- Federal computers and telecommunications: security and reliability considerations and computer crime legislative options
- This report concentrates on two major topics: The adequacy of security and reliability policies of the federal government and Computer crime trends and limitations to legislative responses to current and future technological developments. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc97426/
- Congressional applications of information technology
- This report discusses the implications of specific information technology applications on the Congress. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc97416/
- Report on data protection and privacy in seven selected states
- This report describes the privacy protections in effect in seven selected states in the U.S., along with the extent of personal data collection in the states, with particular emphasis on "computer matching" at the state level. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc97409/
- A study of distance education policies in state education agencies
- This report provides a definition of distance learning and an overview of selected policies, operative policies and existing polices. The report discusses the policy changes and opportunities, as well as the implications for Federal Policy. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc97316/
- Basic neuroscience and disorders causing dementia
- This report reviews aspects of contemporary neuroscience, emphasizing new information derived from basic and clinical disciplines. It defines the syndrome of dementia and discusses the magnitude of this problems and other issues regarding the disease. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc97359/
- Personalized decision analysis as an expert elicitation tool: an instructive experience in information security policy
- This report discusses the ways that the personalized decision analysis (PDA)help the experts in decision making process. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc97442/
- Mapping our genes: federal genome projects: How vast? How fast?: contractor reports, volume 1
- This report discusses the research and technology efforts aimed at mapping and sequencing large portions or entire genomes. It includes the implication of technologies, social and ethical issues, applications in research biology and medicine etc. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc97343/
- Mapping our genes: federal genome projects: How vast? How fast?: contractor reports, volume 2
- This report discusses the research and technology efforts aimed at mapping and sequencing large portions or entire genomes. It includes the implication of technologies, social and ethical issues, applications in research biology and medicine etc. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc97342/
- A note on the strengths and weaknessess [sic] of using the CPS to estimate children's health insurance coverage
- This report discusses the strengths and weaknesses of the Current Population Survey (CPS) relative to the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), the National Medical Care Expenditure Survey (NMCE), for the purpose of estimating the numbers of children with different types of health insurance. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc97349/
- American firms and the transfer of technology to China: how business people view the process
- This report examines some of the ideas and impressions of business people from firm of varying sizes that are transferring technology to China. It also examines the factors that these American business people view as helpful and those that they perceive as stumbling blocks to their China projects. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc97437/
- Health care technology and its assessment in eight countries
- This report is a part of a larger study on International Differences in Health Care Technology and Spending. It discusses health care technology as a policy issue, healthcare technology in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden, United Kingdom and United States, as well as the lessons from the eight countries. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc97492/
- Making Things Better: Competing in Manufacturing
- This report considers ways to promote the restoration of American leadership in manufacturing technology. Some of the things that most need doing are up to industry— especially in handling people, from managers to engineers to shopfloor workers, and in forming stable, productive relationships between different segments of an industry complex. Government also has a critical role to play. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc39973/
- Healthy Children: Investing in the Future
- This OTA assessment addresses the effectiveness and costs of selected strategies for promoting and maintaining the health of children and to identify strategies whose implementation could substantially improve children’s health or lower health care costs. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc39911/
- Enhancing the Quality of U.S. Grain for International Trade
- Congress amended the Food Security Act of 1985 and directed the Office of Technology Assessment to conduct a comprehensive study of the technologies, institutions, and policies that affect U.S. grain quality and to prepare a comparative analysis of the grain quality systems of major export competitors of the United States. It focuses on the U.S. grain system and possible changes within that system to enhance grain quality. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc39944/
- Oil Production in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: The Technology and the Alaskan Oil Context
- This report presents the results of an assessment of a subset of these issues focusing in particular on: the oilfield technology being used to develop the Alaskan North Slope’s oil resources and the likely configuration of that technology as it might be applied in the future to the coastal plain; and the prospects for future North Slope oil production, especially the likelihood that the flow of oil through the Trans Alaskan Pipeline System will suffer a serious decline during the next decade. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc39949/
- Grain Quality in International Trade: A Comparison of Major U.S. Competitors
