The Management of Research Institutions: A Look at Government LaboratoriesScientific and Technical Information Branch, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1984 - 306 pages |
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... Standards The Multiprogram Laboratories of the Energy Department CHAPTER XI . Conclusions . REFERENCES BIBLIOGRAPHIC ESSAY . 193 193 .. 200 207 213 223 237 249 ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS FREQUENTLY CITED IN TEXT . 255 APPENDIX I ...
... Standards The Multiprogram Laboratories of the Energy Department CHAPTER XI . Conclusions . REFERENCES BIBLIOGRAPHIC ESSAY . 193 193 .. 200 207 213 223 237 249 ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS FREQUENTLY CITED IN TEXT . 255 APPENDIX I ...
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... Standards , the Naval Research Laboratory , or Oak Ridge National Laboratory , where much of the most advanced technology has been developed . No doubt , we could account for this lack in several ways : Scientists and engineers may not ...
... Standards , the Naval Research Laboratory , or Oak Ridge National Laboratory , where much of the most advanced technology has been developed . No doubt , we could account for this lack in several ways : Scientists and engineers may not ...
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... Standards . The work of large Federal technology development laboratories and the large privately - sponsored ones served to set the direction that cer- tain major industries - much of what is now fashionably called " high technology ...
... Standards . The work of large Federal technology development laboratories and the large privately - sponsored ones served to set the direction that cer- tain major industries - much of what is now fashionably called " high technology ...
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... Standards ( NBS ) notes that different observers saw the Bureau doing different things . In 1970 and 1971 , the Bureau responded to a survey by indicating that it was spending between $ 13 and $ 15 million annually on basic research ...
... Standards ( NBS ) notes that different observers saw the Bureau doing different things . In 1970 and 1971 , the Bureau responded to a survey by indicating that it was spending between $ 13 and $ 15 million annually on basic research ...
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... Standards , or a research facility operated under contract to the Department of Energy , emerges . This is the need to draw on the support of industry and the universities to achieve its ends , or what one observer has called ...
... Standards , or a research facility operated under contract to the Department of Energy , emerges . This is the need to draw on the support of industry and the universities to achieve its ends , or what one observer has called ...
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Page 28 - Act of 1862 was a comprehensive measure, providing for "the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college [in each State] where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts...
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