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Author : Ines Wesley-Tanaskovic,Jacques Tocatlian,Kenneth H. Roberts
Publisher : United Nations University Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Science
ISBN : 9280808443
Author : Institute of Medicine,National Academy of Engineering,National Academy of Sciences,Policy and Global Affairs,Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy,Committee on Underrepresented Groups and the Expansion of the Science and Engineering Workforce Pipeline
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011-07-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780309159685
In order for the United States to maintain the global leadership and competitiveness in science and technology that are critical to achieving national goals, we must invest in research, encourage innovation, and grow a strong and talented science and technology workforce. Expanding Underrepresented Minority Participation explores the role of diversity in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) workforce and its value in keeping America innovative and competitive. According to the book, the U.S. labor market is projected to grow faster in science and engineering than in any other sector in the coming years, making minority participation in STEM education at all levels a national priority. Expanding Underrepresented Minority Participation analyzes the rate of change and the challenges the nation currently faces in developing a strong and diverse workforce. Although minorities are the fastest growing segment of the population, they are underrepresented in the fields of science and engineering. Historically, there has been a strong connection between increasing educational attainment in the United States and the growth in and global leadership of the economy. Expanding Underrepresented Minority Participation suggests that the federal government, industry, and post-secondary institutions work collaboratively with K-12 schools and school systems to increase minority access to and demand for post-secondary STEM education and technical training. The book also identifies best practices and offers a comprehensive road map for increasing involvement of underrepresented minorities and improving the quality of their education. It offers recommendations that focus on academic and social support, institutional roles, teacher preparation, affordability and program development.
Author : Ines Wesley-Tanaskovic,Jacques Tocatlian,Kenneth H. Roberts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:933872120
Author : National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on National Statistics,Panel on Data Access for Research Purposes
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2005-12-11
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780309100120
Policy makers need information about the nationâ€"ranging from trends in the overall economy down to the use by individuals of Medicareâ€"in order to evaluate existing programs and to develop new ones. This information often comes from research based on data about individual people, households, and businesses and other organizations, collected by statistical agencies. The benefit of increasing data accessibility to researchers and analysts is better informed public policy. To realize this benefit, a variety of modes for data accessâ€" including restricted access to confidential data and unrestricted access to appropriately altered public-use dataâ€"must be used. The risk of expanded access to potentially sensitive data is the increased probability of breaching the confidentiality of the data and, in turn, eroding public confidence in the data collection enterprise. Indeed, the statistical system of the United States ultimately depends on the willingness of the public to provide the information on which research data are based. Expanding Access to Research Data issues guidance on how to more fully exploit these tradeoffs. The panel's recommendations focus on needs highlighted by legal, social, and technological changes that have occurred during the last decade.
Author : Patrick Corsi,Hervé Christofol,Simon Richir,Henri Samier
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-04
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781118614754
This title explores the issue of innovation engineering, a feature that is essential to the continuation of growth and development in the commercial world. Discussion is divided into three parts: Part I covers the historical basis of innovation, noting that diversity rests upon a duality between concepts in theory and applications put into practice, as well as discussing how innovation has resulted from the interaction of numerous factors, be they societal, human, managerial, organization or technological. Part II focuses on practical applications – the technologies, tools and methods employed in putting theoretical innovation into practice – while Part III looks at what factors underpin success, discussing the social and psychological aspects involved in successful innovation engineering. Consideration is also given to recent developments and systems which will assist in ensuring the continuation of this process in the future.
Author : Kulthida Tuamsuk,Adam Jatowt,Edie Rasmussen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-09
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783319128238
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries, ICADL 2014, held in Chiang Mai, Thailand, in November 2014. The 20 full papers, 19 short papers and 9 poster papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 141 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on digital preservation and archiving; digital repositories and tools; scholarly documents repositories; metadata and ontologies; linked data and knowledge sharing; digital books and e-books; digital libraries usage and applications; data management and classification; information retrieval and search methods; user skills and experiences.
Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264222281
The OECD Science, Technology and Industry Outlook 2014 reviews key trends in science, technology and innovation (STI) policies, and performance in more than 45 economies, including OECD countries and major emerging economies.
