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The next decade of planetary science and astrobiology holds tremendous promise. New research will expand our understanding of our solar system's origins, how planets form and evolve, under what conditions life can survive, and where to find potentially habitable environments in our solar system and beyond. Origins, Worlds, and Life: A Decadal Strategy for Planetary Science and Astrobiology 2023-2032 highlights key science questions, identifies priority missions, and presents a comprehensive research strategy that includes both planetary defense and human exploration. This report also recommends ways to support the profession as well as the technologies and infrastructure needed to carry out the science.
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https://doi.org/10.17226/26522
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2023. Origins, Worlds, and Life: A Decadal Strategy for Planetary Science and Astrobiology 2023-2032. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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Increasing the resilience of transportation networks affects transportation operations and many other networks and systems. For example, the transportation network is the backbone of supply chains that produce, transport, and deliver critical products.
NCHRP Web-Only Document 391: Resilience in Transportation Networks, Volume 1: Resilience Case Studies, from TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program, highlights frameworks, tools, methods, and data needs. NCHRP Web-Only Document 391: Resilience in Transportation Networks, Volume 2: Network Resilience Toolkit and Techniques, summarizes tools for assessing the resilience of physical infrastructure as well as institutional arrangements for supporting resilience.
A companion publication is NCHRP Research Report 1118: Incorporating Resilience into Transportation Networks, which provides a guide for state departments of transportation and other transportation agencies seeking to define and strategically integrate resilience into transportation networks and network planning.
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https://doi.org/10.17226/27920
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Resilience in Transportation Networks, Volume 1: Resilience Case Studies. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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Several tools have been developed to assess the resilience of transportation networks.
NCHRP Web-Only Document 391: Resilience in Transportation Networks, Volume 2: Network Resilience Toolkit and Techniques, from TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program, summarizes tools for assessing the resilience of physical infrastructure as well as institutional arrangements for supporting resilience. NCHRP Web-Only Document 391: Resilience in Transportation Networks, Volume 1: Resilience Case Studies, highlights frameworks, tools, methods, and data needs.
A companion publication is NCHRP Research Report 1118: Incorporating Resilience into Transportation Networks, which provides a guide for state departments of transportation and other transportation agencies seeking to define and strategically integrate resilience into transportation networks and network planning.
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https://doi.org/10.17226/27921
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Resilience in Transportation Networks, Volume 2: Network Resilience Toolkit and Techniques. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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The Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals (the Guide) is a primary international reference on animal care and use in research. This resource provides guidelines for institutions to develop animal research programs that support high-quality science while also embracing humane treatment of animals, and its use is required for federal compliance with the U.S. Public Health Service Policy on Humane Care and Use of Laboratory Animals. To inform future updates or revisions to the Guide, the Standing Committee for the Care and Use of Animals in Research held 25 listening sessions over a 2.5-year period with a wide array of interest groups. These listening sessions, together with the Veterinary Consortium for Research Animal Care and Welfare Guide Revision Survey, established themes for a workshop where key topics could be explored in greater depth.
The 2-day virtual workshop, held on April 23 and 24, 2024, brought together experts from diverse backgrounds, including laboratory animal experts, researchers, veterinary medicine practitioners, engineers, and members of professional societies, with representatives from academia, industry, federal agencies, and an accrediting organization, to share perspectives on a range of topics relevant to future Guide updates.
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https://doi.org/10.17226/27936
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Future Topical Updates to the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals: Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Forum for Children's Well-Being hosted an implementation summit on June 13, 2024, titled "Implementing a New Vision for High-Quality Preschool Curriculum." This event brought together a diverse group of thought leaders, researchers, policymakers, leaders from nonprofit and professional associations, educators, as well as community representatives. They gathered to build on the recommendations from the National Academies report, A New Vision for High-Quality Preschool Curriculum.
Together, participants discussed the translation of the report's recommendations into actionable next steps, focusing on advancing equity and excellence in preschool curricula. Through dynamic panel discussions and interactive sessions, participants explored models of curriculum development, implementation, and evaluation, highlighting the importance of culturally responsive practices, evidence-based approaches, and systemic support for educators.
