New developments in biotechnology: field-testing engineered organisms: genetic and ecological issues: contractor documents, volume 2 (open access)

New developments in biotechnology: field-testing engineered organisms: genetic and ecological issues: contractor documents, volume 2

This report includes these topics: Ecological issues relevant to environmental applications of genetically altered organisms / Elliott A. Norse -- An ecosystems approach to potential perturbations of energy flow and nutrient cycles associated with environmental applications of genetically altered organisms / David C. Coleman and Robert E. Hodson -- Ecological impact of genetically engineered organisms on ecosystems / James R. Gosz, C.N. Dahm, and Patrick W. Flanagan -- The genetic basis of changes in host range or habitat / Adrianne Massey and Fred Gould.
Date: December 2, 1986
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment
System: The UNT Digital Library
Children's Mental Health: Problems and Services: Background Paper (open access)

Children's Mental Health: Problems and Services: Background Paper

A background paper by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) over the mental health problems of children and adolescents and the need for appropriateness of mental health services.
Date: December 1986
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System: The UNT Digital Library
China's foreign policy, Beijing's military modernization, and American policy alternatives (open access)

China's foreign policy, Beijing's military modernization, and American policy alternatives

This report discusses the determinants of Chinese foreign policy under Mao, the foreign policy changes under Deng, and the influence of military modernization on Chinese foreign policy and on Washington-Beijing relations.
Date: December 1, 1986
Creator: Robinson, Thomas W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and certified nurse-midwives: a policy analysis (open access)

Nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and certified nurse-midwives: a policy analysis

A report on the primary purpose of this report is to provide OTA with specific information that can be used in forming general conclusions regarding broader policy issues.
Date: December 1986
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Privacy and quality-of-work-life issues in employee monitoring: contractor report (open access)

Privacy and quality-of-work-life issues in employee monitoring: contractor report

This report discusses broad perspectives an historical trends on worker monitoring,and current work-evaluation monitoring. It also describes a variety of federal-agency monitoring practices.
Date: December 1986
Creator: Westin, Alan F.
System: The UNT Digital Library