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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
Object Type: Report
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.
Object Type: Report
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.
Object Type: Report
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.
Object Type: Report
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.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
North America. Volume II, Part 2 (open access)

North America. Volume II, Part 2

This report describes a study that includes a review of the history of the losses of customer funds due to the insolvency of a future commission merchant.
Date: November 20, 1986
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
OTA Senior Management Retreat, 1986 (open access)

OTA Senior Management Retreat, 1986

Materials from an OTA Senior Management Retreat including memoranda, summaries, and discussion points for previous or upcoming studies and programs. The retreat was held from November 12-14, 1986.
Date: November 10, 1986
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Inventors' vignettes: success and failure in the development of medical devices: contractor documents (open access)

Inventors' vignettes: success and failure in the development of medical devices: contractor documents

This report report discusses the development of technician's auto analyzer, the first cardiac pacemaker, electronic retinoscope, the development of implantable drug-infusion pump and other implantable medication systems.
Date: October 1986
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Review of U.S. competitiveness in agricultural trade (open access)

A Review of U.S. competitiveness in agricultural trade

This OTA technical memorandum reviews key factors that influence U.S. trade in agriculture. It is part of a larger OTA project that analyzes the effects of technological change on both international trade and the structure of the domestic economy. Despite basic structural changes in the economy of the United States in recent years, agriculture and food production remain important parts of this country’s economic framework.
Date: October 1986
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Social Security Administration and information technology: special report (open access)

The Social Security Administration and information technology: special report

In this report, OTA examines the objectives and technical strategies embodied in the SMP and the progress that the Social Security Administration has made toward its implementation. The report calls attention to some general problems faced by both SSA and other Federal agencies that are increasingly dependent on communications and information technology in carrying out their missions.
Date: October 1986
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The context for exploring workplace monitoring (open access)

The context for exploring workplace monitoring

This report describes the history of monitoring work and the legal framework which applies to employee privacy rights and associate4d issues of worker protection.
Date: September 26, 1986
Creator: Deutsch, Steven
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The international context of labor-management relations: implications for workplace monitoring (open access)

The international context of labor-management relations: implications for workplace monitoring

This report explores some of the international developments and notes contrasts with the United States, and some potential lessons with regard to managing the new technology systems of Labor relations and issues relevant to workplace monitoring.
Date: September 26, 1986
Creator: Deutsch, Steven
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
New structural materials technologies: opportunities for the use of advanced ceramics and composites (open access)

New structural materials technologies: opportunities for the use of advanced ceramics and composites

This memorandum is part of a larger assessment which will address the impact of advanced structural materials on the competitiveness of the U.S. manufacturing sector, and offer policy options for accelerating the commercial utilization of these materials.
Date: September 1986
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Plant closing: advance notice and rapid response: special report (open access)

Plant closing: advance notice and rapid response: special report

The report also assesses the ability of public agencies to provide worker adjustment services rapidly and effectively when employers do give notice. Much of the benefit of advance notice depends on the prompt provision of effective services.
Date: September 1986
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Scientific equipment for undergraduates: is it adequate? (open access)

Scientific equipment for undergraduates: is it adequate?

This background paper presents the results of the interviews with individuals familiar with the adequacy of instructional equipment used to teach science and engineering to undergraduate students at American colleges and universities.
Date: September 1986
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Serious reduction of hazardous waste: for pollution prevention and industrial efficiency (open access)

Serious reduction of hazardous waste: for pollution prevention and industrial efficiency

The report explores the meaning and consequences of giving primacy to waste reduction over waste management, and puts waste reduction squarely into the context of industrial production and efficiency, recognizing the current constraints of the American economy.
Date: September 1986
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Technologies for detecting heritable mutations in human beings (open access)

Technologies for detecting heritable mutations in human beings

A report on heritable mutations, permanent changes in the genetic material that can be passed on to succeeding generations, are the cause of a large but currently unquantifiable share of embryonic and fetal loss, disease, disability, and early death in the United States today. The methods now available to study heritable mutations, however, offer relatively little information about the kinds of mutations that can occur, their frequency, or their causes.
Date: September 1986
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Technologies for prehistoric & historic preservation (open access)

Technologies for prehistoric & historic preservation

This report presents the primary findings of an assessment requested by the House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. The Subcommittee on Public Lands is carrying out a major review of how Federal agencies implement Federal preservation policy. This assessment directly supports the Committee’s review by showing how the uses of certain methods, techniques, as well as tools and equipment can assist Federal, State, and local preservation efforts.
Date: September 1986
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Technology, trade, and the U.S. residential construction industry: special report (open access)

Technology, trade, and the U.S. residential construction industry: special report

This special report is part of a larger OTA project that analyzes the effects of technological change on the structure of the domestic economy, on international trade, and on options for public policy. Home construction’s importance to the study stems from the fact that although housing accounts for over 27 percent of personal spending, ownership of attractive residences remains beyond the reach of many American families.
Date: September 1986
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Trade in services: exports and foreign revenues: special report (open access)

Trade in services: exports and foreign revenues: special report

The special report in this volume was prepared after the Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs requested separate publication of OTA’s estimates of the impacts of services trade on the Nation’s balance of payments.
Date: September 1986
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
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
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
OTA Special Report: Continuing the Commitment: Agricultural Development in the Sahel (open access)

OTA Special Report: Continuing the Commitment: Agricultural Development in the Sahel

A report by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) that "examines the record of assistance to nine nations of the Sahel in West Africa, explores the lessons learned in a decade of efforts, and suggests policy implications for more effective U.S. assistance there and elsewhere in Africa" (p. iii).
Date: August 1986
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library