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Quality and Relevance of Research and Related Activities at the Gorges Memorial Laboratory (open access)

Quality and Relevance of Research and Related Activities at the Gorges Memorial Laboratory

A technical memorandum by the Office of Technical Assessment (OTA) that reviews the quality and relevance of activities at GML (Gorgas Memorial Laboratory), based on Gorgas' publishing record, an OTA-commissioned survey of GML's scientific reputation, a critical review of recent articles and current manuscripts, a comparison of GML's areas of effort with health problems in tropical America and with scientific opportunity, and a review of past scientific evaluations of GML (p. iii).
Date: August 1983
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Agricultural Postharvest Technology and Marketing Economics Research (open access)

Agricultural Postharvest Technology and Marketing Economics Research

A technical memorandum by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) that presents "findings and conclusions regarding the role of the public and private research participants in the PHTME (postharvest technology and marketing economics) research, the benefits and burdens of PHTME research, trends in PHTME research funding, quality of PHTME research, and management of PHTME research in the public sector (p. iii).
Date: May 1983
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Automation and the Workplace: Selected Labor, Education, and Training Issues (open access)

Automation and the Workplace: Selected Labor, Education, and Training Issues

A report by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) that examines "the nature and development of automation technologies (such as robotics, computer-aided design, and manufacturing, and automated materials handling, storage, and retrieval)" (p. iii).
Date: March 1983
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Habitability of the Love Canal Area: An Analysis of the Technical Basis for the Decision of the Habitability of the Emergency Declaration Area: A Technical Memorandum (open access)

Habitability of the Love Canal Area: An Analysis of the Technical Basis for the Decision of the Habitability of the Emergency Declaration Area: A Technical Memorandum

A case study by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) that examines "the technical basis for, and validity of, the habitability decision for the emergency declaration area near Love Canal" (p. iii).
Date: June 1983
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System: The UNT Digital Library
SALYUT: Soviet Steps Toward Permanent Human Presence in Space (open access)

SALYUT: Soviet Steps Toward Permanent Human Presence in Space

A report by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA), which "has undertaken a study of the presence of Soviets in space and their Salyut space stations, in order to provide Congress with an informed view of Soviet capabilities and intentions" (p. iii).
Date: December 1983
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Scientific Validity of Polygraph Testing: A Research Review and Evaluation (open access)

Scientific Validity of Polygraph Testing: A Research Review and Evaluation

A technical memorandum by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) that looks at "issues directly related to the scientific validity of the polygraph" (p. iii).
Date: November 1983
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System: The UNT Digital Library
U.S. Natural Gas Availability: Conventional Gas Supply Through the Year 2000 (open access)

U.S. Natural Gas Availability: Conventional Gas Supply Through the Year 2000

An assessment by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) that examines "the future potential for production of all forms of natural gas in the U.S. Lower 48 States, emphasizing the time frame 1990-2000" (p. iii).
Date: September 1983
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System: The UNT Digital Library
UNISPACE 1982: A Context for International Cooperation and Competition (open access)

UNISPACE 1982: A Context for International Cooperation and Competition

A technical memorandum by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) published after UNISPACE '82, the United Nations Conference on the Exploration and Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, that "constitutes a portion of a major assessment of international cooperation and competition in civilian space activities that was requested by these same committees" (p. iii).
Date: March 1983
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System: The UNT Digital Library