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Financial Condition of American Agriculture
A chapter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "GAO reviewed the financial condition of American agriculture to assess: (1) the trends in the economic environment surrounding the farm sector; (2) farmers' financial condition; and (3) the performance of financial institutions serving agriculture."
Date:
October 10, 1985
Creator:
United States. General Accounting Office.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Results of the Radiological Survey at 133 Maywood Avenue, Maywood, New Jersey (MJ025)
Maywood Chemical Works (MCW) of Maywood, New Jersey, generated process wastes and residues associated with the production and refining of thorium and thorium compounds from monazite ores from 1916 to 1956. MCW supplied rare earth metals and thorium compounds to the Atomic Energy Commission and various other government agencies from the late 1940s to the mid-1950s. Area residents used the sandlike waste from this thorium extraction process mixed with tea and cocoa leaves as mulch in their yards. Some of these contaminated wastes were also eroded from the site into Lodi Brook. At the request of the US Department of Energy (DOE), a group from Oak Ridge National Laboratory conducts investigative radiological surveys of properties in the vicinity of MCW to determine whether a property is contaminated with radioactive residues, principally {sup 232}Th, derived from the MCW site. The survey typically includes direct measurement of gamma radiation levels and soil sampling for radionuclide analyses. The survey of this site, 133 Maywood Avenue, Maywood, New Jersey (MJ025), was conducted during 1987. The survey results demonstrate that all radionuclide concentrations and measurements conform to DOE remedial action criteria. All values are at or below typical background values found in northern New Jersey. …
Date:
October 1, 1989
Creator:
Foley, R. D.; Carrier, R. F.; Floyd, L. M. & Crutcher, J.W. (Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (USA))
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Defending secrets, sharing data: new locks and keys for electronic information
This report examines Federal policies directed at protecting information, particularly in electronic communications systems.
Date:
October 1987
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Reproductive Health Hazards in the Workplace: Selected Aspects of Reproductive Health Hazards Regulations
A staff paper by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) assessing the workplace reproductive health hazards regulations.
Date:
October 3, 1985
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Medicare's Prospective Payment System: Strategies for Evaluating Cost, Quality, and Medical Technology
A report by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) that "arrays the possible effects of PPS (prospective payment system) on the health care system and assesses the extent to which these effects can be measured" (p. iii)
Date:
October 1985
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Displaced Homemakers: Programs and Policy: An Interim Report
A report by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) that focuses on the "problems of and programs for displaced homemakers" (p. iii).
Date:
October 1985
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Electronic Surveillance and Civil Liberties
A report by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) that focuses on "technological developments in the basic communication and information infrastructure of the United States that present new or changed opportunities for and vulnerabilities to electronic surveillance, not on the details of specific surveillance devices" (Foreward).
Date:
October 1985
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Facing America's Trash: What Next for Municipal Solid Waste?
This report discusses options for a national policy based on the dual strategies of MSW prevention and better management. It also presents options to address immediate problems such as increased interstate shipments of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) and unfinished Federal guidelines for landfills and incinerators.
Date:
October 1989
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Starpower: the U.S. and the international quest for fusion energy
This report reviews the status of magnetic confinement fusion research and compares its progress with the requirements for development of a useful energy technology. The report does not analyze inertial confinement fusion research, which is overseen by the House and Senate Armed Services Committees.
Date:
October 1987
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Pesticide Residues in Food: Technologies for Detection
Federal monitoring and enforcement action is dependent on technical capability to detect pesticides. A major concern is that Federal regulatory agencies cannot practically monitor food for all pesticides of health concern. OTA was asked to assess whether existing and emerging technologies could improve Federal monitoring of pesticide residues in food. In addition, OTA examined the Federal research programs dedicated to improving Federal analytical capabilities for the detection of pesticides in food.
Date:
October 1988
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Screening for Open-Angle Glaucoma in the Elderly
A report on open-angle glaucoma (OAG), whcich is the second largest single cause of blindness in the elderly, afflicting an estimated 2 to 3 percent of this age group at any time. the report discusses epidemiology of OAG, treatment, screening technology available, and medicare coverage for OAG.
Date:
October 1988
Creator:
Power, Elaine J.; Wagner, Judith L. & Duffy, Brigitte M.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Informing the Nation: Federal Information Dissemination in an Electronic Age
This report addresses the opportunities to improve the dissemination of Federal information. It also highlights two major problems: maintaining equity in public access to Federal information in electronic formats, and defining the respective roles of Federal agencies and the private sector in the electronic dissemination process. The report focuses on current and future roles of the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) and Superintendent of Documents, the Depository Library Program (administered by GPO), and the National Technical Information Service (NTIS). In addition, this report examines electronic dissemination of congressional information, the Freedom of Information Act in an electronic environment, and electronic dissemination of government information to the press.
Date:
October 1988
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Coming Clean: Superfund Problems Can Be Solved...
In this report, OTA concludes that there is ample reason to be optimistic about the potential of the Superfund program and presents a number of possible strategic initiatives and incremental program changes in some detail. As difficult as the national cleanup job is, there are many ways to build a better balance between health and environmental needs and the limitations that technology, experience, and economics will always impose.
Date:
October 1989
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Containment of Underground Nuclear Explosions
This special report reviews the safety of the nuclear testing program and assesses the technical procedures used to test nuclear weapons and ensure that radioactive material produced by test explosions remains contained underground. An overall evaluation considers the acceptability of the remaining risk and discusses reasons for the lack of public confidence.
