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Book Synopsis Setting Priorities for Large Research Facility Projects Supported by the National Science Foundation by : National Research Council
Download or read book Setting Priorities for Large Research Facility Projects Supported by the National Science Foundation written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2004-06-15 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1995, the National Science Foundation (NSF) created a special account to fund large (several tens of millions of dollars) research facilities. Over the years, these facilities have come to represent an increasingly prominent part of the nation's R&D portfolio. Recently concern has intensified about the way NSF is selecting projects for this account. In 2003, six U.S. Senators including the chair and ranking member of the Senate Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies Appropriations expressed these concerns in a letter to the NRC asking it to "review the current prioritization process and report to us on how it can be improved." This report presents a series of recommendations on how NSF can improve its priority setting process for large research facilities. While noting that NSF has improved this process, the report states that further strengthening is needed if NSF is to meet future demands for such projects.
Author :United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology. Subcommittee on Science, Research, and Technology Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :244 pages Book Rating :4.F/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Setting Priorities for Science by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology. Subcommittee on Science, Research, and Technology
Download or read book Setting Priorities for Science written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology. Subcommittee on Science, Research, and Technology and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Setting Priorities for Large Research Facility Projects Supported by the National Science Foundation by : National Research Council
Download or read book Setting Priorities for Large Research Facility Projects Supported by the National Science Foundation written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2004-07-15 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1995, the National Science Foundation (NSF) created a special account to fund large (several tens of millions of dollars) research facilities. Over the years, these facilities have come to represent an increasingly prominent part of the nation's R&D portfolio. Recently concern has intensified about the way NSF is selecting projects for this account. In 2003, six U.S. Senators including the chair and ranking member of the Senate Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies Appropriations expressed these concerns in a letter to the NRC asking it to "review the current prioritization process and report to us on how it can be improved." This report presents a series of recommendations on how NSF can improve its priority setting process for large research facilities. While noting that NSF has improved this process, the report states that further strengthening is needed if NSF is to meet future demands for such projects.
Author :Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (Great Britain) Publisher : ISBN 13 :9781897941157 Total Pages :87 pages Book Rating :4.9/5 (411 download)
Book Synopsis Setting Priorities for the Science Base by : Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (Great Britain)
Download or read book Setting Priorities for the Science Base written by Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Subcommittee on Science Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :284 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (18 download)
Book Synopsis Setting Priorities in Science by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Subcommittee on Science
Download or read book Setting Priorities in Science written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Subcommittee on Science and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :National Aeronautics and Space Administration Publisher :CreateSpace ISBN 13 :9781502845955 Total Pages :92 pages Book Rating :4.8/5 (459 download)
Book Synopsis Setting Priorities for Space Research by : National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Download or read book Setting Priorities for Space Research written by National Aeronautics and Space Administration and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finding an effective and reasonably objective method for setting priorities across scientific disciplines is something of a holy grail of science policy, and one whose urgency continues to grow. The Space Studies Board Task Group on Priorities in Space Research presented a thorough analysis of the pros and cons of priority setting and recommended that an effort to develop such a method proceed. The next phase involved this task group, and eventually the full Board, in an ambitious attempt to construct a formal, semiquantitative methodology to set priorities among major space science projects using both scientific and societal criteria. They also conducted a trial application of the methodology to a set of hypothetical space science initiatives. This is a report on the methodology and this exercise. Like a great many worthy scientific experiments, this exercise did not yield exactly what the framers had anticipated. In particular, the Board was not able to reach a consensus on the task group's methodology for setting priorities. This report contains an analysis of general issues in priority setting and presents a valuable record of the strengths and weaknesses of the task group's proposed methodology, one among many possible approaches. This report will inform continuing efforts in this area, including a recently undertaken, congressionally mandated Board study. The latter study is following a different approach toward different, but related, goals—agency organization and technology utilization are being analyzed together with the research priority-setting problem.
Book Synopsis A Strategy for Assessing Science by : National Research Council
Download or read book A Strategy for Assessing Science written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2007-02-21 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Strategy for Assessing Science offers strategic advice on the perennial issue of assessing rates of progress in different scientific fields. It considers available knowledge about how science makes progress and examines a range of decision-making strategies for addressing key science policy concerns. These include avoiding undue conservatism that may arise from the influence of established disciplines; achieving rational, high-quality, accountable, and transparent decision processes; and establishing an appropriate balance of influence between scientific communities and agency science managers. A Strategy for Assessing Science identifies principles for setting priorities and specific recommendations for the context of behavioral and social research on aging.
Book Synopsis Environmentally Significant Consumption by : National Research Council
Download or read book Environmentally Significant Consumption written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1997-07-09 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has been much polemic about affluence, consumption, and the global environment. For some observers, "consumption" is at the root of global environmental threats: wealthy individuals and societies use far too much of the earth's resource base and should scale back their appetites to preserve the environment for future generations and allow a decent life for the rest of the world. Other observers see affluence as the way to escape environmental threats: economic development increases public pressure for environmental protection and makes capital available for environmentally benign technologies. The arguments are fed by conflicting beliefs, values, hopes, and fearsâ€"but surprisingly little scientific analysis. This book demonstrates that the relationship of consumption to the environment needs careful analysis by environmental and social scientists and conveys some of the excitement of treating the issue scientifically. It poses the key empirical questions: Which kinds of consumption are environmentally significant? Which actors are responsible for that consumption? What forces cause or explain environmentally significant consumption? How can it be changed? The book presents studies that open up important issues for empirical study: Are there any signs of saturation in the demand for travel in wealthy countries? What is the relationship between environmental consumption and human well-being? To what extent do people in developing countries emulate American consumption styles? The book also suggests broad strategies that scientists and research sponsors can use to better inform future debates about the environment, development, and consumption.
