National Science Foundation Advisory Committee for Cyberinfrastructure Task Force on Campus Bridging Final Report

The mission of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Advisory Committee on Cyberinfrastructure (ACCI) is to advise the NSF as a whole on matters related to vision and strategy regarding cyberinfrastructure (CI). In early 2009 the ACCI charged six task forces with making recommendations to the NSF in strategic areas of cyberinfrastructure: Campus Bridging; Cyberlearning and Workforce Development; Data and Visualization; Grand Challenges; High Performance Computing (HPC); and Software for Science and Engineering. Each task force was asked to offer advice on the basis of which the NSF would modify existing programs and create new programs. This document is the final, overall report of the Task Force on Campus Bridging.National Science Foundatio

Defense Conversion Resource Guide

The bipartisan Assembly Task Force on Defense Conversion was created in March 1993. The mission of the 23-member Task Force is to maximize federal defense conversion funding for California and assist communities in the defense conversion process. During the last seven months, Task Force members have worked toward accomplishing this mission through a variety of activities, which include: • Establishing a hotline for assistance on available federal and state grants and other defense conversion-related activities; Conducting regional hearings in the Bay Area and Southern California to identify barriers to federal and state assistance in defense conversion; • Providing the Congressional Task Force on Defense Reinvestment and Economic Development with suggested federal legislation to remove the barriers to defense conversion; • Conducting special hearings on base facility reuse and defense worker retraining opportunities through Task Force working groups (worker retraining, community adjustment, and defense industry adjustment); • Convening workshops on base reuse planning, toxic cleanup, and economic development for California communities affected by scheduled base closures; and •Introducing legislation, which was signed into law, to assist communities in the military base reuse and defense conversion process. The Task Force seeks to further accomplish its mission by providing this Defense Conversion Resource Guide

Defense Conversion Resource Guide

The bipartisan Assembly Task Force on Defense Conversion was created in March 1993. The mission of the 23-member Task Force is to maximize federal defense conversion funding for California and assist communities in the defense conversion process. During the last seven months, Task Force members have worked toward accomplishing this mission through a variety of activities, which include: • Establishing a hotline for assistance on available federal and state grants and other defense conversion-related activities; Conducting regional hearings in the Bay Area and Southern California to identify barriers to federal and state assistance in defense conversion; • Providing the Congressional Task Force on Defense Reinvestment and Economic Development with suggested federal legislation to remove the barriers to defense conversion; • Conducting special hearings on base facility reuse and defense worker retraining opportunities through Task Force working groups (worker retraining, community adjustment, and defense industry adjustment); • Convening workshops on base reuse planning, toxic cleanup, and economic development for California communities affected by scheduled base closures; and •Introducing legislation, which was signed into law, to assist communities in the military base reuse and defense conversion process. The Task Force seeks to further accomplish its mission by providing this Defense Conversion Resource Guide

Therapeutic foster care for prevention of violence: a report on recommendations of the Task Force on Community Preventive Services

In therapeutic foster care programs, youths who cannot live at home are placed in homes with foster parents who have been trained to provide a structured environment that supports their learning social and emotional skills. To assess the effectiveness of such programs in preventing violent behavior among participating youths, the Task Force on Community Preventive Services conducted a systematic review of the scientific literature regarding these programs. Reported and observed violence, including violent crime, were direct measures. Proxy measures were externalizing behavior (i.e., behavior in which psychological problems are acted out), conduct disorder, and arrests, convictions, or delinquency, as ascertained from official records, for acts that might have included violence. Reviewed studies assessed two similar interventions, distinguished by the ages and underlying problems of the target populations. Therapeutic foster care for reduction of violence by children with severe emotional disturbance (hereafter referred to as cluster therapeutic foster care) involved programs (average duration: 18 months) in which clusters of foster-parent families cooperated in the care of children (aged 5-13 years) with severe emotional disturbance. The Task Force found insufficient evidence to determine the effectiveness of this intervention in preventing violence. Therapeutic foster care for the reduction of violence by chronically delinquent adolescents (hereafter referred to as program-intensive therapeutic foster care) involved short-term programs (average duration: 6-7 months) in which program personnel collaborated closely and daily with foster families caring for adolescents (aged 12-18 years) with a history of chronic delinquency. On the basis of sufficient evidence of effectiveness, the Task Force recommends this intervention for prevention of violence among adolescents with a history of chronic delinquency. This report briefly describes how the reviews were conducted, provides additional information about the findings, and provides information that might help communities in applying the intervention locally.Introduction -- Methods -- Results -- Research concerns -- Use of the recommendation in states and communities -- Additional information about the Community Guide -- Referencesprepared by Robert A. Hahn, Jessica Lowy, Oleg Bilukha, Susan Snyder, Peter Briss, Alex Crosby, Mindy T. Fullilove, Farris Tuma, Eve K. Moscicki, Akiva Liberman, Amanda Schofield, Phaedra S. Corso.January 16, 2004.The material in this report originated in the National Center for Environmental Health; the Office of Genomics and Disease Prevention; the Division of Laboratory Sciences, the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental and the Division of Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities; the National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention, the Division of AIDS, STD, and TB Laboratory Research; and the Public Health Practice Program Office, and the Division of Laboratory Systems.Includes bibliographical references and index (p. 7-8)

Report of the Task Force on Ecoregional Approaches to Research

Report of the Task Force on Ecoregional Approaches to Research established at ICW94 It was presented at the CGIAR Mid Term Meeting in Nairobi, May 1995 by Task Force Chair Cyrus K. Ndiritu, Director of the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI). This task force was twinned with the Task Force on Sustainable Agriculture which also reported to MTM95.The report said that the ecoregional approach could focus and integrate commodity and thematic research, and link technological opportunity to the formulation of land use strategies and policies. The complex relationships implicit in the approach required clear assignments of responsibilities and partnerships among the participants. The Task Force proposed a matching fund to attract contributions for NARS and other local participants, and endorsed the TAC recommendations of 39% of CGIAR funding in the near future, and a fifteen year initial time horizon.Annexes include the original and revised terms of reference of the task force, and a list of members. Agenda document at the CGIAR meeting in May 1995

Reclaiming a Needed Resource: Minnesota\u27s Youth

Report and plan of action to Governor Rudy Perpic