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Briefings are events organized through the Office of Congressional and Government Affairs to inform members of Congress and/or their staff on the conclusions and recommendations of reports of the National Academies.

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A 21st Century System for Evaluating Veterans for Disability Benefits
A Framework for K-12 Science Education: Practices, Crosscutting Concepts, and Core Ideas
A Geospatial Framework for the Coastal Zone: National Needs for Coastal Mapping and Charting
A Matter of Size: Triennial Review of the National Nanotechnology Initiative
A National Cancer Clinical Trials System for the 21st Century: Reinvigorating the NCI Cooperative Group Program
A New Biology for the 21st Century: Ensuring the United States Leads the Coming Biology Revolution
A Patent System for the 21st Century
A Research Strategy for Environmental, Health, and Safety Aspects of Engineered Nanomaterials
A Review of NASA's 2006 Draft Science Plan: Letter Report
A Review of the DOE Plan for U.S. Fusion Community Participation in the ITER Program
A Review of the Dose Reconstruction Program of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency
A Review of the Draft 2013 National Climate Assessment
A Review of the EPA Water Security Research and Technical Support Action Plan: Parts I and II
A Review of the FBI's Trilogy Information Technology Modernization Program
A Review of the HHS Family Planning Program: Mission, Management, and Measurement of Results
A Review of the Proposed Revisions to the Federal Principles and Guidelines Water Resources Planning Document
A Review of the Use of Science and Adaptive Management in California's Draft Bay Delta Conservation Plan
A Risk-Management Strategy for PCB-Contaminated Sediments (Executive Summary)
A Risk-Management Strategy for PCB-Contaminated Sediments (Full Report)
A Scientific Assessment of Alternatives for Reducing Water Management Effects on Threatened and Endangered Fishes in California's Bay Delta
A Shared Destiny: Community Effects of Uninsurance
A Transportation Research Program for Mitigating and Adapting to Climate Change and Conserving Energy: Special Report 299
Accelerating Progress in Obesity Prevention: Solving the Weight of the Nation
Achieving Nutrient and Sediment Reduction Goals in the Chesapeake Bay: An Evaluation of Program Strategies and Implementation
Achieving Traffic Safety Goals in the United States: Lessons from Other Nations - TRB Special Report 300
Advancing Nuclear Medicine Through Innovation
Advancing Scientific Research in Education
Adverse Effects of Vaccines: Evidence and Causality
Advice on the Department of Energy's Cleanup Technology Roadmap: Gaps and Bridges
Aeronautics Innovation: NASA’s Challenges and Opportunities
Aging and the Macroeconomy: Long-Term Implications of an Older Population
Air Quality Management in the United States
Airliner Cabin Environment and the Health of Passengers and Crew, The
Alternative Technologies to Replace Antipersonnel Landmines
Alternatives for High-Level Waste Salt Processing at the Savannah River Site
Alternatives for Managing the Nation’s Complex Contaminated Groundwater Sites
Alternatives to the Indian Point Energy Center for Meeting New York Electric Power Needs
America’s Climate Choices (First three reports)
America’s Lab Report: Investigations in High School Science
America's Climate Choices
America's Energy Future: Technology and Transformation: Summary Edition
America's Future in Space: Aligning the Civil Space Program with National Needs
America's Health Care Safety Net
America's Uninsured Crisis: Consequences for Health and Health Care
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis in Veterans: Review of the Scientific Literature
An Assessment of Balance in NASA’s Science Programs
An Assessment of Potential Health Effects from Exposure to PAVE PAWS Low-Level Phased-Array Radiofrequency Energy
An Assessment of the Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory
An Assessment of the Safety of the Anthrax Vaccine
An Evaluation of the Food Safety Requirements of the Federal Purchase Ground Beef Program
Analysis of Cancer Risks in Populations near Nuclear Facilities: Phase I
Analyzing the U.S. Content of Imports and the Foreign Content of Exports
Animal Biotechnology: Identifying Science-Based Concerns
Animal Care and Management at the National Zoo: Final Report
Animal Care and Management at the National Zoo: Interim Report
Anthrax Vaccine, The: Is It Safe? Does It Work?
