Böcker av Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education

National Patterns of R&D Resources: Future Directions for Content and Methods: Summary of a Workshop (2013)

Improving Self-Escape from Underground Coal Mines (2013)

For many household surveys in the United States, responses rates have been steadily declining for at least the past two decades. A similar decline in survey response can be observed in all wealthy countries. This title documents the increased use of information collected in the survey process in nonresponse adjustment.

"The original study "From Neurons to Neighborhoods: The Science of Early Childhood Development" was released at a press conference in the Washington, DC, headquarters of the National Academy of Sciences on October 3, 2000." -- p. xi

Three papers that "review the behavioral and social sciences research on the likelihood that someone who engages in abnormal and/or threatening communications will actually then try to do harm"--P. 1.

"The workshop was organized by a steering committee composed of experts in administering and assessing the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) at the national and state levels, as well as experts in survey methodology and modeling"--Pref. p. vii.

"The workshop that is the subject of this report was organized by the National Research Council's Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change and the Climate Research Committee"--P. vii.

"Panel on Addressing the Challenges of Climate Change Through the Behavioral and Social Sciences, Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council of the National Academies."

Report of the ad hoc committee based on an October 2007 workshop and two follow-up meetings.