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Advanced Materials by Design
Date: June 1988
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Description: This assessment responds to a joint request from the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology and the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation to analyze the military and commercial opportunities presented by new structural materials technologies, and to outline the Federal policy objectives that are consistent with those opportunities.
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Permallink:digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc39896/
Aids and health insurance: an OTA survey
Date: February 1988
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Description: This survey was conducted as part of an Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) assessment on medical testing and health insurance that will be published at a later date. OTA is also monitoring AIDS-related developments for the U.S. Congress, and the survey results are being published by OTA as the second in a series of Staff Papers on AIDS-related issues.
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Alternative approaches to developing a cadre of "teacher technologists"
Date: March 1988
Creator: Strange, J.H.
Description: This report discusses the use of technology in education of students K-12 and university.
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Permallink:digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc97459/
Are we cleaning up?: 10 Superfund case studies: a special report of OTA's assessment on Superfund implementation
Date: June 1988
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Description: This special report presents 10 case studies of recent Superfund decisions at sites which OTA believes, from surveying over 100 recent cleanup decisions, to be representative of a broad range of contamination problems and cleanup technologies.
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Permallink:digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc39639/
Artificial insemination: practice in the United States: summary of a 1987 survey
Date: August 1988
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Description: This background paper presents the results of a study of physician and sperm bank practice of artificial insemination in the United States. It documents the number of women undergoing artificial insemination each year, the annual cost, medical and social screening criteria for women seeking artificial insemination and men who donate semen, the genealogical recordkeeping available to the resulting children, and physician attitudes toward possible changes in artificial insemination practice.
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Permallink:digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc39898/
Assessing human risks posed by neurotoxic substances: final draft
Date: December 16, 1988
Creator: ENVIRON Corporation
Description: This report discusses risk assessment as a analytic process by which the nature and magnitude of risk is identified.
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Permallink:digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc97438/
Biology, medicine, and the Bill of Rights: special report
Date: September 1988
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Description: This special report considers the implications of new developments in biological sciences for the freedoms and protections embedded in our Bill of Rights. It is one of a series of publications coming from OTA’s Constitutional Bicentennial Project, begun in 1987 at the request of the House Committee on the Judiciary and its Subcommittee on Courts, Civil Liberties, and the Administration of Justice.
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Permallink:digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc39899/
Book preservation technologies
Date: May 1988
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Description: This assessment analyzes the problem of acid deterioration of books and the program underway at the Library of Congress. The program at the Library involves the chemical treatment of books in a unique and effective process that, however, also presents some new engineering and safety concerns. Because of these concerns, the House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations requested this independent review of the Library’s system and other available or potential processes.
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Permallink:digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc39900/
Changes in sexual behavior of homosexual and bisexual men since the beginning of the AIDS epidemic
Date: March 1988
Creator: Coates, Thomas J.
Description: This report discusses Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) and the ways to prevent those not infected with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) from becoming infected with it.
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Permallink:digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc97434/
Classification systems for decisionmaking for critically ill elderly patients
Date: 1988
Creator: Gage, Robert W.
Description: This report discusses classification and aggregation of patients according to differential needs for care that have bee accepted as normal features of contemporary hospital practice.
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Permallink:digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc97363/