@BOOK{NAP author = "National Research Council", editor = "Michael J. Siri and Daniel L. Cork", title = "Vital Statistics: Summary of a Workshop", isbn = "978-0-309-14164-2", abstract = "Vital statistics, the records of birth and death, are a critical national information resource for understanding public health. Over the past few decades, the specific program that gathers the data has evolved into a complex cooperative program between the federal and state governments for social measurement. The Vital Statistics Cooperative Program (VSCP) is currently maintained by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). \n\nThe U.S. vital statistics system relies on the original information reported by myriad individuals, channeled through varying state and local information systems, and coordinated and processed by a federal statistical agency that has experienced relatively flat funding for many years. The challenges facing the vital statistics system and the continuing importance of the resulting data make it an important topic for examination. \n\nA workshop, held by the National Academies and summarized in this volume, considered the importance of adequate vital statistics. In particular, the workshop assessed both current and emerging uses of the data, considered the methodological and organizational features of compiling vital data, and identified possible visions for the vital statistics program.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/12714/vital-statistics-summary-of-a-workshop", year = 2009, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Institute of Medicine", editor = "Alison Mack and Sharyl J. Nass", title = "Implementing a National Cancer Clinical Trials System for the 21st Century: Workshop Summary", isbn = "978-0-309-21268-7", abstract = "Clinical trials enable scientific discoveries to advance patient care, in addition to informing and guiding subsequent research. The National Cancer Institute's (NCI's) Clinical Trials Cooperative Group Program works to advance patient care and research. The Cooperative Group Program has been instrumental in establishing the standards for cancer patient care and clinical research methods. Despite broad participation in the program, financial strain and procedural burdens limit the ability of the Cooperative Group Program to undertake medical practice-changing clinical research.\nThus, the Institute of Medicine's (IOM's) National Cancer Policy Forum and the American Society of Clinical Oncology held a workshop on March 21, 2011 to follow up on the 2010 IOM report, A National Clinical Trials System for the 21st Century: Reinvigorating the NCI Cooperative Group Program, which made recommendations to strengthen the NCI Cooperative Group Program. In keeping with the established commitment to excellence Implementing a National Cancer Clinical Trials System for the 21st Century outlines how to improve the current system by incorporating innovative science and trial design into cancer clinical trials. It also examines the impact of increasing quality in regards to speed, efficiency, design, launch, and conduct, as well as improving prioritization, and incentivized participation.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/13154/implementing-a-national-cancer-clinical-trials-system-for-the-21st-century", year = 2011, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Institute of Medicine", editor = "Jill Eden and Ben Wheatley and Barbara McNeil and Harold Sox", title = "Knowing What Works in Health Care: A Roadmap for the Nation", isbn = "978-0-309-11356-4", abstract = "There is currently heightened interest in optimizing health care through the generation of new knowledge on the effectiveness of health care services. The United States must substantially strengthen its capacity for assessing evidence on what is known and not known about \"what works\" in health care. Even the most sophisticated clinicians and consumers struggle to learn which care is appropriate and under what circumstances. Knowing What Works in Health Care looks at the three fundamental health care issues in the United States\u2014setting priorities for evidence assessment, assessing evidence (systematic review), and developing evidence-based clinical practice guidelines\u2014and how each of these contributes to the end goal of effective, practical health care systems. This book provides an overall vision and roadmap for improving how the nation uses scientific evidence to identify the most effective clinical services. Knowing What Works in Health Care gives private and public sector firms, consumers, health care professionals, benefit administrators, and others the authoritative, independent information required for making essential informed health care decisions.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/12038/knowing-what-works-in-health-care-a-roadmap-for-the", year = 2008, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP editor = "Scott P. Layne and Tony J. Beugelsdijk and C. Kumar and N. Patel", title = "Firepower in the Lab: Automation in the Fight Against Infectious Diseases and Bioterrorism", isbn = "978-0-309-06849-9", abstract = "Today's world poses a triple threat to the American population: infectious diseases, contamination of food and water, and bioattacks (biowarfare or bioterrorism). At least 17 countries are producing weapons of mass destruction using viruses, bacteria, or their toxins. AIDS, E. coli contamination, drug-resistant tuberculosis, and virulent flu strains are perhaps the best known of a host of disease threats. What these dangers have in common is the amount of data required to achieve solutions; in some cases, as much as a petabit (1 followed by 15 zeros) of data is required to study large numbers of samples from widespread locations.