This report is about Independent Regulatory Commissions.

This report discusses a cumulation of the reports which appear to be of continuing usefulness.

Report on family violence, the cycle of violence, and attempts to understand the effects family violence has on children.

This report collects Federal government efforts to control drug abuse in the United States.

Hearings over the course of four days covering the "updated view of the mission, utility, methodology, and state-of-the-art of technology assessment" (p. 1).

This report contains information on the country of Panama, its' relations to other countries, historic background, and people, with a focus on the Panama Canal and its' background.

This report about the second conference on National Materials Policy sponsored by the Engineering Foundation at Henniker, N.H

Report on Charles Sanders Peirce and his contributions to a newspaper, includes yearly breakdowns of his contributions, analysis of his writings, his contributions to philosophy, and more.

This report discusses the draft lottery, how it is performed, and the history of the draft lottery.

A report by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) in response to the rising costs of medical care that assesses the "policy implications of computer-based medical information systems" (p. v).

Research report prepared for the President's Commission on School Finance outlining various ways that funding is allocated for schools and possible areas of reform, organized in four major chapters: [1] State-Local Revenue Systems and Educational Finance, [2] The Present State-Local Revenue System, [3] Achieving a Heavy-Duty State-Local Revenue System, and [4] A High Quality State-Local Revenue System -- The Prospects for Adoption. It also includes several appendices with supplementary information.

Appendices to an evaluation report for the North Texas State University Interior Design Department discussing curriculum, teachers activities, department activities and resources, general campus resources, and library resources for the academic year 1976-77 for submission to the accreditation committee.

Report issued by the Bureau of Standards over studies on the benefits of computerized record-keeping. Medical records were chosen for the studies, and they also focus on patient privacy and rights. This report includes tables, and illustrations.

This report acts as an aid in the subject area of tax confidentiality, and also provides a legislative history of tax confidentiality.

Under contract with the U.S. Department of Energy, the College of Engineering at the University of South Carolina has conducted an assessment of educational needs among engineers working in nuclear fuel cycle related areas. The study was initiated as a regional effort focusing on the concentration of nuclear industry in the Southeast. Educational needs addressed were those at the post-baccalaureate professional level. The project was envisioned as providing base line information for the eventual implementation of a program in line with the needs of the Southeast's nuclear community. Specific objectives were to establish the content of such a program and to determine those specialized features which would make the program most attractive and useful.

An assessment was conducted of educational needs among engineers working in nuclear fuel cycle-related areas, focusing on the nuclear industry in the Southeast. Educational needs addressed were those at the post-baccalaureate professional level. As a result of the study, a list of subject areas has been compiled as best representing the current content of an educational program. In addition to identifying subject areas, a set of course descriptions and reference materials has been developed around each subject. Each course description contains information regarding objectives, anticipated audience, and prerequisites and offers a suggested course outline. An initial modest program of implementation is recommended which would continue to concentrate on the Southeast as a target area.

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A report by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) of an assessment designed to analyze "materials information systems and their capability to support effective policymaking decisions on materials problems" (p. vii).

Included are copies of fifty-six comment letters on the Proposed Final Environmental Statement together with the ERDA replies to these letters. The letters were received from Federal, State, and local agencies, environmental and public interest groups, members of the academic and industrial communities, and individual citizens. (DG)

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The principal objectives of the research program on rock bed heat accumulators (or RBHA) are: (1) to investigate the technical and economic feasibility of storing large amounts of thermal energy (in the tens of MWt range) at high temperature (up to 500/sup 0/C) over extended periods of time (up to 6 months) using native earth or rock materials; (2) to conduct studies to establish the performance characteristics of large rock bed heat accumulators at various power and temperature levels compatible with thermal conversion systems; and (3) to assess the materials and environmental problems associated with the operation of such large heat accumulators. Results of the study indicate that rock bed heat accumulators for seasonal storage are both technically and economically feasible, and hence could be exploited in various applications in which storage plays an essential role such as solar power and total energy systems, district and cogeneration heating systems.

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