Antimicrobial Resistance: Issues and Options
Approaches for Ecosystem Services Valuation for the Gulf of Mexico After the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: Interim Report
Army Science and Technology for Homeland Security: Report 2 -- C4ISR
Arsenic in Drinking Water
Arsenic in Drinking Water: 2001 Update
Asbestos: Selected Cancers
Assessing Accomplished Teaching: Advanced-Level Certification Programs
Assessing Risks to Endangered and Threatened Species from Pesticides
Assessing the Human Health Risks of Trichloroethylene: Key Scientific Issues
Assessing the TMDL Approach to Water Quality Management
Assessment of Department of Defense Basic Research
Assessment of Options for Extending the Life of the Hubble Space Telescope: Final Report
Assessment of Technologies Deployed to Improve Aviation Security: Second Report: Progress Toward Objectives
Assessment of Technologies for Improving Light Duty Vehicle Fuel Economy
Assessment of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s Rating System for Rollover Resistance, An -- Special Report 265
Assessment of the Scientific Information for the Radiation Exposure Screening and Education Program
Atlantic Salmon in Maine
Ballistic Imaging
Base Map Inputs for Floodplain Mapping
Beyond "Fortress America": National Security Controls on Science and Technology in a Globalized World
Beyond Bias and Barriers: Fulfilling the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering
Beyond the HIPAA Privacy Rule: Enhancing Privacy, Improving Health Through Research
Biological Confinement of Genetically Engineered Organisms
Biosolids Applied to Land: Advancing Standards and Practices
Biotechnology Research in an Age of Terrorism: Confronting the "Dual Use" Dilemma
Black and Smokeless Powders: Technologies for Finding the Bombs and the Bombmakers
Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans and Agent Orange Exposure
Board on Radioactive Waste Management Reports
Broadband: Bringing Home the Bits
Buckling Up: Technologies to Increase Seat Belt Use (Special Report 278)
Budgeting for Immigration Enforcement: A Path to Better Performance
Building a Workforce for the Information Economy
Cancer Research Among Minorities and the Medically Underserved
Capabilities for the Future: An Assessment of NASA Laboratories for Basic Research
Care Without Coverage: Too Little, Too Late
Catalysis for Energy: Fundamental Science and Long-Term Impacts of the U.S. Department of Energy Basic Energy Science Catalysis Science Program
CDC Anthrax Vaccine Safety & Efficacy Research Program: Interim Report
Characterization of Remote-Handled Transuranic Waste at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP): Interim Report
Characterization of Remote-Handled Transuranic Waste for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant--Final Report
Characterizing Exposure of Veterans to Agent Orange and Other Herbicides Used in Vietnam: Interim Findings and Recommendations
Charting the Future of Methane Hydrate Research in the United States
Child and Adolescent Health and Health Care Quality: Measuring What Matters
Children and Health Insurance
Children's Health, the Nation's Wealth: Assessing and Improving Child Health
Chimpanzees in Biomedical and Behavioral Research: Assessing the Necessity
Choosing the Nation’s Fiscal Future
Clearing the Smoke: Assessing the Science Base for Tobacco Harm Reduction
Climate Change Science: An Analysis of Some Key Questions
Climate Stabilization Targets: Emissions, Concentrations, and Impacts over Decades to Millenia
Clinical Practice Guidelines We Can Trust
Clinical Preventive Services for Women: Closing the Gaps
Coal Waste Impoundments: Risks, Responses, and Alternatives
Coal: Research and Development to Support National Energy Policy
Cognitive Rehabilitation Therapy for Traumatic Brain Injury: Evaluating the Evidence
Colorado River Basin Water Management: Evaluating and Adjusting to Hydroclimatic Variability
Combating Tobacco Use in Military and Veteran Populations
Community-Based Drug Treatment
Compensating for Wetland Losses Under the Clean Water Act
Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) in the United States
Completing the "Big Dig": Managing the Final Stages of Boston's Central Artery/Tunnel Project
Conflict of Interest in Medical Research, Education, and Practice
Confronting Chronic Neglect: The Education and Training of Health Professionals on Family Violence
Confronting the Nation's Water Problems: The Role of Research
Connecting Quarks with the Cosmos: Eleven Science Questions for the New Century
Containing the Threat from Illegal Bombings
Contaminated Water Supplies at Camp Lejeune: Assessing Potential Health Effects
Controlling Cost Growth of NASA Earth and Space Science Missions
Controlling the Quantum World
Copper in Drinking Water
Copyright in the Digital Era: Building Evidence for Policy
Cord Blood: Establishing a National Hematopoietic Stem Cell Bank Program
Corps of Engineers Water Resources Infrastructure: Deterioration, Investment, or Divestment?
Countering Agricultural Bioterrorism
Countering the Problem of Falsified and Substandard Drugs
Coverage Matters: Insurance and Health Care
Critical Infrastructure for Ocean Research and Societal Needs in 2030 and Assessing Requirements for Sustained Ocean Color Research and Operations
Critical Technology Accessibility
Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century
Cumulative Environmental Effects of Oil and Gas Activities on Alaska's North Slope
Dam and Levee Safety and Community Resilience: A Vision for Future Practice
Damp Indoor Spaces and Health
Deadly Lessons: Understanding Lethal School Violence
Defense Modeling, Simulation, and Analysis: Meeting the Challenge
Department of Homeland Security Bioterrorism Risk Assessment: A Call for Change
Desalination: A National Perspective
Description and Analysis of the VA National Formulary
Deterrence and the Death Penalty
Dietary Supplements: A Framework for Evaluating Safety
Dioxins and Dioxin-like Compounds in the Food Supply: Strategies to Decrease Exposure
Disaster Resilience: A National Imperative
Disposition of High-Level Waste and Spent Nuclear Fuel: The Continuing Societal and Technical Challenges
Disposition of the Air Force Health Study
Disposition of the Air Force Health Study: Interim Letter Report
Distribution and Administration of Potassium Iodide in the Event of a Nuclear Incident
Drawing Louisiana’s New Map: Addressing Land Loss in Coastal Louisiana
Driving and the Built Environment: The Effects of Compact Development on Motorized Travel, Energy Use, and CO2 Emissions -- Special Report 298
Dynamics of Disability: Measuring and Monitoring Disability for Social Security Programs, The
Early Childhood Assessment: Why, What, and How?
