Search results for "nation"
epub |eng | 2004-04-15 | Author:Institute of Medicine & National Research Council of the National Academies

Incorporating New Science for the Longer Term Much of the work in a DoD program to develop medical biodefense countermeasures must be focused clearly on bringing specific products to licensure. ...
( Category: Politics & Social Sciences September 2,2023 )
epub |eng | 1998-05-21 | Author:National Research Council

Michel Cuénod, Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP), France HFSP is focused on promoting inter-continental cooperation in basic research in biology and neuroscience. By focusing on support for younger scientists through ...
( Category: Instruction Methods September 2,2023 )
epub |eng | 1998-08-31 | Author:Lauress L. Wise

The prima facie case for the value of cognitive interviews in item development remains strong. Direct evidence of students’ understandings of language and items clarifies item content in ways that ...
( Category: Schools & Teaching September 2,2023 )
epub |eng | 2000-10-30 | Author:National Research Council

FIGURE 6 The history of Han:Wist outbred rats. FIGURE 7 Comparison of gene frequencies in Wistar outbred rats. Compiled Background Data of Wistar Hannover Rats (Hanlbm:WIST) ( RCC. 1981-1998 ) ...
( Category: other September 2,2023 )
epub |eng | 2003-07-18 | Author:National Research Council of the National Academies

• Record in the archive the information necessary to support both emulation and migration when and if either becomes common. The original bit stream and careful records of the software ...
( Category: Computers & Technology September 2,2023 )
epub |eng | 2003-09-17 | Author:National Research Council of the National Academies

PROGRAMME FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDENT ASSESSMENT (PISA) The OECD, which was formed as part of the Marshall Plan after World War II, is composed of thirty nations, all of which are ...
( Category: Schools & Teaching September 2,2023 )
epub |eng | 2000-09-11 | Author:National Academy of Enegineering & National Research Council

Recommendation 4-2. Government, industry, and academia should seek consensus on interoperability standards. Legacy Systems Legacy systems are difficult to integrate with advanced tools that support AEE capabilities. Moving from today's ...
( Category: other September 2,2023 )
epub |eng | 2004-02-24 | Author:National Research Council of the National Academies

ANIMAL WELFARE The National Zoo currently has two Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees (IACUCs), one each for the CRC and the Rock Creek facility. Both are responsible for ensuring ...
( Category: Science & Math September 2,2023 )
epub |eng | 2002-10-02 | Author:National Research Council of the National Academies

Effects of Assimilation Given that the positive birth outcomes of Mexican-born immigrants may be partly due to the resources possessed by this group (i.e., the healthy immigrant phenomenon) and to ...
( Category: Medicine & Health Sciences September 2,2023 )
epub |eng | 2002-03-22 | Author:National Research Council

Source of Variation Variance Components Percentage of Variation ?-Statistic Estimates Among continents 1.12 21.88 ?CT=0.219 Among populations 0.28 5.49 ?PC=0.070 Within populations 3.72 72.63 ?PT=0.274 North American Analysisb (1??PC)=(1??PR)×(1??RC) Source ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology September 2,2023 )
epub |eng | 2002-01-29 | Author:National Research Council

UNDERSTANDING ECOLOGICAL RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH SURFACTANT Although the impacts of petroleum hydrocarbons on marine and aquatic organisms have been studied for years, the long-term chronic effects of the surfactants used ...
( Category: Science & Math September 2,2023 )
epub |eng | 2003-01-31 | Author:National Research Council of the National Academies

Cellular Telephones As word of the attacks spread, the cellular telephone system in the northeastern United States began to be heavily loaded. Nationally, call volume rose 50 percent above normal. ...
( Category: Computers & Technology September 2,2023 )
epub |eng | 2000-04-19 | Author:National Research Council

Potential Harms Possible Mechanisms Potential Benefits Patients Patients could be prematurely “objectified”( i.e., perceived as donors rather than as persons) Interest in donation could unconsciously lead to premature determinations of ...
( Category: other September 2,2023 )
epub |eng | 1999-11-18 | Author:Committee on the Evaluation of the Voluntary National Tests, Year 2

The committee’s interim report (National Research Council, 1999c) focused on the first three topics. Since that time, a report was issued by NAGB’s Linkage Feasibility Team (LFT) on issues associated ...
( Category: Education & Teaching September 2,2023 )
epub |eng | 2003-04-28 | Author:National Research Council of the National Academies

6 Measuring Child Labor PRESENTATION Data Analyst Amy Ritualo (2002), of the ILO International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour, said that, unlike previous speakers, she would not claim ...
( Category: Engineering & Transportation September 2,2023 )