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The Implications of Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Medical Technology
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An Assessment of Community Planning for Mass Transit
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HIV-related issues. Background paper
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Preventive Health Services Under Medicare
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Aid to developing countries: the technology/ecology fit
This report focuses primarily on AID and to a lesser extent on the World Bank. AID and the World Bank have made the most observable efforts to integrate environmental and development concerns.
Date:
June 1987
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Border war on drugs
A report on smuggling of illegal drugs into the United States is a problem of serious proportions. The three major drugs of foreign source—cocaine, heroin, and marijuana-are the products traded by an enormous criminal enterprise whose retail sales total approximately $50 billion annually. Federal efforts to stop or deter international narcotics trafficking have met with only limited success.
Date:
March 1987
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Commercial newsgathering from space
This technical memorandum concludes that although the technology is available to create a mediasat system, the high cost and current low demand for remotely sensed data will limit media efforts to own and operate a dedicated remote sensing satellite system.
Date:
May 1987
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Costs of AIDS and other HIV infections: review of the estimates
A report on analyzes the reasons behind widely divergent estimates of the costs associated with AIDS. Because of the great variation in methods used, the results are not strictly comparable across studies.
Date:
May 1987
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Defending secrets, sharing data: new locks and keys for electronic information
This report examines Federal policies directed at protecting information, particularly in electronic communications systems.
Date:
October 1987
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Do Insects Transmit AIDS?
In this report: 1) the evidence for the possibility of insect transmission of HIV infection is summarized, and 2) areas for further investigation are identified.
Date:
September 1987
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Electronic supervisor: new technology, new tensions
This report deals with the use of computer-based technologies to measure how fast or how accurately employees work. New computer-based office systems are giving employers new ways to supervise job performance and control employees’ use of telephones, but such systems are also controversial because they generate such detailed information about the employees they monitor.
Date:
September 1987
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Identifying and regulating carcinogens
This background paper was requested by the House Government Operations Committee and its Subcommittee on Intergovernmental Relations and Human Resources. In it, OTA describes policies issued by Federal agencies concerning the identification, assessment, and regulation of carcinogenic chemicals; the chemicals that have been regulated because of carcinogenic risk; the Federal Government’s carcinogenicity testing program; and the results of OTA’s analysis of the extent of agency action on chemicals determined to be carcinogenic.
Date:
November 1987
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Annual Report to the Congress: January 1 to September 30, 1983
This report offers statements by the Chairman and Vice Chairman of the Board, TAAC Chairman, and the Director of OTA. It also discusses OTAs work in progress, organization and operations.
Date:
March 1984
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
OTA Priorities 1979, With Brief Descriptions of Priorities and of Assessments in Progress
This report describes the first priorities list developed by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) as a result of a new and ongoing process for selecting possible projects for study.
Date:
March 1979
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Annual Report to the Congress: Fiscal Year 1984
This report includes statements by the Chairman and Vice Chairman of the board, TAAC Chairman, and the director of the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA). The report discusses the year in review regarding the work in progress, organization and operations of OTA.
Date:
March 1985
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Annual Report to the Congress: Fiscal Year 1985
This report includes statements by the Chairman and Vice Chairman of the board, TAAC Chairman, and the director of the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA). The report discusses the year in review regarding the work in progress, organization and operations of OTA.
Date:
March 1986
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Annual Report to the Congress by the Office of Technology Assessment: March 15, 1977
This report includes statements by the Chairman and Vice Chairman of the board, TAAC Chairman, and the director of the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA). The report discusses the year in review regarding the work in progress, organization and operations of OTA.
Date:
March 1977
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Annual Report to the Congress for 1977
This report describes these projects in detail: the spread of nuclear materials and weapons-making capability, cancer-testing technology and saccharin, the implications of the Carter Administration’s National Energy Plan, the trade-offs between individual rights and massive computerization of the Nation’s tax information system, ways to spur research on increasing the supply of food, the prospects of solar technology.
Date:
March 1978
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Annual Report to the Congress for 1978
This report includes statements by the Chairman and Vice Chairman of the board, TAAC Chairman, and the director of the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA). The report discusses many changes that have taken place at OTA during 1978: new quarters, new management, new organizational structure, a new method of establishing project priorities, a new ONE-PAGER digest of each report issued, greater outreach.
Date:
March 1979
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Annual Report to the Congress for 1979
This report includes statements by the Chairman and Vice Chairman of the board, TAAC Chairman, and the director of the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA). The report discusses the year in review regarding the work in progress, organization and operations of OTA.
Date:
March 1980
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Annual Report to the Congress for 1980
This report includes statements by the Chairman and Vice Chairman of the board, TAAC Chairman, and the director of the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA). The report discusses the year in review regarding the work in progress, organization and operations of OTA.
Date:
March 1981
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Annual Report to the Congress: Fiscal Year 1991
This report describes the activities of the Office in Fiscal Year 1991 within the context of the legislative agenda of the 101st Congress and the events in the United States and the world during 1991.
Date:
March 1992
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Assessment of Oil Shale Technologies—Vol. II: A History and Analysis of the Federal Prototype Oil Shale Leasing Program
The report includes discussions of political, economic, environmental, and energy-related factors that affected both the 1968 leasing attempt and its successor—the current Prototype Program. The Program’s goals are identified, and its progress and status are examined to determine if those goals have been met or are likely to be met in the foreseeable future.
Date:
July 1980
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Technology Assessment of Changes in the Future Use and Characteristics of the Automobile Transportation System—Volume III: Public Participation
This report—volume III—presents the findings of a nationwide public participation effort conducted in 1978 in conjunction with the assessment. The intent of the public participation program was twofold: to solicit commentary on the issues, alternatives for personal transportation, and Federal Government policy options; and to facilitate the public’s participation in OTA’s technology assessment process.
Date:
October 1979
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Technology Assessment of Changes in the Future Use and Characteristics of the Automobile Transportation System—Volume I: Summary and Findings
This report analyzes the restraints of energy supply, environmental impacts, highway safety, and consumer cost on the further development of the automobile transportation system. It discusses Government initiatives that may be necessary to assure such further development.
Date:
February 1979
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Nuclear Proliferation and Safeguards: Appendix Volume II, Part One
This report is divided into two parts. The 1st part discusses incentives/disincentives, peaceful nuclear explosions, non-state adversaries, international nuclear industry, technical descriptions of fuel cycle facilities and evaluation of diversion potential. The 2nd part discuses dedicated facilities purchase and theft, and description of safeguards technology and procedures.
Date:
June 1977
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Nuclear Proliferation and Safeguards: Appendix Volume II, Part Two
The focus of this report is the construction of nuclear power plants abroad, especially the problem of assuring that none of the plutonium produced in these plants is diverted for use in weapons.
Date:
June 1977
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Annual Report to the Congress: Fiscal Year 1995
This report includes statements by the Chairman and Vice Chairman of the board, TAAC Chairman, and the director of the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA). The report discusses the year in review regarding the work in progress, organization and operations of OTA.
Date:
March 1996
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System:
The UNT Digital Library