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87) Mississippi river water quality and the Clean Water Act: progress, challenges, and opportunities
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National Academies Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
98) The National Weather Service modernization and associated restructuring: a retrospective assessment
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Publisher
National Academies Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"The Modernization and Associated Restructuring (MAR) of the National Weather Service (NWS) was a large and complex re-engineering of a federal agency. The process lasted a decade and cost an estimated 4.5 billion [dollars]. The result was greater integration of science into weather service activities and improved outreach and coordination with users of weather information. The MAR created a new, modernized NWS, and, significantly, it created a framework...
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Publisher
National Academies Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"Over the past decade and a half, the National Research Council, through its Committee on National Statistics, has carried out a number of studies on the application of statistical methods to improve the testing and development of defense systems. These studies were intended to provide advice to the Department of Defense (DOD), which sponsored these studies. The previous studies have been concerned with the role of statistical methods in testing and...
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Publisher
National Academies Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
The National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) of the National Science Foundation (NSF) communicates its science and engineering (S&E) information to data users in a very fluid environment that is undergoing modernization at a pace at which data producer dissemination practices, protocols, and technologies, on one hand, and user demands and capabilities, on the other, are changing faster than the agency has been able to accommodate....
