboratories - Bok av National Research Council - Häftad

The three National Security Laboratories--Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)--are managed by private-sector entities under contract to the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). The FY2010 Defense Authorization Act mandated that NNSA task the National Research Council (NRC) to study the quality and management of Science and Engineering (S&E) at these Laboratories. This study (addressing a total of..

SEK 456.00
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Water Reuse - Potential for Expanding the Nation's Water Supply Through Reuse of Municipal Wastewater - Bok av National Research Council - Inbunden

Water Reuse - Potential for Expanding the Nation's Water Supply Through Reuse of Municipal Wastewater - Bok av National Research Council - Inbunden

Expanding water reuse--the use of treated wastewater for beneficial purposes including irrigation, industrial uses, and drinking water augmentation--could significantly increase the nation's total available water resources. Water Reuse presents a portfolio of treatment options available to mitigate water quality issues in reclaimed water along with new analysis suggesting that the risk of exposure to certain microbial and chemical contaminants from drinking reclaimed water does not appear to be any..

SEK 660.00
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Groundwater Recharge and Flow: Approaches and Challenges for Monitoring and Modeling Using Remotely Sensed Data: Proceedings of a Workshop - Bok av Na

Groundwater Recharge and Flow: Approaches and Challenges for Monitoring and Modeling Using Remotely Sensed Data: Proceedings of a Workshop - Bok av Na

Water of appropriate quantity and quality is essential for drinking, sanitation, and food, energy, and industrial production for any society and is derived for most needs from surface- or groundwater sources. Studies suggest that groundwater use in irrigation globally is increasing in total volume as well as a percentage of all water used for irrigation, with the demand for groundwater resources increasing as available primary surface water supplies are depleted. Particularly in arid regions, groundwater..

SEK 560.00
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Review of the EPA's Economic Analysis of Final Water Quality Standards for Nutrients for Lakes and Flowing Waters in Florida - Bok av National Researc

Review of the EPA's Economic Analysis of Final Water Quality Standards for Nutrients for Lakes and Flowing Waters in Florida - Bok av National Researc

The Environmental Protection Agency's estimate of the costs associated with implementing numeric nutrient criteria in Florida's waterways was significantly lower than many stakeholders expected. This discrepancy was due, in part, to the fact that the Environmental Protection Agency's analysis considered only the incremental cost of reducing nutrients in waters it considered \newly impaired\ as a result of the new criteria-not the total cost of improving water quality in Florida. The incremental..

SEK 480.00
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Review of the New York City Watershed Protection Program - Bok av National Academies Of Sciences Engineeri - Häftad

Review of the New York City Watershed Protection Program - Bok av National Academies Of Sciences Engineeri - Häftad

\New York City's municipal water supply system provides about 1 billion gallons of drinking water a day to over 8.5 million people in New York City and about 1 million people living in nearby Westchester, Putnam, Ulster, and Orange counties. The combined water supply system includes 19 reservoirs and three controlled lakes with a total storage capacity of approximately 580 billion gallons. The city's Watershed Protection Program is intended to maintain and enhance the high quality of these surface..

SEK 956.00
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The Impacts of Natural Disasters: A Framework for Loss Estimation - Bok av National Research Council - Häftad

The Impacts of Natural Disasters: A Framework for Loss Estimation - Bok av National Research Council - Häftad

We in the United States have almost come to accept natural disasters as part of our nation's social fabric. News of property damage, economic and social disruption, and injuries follow earthquakes, fires, floods and hurricanes. Surprisingly, however, the total losses that follow these natural disasters are not consistently calculated. We have no formal system in either the public or private sector for compiling this information. The National Academies recommends what types of data should be assembled..

SEK 530.00
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Strategies and Priorities for Information Technology at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services - Bok av National Research Council - Häftad

Strategies and Priorities for Information Technology at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services - Bok av National Research Council - Häftad

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is the agency in the Department of Health and Human Services responsible for providing health coverage for seniors and people with disabilities, for limited-income individuals and families, and for children--totaling almost 100 million beneficiaries. The agency's core mission was established more than four decades ago with a mandate to focus on the prompt payment of claims, which now total more than 1.2 billion annually. With CMS's mission expanding..

SEK 450.00
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Effective Tracking of Building Energy Use - Improving the Commercial Buildings and Residential Energy Consumption Surveys - Bok av National Research C

Effective Tracking of Building Energy Use - Improving the Commercial Buildings and Residential Energy Consumption Surveys - Bok av National Research C

\The United States is responsible for nearly one-fifth of the world's energy consumption. Population growth, and the associated growth in housing, commercial floor space, transportation, goods, and services is expected to cause a 0.7 percent annual increase in energy demand for the foreseeable future. The energy used by the commercial and residential sectors represents approximately 40 percent of the nation's total energy consumption, and the share of these two sectors is expected to increase in..

