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Presentation of Discussions in Breakout Sessions
Presentation of Discussions in Breakout Sessions
Pages 42-50
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Mr. Kammer noted that these are two-way channels in that information flows from consumers to businesses as well as from businesses to consumers.
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building on complementary efforts of both the United States and the European Union. The group identified the following goals for collaboration on crosslingual information management: to provide for more rapid international progress, to develop standards and promote interoperability, to increase resource sharing and integration, to create a network of data centers, to bring together usercentered and technology-based evaluations, and to develop reference architec tures.
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Horsely said that the need to "decouple the growth of traffic from the growth of the economy" was a pervasive theme emerging from the transportation breakout sessions. Traffic is growing rapidly in the United States and Europe, and eventually traffic congestion will inhibit economic growth.
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Strategic Enabling Research The discussion also touched on areas where common work between the United States and the European Union is possible. Areas in which "mutual exploitation" seems promising include logistics; monitoring and data collection; developing tools for forecasting demand; and human factors, such as training, workplace issues, and machine-human interfaces.
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priorities for climate research. Bob Corell of the National Science Foundation presented a summary of a report from the National Research Council called "Overview of Climate Change: Research Pathways for the Next Decade." The group then heard a summary of the European Union's Fifth Framework Programme on climate change.
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U.S. National Impact Assessment Program The United States has developed an assessment program to explore how climate change may affect specific U.S.
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Krebs mentioned two issues the group was unable to discuss but that are important nonetheless: (1) how to obtain data on areas of the world with small scientific communities (climate change is a truly global issue, and the United States and the European Union, with about 75 percent of the world's research and development spending, should pay attention to other areas of the world that do not have the resources for such research)
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The United States and the European Union would benefit from collaboration on risk assessment for example, determining the frequency of occurrence of compound X and the magnitude of its harm. Classification and labeling.
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One breakout participant noted that endocrine disrupters involve chemical management, and when governments try to manage chemicals they have the potential to affect trade.
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