This workshop is designed to increase the efficiency of airport and air space use in the United States.This book provides a summary of the workshop, which included presentations on the following topics: Airport operations and support, Environmental management, Air navigation operations, Air navigation support, and flight operation support; Positioning, navigation, and timing services and surveillance; Weather information services; Safety management, Net-centric infrastructure services and operat more...

In the United States there are several thousand devices containing high-activity radiation sources licensed for use in areas ranging from medical uses such as cancer therapy to safety uses. Concerns have been raised about the safety and security of the radiation sources. The study concludes that the U.S. government should consider factors such as potential economic consequences of misuse of the radiation sources into its assessments of risk. The committee recommends that the U.S. government take more...

Information Research, is an open access, international, peer-reviewed, scholarly journal, dedicated to making accessible the results of research across a wide range of information-related disciplines. It is privately published and edited by Professor T.D. Wilson. It is hosted, and given technical support, by Lund University Libraries, Sweden. Editorial support is provided by the Swedish School of Library and Information Science, Gothenburg University and Högskolan i Borås.

The International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology makes this webpage available with descriptions and links to a large number of initiatives that make scientific journals available free to researchers in developing nations.

Online Access to Research in the Environment (OARE), an international public-private consortium coordinated by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Yale University, and leading science and technology publishers, enables developing countries to gain access to one of the world's largest collections of environmental science research.

Over 1,300 peer reviewed titles owned and published by over 340 prestigious publishing houses and scholarly societies are now available in more than 100 more...

The AGORA program, set up by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) together with major publishers, enables developing countries to gain access to an outstanding digital library collection in the fields of food, agriculture, environmental science and related social sciences. AGORA provides a collection of 1278 journals to institutions in 107 countries. AGORA is designed to enhance the scholarship of the many thousands of students, faculty and researchers in agriculture and life sc more...

HINARI, AGORA and OARE, three unique public-private partnerships are working with the UN’s millennium goals to provide the developing world with access to critical research. 'Over the past five years, 6000 journals with a subscription value of £3m per year have been made available to researchers in 4,000 developing world institutions, via these three programs. A recent impact analysis conducted by Elsevier, has shown that over the five-year period from 2002-2006, 105 HINARI countries saw a 63 more...

FAST is a global organization established by alumni of the Fulbright Exchange Program and other members of the science and technology community. FAST seeks to expand knowledge and international understanding by linking leaders in science, business, government and academia. FAST seeks to use the global Fulbright network to enhance innovation and advance education, research and policy..

Global Network for Environment and Economic Development Research (GNEEDER), an NGO, the Centre for Youth, Family and the Law, a community-based organisation, and the Sustainable Ibadan Project, a quasi-governmental organisation joined forces to find a solution to the problem of water pollution arising from the disposition of abattoir waste. Instead of getting rid of such waste, technology is being used to turn them into biogas benefitting more than 5400 families.

The Global Urban Competitiveness Project publishes periodic studies ranks 500 cities on their ability to attract and use resources to generate wealth. The cities are assessed on nine measures, including income, economic growth, innovation, jobs, prices and the presence of multinational firms.