Earth Observations from Space: The First 50 Years of Scientific Achievements
Ecological Dynamics on Yellowstone's Northern Range
Ecosystem Concepts for Sustainable Bivalve Mariculture
Educational Testing
Effectiveness and Impact of Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE)
Effects of Nuclear Earth-Penetrator and Other Weapons
Effects of Trawling and Dredging on Seafloor Habitat
Elder Mistreatment: Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation in an Aging America
Electricity from Renewable Resources: Status, Prospects, and Impediments
Eliminating Health Disparities: Measurement and Data Needs
Emerging Workforce Trends in the U.S. Energy and Mining Industries: A Call to Action
Endangered and Threatened Fishes in the Klamath River Basin: Causes of Decline and Strategies for Recovery
Endangered and Threatened Species of the Platte River
Ending Neglect: The Elimination of Tuberculosis in the United States
Ending the Tobacco Problem: A Blueprint for the Nation
Energy Research At DoE: Was It Worth It? (Energy Efficiency and
Engineering Challenges to the Long-Term Operation of the International Space Station
Enhancing Food Safety: The Role of the Food and Drug Administration
Enhancing the Vitality of the National Institutes of Health: Organizational Change to Meet New Challenges
Ensuring Food Safety from Production to Consumption
Ensuring the Climate Record from the NPOESS and GOES-R Spacecraft: Elements of a Strategy to Recover Measurement Capabilities Lost in Program Restructuring
Ensuring the Quality, Credibility, and Relevance of U.S. Justice Statistics
Environmental Decisions in the Face of Uncertainty
Environmental Effects of Transgenic Plants: The Scope and Adequacy of Regulation
Environmental Impacts of Wind-Energy Projects
Environmental Issues in Pacific Northwest Forest Management
Environmental Performance of Tanker Designs in Collision and Grounding: Method for Comparison – Special Report 259
Envisioning the National Health Care Quality Report
Epilepsy Across the Spectrum: Promoting Health and Understanding
Equity of Evolving Transportation Finance Mechanisms: TRB Special Report 303
Equivalency and Linkage of Educational Tests: Interim Report
Essential Health Benefits: Balancing Coverage and Costs
Estimating Mortality Risk Reduction and Economic Benefits from Controlling Ozone Air Pollution
Estimating the Public Health Benefits of Proposed Air Pollution Regulations
Ethical and Scientific Issues in Studying the Safety of Approved Drugs
Evaluating Federal Research Programs
Evaluating Implementation of Section 4(f) Streamlining Provisions: Review of U.S. Department of Transportation's Draft Phase I Study Report and Phase II Draft Methodology
Evaluating Progress of the U.S. Climate Change Science Program: Methods and Preliminary Results
Evaluating Research Efficiency in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Evaluating Testing, Costs, and Benefits of Advanced Spectroscopic Portals: Final Report (Abbreviated Version)
Evaluating the Implementation of Section 4(f) Streamlining Provisions, A Review of the U.S. Department of Transportation's Phase I Draft Study Plans: June 9, 2008
Evaluating Vehicle Emissions Inspection and Maintenance Programs
Evaluating Welfare Reform: A Framework and Review of Current Work
Evaluation of Biomarkers and Surrogate Endpoints in Chronic Disease
Evaluation of Chemical Events at Army Chemical Agent Disposal Facilities
Evaluation of PEPFAR
Evaluation of Quantification of Margins and Uncertainties Methodology for Assessing and Certifying the Reliability of the Nuclear Stockpile
Evaluation of the Health and Safety Risks of the New USAMRIID High Containment Facilities at Fort Detrick, Maryland
Evaluation of the Sea Grant Program Review Process
Evaluation of the Updated Site-Specific Risk Assessment for the National Bio- and Agro-Defense Facility in Manhattan, Kansas
Expanding Underrepresented Minority Participation: America's Science and Technology Talent at the Crossroads
Exploration of the Seas: Interim Report
Exploration of the Seas: Voyage Into the Unknown
Export Control Challenges Associated with Securing the Homeland
Exposure of the American People to Iodine-131 from Nevada Atomic Bomb Tests
Exposure of the American Population to Radioactive Fallout from Nuclear Weapons Tests: A Review of the CDC-NCI Draft Report on a Feasibility Study of the Health Consequences to the American Population from Nuclear Weapons Tests Conducted by the United States and Other Nations
Exposure Science in the 21st Century
Extending Medicare Coverage and Reimbursement
Factors Affecting the Utilization of the International Space Station for Research in the Biological and Physical Services
Fair Weather: Effective Partnerships in Weather and Climate Services
Federal Funding of Transportation Improvements in BRAC Cases
Fiber Drum Packaging for Transporting Liquid Hazardous Materials
Final Report from the NRC Committee on the Review of the Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration (LACPR) Program
Financing Vaccines in the 21st Century: Assuring Access and Availability
Finding What Works in Health Care: Standards for Systematic Reviews
Firearms and Violence: A Critical Review
First Report from the NRC Committee on the Review of the Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration (LACPR) Program
Flash Flood Forecasting Over Complex Terrain: With an Assessment of the Sulphur Mountain NEXRAD in Southern California
Fluoride in Drinking Water: A Scientific Review of EPA’s Standards
Food Insecurity and Hunger in the United States: An Assessment of the Measure
Food Marketing to Children and Youth: Threat or Opportunity?
