@BOOK{NAP author = "National Research Council", title = "Signposts in Cyberspace: The Domain Name System and Internet Navigation", isbn = "978-0-309-09640-9", abstract = "The Domain Name System (DNS) enables user-friendly alphanumeric names\u2014domain names\u2014to be assigned to Internet sites. Many of these names have gained economic, social, and political value, leading to conflicts over their ownership, especially names containing trademarked terms. Congress, in P.L. 105-305, directed the Department of Commerce to request the NRC to perform a study of these issues. When the study was initiated, steps were already underway to address the resolution of domain name conflicts, but the continued rapid expansion of the use of the Internet had raised a number of additional policy and technical issues. Furthermore, it became clear that the introduction of search engines and other tools for Internet navigation was affecting the DNS. Consequently, the study was expanded to include policy and technical issues related to the DNS in the context of Internet navigation. This report presents the NRC\u2019s assessment of the current state and future prospects of the DNS and Internet navigation, and its conclusions and recommendations concerning key technical and policy issues. ", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/11258/signposts-in-cyberspace-the-domain-name-system-and-internet-navigation", year = 2005, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Institute of Medicine and National Research Council", title = "Dietary Supplements: A Framework for Evaluating Safety", isbn = "978-0-309-09110-7", abstract = "The growing consumer interest in health and fitness has expanded the market for a wide range of products, from yoga mats to the multiple dietary supplements now on the market. Supplements are popular, but are they safe? Many dietary supplements are probably safe when used as recommended. However, since 1994 when Congress decided that they should be regulated as if they were foods, they are assumed to be safe unless the Food and Drug Administration can demonstrate that they pose a significant risk to the consumer. But there are many types of products that qualify as dietary supplements, and the distinctions can become muddled and vague. Manufacturers are not legally required to provide specific information about safety before marketing their products. And the sales of supplements have been steadily increasing\u2014all together, the various types now bring in almost $16 billion per year. Given these confounding factors, what kind of information can the Food and Drug Administration use to effectively regulate dietary supplements? This book provides a framework for evaluating dietary supplement safety and protecting the health of consumers.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10882/dietary-supplements-a-framework-for-evaluating-safety", year = 2005, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Institute of Medicine", title = "Veterans and Agent Orange: Update 2004", isbn = "978-0-309-09598-3", abstract = "Sixth in a series of congressionally mandated studies, this book is an updated review and evaluation of the available evidence regarding the statistical assoication between exposure to herbicides used in Vietnam and various adverse health outcomes suspected to be linked with such exposure. \n\nThis book builds upon the information contained in the earlier books in the series:\n\nVeterans and Agent Orange: Health Effects of Herbicides Used in Vietnam (1994)\n Veterans and Agent Orange: Update 1996\n Veterans and Agent Orange: Update 1998\n Veterans and Agent Orange: Update 2000\n Veterans and Agent Orange: Update 2002\n\n\nVeterans and Agent Orange: Herbicides and Dioxin Exposure and Type 2 Diabetes (2000) \n\n Veterans and Agent Orange: Herbicide\/Dioxin Exposure and Acute Myelogenous Leukemia in the Children of Vietnam Veterans (2002)\n\nVeterans and Agent Orange: Update 2004 focuses primarily on scientific studies and other information developed since the release of these earlier books. The previous volumes have noted that sufficient evidence exists to link chronic lymphocytic leukemia, soft-tissue sarcoma, non-Hodgkin\u2019s lymphoma, Hodgkin\u2019s disease, and chloracne with exposure. The books also noted that there is \u201climited or suggestive\u201d evidence of an association between exposure and respiratory cancers, prostate cancer, multiple myeloma, the metabolic disorder porphyria cutanea tarda, early-onset transient peripheral neuropathies, Type 2 diabetes, and the congenital birth defect spinal bifida in veterans\u2019 children. This volume will be critically important to both policymakers and physicians in the federal government, Vietnam veterans and their families, veterans\u2019 organizations, researchers, and health professionals.\n", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/11242/veterans-and-agent-orange-update-2004", year = 2005, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" }