Space Science Research in the United States (open access)

Space Science Research in the United States

A report by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) designed to "elucidate the issues and problems in the current conduct of the U.S. space research program" (p. iii).
Date: October 1982
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Compensation for Vaccine-Related Injuries (open access)

Compensation for Vaccine-Related Injuries

A report by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) that specifies what a federal program that compensates "vaccinees injured as a result of being vaccinated in public immunization programs" might look like (p. iii).
Date: November 1980
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Nonnuclear Industrial Hazardous Waste: Classifying for Hazard Management (open access)

Nonnuclear Industrial Hazardous Waste: Classifying for Hazard Management

An assessment by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) that addresses "basic issues surrounding a degree-of-hazard classification approach" and "various methods for applying a degree-of-hazard classification system" (p. iii).
Date: November 1981
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Patterns and Trends in Federal Coal Lease Ownership 1950-80 (open access)

Patterns and Trends in Federal Coal Lease Ownership 1950-80

A technical memorandum by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) that "identifies the participants in the Federal coal leasing program between 1950 and 1980, traces the ownership on a lease-by-lease basis, and discusses the business activities and organizational structures of the lessees [sic]" (p. iii).
Date: April 1981
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Benefits of Increased Use of Continuous Casting by the U.S. Steel Industry (open access)

Benefits of Increased Use of Continuous Casting by the U.S. Steel Industry

An assessment by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) of the United States steel industry, particularly various processes of casting currently used by the industry.
Date: October 1979
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Gasohol (open access)

Gasohol

A report by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) addressing "the major technical, economic, environmental and social factors related to production and use" (Issues and Findings). Gasohol is a mixture of one part ethanol and nine parts unleaded gasoline.
Date: September 1979
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ocean Margin Drilling (open access)

Ocean Margin Drilling

A technical memorandum prepared by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) that reviews "the present plan for the Ocean Margin Drilling program and addresses questions on the merits of the program and alternatives to it" and discusses "the institutional capability of the Federal agencies which are to manage this program; the technology development aspects, and the problems and opportunities associated with industry participation" (p. 3).
Date: May 1980
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Recent Developments in Ocean Thermal Energy (open access)

Recent Developments in Ocean Thermal Energy

A memorandum prepared by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) that updates the status of the study of Ocean Thermal Conversion.
Date: April 1980
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
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.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Research funding as an investment: can we measure the returns? (open access)

Research funding as an investment: can we measure the returns?

A report on the mounting intensity of global competition in the 1980s that underscores the critical role played by the basic research enterprise of the United States. Basic research is the backbone of much of the technological development that has provided not only our economic prosperity, but improvements in health, a strong national defense, and exciting and fundamental advances in knowledge.
Date: April 1986
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
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.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Update of Federal Activities Regarding The Use of Pneumococcal Vaccine (open access)

Update of Federal Activities Regarding The Use of Pneumococcal Vaccine

A technical memorandum by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) that "describes Federal activities that have taken place since 1979; reevaluates the 1979 cost-effectiveness analysis of vaccination against pneumococcal pneumonia, including new information on vaccine efficacy; and discusses policy implications" (p. iii).
Date: May 1984
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System: The UNT Digital Library