@BOOK{NAP editor = "Adele Glimm", title = "Gene Hunter: The Story of Neuropsychologist Nancy Wexler", isbn = "978-0-309-09558-7", abstract = "Nancy Wexler is a hunter. Her quarry is the gene responsible for a fatal, inherited sickness called Huntington's disease. Nancy's work is a breathtaking race against time not only for others but maybe for herself, as well. Nancy Wexler is the daughter of a Huntington's patient and is at risk for this disease. Finding this gene is a vital step toward preventing or curing Huntington's and thus saving lives. Nancy's work takes her all over the world, specifically to small villages in Venezuela where the mysterious gene affects more people than anywhere else on the globe. Blood samples generously donated by the villagers hold the clues to discovering the gene. Hunter, detective, scientist: Nancy is all these, plus a friend to people everywhere who are affected by Huntington's and other diseases of the brain. Gene Hunter is the powerful story of a courageous and dedicated woman whose passion for science is both personally and intellectually satisfying. Author Adele Glimm draws on firsthand accounts from Nancy and her friends, family, and colleagues to tell us how a curious, strongminded woman became an accomplished neuropsychologist.\nThis title aligns to Common Core standards:\nInterest Level Grades 6 - 8; Reading Level Grade level Equivalent: 7.1: Lexile Measure: 1080L; DRA: Not Available; Guided Reading: Z", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/11548/gene-hunter-the-story-of-neuropsychologist-nancy-wexler", year = 2006, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP editor = "Lorraine Jean Hopping", title = "Bone Detective: The Story of Forensic Anthropologist Diane France", isbn = "978-0-309-09550-1", abstract = "Diane France loves bones. Why? Because they talk to her. Every skeleton she meets whispers secrets about the life\u2014and death\u2014of its owner. Diane France can hear those secrets because she's a forensic anthropologist, a bone detective. She has the science skills and know-how to examine bones for clues to a mystery: Who was this person and how did he or she die? Bones tell Diane about the life and times of famous people in history, from a Russian royal family to American outlaws and war heroes. They speak to her about murders, mass disasters, and fatal accidents. One day she's collecting skeletal evidence at a crime scene. A phone call later she's jetting to the site of a plane crash or other unexpected tragedy to identify victims. Young readers will be captivated by the thrilling real-life story of this small-town girl full of curiosity and mischief who became a world-famous bone detective.\nThis title aligns to Common Core standards:\nInterest Level Grades 6 - 8; Reading Level Grade level Equivalent: 7.1: Lexile Measure: 1080L; DRA: Not Available; Guided Reading: Z", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/11546/bone-detective-the-story-of-forensic-anthropologist-diane-france", year = 2006, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Institute of Medicine", title = "Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis in Veterans: Review of the Scientific Literature", isbn = "978-0-309-10254-4", abstract = "Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) our Lou Gehrig's disease is a fatal, mostly non-familial disease that affects the nervous system of humans by causing the degeneration of nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord. The degeneration halts communication between the nervous system and voluntary muscles in the body. This leads to muscle paralysis and eventually the muscles that aid in breathing are affect; causing respiration to fail. The disease, which affects 20,000-30,000 men and women in the United States at any given time, has no effective treatment; most people with ALS die from respiratory failure within 5 years of the onset of symptoms.\n \nRecent epidemiologic studies report an association between the development of ALS and prior service in the U.S. military. The studies evaluated either veterans of the 1991 Persian Gulf War or veterans who served in the military in the period 1910-1982. Due to these findings, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) asked the National Academies to conduct an assessment of the potential relationship between military service and the later development of ALS. The project was assigned to the Institute of Medicine (IOM), which appointed a committee and gave it the task of evaluating the scientific literature on ALS in veterans.\nThe committee began its work by identifying medical and scientific literature on ALS. PubMed, a database created and managed by the National Library of Medicine. Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis in Veterans; Review of the Scientific Literature presents the findings of this committee. The committee reviewed, evaluated, and summarized the scientific literature on ALS in veterans, composed primarily of peer-reviewed, published literature. This report includes the recommendations of the committee. \n ", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/11757/amyotrophic-lateral-sclerosis-in-veterans-review-of-the-scientific-literature", year = 2006, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Research Council", editor = "William J. Moss and Meenakshi Ramakrishnan and Dory Storms and Anne Henderson Siegle and William M. Weiss and Lulu Muhe", title = "Child Health in Complex Emergencies", isbn = "978-0-309-10063-2", abstract = "Addressing the health needs of children in complex emergencies is critical to the success of relief efforts and requires coordinated and effective interventions. However, little systematic work has been undertaken to evaluate such care. To address this need, this monograph presents a review of the published literature in this area, providing background on the burden of disease, the major causes of morbidity and mortality, and the evidence base for effective interventions. It also describes surveys of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and international agencies providing care to children in complex emergencies, which were conducted to identify guidelines commonly used to provide such care and assesses the content and limitations of these guidelines. A more in-depth survey of several organizations was also conducted to assess obstacles to this kind of care.