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1992
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Office of Technology Assessment
Finding a balance: computer software, intellectual property and the challenge of technological change
Date: 1992
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment
Description: This report identifies three policy issues; 1) the appropriate scope of copyright protection for computer software; 2) patent protection for software-related inventions and algorithms, and how the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office will handle these types of applications; and 3) complications facing librar4ies and commercial and private producers and users of digital information, including computer-based mixed media products.
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Fueling development: energy technologies for developing countries: summary
Date: 1992
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment
Description: This report discusses the issues surrounding energy efficiency in developing countries. Explores the way in which developing countries meet their energy needs, and how that affects the political stability and broad-based economic growth.
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After the Cold War: Living With Lower Defense Spending
Date: February 1992
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Description: This report focuses on ways to handle the dislocation of workers and communities that is, to some degree, inevitable in the defense cutback. It opens a discussion of how defense technologies might be converted to commercial applications. The second and final report of the assessment will continue that discussion and will concentrate on opportunities to channel human and technological resources into building a stronger civilian economy.
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Annual Report to the Congress: Fiscal Year 1991
Date: March 1992
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Description: 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.
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The Biology of Mental Disorders
Date: September 1992
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Description: This report presents a summary of research into the biological factors associated with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, major depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and panic disorder. The report also discusses support for this research and the social context in which it moves forward.
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Building Energy Efficiency
Date: May 1992
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Description: This report focuses on energy use in buildings, which account for over one-third of all energy used in the United States. Significant energy savings in buildings are possible through the use of commercially available, cost-effective, energy efficient technologies; yet adoption rates for these technologies are often low. Interviews with industry, property managers, homeowners, and others were used to explore why technology adoption rates are so low. Past Federal efforts to encourage energy efficiency are reviewed, and policy options for encouraging the adoption of energy efficient technologies are discussed.
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Building Future Security: Strategies for Restructuring the Defense Technology and Industrial Base
Date: June 1992
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Description: This report elaborates on the findings of the earlier OTA publications and examines in greater detail the specific policy choices involved in restructuring the defense technology and industrial base (DTIB) over the next decade.
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Combined Summaries: Technologies To Sustain Tropical Forest Resources and Biological Diversity
Date: May 1992
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Description: This report discusses how the loss of tropical forests and reduction in the Earth’s biological diversity has grown from development assistance concerns to themes of global debate during the last decade. At the same time that the value of biological resources to local communities and individual nations has become more fully appreciated, the connections between these resources and global environmental stability and economic development potential have been uncovered.
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Cystic Fibrosis and DNA Tests: Implications of Carrier Screening
Date: August 1992
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Description: This report concludes that the value of the cystic fibrosis (CF) carrier test is the information it provides. No one can estimate in common terms what it means to an individual to possess information about his or her genetic status, especially when the value concerns reproductive decision-making. As our knowledge of the human genome increases, what we do with information such as CF carrier status will depend on the perceptions and beliefs of all Americans.
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Difficult-To-Reuse Needles for the Prevention of HIV Infection Among Injecting Drug Abusers
Date: October 1992
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Description: This paper reviews various possibilities of using non-reusable injection technologies for reducing HIV transmission among injecting drug users in the United States. It does not put forth the redesign of injection equipment as a policy option for congressional consideration; it merely examines some of the implications of a proposal put forth by some health experts.
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