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Do the SBE Sciences Advance the Work of Industry and Business?
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From page 24... ... Research cited in the Google patent was supported by four different federal science agencies, including an $81,800 grant in 1984 from the sociology program at NSF to study networks of corporate board members.137,138,139 The original version of the search engine resulted from a formula developed with NSF funding in the late 1990s by two graduate students. Even in the early days of the Internet, people saw the need for better ways to interact with growing data collections, and early search engines that created indexes of Websites.140 (Some of these search engines, such as Inktomi and Lycos, also were supported with funding from the Digital Libraries Initiative.) Read the entire page →
From page 25... ... This reduction is partly due to improved aircraft crew training that is based on fundamental SBE research on team dynamics, leader ship, and interpersonal communications. The airline industry used this basic research, in combination with applied research conducted in cockpit simulators and analyses of actual cockpit flight recordings, to develop a training program called crew resource man agement or cockpit resource management (CRM) Read the entire page →
From page 26... ... Firefighting crews and emergency responders have also applied CRM principles and training.147 More generally, many industries have improved their safety by adopting practices based on SBE research. These practices include work-rest scheduling principles to reduce the fatigue of long-distance truckers in the commercial vehicle industry148 and the cultivation and assessment of a safety culture in the nuclear power, oil and gas, health care, and other industries.149 The use of checklists based on CRM principles have spread from airline cockpits to numerous health care settings.150,151 Using the Altitudes of the World Population to Inform Product Development and Marketing Data gathered by SBE scientists as part of an NSF-funded effort to understand the distribution of the world's population by altitude generated unexpected interest from businesses in areas as diverse as food production and packaging, semiconductor manufacturing, and biomedical research and devel opment.152 In 1998, researchers developed an entirely new mapping technique that divided the earth into grids that were indexed by population size and by altitude.153 This map revealed that more than one-third of the world's populations lives within 300 feet of sea level and that those populations are distributed in low-density areas, such as agricultural regions. Read the entire page →

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... Research cited in the Google patent was supported by four different federal science agencies, including an $81,800 grant in 1984 from the sociology program at NSF to study networks of corporate board members.137,138,139 The original version of the search engine resulted from a formula developed with NSF funding in the late 1990s by two graduate students. Even in the early days of the Internet, people saw the need for better ways to interact with growing data collections, and early search engines that created indexes of Websites.140 (Some of these search engines, such as Inktomi and Lycos, also were supported with funding from the Digital Libraries Initiative.)

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... This reduction is partly due to improved aircraft crew training that is based on fundamental SBE research on team dynamics, leader ship, and interpersonal communications. The airline industry used this basic research, in combination with applied research conducted in cockpit simulators and analyses of actual cockpit flight recordings, to develop a training program called crew resource man agement or cockpit resource management (CRM)

Read the entire page →

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... Firefighting crews and emergency responders have also applied CRM principles and training.147 More generally, many industries have improved their safety by adopting practices based on SBE research. These practices include work-rest scheduling principles to reduce the fatigue of long-distance truckers in the commercial vehicle industry148 and the cultivation and assessment of a safety culture in the nuclear power, oil and gas, health care, and other industries.149 The use of checklists based on CRM principles have spread from airline cockpits to numerous health care settings.150,151 Using the Altitudes of the World Population to Inform Product Development and Marketing Data gathered by SBE scientists as part of an NSF-funded effort to understand the distribution of the world's population by altitude generated unexpected interest from businesses in areas as diverse as food production and packaging, semiconductor manufacturing, and biomedical research and devel opment.152 In 1998, researchers developed an entirely new mapping technique that divided the earth into grids that were indexed by population size and by altitude.153 This map revealed that more than one-third of the world's populations lives within 300 feet of sea level and that those populations are distributed in low-density areas, such as agricultural regions.

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Do the SBE Sciences Advance the Work of Industry and Business? Pages 24-26

Do the SBE Sciences Advance the Work of Industry and Business?
Pages 24-26