Forensic Analysis: Weighing Bullet Lead Evidence
Fostering Rapid Advances in Health Care: Learning from System DDemonstration
Fourth Report of the National Academy of Engineering/National Research Council Committee on New Orleans Regional Hurricane Protection Projects: Review of the IPET Volume VIII
From Generation to Generation: The Health and Well-Being of Children in Immigrant Families
Frontiers in Agricultural Research: Food, Health, Environment, and Communities
Front-of-Package Nutrition Rating Systems and Symbols: Promoting Healthier Choices
Funding Options for Freight Transportation Projects: Special Report 297
Funding Smithsonian Scientific Research
Future Directions for the National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports
Future of Air Traffic Control: Human Factors and Automation
Future Roles and Opportunities for the U.S. Geological Survey
Future Science Opportunities in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean
Gender Differences at Critical Transitions in the Careers of Science, Engineering and Mathematics Faculty
Genetically Modified Pest-Protected Plants: Science and Regulation
Geographic Adjustment in Medicare Payment - Phase II: Implications for Access, Quality, and Efficiency
Geographic Adjustment in Medicare Payment: Phase I: Improving Accuracy
Geographic Adjustment in Medicare Payment: Phase I: Improving Accuracy, Second Edition
Getting Up to Speed: The Future of Supercomputing
Giving Full Measure to Countermeasures: Addressing Problems in the DoD Program to Develop Medical Countermeasures Against Biological Warfare Agents
Global Security Engagement: A New Model for Cooperative Threat Reduction and Countering Biological Threats: Challenges for the Department of Defense's Nonproliferation Program Beyond the Former Soviet Union
Going the Distance? The Safe Transport of Spent Nuclear Fuel and High-Level Radioactive Waste in the United States
Grading the Nation's Report Card: Evaluating NAEP and Transforming the Assessment of Educational Progress
Great Lakes Shipping, Trade, and Aquatic Invasive Species
Guidelines for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research
Gulf War and Health: Updated Literature Review of Depleted Uranium and Epidemiologic Studies of Veterans Exposed to Depleted Uranium: Feasbility and Design Issues
Gulf War and Health: Updated Literature Review of Sarin
Gulf War and Health: Volume 1. Depleted Uranium, Sarin, Pyridostigmine
Gulf War and Health: Volume 2. Insecticides and Solvents
Gulf War and Health: Volume 3. Fuels, Combustion Products, and Propellants
Gulf War and Health: Volume 4. Health Effects of Serving in the Gulf War
Gulf War and Health: Volume 5. Infectious Diseases
Gulf War and Health: Volume 6. Physiologic, Psychologic, and Psychosocial Effects of Deployment-Related Stress
Gulf War and Health: Volume 7: Long-Term Consequences of Traumatic Brain Injury
Gulf War and Health: Volume 8: Update of Health Effects of Serving in the Gulf War
Gulf War and Health: Volume 9: Treatment for Chronic Multisymptom Illness
Gulf War Veterans: Measuring Health
Gulf War Veterans: Treating Symptoms and Syndromes
Gulf War: The Health of Veterans and Deployed Forces
Hardrock Mining on Federal Lands
Healers Abroad: Americans Responding to the Human Resource Crisis in HIV/AIDS
Health Effects of Exposure to Radon: BEIR VI
Health Implications of Perchlorate Ingestion
Health Insurance is a Family Matter
Health IT and Patient Safety: Building Safer Systems for Better Care
Health Literacy: A Prescription to End Confusion
Health Risks from Dioxin and Related Compounds: Evaluation of the EPA Reassessment
Health Risks from Exposure to Low Levels of Ionizing Radiation: BEIR VII, Phase 2
Hepatitis and Liver Cancer: A National Strategy for Prevention and Control of Hepatitis B and C
HHS in the 21st Century: Charting a New Course for a Healthier America
Hidden Costs of Energy: Unpriced Consequences of Energy Production and Use
Hidden Costs, Value Lost: Uninsurance in America
Himalayan Glaciers: Climate Change, Water Resources, and Water Security
HIV Prevention ("No Time to Lose: Getting More From HIV Prevention")
Hormonally Active Agents in the Environment
Hospital-Based Emergency Care: At the Breaking Point; Emergency Medical Services: At the Crossroads; and Emergency Care for Children: Growing Pains
How We Travel: A Sustainable National Program for Travel Data
Human Biomonitoring for Environmental Chemicals
Hydrology, Ecology, and Fishes of the Klamath River Basin
Immunization Finance Policies and Practices
Immunization Safety Review: Hepatitis B Vaccine and Demyelinating Neurological Disorders
Immunization Safety Review: Measles-Mumps-Rubella Vaccine and Autism
Immunization Safety Review: Multiple Immunizations and Immune Dysfunction
Immunization Safety Review: SV40 Contamination of Polio Vaccine and Cancer
Immunization Safety Review: Thimerosal - Containing Vaccines and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Immunization Safety Review: Vaccines and Autism
Impact of Genetically Engineered Crops on Farm Sustainability in the United States
Implementing Climate and Global Change Research: A Review of the Final U.S. Climate Change Science Program Strategic Plan
Implementing the Results of the Second Strategic Highway Research Program: Saving Lives, Reducing Congestion, Improving Quality of Life
Improving Breast Imaging Quality Standards
Improving Disaster Management: The Role of IT in Mitigation, Preparedness, Response, and Recovery
Improving Metrics for the Department of Defense Cooperative Threat Reduction Program
Improving Operations and Long-Term Safety of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant: Final Report
Improving Palliative Care for Cancer
Improving the Characterization Program for Contact-Handled Transuranic Waste Bound for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
Improving the Presumptive Disability Decision-Making Process for Veterans
Improving the Quality of Health Care for Mental and Substance-Use Conditions: Quality Chasm Series
Improving the Quality of Long-Term Care
Improving the Social Security Representative Payee Program: Serving Beneficiaries and Minimizing Misuse
Improving the Use of the "Best Scientific Information Available" Standard in Fisheries Management
Improving Water Quality in the Mississippi River Basin and Northern Gulf of Mexico: Strategies and Priorities
