FCC Record, Volume 4, No. 3, Pages 1179 to 1520, January 30 - February 10, 1989 (open access)

FCC Record, Volume 4, No. 3, Pages 1179 to 1520, January 30 - February 10, 1989

Biweekly, comprehensive compilation of decisions, reports, public notices, and other documents of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
Date: February 1989
Creator: United States. Federal Communications Commission.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
FCC Record, Volume 4, No. 4, Pages 1521 to 1965, February 13 - February 24, 1989 (open access)

FCC Record, Volume 4, No. 4, Pages 1521 to 1965, February 13 - February 24, 1989

Biweekly, comprehensive compilation of decisions, reports, public notices, and other documents of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
Date: February 1989
Creator: United States. Federal Communications Commission.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Quarterly Report to the Technology Assessment Board, October 1 - December 31, 1979 (open access)

Quarterly Report to the Technology Assessment Board, October 1 - December 31, 1979

Quarterly report to the Technology Assessment Board, detailing progress and budgets at OTA.
Date: February 5, 1980
Creator: Office of Technology Assessment
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Policies and procedures of the Office of Technology Assessment : communication with Congress and the public (open access)

Policies and procedures of the Office of Technology Assessment : communication with Congress and the public

A manual for OTA employees, providing guidance for drafting proposals and reports. Includes standards and procedures for communicating with Congress.
Date: February 1986
Creator: United States. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Selected Properties of Hydrogen (Engineering Design Data) (open access)

Selected Properties of Hydrogen (Engineering Design Data)

Report issued by the Bureau of Standards over the thermophysical properties of hydrogen. Properties of hydrogen in varying states (gaseous, liquid, solid, etc.) are presented and discussed. This report includes tables, and illustrations.
Date: February 1981
Creator: Hord, J.; McCarty, Robert D. & Roder, H. M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Alternatives to Animal Use in Research, Testing, and Education (open access)

Alternatives to Animal Use in Research, Testing, and Education

An assessment by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) that "analyzes the scientific, regulatory, economic, legal, and ethical considerations involved in alternative technologies in biomedical and behavioral research, toxicity testing, and education" (p. iii).
Date: February 1986
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Medical Devices and the Veterans Administration: A Technical Memorandum (open access)

Medical Devices and the Veterans Administration: A Technical Memorandum

An assessment by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) of the "activities of the Veterans Administration (VA) regarding device development and procurement," specifically of medical devices (p. iii).
Date: February 1985
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Review of the Public Health Service's Response to AIDS (open access)

Review of the Public Health Service's Response to AIDS

A review by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) of "the recent and proposed activities of the Public Health Service (PHS) in response to AIDS" and an evaluation of "the planning, resources and staffing of PHS's efforts to control AIDS" (p. iii).
Date: February 1985
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Information Technology Research and Development: Critical Trends and Issues (open access)

Information Technology Research and Development: Critical Trends and Issues

A report by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) that "examines four specific areas of research as case studies: computer architecture, artificial intelligence, fiber optics, and software engineering" in light of their new role in the United States economy (p. iii).
Date: February 1985
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federal Government Information Technology: Management, Security, and Congressional Oversight (open access)

Federal Government Information Technology: Management, Security, and Congressional Oversight

The report addresses five major areas: 1) management of information technology, including strategic planning, innovation, procurement, and the information resources management (IRM) concept; 2) information systems security and computer crime; 3) information technology and decision support; 4) management of government information dissemination; and 5) opportunities for using information technology in conducting congressional oversight.
Date: February 1986
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Marine Applications for Fuel Cell Technology (open access)

Marine Applications for Fuel Cell Technology

A report on fuel cell technology is one of the most promising of the new electric power technologies currently undergoing development. Fuel cell power systems have attracted attention because of their potential for high efficiency, low emissions, flexible use of fuels, and quietness. The Federal Government and the private sector have been funding fuel cell R&D for more than 20 years. The state-of-the-art has advanced to the point that fuel cell manufacturers hope to begin marketing fuel cells in just a few years. Full-scale demonstration plants are currently being designed.
Date: February 1986
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Payment for physician services: strategies for Medicare (open access)

