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Benefit charges for financing infrastructure: a report (open access)

Benefit charges for financing infrastructure: a report

This report discusses benefit-based charges that have become an increasingly popular mans to generate funds for operating and capital costs of public works.
Date: August 1989
Creator: Hopkins, Thomas D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Industrial support of university training and research: implications for scientific training in the "steady state" (open access)

Industrial support of university training and research: implications for scientific training in the "steady state"

This report considers the implications of industrial funding of research and training for the way in which universities train new scientists during this period of "steady state."
Date: August 1987
Creator: Gluck, Michael E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy: clinical application and Medicare physician payment (open access)

Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy: clinical application and Medicare physician payment

This report discusses the new methods of paying physicians; fee schedules, payment for an episode-of-illness, and capitation payments.
Date: August 1985
Creator: Showstack, Jonathan A.; Sawitz, Eric & Perex-Stable, Eliseo J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mapping our genes: federal genome projects: How vast? How fast?: transcript of workshop, "Costs of Human Genome Projects" (open access)

Mapping our genes: federal genome projects: How vast? How fast?: transcript of workshop, "Costs of Human Genome Projects"

This report discusses the research and technology efforts aimed at mapping and sequencing large portions or entire genomes. It includes the implication of technologies, social and ethical issues, applications in research biology and medicine etc.
Date: August 7, 1987
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Financing care for patients with Alzheimer's disease and related disorders (open access)

Financing care for patients with Alzheimer's disease and related disorders

This report discusses the financing for patients with Alzheimer's disease,and policy options.
Date: August 11, 1986
Creator: Davis, Karen & Neuman, Patricia
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Study of international clearing and settlement: Volume VI (open access)

Study of international clearing and settlement: Volume VI

This report is a part of collection of expert papers on clearing and settlement. These paper are a part of Study of International Clearing and Settlement.
Date: August 1, 1989
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Continuing the commitment: agricultural development in the Sahel (open access)

Continuing the commitment: agricultural development in the Sahel

This report discusses the hunger in West Africa and draws on the expertise of a large number of people. In 1985, rain came to the Sahel and provided partial relief from its latest drought.
Date: August 1986
Creator: Office of Technology Assessment
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Payments to physicians in the Permanente Medical Group (open access)

Payments to physicians in the Permanente Medical Group

This report describes the function of The Permanente Medical Group (TPMG) to provide medical care to Health Plan members within the Kaiser Foundation Hospitals and their associated medical offices.
Date: August 1985
Creator: Collen, Morris F.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Intellectual property and the new computer-based media (open access)

Intellectual property and the new computer-based media

This report discusses the intellectual property rights. The concern is primarily with how modern electronics has changed the locus of creation, publishing, and distribution of such property.
Date: August 1984
Creator: Solomon, Richard J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Preparing for an Uncertain Climate: Summary (open access)

Preparing for an Uncertain Climate: Summary

This is the final report on climate change. OTA examines how the Nation can best prepare for an uncertain future climate.
Date: August 1993
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Medical Testing and Health Insurance (open access)

Medical Testing and Health Insurance

Tests to identify individuals who are likely to develop serious diseases are being rapidly developed. Some of these tests are directed at diseases for which there are presently no known therapies, thereby raising questions over the social consequences of identifying susceptible persons. This assessment examines existing and developing medical tests and their current and potential uses by health insurers and employers.
Date: August 1988
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Round Trip to Orbit: Human Spaceflight Alternatives (open access)

Round Trip to Orbit: Human Spaceflight Alternatives

This special report examines a wide range of potential improvements to the Space Shuttle, explores the future of space transportation for humans, and presents policy options for congressional consideration. It is one of a series of products from abroad assessment of space transportation technologies undertaken by OTA, requested by the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, and the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.
Date: August 1989
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cystic Fibrosis and DNA Tests: Implications of Carrier Screening (open access)

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.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
A New Technological Era for American Agriculture (open access)

A New Technological Era for American Agriculture

The report concludes that these technologies have the potential to provide new solutions to many agricultural problems. The challenge, however, will be whether government, industry, and the public can strike the proper balance of direction, oversight, and use to allow these technologies to flourish. Congress will be faced with many issues and choices as American agriculture moves into this new era.
Date: August 1992
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Special Care Units for People With Alzheimer's and Other Dementias: Consumer Education, Research, Regulatory, and Reimbursement Issues (open access)