\n\nOn the basis of the survey findings and the review of the published literature, the working group recommended that evidence-based, locally adapted guidelines to address the curative and preventive care of children in complex emergencies and health systems planning should be adopted by ministries of health and supported by the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF. The guidelines should target, as much as possible, the different levels of health care workers providing care to children to ensure appropriate, effective, and uniform care in a variety of situations. \n\nChild Health in Complex Emergencies presents specific examples of areas for further research and guideline development. This report is not intended to be an exhaustive and definitive assessment of child health in complex emergencies. The topic is much too vast and complex, and different individuals and institutions will have incompatible perspectives. Rather, we aim to provide a starting point for discussion and debate on how to improve the care of children in these settings.\n ", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/11527/child-health-in-complex-emergencies", year = 2006, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Research Council", title = "Instrumentation for a Better Tomorrow: Proceedings of a Symposium in Honor of Arnold Beckman", isbn = "978-0-309-10116-5", abstract = "On November 15, 2004, the National Academies sponsored a symposium at the Beckman Center in honor of Arnold O. Beckman. The symposium concentrated on the wide-ranging practical applications of scientific instrumentation as was the focus of much of Arnold Beckman\u2019s career. The report begins with two presentations: a remembrance by Arnold Beckman\u2019s daughter, Pat, and an overview of his life and accomplishments by Arnold Thackray, President of the Chemical Heritage Foundation. The next section contains presentations on the application of instrumentation in seven, diverse areas: organic chemistry, molecular and systems biology, synchrotron x-ray sources, nanoscale chemistry, forensics, and clinical medicine. Finally, there is a summary of a panel discussion on the evolving relationship between instrumentation and research.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/11695/instrumentation-for-a-better-tomorrow-proceedings-of-a-symposium-in", year = 2006, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Transportation Research Board and National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", title = "Safety Impacts and Other Implications of Raised Speed Limits on High-Speed Roads", abstract = "TRB\u2019s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Research Results Digest 303: Safety Impacts and Other Implications of Raised Speed Limits on High-Speed Roads explores the effects of raised speed limits from 55 miles per hour or greater on freeways and non-freeways in rural and urban settings. The effects considered included impacts on safety and operations, as well as socioeconomic and environmental effects. The full report is available on the TRB website as NCHRP Web-Only Document 90.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/23259/safety-impacts-and-other-implications-of-raised-speed-limits-on-high-speed-roads", year = 2006, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Transportation Research Board and National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", title = "Incorporating Safety into Long-Range Transportation Planning", abstract = "TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 546\/CD ROM CRP-CD-62, examines where and how safety can be effectively addressed and integrated into long-range transportation planning at the state and metropolitan levels. The report includes guidance for practitioners in identifying and evaluating alternative ways to incorporate and integrate safety considerations in long-range statewide and metropolitan transportation planning and decision-making processes.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/13891/incorporating-safety-into-long-range-transportation-planning", year = 2006, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Transportation Research Board and National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", title = "Safety Impacts and Other Implications of Raised Speed Limits on High-Speed Roads", abstract = "TRB\u2019s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Web-Only Document 90: Safety Impacts and Other Implications of Raised Speed Limits on High-Speed Roads examines how safety, economic, environmental, and commercial conditions on high-speed roadway may be impacted by a change in the speed limit. Safety-related analyses included in the report were based on a comprehensive framework of the disaggregate relationships between speed limits, driver speed choices, crash occurrence, and crash severity. An expanded summary of the report has been published as NCHRP Research Results Digest 303. ", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/22048/safety-impacts-and-other-implications-of-raised-speed-limits-on-high-speed-roads", year = 2006, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Transportation Research Board and National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", title = "Research on Women's Issues in Transportation, Volume 1: Conference Overview and Plenary Papers", abstract = "TRB's Conference Proceedings 35, Research on Women's Issues in Transportation, Volume 1: Conference Overview and Plenary Papers contains the conference summary, the four peer-reviewed overview papers presented by the topic leaders, and a list of conference participants from a November 18-20, 2004, conference held in Chicago, Illinois. The conference was designed to identify and explore additional research and data needed to inform transportation policy decisions that address women's mobility, safety, and security needs and to encourage research by young researchers. Volume 2 contains 22 full papers from the breakout and poster sessions and 9 abstracts of papers on subjects of particular interest to the committee that were selected for publication through the committee's peer review process.