@BOOK{NAP author = "National Research Council", title = "Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey Letter Report", abstract = "The Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey (CBECS) is a survey of commercial buildings in the United States, mandated by Congress to provide comprehensive information about energy use in commercial buildings. In addition to energy consumption and expenditure data, the survey collects information about building characteristics, such as energy source, physical structure, equipment used, and activities performed, which provides researchers with detailed information about commercial sector energy use and how it relates to building characteristics. The CBECS is the only national source of these data, and is used for energy forecasting, program development, and policy development. \n\nAt the request of the Energy Information Administration, the National Research Council is conducting a comprehensive 30-month study of the CBECS and the corresponding study of Residential Energy Consumption Survey (RECS). Because plans for the upcoming 2011 round of CBECS must be finalized in the near future, the panel was charged to comment as soon as possible on design and data collection options that would enable the upcoming round of this survey to better support U.S. Department of Energy program information needs, reduce respondent burden, and increase the quality and timeliness of the data. This letter responds to that request, and is limited in scope to discussing issues that the panel believes are realistic to consider in the timeframe leading up to the 2011 data collection. At the conclusion of the study, the panel will deliver its comprehensive report on the overall design and conduct of both CBECS and RECS.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/12922/commercial-buildings-energy-consumption-survey-letter-report", year = 2010, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Research Council", title = "Review and Assessment of Proposals for Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plant at Pueblo, Colorado: Letter Report", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/11236/review-and-assessment-of-proposals-for-chemical-agent-destruction-pilot-plant-at-pueblo-colorado", year = 2005, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Transportation Research Board and National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", title = "Techniques for Effective Highway Construction Projects in Congested Urban Areas", abstract = "TRB\u2019s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis 413: Techniques for Effective Highway Construction Projects in Congested Urban Areas explores a diverse set of techniques designed to address highway construction challenges in congested urban areas such as high-traffic volumes, utility conflicts, complex right-of-way acquisition issues, a diverse stakeholder base, and watchful news media.The report includes four case studies designed to help illustrate effective construction practices in congested urban areas.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/14485/techniques-for-effective-highway-construction-projects-in-congested-urban-areas", year = 2011, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Transportation Research Board and National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", editor = "John F. Zuspan", title = "Rail Transit Track Inspection Practices", abstract = "TRBs Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Synthesis 107: TCRP Synthesis 107, Rail Transit Track Inspection Practices offers information across a range of older and newer U.S. rail transit agencies on track inspection practices and policies.Since there are no actual rail track safety or maintenance standards promulgated for transit, this report is designed to help to provide rail transit agencies with information that might help it develop its own set of track safety and maintenance standards.Issues addressed in the report include agency staffing, agency organization and characteristics, track inspection program criteria, training and certification, procurement, and track safety practices.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/22394/rail-transit-track-inspection-practices", year = 2013, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Academy of Engineering and National Research Council", title = "Best Available and Safest Technologies for Offshore Oil and Gas Operations: Options for Implementation", isbn = "978-0-309-29427-0", abstract = "Best Available and Safest Technologies for Offshore Oil and Gas Operations: Options for Implementation explores a range of options for improving the implementation of the U.S. Department of the Interior's congressional mandate to require the use of best available and safety technologies in offshore oil and gas operations.\nIn the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, Congress directs the Secretary of the Interior to regulate oil and gas operations in federal waters. The act mandates that the Secretary \"shall require, on all new drilling and production operations and, wherever practicable, on existing operations, the use of the best available and safest technologies which the Secretary determines to be economically feasible, wherever failure of equipment would have a significant effect on safety, health, or the environment, except where the Secretary determines that the incremental benefits are clearly insufficient to justify the incremental costs of utilizing such technologies.\"\nThis report, which was requested by Department of the Interior's Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE), also reviews options and issues that BSEE is already considering to improve implementation of the best available and safest technologies requirement.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/18545/best-available-and-safest-technologies-for-offshore-oil-and-gas-operations", year = 2013, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Transportation Research Board and National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", editor = "Amy Epps Martin and Edith Arambula and Fan Yin and Eun Sug Park", title = "Validation of Guidelines for Evaluating the Moisture Susceptibility of WMA Technologies", abstract = "TRB\u2019s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 817: Validation of Guidelines for Evaluating the Moisture Susceptibility of WMA Technologies presents validated guidelines proposed for identifying potential moisture susceptibility in warm mix asphalt (WMA) during mix design. The report further corroborates the moisture susceptibility thresholds described in NCHRP Report 763: Evaluation of the Moisture Susceptibility of WMA Technologies.