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    Terrorism: Perspectives from the Behavioral and Social Sciences

    National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Center for Social and Economic Studies,Committee on Science and Technology for Countering Terrorism,Panel on Behavioral, Social, and Institutional Issues

    The events and aftermath of September 11, 2001, profoundly changed the course of history of the nation. They also brought the phenomenon known as terrorism to the forefront of the…

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    Developing an Agenda for Population Aging and Social Research in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs)

    National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Committee on Population

    In September 2023, the Committee on Population at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a workshop, Developing an Agenda for Population Aging and Social Research in Low-…

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    Reaching Students: What Research Says About Effective Instruction in Undergraduate Science and Engineering

    National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Board on Science Education,Nancy Kober,Division on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education

    The undergraduate years are a turning point in producing scientifically literate citizens and future scientists and engineers. Evidence from research about how students learn science and engineering shows that teaching…

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    People and Pixels: Linking Remote Sensing and Social Science

    Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change,National Research Council

    Examines the possibilities for using remote sensing technology to improve understanding of social processes and human-environment interactions. This book discusses what is involved in establishing effective collaborative efforts between scientists…

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    Proposed Revisions to the Common Rule for the Protection of Human Subjects in the Behavioral and Social Sciences

    National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on Population,Committee on National Statistics,Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences

    Examines how to update human subjects protections regulations so that they effectively respond to current research contexts and methods. This book addresses the dramatic alterations in the research landscapes that…

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    Social Impact of AIDS in the United States

    Panel on Monitoring the Social Impact of the AIDS Epidemic,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

    Addresses issues in the public debate over AIDS. This book explores how AIDS has affected fundamental policies and practices in our major institutions. It is helpful to anyone concerned about…

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    Reducing the Impact of Dementia in America: A Decadal Survey of the Behavioral and Social Sciences

    National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences,Committee on the Decadal Survey of Behavioral and Social Science Research on Alzheimer's Disease and Alzheimer's Disease-Related Dementias

    As the largest generation in U.S. history - the population born in the two decades immediately following World War II - enters the age of risk for cognitive impairment, growing…

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    A Common Destiny: Blacks and American Society

    Committee on the Status of Black Americans,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

    Drawing on historical perspectives and data, this book examines the many years of change and continuity in the status of black Americans. By studying and comparing black and white age…

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    Pathways to an Equitable and Just Energy Transition

    National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Transportation Research Board, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Board on Environmental Change and Society, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, Board on Energy and Environmental Systems, Committee on Accelerating Decarbonization in the United States: Technology, Policy, and Societal Dimensions

    While technologies are clearly instrumental in transitioning away from fossil fuel-based energy and toward a decarbonized economy, decisions about which technologies are prioritized, how they are implemented, and the policies…

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    Fairness and Effectiveness in Policing: The Evidence

    National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on Law and Justice,Kathleen Frydl

    Suitable for anyone concerned about police work: policy makers, administrators, educators, police supervisors and officers, journalists, and interested citizens, this book reviews how police work is organized, explores the expanding…

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    Threatening Communications and Behavior: Perspectives on the Pursuit of Public Figures

    National Research Council

    Three papers that review the behavioral and social sciences research on the likelihood that someone who engages in abnormal and/or threatening communications will actually then try to do harm –P…

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    Enhancing Organizational Performance

    Committee on Techniques for the Enhancement of Human Performance,National Research Council

    Reviews approaches to organizational change - total quality management, reengineering, and downsizing - in terms of how they affect organizations and people, how performance improvements can be measured, and what…

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    The Prevention and Treatment of Missing Data in Clinical Trials

    Panel on Handling Missing Data in Clinical Trials,National Research Council

    Randomized clinical trials are the primary tool for evaluating new medical interventions. Randomization provides for a fair comparison between treatment and control groups, balancing out, on average, distributions of known…

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    Guide to Implementing the Next Generation Science Standards

    National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Board on Science Education,Committee on Guidance on Implementing the Next Generation Science Standards

    A Framework for K-12 Science Education and Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) describe a new vision for science learning and teaching that is catalyzing improvements in science classrooms across the…

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    Reliability Growth: Enhancing Defense System Reliability

    National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on National Statistics,Panel on Reliability Growth Methods for Defense Systems

    A high percentage of defense systems fail to meet their reliability requirements. This is a serious problem for the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD), as well as the nation. Those…

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    Choosing the Nation’s Fiscal Future

