%0 Book %A National Research Council %T Knowing and Learning Mathematics for Teaching: Proceedings of a Workshop %@ 978-0-309-07252-6 %D 2001 %U https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10050/knowing-and-learning-mathematics-for-teaching-proceedings-of-a-workshop %> https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10050/knowing-and-learning-mathematics-for-teaching-proceedings-of-a-workshop %I The National Academies Press %C Washington, DC %G English %K Education %P 233 %X There are many questions about the mathematical preparation teachers need. Recent recommendations from a variety of sources state that reforming teacher preparation in postsecondary institutions is central in providing quality mathematics education to all students. The Mathematics Teacher Preparation Content Workshop examined this problem by considering two central questions: What is the mathematical knowledge teachers need to know in order to teach well? How can teachers develop the mathematical knowledge they need to teach well? The Workshop activities focused on using actual acts of teaching such as examining student work, designing tasks, or posing questions, as a medium for teacher learning. The Workshop proceedings, Knowing and Learning Mathematics for Teaching, is a collection of the papers presented, the activities, and plenary sessions that took place. %0 Book %A Institute of Medicine %E Smedley, Brian D. %E Stith, Adrienne Y. %E Colburn, Lois %E Evans, Clyde H. %T The Right Thing to Do, The Smart Thing to Do: Enhancing Diversity in the Health Professions -- Summary of the Symposium on Diversity in Health Professions in Honor of Herbert W. Nickens, M.D. %@ 978-0-309-07614-2 %D 2001 %U https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10186/the-right-thing-to-do-the-smart-thing-to-do %> https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10186/the-right-thing-to-do-the-smart-thing-to-do %I The National Academies Press %C Washington, DC %G English %K Health and Medicine %P 376 %X The Symposium on Diversity in the Health Professions in Honor of Herbert W. Nickens, M.D., was convened in March 2001 to provide a forum for health policymakers, health professions educators, education policymakers, researchers, and others to address three significant and contradictory challenges: the continued under-representation of African Americans, Hispanics, and Native Americans in health professions; the growth of these populations in the United States and subsequent pressure to address their health care needs; and the recent policy, legislative, and legal challenges to affirmative action that may limit access for underrepresented minority students to health professions training. The symposium summary along with a collection of papers presented are to help stimulate further discussion and action toward addressing these challenges. The Right Thing to Do, The Smart Thing to Do: Enhancing Diversity in Health Professions illustrates how the health care industry and health care professions are fighting to retain the public's confidence so that the U.S. health care system can continue to be the world's best. %0 Book %A Institute of Medicine %E Goldsmith, Sara K. %T Suicide Prevention and Intervention: Summary of a Workshop %@ 978-0-309-07624-1 %D 2001 %U https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10226/suicide-prevention-and-intervention-summary-of-a-workshop %> https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10226/suicide-prevention-and-intervention-summary-of-a-workshop %I The National Academies Press %C Washington, DC %G English %K Health and Medicine %P 35 %X For many, thoughts of suicide are abundant and frequent. There exists a fear of death but an even greater fear of life due to the latter's hardships. Participants of the committee on the Pathophysiology and Prevention of Adult and Adolescent Suicide of the Institute of Medicine's workshop on suicide prevention; however, believe that there is potential for better suicide prevention. Two workshops were convened by the committee: Risk Factors for Suicide, March 14, 2001 and Suicide Prevention and Intervention, May 14, 2001. The two workshops were designed to allow invited presenters to share with the committee and other workshop participants their particular expertise in suicide, and to discuss and examine the existing knowledge base. Participants of the second workshop were selected to represent many areas including: design and analysis of prevention programs, suicide contagion, and firearm availability and suicide. The committee wanted to assess the science base of suicide etiology, evaluate the current status of suicide prevention, and examine current strategies for the study of suicide. Suicide Prevention and Intervention: Summary of a Workshop summarizes the major themes that arose during the workshop. It also includes the workshop agenda and a list of speakers that were present. %0 Book %A National Research Council %T The American Community Survey: Summary of a Workshop %@ 978-0-309-07315-8 %D 2001 %U https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10051/the-american-community-survey-summary-of-a-workshop %> https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10051/the-american-community-survey-summary-of-a-workshop %I The National Academies Press %C Washington, DC %G English %K Behavioral and Social Sciences %K Transportation and Infrastructure %P 70 %X The American Community Survey (ACS), to