- This report is one of two that the Office of Technology Assessment completed in an assessment of the issues in grain quality for Congress. The first, Enhancing the Quality of U.S. Grain in International Trade, focuses on the U.S. grain system and possible changes within that system to enhance grain quality. To consider this issue fully, it is important to understand the grain systems of major competitors, a subject covered in this report. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc39946/
- Aids and health insurance: an OTA survey
- 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. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc39897/
- Complex Cleanup: The Environmental Legacy of Nuclear Weapons Production
- This report is a comprehensive look at the problem as we now know it, the public concerns about the problem, and DOE’s plans for addressing it. It focuses especially on the need for additional attention to those areas which DOE has neither the capability nor the credibility to handle. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc39980/
- Technology and structural unemployment: reemploying displaced adults
- This report concentrates on the problems of displaced blue-collar and nonprofessional white-collar workers. This report gives an overview of Federal programs that provide such services, and evaluates the extent to which both private and public programs are meeting the needs of displaced workers. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc39865/
- Performance Standards for the Food Stamp Employment and Training Program
- This report on proposed performance standards for the Food Stamp Employment and Training Program (FSET) responds to a mandate in the Hunger Prevention Act of 1988 (Public Law 100- 435). This report, then, goes beyond the original mandate and analyzes successful employment and training programs. Based on this analysis, the report identifies several alternative approaches to increasing the impact of FSET. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc40026/
- Drug Labeling in Developing Countries
- This report discusses the pharmaceutical labeling requirements imposed on U.S.-based companies by the laws of the United States and the barriers to U.S. regulation of their labeling in other countries. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc40052/
- Hazards Ahead: Managing Cleanup Worker Health and Safety at the Nuclear Weapons Complex
- This paper concludes that, thus far, Department of Energy has (DOE) and its contractors have devoted little attention to cleanup worker health and safety. They have not convinced workers and managers that a “new culture” of accountability in environment, safety, and health is truly ascendent. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc40057/
- Forest Service Planning: Accommodating Uses, Producing Outputs, and Sustaining Ecosystems
- This report on forest planning evaluates technological, biological, social, economic, and organizational dimensions of national forest planning. It discusses the agency’s planning technologies, the appeals and litigation processes, and the relationship between national planning under Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act (RPA) and forest-level planning under National Forest Management Act (NFMA). digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc40015/
- Testing in American Schools: Asking the Right Questions
- In this report, OTA places testing in its historical and policy context, examines the reasons for testing and the ways it is done, and identifies particular ways Federal policy affects the picture, The report also explores new approaches to testing that derive from modem technology and cognitive research. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc40030/
- After the Cold War: Living With Lower Defense Spending
- 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. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc40006/
- 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. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc39622/
- Marine Applications for Fuel Cell Technology
- A report on fuel cell technology is one of the most promising of the new electric power technologies currently undergoing development. Fuel cell power systems have attracted attention because of their potential for high efficiency, low emissions, flexible use of fuels, and quietness. The Federal Government and the private sector have been funding fuel cell R&D for more than 20 years. The state-of-the-art has advanced to the point that fuel cell manufacturers hope to begin marketing fuel cells in just a few years. Full-scale demonstration plants are currently being designed. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc39613/
- Review of the Public Health Service's Response to AIDS
- A review by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) of "the recent and proposed activities of the Public Health Service (PHS) in response to AIDS" and an evaluation of "the planning, resources and staffing of PHS's efforts to control AIDS" (p. iii). digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc39586/
- Automobile Collision Data: An Assessment of Needs and Methods of Acquisition
- A report on evaluation of the automotive crash recorder program proposed by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). As the assessment progressed, the implications for automobile collision data as a “whole became apparent and the report has been so titled to provide a more accurate indication of its scope. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc39601/
- Grassroots Conservation of Biological Diversity in the United States
- This report examines the technological and institutional aspects of biological data relevant to maintaining biological diversity in the United States focusing primarily on Federal data collection efforts. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc39608/
- Medical Devices and the Veterans Administration: A Technical Memorandum
- An assessment by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) of the "activities of the Veterans Administration (VA) regarding device development and procurement," specifically of medical devices (p. iii). digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc39578/
- Information Technology Research and Development: Critical Trends and Issues
- A report by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) that "examines four specific areas of research as case studies: computer architecture, artificial intelligence, fiber optics, and software engineering" in light of their new role in the United States economy (p. iii). digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc39574/
- Alternatives to Animal Use in Research, Testing, and Education
