Author: Committee on the Support for the Thinking Spatiall
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: system, curriculum, support, gis, think, spatially, learning
Number of Pages: 332
Published: 2005-12-30
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0309092086
ISBN-13: 9780309092081
Spatial thinking - a constructive combination of concepts of space, tools of representation, and processes of reasoning - uses space to structure problems, find answers, and express solutions. It is powerful and pervasive in science, the workplace, and everyday life. By visualizing relationships within spatial structures, we can perceive, remember, and analyze the static and dynamic properties of objects and the relationships between objects. Despite its crucial role underpinning the National Standards for Science and Mathematics, spatial thinking is currently not systematically incorporated i
Author: Committee on Autonomous Vehicles in Support of Nav
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: operations, naval, support, vehicles, autonomous
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2005-08-05
List price: $54.25
ISBN-10: 0309096766
ISBN-13: 9780309096768
Author: Committee on Advanced Technology for Human Support
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: space, support, human, technology, advanced
Number of Pages: 150
Published: 1997-07-02
List price: $37.00
ISBN-10: 0309057442
ISBN-13: 9780309057448
Report prepared in response to a NASA request for an evaluation of programs of the Office of Life and Microgravity Sciences and Applications . Paper.
Author: Committee on Criteria for Federal Support of Resea
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: technology, photocopy, science, funds, federal, allocating
Number of Pages: 108
Published: 1995-11-22
List price: $34.75
ISBN-10: 0309053471
ISBN-13: 9780309053471
The United States faces a new challenge - maintaining the vitality of its system for supporting science and technology despite fiscal stringency during the next several years. To address this change, the Senate Appropriations Committee requested a report from the National Academies of Sciences and Engineering and the Institute of Medicine to address "the criteria that should be used in judging the appropriate allocation of funds to research and development activities; to examine the appropriate balance among different types of institutions that conduct such research; and to look at the means o
Author: Committee on Human-System Design Support for Chang
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: system, new, process, integration, human, development
Number of Pages: 396
Published: 2007-06-19
List price: $59.00
ISBN-10: 0309107202
ISBN-13: 9780309107204
In April 1991 "BusinessWeek" ran a cover story entitled, "I Can’t Work This Thing," about the difficulties many people have with consumer products, such as cell phones and VCRs. More than 15 years later, the situation is much the same - but at a very different level of scale. The disconnect between people and technology has had society-wide consequences in the large-scale system accidents from major human error, such as those at Three Mile Island and in Chernobyl. To prevent both the individually annoying and nationally significant consequences, human capabilities and needs must be consi
Author: Dimacs Workshop on Computational Support for Discr
Publisher: American Mathematical Society
Keywords: mathematics, discrete, dimacs, theoretical, computer, series, march, computational, workshop, support
Number of Pages: 399
Published: 1994-06
List price: $89.00
ISBN-10: 0821866052
ISBN-13: 9780821866054
With recent technological advances in workstations, graphics, graphical user interfaces, and object oriented programming languages, a significant number of researchers are developing general-purpose software and integrated software systems for domains in discrete mathematics, including graph theory, combinatorics, combinatorial optimization, and sets. This software aims to provide effective computational tools for research, applications prototyping, and teaching. In March 1992, DIMACS sponsored a workshop on Computational Support for Discrete Mathematics in order to facilitat
Author: Solar and Space Physics Survey CommitteeCommittee
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: reports, panel, earth, sun
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 2003-11-17
List price: $55.50
ISBN-10: 0309089727
ISBN-13: 9780309089722