be run by the Census Bureau, will be a large (250,000 housing units a month), predominantly mailout/mailback survey that will collect information similar to that on the decennial census long form. The development of this new survey raises interesting questions about methods used for combining information from surveys and from administrative records, weighting to treat nonresponse and undercoverage, estimation for small areas, sample design, and calibration of the output from this survey with that from the long form. To assist the Census Bureau in developing a research agenda to address these and other methodological issues, the Committee on National Statistics held a workshop on September 13, 1998. This report summarizes that workshop. %0 Book %A National Research Council %E Wessner, Charles W. %T A Review of the New Initiatives at the NASA Ames Research Center: Summary of a Workshop %@ 978-0-309-07409-4 %D 2001 %U https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10115/a-review-of-the-new-initiatives-at-the-nasa-ames-research-center %> https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10115/a-review-of-the-new-initiatives-at-the-nasa-ames-research-center %I The National Academies Press %C Washington, DC %G English %K Space and Aeronautics %K Industry and Labor %P 164 %X NASA Ames Research Center, in the heart of Silicon Valley, is embarking on a program to develop a science and technology park bringing together leading companies and universities to capitalize on Ames’ exceptional mission and location. Other initiatives under consideration include the integration of SBIR grants with a planned on-site incubator, virtual collaboration, and possibly a new public venture capital program. The STEP Board was asked by the NASA Administrator to hold a one-day symposium to review these initiatives. This report includes commissioned research papers and a summary of the proceedings of the symposium organized in response to the NASA request. %0 Book %A National Research Council %T The Role of Environmental NGOs: Russian Challenges, American Lessons: Proceedings of a Workshop %@ 978-0-309-07618-0 %D 2001 %U https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10240/the-role-of-environmental-ngos-russian-challenges-american-lessons-proceedings %> https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10240/the-role-of-environmental-ngos-russian-challenges-american-lessons-proceedings %I The National Academies Press %C Washington, DC %G English %K Policy for Science and Technology %P 215 %X An NRC committee was established to work with a Russian counterpart group in conducting a workshop in Moscow on the effectiveness of Russian environmental NGOs in environmental decision-making and prepared proceedings of this workshop, highlighting the successes and difficulties faced by NGOs in Russia and the United States. %0 Book %A National Research Council %T Summary of Discussions at a Planning Meeting on Cyber-Security and the Insider Threat to Classified Information %D 2001 %U https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10197/summary-of-discussions-at-a-planning-meeting-on-cyber-security-and-the-insider-threat-to-classified-information %> https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10197/summary-of-discussions-at-a-planning-meeting-on-cyber-security-and-the-insider-threat-to-classified-information %I The National Academies Press %C Washington, DC %G English %K Computers and Information Technology %P 16 %X This is a summary of discussions at a planning meeting held November 1-2, 2000 to examine the prospects of initiating an NRC study on cyber-security and the insider threat to classified information. The meeting's focus was on the threat to classified systems and information because the political and organizational issues that often arise with protection policies and practices (e.g., rights to privacy) are considerably fewer and less intense than if sensitive unclassified information (especially non-governmental information) is involved. The meeting also addressed threats other than insider threats as well as non-classified computer systems. %0 Book %A National Research Council %E Heymann, Philip %E Petrie, Carol %T What's Changing in Prosecution?: Report of a Workshop %@ 978-0-309-07561-9 %D 2001 %U https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10114/whats-changing-in-prosecution-report-of-a-workshop %> https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10114/whats-changing-in-prosecution-report-of-a-workshop %I The National Academies Press %C Washington, DC %G English %K Behavioral and Social Sciences %P 72 %X This workshop arose out of the efforts of the Committee on Law and Justice to assist the National Institute of Justice in identifying gaps in the overall research portfolio on crime and justice. It was designed to develop ideas about the kinds of knowledge needed to gain a better understanding of the prosecution function and to discuss the past and future role of social science in advancing our understanding of modern prosecution practice. The Committee on Law and Justice was able to bring together senior scholars who have been working on this subject as well as current or former chief prosecutors, judges, and senior officials from the U.S. Department of Justice to share their perspectives. Workshop participants mapped out basic data needs, discussed the need to know more about recent innovations such as community