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- Quarterly Report to the Technology Assessment Board, October 1 - December 31, 1982
- This is a quarterly report detailing the budget and progress of the Office of Technology Assessment.
- Quarterly Report to the Technology Assessment Board, January 1 - March 31, 1983
- This is a quarterly report detailing the budget and progress of the Office of Technology Assessment.
- What OTA Is, What OTA Does, How OTA Works
- Document describing the purpose, function, and makeup of the Office of Technology Assessment. Includes organization chart with handwritten annotations.
- Quarterly Report to the Technology Assessment Board, July 1 - September 30, 1983
- This is a quarterly report detailing the budget and progress of the Office of Technology Assessment.
- OTA Senior Management Retreat, 1983
- Materials from an OTA Senior Management Retreat including memoranda, summaries, and discussion points for previous or upcoming studies and programs.
- Informational Technology and Its Impact on American Education : summary
- This report documents two sets of conclusions: the impact of the information revolution driven by rapid advances in communication and computer technology, and how information technology can improve and enrich education.
- Annual Report to the Congress for 1982
- This report includes statements form OTA Chairman, Vice-Chairman, and Director, as well as TAAC Chairman. The report also discusses industry, commerce, and international security division, as well as health, life sciences and the environment division.
- 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).
- Industrial Energy Use
- An assessment by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) on the "prospects for energy efficiency in the U.S. industrial sector, the technologies available to improve industrial energy efficiency, and the effect of various legislative policies on stimulating increased efficiency" (p. iii).
- The Information Content of Premanufacture Notices
- A report by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) that presents the analysis of pre-manufacture notices and "reports the results of analyzing those notices for the presence or absence of the information specified by the Toxic Substances Control Act and for other items of physical chemical and toxicity information that are useful for estimating potential health and environmental effects" (p. iii).
- International Competitiveness in Electronics
- An assessment by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) that looks at the international competitiveness of the electronics technology industry.
- Plants: The Potential for Extracting Protein, Medicines, and Other Useful Chemicals: Workshop Proceedings
- Proceedings prepared by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) that describe "technological opportunities for commercially developing plant extracts, examples of some work being done in this field, and workshop participants' conclusions and recommendations concerning the Government's role in the area" (p. iii).
- Quality and Relevance of Research and Related Activities at the Gorges Memorial Laboratory
- A technical memorandum by the Office of Technical Assessment (OTA) that reviews the quality and relevance of activities at GML (Gorgas Memorial Laboratory), based on Gorgas' publishing record, an OTA-commissioned survey of GML's scientific reputation, a critical review of recent articles and current manuscripts, a comparison of GML's areas of effort with health problems in tropical America and with scientific opportunity, and a review of past scientific evaluations of GML (p. iii).
- Agricultural Postharvest Technology and Marketing Economics Research
- A technical memorandum by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) that presents "findings and conclusions regarding the role of the public and private research participants in the PHTME (postharvest technology and marketing economics) research, the benefits and burdens of PHTME research, trends in PHTME research funding, quality of PHTME research, and management of PHTME research in the public sector (p. iii).
- An Assessment of Maritime Trade and Technology
- An assessment by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) of maritime trade and technology that "traces prevailing conditions and dominant trends that are important to the way the Federal Government assumes its responsibility for developing and implementing policy" (p. iii).
- Health Technology Case Study Twenty-six: Assistive Devices for Severe Speech Impairments
- A case study by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) that is "about the revolution in communication aids that has since changed the outlook for this population [nonspeaking population], its accomplishments to date, its promise for the future, and its problems" (p. 3).
- Automation and the Workplace: Selected Labor, Education, and Training Issues
- A report by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) that examines "the nature and development of automation technologies (such as robotics, computer-aided design, and manufacturing, and automated materials handling, storage, and retrieval)" (p. iii).
- Technology, Innovation, and Regional Economic Development: Background Paper: Census of State Government Initiatives for High-Technology Industrial Development
- An assessment by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) that gives information about high-technology development programs ate state and local levels.
- Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs) and the Medicare Program: Implications for Medical Technology
- A technical memorandum by the Office of Technology Assessment that evaluates the results of Diagnosis Related Groups and "their implications for use in the Medicare program" (p. iii).
- Health Technology Case Study Twenty Two: The Effectiveness and Costs of Alcoholism Treatment
- A case study by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) that provides "scientific background for congressional of Medicare reimbursement for alcoholism treatment services" (p. 3).
- Technology, Innovation, and Regional Economic Development: Background Paper Two: Encouraging High-Technology Development
- An assessment by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) that looks at initiatives of regions of the United States that are promoted high-technology development and the role played by "State and local governments, universities, and the private sector in encouraging high-technology industrial development" (p. 3).
