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Diosmacycloalkanes as models for the formation of hydrocarbons from surface methylenes
We are making progress on our investigation of the mechanism of olefin exchange with Os{sub 2}(C{sub 2}H{sub 4})(CO){sub 8}. We are probing this system by kinetic study of the reaction of Os{sub 2}(C{sub 2}H{sub 4})(CO){sub 8} with butyl acrylate (BA) under various pressures of ethylene.
Date:
May 1, 1992
Creator:
Norton, J.R.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Direct Conversion Technology
The overall objective of the Direct Conversion Technology task is to develop an experimentally verified technology base for promising direct conversion systems that have potential application for energy conservation in the end-use sectors. Initially, two systems were selected for exploratory research and advanced development. These are Alkali Metal Thermal-to-Electric Converter (AMTEC) and Two-Phase Liquid Metal MD Generator (LMMHD). This report describes progress that has been made during the first six months of 1992 on research activities associated with these two systems. (GHH)
Date:
July 1, 1992
Creator:
Back, L.H.; Fabris, G. & Ryan, M.A.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Annual Report to the Congress: Fiscal Year 1991
This report describes the activities of the Office in Fiscal Year 1991 within the context of the legislative agenda of the 101st Congress and the events in the United States and the world during 1991.
Date:
March 1992
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Difficult-To-Reuse Needles for the Prevention of HIV Infection Among Injecting Drug Abusers
This paper reviews various possibilities of using non-reusable injection technologies for reducing HIV transmission among injecting drug users in the United States. It does not put forth the redesign of injection equipment as a policy option for congressional consideration; it merely examines some of the implications of a proposal put forth by some health experts.
Date:
October 1992
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Do Medicaid and Medicare Patients Sue More Often Than Other Patients?
This background paper also responds to the request of the Congressional Sunbelt Caucus that OTA examine and judge the available evidence on whether Medicaid and Medicare patients, particularly obstetrics patients, are more litigious than other patients.
Date:
September 1992
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Federal and Private Roles in the Development and Provision of Alglucerase Therapy for Gaucher Disease
This background paper describes the development of alglucerase, illustrates the role that both the Federal Government and private sector can have in making new therapies available for orphan diseases, and lays out some of the tradeoffs that can exist between developing new medical technologies and controlling health care costs.
Date:
October 1992
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
NASA's Office of Space Science and Applications: Process, Priorities and Goals
This Background Paper summarizes a one-day workshop convened to assess the effectiveness of the planning and priority-setting mechanisms used by NASA’s Office of Space Science and Applications (OSSA) in carrying out its diverse scientific program.
Date:
January 1992
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Police Body Armor Standards and Testing, Vol. I
This report discusses the standards for body-armor. The report describes the origin of the standard, the rationale for particular provisions, and the main points of controversy, which concern acceptable risks, the validity and discrimination of the test, and the reproducibility of results.
Date:
August 1992
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Remotely Sensed Data From Space: Distribution, Pricing, and Applications
This short background paper summarizes the discussion concerning data pricing and distribution from a one-day workshop convened by OTA on May 20, 1992.
Date:
July 1992
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Retiring Old Cars: Programs To Save Gasoline and Reduce Emissions
This report examines the costs and benefits of vehicle retirement programs. With regulation of new vehicles above the 90 percent control level for the major pollutants and scheduled to become even stricter in the near future, emissions from older vehicles have drawn increasing attention.
Date:
July 1992
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Science and Technology Issues in Coastal Ecotourism
This paper presents information on the ecotourism trends; identifies issues related to resource conservation, ecotourism development and management, and planning; and presents questions for possible further consideration.
Date:
October 1992
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Fueling Development: Energy Technologies for Developing Countries
This report examines the delivery of energy services in developing countries and how the United States can help to improve these energy services while minimizing environmental impacts, OTA examines the technologies and policies that will enable more efficient use of energy and the most promising new sources of energy supply.
Date:
April 1992
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Genetic Counseling and Cystic Fibrosis Carrier Screening: Results of a Survey
This paper presents results from a 1991 OTA survey of 431 genetic counselors and nurse geneticists. It was conducted to better understand the environment in which the average genetic counselor or nurse in genetics works, to describe the infrastructure and tools available to these professionals, to assess the state of practice in the provision of cystic fibrosis (CF) carrier screening, and to evaluate their attitudes regarding CF carrier screening.
