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The National Academies Keck Future Initiative: The Informed ...

The National Academies Keck Future Initiative: The Informed ...

National Academies Keck Future Initiative

THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES KECK FUTURES INITIATIVE ix NAKFI cultivates science writers of the future by inviting graduate students from science writing programs across the country to attend the conference and develop IDR team ...
The National Academies Keck Futures Initiative: Designing ...

The National Academies Keck Futures Initiative: Designing ...

The National Academies

Conference Focus Group Summaries The National Academies, The National Academies Keck Futures Initiative Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Planning Committee, The National Academies Keck Futures Initiative ...
The National Academies Keck Futures Initiative: Seeing the ...

The National Academies Keck Futures Initiative: Seeing the ...

The National Academies Keck Futures Initiatives

THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES KECK FUTURES INITIATIVE ix NAKFI cultivates science writers of the future by inviting graduate stu- dents from science writing programs across the country to attend the confer- ence and develop IDR team ...
The National Academies Keck Futures Initiative The Genomic ...

The National Academies Keck Futures Initiative The Genomic ...

The National Academies

Working Group Summaries The National Academies, The National Academies Keck Futures Initiative Genomics Planning Committee, The National Academies Keck Futures Initiative Genomics Steering Committee. examined the current scope ...
The National Academies Keck Futures Initiative: Complex ...

The National Academies Keck Futures Initiative: Complex ...

National Academies

THE naTIonal acadEmIES kEck FUTURES INITIATIVE ix students from six science writing programs across the country to attend the conference and develop task group discussion summaries and a conference overview for publication in this ...
The National Academies Keck Futures Initiative: Smart ...

The National Academies Keck Futures Initiative: Smart ...

The National Academies

Exploring Assistive Devices for the Body and Mind: Task Group Summaries The National Academies, Conference, Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center of the National Academies, Irvine, California, November 9-11, 2006. Facilitating ...
The National Academies Keck Futures Initiative: The Future ...

The National Academies Keck Futures Initiative: The Future ...

The National Academies

An individual's healthspan can be defined as the length of time an individual is able to maintain good health.
The National Academies Keck Futures Initiative: The Future ...

The National Academies Keck Futures Initiative: The Future ...

The National Academies

... Massachusetts Institute of Technology • Helen Vlassara, Mount Sinai School of Medicine • Mary White, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention • Allyson Collins, Massachusetts Institute of Technology TASK GROuP SuMMARy By allyson ...
The National Academies Summit on America's Energy Future: ...

The National Academies Summit on America's Energy Future: ...

National Research Council

THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES PRESS 500 Fifth Street, N.W. Washington, DC 20001 NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn ...
Final Report of the National Academies' Human Embryonic Stem ...

Final Report of the National Academies' Human Embryonic Stem ...

National Research Council

THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES PRESS 500 Fifth Street, NW Washington, DC 20001 NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from ...
2008 Amendments to the National Academies' Guidelines for ...

2008 Amendments to the National Academies' Guidelines for ...

National Research Council

2008 Amendments to the National Academies' Guidelines for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research INTRODUCTION The National Academies' report Guidelines for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research (NRC and IOM, 2005) was ...
Chemical Communication in a Post-genomic World: National ...

Chemical Communication in a Post-genomic World: National ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

National Academies of Sciences and Engineering, Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center, Irvine, CA, January 17-19, 2003 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences May Berenbaum ...
Envisioning the Future of Health Professional Education: ...

Envisioning the Future of Health Professional Education: ...

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Susan Scrimshaw, Ph.D., M.A., is currently the President of The Sage Colleges in Troy, New York. ... Susan E. Skochelak, M.D., M.P.H., became the vice president for Medical Education at the American Medical Association (AMA) in May 2009.
The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health

The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health

Committee on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Initiative on the Future of Nursing, at the Institute of Medicine

In this book, the Institute of Medicine makes recommendations for an action-oriented blueprint for the future of nursing.
Avengers: The Initiative, Vol. 1: Basic Training

Avengers: The Initiative, Vol. 1: Basic Training

Dan Slott

Collects Avengers: The Initiative #1-6. The Civil War is over and from now on, this is the new face of the Marvel Universe - The Initiative! If you have powers, you''re in the army now.
Geneflow 2002

Geneflow 2002

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A link between the Eden Project and Future Harvest should help to further Smit's aim. When Future Harvest, an initiative of the 16 international agricultural research centres in the CGIAR network, decided to establish in the UK, Eden offered it ...
To Burn or Not to Burn: Summary of the Forum on ...

