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Offers helpful advice on how teachers, administrators, and career advisers in science and engineering can become better mentors to their students. This guide covers topics on career planning, time management, writing development, and responsible scientific conduct. It also includes a list of bibliographical and Internet resources on mentoring.

Examines why noninvasive characterization is important and how improved methods can be developed and disseminated. This volume makes recommendations for linking characterization and cost savings, provides information on topics such as resource management, and describes methods of characterization and prospects for technological improvement.

Provides suggestions for breeding, keeping, and identifying pathogen-free laboratory rodents. This book summarizes methods for eliminating infectious agents, describes the diagnosis and control of each infectious agent, and tables covering the diseases listed in the volume helps in the diagnosis of infected animals.

Provides a strategy to address the technical needs and priorities associated with the US Air Force's aging airframe structures. This book includes a summary of the structural status of the aging force, identification of technical issues and research recommendations.

In January 2013, the Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine of the Institute of Medicine held a 2- day, interactive, public workshop on the intersection of biofuels, climate change, and human health.

The National Research Council (NRC) has been conducting decadal surveys in the Earth and space sciences since 1964, and released the latest five surveys in the past 5 years, four of which were only completed in the past 3 years. This title presents the summary of a workshop held in response to unforseen challenges.

Presents a summary of a workshop convened by the Institute of Medicine Global Forum on Innovation in Health Professional Education to explore the possibility of whether different professions can come together and whether a dialogue with society on professionalism is possible.

Presents the summary of a workshop convened by the Institute of Medicine's Roundtable on Value & Science-Driven Health Care and the Forum on Drug Discovery, Development, and Translation.

A report that was presented at the workshop, held in Woods Hole, Massachusetts on July 25-26, 2011, on the issue of sustainability and health as well as the linkages that are present between the two.

Presents the summary of a workshop hosted by the Institute of Medicine\'s (IOM\'s) Forum on Neuroscience and Nervous System Disorders in Spring 2012 to explore commonalities across neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and frontotemporal dementia (FTD).

Addresses data reporting and analytical capacities that must be available to capture the measures and for demonstrating the value of the measures to improving population health. This book provides recommendations for how the measures can be used across sectors of the public health and health care systems.

A workshop on international health literacy efforts that feature presentations and discussion about health literacy interventions from various countries as well as other topics related to international health literacy was held. This title summarizes the findings and discussions at the workshop.

Reviews the status of physical activity and physical education in the school environment, including before, during, and after school. This book examines the influences of physical activity and physical education on the short and long term physical, cognitive and brain, and psychosocial health and development of children and adolescents.

Extremely hazardous substances (EHSs) can be released accidentally as a result of result of chemical spills, industrial explosions, fires, or accidents involving railroad cars and trucks transporting EHSs. This title summarizes the committee's conclusions and recommendations.

Improving Self-Escape from Underground Coal Mines (2013)

Overall Air Force weapon system sustainment (WSS) costs are growing at more than 4 percent per year, while budgets have remained essentially flat. Most observers accept that the Air Force will have to adopt approaches to WSS if it is going to address this problem and remain capable of carrying out its missions. This book deals with this workshop.

Chronic multisymptom illness (CMI) is a serious condition that imposes an enormous burden of suffering on our nation's veterans. This title recommends how best to disseminate this information throughout the VA to improve the care and benefits provided to veterans.

What are the current industrial processes that are least efficient and most cost ineffective? What are best practices in comparable facilities for comparable processes to achieve energy efficiency? What are the costs and paybacks from implementation of the best practices? This title deals with these questions.

Assesses the supply of expertise in 10 geospatial intelligence (Geoint) fields, including 5 traditional areas (geodesy and geophysics, photogrammetry, remote sensing, cartographic science, and geographic information systems and geospatial analysis) and 5 areas that could improve geospatial intelligence.

Manufacturing is in a period of dramatic transformation. But in the United States, public and political dialogue is simplistically focused almost entirely on the movement of certain manufacturing jobs overseas to low-wage countries. This title summarizes the workshop and the topics discussed by participants.

"On June 12-14, 2012, the Board on Global Science and Technology held an international, multidisciplinary workshop in Washington, D.C., to explore the challenges in intelligent human-machine collaboration (IH-MC), particularly as it applies to unstructured environments"--P. 1.

The central goal of the In the Light of Evolution (ILE) series is to promote the evolutionary sciences through colloquia. This title focuses on the field of evolutionary neuroscience that includes an array of different approaches, data types, and species.