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The Effect of Genetic Variance on Nutritional Requirements of Animals

av National Research Council, Division On Earth And Life Studies, Board On Agriculture And Renewable Resources, Committee On Animal Nutrition, Subcommittee On Genetic Variance In Animal Nutrition

Häftad, Engelska, 1975-02-01

559

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Assessing the Nation's Earthquakes

av National Research Council, Division On Earth And Life Studies, Environment And Resources Commission On Geosciences, Board On Earth Sciences & Resources, Committee On Seismology

Häftad, Engelska, 1990-01-01

451

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This book assesses the 50 regional seismic networks funded by various federal, state, and private sources that operate autonomously in the United States. Most have aging equipment and suffer from declining sources of operating funds. Yet, they pro...

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A Safer Future

av National Research Council, Division On Earth And Life Studies, Environment And Resources Commission On Geosciences, U S National Committee For The Decade For Natural Disaster Reduction

Häftad, Engelska, 1991-02-01

451

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Initial priorities for U.S. participation in the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction, declared by the United Nations, are contained in this volume. It focuses on seven issues: hazard and risk assessment; awareness and education; mi...

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Science and the National Parks

av National Research Council, Division On Earth And Life Studies, Environment And Resources Commission On Geosciences, Committee On Improving The Science And Technology Programs Of The National Park Service

Häftad, Engelska, 1992-02-01

451

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The U.S. National Park Service needs much better scientific information to protect the nation's parks for future generations, and research must be an essential element in its mandate. Science and the National Parks examines the reasons why science...

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Alternatives for Ground Water Cleanup

av National Research Council, Division On Earth And Life Studies, Environment And Resources Commission On Geosciences, Committee On Ground Water Cleanup Alternatives

Häftad, Engelska, 1994-02-01

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There may be nearly 300,000 waste sites in the United States where ground water and soil are contaminated. Yet recent studies question whether existing technologies can restore contaminated ground water to drinking water standards, which is the go...

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Low-frequency Sound and Marine Mammals

av Committee On Low-Frequency Sound And Marine Mammals, National Research Council, Division On Earth And Life Studies, Environment And Resources Commission On Geosciences

Häftad, Engelska, 1994-01-01

451

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This volume reviews the current state of knowledge regarding the effects of low-frequency sound on marine mammals and makes recommendations for research. In addition, the book describes current federal regulations prescribed under the Marine Mamma...

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Priorities for Coastal Ecosystem Science

av National Research Council, Division On Earth And Life Studies, Environment And Resources Commission On Geosciences, Committee To Identify High-Priority Science To Meet National Coastal Needs

Häftad, Engelska, 1995-02-01

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This book describes critical environmental issues that face coastal ocean and Great Lakes areas, including eutrophication, habitat modification, hydrologic and hydrodynamic disruption, exploitation of resources, toxic effects on ecosystems and hum...

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Ground Water Recharge Using Waters of Impaired Quality

av Committee On Ground Water Recharge, National Research Council, Division On Earth And Life Studies, Environment And Resources Commission On Geosciences

Häftad, Engelska, 1994-01-01

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As demand for water increases, water managers and planners will need to look widely for ways to improve water management and augment water supplies. This book concludes that artificial recharge can be one option in an integrated strategy to optimi...

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GOALS (Global Ocean-Atmosphere-Land System) for Predicting Seasonal-to-Interannual Climate

av National Research Council, Division On Earth And Life Studies, Environment And Resources Commission On Geosciences, Climate Research Committee

Häftad, Engelska, 1994-02-01

451

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This book lays out a science plan for a major, international, 15-year research program. The past 10 years have seen significant progress in studies of short-term climate variations, in particular for the region of the tropical Pacific Ocean and th...

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The Bering Sea Ecosystem

av Committee On The Bering Sea Ecosystem, National Research Council, Division On Earth And Life Studies, Polar Research Board, Environment And Resources Commission On Geosciences

Häftad, Engelska, 1996-04-01

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The Bering Sea, which lies between the United States and Russia, is one of the most productive ecosystems in the world and has prolific fishing grounds. Yet there have been significant unexplained population fluctuations in marine mammals and bird...

