Scientific Information Activities of Federal Agencies

Mode of access: Internet.

Program report /

Each issue covers a different subject

Scientific Manpower

Mode of access: Internet.

Current labor market conditions in engineering, scientific, and technical occupations

Title varies slightly

Scientific and technical personnel in the Federal Government

Mode of access: Internet.

Federal Grants and Contracts for Unclassified Research in the Life Sciences

Mode of access: Internet.

Extending the human life span : social policy and social ethics /

"NSF/RA 770123."

Grant proposal guide /

"NSF 94-2 (replaces 92-89)."

Current Research and Development in Scientific Documentation

Successively issued by: National Science Foundation. Office of Scientific Information; National Science Foundation. Office of Science Information Service

Bulletin of the Chemical Society = Glasnik Hemijskog društva /

Some issues have title: Bulletin of the Chemical Society, Belgrade = Glasnik Hemijskog društva, Beograd.

Land resource analysis /

Research proposal submitted to the National Science Foundation, Research Applied to National Needs (RANN).

SMPS particle size data from the Mt. Bachelor Observatory for summer 2015

Aerosol size distributions from the Mt. Bachelor Observatory for 7/30/2015 to 9/23/2015.

Evaluating approaches to product design and sourcing decisions in multinational companies

Product design and sourcing decisions are among the most difficult and important of all decisions facing multinational manufacturing companies, yet associated decision support and evaluation systems tend to be myopic in nature. Design for manufacture and assembly techniques, for example, generally focuses on manufacturing capability and ignores capacity although both should be considered. Similarly, most modelling and evaluation tools available to examine the performance of various solution and improvement techniques have a narrower scope than desired. A unique collaboration, funded by the US National Science Foundation, between researchers in the USA and the UK currently addresses these problems. This paper describes a technique known as Design For the Existing Environment (DFEE) and an holistic evaluation system based on enterprise simulation that was used to demonstrate the business benefits of DFEE applied in a simple product development and manufacturing case study. A project that will extend these techniques to evaluate global product sourcing strategies is described along with the practical difficulties of building an enterprise simulation on the scale and detail required.

Some new Results for Additive Self-Dual Codes over GF(4)

* Supported by COMBSTRU Research Training Network HPRN-CT-2002-00278 and the Bulgarian National Science Foundation under Grant MM-1304/03.