Date:
October 1989
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Copyright and Home Copying: Technology Challenges the Law
This report first examines home recording technologies. Then—focusing primarily on audiotaping—we examine the ambiguous legal status of home copying. Our report considers the economic effects that home audiotaping may have on the recording industry, contrasted to the effects that restricting home taping might have on consumers. Finally, we identify a range of actions that either Congress or the industry might pursue.
Date:
October 1989
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Increased Automobile Fuel Efficiency and Synthetic Fuels: Alternatives for Reducing Oil Imports: Background Paper 2: Selected Technical and Economic Comparisons of Synfuel Options
A study by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) that provides "technical and economic comparisons among selected synfuel technologies which, to the extent possible, provides a background and basis which may assist the OTA in its policy deliberations" (p. 1).
Date:
October 1982
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
First order leveling: Pleasant Bayou geothermal test site, Brazoria County, Texas
First order leveling to be conducted as part of an environmental monitoring program for a geopressured test well was reported. 39.43 kilometers of first order levels were run to NGS specifications. Twelve Class B type bench marks were set to NGS specifications. The adjusted elevation of bench mark C-1209 was used as a starting elevation and is based on a supplementary adjustment of April 6, 1979 by NGS. The closure for the loop around the well site is -0.65 millimeters. The distance around the loop is 1.29 kilometers, the allowable error of closure was 4.54 millimeters. The initial leveling of this well was performed in 1977. A thorough search for their monumentation was conducted. No monuments were found due to the lack of adequate monument descriptions. Therefore, an elevation comparison summary for this report is only available along the NGS lines outside the well area. The first order level tie to line No. 101 (BMA-1208) was +3.37 millimeters in 17.21 kilometers. The allowable error of closure was 12.44 millimeters.
Date:
October 1, 1984
Creator:
unknown
System:
The UNT Digital Library
National Institute of Standards and Technology Research Reports: Fall 1988
This is a summary describing research projects and other activities undertaken by the U.S. National Bureau of Standards, lists of publications from the year, and a calendar of upcoming events.
Date:
October 1988
Creator:
unknown
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Testing geopressured geothermal reservoirs in existing wells. Saldana well No. 2, Zapata County, Texas. Volume I. Completion and testing. Final report
The Saldana Well No. 2, approximately 35 miles Southeast of the city of Laredo, Texas, was the sixth successful test of a geopressured-geothermal aquifer under the DOE Wells of Opportunity Program. The well was tested through the annulus between 7-inch casing and 2-3/8 inch tubing. The interval tested was from 9745 to 9820 feet. The geological section was the 1st Hinnant Sand, an upper member of the Wilcox Group. Produced water was injected into the Saldana Well No. 1, which was also acquired from Riddle Oil Company and converted to a disposal well. A Miocene salt water sand was perforated from 3005 to 3100 feet for disposal. One pressure drawdown flow test and one pressure buildup test were conducted during a 10-day period. A total of 9328 barrels of water was produced. The highest sustained flow rate was 1950 BWPD.
Date:
October 7, 1981
Creator:
unknown
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Geothermal energy market study on the Atlantic Coastal Plain: geothermal community heating for Cape Charles, Virginia
An economic feasibility study for a geothermal community heating system has been made for the residential heat load of Cape Charles, Virginia using the JHU/APL GRITS Computer Program. The effects of inflation, interest rates, wellhead temperatures, and the addition of reinjection wells are investigated.
Date:
October 1, 1981
Creator:
Leffel, C.S. Jr.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Reentry response of the light weight radioisotope heater unit resulting from a Venus-Earth-Earth Gravity Assist maneuver accident
Reentry analyses consisting of ablation response, thermal response and thermal stress response have been conducted on the Light Weight Radioisotope Heater Unit for Galileo/VEEGA reentry conditions. Sequential ablation analyses of the LWRHU aeroshell, the fuel clad, and the fuel pellet have been conducted in reentry regimes where the aeroshell has been deemed to fail. The failure criterion for ablation is assumed to be recession corresponding to 50% of the wall thickness (the design criterion recommended in the DOE Overall Safety Manual). Although the analyses have been carried far beyond this limit (as presented and discussed herein), JHU/APL endorses the position that failure may occur at the time that this recession is achieved or at lower altitudes within the heat pulse considering the uncertainties in the aerodynamic, thermodynamic, and thermo-structural analyses and modeling. These uncertainties result mainly because of the high energies involved in the VEEGA reentries compared to orbital decay reentries. Risk evaluations should consider the fact that for shallow flight paths the unit may disassemble at high-altitude as a result of ablation or may remain intact until it impacts with a clad that had been molten. 80 refs., 46 figs., 16 tabs.
Date:
October 1, 1988
Creator:
Hagan, J.C.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Aerial Gamma Ray and Magnetic Survey, Final Report: Baton Rouge Quadrangle, Louisiana/Mississippi
Final report analyzing aerial gamma ray and magnetic data in the Baton Rouge quadrangle, including a detailed geologic summary, interpretation report, reduced scale copies of all maps and profiles, histograms, and statistical tables for the quadrangle.
Date:
October 1980
Creator:
unknown
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Issues in capitation: risk of financial ruin for providers and ways to control this risk
The purpose of this report is to explore issues relating to healthcare expenses. To examine the concept of risk for providers in a capitation payment environment and to estimate the effectiveness of various risk limiting techniques.
Date:
October 1985
Creator:
Vertrees, James G.; Tolley, Dennis & Manton, Kenneth
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Role of technology in the education, training, and retraining of adult workers: a report
This report shows how new technological tools or devices are being used in adult education and training it examines the evidence of their effectiveness and costs and it suggests prospects for the future use of technologies.
Date:
October 5, 1984
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System:
The UNT Digital Library