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Freshwater Ecosystems

av National Research Council, Division On Earth And Life Studies, Environment And Resources Commission On Geosciences, Committee On Inland Aquatic Ecosystems

Inbunden, Engelska, 1996-10-01

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To fulfill its commitment to clean water, the United States depends on limnology, a multidisciplinary science that seeks to understand the behavior of freshwater bodies by integrating aspects of all basic sciences?from chemistry and fluid mechanic...

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Use of Reclaimed Water and Sludge in Food Crop Production

av Committee On The Use Of Treated Municipal Wastewater Effluents And Sludge In The Production Of, National Research Council, Environment And Resources Commission On Geosciences, Division On Earth And Life Studies

Häftad, Engelska, 1996-02-01

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This book reviews the practice of reclaiming treated municipal wastewater for agricultural irrigation and using sewage sludge as a soil amendment and fertilizer in the United States. It describes and evaluates treatment technologies and practices;...

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Safe Water From Every Tap

av National Research Council, Division On Earth And Life Studies, Environment And Resources Commission On Geosciences, Committee On Small Water Supply Systems

Inbunden, Engelska, 1997-01-01

559

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Small communities violate federal requirements for safe drinking water as much as three times more often than cities. Yet these communities often cannot afford to improve their water service. Safe Water From Every Tap reviews the risks of violatin...

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Alluvial Fan Flooding

av National Research Council, Division On Earth And Life Studies, Environment And Resources Commission On Geosciences, Committee On Alluvial Fan Flooding

Häftad, Engelska, 1996-11-01

586

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Alluvial fans are gently sloping, fan-shaped landforms common at the base of mountain ranges in arid and semiarid regions such as the American West. Floods on alluvial fans, although characterized by relatively shallow depths, strike with little i...

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Review of Recommendations for Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analysis

av National Research Council, Division On Earth And Life Studies, Board On Earth Sciences And Resources, Environment Commission On Geosciences And Resources, Committee On Seismology

Häftad, Engelska, 1997-01-01

532

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Improving Fish Stock Assessments

av Committee On Fish Stock Assessment Methods, National Research Council, Division On Earth And Life Studies, Ocean Studies Board, Environment And Resources Commission On Geosciences

Häftad, Engelska, 1998-02-01

801

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Ocean harvests have plateaued worldwide and many important commercial stocks have been depleted. This has caused great concern among scientists, fishery managers, the fishing community, and the public. This book evaluates the major models used for...

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New Directions in Water Resources Planning for the U.S.Army Corps of Engineers

av Committee To Assess The U S Army Corps Of Engineers Water Resources Project Planning Procedures, National Research Council, Division On Earth And Life Studies, Environment And Resources Commission On Geosciences

Häftad, Engelska, 1999-01-01

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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has long been one of the federal government's key agencies in planning the uses of the nation's waterways and water resources. Though responsible for a range of water-related programs, the Corps's two traditional p...

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Systems Analysis and Systems Engineering in Environmental Remediation Programs at the Department of Energy Hanford Site

av Committee On Remediation Of Buried And Tank Wastes, Environment And Resources Commission On Geosciences, Division On Earth And Life Studies, National Research Council

Häftad, Engelska, 1998-08-01

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The primary purpose of systems engineering is to organize information and knowledge to assist those who manage, direct, and control the planning, development, production, and operation of the systems necessary to accomplish a given mission. Howeve...

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An End State Methodology for Identifying Technology Needs for Environmental Management, with an Example from the Hanford Site Tanks

av National Research Council, Division On Earth And Life Studies, Environment And Resources Commission On Geosciences, Committee On Technologies For Cleanup Of High-Level Waste In Tanks In The Doe Weapons Complex

Häftad, Engelska, 1999-04-01

451

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A major issue in the cleanup of this country's nuclear weapons complex is how to dispose of the radioactive waste resulting primarily from the chemical processing operations for the recovery of plutonium and other defense strategic nuclear materia...

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Hydrologic Hazards Science at the U.S. Geological Survey

av Committee On U S Geological Survey Water Resources Research, National Research Council, Division On Earth And Life Studies, Environment And Resources Commission On Geosciences

Häftad, Engelska, 1999-01-01

532

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Losses of life and property in the United States-and throughout the world-resulting from hydrologic hazards, including floods, droughts, and related phenomena, are significant and increasing. Public awareness of, and federal attention to, natural ...

