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Limiting the Magnitude of Future Climate Change - Bok av National Research Council - Häftad

Limiting the Magnitude of Future Climate Change - Bok av National Research Council - Häftad

\Climate change, driven by the increasing concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, poses serious, wide-ranging threats to human societies and natural ecosystems around the world. The largest overall source of greenhouse gas emissions is the burning of fossil fuels. The global atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide, the dominant greenhouse gas of concern, is increasing by roughly two parts per million per year, and the United States is currently the second-largest contributor to..

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A National Strategy to Reduce Food Waste at the Consumer Level - Bok av National Academies Of Sciences Engineeri - Häftad

A National Strategy to Reduce Food Waste at the Consumer Level - Bok av National Academies Of Sciences Engineeri - Häftad

Approximately 30 percent of the edible food produced in the United States is wasted and a significant portion of this waste occurs at the consumer level. Despite food's essential role as a source of nutrients and energy and its emotional and cultural importance, U.S. consumers waste an estimated average of 1 pound of food per person per day at home and in places where they buy and consume food away from home. Many factors contribute to this waste--consumers behaviors are shaped not only by individual..

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Improving Characterization of Anthropogenic Methane Emissions in the United States - Bok av National Academies Of Sciences Engineeri - Häftad

Improving Characterization of Anthropogenic Methane Emissions in the United States - Bok av National Academies Of Sciences Engineeri - Häftad

Understanding, quantifying, and tracking atmospheric methane and emissions is essential for addressing concerns and informing decisions that affect the climate, economy, and human health and safety. Atmospheric methane is a potent greenhouse gas (GHG) that contributes to global warming. While carbon dioxide is by far the dominant cause of the rise in global average temperatures, methane also plays a significant role because it absorbs more energy per unit mass than carbon dioxide does, giving it..

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Value in Health Care - Accounting for Cost, Quality, Safety, Outcomes, and Innovation: Workshop Summary - Bok av Pierre L. Young - Häftad

Value in Health Care - Accounting for Cost, Quality, Safety, Outcomes, and Innovation: Workshop Summary - Bok av Pierre L. Young - Häftad

The United States has the highest per capita spending on health care of any industrialized nation. Yet despite the unprecedented levels of spending, harmful medical errors abound, uncoordinated care continues to frustrate patients and providers, and U.S. healthcare costs continue to increase. The growing ranks of the uninsured, an aging population with a higher prevalence of chronic diseases, and many patients with multiple conditions together constitute more complicating factors in the trend to..

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Data and Research to Improve the U.S. Food Availability System and Estimates of Food Loss: A Workshop Summary - Bok av National Research Council - Häf

Data and Research to Improve the U.S. Food Availability System and Estimates of Food Loss: A Workshop Summary - Bok av National Research Council - Häf

The United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) Economic Research Service's (ERS) Food Availability Data System includes three distinct but related data series on food and nutrient availability for consumption. The data serve as popular proxies for actual consumption at the national level for over 200 commodities (e.g., fresh spinach, beef, and eggs). The core Food Availability (FA) data series provides data on the amount of food available, per capita, for human consumption in the United States..

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Critical Role of Animal Science Research in Food Security and Sustainability - Bok av National Research Council - Häftad

Critical Role of Animal Science Research in Food Security and Sustainability - Bok av National Research Council - Häftad

By 2050 the world's population is projected to grow by one-third, reaching between 9 and 10 billion. With globalization and expected growth in global affluence, a substantial increase in per capita meat, dairy, and fish consumption is also anticipated. The demand for calories from animal products will nearly double, highlighting the critical importance of the world's animal agriculture system. Meeting the nutritional needs of this population and its demand for animal products will require a significant..

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Getting to Zero Alcohol-Impaired Driving Fatalities: A Comprehensive Approach to a Persistent Problem - Bok av National Academies Of Sciences Engineer

Getting to Zero Alcohol-Impaired Driving Fatalities: A Comprehensive Approach to a Persistent Problem - Bok av National Academies Of Sciences Engineer

Alcohol-impaired driving is an important health and social issue as it remains a major risk to Americans' health today, surpassing deaths per year of certain cancers, HIV/AIDS, and drownings, among others, and contributing to long-term disabilities from head and spinal injuries. Progress has been made over the past decades towards reducing these trends, but that progress has been incremental and has stagnated more recently. Getting to Zero Alcohol-Impaired Driving Fatalities examines which interventions..

