%0 Book %A Transportation Research Board %A National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine %T Adhesive Anchors in Concrete Under Sustained Loading Conditions %D 2009 %U https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/23026/adhesive-anchors-in-concrete-under-sustained-loading-conditions %> https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/23026/adhesive-anchors-in-concrete-under-sustained-loading-conditions %I The National Academies Press %C Washington, DC %G English %K Transportation and Infrastructure %P 30 %X TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 639: Adhesive Anchors in Concrete Under Sustained Loading Conditions explores a test method designed to help determine an adhesive anchor’s ability to resist sustained tensile loads. %0 Book %A National Research Council %T Review of Secondary Waste Disposal Planning for the Blue Grass and Pueblo Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plants %@ 978-0-309-12050-0 %D 2008 %U https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/12210/review-of-secondary-waste-disposal-planning-for-the-blue-grass-and-pueblo-chemical-agent-destruction-pilot-plants %> https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/12210/review-of-secondary-waste-disposal-planning-for-the-blue-grass-and-pueblo-chemical-agent-destruction-pilot-plants %I The National Academies Press %C Washington, DC %G English %K Conflict and Security Issues %K Environment and Environmental Studies %K Math, Chemistry, and Physics %P 84 %X The U.S. Army Program Manager for Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives (PMACWA) is charged with disposing of chemical weapons as stored at two sites: Pueblo, Colorado, and Blue Grass, Kentucky. In accordance with congressional mandates, technologies other than incineration are to be used if they are as safe and as cost effective. The weapons are to be disposed of in compliance with the Chemical Weapons Convention. Although an element of the U.S. Army, the PMACWA is responsible to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Acquisitions, Technology, and Logistics for completing this mission. This book deals with the expected significant quantities of secondary wastes that will be generated during operations of the facilities and their closure. While there are only estimates for the waste quantities that will be generated, they provide a good basis for planning and developing alternatives for waste disposal while the plants are still in the design phase. Establishing efficient disposal options for the secondary wastes can enable more timely and cost-effective operation and closure of the facilities. %0 Book %A Transportation Research Board %A National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine %E Hearn, George %T State Bridge Load Posting Processes and Practices %D 2014 %U https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/22412/state-bridge-load-posting-processes-and-practices %> https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/22412/state-bridge-load-posting-processes-and-practices %I The National Academies Press %C Washington, DC %G English %K Transportation and Infrastructure %P 164 %X TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis 453: State Bridge Load Posting Processes and Practices is a synthesis of the practices of U.S. state governments in restricting weights of vehicles that can cross highway bridges and culverts to levels below legal loads. Bridges and culverts restricted for vehicle weights are called load posted structures. The load posting practices of bridge owners include the identification of structures to post for load, the evaluation of safe load capacities of these structures, and the implementation of restrictions on vehicle weights at structures. %0 Book %A Institute of Medicine %E Lemon, Stanley M. %E Hamburg, Margaret A. %E Sparling, P. Frederick %E Choffnes, Eileen R. %E Mack, Alison %T Global Infectious Disease Surveillance and Detection: Assessing the Challenges–Finding Solutions: Workshop Summary %@ 978-0-309-11114-0 %D 2007 %U https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/11996/global-infectious-disease-surveillance-and-detection-assessing-the-challenges-finding %> https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/11996/global-infectious-disease-surveillance-and-detection-assessing-the-challenges-finding %I The National Academies Press %C Washington, DC %G English %K Health and Medicine %K Conflict and Security Issues %P 284 %X Early detection is essential to the control of emerging, reemerging, and novel infectious diseases, whether naturally occurring or intentionally introduced. Containing the spread of such diseases in a profoundly interconnected world requires active vigilance for signs of an outbreak, rapid recognition of its presence, and diagnosis of its microbial cause, in addition to strategies and resources for an appropriate and efficient response. Although these actions are often viewed in terms of human public health, they also challenge the plant and animal health communities. Surveillance, defined as "the continual scrutiny of all aspects of occurrence and spread of a disease that are pertinent to effective control", involves the "systematic collection, analysis, interpretation, and dissemination of health data." Disease detection and diagnosis is the act of discovering a novel, emerging, or reemerging disease or disease event and identifying its cause. Diagnosis is "the cornerstone of effective disease control and prevention efforts, including surveillance." Disease surveillance and detection relies heavily on the astute individual: the clinician, veterinarian, plant pathologist, farmer, livestock manager, or agricultural extension agent who notices something unusual, atypical, or suspicious and brings this discovery in a timely way to the attention of an appropriate representative of human public health, veterinary medicine, or agriculture. Most developed countries have the ability to detect and diagnose human, animal, and plant diseases. Global Infectious Disease Surveillance and Detection: Assessing the Challenges—Finding Solutions, Workshop Summary is part of a 10 book series and summarizes the recommendations and presentations of the workshop. %0 Book %A National Research Council %T The Changing Nature of Work: Implications for Occupational Analysis %@ 978-0-309-06525-2 %D 1999 %U https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/9600/the-changing-nature-of-work-implications-for-occupational-analysis %> https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/9600/the-changing-nature-of-work-implications-for-occupational-analysis %I The National Academies Press %C Washington, DC %G English %K Industry and Labor %K Earth Sciences %P 376 %X Although there is great debate about how work is changing, there is a clear consensus that changes are fundamental and ongoing. The Changing Nature of Work examines the evidence for change in the world of work. The committee provides a clearly illustrated framework for understanding changes in work and these implications for analyzing the structure of occupations in both the civilian and military sectors. This volume explores the increasing demographic diversity of the workforce, the fluidity of boundaries between lines of work, the interdependent choices for how work is structured-and ultimately, the need for an integrated systematic approach to understanding how work is changing. The book offers a rich array of data and highlighted examples on: Markets, technology, and many other external conditions affecting the nature of work. Research findings on American workers and how they feel about work. Downsizing and the trend toward flatter organizational hierarchies. Autonomy, complexity, and other aspects of work structure. The committee reviews the evolution of occupational analysis and examines the effectiveness of the latest systems in characterizing current and projected changes in civilian and military work. The occupational structure and changing work requirements in the Army are presented as a case study.