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Meeting U.S. Energy Resource Needs

av Panel To Review The U S Geological Survey'S Energy Resources Program, Committee On Earth Resources, Environment And Resources Commission On Geosciences, National Research Council

Häftad, Engelska, 1999-01-01

532

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This study was undertaken in recognition of the critical role played by the Energy Resources Program (ERP) of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in the energy future of the United States. The ERP performs fundamental research to understand the orig...

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Seeing into the Earth

av Committee For Noninvasive Characterization Of The Shallow Subsurface For Environmental And, Board On Earth Sciences & Resources, Water Science And Technology Board, Environment And Resources Commission On Geosciences, Division On Earth And Life Studies

Häftad, Engelska, 2000-05-01

545

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Just below our feet is an environment that supports our infrastructure, yields water, provides for agriculture, and receives our waste. Our capacity to describe, or characterize, this environment is crucial to the solution of many resource, enviro...

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Adequacy of Climate Observing Systems

av National Research Council, Division On Earth And Life Studies, Board On Atmospheric Sciences And Climate, Environment Commission On Geosciences And Resources, Climate Research Committee

Häftad, Engelska, 1999-04-01

532

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The 1997 Conference on the World Climate Research Programme to the Third Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change concluded that the global capacity to observe the Earth's climate system is inadequate ...

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The Impacts of Natural Disasters

av Committee On Assessing The Costs Of Natural Disasters, National Research Council, Division On Earth And Life Studies, Environment And Resources Commission On Geosciences

Häftad, Engelska, 1999-04-01

532

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We in the United States have almost come to accept natural disasters as part of our nations social fabric. News of property damage, economic and social disruption, and injuries follow earthquakes, fires, floods and hurricanes. Surprisingly, howeve...

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Living on an Active Earth

av National Research Council, Division On Earth And Life Studies, Board On Earth Sciences And Resources, Committee On The Science Of Earthquakes

Inbunden, Engelska, 2003-09-01

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The destructive force of earthquakes has stimulated human inquiry since ancient times, yet the scientific study of earthquakes is a surprisingly recent endeavor. Instrumental recordings of earthquakes were not made until the second half of the 19t...

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Downstream

av Committee On Grand Canyon Monitoring And Research, National Research Council, Division On Earth And Life Studies, Environment And Resources Commission On Geosciences

Häftad, Engelska, 1999-11-01

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The Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center began long-term planning at its inception and, in May 1997, produced a Long-Term Monitoring and Research Strategic Plan that was adopted by stakeholder groups (the Adaptive Management Work Group and ...

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Hardrock Mining on Federal Lands

av National Research Council, Division On Earth And Life Studies, Environment And Resources Commission On Geosciences, Board On Earth Sciences And Resources, Committee On Hardrock Mining On Federal Lands

Häftad, Engelska, 1999-12-01

545

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This book, the result of a congressionally mandated study, examines the adequacy of the regulatory framework for mining of hardrock minerals?such as gold, silver, copper, and uranium?on over 350 million acres of federal lands in the western United...

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Watershed Management for Potable Water Supply

av Committee To Review The New York City Watershed Management Strategy, Environment And Resources Commission On Geosciences, Division On Earth And Life Studies, National Research Council, National Academy Of Sciences

Häftad, Engelska, 2000-03-01

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In 1997, New York City adopted a mammoth watershed agreement to protect its drinking water and avoid filtration of its large upstate surface water supply. Shortly thereafter, the NRC began an analysis of the agreement's scientific validity. The re...

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Nutrient Requirements of Nonhuman Primates

av National Research Council, Division On Earth And Life Studies, Board On Agriculture And Natural Resources, Ad Hoc Committee On Nonhuman Primate Nutrition, Committee On Animal Nutrition

Häftad, Engelska, 2003-03-01

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This new release presents the wealth of information gleaned about nonhuman primates nutrition since the previous edition was published in 1978. With expanded coverage of natural dietary habits, gastrointestinal anatomy and physiology, and the nutr...

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Nutrient Requirements of Dairy Cattle

av Subcommittee On Dairy Cattle Nutrition, Committee On Animal Nutrition, Board On Agriculture And Natural Resources, Division On Earth And Life Studies, National Research Council

Häftad, Engelska, 2001-02-01

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This widely used reference has been updated and revamped to reflect the changing face of the dairy industry. New features allow users to pinpoint nutrient requirements more accurately for individual animals. The committee also provides guidance on...

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