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/23274/research-on-womens-issues-in-transportation-volume-1-conference-overview-and-plenary-papers", year = 2006, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Transportation Research Board and National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", title = "Core Competencies for Highway Safety Professionals", abstract = "TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Research Results Digest 302 examines to what extent core competencies for highway safety professionals are incorporated into existing safety curricula and suggests strategies to expand their application to a broader audience.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/23252/core-competencies-for-highway-safety-professionals", year = 2006, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Institute of Medicine", editor = "Jill Eden and Rosemary Stevens", title = "Evaluating the HRSA Traumatic Brain Injury Program", isbn = "978-0-309-10113-4", abstract = "A traumatic brain injury (TBI)\u2014a brain injury caused by a sudden jolt, blow, or penetrating head trauma that disrupts the function of the brain\u2014can happen to anyone. The effects of a TBI vary from person to person, depending on the force dynamics of injury and the patient's anatomy and physiology. People with TBI-related disabilities and their family members and caregivers need comprehensive, coordinated, person-centered systems of care that attend to their changing needs long after their acute injury has been treated medically. At least 5.3 million Americans are estimated to have a TBI-related disability.\n\nThe Health Resources and Services Administration's (HRSA) TBI Program, initially authorized by the Traumatic Brain Injury Act of 1996 (P.L. 104-106) and reauthorized by the Children's Health Act of 2000 is a modest federal program with broad ambitions: a $9 million grants program aimed at motivating states to create systems improvement on behalf of persons with TBI with disabilities and their families. In 2004, the federal Office of Management and Budget (OMB) questioned the effectiveness of the HRSA TBI Program, noting that there had been no regular independent evaluations of the program's effects on TBI patients and their families. \n\nTo address these concerns, HRSA contracted with the Institute of Medicine (IOM) in the spring of 2005 to conduct a study: (1) to assess the impact of the HRSA Program on how state systems are working or failing to work in support of individuals with TBI; and (2) to advise HRSA on how it could improve the program to best serve individuals with TBI and their families. The IOM appointed an 11-member Committee on Traumatic Brain Injury to perform the study. This report presents the IOM Committee on Traumatic Brain Injury's assessment of the HRSA TBI Program's impact and recommendations for improving the program.\n ", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/11600/evaluating-the-hrsa-traumatic-brain-injury-program", year = 2006, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Institute of Medicine", editor = "Wilhelmine Miller and Lisa A. Robinson and Robert S. Lawrence", title = "Valuing Health for Regulatory Cost-Effectiveness Analysis", isbn = "978-0-309-10077-9", abstract = "Promoting human health and safety by reducing exposures to risks and\nharms through regulatory interventions is among the most important\nresponsibilities of the government. Such efforts encompass a wide array of\nactivities in many different contexts: improving air and water quality; safeguarding\nthe food supply; reducing the risk of injury on the job, in transportation,\nand from consumer products; and minimizing exposure to toxic\nchemicals. Estimating the magnitude of the expected health and longevity\nbenefits and reductions in mortality, morbidity, and injury risks helps policy\nmakers decide whether particular interventions merit the expected costs\nassociated with achieving these benefits and inform their choices among\nalternative strategies. Valuing Health for Regulatory Cost-Effectiveness Analysis\nprovides useful recommendations for how to measure health-related quality of-\nlife impacts for diverse public health, safety, and environmental regulations.\nPublic decision makers, regulatory analysts, scholars, and students in\nthe field will find this an essential review text. It will become a standard reference\nfor all government agencies and those consultants and contractors\nwho support the work of regulatory programs.