Author : William Hoffman,William R. Hoffman,Leo Furcht
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780199974597
"Scholars and policymakers alike agree that innovation in the biosciences is key to future growth. The field continues to shift and expand, and it is certainly changing the way people live their lives in a variety of ways. But despite the lion's share offederal research dollars being devoted to innovation in the biosciences, the field has yet to live up to its billing as a source of economic productivity and growth. With vast untapped potential to imagine and innovate in the biosciences, adaptation of the innovative model is needed. In The Biologist's Imagination, William Hoffman and Leo Furcht examine the history of innovation in the biosciences, tracing technological innovation from the late eighteenth century to the present and placing special emphasis on how and where technology evolves. Place is key to innovation, from the early industrial age to the rise of the biotechnology industry in the second half of the twentieth century. The book uses the distinct history of bioscientific innovation to discuss current trends as they relate to medicine, agriculture, biofuels, stem-cell research, neuroscience, and more. Ultimately, Hoffman and Furcht argue that, as things currently stand, we fall short in our efforts to innovate in the biosciences; our system of innovation is itself in need of innovation. It needs to adapt to the massive changes brought about by converging technologies, globalization in higher education as well as in finance, and increases in entrepreneurship. The Biologist's Imagination is both an analysis of past models for bioscience innovation and a forward-looking, original argument for how future models should be developed"--
Author : Jeffrey D. Sachs,The UN Millennium Project
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317705413
The Millennium Development Goals, adopted at the UN Millennium Summit in 2000, are the world's targets for dramatically reducing extreme poverty in its many dimensions by 2015 income poverty, hunger, disease, exclusion, lack of infrastructure and shelter while promoting gender equality, education, health and environmental sustainability. These bold goals can be met in all parts of the world if nations follow through on their commitments to work together to meet them. Achieving the Millennium Development Goals offers the prospect of a more secure, just, and prosperous world for all. The UN Millennium Project was commissioned by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan to develop a practical plan of action to meet the Millennium Development Goals. As an independent advisory body directed by Professor Jeffrey D. Sachs, the UN Millennium Project submitted its recommendations to the UN Secretary General in January 2005. The core of the UN Millennium Project's work has been carried out by 10 thematic Task Forces comprising more than 250 experts from around the world, including scientists, development practitioners, parliamentarians, policymakers, and representatives from civil society, UN agencies, the World Bank, the IMF, and the private sector. Investing in Development: A Practical Plan to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals brings together the core recommendations of the UN Millennium Project. By outlining practical strategies and approaches to financing the,, the report presents an operational framework that will allow even the poorest countries to achieve the Millennium Development Goals by 2015.
Author : National Research Council,Policy and Global Affairs,Development, Security, and Cooperation,Office for Central Europe and Eurasia,Committee on Science and Technology in Foreign Assistance
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2006-05-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780309164733
In October 2003 the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the National Research Council (NRC) entered into a cooperative agreement. The agreement called for the NRC to examine selected aspects of U.S. foreign assistance activities-primarily the programs of the USAID-that have benefited or could benefit from access to strong science, technology, and medical capabilities in the United States or elsewhere. After considering the many aspects of the role of science and technology (S&T) in foreign assistance, the study led to the publication of The Fundamental Role of Science and Technology in International Development. In the book special attention is devoted to partnerships that involve the USAID together with international, regional, U.S. governmental, and private sector organizations in fields such as heath care, agriculture and nutrition, education and job creation, and energy and the environment. This book explores specific programmatic, organizational, and personnel reforms that would increase the effective use of S&T to meet the USAID's goals while supporting larger U.S. foreign policy objectives.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of the Interior and Related Agencies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1872 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : United States
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119516834
Author : Sue V. Rosser
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781479809202
Why are there so few women in science? In Breaking into the Lab, Sue Rosser uses the experiences of successful women scientists and engineers to answer the question of why elite institutions have so few women scientists and engineers tenured on their faculties. Women are highly qualified, motivated students, and yet they have drastically higher rates of attrition, and they are shying away from the fields with the greatest demand for workers and the biggest economic payoffs, such as engineering, computer sciences, and the physical sciences. Rosser shows that these continuing trends are not only disappointing, they are urgent: the U.S. can no longer afford to lose the talents of the women scientists and engineers, because it is quickly losing its lead in science and technology. Ultimately, these biases and barriers may lock women out of the new scientific frontiers of innovation and technology transfer, resulting in loss of useful inventions and products to society.
Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Policy and Global Affairs,Development, Security, and Cooperation,Committee on the Review of Science, Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (STIP) for Development and Implications for the Future of USAID
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780309452472
The United States has long recognized that the nation's prosperity and security depend on how we address challenges of disasters, poverty, famine, and disease around the world. The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has played a vital role in promoting U.S. national and international interests by advancing strategies for employing science, technology, and innovation to respond to global challenges. The focus by USAID on science, technology, and innovation is critical to improve development outcomes. At the core of this progress is the engagement of science institutions and other innovative enterprises and their commitment to work in partnership with USAID to research, test, and scale solutions. The Role of Science, Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships in the Future of USAID provides an assessment and advice on the current and future role for science, technology, and innovation in assistance programs at USAID and on the role of partnerships in the public and private sectors to expand impact. This report examines challenges and opportunities for USAID in expanding the utilization of science, technology, and innovation in development assistance; assesses how USAID has deployed science, technology, and innovation; and recommends priority areas for improvement going forward in partnership with others.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1991-06
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : UFL:31262082071647
Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264170391
Based on the latest information and indicators in science and innovation, the OECD Science, Technology and Industry Outlook 2012 reviews key trends in STI policies and performance in OECD countries and major emerging economies, and across a number of thematic areas.