    Committee on the Fiscal Future of the United States

    Assesses the options and possibilities for a sustainable federal budget. This comprehensive book considers a range of policy changes that could help put the budget on a sustainable path: reforms…

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    AIDS, Sexual Behavior, and Intravenous Drug Use

    Committee on AIDS Research and the Behavioral, Social, and Statistical Sciences,National Research Council

    The AIDS virus is spread by human behaviors enacted in a variety of social situations. In order to prevent further infection, we need to know more about these behaviors. This…

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    AIDS: The Second Decade

    Committee on AIDS Research and the Behavioral, Social, and Statistical Sciences,National Research Council

    Reports the changing trends in AIDS cases and HIV infection among the homosexual community, intravenous drug users, women, minorities, and other groups. This volume presents an overview of a range…

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    Pay for Performance: Evaluating Performance Appraisal and Merit Pay

    Renae F. Broderick,Anne S. Mavor,Committee on Performance Appraisal for Merit Pay,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

    Looks at performance appraisal and pay practices in the private sector and describes how private industry experience is relevant to federal pay reform. This book focuses on the needs of…

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    Data and Research to Improve the U.S. Food Availability System and Estimates of Food Loss: A Workshop Summary

    National Research Council,Institute of Medicine,Food and Nutrition Board,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on National Statistics

    The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) Economic Research Service’s (ERS) Food Availability Data System includes three distinct but related data series on food and nutrient availability for consumption. The…

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    Informing Decisions in a Changing Climate

    Panel on Strategies and Methods for Climate-Related Decision Support,National Research Council

    Everyone–government agencies, private organizations, and individuals–is facing a changing climate: an environment in which it is no longer prudent to follow routines based on past climatic averages. State and local…

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    Adding It Up: Helping Children Learn Mathematics

    National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Center for Education,Mathematics Learning Study Committee

    Explores how students in pre-K through 8th grade learn mathematics and recommends how teaching, curricula, and teacher education should change to improve mathematics learning. This book identifies five interdependent components…

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    Organizational Linkages: Understanding the Productivity Paradox

    Panel on Organizational Linkages,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

    Examines how to translate workers’ productivity increases into gains for the organization, and discusses why huge investments in automation and other innovations have failed to boost productivity. This book examines…

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    Understanding Risk: Informing Decisions in a Democratic Society

    Committee on Risk Characterization,National Research Council

    Addresses a central dilemma of risk decision making in a democracy: scientific and technical information is essential for making decisions, but the people who make and live with those decisions…

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    Measuring Racial Discrimination

    National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on National Statistics,Panel on Methods for Assessing Discrimination

    Many racial and ethnic groups in the United States, including blacks, Hispanics, Asians, American Indians, and others, have historically faced severe discrimination. This book considers the definition of race and…

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    Improving Health Care Cost Projections for the Medicare Population: Summary of a Workshop

    Steering Committee on Improving Health Care Cost Projections for the Medicare Population,National Research Council

    Developing credible short-term and long-term projections of Medicare health care costs is critical for public- and private-sector policy planning, but faces challenges and uncertainties. There is uncertainty not only in…

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    Beyond the Market: Designing Nonmarket Accounts for the United States

    National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on National Statistics,Panel to Study the Design of Nonmarket Accounts

    The national income and product accounts that underlie gross domestic product (GDP), together with other key economic data?price and employment statistics? are widely used as indicators of how well the…

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    The Polygraph and Lie Detection

    Committee to Review the Scientific Evidence on the Polygraph,Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences,Committee on National Statistics,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,National Research Council

    The polygraph, often portrayed as a magic mind-reading machine, is still controversial among experts, who continue heated debates about its validity as a lie-detecting device. This book puts the polygraph…

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    Offspring: Human Fertility Behavior in Biodemographic Perspective

    National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on Population,Panel for the Workshop on the Biodemography of Fertility and Family Behavior

    Few demographers worry about how biological processes might affect voluntary behavior choices that have demographic consequences even though behavioral geneticists have documented genetics effects on variables such as parenting and…

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    Knowing What Students Know: The Science and Design of Educational Assessment

    National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Center for Education,Board on Testing and Assessment,Committee on the Foundations of Assessment

    Education is a hot topic. From the stage of presidential debates to tonight’s dinner table, it is an issue that most Americans are deeply concerned about. This title explains how…

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    How Students Learn: Science in the Classroom

    Committee on How People Learn: A Targeted Report for Teachers,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

    In this volume, practical questions that confront every science teacher are addressed using the latest research on cognition, teaching, and learning.