prosecution, and discussed areas where one would expect to see changes that have not occurred. The resulting report summarizes these discussions and makes useful suggestions for learning more about prosecution. %0 Book %A Institute of Medicine %E Hanna, Kathi E. %E Manning, Frederick J. %E Bouxsein, Peter %E Pope, Andrew %T Innovation and Invention in Medical Devices: Workshop Summary %@ 978-0-309-08255-6 %D 2001 %U https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10225/innovation-and-invention-in-medical-devices-workshop-summary %> https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10225/innovation-and-invention-in-medical-devices-workshop-summary %I The National Academies Press %C Washington, DC %G English %K Health and Medicine %P 112 %X The objective of the workshop that is the subject of this summary report was to present the challenges and opportunities for medical devices as perceived by the key stakeholders in the field. The agenda, and hence the summaries of the presentations that were made in the workshop and which are presented in this summary report, was organized to first examine the nature of innovation in the field and the social and economic infrastructure that supports such innovation. The next objective was to identify and discuss the greatest unmet clinical needs, with a futuristic view of technologies that might meet those needs. And finally, consideration was given to the barriers to the application of new technologies to meet clinical needs. %0 Book %A National Research Council %E Dowding, Robert %E Durham, Delcie %T Summary of the Workshop on Structural Nanomaterials %D 2001 %U https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10253/summary-of-the-workshop-on-structural-nanomaterials %> https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10253/summary-of-the-workshop-on-structural-nanomaterials %I The National Academies Press %C Washington, DC %G English %K Engineering and Technology %P 48 %X This report provides a summary of the workshop put together by the National Materials Advisory Board which covered the following areas: synthesis and assembly of nanomaterial building blocks, characterization of nanomaterials, examples of structural nanomaterials currently in use, potential applications of nanomaterials, gaps in understanding of synthesis, assembly, chemical, and physical characterization and the need for interdisciplinary approach, as well as identification of the "showstoppers"—major barriers to utilization of nanomaterials. %0 Book %A National Research Council %T Carbon Management: Implications for R&D in the Chemical Sciences and Technology %@ 978-0-309-07573-2 %D 2001 %U https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10153/carbon-management-implications-for-rd-in-the-chemical-sciences-and %> https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10153/carbon-management-implications-for-rd-in-the-chemical-sciences-and %I The National Academies Press %C Washington, DC %G English %K Math, Chemistry, and Physics %K Energy and Energy Conservation %P 236 %X Considerable international concerns exist about global climate change and its relationship to the growing use of fossil fuels. Carbon dioxide is released by chemical reactions that are employed to extract energy from fuels, and any regulatory policy limiting the amount of CO2 that could be released from sequestered sources or from energy-generating reactions will require substantial involvement of the chemical sciences and technology R&D community. Much of the public debate has been focused on the question of whether global climate change is occurring and, if so, whether it is anthropogenic, but these questions were outside the scope of the workshop, which instead focused on the question of how to respond to a possible national policy of carbon management. Previous discussion of the latter topic has focused on technological, economic, and ecological aspects and on earth science challenges, but the fundamental science has received little attention. This workshop was designed to gather information that could inform the Chemical Sciences Roundtable in its discussions of possible roles that the chemical sciences community might play in identifying and addressing underlying chemical questions. %0 Book %A National Research Council %T Materials in the New Millennium: Responding to Society's Needs %@ 978-0-309-07562-6 %D 2001 %U https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10187/materials-in-the-new-millennium-responding-to-societys-needs %> https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10187/materials-in-the-new-millennium-responding-to-societys-needs %I The National Academies Press %C Washington, DC %G English %K Engineering and Technology %K Earth Sciences %P 62 %X This book details the forum that was held by the National Materials Advisory Board at the National Academy of Sciences. The purpose of this forum was to bring the importance of materials to the attention of policy makers and to promote interactions between policy makers and the materials community. Four key themes were addressed: the critical role of materials in advancing technology and enhancing the nation's economy, security, and health, industrial and societal needs that will require materials development in the new millennium. Materials research areas with the greatest potential for meeting those needs, and federal and industrial research initiatives that can help the materials