\n\nFirepower in the Lab examines how the nation can combat this triple threat by improving our ability to detect, measure, and monitor harmful biological agents. It explores the potential of today's exciting new laboratory automation and computer technologies as well as the emerging tools of molecular biology--how we can generate and analyze more data quickly and reduce human hands-on involvement, which inevitably introduces errors.\n\nThe book discusses how to improve and apply technologies such as robotics, laboratory automation, \"lab-on-a-chip,\" bioinformatics, and Internet control innovations. It reviews lessons learned from our experience with pandemic flu viruses. It also presents strategies for developing new high-throughput technologies, including how to address the lack of public funding for critical research undertakings.\n", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/9749/firepower-in-the-lab-automation-in-the-fight-against-infectious", year = 2001, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", title = "Report Series: Committee on Solar and Space Physics: Agile Responses to Short-Notice Rideshare Opportunities for the NASA Heliophysics Division", isbn = "978-0-309-67455-3", abstract = "Report Series: Committee on Solar and Space Physics: Agile Responses to Short-Notice Rideshare Opportunities for the NASA Heliophysics Division explores the kinds of solar and space science that would be enabled by an agile response to rideshare opportunities. This report then explores the types of payloads that are suited to these opportunities and the development and implementation of a new program that would allow agile responses to future short-notice rideshare opportunities.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/25726/report-series-committee-on-solar-and-space-physics-agile-responses", year = 2020, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Transportation Research Board and National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", editor = "Sebastian Timar and Robb Varani and Brian Townsend and Wayne MacKenzie", title = "NextGen for Airports, Volume 1: Understanding the Airport’s Role in Performance-Based Navigation: Resource Guide", abstract = "TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Report 150: NextGen for Airports, Volume I: Understanding the Airport\u2019s Role in Performance-Based Navigation: Resource Guide, the first report in this series, provides comprehensive information to practitioners concerning all aspects of Performance-Based Navigation (PBN) and how implementation affects overall airport operations. This Resource Guide encompasses background information, description of effects on short- and long-term airport development, impacts on safety and performance measures, and other critical factors affecting future airport operations. In addition to providing guidance to users on available resources for additional assistance, this volume also includes lessons learned and best practices based on findings from case studies that examined the airport operator\u2019s role in PBN implementation.The Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) refers to the federal programs (predominately airspace, air traffic, or avionics related) that are designed to modernize the National Airspace System (NAS). ACRP\u2019s NextGen initiative aims to inform airport operators about some of these programs and how the enabling practices, data, and technologies resulting from them will affect airports and change how they operate.View the suite of materials related to ACRP Report 150: NextGen for Airports:Volume 1: Understanding the Airport\u2019s Role in Performance-Based Navigation: Resource GuideVolume 2: Engaging Airport Stakeholders: GuidebookVolume 3: Resources for AirportsVolume 4: Leveraging NextGen Spatial Data to Benefit Airports: GuidebookVolume 5: Airport Planning and DevelopmentNextGen Outreach ToolkitACRP WebResource 5: Tools and Case Studies for NextGen for AirportsNextGen for Airports: A Primer", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/23574/nextgen-for-airports-volume-1-understanding-the-airports-role-in-performance-based-navigation-resource-guide", year = 2016, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP title = "Information Systems and Measurement for Assessing Program Effects: Implications for Family Planning Programs in Developing Countries", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/9041/information-systems-and-measurement-for-assessing-program-effects-implications-for", year = 1994, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Transportation Research Board and National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", editor = "William J. Dunlay and Thomas M. Schnetzer and Robert M. Varani and David E. Ramacorti and Richard F. Marchi and Melissa L. Lott", title = "NextGen for Airports, Volume 5: Airport Planning and Development", abstract = "TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Report 150: NextGen for Airports, Volume 5: Airport Planning and Development provides guidance to help airports of all sizes plan for and incorporate