In the Nation's Compelling Interest: Ensuring Diversity in the Health Care Workforce
Incentives and Test-Based Accountability in Education
Induced Seismicity Potential in Energy Technologies
Information Sharing and Collaboration: Applications to Integrated Biosurveillance: Workshop Summary
Informing America's Policy on Illegal Drugs: What We Don't Know Keeps Hurting Us
Informing an Effective Response to Climate Change
Informing Decisions in a Changing Climate
Initial National Priorities for Comparative Effectiveness Research
Inland Navigation System Planning: The Upper Mississippi River -- Illinois Waterway
Innovation Inducement Prizes at the National Science Foundation
Insuring America's Health: Principles and Recommendations
Intentional Human Dosing Studies for EPA Regulatory Purposes: Scientific and Ethical Issues
Interim Report of the Committee on Changes in New Source Review Programs for Stationary Sources of Air Pollutants
Interim Report of the Committee on Geographic Variation in Health Care Spending and Promotion of High-Value Health Care: Preliminary Committee Observations
International Education and Foreign Languages: Keys to Securing America's Future
Issues in Commuting and Pilot Fatigue: Interim Report
Keeping Patients Safe: Transforming the Work Environment of Nurses
Knowing What Works in Health Care: A Roadmap for the Nation
Laying the Foundation for Space Solar Power: An Assessment of NASA's Space Solar Power Investment Strategy
LC21: A Digital Strategy for the Library of Congress
Leadership by Example: Coordinating Government Roles in Improving Health Care Quality
Letter Report on Electronic Voting
Letter Report to Review the International Epidemiology Public Health Institute's Evaluation of Radiofrequency Energy from the PAVE PAWS Radar
Levees and the National Flood Insurance Program: Improving Policies and Practices
Life and Physical Sciences Research for a New Era of Space Exploration: An Interim Report
Life in the Universe: An Examination of United States and International Programs in Astrobiology
Liquid Transportation Fuels from Coal and Biomass: Technological Status, Costs, and Environmental Impacts
Local Government Actions to Prevent Childhood Obesity
Long-Term Health Consequences of Exposure to Burn Pits in Iraq and Afghanistan
Long-Term Health Effects of Participation in Project SHAD (Shipboard Hazard and Defense)
Macondo Well-Deepwater Horizon Blowout: Lessons for Offshore Drilling Safety
Maintaining High Scientific Quality at Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories
Making Money Matter: Financing America's Schools
Making the Nation Safer: The Role of Science and Technology in Countering Terrorism
Mammography and Beyond: Developing Technologies for the Early Detection of Breast Cancer
Management and Effects of Coalbed Methane Produced Water in the United States
Managing Carbon Monoxide Pollution in Meteorological and Topographical Problem Areas
Managing Coal Combustion Residues in Mines
Managing Construction and Infrastructure in the 21st Century Bureau of Reclamation
Managing for High-Quality Science and Engineering at the NNSA National Security Laboratories
Managing Materials for a 21st Century Military and Minerals, Critical Minerals, and the U.S. Economy
Marijuana and Medicine: Assessing the Science Base
Marine Mammal Populations and Ocean Noise: Determining When Noise Causes Biologically Significant Effects
Marine Mammals and Low-Frequency Sound: Progress Since 1994
Marine Protected Areas: Tools for Sustaining Ocean Ecosystems
Mathematics Learning in Early Childhood: Paths Toward Excellence and Equity
Measuring Research and Development Expenditures in the U.S. Economy: Interim Report
Measuring What Matters: Allocation, Planning, and Quality Assessment for the Ryan White CARE Act
Medical Devices and the Public's Health: The FDA 510(k) Clearance Process at 35 Years
Medical Isotope Production Without Highly Enriched Uranium
Medicare Laboratory Payment Policy: Now and In the Future
Medicare’s Quality Improvement Organization Program: Maximizing Potential (Series: Pathways to Quality Health Care)
Meeting Critical Laboratory Needs for Animal Agriculture: Examination of Three Options
Microbial Threats to Health: Emergence, Detection, and Response
Minority Students in Special and Gifted Education
Missouri River Ecosystem: Exploring the Prospects for Recovery
Missouri River Planning: Recognizing and Incorporating Sediment Management
Modeling Mobile-Source Emissions
Monitoring Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear-Explosive Materials: An Assessment of Methods and Capabilities
Monitoring Progress Toward Successful K-12 STEM Education: A Nation Advancing?
Mortality in US Army Gulf War Veterans Exposed to 1991 Khamisiyah Chemical Munitions Destruction
Multiple Origins, Uncertain Destinies: Hispanics and the American Future
Musculoskeletal Disorders and the Workplace: Low Back and Upper Extremities
NASA's Beyond Einstein Program: An Architecture for Implementation
NASA's Elementary and Secondary Education Program: Review and Critique
NASA's Strategic Direction and the Need for a National Consensus
National Center for Military Deployment Health Research
National Water Resources Challenges Facing the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Neon: Addressing the Nation's Environmental Challenges
Neutrinos and Beyond: New Windows on Nature
New Frontiers in the Solar System: An Integrated Exploration Strategy
New Source Review for Stationary Sources of Air Pollution
New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics
NIH Extramural Center Programs: Criteria for Initiation and Evaluation
Noise and Military Service: Implications for Hearing Loss and Tinnitus
Non-Heart-Beating Organ Transplantation: Medical and Ethical Issues in Procurement
Non-native Oysters in the Chesapeake Bay
Nutrient Control Actions for Improving Water Quality in the Mississippi River Basin and Northern Gulf of Mexico
Nutrition Standards for Foods in Schools: Leading the Way Toward Healthier Youth
Observations on the President's Fiscal Year 2002 Federal Science and Technology Budget and Trends in Federal Support of Research and Graduate Education
Ocean Acidification: A National Strategy to Meet the Challenges of a Changing Ocean