community meet those needs. To help focus this discussion, special sessions were convened to address the current and future roles of materials in four selected areas: information technology, health and biotechnology, national security, and energy and the environment. %0 Book %A National Research Council %T Twenty-Third Symposium on Naval Hydrodynamics %@ 978-0-309-25467-0 %D 2001 %U https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10189/twenty-third-symposium-on-naval-hydrodynamics %> https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10189/twenty-third-symposium-on-naval-hydrodynamics %I The National Academies Press %C Washington, DC %G English %K Math, Chemistry, and Physics %P 1024 %X "Vive la Revolution!" was the theme of the Twenty-Third Symposium on Naval Hydrodynamics held in Val de Reuil, France, from September 17-22, 2000 as more than 140 experts in ship design, construction, and operation came together to exchange naval research developments. The forum encouraged both formal and informal discussion of presented papers, and the occasion provides an opportunity for direct communication between international peers. This book includes sixty-three papers presented at the symposium which was organized jointly by the Office of Naval Research, the National Research Council (Naval Studies Board), and the Bassin d'Essais des Carènes. This book includes the ten topical areas discussed at the symposium: wave-induced motions and loads, hydrodynamics in ship design, propulsor hydrodynamics and hydroacoustics, CFD validation, viscous ship hydrodynamics, cavitation and bubbly flow, wave hydrodynamics, wake dynamics, shallow water hydrodynamics, and fluid dynamics in the naval context. %0 Book %A National Research Council %A Institute of Medicine %E Iannotta, Joah G. %T Nontechnical Strategies to Reduce Children's Exposure to Inappropriate Material on the Internet: Summary of a Workshop %@ 978-0-309-07591-6 %D 2001 %U https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10168/nontechnical-strategies-to-reduce-childrens-exposure-to-inappropriate-material-on-the-internet %> https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10168/nontechnical-strategies-to-reduce-childrens-exposure-to-inappropriate-material-on-the-internet %I The National Academies Press %C Washington, DC %G English %K Behavioral and Social Sciences %P 103 %X In response to a mandate from Congress in conjunction with the Protection of Children from Sexual Predators Act of 1998, the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board and the Board on Children, Youth, and Families of the National Research Council and the Institute of Medicine established a committee of experts to explore options to protect children from pornography and other inappropriate Internet content. In June 2000, the Committee to Study Tools and Strategies for Protecting Kids from Pornography on the Internet and Their Applicability to Other Inappropriate Internet Content was established. Support for the committee's work came from the U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Department of Justice, Microsoft Corporation, IBM, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, and the National Research Council. The committee has been charged with exploring the pros and cons of different technology options and operational policies as well as nontechnical strategies that can help to provide young people with positive and safe online experiences. On December 13, 2000, the committee convened a workshop to provide public input to its work and focus on nontechnical strategies that could be effective in a broad range of settings (e.g., home, school, libraries) in which young people might be online. The overarching goal of this activity was to provide a forum for discussing the implications of this research with regard to policy and practice and identifying research needed to advance and inform policy and practice. %0 Book %A Institute of Medicine %T Unintended Consequences of Health Policy Programs and Policies: Workshop Summary %D 2001 %U https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10192/unintended-consequences-of-health-policy-programs-and-policies-workshop-summary %> https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10192/unintended-consequences-of-health-policy-programs-and-policies-workshop-summary %I The National Academies Press %C Washington, DC %G English %K Health and Medicine %P 32 %0 Book %A Institute of Medicine %E Davis, Jonathan R. %E Lederberg, Joshua %T Emerging Infectious Diseases from the Global to the Local Perspective: A Summary of a Workshop of the Forum on Emerging Infections %@ 978-0-309-07184-0 %D 2001 %U https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10084/emerging-infectious-diseases-from-the-global-to-the-local-perspective %> https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10084/emerging-infectious-diseases-from-the-global-to-the-local-perspective %I The National Academies Press %C Washington, DC %G English %K Health and Medicine %P 134 %X In October 1999, the Forum on Emerging Infections of the Institute of Medicine convened a two-day workshop titled “International Aspects of Emerging Infections.” Key representatives from the international community explored the forces that drive emerging infectious diseases to prominence. Representatives from the Americas, Africa, Asia and the Pacific, and Europe made formal presentations and engaged in panel