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/11534/valuing-health-for-regulatory-cost-effectiveness-analysis", year = 2006, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Transportation Research Board and National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", editor = "Parsons Brinckerhoff Quade & Douglas, Inc and Science Applications International Corporation and Interactive Elements Incorporated", title = "Making Transportation Tunnels Safe and Secure", abstract = "TRB\u2019s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 525: Surface Transportation Security and TRB\u2019s Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Report 86: Public Transportation Security series publications have jointly published Making Transportation in Tunnels Safe and Secure. The report is Volume 12 in each series. The report is designed to provide transportation tunnel owners and operators with guidelines for protecting their tunnels by minimizing the damage potential from extreme events such that, if damaged, they may be returned to full functionality in relatively short periods. The report examines safety and security guidelines for owners and operators of transportation tunnels to use in identifying principal vulnerabilities of tunnels to various hazards and threats. The report also explores potential physical countermeasures; potential operational countermeasures; and deployable, integrated systems for emergency-related command, control, communications, and information.NCHRP Report 525: Surface Transportation Security is a series in which relevant information is assembled into single, concise volumes\u2014each pertaining to a specific security problem and closely related issues. The volumes focus on the concerns that transportation agencies are addressing when developing programs in response to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and the anthrax attacks that followed. Future volumes of the report will be issued as they are completed.The TCRP Report 86: Public Transportation Security series assembles relevant information into single, concise volumes, each pertaining to a specific security problem and closely related issues. These volumes focus on the concerns that transit agencies are addressing when developing programs in response to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and the anthrax attacks that followed. Future volumes of the report will be issued as they are completed.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/13965/making-transportation-tunnels-safe-and-secure", year = 2006, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Transportation Research Board and National Research Council", title = "Going the Distance?: The Safe Transport of Spent Nuclear Fuel and High-Level Radioactive Waste in the United States", isbn = "978-0-309-10004-5", abstract = "This new report from the National Research Council's Nuclear and Radiation Studies Board (NRSB) and the Transportation Research Board reviews the risks and technical and societal concerns for the transport of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste in the United States. Shipments are expected to increase as the U.S. Department of Energy opens a repository for spent fuel and high-level waste at Yucca Mountain, and the commercial nuclear industry considers constructing a facility in Utah for temporary storage of spent fuel from some of its nuclear waste plants. The report concludes that there are no fundamental technical barriers to the safe transport of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive and the radiological risks of transport are well understood and generally low. However, there are a number of challenges that must be addressed before large-quantity shipping programs can be implemented successfully. Among these are managing \"social\" risks. The report does not provide an examination of the security of shipments against malevolent acts but recommends that such an examination be carried out.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/11538/going-the-distance-the-safe-transport-of-spent-nuclear-fuel", year = 2006, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Research Council", title = "CLEANER and NSF's Environmental Observatories", isbn = "978-0-309-10229-2", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/11657/cleaner-and-nsfs-environmental-observatories", year = 2006, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Transportation Research Board and National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", title = "A Guide to Transportation's Role in Public Health Disasters", abstract = "TRB\u2019s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 525: Surface Transportation Security, Volume 10: A Guide to Transportation's Role in Public Health Disasters examines development of transportation response options to an extreme event involving chemical, biological, or radiological agents. The report contains technical information on chemical, biological, and radiological threats, including vulnerabilities of the transportation system to these agents and consequence-minimization actions that may be taken within the transportation system in response to events that involve these agents. The report also includes a spreadsheet tool, called the Tracking Emergency Response Effects on Transportation (TERET), that is designed to assist transportation managers with recognition of mass-care transportation needs and identification and mitigation of potential transportation-related criticalities in essential services during extreme events. The report includes a user\u2019s manual for TERET, as well as a PowerPoint slide introduction to chemical, biological, and radiological threat agents designed as an executive-level communications tool based on summary information from the report..NCHRP Report 525: Surface Transportation Security is a series in which relevant information is assembled into single, concise volumes\u2014each pertaining to a specific security problem and closely related issues. The volumes focus on the concerns that transportation agencies are addressing when developing programs in response to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and the anthrax attacks that followed. Future volumes of the report will be issued as they are completed.The National Academies has prepared, in cooperation with the Department of Homeland