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World Energy Conference Survey of Energy Resources. Compiled by Harold E. Goeller. New York United States National Committee of the World Energy Conference. 1974. 

The lEC, founded in 1906, oversees, on an international level, aU matters relating to standards for electrical and electronic items. Membership in the lEC is held by a National Committee for each nation. The United States National Committee (USNC) for lEC was founded in 1907, and since 1931 has been affiliated with ANSI. USNC has its members representatives from professional societies, trade associations, testing laboratories, government entities, other organizations, and individual experts. The USNC appoints a technical advisor and a technical advisory group for each lEC Committee and Subcommittee to help develop a unified United States position. These advisory groups are drawn from groups that are involved in the development of related U.S. national standards. 

Consequently for the first three, we may expect to find professional groups keenly aware of the necessity for describing an offering in terms that can be understood in the world market. Thus in this country there is established the New York Sugar Trade Laboratory and a United States National Committee on Sugar Analysis, an affiliate of the International Commission for Uniform Methods of Sugar Analysis. This is probably the most organized of the three. 

USNC, United States National Committee of CIE. Commission International de L Eclairage (1989). 

Laufer. J. United States National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. Report No. 1174 (1955). The structure of turbulence in fully developed pipe flow,... 

Calvert, J. G. Interactions of air pollutants, pp. 19-101. In National Academy of Sciences-National Research Coundl, Assembly of Life Sciences. Proceedings of the Conference on Health Effects of Air Pollutants. October 3-5, 1973. Prepared for the Committee on Public Works, United States Senate. Committee Print Serial No. 93-15. Washington, D.C. U.S. Government Printing Office, 1973. 

Committee on Genetic Vulnerability of Major Crops, Agricultural Board, Division of Biology and Agriculture, United States National Research Council, Genetic Vulnerability of Major Crops (Washington National Academy of Sciences, 1972), p. 21. 

Opportunities in Chemistry," Report of the Committee to Survey Opportunities in the Chemical Sciences, United States National Research Council, National Academy Press, Washington, DC, 1985. "Frontiers in Chemical Engineering Research Needs and... 

United States National Institutes of Health (2000) Report of the Autoimmune Diseases Coordinating Committee. Bethesda, Maryland, United States Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, October (http //www.niaid.nih.gov/dait/pdf/ adccrev.pdf). 

In one country at least this awareness-raising is beginning in earnest. As previously noted, the United States National Academies, in response to growing concerns about the misuse of modern biology, set up a committee under the chairmanship of Gerald Fink to examine the issues involved. The committee report, Biotechnology Research in an Age of Terrorism Confronting the Dual-Use Dilemma,15 in part identified seven classes of experiments that it felt required prior review. The classes were those which ... 

Breslow R. and Tirrell M.V. (Co-Chairs). 2003. Beyond the molecular frontier, challenges for chemistry and chemical engineering. Committee on Challenges for the Chemical Sciences in the 21st Century. The United States National Academies Press. 

Blackwelder s commitment to, 43 Committee on Zoological Nomenclature, 26 Mayr s complaint about, 33 Universal laws, problem of induction and, 61 Universal statements, 62, 64 Unrooted topologies, 106 USNM, see United States National Museum... 

Based on these considerations, the nutrient requirements, including the recommended intake of vitamin A activity for normal growth and development, have been established. Publications are available from the United States National Academy of Sciences for a number of laboratory, domestic, and farm animals and fish. These recommendations are periodically reviewed and updated by expert committees. In addition, the United States National Research Council has published standards for consideration in the control of diets for the conduct of nutrition studies in animals (ILAR Committee on Laboratory Animal Diets, 1977) and the American Institute of Nutrition has published a description of diets suitable for growth, reproduction, and lactation in rats and mice (American Institute of Nutrition, 1977). 

World War II created the condition for the formulation of the Recommended Dietary Allowances of the Committee on Food and Nutrition, United States National Research Council (1941). The goal of this table and of its subsequent revisions (1945,1948, 1953) is much higher than any previously sought— the building up of our people to a level of health and vigor never before attained or dreamed of. The table itself is the most detailed that had yet been devised, providing allowances for calories, protein, calcium, iron, and six vitamins for men and women and for children of various ages. 

Research Doctorate Programs in the United States Continuity and Change. 1995. Committee for the Study of Research-Doctorate Programs in the United States, National Research Council. Washington, D.C. National Academy of Sciences. Contains information on descriptive statistics of selected characteristics of PhD granting institutions and faculty views on program quality. Extensive narratives, tables, and figures compare institutions. 

Manson SS. Behavior of materials under conditions of thermal stress. United States National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA TN) 1953. books.google.com/ books id=88pCAQAAIAAJ>. 

Standards for food-grade chemicals in the United States are set by the Committee on Eood Chemicals Codex of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) which pubHshes them in the Food Chemicals Codex (ECC) (6) (see also Eood additives). Standards for laboratory reagents are set by the American Chemical Society (ACS) Committee on Analytical Reagents and are pubHshed in Feagent Chemicals—A.CS Specifications (7). Standards for electronic-grade chemicals, which have extremely low limits for trace ions, are pubHshed aimually in The Book of SEMI Standards (BOSS) by Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI) (8). 

Several countries have developed their own standard test methods for cellular plastics, and the International Organization for Standards (ISO) Technical Committee on Plastics TC-61 has been developing international standards. Information concerning the test methods for any particular country or the ISO procedures can be obtained in the United States from the American National Standards Institute. The most complete set of test procedures for cellular plastics, and the most used of any in the world, is that developed by the ASTM these procedures are pubUshed in new editions each year (128). There have been several reviews of ASTM methods and others pertinent to cellular plastics (32,59,129—131). 

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