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/23452/validation-of-guidelines-for-evaluating-the-moisture-susceptibility-of-wma-technologies", year = 2016, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Transportation Research Board", title = "Interim Guide for Developing a State Transportation Research Manual", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/9068/interim-guide-for-developing-a-state-transportation-research-manual", year = 1995, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Research Council", title = "The Competitive Status of the U.S. Pharmaceutical Industry: The Influences of Technology in Determining International Industrial Competitive Advantage", isbn = "978-0-309-03396-1", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/156/the-competitive-status-of-the-us-pharmaceutical-industry-the-influences", year = 1983, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP title = "Actions for Renewing U.S. Mathematical Sciences Departments", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/21257/actions-for-renewing-us-mathematical-sciences-departments", year = 1990, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Institute of Medicine", editor = "Catharyn T. Liverman and Carolyn E. Fulco and Howard M. Kipen", title = "Internet Access to the National Library of Medicine's Toxicology and Environmental Health Databases", isbn = "978-0-309-06299-2", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/6327/internet-access-to-the-national-library-of-medicines-toxicology-and-environmental-health-databases", year = 1998, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Transportation Research Board and National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", editor = "Institute of Transportation Research and Education", title = "Handbook for Communicating Travel Time Reliability Through Graphics and Tables", abstract = "TRB\u2019s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) Report: Handbook for Communicating Travel Time Reliability Through Graphics and Tables offers ideas on how to communicate reliability information in graphical and tabular form.SHRP 2 Reliability Project L02 has also released Establishing Monitoring Programs for Travel Time Reliability, which describes what reliability is and how it can be measured and analyzed, and Guide to Establishing Monitoring Programs for Travel Time Reliability, which describes how to develop and use a Travel Time Reliability Monitoring System (TTRMS).", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/22400/handbook-for-communicating-travel-time-reliability-through-graphics-and-tables", year = 2014, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP title = "Learning and Understanding: Improving Advanced Study of Mathematics and Science in U.S. High Schools: Report of the Content Panel for Mathematics", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10380/learning-and-understanding-improving-advanced-study-of-mathematics-and-science-in-us-high-schools", year = 2002, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP title = "Meteorological Support for Space Operations: Review and Recommendations", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/9555/meteorological-support-for-space-operations-review-and-recommendations", year = 1988, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Transportation Research Board and National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", title = "System Trials to Demonstrate Mileage-Based Road Use Charges", abstract = "TRB\u2019s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Web-Only Document 161: System Trials to Demonstrate Mileage-Based Road Use Charges explores factors to be considered in designing and implementing large-scale trials of mechanisms for collecting road-user charges based on vehicle-miles of travel.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/22910/system-trials-to-demonstrate-mileage-based-road-use-charges", year = 2010, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Research Council", title = "Meteorological Support for Space Operations: Review and Recommendations", abstract = "Remote sensing and computer technologies have developed to the point where great new advances in real-time weather observing and forecasting are possible. An opportunity exists to make all phases of the manned and unmanned space programs more efficient, less threatened by delay, and free of weather-related hazards that could lead to damage or loss of spacecraft or even human lives. It is vital to make improvements within the meteorological support and launch decision infrastructure of NASA that may avert a repetition of tragedies such as the Atlas-Centaur 67 destruction on March 26, 1987, and the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion on January 28, 1986.\nMeteorological Support for Space Operations recommends mechanisms by which NASA can put into operation state-of-the-science meteorological technology and advanced weather forecasting techniques to enhance the efficiency, reliability, and safety of space operations.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/18482/meteorological-support-for-space-operations-review-and-recommendations", year = 1988, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Transportation Research Board and National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", editor = "Amy Malick", title = "Airport Sustainability Practices", abstract = "TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Synthesis 77: Airport Sustainability Practices compiles information about airport sustainability practices and adds them to the Sustainable Aviation Guidance Alliance (SAGA) website. The SAGA website was developed to assist airport operators in developing sustainability programs and provide guidance to those who have new data to input. The website contains entries on more than 900 sustainability practices that were developed by SAGA\u2019s initial stakeholder group. However, a large percentage of these entries do not contain actual practice data.