To Burn or Not to Burn: Summary of the Forum on ...

Division on Earth and Life Studies

INTRODUCTION The Natural Disasters Roundtable (NDR), formed by the National Academies in 2000, held its first public forum on January 26, 2001 at the National Academy of Sciences Building in Washington, D.C. The topic of this forum ...
Academies of Art: Past and Present

Academies of Art: Past and Present

Nikolaus Pevsner

Originally published in 1940, this book charts the origins and evolution of academies of art from the sixteenth century to the first half of the twentieth century.
Mitochondrial Replacement Techniques: Ethical, Social, and ...

Mitochondrial Replacement Techniques: Ethical, Social, and ...

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

... John Gearhart, University of Pennsylvania Insoo Hyun, Case Western Reserve University 162 MITOCHONDRIAL REPLACEMENT TECHNIQUES 10:15 AM Discussion with committee and Copyright © National Academy of Sciences.
Nanoconvergence: The Unity of Nanoscience, Biotechnology, ...

Nanoconvergence: The Unity of Nanoscience, Biotechnology, ...

William Sims Bainbridge

—Mihail C. Roco, Ph.D., original chairman of the U.S. National Science and Technology Council's subcommittee on Nanoscale Science, Engineering and Technology, key architect of the National Nanotechnology Initiative, and currently senior ...
Women in Chinese Society

Women in Chinese Society

Margery Wolf

44; Jen Hsiao-wen Huang-hou, Nei-hsun, in Nii ssu- shu, pp. 91-92. 16. ewee, 1II .34a. 17. John Meskill, Ch'oe Pus Diary: A Record of Drifting Across the Sea ( Tucson, Ariz., 1965), p. 155. 18. On academies, see John Meskill, "Academies and ...
A Guide to the National Initiative for Cybersecurity ...

A Guide to the National Initiative for Cybersecurity ...

Dan Shoemaker

The book is unique in that it is based on well-accepted standard recommendations rather than presumed expertise.
Hurricane Katrina: Lessons for Army Planning and Operations

Hurricane Katrina: Lessons for Army Planning and Operations

Lynn Etheridge Davis

16 Christine E. Wormuth, Michele A. Flournoy, Patrick T. Henry, Clark A. Murdock, The Future ofthe National Guard and Reserves, Washington, D.C.: CSIS, July 2006., p. 74. 17 Wormuth et al., The Future ofthe National Guard and Reserves, pp ...
Republic: A Novel of America's Future

Republic: A Novel of America's Future

Charles Sheehan-Miles

A few years in our future, Ken Murphy is a National Guard Colonel and senior manager at a factory in tranquil Highview, West Virginia.
Studies On Science And The Innovation Process: Selected ...

Studies On Science And The Innovation Process: Selected ...

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... Surgery (with Annetine Gelijns) Reprinted with permission by National Academy of Sciences from Nathan Rosenberg and Annetine Gelijns, “From the Scalpel to the Scope: Endoscopic Innovations in Gastroenterology, Gynecology and Surgery” in Nathan Rosenberg, Annetine Gelijns and Holly Dawkins (eds.) Sources of Medical Technology: Universities and Industry. Courtesy of the National Academies Press, Washington, D.C., 1995. Chapter 13 Capturing the Unexpected Benefits ...
Preventing Bullying Through Science, Policy, and Practice

Preventing Bullying Through Science, Policy, and Practice

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Bullying has long been tolerated as a rite of passage among children and adolescents. There is an implication that individuals who are bullied must have "asked for" this type of treatment, or deserved it.
A History of the California Initiative Process

A History of the California Initiative Process

Bill Jones

The California initiative process, established in 1911, provides the people a mechanism to propose statutory revisions and constitutional amendments, and to adopt or reject those proposed.
Analysis of the Cities Readiness Initiative

Analysis of the Cities Readiness Initiative

Christopher Nelson

The Cities Readiness Initiative (CRI) aims to improve communities' ability to rapidly provide life-saving medications during public health emergencies.

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