FrontMatter -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Summary -- 1 Context -- 2 Forces Affecting the Federal Government: Implications for Facilities Asset Management in 2020 -- 3 Core Competencies for Federal Facilities Asset Management -- 4 A Comprehensive Strategy for Workforce Development...

Performance Assessment for the Workplace -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contents of Volume II -- Preface -- Overview -- THE JPM PROJECT -- ORIGINS OF THE PROJECT -- CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK -- What is Performance? -- What is a Job? -- What is a Task? -- MEASURING JOB PERFORMANCE -- Relative Versus...

Front Matter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Executive Summary -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Basic Concepts -- 3 Regulatory History -- 4 Enhancing Informed Consent -- 5 Enhancing Confidentiality Protection -- 6 Enhancing the Effectiveness of Review: Minimal-Risk Research -- 7 System Issues --...

MATHEMATICAL PREPARATION OF THE TECHNICAL WORK FORCE -- Copyright -- Contents -- PREFACE -- WELCOMING REMARKS -- BACKGROUND BRIEFINGS -- ON PROGRAMS -- ON HISTORY -- ON MATHEMATICS -- WORKSHOP THEMES -- TRACKING -- CORE CURRICULUM -- STUDENT NEEDS -- ARTICULATION -- OBSERVATIONS AND REFLECTIONS...

FrontMatter -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Executive Summary -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Program-Level Evaluations -- 3 Evaluation of Industry of the Future Subprograms -- 4 Evaluation of Crosscutting Subprograms -- 5 Conclusions and Recommendations -- References -- APPENDIXES --...

FrontMatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Executive Summary -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Meaning of Value and Use of Economic Valuation in the Environmental Policy Decision-Making Process -- 3 Aquatic and Related Terrestrial Ecosystems -- 4 Methods of Nonmarket Valuation -- 5 Translating Ecosystem...

Special Report 264 - The Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Improvement Program: Assessing 10 Years of Experience -- Frontmatter -- SR264 - The Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Improvement Program:Assessing 10 Years of Experience -- Publication Notice -- The National Academies --...

FrontMatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Tables, Figures, and Boxes -- Executive Summary -- 1 Background and Overview -- 2 Composite Properties and Behavior -- 3 A Team Strategy -- 4 Roadmapping -- 5 The Importance of Data -- 6 A Path Forward -- Appendixes -- Appendix A Committee Members --...

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- I INTRODUCTION -- SBIR and the Phase III Challenge of Commercialization -- II PROCEEDINGS -- Opening Remarks -- Introduction -- Meeting Mission Needs -- Panel I : The SBIR Program: Different Needs, Common Challenges -- Panel II: Transitioning SBIR: What Are...