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The 21st Century Truck Partnership (21CTP), a cooperative research and development partnership was launched in the year 2000 with high hopes that it would advance the technologies used in trucks and buses, yielding a cleaner, safer, more efficient generation of vehicles. This book examines the overall adequacy and balance of the 21CTP.

Focuses on the interaction of pilots and air traffic controllers, with a growing network of automated functions in the airspace system. This book explores ways in which technology can build on human strengths and compensate for human vulnerabilities, minimizing both mistrust of automation and complacency about its abilities.

After-school programs, scout groups, community service activities, religious youth groups, and other community-based activities have been thought to play a key role in the lives of adolescents. This book offers recommendations for policy, practice, and research to ensure that programs are well designed to meet young people's developmental needs.

The usefulness of US decennial census depends critically on the accuracy with which individual people are counted in specific housing units, at precise geographic locations. This book reviews the evolution of residence rules and the way residence concepts are presented to respondents.

In January 2006, the President announced a civilian space policy focusing on exploration. This book provides a review of the workforce implications of NASA's plans, an assessment of science and technology workforce demographics, an analysis of factors affecting the aerospace workforce for both NASA and the relevant aerospace industry, and more.

The Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Lectures 2005

To explore the scientific rationale for the distributed array of small instruments (DASI), the infrastructure needed to support and make use of such arrays, and proposals for a deployment implementation plan, the NRC held a workshop. This report gives a summary of that workshop focusing on the science and instruments, and on infrastructure issues.

The Defense Intelligence Agency asked the NRC to form a committee to help develop study topics about technology warning. One issue was the dependence on foreign suppliers of critical technology as a result of the increase in globalization. Two important questions emerged for study. This report presents an assessment addressing those two questions.

Evaluating the HRSA Traumatic Brain Injury Program (2006)

Based on recommendations from a 2004 National Academies report, the AYK Sustainable Salmon Initiative (SSI) developed a research and restoration plan. This report reviews the draft plan, recommending some clarification, shortening, and other improvements, with a focus on the relationship between the intellectual model and the research questions.

Principal Investigator-Led (PI-led) missions are an important element of NASA's space science enterprise. This report provides a discussion of the evolution and status of the PI-led mission concept, the ways in which certain practices have affected its performance, and the steps that can carry it successfully into the future.

The International Joint Commission (IJC) of Canada and the United States has issued water regulation and management plans for Lake Ontario and the St Lawrence River. The IJC supported a 5-year, $20 million Lake Ontario-St Lawrence River Study (LOSLR Study). This report reviews a portion of the study that focused on wetlands and species at risk.

Presents a discussion of how to ensure DOD's access to reliable printed circuits; an assessment of its vulnerability to the global printed circuit supply chain; and suggestions about ways to secure the design and manufacture of printed circuits. This report also offers recommendations to help DoD preserve existing systems' capabilities.

The National Science Foundation's Division of Atmospheric Sciences (ATM) supports research to develop new understanding of the Earth's atmosphere and how the Sun impacts it. This book provides preliminary guidance to ATM on its strategy for achieving its goals in the atmospheric sciences.

The Department of Defense is developing the means to transform the nation's armed forces to meet future military challenges. For the Navy, this vision is encompassed in Naval Power 21. This report presents an assessment of what this vision implies for naval aviation. It focusses on capabilities such as multispectral defence, and others.

Provides a review of the Blue Grass Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plant based on review of data and information about the initial design and some intermediate design data. This report presents technical risk assessment issues, an analysis of delivery operations and of agent destruction core processes, and an examination of waste treatment.

Presents an assessment of the effect of downsizing on technical performance specifications, performance degradation, and the ability to perform transformational science, and of the minimum number of antennas needed.

Infectious diseases have existed longer than us, as long as us, or are relatively newer than us. This title examines knowledge and approaches to learning about the bacterial inhabitants of the human gut, the known host-microbe system, and findings from studies of microbial communities associated with other mammals, fish, plants, soil, and insects.

In February 2004, the President announced a goal for NASA; to use humans and robots together to explore the Moon, Mars, and beyond. In response to this initiative, NASA has adopted exploration goals that depend, in part, on solar physics research. This report presents the results of that review.

Results in biomaterials R&D suggest that there are opportunities for these emerging materials in military medicine. To facilitate this possibility, the National Research Council convened a workshop at the request of the Department of Defense to help create a technology development roadmap. This report presents a summary of this workshop.

The workshop, entitled Deconstructing the Computer, brought together leading industrialists and academic researchers to explore the contribution of the different components of computers to improved price-performance and quality of information systems. It aims to help understand the sources of the growth of American productivity in the 1990s.