Author: New Mexico. Department of Cultural AffairsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Humanities
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Final Report of the Committee on a Strategic Plan for U.S. Burning Plasma Research
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and MedicinePublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309487439
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
Fusion offers the prospect of virtually unlimited energy. The United States and many nations around the world have made enormous progress toward achieving fusion energy. With ITER scheduled to go online within a decade and demonstrate controlled fusion ten years later, now is the right time for the United States to develop plans to benefit from its investment in burning plasma research and take steps to develop fusion electricity for the nation's future energy needs. At the request of the Department of Energy, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine organized a committee to develop a strategic plan for U.S. fusion research. The final report's two main recommendations are: (1) The United States should remain an ITER partner as the most cost-effective way to gain experience with a burning plasma at the scale of a power plant. (2) The United States should start a national program of accompanying research and technology leading to the construction of a compact pilot plant that produces electricity from fusion at the lowest possible capital cost.
2009 Report to the Community and Strategic Plan
Author: New Mexico. Department of Cultural AffairsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Humanities
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Strategic Planning for the Florida Citrus Industry
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309153352
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
Citrus greening, a disease that reduces yield, compromises the flavor, color, and size of citrus fruit and eventually kills the citrus tree, is now present in all 34 Floridian citrus-producing counties. Caused by an insect-spread bacterial infection, the disease reduced citrus production in 2008 by several percent and continues to spread, threatening the existence of Florida's $9.3 billion citrus industry. A successful citrus greening response will focus on earlier detection of diseased trees, so that these sources of new infections can be removed more quickly, and on new methods to control the insects that carry the bacteria. In the longerterm, technologies such as genomics could be used to develop new citrus strains that are resistant to both the bacteria and the insect.
Playing for Change
Author: Russell FieldPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442628200
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
This book provides wide-ranging examples of cutting-edge research in sports studies.
Building Stronger Communities with Children and Families (2nd Edition)
Author: Karl BrettigPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527543625
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
This book highlights key principles emerging from the process of implementing an entire community and government approach to supporting families at risk of vulnerability. Drawing on the expertise of a number of practitioners and researchers, it also examines the efficacy of some of the early intervention and prevention strategies developed through the Australian Communities for Children initiative. It will be of particular interest to community services, education and child welfare practitioners and policy makers involved with, or contemplating involvement in, implementing a place-based collective impact approach to child development, wellbeing and protection. How can we better engage with families at risk in a digital world? How can we deliver holistic, integrated support? How can we redesign our family support systems? What kind of leadership and governance will it take to implement the kind of systems change that delivers improved outcomes? These are critical questions we need to engage with if we are to collaboratively redesign inadequate, siloed approaches and build family-friendly communities that improve the lives of children and families.
Interim Report of the Committee on a Strategic Plan for U.S. Burning Plasma Research
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and MedicinePublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309469333
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 61
Book Description
In January 2003, President George W. Bush announced that the United States would begin negotiations to join the ITER project and noted that "if successful, ITER would create the first fusion device capable of producing thermal energy comparable to the output of a power plant, making commercially viable fusion power available as soon as 2050." The United States and the other ITER members are now constructing ITER with the aim to demonstrate that magnetically confined plasmas can produce more fusion power than the power needed to sustain the plasma. This is a critical step towards producing and delivering electricity from fusion energy. Since the international establishment of the ITER project, ITER's construction schedule has slipped and ITER's costs have increased significantly, leading to questions about whether the United States should continue its commitment to participate in ITER. This study will advise how to best advance the fusion energy sciences in the United States given developments in the field, the specific international investments in fusion science and technology, and the priorities for the next ten years developed by the community and the Office of Fusion Energy Sciences (FES) that were recently reported to Congress. It will address the scientific justification and needs for strengthening the foundations for realizing fusion energy given a potential choice of U.S. participation or not in the ITER project, and develops future scenarios in either case. This interim report assesses the current status of U.S. fusion research and of the importance of burning plasma research to the development of fusion energy as well as to plasma science and other science and engineering disciplines. The final report will present strategies that incorporate continued progress toward a burning plasma experiment and a focus on innovation.
Special Topics in Policing
Author: James F. AlbrechtPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031563476
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
Community & Public Health Nursing: Promoting the Public's Health
Author: Judith AllenderPublisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
ISBN: 1469826658
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 1107
Book Description
Community & Public Health Nursing is designed to provide students a basic grounding in public health nursing principles while emphasizing aggregate-level nursing. While weaving in meaningful examples from practice throughout the text, the authors coach students on how to navigate between conceptualizing about a population-focus while also continuing to advocate and care for individuals, families, and aggregates. This student-friendly, highly illustrated text engages students, and by doing so, eases students into readily applying public health principles along with evidence-based practice, nursing science, and skills that promote health, prevent disease, as well as protect at-risk populations! What the 8th edition of this text does best is assist students in broadening the base of their knowledge and skills that they can employ in both the community and acute care settings, while the newly enhanced ancillary resources offers interactive tools that allow students of all learning styles to master public health nursing.
Community Health and Wellness
Author: Anne McMurrayPublisher: Elsevier Australia
ISBN: 0729539547
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 473
Book Description
A socio-ecological approach to community health and the promotion of health care across the lifespan, with an increased emphasis on health literacy, intervention and health promotion.
Author: United States