NextGen capabilities. The document will help airports accomodate Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) requirements while also taking advantage of the potential benefits of these federal programs designed to modernize the National Airspace System.ACRP\u2019s NextGen initiative aims to inform airport operators about some of these programs and how the enabling practices, data, and technologies resulting from them will affect airports and change how they operate.View the suite of materials related to ACRP Report 150: NextGen for Airports:Volume 1: Understanding the Airport\u2019s Role in Performance-Based Navigation: Resource GuideVolume 2: Engaging Airport Stakeholders: GuidebookVolume 3: Resources for AirportsVolume 4: Leveraging NextGen Spatial Data to Benefit Airports: GuidebookVolume 5: Airport Planning and DevelopmentNextGen Outreach ToolkitACRP WebResource 5: Tools and Case Studies for NextGen for AirportsNextGen for Airports: A Primer", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/24791/nextgen-for-airports-volume-5-airport-planning-and-development", year = 2017, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", editor = "Molly Checksfield", title = "Challenging Questions about Epidemiology, Care, and Caregiving for People with Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias and Their Families: Proceedings of a Workshop–in Brief", abstract = "On October 17, 2019, the Committee on Developing a Behavioral and Social Science Research Agenda on Alzheimer's Disease and Alzheimer's Disease-Related Dementias hosted a public workshop in Washington, D.C., as part of the study \"Developing a Behavioral and Social Science Research Agenda on Alzheimer's Disease and Alzheimer's Disease-Related Dementias.\" The workshop included six presentations by six authors of papers commissioned by the committee; these presentations were followed by a panel on measuring the effects of caregiving, including discussants who serve on the advisory panel to the committee. This Proceedings of a Workshop - in Brief summarizes the key points made by the workshop participants during the presentations and discussions.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/25706/challenging-questions-about-epidemiology-care-and-caregiving-for-people-with-alzheimers-disease-and-related-dementias-and-their-families", year = 2020, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Transportation Research Board and National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", editor = "Robert Hemm and Virginia Stouffer and William Dunlay and Richard Marchi and Stephen Van Beek and Susan Sharp and Mary Arzt", title = "NextGen for Airports, Volume 3: Resources for Airports", abstract = "TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Report 150: NextGen for Airports, Volume 3: Resources for Airports presents an overview of the many elements of NextGen, in terms and context that are relevant, familiar, and understandable to airport operators. This guide and associated primer broadly address potential airport impacts and include background information so that airport personnel can discern which NextGen programs will impact them and how. The report includes a list of NextGen technologies and initiatives as well as a likely timeline for implementation. Appendices include a glossary of terms and a Public Information Toolkit for communicating about the NextGen initiative to the broad spectrum of external stakeholders. This Public Information Toolkit is listed below.View the suite of materials related to ACRP Report 150: NextGen for Airports:Volume 1: Understanding the Airport\u2019s Role in Performance-Based Navigation: Resource GuideVolume 2: Engaging Airport Stakeholders: GuidebookVolume 3: Resources for AirportsVolume 4: Leveraging NextGen Spatial Data to Benefit Airports: GuidebookVolume 5: Airport Planning and DevelopmentNextGen Outreach ToolkitACRP WebResource 5: Tools and Case Studies for NextGen for AirportsNextGen for Airports: A Primer", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/24659/nextgen-for-airports-volume-3-resources-for-airports", year = 2016, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Transportation Research Board and National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", editor = "Ryan C. Smith and Zachary Doerzaph and Jon Hankey", title = "Naturalistic Driving Study: Alcohol Sensor Performance", abstract = "TRB\u2019s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) Report S2-S31-RW-2: Naturalistic Driving Study: Alcohol Sensor Performance offers a glimpse into alcohol-impaired driving through the inclusion of an alcohol sensor in the Naturalistic Driving Study (NDS). The S31 Project developed and evaluated an alcohol-detection algorithm using the sensor through two approaches: an experimental in-vehicle testing regimen and an examination of a subset of SHRP 2 NDS trips.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/22230/naturalistic-driving-study-alcohol-sensor-performance", year = 2015, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", editor = "Joe Alper and Sylvia Ncha and Amanda Wagner Gee and Carolyn Shore", title = "Advancing the Science of Patient Input in Medical Product R&D: Towards a Research Agenda: Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief", abstract = "On May 9, 2018, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a workshop titled Advancing the Science of Patient Input in Medical Product R&D: Towards a Research Agenda. This workshop focused on the science of patient input for medical product research and development (R&D), with consideration of downstream regulatory and post-market decision making. The objectives of the workshop were to consider the current state of the science for soliciting and incorporating patient input into medical product R&D, explore gaps in knowledge and other barriers that impede progress, and discuss a potential framework for a research agenda for addressing gaps and barriers that could help move the field forward. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/25325/advancing-the-science-of-patient-input-in-medical-product-rd", year = 2018, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", editor = "David A. Savitz and Anne N. Styka", title = "Assessment of Long-Term Health Effects of Antimalarial Drugs When Used for Prophylaxis", isbn = "978-0-309-67210-8", abstract = "Among the many who serve in the United States Armed Forces and who are deployed to distant locations around the world, myriad health threats are encountered. In addition to those associated with the disruption of their home life and potential for combat, they may face distinctive disease threats that are specific to the locations to which they are deployed. U.S. forces have been deployed many times over the years to areas in which malaria is endemic, including in parts of Afghanistan and Iraq. Department of Defense (DoD) policy requires that antimalarial drugs be issued and regimens adhered to for deployments to malaria-endemic areas. Policies directing which should be used as first and as second-line agents have evolved over time based on new data regarding adverse events or precautions for specific underlying health conditions, areas of deployment, and other operational factors\nAt the request of the Veterans Administration, Assessment of Long-Term Health Effects of Antimalarial Drugs When Used for Prophylaxis assesses the scientific evidence regarding the potential for long-term health effects resulting from the use of antimalarial drugs that were approved by FDA or used by U.S. service members for malaria prophylaxis, with a focus on mefloquine, tafenoquine, and other antimalarial drugs that have been used by DoD in the past 25 years. This report offers conclusions based on available evidence regarding associations of persistent or latent adverse events. ", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/25688/assessment-of-long-term-health-effects-of-antimalarial-drugs-when-used-for-prophylaxis", year = 2020, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Transportation Research Board and National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", title = "Understanding Airspace, Objects, and Their Effects on Airports", abstract = "TRB\u2019s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Report 38: Understanding Airspace, Objects, and Their Effects on Airports provides a comprehensive description of the regulations, standards, evaluation criteria, and processes designed to protect the airspace surrounding airports.The report is designed to help understand and apply the appropriate airspace design and evaluation criteria to ensure a safe operating environment for aircraft and to maintain airport operational flexibility and reliability, without unduly restricting desirable building development and attendant economic growth in the surrounding community.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/14454/understanding-airspace-objects-and-their-effects-on-airports", year = 2010, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Research Council", title = "Future of the National Weather Service Cooperative Observer Network", isbn = "978-0-309-06146-9", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/6197/future-of-the-national-weather-service-cooperative-observer-network", year = 1998, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP title = "Research Recommendations of the Second Conference on Problems of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing: Reprint and Circular Series of the National Research Council", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/9563/research-recommendations-of-the-second-conference-on-problems-of-the-deaf-and-hard-of-hearing", year = 1929, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Transportation Research Board and National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", editor = "Sergey Kireyev and Susan J. H. Zellers and W. Trent Holder and Robert Ori and Ken Scarborough and Anthony Ferrante and Julie Quinn and Katherine Williams", title = "Best Practices for Airport Obstruction Management Guidebook", abstract = "TRB\u2019s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Research Report 195: Best Practices for Airport Obstruction Management Guidebook is designed to assist airport operators in developing and implementing an obstruction management program to protect the airport airspace from encroachment by tall objects.The guidance will help airport staff in developing an obstruction management plan by understanding the regulatory environment, identifying obstructions, and in developing a strategy for communication with surrounding communities that will ensure airport involvement in any development issues that could result in an obstruction around the airport.The guidebook is supplemented by ACRP WebResource 7: Best Practices for Airport Obstruction Management Library, which provides reference documents, model documents, and presentation materials for obstruction management outreach. A methodology for creating a composite map of all applicable airspace surfaces is also provided, as well as examples of interactive airspace composite surface maps for small and large airports.