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Living WELL With Chronic Illness? Is that even possible? About one in four Americans have multiple diseases! I wonder WHY!!! From: National Academies Press Sent: February-07-12 5:02 PMTo: penas7ar@...Subject: New This Week: Living Well with Chronic Illness; 21st Century Manufacturing and Design; and more To view this email as a web page, go here. February 7, 2012Living Well with Chronic Illness: A Call for Public Health Action Prepublication Available330 pages | Paperback | Price: $55.57 In the United States, chronic diseases currently account for 70 percent of all deaths, and close to 48 million Americans report a disability related to a chronic condition. Today, about one in four Americans have multiple diseases and the prevalence and...[more]Information Sharing and Collaboration: Applications to Integrated Biosurveillance: Workshop Summary 130 pages | Paperback | Price: $33.30 After the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and subsequent anthrax mailings, the U.S. government prioritized a biosurveillance strategy aimed at detecting, monitoring, and characterizing national security health threats in human and animal populations, food,...[more]Making Things: 21st Century Manufacturing and Design: Summary of a Forum 100 pages | Paperback | Price: $31.50 More than two decades ago, a commission of 17 MIT scientists and economists released a report, Made in America, which opened with the memorable phrase, " To live well, a nation must produce well. " Is that still true? Or can the ...[more]Industrial Methods for the Effective Development and Testing of Defense Systems 100 pages | Paperback | Price: $31.50 During 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...[more]Predicting Outcomes from Investments in Maintenance and Repair for Federal Facilities 122 pages | Paperback | Price: $36.00 The deteriorating condition of federal facilities poses economic, safety, operational, and environmental risks to the federal government, to the achievement of the missions of federal agencies, and to the achievement of public policy goals. Primary factors...[more]In the Light of Evolution V: ation and Conflict 466 pages | Hardcover | Price: $80.77 Biodiversity--the genetic variety of life--is an exuberant product of the evolutionary past, a vast human-supportive resource (aesthetic, intellectual, and material) of the present, and a rich legacy to cherish and preserve for the future. Two urgent...[more]NASA Space Technology Roadmaps and Priorities: Restoring NASA's Technological Edge and Paving the Way for a New Era in Space 468 pages | Paperback | Price: $81.22 NASA's Office of the Chief Technologist (OCT) has begun to rebuild the advanced space technology program in the agency with plans laid out in 14 draft technology roadmaps. It has been years since NASA has had a vigorous, broad-based program in advanced space...[more]Assessment of a Plan for U.S. Participation in Euclid 60 pages | Paperback | Price: $27.90 NASA proposed to make a hardware contribution to the European Space Agency's (ESA's) Euclid mission in exchange for U.S. membership on the Euclid Science Team and science data access. The Euclid mission will employ a space telescope that will make...[more]An Assessment of the Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory 94 pages | Paperback | Price: $37.80 According to the big bang theory, our Universe began in a state of unimaginably high energy and density, contained in a space of subatomic dimensions. At that time, unlike today, the fundamental forces of nature were presumably unified and the particles...[more]Improving Measures of Science, Technology, and Innovation: Interim Report 76 pages | Paperback | Price: $27.90 The National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES), at the U.S. National Foundation, is 1 of 14 major statistical agencies in the federal government, of which at least 5 collect relevant information on science, technology, and innovation...[more] Unsubscribe