Date:
October 1992
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Genetic Tests and Health Insurance: Results of a Survey
This background paper describes results from a 1991 OTA survey of U.S. health insurers’ attitudes toward genetic tests and genetic information— both how they currently view information from various sources (e.g., genetic tests, other medical tests, or family histories) in underwriting decisions and how they might reimburse consumers for genetic tests. It also reports data on the role health insurers expect genetic tests and genetic information will play in their business practices over the coming decade.
Date:
October 1992
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Global Standards: Building Blocks for the Future
There are standards to protect the environment and human health and safety, and to mediate commercial transactions. Other standards ensure that different products are compatible when hooked together. This report is looking across industry sectors; it evaluates the U.S. standards setting process in the light of its changing economic and technological environment, and compares it to processes in other countries.
Date:
March 1992
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Green Products by Design: Choices for a Cleaner Environment
In this report, OTA provides a conceptual overview of how designers might integrate environmental concerns with traditional design objectives, and how policymakers can best take advantage of such opportunities. Although the concept of “green” design is gathering momentum, a number of technical, behavioral, economic, and informational barriers need to be addressed.
Date:
September 1992
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Home Drug Infusion Therapy Under Medicare
This report deals with the drug and biological infusion treatments (including blood transfusions) being used in the home but not yet explicitly covered by Medicare in that setting. Medicare does cover total parenteral nutrition (TPN) in the home for individuals with long-term disabilities that prevent them from being able to digest food. TPN has many similarities to the therapies discussed in detail in this report, and many providers of HDIT also provide TPN and other nutritional products and services.
Date:
May 1992
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Identifying and Controlling Pulmonary Toxicants
This Background Paper examines whether the agencies responsible for administering Federal environmental and health and safety laws have taken this concern for respiratory health to heart. This paper provides a partial response to the committees’ request for an assessment of noncancer health risks in the environment and follows OTA’s previous work on carcinogenic, neurotoxic, and immunotoxic substances.
Date:
June 1992
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Lessons in Restructuring Defense Industry: The French Experience
This background paper first describes the structure and management of the French defense-industrial base and then reviews a variety of strategies the French Government and industry are pursuing to rationalize the base, while preserving key technological assets and strengthening the competitive position of French defense contractors in world markets.
Date:
June 1992
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Managing Industrial Solid Wastes From Manufacturing, Mining, Oil and Gas Production, and Utility Coal Combustion
This background paper examines wastes generated by industrial activities that play a dominant role in our national economy-oil and gas production, mining and mineral processing, coal combustion, and manufacturing. In previous reports on municipal solid waste and medical waste, OTA examined other solid wastes not classified as hazardous.
Date:
March 1992
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Monitoring Limits on Sea-Launched Cruise Missiles
This report examines in detail ways in which compliance with such a regime might be monitored. Surveying the life-cycle of SLCMs from development testing through deployment and storage, the assessment identifies the ‘indicators’ by which the missiles might be tracked and accounted for. It also assesses the paths of evasion that a determined cheater might take to avoid the proposed monitoring measures.
Date:
September 1992
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Performance Standards for the Food Stamp Employment and Training Program
This report on proposed performance standards for the Food Stamp Employment and Training Program (FSET) responds to a mandate in the Hunger Prevention Act of 1988 (Public Law 100- 435). This report, then, goes beyond the original mandate and analyzes successful employment and training programs. Based on this analysis, the report identifies several alternative approaches to increasing the impact of FSET.
Date:
February 1992
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Cystic Fibrosis and DNA Tests: Implications of Carrier Screening
This report concludes that the value of the cystic fibrosis (CF) carrier test is the information it provides. No one can estimate in common terms what it means to an individual to possess information about his or her genetic status, especially when the value concerns reproductive decision-making. As our knowledge of the human genome increases, what we do with information such as CF carrier status will depend on the perceptions and beliefs of all Americans.
Date:
August 1992
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Disposal of Chemical Weapons: Alternative Technologies
This background paper briefly describes the Army’s chemical weapons destruction program, discusses the factors that could affect a decision to develop alternatives, discusses the alternatives, and illustrates the difficulty of gaining public acceptance of complex technical systems.
Date:
June 1992
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System:
The UNT Digital Library