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Redesigning Continuing Education in the Health Professions - Bok av Institute of Medicine - Häftad

Redesigning Continuing Education in the Health Professions - Bok av Institute of Medicine - Häftad

Today in the United States, the professional health workforce is not consistently prepared to provide high quality health care and assure patient safety, even as the nation spends more per capita on health care than any other country. The absence of a comprehensive and well-integrated system of continuing education (CE) in the health professions is an important contributing factor to knowledge and performance deficiencies at the individual and system levels. To be most effective, health professionals..

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Approaches to Understanding the Cumulative Effects of Stressors on Marine Mammals - Bok av National Academies Of Sciences Engineeri - Häftad

Approaches to Understanding the Cumulative Effects of Stressors on Marine Mammals - Bok av National Academies Of Sciences Engineeri - Häftad

Marine mammals face a large array of stressors, including loss of habitat, chemical and noise pollution, and bycatch in fishing, which alone kills hundreds of thousands of marine mammals per year globally. To discern the factors contributing to population trends, scientists must consider the full complement of threats faced by marine mammals. Once populations or ecosystems are found to be at risk of adverse impacts, it is critical to decide which combination of stressors to reduce to bring the population..

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Genome-Based Therapeutics - Targeted Drug Discovery and Development: Workshop Summary - Bok av Institute of Medicine - Häftad

Genome-Based Therapeutics - Targeted Drug Discovery and Development: Workshop Summary - Bok av Institute of Medicine - Häftad

\The number of new drug approvals has remained reasonably steady for the past 50 years at around 20 to 30 per year, while at the same time the total spending on health-related research and development has tripled since 1990. There are many suspected causes for this trend, including increases in regulatory barriers, the rising costs of scientific inquiry, a decrease in research and development efficiency, the downstream effects of patient expirations on investment, and the lack of production models..

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Aquifer Storage and Recovery in the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan: A Critique of the Pilot Projects and Related Plans for ASR in the Lake

Aquifer Storage and Recovery in the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan: A Critique of the Pilot Projects and Related Plans for ASR in the Lake

Aquifer storage and recovery (ASR) is a process by which water is recharged through wells to an aquifer and extracted for beneficial use at some later time from the same wells. ASR is proposed as a major water storage component in the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP), developed jointly by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) and the South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD). The plan would use the Upper Floridan aquifer (UFA) to store as much as 1.7 billion gallons per day..

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Optimizing U.S. Air Force and Department of Defense Review of Air Force Acquisition Programs - Bok av National Research Council - Häftad

Optimizing U.S. Air Force and Department of Defense Review of Air Force Acquisition Programs - Bok av National Research Council - Häftad

The Department of Defense (DOD) spends over $300 billion each year to develop, produce, field and sustain weapons systems (the U.S. Air Force over $100 billion per year). DOD and Air Force acquisitions programs often experience large cost overruns and schedule delays leading to a loss in confidence in the defense acquisition system and the people who work in it. Part of the DOD and Air Force response to these problems has been to increase the number of program and technical reviews that acquisition..

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Long-Term Health Consequences of Exposure to Burn Pits in Iraq and Afghanistan - Bok av Committee on the Long-Term Health Consequences of Exposure to

Long-Term Health Consequences of Exposure to Burn Pits in Iraq and Afghanistan - Bok av Committee on the Long-Term Health Consequences of Exposure to

Many veterans returning from the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan have health problems they believe are related to their exposure to the smoke from the burning of waste in open-air \burn pits\ on military bases. Particular controversy surrounds the burn pit used to dispose of solid waste at Joint Base Balad in Iraq, which burned up to 200 tons of waste per day in 2007. The Department of Veterans Affairs asked the IOM to form a committee to determine the long-term health effects from exposure to..

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