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ISBN Ebook: 0-309-72895-9
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https://doi.org/10.17226/28031
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Implementing a New Vision for High-Quality Preschool Curriculum: Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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Historically, airport capital construction projects entailed the almost exclusive use of the design–bid–build (DBB) delivery method involving the separation of design and construction services and the sequential performance of design and construction. However, over the past two decades, airports have increasingly been turning to alternative project delivery methods to improve the speed and efficiency of the project delivery process.
ACRP Research Report 267: Selecting, Procuring, and Implementing Airport Capital Project Delivery Methods, from TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program, is designed to tailor delivery strategies that include a thorough understanding of the unique advantages and disadvantages of the different approaches available and the typical conditions under which they have been effectively applied.
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https://doi.org/10.17226/27951
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Selecting, Procuring, and Implementing Airport Capital Project Delivery Methods. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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ACRP Research Report 265: Incorporating Environmental Justice and Equity Principles: A Toolkit for Airports, from TRB's Airport Research Cooperative Program, provides resources for airport practitioners to review and amend their decision-making and planning processes using an equity lens. It is designed to enable airports to assess and respond to inequitable outcomes for the betterment of airport passengers, airport workforce, and airport-adjacent communities whose environments are affected by airport planning, development, and operations.
Supplemental to the report are ACRP Web-Only Document 60: Structural Racism and Inequity in the U.S. Aviation Industry: Foundations and Implications, an appendix of browser-based tools to assist airport practitioners, and case studies with examples of equity-centered decision-making.
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https://doi.org/10.17226/27916
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Incorporating Environmental Justice and Equity Principles: A Toolkit for Airports. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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To adequately incorporate environmental justice, equity principles, and data into airport decision-making processes, it is critical for practitioners to understand the historical context of current conditions.
ACRP Web-Only Document 60: Structural Racism and Inequity in the U.S. Aviation Industry: Foundations and Implications, from TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program, provides evidence that the structural origins of inequity, as experienced in the United States, can be traced back to group-based othering, settler colonialism, economic systems of racial capitalism, and systemic oppression. The document is a supplement to ACRP Research Report 265: Incorporating Environmental Justice and Equity Principles: A Toolkit for Airports.
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https://doi.org/10.17226/27917
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Structural Racism and Inequity in the U.S. Aviation Industry: Foundations and Implications. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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The COVID-19 pandemic raised challenging legal and policy issues - as reflected in numerous, often inconsistent, health-related decisions made in the United States at the national, state, and local level and in COVID-related judicial opinions issued after the onset of the pandemic. The response to the pandemic provides an opportunity to consider whether federal, state, and local governments had the necessary authority to deal with the crisis, how authority was applied, whether there was sufficient clarity as to responsibility, and what should be changed for the future.
On May 30-31, 2024, an ad hoc committee under the auspices of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Committee on Science, Technology, and Law convened a virtual workshop to examine the allocation of responsibility among levels of government when dealing with a public health crisis; the extent to which federal, state, and local governments have the necessary authority to act; whether there is sufficient clarity as to which levels of government are responsible for particular actions; and lessons that can be learned from the pandemic to inform government responses to pandemics in the future.
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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Optimizing Federal, State, and Local Responses to Public Health Emergencies: Lessons from COVID: Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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Outbreaks of disease, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, have the potential to significantly impact the performance of all types of contract work. Where such occurrences are rare and unexpected, it is unlikely that the contracting parties factored the occurrence into contract performance terms such as price and schedule, notwithstanding the significant impact that a pandemic could have on those performance terms.
NCHRP Legal Research Digest 93: Pandemics and Contractual Issues, from TRB's National Cooperation Highway Research Program, examines the impact of pandemics on the legal obligations of parties to contracts (particularly construction contracts) with state departments of transportation and other transportation agencies, in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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https://doi.org/10.17226/27954
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Pandemics and Contractual Issues. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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The National Academies Roundtable on Population Health Improvement introduced the workshop series on Elevating the Structural Drivers of Population Health with a March 2024 public webinar which discussed economic systems' roles in population health and implications for scientific understanding, actions, and solutions. In June 2024, the second installment of the series examined the role of narrative in shaping the economy and society, with effects on health and well-being. Presentations emphasized how some narratives about the economy and workers can cause harm and deepen health inequities, but others can inspire collective action and drive change. This proceeding summarizes presentations and discussions that occurred at the workshop.
