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      Beyond Six Billion: Forecasting the World’s Population

      Panel on Population Projections,Committee on Population,National Research Council

      Focusing on fertility as one key to accurate projections, this book examines the transition from high, constant fertility to low fertility levels and discusses whether developing countries eventually attain the…

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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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      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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      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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      Research on Health Effects of Low-Level Ionizing Radiation Exposure: Opportunities for the Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute

      National Research Council,Institute of Medicine,Nuclear and Radiation Studies Board,Board on the Health of Select Populations,Committee on Research Directions in Human Biological Effects of Low-Level Ionizing Radiation

      Support for this project was provided by the National Academy of Sciences and the Uniformed Sciences University of the Health Sciences under Grant No. HT9404-12-1-0028. –Title page verso.

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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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      Himalayan Glaciers: Climate Change, Water Resources, and Water Security

      National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on Population,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Water Science and Technology Board

      Scientific evidence shows that most glaciers in South Asia’s Hindu Kush Himalayan region are retreating, but the consequences for the region’s water supply are unclear, this report finds. The Hindu…

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