Ocean Acidification: A National Strategy to Meet the Challenges of a Changing Ocean (Report Summary)
Ocean Noise and Marine Mammals
Oil in the Sea III: Inputs, Fates, and Effects
Oil Spill Risks from Tank Vessel Lightering
On Evaluating Curricular Effectiveness: Judging the Quality of K-12 Mathematics Evaluations
One Step at a Time: The Staged Development of Geologic Repositories for High-Level Radioactive Waste
Ongoing Challenge of Managing Carbon Monoxide in Fairbanks, Alaska, The
Options for Estimating Illegal Entries at the U.S.-Mexico Border
Organ Donation: Opportunities for Action
Organ Procurement and Transplantation Policy
Ozone-Forming Potential of Reformulated Gasoline
PEPFAR Implementation: Progress and Promise
Performance Measurement: Accelerating Improvement
Perspectives on Essential Health Benefits: Workshop Report
Perspectives on the Department of Defense Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System: A Program Review
Phthalates and Cumulative Risk Assessment: The Task Ahead
Plan for a Short-term Evaluation of PEPFAR Implementation: Letter Report #1
Planning Climate and Global Change Research: A Review of the Draft U.S. Climate Change Science Program Strategic Plan
Plans and Practices for Groundwater Protection at the Los Alamos National Laboratory
Polar Icebreaker Roles and U.S. Future Needs: A Preliminary Asessment
Polar Icebreakers in a Changing World: An Assessment of U.S. Needs
Polygraph and Lie Detection, The
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Diagnosis and Assessment
Potential Health Risks to DOD Firing-Range Personnel from Recurrent Lead Exposure
Potential Impacts of Climate Change on U.S. Transportation: Special Report 290
Precise Geodetic Infrastructure: National Requirements for a Shared Resource
Predicting Outcomes from Investments in Maintenance and Repair for Federal Facilities
Preparing for the Third Decade (Cycle 3) of the National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Program
Preparing Teachers: Building Evidence for Sound Policy
Preventing Childhood Obesity: Health in the Balance
Preventing HIV Infection among Injecting Drug Users in High-Risk Countries: An Assessment of the Evidence
Preventing Medication Errors: Quality Chasm Series
Preventing Mental, Emotional, and Behavioral Disorders Among Young People: Progress and Possibilities
Preventing Perinatal Transmission of HIV
Preventing the Forward Contamination of Mars
Primary Care and Public Health: Exploring Integration to Improve Population Health
Priority Areas for National Action: Transforming Health Care Quality
Private Rights and Public Interest in Scientific and Technical Databases
Progress Toward Restoring the Everglades: The Fourth Biennial Review, 2012
Progress Toward Restoring the Everglades: The First Biennial Review, 2006
Progress Toward Restoring the Everglades: The Second Biennial Review, 2008
Progress Toward Restoring the Everglades: The Third Biennial Review -- 2010
Proposed Criteria for Selecting the WIC Food Packages: A Preliminary Report of the Committee to Review the WIC Food Packages
Proposed Framework for Evaluating the Safety of Dietary Supplements
Prospective Evaluation of Applied Energy Research and Development at DoE (Phase One): A First Look Forward
Prospective Evaluation of Applied Energy Research and Development at DOE (Phase Two)
Protecting Nuclear Weapons Material in Russia
Protecting Youth at Work
Provision of Mental Health Counseling Services Under TRICARE
PTSD Compensation and Military Service
Public Financing and Delivery of HIV/AIDS Care: Securing the Legacy of Ryan White
Radiation Source Use and Replacement
Radioisotope Power Systems: An Imperative for Maintaining U.S. Leadership in Space Exploration
Real Prospects for Energy Efficiency in the United States
Realizing the Energy Potential of Methane Hydrate for the United States
Rebuilding the Research Capacity at HUD
Recapturing a Future for Space Exploration: Life and Physical Sciences Research for a New Era
Reconciling Observations of Global Temperature Change
Reducing Underage Drinking: A Collective Responsibility
Regulation of Weights, Lengths, and Widths of Commercial Motor Vehicles -- Special Report 267
Relieving Pain in America: A Blueprint for Transforming Prevention, Care, Education, and Research
Remedial Action at the Moab Site -- Now and for the Long Term: Letter Report
Renewable Fuel Standard: Potential Economic and Environmental Effects of U.S. Biofuel Policy
Renewing U.S. Telecommunications Research
Research in Veterinary Science and Animal Health at the Crossroads
Research Priorities for Airborne Particulate Matter -- Interim Report
Research Priorities for Airborne Particulate Matter: IV. Continuing Research Progress
Research Universities and the Future of America: Ten Breakthrough Actions Vital to Our Nation's Prosperity and Security
Resident Duty Hours: Enhancing Sleep, Supervision, and Safety
Responsible Research with Biological Select Agents and Toxins
Responsible Research: A Systems Approach to Protecting Research Participants
Restructuring Federal Climate Research to Meet the Challenges of Climate Change
Retooling for an Aging America: Building the Health Care Workforce
Retooling for an Aging America: Building the Health Care Workforce
Returning Home from Iraq and Afghanistan: Assessment of Readjustment Needs of Veterans, Service Members, and Their Families
Returning Home from Iraq and Afghanistan: Preliminary Assessment of Readjustment Needs of Veterans, Service Members, and Their Families
Revealing the Hidden Nature of Space and Time: Charting the Course for Elementary Particle Physics
Review and Evaluation of Alternative Technologies for Demilitarization of Assembled Chemical Weapons
Review of ATSDR's Great Lakes Report Drafts: Letter Report
Review of Chemical Agent Secondary Waste Disposal and Regulatory Requirements
Review of DOE's Nuclear Energy Research and Development Program
Review of Federal Strategy for Nanotechnology-Related Environmental, Health, and Safety Research
Review of Federal Strategy for Nanotechnology-Related Environmental, Health, and Safety Research
Review of Northeast Fishery Stock Assessments
Review of Recreational Fisheries Survey Methods
Review of Scientific Aspects of the NASA Triana Mission
Review of the 21st Century Truck Partnership
Review of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Smallpox Vaccination Program Implementation - Letter Report #1