Security, fact sheets on biological, chemical, nuclear, and radiological terrorist attacks. They were designed primarily for reporters as part of the project News and Terrorism: Communicating in a Crisis, though they will be helpful to anyone looking for a clear explanation of the fundamentals of science, engineering, and health related to such attacks. TRB is a division of the National Academies, which include the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, and National Research Council. ", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/13944/a-guide-to-transportations-role-in-public-health-disasters", year = 2006, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Transportation Research Board and Institute of Medicine and National Research Council", title = "Improving Road Safety in Developing Countries: Opportunities for U.S. Cooperation and Engagement, Workshop Summary -- Special Report 287", abstract = "TRB, the Policy and Global Affairs Division (PGA), and the Institute of Medicine (IOM) have released TRB Special Report 287, Improving Road Safety in Developing Countries: Opportunities for U.S. Cooperation and Engagement. The report summarizes presentations and discussions at a workshop held on January 26-27, 2006, in Washington, D.C. The workshop focused on the sharp increases in road traffic-related deaths and injuries in developing countries with a goal of providing a view of the diversity of U.S. interests, the scope of activities of U.S. agencies addressing this problem, and prospects for further U.S. engagement. The workshop discussions were intended to help the responsible government agencies gauge whether the U.S. response is proportional to the interests at stake and to identify next steps toward a more effective response. PGA and IOM, like TRB, are part of the National Academies, which include the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, and National Research Council.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/11647/improving-road-safety-in-developing-countries-opportunities-for-us-cooperation", year = 2006, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Transportation Research Board and National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", title = "Pavement Marking Materials and Markers: Real-World Relationship Between Retroreflectivity and Safety Over Time", abstract = "TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Web-Only Document 92, Pavement Marking Materials and Markers: Real-World Relationship Between Retroreflectivity and Safety Over Time examines the safety effect of retroreflectivity of longitudinal pavement markings and markers over time on non-intersection locations during non-daylight conditions. A summry of this report is available as NCHRP Research Results Digest 305: Pavement Marking Materials and Markers: Testing the Relationship Between Retroreflectivity and Safety.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/23255/pavement-marking-materials-and-markers-real-world-relationship-between-retroreflectivity-and-safety-over-time", year = 2006, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Transportation Research Board and National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", title = "Performance Measures and Targets for Transportation Asset Management", abstract = "TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 551: Performance Measures and Targets for Transportation Asset Management describes the research effort associated with production of the report and provides the current state of practice on the use of performance measures, principally in the context of transportation asset management. In addition, the report introduces a framework for identifying performance measures and setting target values. The report appendixes contain examples of performance measures and targets. The report is designed to help transportation agencies apply the concepts of performance management to their asset management efforts.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/13931/performance-measures-and-targets-for-transportation-asset-management", year = 2006, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Transportation Research Board and National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", editor = "AECOM Consult, Inc and Maier Consulting, Inc and Peter Schauer Associates", title = "Hazard and Security Plan Workshop: Instructor Guide", abstract = "TRB's Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Report 86: Public Transportation Security, Volume 10 -- Hazard and Security Plan Workshop: Instructor Guide is designed to assist rural, small urban, and community-based passenger transportation agencies in creating hazard and security plans or in evaluating and modifying existing plans, policies, and procedures consistent with the National Incident Management System.Appendices to the report (which are shipped on a CD bound into the printed report) are linked to below.Appendix A: Lession PlanAppendix B: Instructor PowerPoint Slides and NotesAppendix C: Agenda for ParticipantsAppendix D: Somewhere County Map for WorkshopAppendix E: Guide for Workshop ParticipantsAppendix F: The HSPAppendix G: The HSP Template InstructionsAppendix H: Evaluation FormThe TCRP Report 86: Public Transportation Security series assembles relevant information into single, concise volumes, each pertaining to a specific security problem and closely related issues. These volumes focus on the concerns that transit agencies are addressing when developing programs in response to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and the anthrax attacks that followed. Future volumes of the report will be issued as they are completed.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/13695/hazard-and-security-plan-workshop-instructor-guide", year = 2006, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" }