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Opportunities in Intense Ultrafast Lasers: Reaching for the Brightest Light - Bok av National Academies Of Sciences Engineeri - Häftad

Opportunities in Intense Ultrafast Lasers: Reaching for the Brightest Light - Bok av National Academies Of Sciences Engineeri - Häftad

The laser has revolutionized many areas of science and society, providing bright and versatile light sources that transform the ways we investigate science and enables trillions of dollars of commerce. Now a second laser revolution is underway with pulsed petawatt-class lasers (1 petawatt: 1 million billion watts) that deliver nearly 100 times the total world's power concentrated into a pulse that lasts less than one-trillionth of a second. Such light sources create unique, extreme laboratory conditions..

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Aging Avionics in Military Aircraft - Bok av National Research Council - Häftad

Aging Avionics in Military Aircraft - Bok av National Research Council - Häftad

Extending the life of an airframe has proven challenging and costly. Extending the life of an avionics system, however, is one of the most critical and difficult aspects of extending total aircraft system lifetimes. Critical components go out of production or become obsolete, and many former suppliers of military-grade components have gone out of business. From 1986 to 1996, for example, the percentage of discontinued military/aerospace electronic devices nearly doubled--from 7.5 percent to 13.5..

SEK 490.00
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Aging in Sub-Saharan Africa - Recommendations for Furthering Research - Bok av National Research Council - Häftad

Aging in Sub-Saharan Africa - Recommendations for Furthering Research - Bok av National Research Council - Häftad

In sub-Saharan Africa, older people make up a relatively small fraction of the total population and are supported primarily by family and other kinship networks. They have traditionally been viewed as repositories of information and wisdom, and are critical pillars of the community but as the HIV/AIDS pandemic destroys family systems, the elderly increasingly have to deal with the loss of their own support while absorbing the additional responsibilities of caring for their orphaned grandchildren...

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Making Medicines Affordable: A National Imperative - Bok av National Academies Of Sciences Engineeri - Häftad

Making Medicines Affordable: A National Imperative - Bok av National Academies Of Sciences Engineeri - Häftad

The United States is facing the vexing challenge of a seemingly uncontrolled rise in the cost of health care. Total medical expenditures are rapidly approaching 20 percent of the gross domestic product and are crowding out other priorities of national importance. The use of increasingly expensive prescription drugs is a significant part of this problem, making the cost of biopharmaceuticals a serious national concern with broad political implications. Especially with the highly visible and very large..

SEK 660.00
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Premium Cigars: Patterns of Use, Marketing, and Health Effects - Bok av National Academies Of Sciences Engineeri - Häftad

Premium Cigars: Patterns of Use, Marketing, and Health Effects - Bok av National Academies Of Sciences Engineeri - Häftad

\The early to mid-1990s saw a large surge in U.S. cigar consumption, including premium cigars. Based on recent import data, premium cigar use may be increasing, though they currently make up a small percent of the total U.S. cigar market. Premium cigars have also been the subject of legal and regulatory efforts for the past decade. In 1998, the National Cancer Institute undertook a comprehensive review of available knowledge about cigars - the only one to date. The resulting research recommendations..

SEK 590.00
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Genome-Based Therapeutics - Targeted Drug Discovery and Development: Workshop Summary - Bok av Institute of Medicine - Häftad

Genome-Based Therapeutics - Targeted Drug Discovery and Development: Workshop Summary - Bok av Institute of Medicine - Häftad

\The number of new drug approvals has remained reasonably steady for the past 50 years at around 20 to 30 per year, while at the same time the total spending on health-related research and development has tripled since 1990. There are many suspected causes for this trend, including increases in regulatory barriers, the rising costs of scientific inquiry, a decrease in research and development efficiency, the downstream effects of patient expirations on investment, and the lack of production models..

SEK 416.00
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Increasing National Resilience to Hazards and Disasters - The Perspective from the Gulf Coast of Louisiana and Mississippi: Summary of a Workshop - Bo

Increasing National Resilience to Hazards and Disasters - The Perspective from the Gulf Coast of Louisiana and Mississippi: Summary of a Workshop - Bo

Natural disasters are having an increasing effect on the lives of people in the United States and throughout the world. Every decade, property damage caused by natural disasters and hazards doubles or triples in the United States. More than half of the U.S. population lives within 50 miles of a coast, and all Americans are at risk from such hazards as fires, earthquakes, floods, and wind. The year 2010 saw 950 natural catastrophes around the world--the second highest annual total ever--with overall..

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