Special Care Units for People With Alzheimer's and Other Dementias: Consumer Education, Research, Regulatory, and Reimbursement Issues

This report analyzes the available information about special care units for people with dementia. It discusses ways in which the Federal Government could encourage and support what is positive about special care units and at the same time protect vulnerable patients and their families from special care units that actually provide nothing special for their residents.
Date: August 1992
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Police Body Armor Standards and Testing, Vol. II—Appendixes (open access)

Police Body Armor Standards and Testing, Vol. II—Appendixes

This report is an extension of volume one, that 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.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Artificial insemination: practice in the United States: summary of a 1987 survey (open access)

Artificial insemination: practice in the United States: summary of a 1987 survey

This background paper presents the results of a study of physician and sperm bank practice of artificial insemination in the United States. It documents the number of women undergoing artificial insemination each year, the annual cost, medical and social screening criteria for women seeking artificial insemination and men who donate semen, the genealogical recordkeeping available to the resulting children, and physician attitudes toward possible changes in artificial insemination practice.
Date: August 1988
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Space stations and the law: selected legal issues (open access)

Space stations and the law: selected legal issues

This report suggests that Congress need not wait for the completion of the current governmental negotiations in order to begin an examination of the legal issues resulting from space station development and operation. In the near term, Congress could: 1) begin to identify those Federal and State laws which already apply to space station activities and those that Congress believes should apply; 2) begin to resolve questions of power sharing between Federal and State laws and Federal and State courts as they relate to space station activities; and 3) monitor the space station negotiations to ensure that the final space station agreements protect the fundamental rights and interests of U.S. citizens and support U.S. policies, including those related to commercial activities in space.
Date: August 1986
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Industrial Energy Efficiency (open access)

Industrial Energy Efficiency

This report focuses on energy use in industry, and how government policy can affect it. Trends and patterns in industrial energy use are reviewed, energy-efficient industrial equipment and practices are described, and the factors that influence corporate investment in efficient technologies are explored. Lastly, past Federal efforts to improve industrial energy efficiency are reviewed, and policy options for encouraging the further development and adoption of efficient industrial technologies are discussed.
Date: August 1993
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Development Assistance, Export Promotion, and Environmental Technology (open access)

Development Assistance, Export Promotion, and Environmental Technology

This background paper provides an overview of developing country environmental problems and markets for environmental technologies and services. It discusses preliminary estimates on the amount and purposes of environmental aid provided by donor countries in 1991. The paper discusses the commercial implications of other countries’ aid for U.S. environmental firms, and the Helsinki package adopted by the OECD in late 1991 to limit commercial advantage from use of tied aid credits.
Date: August 1993
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Technology and the Future of the U.S. Construction Industry: Proceedings of the Panel on Technical Change and the U.S. Building Construction Industry (open access)

Technology and the Future of the U.S. Construction Industry: Proceedings of the Panel on Technical Change and the U.S. Building Construction Industry

An assessment by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) of the construction industry and technology that is reshaping the industry and what impacts these technologies might have.
Date: August 1984
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ocean incineration: its role in managing hazardous waste (open access)

Ocean incineration: its role in managing hazardous waste

This assessment of ocean incineration includes consideration of the adequacy of regulations; risks to human health and the marine environment relative to the risks of comparable activities; existing and emerging alternatives; the capabilities and limitations of ocean incineration in managing hazardous wastes; and how its use might affect efforts to develop superior waste treatment and reduction practices. Particular attention is addressed to areas of intense public concern over the use of this technology.
Date: August 1986
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction: Assessing the Risks (open access)

Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction: Assessing the Risks

This report describes what nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons can do, analyzes the consequences of their spread for the United States and the world, and summarizes technical aspects of monitoring and controlling their production. This report also explains the array of policy tools that can be used to combat proliferation, identifying tradeoffs and choices that confront policymakers.
Date: August 1993
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Chemical Weapons Convention: Effects on the U.S. Chemical Industry (open access)

The Chemical Weapons Convention: Effects on the U.S. Chemical Industry

Background paper exploring the multifaceted challenge of integrating a private, primarily civil industry into the global arms-control regime established by the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC).
Date: August 1993
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library