Review of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Smallpox Vaccination Program Implementation: Letter Report 2
Review of the Department of Energy’s Genomics: GTL Program
Review of the Environmental Protection Agency's Draft IRIS Assessment of Formaldehyde
Review of the EPA's Economic Analysis of Final Water Quality Standards for Lakes and Flowing Waters in Florida
Review of the HIVNET 012 Perinatal HIV Prevention Study
Review of the Research Program of the FreedomCAR and Fuel Partnership: Third Report
Review of the Scientific Approaches Used During the FBI's Investigation of the Anthrax Letters
Review of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Restructured Upper Mississippi River-Illinois Waterway Feasibility Study: Second Report
Review of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Upper Mississippi-Illinois Waterway Restructured Feasibility Study: Interim Report
Review of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Response to Petitions to Reclassify the Light Brown Apple Moth as a Non-Actionable Pest: A Letter Report
Review of the U.S. Department of Defense Air, Space, and Supporting Systems Science and Technology Program
Review of Toxicologic and Radiologic Risks to Military Personnel from Exposure to Depleted Uranium During and After Combat
Review Procedures for Water Resources Planning
Revitalizing NASA's Suborbital Program: Advancing Science, Driving Innovation, and Developing Workforce
Rewarding Provider Performance: Aligning Incentives in Medicare (Pathways to Quality Health Care Series)
Rising Above the Gathering Storm: Energizing and Employing America for a Brighter Economic Future
Risk of Vessel Accidents and Spills in the Aleutian Islands: Designing a Comprehensive Risk Assessment
Safe and Effective Medicines for Children: Pediatric Studies Conducted Under the Best Pharmaceuticals for Children and the Pediatric Research Equity Acts
Safe Medical Devices for Children
Safe on Mars: Precursor Measurements Necessary to Support Human Operations on the Martian Surface
Safe Work in the 21st Century
Safety and Security of Commercial Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage: Public Report
Safety of Genetically Engineered Foods: Approaches to Assessing Unintended Health Effects
Safety of Silicone Breast Implants
Saving Women's Lives: Strategies for Improving Breast Cancer Detection and Diagnosis
Scaling Up Treatment for the Global AIDS Pandemic: Challenges and Opportunities
School Meals: Building Blocks for Healthy Children
Science and Decisions: Advancing Risk Assessment
Science and Security in a Post 9/11 World: A Report Based on Regional Discussions Between the Science and Security Communities
Science and Technology for Environmental Cleanup at Hanford
Science and Technology in the National Interest: Ensuring the Best Presidential and Federal Advisory Committee Science and Technology Appointments
Science and Technology in the National Interest: The Presidential Appointment Process
Science and the Greater Everglades Ecosystem Restoration: An Assessment of the Critical Ecosystem Studies Initiative
Science for Environmental Protection: The Road Ahead
Science Professionals: Master's Education for a Competitive World
Science, Technology, and Health Aspects of U.S. Foreign Policy
Scientific and Humane Issues in the Use of Random Source Dogs and Cats in Research
Scientific Criteria to Ensure Safe Food
Scientific Evaluation of Biological Opinions on Endangered and Threatened Fishes in the Klamath River Basin
Scientific Opportunities and Public Needs: Improving Priority Setting and Public Input at the National Institutes of Health
Scientific Opportunities with a Rare-Isotope Facility in the United States
Scientific Review of the Draft Environmental Impact Statement: Drakes Bay Oyster Company Special Use Permit
Scientific Review of the Proposed Risk Assessment Bulletin from the Office of Management and Budget
Scientific Standards for Studies on Modified Risk Tobacco Products
Scientific Value of Arctic Sea Ice Imagery Derived Products
Seafood Choices: Balancing Benefits and Risks
Sea-Level Rise for the Coasts of California, Oregon, and Washington: Past, Present, and Future
Second Report of the National Academy of Engineering/National Research Council Committee on New Orleans Regional Hurricane Protection Projects
Secondhand Smoke Exposure and Cardiovascular Effects: Making Sense of the Evidence
Securing America's Industrial Strength and U.S. Industry in 2000
Sediment Dredging at Superfund Megasites: Assessing the Effectiveness
Seeking Security: Pathogens, Open Access, and Genome Databases
Setting Priorities for Large Research Facility Projects Supported by the National Science Foundation
Shellfish Mariculture in Drakes Estero, Point Reyes National Seashore, California
Small Business Innovation Research Program: An Assessment of the Department of Defense Fast Track Initiative, The
Small Wonders, Endless Frontiers: An Assessment of the National Nanotechnology Initiative
Social Security Administration Electronic Service Provision: A Strategic Assessment
Sodium Intake in Populations: Assessment of Evidence
Spectrum Management for Science in the 21st Century
Staffing Standards for Aviation Safety Inspectors
State and Federal Standards for Mobile Source Emissions
Stem Cells and the Future of Regenerative Medicine
Strategies to Leverage Research Funding: Guiding DOD's Peer Reviewed Medical Research Programs
Strategies to Reduce Sodium Intake in the United States
Streamlining Space Launch Range Safety
Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States: A Path Forward
Strengthening Science at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Strengthening the National Institute of Justice
Structural Performance of the New Orleans Hurricane Protection System During Hurricane Katrina: Letter Report
Substance Use Disorders in the U.S. Armed Forces
Successful K-12 STEM Education: Identifying Effective Approaches in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
Superfund and Mining Megasites: Lessons from the Coeur d’Alene River Basin
Surface Temperature Reconstructions for the Last 2,000 Years
Sustainability and the U.S. EPA
Sustainable Development of Algal Biofuels
Sustainable Water and Environmental Management in the California Bay-Delta