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    Human-System Integration in the System Development Process: A New Look

    Committee on Human-System Design Support for Changing Technology,Committee on Human Factors,National Research Council

    To prevent both the individually annoying and nationally significant consequences, human capabilities and needs must be considered early and throughout system design and development. This collection of development activities has…

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    Communicating Science Effectively: A Research Agenda

    National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on the Science of Science Communication: A Research Agenda

    Science and technology are embedded in virtually every aspect of modern life. As a result, people face an increasing need to integrate information from science with their personal values and…

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    Enhancing the Effectiveness of Team Science

    National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences,Committee on the Science of Team Science

    The past half-century has witnessed a dramatic increase in the scale and complexity of scientific research. The growing scale of science has been accompanied by a shift toward collaborative research…

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    How People Learn: Bridging Research and Practice

    Committee on Learning Research and Educational Practice,National Research Council

    What can teachers and schools do – with curricula, classroom settings, and teaching methods – to help children learn most effectively? New evidence from many branches of science has significantly…

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    Pathways to Exploration: Rationales and Approaches for a U.S. Program of Human Space Exploration

    Committee on Human Spaceflight Crew Operations,Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board,Space Studies Board,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Committee on National Statistics

    The United States has publicly funded its human spaceflight program on a continuous basis for more than a half-century, through three wars and a half-dozen recessions, from the early Mercury…

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    Cities Transformed: Demographic Change and Its Implications in the Developing World

    Panel on Urban Population Dynamics

    The benefits from urbanization cannot be overlooked, but the speed and sheer scale of transformation present many challenges. Drawing from a variety of data sources, this work explores the implications…

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    How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience and School

    Committee on Developments in the Science of Learning with additional material from the Committee on Learning Research and Educational Practice,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

    Scientific evidence has added to our understanding of what it means to know, from the neural processes that occur, to the influence of culture on what we see and absorb…

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    Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children

    Committee on the Prevention of Reading Difficulties in Young Children,National Research Council

    Many young Americans’ futures are imperiled because they do not read well enough to meet the demands of our competitive, technology-driven society. This book explores the problem within the context…

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    Rationalizing Rural Area Classifications for the Economic Research Service: A Workshop Summary

    National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on National Statistics

    The U.S. Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service (USDA/ERS) maintains four highly related but distinct geographic classification systems to designate areas by the degree to which they are rural. The…

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    Learning Science in Informal Environments: People, Places, and Pursuits

    Committee on Learning Science in Informal Environments

    Learning Science in Informal Environments draws together disparate literatures, synthesizes the state of knowledge, and articulates a common framework for the next generation of research on learning science in informal…

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    A Framework for K-12 Science Education: Practices, Crosscutting Concepts, and Core Ideas

    Committee on Conceptual Framework for the New K-12 Science Education Standards,National Research Council

    Science, engineering, and technology permeate nearly every facet of modern life and hold the key to solving many of humanity’s most pressing current and future challenges. The United States’ position…

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    Deadly Lessons: Understanding Lethal School Violence

    National Research Council

    The shooting at Columbine High School riveted national attention on violence in the nation’s schools. Offering an outcome of the National Research Council’s effort to glean lessons from six case…

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    America’s Lab Report: Investigations in High School Science

    Committee on High School Science Laboratories: Role and Vision,National Research Council

    Looks at a range of questions about how laboratory experiences fit into US high schools: What is effective laboratory teaching? What does research tell us about learning in high school…

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    Education for Life and Work: Developing Transferable Knowledge and Skills in the 21st Century

    National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Board on Science Education,Board on Testing and Assessment,Committee on Defining Deeper Learning and 21st Century Skills

    Board on Testing and Assessment, and Board on Science Education, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education.

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    Research and Data Priorities for Improving Economic and Social Mobility

    National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Committee on National Statistics, Committee on Population

    Since around 1980, fewer Americans than before are doing better than their parents had ? that is, more are experiencing downward social and economic mobility in terms of occupational status…

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    Starting Out Right: A Guide to Promoting Children’s Reading Success

    Committee on the Prevention of Reading Difficulties in Young Children,National Research Council

    States that a large number of people in America cannot read as well as they need for success in life. This book discusses how best to help children succeed in…

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    The Future of Home Health Care: Workshop Summary

    National Research Council,Institute of Medicine,Division on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Board on Health Sciences Policy,Forum on Aging, Disability, and Independence

    Individuals with disabilities, chronic conditions, and functional impairments need a range of services and supports to keep living independently. However, there often is not a strong link between medical care…

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