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mobi |eng | 2019-08-26 | Author:Chase Austin

Khalid heard Patricia’s cries on the other side of the hallway and walked fast to turn at the corner. He immediately saw an easy target. He aimed his pistol at ...
( Category: Pulp September 2,2023 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-02 | Author:Amy Smith

IMMIGRATION The historically important role of immigration in U.S. demographic growth has increased substantially in recent years. Immigrant flows have intensified and changed, with a larger share of new immigrants ...
( Category: Politics & Social Sciences September 2,2023 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-26 | Author:Andrew Robertson

FIGURE 3-1 A systems analysis of South Sudan centers on the legitimacy and capacity of the Government of South Sudan (GoSS). Each arc describes how change in a node at ...
( Category: Science & Math September 2,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Steve Olson

6 Perspectives from Educators Important Points Made by Individual Speakers Schools need to be held accountable if education standards are to be implemented. Programs at the state level could act ...
( Category: other September 2,2023 )
epub |eng | 2014-01-23 | Author:Arthur M. Sackler Colloquia of the National Academy of Sciences

HOW SCIENTISTS TALK TO ONE ANOTHER ABOUT THEIR SCIENCE—AND WHAT THE PUBLIC HEARS How do scientists actually communicate with each other, asked Kevin Dunbar, professor of human development and quantitative ...
( Category: Politics & Social Sciences September 2,2023 )
epub |eng | 2012-12-17 | Author:Committee on the Assessment of the National Weather Service’s Modernization Program

ADVISORY GROUPS FOR TECHNOLOGICAL IMPROVEMENTS Lesson 6 of the Committee’s first report was that the various scientific and technical reports from independent advisory bodies were of substantial help to the ...
( Category: Earth Sciences September 2,2023 )
epub |eng | 2014-06-25 | Author:National Research Council

References Alasset, P. J., V. Poncos, V. Singhroy, and R. Couture. 2008. InSAR Monitoring of Permafrost Activity in the Lower Mackenzie Valley, Canada. Presented at 2008 IEEE International Geoscience and ...
( Category: Engineering September 2,2023 )
epub |eng | 2011-06-27 | Author:National Research Council of the National Academies

Difficulty of Resolving the Culture Differences Dillman notes that government statistical agencies, such as the Census Bureau, are highly complex organizations with many different tasks.1 Not only are there several ...
( Category: Mathematics September 2,2023 )
epub |eng | 2011-04-28 | Author:Institute of Medicine of the National Academies

TU 1: Reduce Tobacco Use by Adults According to the American Lung Association (2010), annual smoking prevalence declined by more than 50 percent between 1965 and 2008. Despite that decline, ...
( Category: Medicine September 2,2023 )
epub |eng | 2018-09-15 | Author:Molloy, Johnny;

MILESTONES 1 0.0 Limberlost Trail Parking Area 2 0.4 Crescent Rock Trail leaves right 3 0.9 Bisect Whiteoak Canyon Trail 4 1.0 Right on Old Rag Fire Road 5 1.6 ...
( Category: Parks & Campgrounds September 2,2023 )
epub |eng | 2011-06-14 | Author:National Research Council of the National Academies

SUSTAINABILITY AS A POINT OF DIFFERENTIATION K.C. Boyce, Deputy Executive Director, Membership and Regional Impact, ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability, discussed how progress toward sustainability might be measured in the region. ...
( Category: Science & Math September 2,2023 )
epub |eng | 2008-02-15 | Author:National Research Council of the National Academies

NUTRIENT CRITERIA AND TMDLS FOR THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER None of the 10 Mississippi River mainstem states currently have numeric criteria for nitrogen or phosphorus applicable to the river (listings in ...
( Category: Sustainable Agriculture September 2,2023 )
epub |eng | 2009-05-08 | Author:National Research Council of the National Academies

Simulations of Marine Turbulence and Surface Waves: Potential Impacts of Petascale Technology Peter P. Sullivan* *University Corporation of Atmospheric Research PETASCALE COMPUTING Large scale parallel computing is a potential boon ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology September 2,2023 )
epub |eng | 2011-06-20 | Author:Institute of Medicine of the National Academies

4 Standards for Synthesizing the Body of Evidence Abstract: This chapter addresses the qualitative and quantitative synthesis (meta-analysis) of the body of evidence. The committee recommends four related standards. The ...
( Category: Health Policy September 2,2023 )
epub |eng | 2008-01-25 | Author:Institute of Medicine of the National Academies

Reduce Access to Lethal Means The lethality of interpersonal, self-directed, and collective violence is affected by the means people use to carry out this violence. Reducing access to these lethal ...
( Category: Politics & Social Sciences September 2,2023 )