Sustaining Global Surveillance and Response to Emerging Zoonotic Diseases
Tackling Marine Debris in the 21st Century
Taking Action to Reduce Tobacco Use
Taking Science to School: Learning and Teaching Science in Grades K-8
Tank Waste Retrieval, Processing, and On-site Disposal at Three Department of Energy Sites: Final Report
Tank Wastes Planned For On-Site Disposal at Three Department of Energy Sites: The Savannah River Site -- Interim Report
Technical Input on Any Additional Studies to Assess Risk Associated with Operation of the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratory, Boston University: A Letter Report
Technical Input on the National Institutes of Health's Draft Supplementary Risk Assessments and Site Suitability Analyses for the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratory, Boston University: A Letter Report
Technical Issues Related to the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty
Technically Speaking: Why All Americans Need to Know More About Technology
Technology, Policy, Law, and Ethics Regarding U.S. Acquisition and Use of Cyberattack Capabilities
Terrorism and the Chemical Infrastructure: Protecting People and Reducing Vulnerabilities
Testing Teacher Candidates: The Role of Licensure Tests in Improving Teacher Quality
Tests and Teaching Quality: Interim Report
The Biological Threat Reduction Program of the Department of Defense: From Foreign Assistance to Sustainable Partnerships
The Childhood Immunization Schedule and Safety: Stakeholder Concerns, Scientific Evidence, and Future Studies
The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty: Technical Issues for the United States
The Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Improvement Program: Assessing 10 Years of Experience
The Decline of the Steller Sea Lion in Alaskan Waters: Untangling Food Webs and Fishing Nets
The Disposition Dilemma: Controlling the Release of Solid Materials from Nuclear Regulatory Commission-Licensed Facilities
The Effects of Commuting on Pilot Fatigue
The Ethical Conduct of Clinical Research Involving Children
The Federal Investment in Highway Research, 2006 2009: Strengths and Weaknesses - Special Report 295
The Future of Disability in America
The Future of Drug Safety: Promoting and Protecting the Health of the Public
The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health
The Health of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) People: Building a Foundation for Better Understanding
The Healthcare Imperative: Lowering Costs and Improving Outcomes: Workshop Series Summary
The Hydrogen Economy: Opportunities, Costs, Barriers, and R&D Needs
The Impact of Selling the Federal Helium Reserve
The Mental Health and Substance Use Workforce for Older Adults: In Whose Hands?
The National Children's Study Research Plan: A Review
The National Weather Service Modernization and Associated Restructuring: A Retrospective Assessment
The New Orleans Hurricane Protection System: Assessing Pre-Katrina Vulnerability and Improving Mitigation and Preparedness
The Relative Risks of School Travel: A National Perspective and Guidance for Local Community Risk Assessment -- Special Report 269
The Role of Transit in Emergency Evacuation: TRB Special Report 294
The Safety Challenge and Promise of Automotive Electronics: Insights from Unintended Acceleration: TRB Special Report 308
The Smallpox Vaccination Program: Public Health in an Age of Terrorism
The Use of Title 42 Authority at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: A Letter Report
The Utility of Proximity-Based Herbicide Exposure Assessment in Epidemiologic Studies of Vietnam Veterans
Third Report of the NAE/NRC Committee on New Orleans Regional Hurricane Protection Projects
Tires and Passenger Vehicle Fuel Economy: Informing Consumers, Improving Performance -- Special Report 286
Toward a Safer and More Secure Cyberspace
Toward Sustainable Agricultural Systems in the 21st Century
Transitions to Alternative Transportation Technologies: A Focus on Hydrogen
Transitions to Alternative Vehicles and Fuels
Treatment for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Military and Veteran Populations: Initial Assessment
Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: An Assessment of the Evidence
Tsunami Warning and Preparedness: An Assessment of the U.S. Tsunami Program and the Nation's Preparedness Efforts
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Water Resources Planning: A New Opportunity for Service
U.S. Health in International Perspective: Shorter Lives, Poorer Health
Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care
Uranium Mining in Virginia: Scientific, Technical, Environmental, Human Health and Safety, and Regulatory Aspects of Uranium Mining and Processing in Virginia
Urban Stormwater Management in the United States
Use of Drugs in Food Animals: Benefits and Risks
Vaccine Safety Research, Data Access, and Public Trust
Verifying Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Methods to Support International Climate Agreements
Veterans and Agent Orange, Update 2000
Veterans and Agent Orange: Update 2004
Veterans and Agent Orange: Herbicide/Dioxin Exposure and Acute Myelogenous Leukemia in the Children of Vietnam Veterans
Veterans and Agent Orange: Herbicide/Dioxin Exposure and Type 2 Diabetes
Veterans and Agent Orange: Length of Presumptive Period for Association Between Exposure and Respiratory Cancer
Veterans and Agent Orange: Update 1998
Veterans and Agent Orange: Update 2002
Veterans and Agent Orange: Update 2008
Veterans and Agent Orange: Update 2010
Veterans' Health Studies of The National Academies' Institute of Medicine
Vision and Voyages for Planetary Science in the Decade 2013-2022
Voluntary National Tests, Year 2
Water Implications of Biofuels Production in the United States
Water Resources Planning for the Upper Mississippi River and Illinois Waterway
Water Reuse: Potential for Expanding the Nation's Water Supply Through Reuse of Municipal Wastewater
Weather Services for the Nation: Becoming Second to None
Where the Weather Meets the Road: A Research Agenda for Improving Road Weather Services
WIC Food Packages: Time for a Change
Women's Health Research: Progress, Pitfalls, and Promise
Youth, Pornography, and the Internet

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