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/23644/airport-sustainability-practices", year = 2016, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", title = "Disposal of Surplus Plutonium at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant: Interim Report", isbn = "978-0-309-48500-5", abstract = "Disposal of Surplus Plutonium at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant: Interim Report evaluates the general viability of the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration's (DOE-NNSA's) conceptual plans for disposing of 34 metric tons (MT) of surplus plutonium in the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), a deep geologic repository near Carlsbad, New Mexico. This report evaluates DOE-NNSA's plans to ship, receive, and emplace surplus plutonium in WIPP and its understanding of the impacts of these plans on WIPP and WIPP-bound waste streams. This report, the first of two to be issued during this study, provides a preliminary assessment of the general viability of DOE-NNSA's conceptual plans, focusing on some of the barriers to their implementation.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/25272/disposal-of-surplus-plutonium-at-the-waste-isolation-pilot-plant", year = 2018, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Research Council", editor = "William F. Eddy and Krisztina Marton", title = "Effective Tracking of Building Energy Use: Improving the Commercial Buildings and Residential Energy Consumption Surveys", isbn = "978-0-309-25401-4", abstract = "The United States is responsible for nearly one-fifth of the world's energy consumption. Population growth, and the associated growth in housing, commercial floor space, transportation, goods, and services is expected to cause a 0.7 percent annual increase in energy demand for the foreseeable future. The energy used by the commercial and residential sectors represents approximately 40 percent of the nation's total energy consumption, and the share of these two sectors is expected to increase in the future. \n\nThe Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey (CBECS) and Residential Energy Consumption Survey (RECS) are two major surveys conducted by the Energy Information Administration. The surveys are the most relevant sources of data available to researchers and policy makers on energy consumption in the commercial and residential sectors. Many of the design decisions and operational procedures for the CBECS and RECS were developed in the 1970s and 1980s, and resource limitations during much of the time since then have prevented EIA from making significant changes to the data collections. Effective Tracking of Building Energy Use makes recommendations for redesigning the surveys based on a review of evolving data user needs and an assessment of new developments in relevant survey methods.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/13360/effective-tracking-of-building-energy-use-improving-the-commercial-buildings", year = 2012, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Research Council", editor = "Steve Olson and Jay B. Labov", title = "Thinking Evolutionarily: Evolution Education Across the Life Sciences: Summary of a Convocation", isbn = "978-0-309-25689-6", abstract = "Evolution is the central unifying theme of biology. Yet today, more than a century and a half after Charles Darwin proposed the idea of evolution through natural selection, the topic is often relegated to a handful of chapters in textbooks and a few class sessions in introductory biology courses, if covered at all. In recent years, a movement has been gaining momentum that is aimed at radically changing this situation.\n\nOn October 25-26, 2011, the Board on Life Sciences of the National Research Council and the National Academy of Sciences held a national convocation in Washington, DC, to explore the many issues associated with teaching evolution across the curriculum. Thinking Evolutionarily: Evolution Education Across the Life Sciences: Summary of a Convocation summarizes the goals, presentations, and discussions of the convocation. The goals were to articulate issues, showcase resources that are currently available or under development, and begin to develop a strategic plan for engaging all of the sectors represented at the convocation in future work to make evolution a central focus of all courses in the life sciences, and especially into introductory biology courses at the college and high school levels, though participants also discussed learning in earlier grades and life-long learning.\n\nThinking Evolutionarily: Evolution Education Across the Life Sciences: Summary of a Convocation covers the broader issues associated with learning about the nature, processes, and limits of science, since understanding evolutionary science requires a more general appreciation of how science works. This report explains the major themes that recurred throughout the convocation, including the structure and content of curricula, the processes of teaching and learning about evolution, the tensions that can arise in the classroom, and the target audiences for evolution education. \n ", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/13403/thinking-evolutionarily-evolution-education-across-the-life-sciences-summary-of", year = 2012, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Research Council", title = "Materials in a New Era: Proceedings of the 1999 Solid State Sciences Committee Forum", isbn = "978-0-309-06799-7", abstract = "The 1999 Solid State Sciences Committee Forum, entitled \"Materials in a New Era,\" was held at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C., on February 16-17, 1999. The forum was designed to launch the report entitled Condensed-Matter and Materials Physics: Basic Research for Tomorrow 's Technology. That report, part of the decadal survey series, Physics in a New Era, reviews some of the outstanding accomplishments in materials research over the last decade. It indicates some emerging areas and conveys the true excitement in the field from a perspective of basic science and potential societal impact.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/9737/materials-in-a-new-era-proceedings-of-the-1999-solid", year = 1999, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" }