Author :United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology. Subcommittee on Science, Research, and Technology Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :254 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (18 download)
Book Synopsis Setting Priorities for Science by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology. Subcommittee on Science, Research, and Technology
Download or read book Setting Priorities for Science written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology. Subcommittee on Science, Research, and Technology and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Subcommittee on Science Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :272 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Setting Priorities in Science by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Subcommittee on Science
Download or read book Setting Priorities in Science written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Subcommittee on Science and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Science and Technology Policy by : F. Tisdell
Download or read book Science and Technology Policy written by F. Tisdell and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I was asked recently to prepare an independent background report on the subject of priority assessment in science and technology policy for the Australian Science and Technology Council. The Council (while not necessarily endorsing this book) suggested that a wider audience could be interested in the type of material contained in my report and kindly gave me permission to publish the material in my own right. The present book contains this and other material, some of which was presented at a seminar on National Science Policy: Implications for Government Departments arranged by the Department of Science and the Environment. Additional ideas were developed in response to comments on the manuscript by referees, as a result of discussions with Professor John Metcalfe and Dr Peter Stubbs of Manchester University, a conversation with Dr Keith Hartley of the University of York and in the wake of a communication from Dr Ken Tucker, Assistant Director, Bureau of Industry Economics, Australia. Science and technology policy affects and concerns everyone of us if for no other reason than we cannot escape in this interdependent world from the economic, social and environmental overs pills generated by science and technology. We must face the problems and promises inherent in new and existing science and technology whether we like it or not. Not surprisingly this book finds that all industrialized countries seem to be facing similar economic and social problems.
Download or read book Managing the Space Sciences written by and published by National Academies. This book was released on 1995 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :National Science Board (U.S.). Ad Hoc Committee on Strategic Science and Engineering Policy Issues Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :164 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (318 download)
Book Synopsis Federal Research Resources by : National Science Board (U.S.). Ad Hoc Committee on Strategic Science and Engineering Policy Issues
Download or read book Federal Research Resources written by National Science Board (U.S.). Ad Hoc Committee on Strategic Science and Engineering Policy Issues and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Science and Technology in Kazakhstan by : National Research Council
Download or read book Science and Technology in Kazakhstan written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2007-05-09 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kazakhstan has an ambitious program to increase its technological competitiveness in the global market place during the next few years, but achieving success will depend in large measure on the effectiveness of upgraded science and technology (S&T) capabilities. This report identifies important opportunities and limitations in the education system, research and development (R&D) institutions, production companies, and service organizations to help governmental organizations in Kazakhstan with strong interests in S&T chart the future course of the country.
Book Synopsis Priority Areas for National Action by : Institute of Medicine
Download or read book Priority Areas for National Action written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2003-04-10 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new release in the Quality Chasm Series, Priority Areas for National Action recommends a set of 20 priority areas that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and other groups in the public and private sectors should focus on to improve the quality of health care delivered to all Americans. The priority areas selected represent the entire spectrum of health care from preventive care to end of life care. They also touch on all age groups, health care settings and health care providers. Collective action in these areas could help transform the entire health care system. In addition, the report identifies criteria and delineates a process that DHHS may adopt to determine future priority areas.
Book Synopsis Initial National Priorities for Comparative Effectiveness Research by : Institute of Medicine
Download or read book Initial National Priorities for Comparative Effectiveness Research written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2009-11-14 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clinical research presents health care providers with information on the natural history and clinical presentations of disease as well as diagnostic and treatment options. In today's healthcare system, patients, physicians, clinicians and family caregivers often lack the sufficient scientific data and evidence they need to determine the best course of treatment for the patients' medical conditions. Initial National Priorities for Comparative Effectiveness Research(CER) is designed to fill this knowledge gap by assisting patients and healthcare providers across diverse settings in making more informed decisions. In this 2009 report, the Institute of Medicine's Committee on Comparative Effectiveness Research Prioritization establishes a working definition of CER, develops a priority list of research topics, and identifies the necessary requirements to support a robust and sustainable CER enterprise. As part of the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Congress appropriated $1.1 billion in federal support of CER, reflecting legislators' belief that better decisions about the use of health care could improve the public's health and reduce the cost of care. The Committee on Comparative Effectiveness Research Prioritization was successful in preparing a list 100 top priority CER topics and 10 recommendations for best practices in the field.
Book Synopsis Research Foresight by : Ben R. Martin
Download or read book Research Foresight written by Ben R. Martin and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1989 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the modeling processes used in data analysis of the reserve component of the American military. LC got this wrong--Martin and Irvine are the authors, not the editors. Their study reviews the experience of eight leading industrial nations in identifying and exploiting research that is likely to yield economic and social benefits in the medium to long term. They also propose a framework for making more effective use of research foresight in the policy process. Distributed by Columbia U. Press. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