- Habitability of the Love Canal Area: An Analysis of the Technical Basis for the Decision of the Habitability of the Emergency Declaration Area: A Technical Memorandum
- A case study by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) that examines "the technical basis for, and validity of, the habitability decision for the emergency declaration area near Love Canal" (p. iii).
- The Impact of Randomized Clinical Trials on Health Policy and Medical Practice: Background Paper
- A background paper by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) that brings together "the literature and current views about the actual and potential role of RCTS (randomized clinical trials) in decisionmaking about medical technologies" (Preface).
- The Role of Genetic Testing in the Prevention of Occupational Disease
- A report by the Office of Technology Assessment that "examines a technology, genetic testing, that may be useful in reducing occupational disease, but that also raises concerns about potential misuse" (p. iii).
- Health Technology Case Study Twenty Three: The Safety, Efficacy, and Cost Effectiveness of Therapy Apheresis
- A case study by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) that examines the cost effectiveness of and the evidence behind the technology of therapeutic apheresis.
- SALYUT: Soviet Steps Toward Permanent Human Presence in Space
- A report by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA), which "has undertaken a study of the presence of Soviets in space and their Salyut space stations, in order to provide Congress with an informed view of Soviet capabilities and intentions" (p. iii).
- Scientific Validity of Polygraph Testing: A Research Review and Evaluation
- A technical memorandum by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) that looks at "issues directly related to the scientific validity of the polygraph" (p. iii).
- Technologies and Management Strategies for Hazardous Waste Control
- A report by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) that "presents the analyses, findings, and conclusions of OTA's study of the Federal program for the management of nonnuclear industrial hazardous waste" (p. iii).
- Technology and East-West Trade: An Update
- A report by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) that "summarizes the major provisions of the 1979 Export Administration Act, highlighting those provisions which have led to problems of interpretation or exaction; recounts major provisions in U.S. export control policy towards the Soviet Union since 1979; and discusses the impacts and implications of those events-for the domestic economy, for U.S. political relations with the NATO allies and with the Soviet Union, and for U.S. national security" (p. iii).
- Health Technology Case Twenty-five: Technology and Learning Disabilities
- A case study by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) that examines different types of technologies that are relevant to learning disabilities.
- U.S. Natural Gas Availability: Conventional Gas Supply Through the Year 2000
- An assessment by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) that examines "the future potential for production of all forms of natural gas in the U.S. Lower 48 States, emphasizing the time frame 1990-2000" (p. iii).
- U.S. Passenger Rail Technologies
- An assessment by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) that examines "the prospects of magnetic levitation (maglev) technologies - ultra-high-speed ground transportation that relies on magnetic suspension instead of conventional steel wheels on rail - and the status of railcar manufacturing industries" (p. ix).
- UNISPACE 1982: A Context for International Cooperation and Competition
- A technical memorandum by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) published after UNISPACE '82, the United Nations Conference on the Exploration and Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, that "constitutes a portion of a major assessment of international cooperation and competition in civilian space activities that was requested by these same committees" (p. iii).
- Health Technology Case Study Twenty-four: Variations in Hospital Length of Stay: Their Relationship to Health Outcomes
- A case study by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) that examines "the evidence on variations in lengths of hospital stay and their relation to health outcomes" (p. 3).
- Water-Related Technologies for Sustainable Agriculture in Arid/Semiarid Lands: Selected Foreign Experience: Background Paper
- A report by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) that describes "selected foreign experiences using technology to develop and sustain agriculture in arid lands" (p. iii).
- Water-Related Technologies for Sustainable Agriculture in U.S. Arid/Semiarid Lands
- A report by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) that "assesses existing and emerging water-related technologies for their ability to support long-term productivity of arid/semiarid agricultural plants and animals in the context of institutional factors, water supply/use relationships, and the characteristics of the renewable natural resource base on which agriculture depends" (p. iii).
- Wood Use: U.S. Competitiveness and Technology: Vol. 1
- An assessment by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) that "surveys the contribution of the forest products industry to the U.S. economy, the ability of the industry and the U.S. forest resource to satisfy expected domestic demands for wood, the competitiveness of U.S. Forest products on world markets, and the role of technology in stretching the U.S. forest resource and providing products that satisfy domestic needs as well as international markets" (p. iii).
- Sustaining Tropical Forest Resources: Reforestation of Degraded Lands
- This background paper is designed to provide the U.S. Congress with an overview of some reforestation technologies and their possible beneficial and adverse impacts. It also discusses the constraints and opportunities for the introduction of these technologies in such activities as timber and fuel production, watershed protection, and agroforestry.
- Sustaining Tropical Forest Resources: Reforestation of Degraded Lands
- This background paper is designed to provide the U.S. Congress with an overview of some reforestation technologies and their possible beneficial and adverse impacts. It also discusses the constraints and opportunities for the introduction of these technologies in such activities as timber and fuel production, watershed protection, and agroforestry.