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/25399/best-practices-for-airport-obstruction-management-guidebook", year = 2019, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Transportation Research Board and National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", editor = "Florian B. Hafner, Cignus Consulting, LLC", title = "Simulation Options for Airport Planning", abstract = "Global business and tourism depend heavily on the efficient operation of airports and movement of passengers, baggage, and cargo across many areas. With increasing demand and connectivity requirements for airports comes the need for more sophisticated simulation and modeling tools to validate design assumptions.Furthermore, airport design and planning decisions have significant impacts on policy and major capital improvement decisions, which can be supported by simulation and modeling tools at many levels.ACRP Synthesis 98: Simulation Options for Airport Planning is the result of the collection and analysis of information on current industry practices and on applications of simulation tools for airport planning and design. Credible simulation projects can help airport administrators, designers, engineers, and planners estimate the impact of planned changes on passenger traffic, aircraft traffic, roadway traffic, baggage movements, and other subsystems such as bus and train links and aircraft ground support operations.The toolsets and processes used to analyze and simulate airport operations have changed significantly since the 1980s, when analysis techniques were limited to general purpose queuing and network analysis concepts or purpose-built simulation tools. These tools have become much more sophisticated and accurate in emulating real-world aircraft, passenger, and vehicle dynamics.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/25573/simulation-options-for-airport-planning", year = 2019, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Institute of Medicine", title = "Epidemiologic Studies of Veterans Exposed to Depleted Uranium: Feasibility and Design Issues", isbn = "978-0-309-12006-7", abstract = "Depleted uranium, a component of some weapons systems, has been in use by the U.S. military since the 1991 Gulf War. Military personnel have been exposed to depleted uranium as the result of friendly fire incidents, cleanup and salvage operations, and proximity to burning depleted uranium-containing tanks and ammunition. Under a Congressional mandate, the Department of Defense sought guidance from the Institute of Medicine in evaluating the feasibility and design of an epidemiologic study that would assess health outcomes of exposure to depleted uranium.\n\nThe study committee examined several options to study health outcomes of depleted uranium exposure in military and veteran populations and concluded that it would be difficult to design a study to comprehensively assess depleted uranium-related health outcomes with currently available data. The committee further concluded that the option most likely to obtain useful information about depleted uranium-related health outcomes would be a prospective cohort study if future military operations involve exposure to depleted uranium. The book contains recommendations aimed at improving future epidemiologic studies and identifying current active-duty military personnel and veterans with potential DU exposure.\n", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/12200/epidemiologic-studies-of-veterans-exposed-to-depleted-uranium-feasibility-and", year = 2008, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Research Council", title = "The Global Ocean Observing System: Users, Benefits, and Priorities", isbn = "978-0-309-05695-3", abstract = "The Global Ocean Observing System is a study by the Ocean Studies Board intended to provide information and advice to federal agencies (the U.S. GOOS Interagency ad hoc Working Group) to help define and implement an effective, affordable, and customer-based U.S. contribution to GOOS. In particular, the committee was asked to provide advice to U.S. agencies regarding a practical concept for GOOS, identify potential applications and users of GOOS during the next 3 to 5 years and beyond, recommend appropriate roles for industry and academia in GOOS, and prioritize observational and infrastructure activities that should be undertaken or continued by the United States in its initial commitments to GOOS.\nIn response to its charge, the committee reviewed the status of GOOS planning and implementation at both the national and international levels, invited presentations by relevant federal agencies and members of the private sector, and examined the range of potential uses and benefits of products derived from information to be collected by GOOS. Finally, the committee drew upon this information and its own expertise to develop a number of recommendations intended to help move the implementation of GOOS forward.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/5580/the-global-ocean-observing-system-users-benefits-and-priorities", year = 1997, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" }