Payment for physician services: strategies for Medicare

A report on medicare coverage of physician services for elderly and disabled. The report also discusses the payment methods that have also fueled increases in expenditures for physician services, which are now one of the most rapidly growing parts of the Federal budget.
Date: February 1986
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Industrial and Commercial Cogeneration (open access)

Industrial and Commercial Cogeneration

A report by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) that "describes the available and promising future cogeneration technologies, including their likely costs and operating characteristics, and reviews the potential applications for these technologies in industry, commercial buildings, and rural/agricultural areas" (p. iii).
Date: February 1983
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
World Population and Fertility Planning Technologies: The Next Twenty Years (open access)

World Population and Fertility Planning Technologies: The Next Twenty Years

A report by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) that "covers the status of current and projected technologies that affect fertility change" (p. iii).
Date: February 1982
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Nuclear Power in an Age of Uncertainty (open access)

Nuclear Power in an Age of Uncertainty

An assessment by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) that examines "the future of nuclear power in this country, and how the technology and institutions might be changed to reduce the problems now besetting the nuclear option" (p. iii).
Date: February 1984
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Exploratory Workshop on the Social Impacts of Robotics: Summary and Issues: A Background Paper (open access)

Exploratory Workshop on the Social Impacts of Robotics: Summary and Issues: A Background Paper

A report by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) that "contains a summary of the results of the workshop along with copies that were used as starting points for the discussion" (p. iii). The workshop referenced discussed robotics technology and robotics market.
Date: February 1982
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Impact of Advanced Air Transport Technology: Part 3: Air Service to Small Communities (open access)

Impact of Advanced Air Transport Technology: Part 3: Air Service to Small Communities

An assessment by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) that looks at the current situation of the advances made in air transport technology.
Date: February 1982
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Issues and Options in Flood Hazards Management (open access)

Issues and Options in Flood Hazards Management

An analysis by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) that identifies "information and knowledge gaps in the management of flood hazards" and proposes "policy options for further consideration that could beneficially affect such management" (p. 1).
Date: February 1980
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Regulatory environment for science (open access)

The Regulatory environment for science

This technical memorandum, requested by the Task Force on Science Policy of the House Committee on Science and Technology, provides a “snapshot” of factors affecting science in the 1980s, and focuses on emerging issues that will require consideration by Congress.
Date: February 1986
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Grassroots Conservation of Biological Diversity in the United States (open access)

Grassroots Conservation of Biological Diversity in the United States

This report examines the technological and institutional aspects of biological data relevant to maintaining biological diversity in the United States focusing primarily on Federal data collection efforts.
Date: February 1986
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Big Dumb Boosters: A Low-Cost Space Transportation Option? (open access)

Big Dumb Boosters: A Low-Cost Space Transportation Option?

This background paper describes and examines a launch vehicle concept commonly known as the “Big Dumb Booster,” a concept that derives from efforts first made in the 1960s to minimize costs of space launch systems. Some launch system analysts believe that the use of this concept, when applied to existing technology, could markedly reduce space transportation costs. Other analysts disagree.
Date: February 1989
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Safer Skies with TCAS: Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System: A Special Report (open access)

Safer Skies with TCAS: Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System: A Special Report

This special report contains the results of OTA’s assessment. It also provides an admirable example of cooperative effort on the part of all segments of the aviation community in providing information to OTA and working to develop a common solution for a number of difficult issues.
Date: February 1989
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Enhancing the Quality of U.S. Grain for International Trade (open access)

Enhancing the Quality of U.S. Grain for International Trade

Congress amended the Food Security Act of 1985 and directed the Office of Technology Assessment to conduct a comprehensive study of the technologies, institutions, and policies that affect U.S. grain quality and to prepare a comparative analysis of the grain quality systems of major export competitors of the United States. It focuses on the U.S. grain system and possible changes within that system to enhance grain quality.
Date: February 1989
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Grain Quality in International Trade: A Comparison of Major U.S. Competitors (open access)

Grain Quality in International Trade: A Comparison of Major U.S. Competitors

This report is one of two that the Office of Technology Assessment completed in an assessment of the issues in grain quality for Congress. The first, Enhancing the Quality of U.S. Grain in International Trade, focuses on the U.S. grain system and possible changes within that system to enhance grain quality. To consider this issue fully, it is important to understand the grain systems of major competitors, a subject covered in this report.
Date: February 1989
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library