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https://doi.org/10.17226/28032
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. An Introduction to Economic Systems as a Structural Driver of Population Health and Exploring Narratives and Narrative Change: Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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As commercial aviation evolves, it is essential to ensure aviation safety as transformative technologies and new industry entrants emerge. Supporting the safe adoption of innovation will require updating Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) processes for certifying novel aircraft designs, developing performance-based standards for flight-critical functions, and improving data collection and analysis to detect potential safety issues. Strengthening safety culture at FAA and across the aviation industry is also necessary as new players and technologies are introduced.
TRB Special Report 351: Emerging Hazards in Commercial Aviation—Report 2: Ensuring Safety During Transformative Changes, from the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, was requested by Congress and FAA in order to help identify, monitor, understand, and address emerging aviation safety risks. This report marks the second installment of a series of six reports to be issued within a span of 10 years by the National Academies' Committee on Emerging Trends in Aviation Safety.
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https://doi.org/10.17226/27805
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Emerging Hazards in Commercial Aviation—Report 2: Ensuring Safety During Transformative Changes. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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National Research Council. 1970. Federal Construction Council Activities Final Report 1968 - 1969 Operating Year. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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About 20 percent of all Americans live with a behavioral health condition, but only half of this population receives treatment - with direct consequences that include poor physical health outcomes, increased health care costs, and reduced quality of life and life span.
Barriers to obtaining behavioral health treatment are most evident in populations receiving Medicare, Medicaid, and Marketplace plans. Behavioral health care providers serving individuals enrolled in these plans are more likely to experience challenges around reimbursement and training, which disincentivizes participation.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration asked the National Academies to convene an expert committee to examine current challenges in ensuring broad access to evidence-based behavioral health care services through Medicare, Medicaid, and Marketplace programs and propose strategies to address those challenges.
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https://doi.org/10.17226/27759
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Expanding Behavioral Health Care Workforce Participation in Medicare, Medicaid, and Marketplace Plans. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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National Research Council. 1971. Management of the military facilities procurement program. Final report. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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With recent medical, technological, and socioeconomic developments, people are living longer. The rising average age of the world's population presents an opportunity to develop health policy that prioritizes functioning as a goal of healthy aging. In February 2024, the National Academies convened a hybrid workshop at the University of Lucerne in Switzerland to host a discussion focused on the World Health Organization's concept of functioning. Speakers paid particular focus to healthy aging and the future of rehabilitation as a health strategy. Experts emphasized that the need for rehabilitation is increasing due to rapid population aging accompanied by a rise in physical and mental health conditions, limitations, and injuries. The associated economic and practical obstacles of optimizing functioning across the life course were also discussed.
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ISBN Paperback: 0-309-71888-0
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https://doi.org/10.17226/27763
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Aging, Functioning, and Rehabilitation: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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National Research Council. 1960. Annual Report on Graduate & Postdoctoral Fellowships and Postdoctoral Research Associateships under the aegis of the National Academy of Sciences - National Research Council: March 1960. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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In response to a congressional mandate, a committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine is conducting a review of the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs at the Department of Defense (DOD). These programs, created in 1982 and 1992, respectively, and operated within the DOD and a number of other agencies within the federal government, encourage the participation by small business concerns in the federal research and development and procurement processes through competitively based awards.
As part of its review of the DOD's SBIR/STTR programs, and in response to a request by the DOD, the present study committee held a workshop on December 7-8, 2023, entitled "Data and Metrics for the DOD SBIR and STTR Programs." The workshop was convened to facilitate the DOD's development of recurring, quantifiable metrics for measuring the ability of the SBIR and STTR programs to deliver products and services that meet the DOD's mission needs, while also informing the National Academies committee's overall study of the programs at the DOD. This proceedings of a workshop was prepared by a workshop rapporteur as a factual summary of what was presented and discussed at the workshop.
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ISBN Paperback: 0-309-72724-3
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https://doi.org/10.17226/27984
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Data and Metrics for the DOD SBIR and STTR Programs: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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National Research Council. 1968. Summary Report on Activities Within the Office of Scientific Personnel During Fiscal Year 1968. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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