discussions. Emerging Infectious Diseases from the Global to the Local Perspective includes summaries of the formal presentations and suggests an agenda for future action. The topics addressed cover a wide range of issues, including trends in the incidence of infectious diseases around the world, descriptions of the wide variety of factors that contribute to the emergence and reemergence of these diseases, efforts to coordinate surveillance activities and responses within and across borders, and the resource, research, and international needs that remain to be addressed. %0 Book %A National Research Council %T Proceedings, First Workshop: Panel to Review the 2000 Census %D 2001 %U https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10278/proceedings-first-workshop-panel-to-review-the-2000-census %> https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10278/proceedings-first-workshop-panel-to-review-the-2000-census %I The National Academies Press %C Washington, DC %G English %K Behavioral and Social Sciences %P 86 %0 Book %A National Research Council %A Institute of Medicine %T Getting to Positive Outcomes for Children in Child Care: A Summary of Two Workshops %@ 978-0-309-07576-3 %D 2001 %U https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10164/getting-to-positive-outcomes-for-children-in-child-care-a %> https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10164/getting-to-positive-outcomes-for-children-in-child-care-a %I The National Academies Press %C Washington, DC %G English %K Behavioral and Social Sciences %K Health and Medicine %P 67 %X As a result of the heightened public and political attention and the movement toward standards and accountability, performance measurement has emerged as an important concern in the early childhood care and education field. At the request of the Department of Health and Human Services' Administration for Children and Families, the Board on Children, Youth, and Families convened two workshops to learn from existing efforts to develop performance measures for early childhood care and education, to consider what would be involved in developing and implementing an effective performance measurement system for this field, and to delineate some critical next steps for moving such an effort forward. %0 Book %A National Research Council %T Scientific Advances in Animal Nutrition: Promise for the New Century: Proceedings of a Symposium %@ 978-0-309-08276-1 %D 2001 %U https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10299/scientific-advances-in-animal-nutrition-promise-for-the-new-century %> https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10299/scientific-advances-in-animal-nutrition-promise-for-the-new-century %I The National Academies Press %C Washington, DC %G English %K Agriculture %P 101 %X The science of animal nutrition has made significant advances in the past century. In looking back at the discoveries of the 20th century, we can appreciate the tremendous impact that animal nutrition has had on our lives. From the discovery of vitamins and the sweeping shift in the use of oilseeds to replace animal products as dietary protein sources for animals during the war times of the 1900s-to our integral understanding of nutrients as regulators of gene expression today-animal nutrition has been the cornerstone for scientific advances in many areas. At the milestone of their 70th year of service to the nation, the National Research Council's (NRC) Committee on Animal Nutrition (CAN) sought to gain a better understanding of the magnitude of recent discoveries and directions in animal nutrition for the new century we are embarking upon. With financial support from the NRC, the committee was able to organize and host a symposium that featured scientists from many backgrounds who were asked to share their ideas about the potential of animal nutrition to address current problems and future challenges. %0 Book %A Institute of Medicine %E Goldsmith, Sara K. %T Risk Factors for Suicide: Summary of a Workshop %@ 978-0-309-07625-8 %D 2001 %U https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10215/risk-factors-for-suicide-summary-of-a-workshop %> https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10215/risk-factors-for-suicide-summary-of-a-workshop %I The National Academies Press %C Washington, DC %G English %K Health and Medicine %P 33 %X Thoughts of suicide can be abundant and frequent for some. These thoughts easily disrupt the lives of not only the suicidal person but the world around said person. It may, however, be possible to tell someone is suicidal before it's too late. Participants of committee on the Pathophysiology and Prevention of Adult and Adolescent Suicide of the Institute of Medicine's held two workshops, Risk Factors for Suicide, March 14, 2001 and Suicide Prevention and Intervention, May 14, 2001, to discuss the topic of suicide. The two workshops were designed to allow invited presenters to share with the committee and other workshop participants their particular expertise in suicide, and to discuss and examine the existing knowledge base. Risk Factors for Suicide: Summary of a Workshop summarizes the first workshop whose participants were selected to represent the areas of epidemiology and measurement, socio-cultural factors, biologic factors, developmental factors and trauma, and psychologic factors. They were asked to present current and relevant knowledge in each of their expertise areas.