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Final Report on the Effectiveness of the Air Force Nondestructive Inspection Program

Enhancing the Effectiveness of Sustainability Partnerships:

Summary of a Workshop

Sustainable development--meeting human needs while nurturing and restoring the planet's life support systems--requires a continuous process of scientific innovation, new knowledge and learning, and collaborative approaches to implementing technologies and policies. To address these challenges, different stakeholder groups are increasingly seeking to ally themselves through partnership, in order to implement projects, deliver services, establish secure funding mechanisms, and achieve on the ground results. Advocates of this collaborative approach point to the failure of governmental regulations, international commitments, or business as usual. However, skeptics often question the effectiveness of partnerships at achieving sustainable development goals and, in the absence of demonstrated results, wonder where partnerships are adding value. A symposium held in June 2008 and summarized in this volume, attempted to advance the dialogue on partnerships for sustainability in order to catalyze existing knowledge and inform future efforts. Ideas that came out of discussions at the symposium will help leaders in government, the private sector, foundations and NGOs, and universities, both in the United States and internationally, as they develop and participate in new partnerships for sustainability.

Future Materials Science Research on the International Space Station

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is attempting to
capitalize on this delay by reviewing the SSFF Core project with respect to the
specific research capabilities afforded by the facility, the technology being
developed and its usefulness to the U.S. materials science community, and the
procedures for identifying the research to be conducted using the SSFF Core. To
facilitate its review, NASA requested that the National Research Council conduct
a study to (1) ...

Building Research, International

Proceedings of a Program Conducted as Part of the 1959 Fall Conferences of the Building Research Institute, Division of Engineering and Industrial Research

Proceedings of a Program Conducted as Part of the 1959 Fall Conferences of the
Building Research Institute, Division of Engineering and Industrial Research
National Research Council (U.S.). Building Research Institute. Conferences. -
WINTER C0NSTRUCTION IN CANADA By C. R. Crocker* Senior Research.

International Animal Research Regulations:

Impact on Neuroscience Research: Workshop Summary

Animals are widely used in neuroscience research to explore biological mechanisms of nervous system function, to identify the genetic basis of disease states, and to provide models of human disorders and diseases for the development of new treatments. To ensure the humane care and use of animals, numerous laws, policies, and regulations are in place governing the use of animals in research, and certain animal regulations have implications specific to neuroscience research. To consider animal research regulations from a global perspective, the IOM Forum on Neuroscience and Nervous System Disorders, in collaboration with the National Research Council and the Institute for Laboratory Animal Research, held a workshop in Buckinghamshire, UK, July 26-27, 2011. The workshop brought together neuroscientists, legal scholars, administrators, and other key stakeholders to discuss current and emerging trends in animal regulations as they apply to the neurosciences. This document summarizes the workshop.

Impact on Neuroscience Research: Workshop Summary National Research
Council, Institute of Medicine, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Institute for
Laboratory Animal Research, Policy and Global Affairs, Committee on Science,
Technology, and Law, Board on Health Sciences Policy, Forum on Neuroscience
and Nervous System Disorders Bruce M. Altevogt, Anne-Marie Mazza, Theresa M
. Wizemann, Diana E. Pankevich. Costs Bureaucracy in regulatory systems is a
challenge ...

United States Interests and Needs in the Coordination of International Oceanographic Research

CHAPTER 4 BILATERAL AGREEMENTS ON MARINE SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
Experience with formal bilateral agreements directly concerning marine research
is relatively recent, apart from agreements establishing bilateral fishery
commissions with regular staffs. In the case of oceanography, the use of formal
bilateral agreements (in contrast to ad_ hoc, one-time, and private arrangements)
began in the l970s and involves primarily the most advanced maritime nations.
Prior to the ...

Discipline-Based Education Research

Understanding and Improving Learning in Undergraduate Science and Engineering

The National Science Foundation funded a synthesis study on the status, contributions, and future direction of discipline-based education research (DBER) in physics, biological sciences, geosciences, and chemistry. DBER combines knowledge of teaching and learning with deep knowledge of discipline-specific science content. It describes the discipline-specific difficulties learners face and the specialized intellectual and instructional resources that can facilitate student understanding. Discipline-Based Education Research is based on a 30-month study built on two workshops held in 2008 to explore evidence on promising practices in undergraduate science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education. This book asks questions that are essential to advancing DBER and broadening its impact on undergraduate science teaching and learning. The book provides empirical research on undergraduate teaching and learning in the sciences, explores the extent to which this research currently influences undergraduate instruction, and identifies the intellectual and material resources required to further develop DBER. Discipline-Based Education Research provides guidance for future DBER research. In addition, the findings and recommendations of this report may invite, if not assist, post-secondary institutions to increase interest and research activity in DBER and improve its quality and usefulness across all natural science disciples, as well as guide instruction and assessment across natural science courses to improve student learning. The book brings greater focus to issues of student attrition in the natural sciences that are related to the quality of instruction. Discipline-Based Education Research will be of interest to educators, policy makers, researchers, scholars, decision makers in universities, government agencies, curriculum developers, research sponsors, and education advocacy groups.

Understanding and Improving Learning in Undergraduate Science and
Engineering Committee on the Status, Contributions, and Future Directions of
Discipline-Based Education Research, Board on Science Education, Division of
Behavioral ...

Application of Different Ice Class Rules to MV Arctic and a SA 15 Type Ship

Research Report

Emerging Needs and Opportunities for Human Factors Research

This book identifies areas that represent new needs and opportunities for human factors research in the coming decades. It is forward-looking, problem oriented, and selectively focused on national or global problems, including productivity in organizations, education and training, employment and disabilities, health care, and environmental change; technology issues, including communications technology and telenetworking, information access and usability, emerging technologies, automation, and flexible manufacturing, and advanced transportation systems; and human performance, including cognitive performance under stress and aiding intellectual work.

http://www.nap.edu/catalog/4940.html COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGYAND
TELENETWORKING 189 cation, Sproull and Kiesler argue, because the
possibility of a critical audience is less apparent in the former case: “Because a
person ...

Assessing the Value of Research in the Chemical Sciences

This book captures the messages from a workshop that brought together research managers from government, industry, and academia to review and discuss the mechanisms that have been proposed or used to assess the value of chemical research. The workshop focused on the assessment procedures that have been or will be established within the various organizations that carry out or fund research activities, with particular attention to the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA). The book presents approaches and ideas from leaders in each area that were intended to identify new and useful ways of assessing the value and potential impact of research activities.

Audience Member: Are there differences between big and small companies?
Francis Narin: Yes, but I have not looked in detail at big versus small companies
to see which ones are more science linked, except that in the biotech area the
small ...