- An assessment by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) that "analyzes the scientific, regulatory, economic, legal, and ethical considerations involved in alternative technologies in biomedical and behavioral research, toxicity testing, and education" (p. iii). digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc39597/
- Changing by Degrees: Steps To Reduce Greenhouse Gases
- This report discusses the actions necessary to effect a major reduction of United States. carbon dioxide emissions. The U.S. is the world’s leading industrial society and largest single emitter of carbon dioxide. Climate change therefore presents a unique challenge to this Nation. It is a threat that will require major prudent political actions even before all the scientific certainties are resolved. The analysis, prevention, and remediation of global warming will require unprecedented international cooperation and action—an effort requiring actions sustained over decades, not just a few years. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc39686/
- Health Care Technology and Its Assessment in Eight Countries
- This paper discusses the experiences of Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United Kingdom—technology assessment with six technologies (or sets of technologies) including evaluation and management efforts and how the technologies diffused— are presented and compared. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc39826/
- World Population and Fertility Planning Technologies: The Next Twenty Years
- A report by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) that "covers the status of current and projected technologies that affect fertility change" (p. iii). digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc39499/
- Payment for physician services: strategies for Medicare
- A report on medicare coverage of physician services for elderly and disabled. The report also discusses the payment methods that have also fueled increases in expenditures for physician services, which are now one of the most rapidly growing parts of the Federal budget. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc39619/
- Nuclear Power in an Age of Uncertainty
- An assessment by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) that examines "the future of nuclear power in this country, and how the technology and institutions might be changed to reduce the problems now besetting the nuclear option" (p. iii). digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc39550/
- Issues and Options in Flood Hazards Management
- An analysis by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) that identifies "information and knowledge gaps in the management of flood hazards" and proposes "policy options for further consideration that could beneficially affect such management" (p. 1). digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc39424/
- Analysis of Laws Governing Access Across Federal Lands
- A report by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) analyzing "the laws governing Federal land management systems, the laws specifically applicable to Alaskan lands, and the major environmental and land-planning laws that affect access across Federal land management systems" (p. iii). digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc39396/
- The Costs and Effectiveness of Cervical Cancer Screening in Elderly Women
- This paper examines what is known about the course of cervical cancer in elderly women; the effectiveness of the Pap test and its accuracy in this age group; the relative costs and effectiveness of different screening test schedules for elderly women; and the implications of these findings for Medicare. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc39652/
- Safer Skies with TCAS: Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System: A Special Report
- This special report contains the results of OTA’s assessment. It also provides an admirable example of cooperative effort on the part of all segments of the aviation community in providing information to OTA and working to develop a common solution for a number of difficult issues. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc39650/
- Critical Connections: Communication for the Future
- The U.S. communication infrastructure is changing rapidly as a result of technological advances, deregulation, and an economic climate that is increasingly competitive. This change is affecting the way in which information is created, processed, transmitted, and provided to individuals and institutions. The report analyzes the implications of new communication technologies for business, politics, culture, and individuals, and suggests possible strategies and options for congressional consideration. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc39654/
- Assessment of Community Planning for Mass Transit, Volume 8: San Francisco Case Study
- One of nine studies done by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) assessing community planning for mass transit. The report identifies "the factors that help communities, facing critical technological choices, make wise decisions that are consistent with local and national goals for transit" (p. vii). digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc39353/
- Big Dumb Boosters: A Low-Cost Space Transportation Option?
- This background paper describes and examines a launch vehicle concept commonly known as the “Big Dumb Booster,” a concept that derives from efforts first made in the 1960s to minimize costs of space launch systems. Some launch system analysts believe that the use of this concept, when applied to existing technology, could markedly reduce space transportation costs. Other analysts disagree. digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc39644/
- Assessment of Community Planning for Mass Transit, Volume 11: Technical Report
- One in a series of reports by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA). This particular report is intended to "cast light on prospective changes in national transit policy programs and administration that might improve, in different ways and to different extents, the way communities plan mass transit systems" (p. iii). digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc39355/
- An Assessment of Community Planning for Mass Transit, Volume 7: Minneapolis-St. Paul Case Study
- One of nine studies done by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) assessing community planning for mass transit. The report identifies "the factors that help communities, facing critical technological choices, make wise decisions that are consistent with local and national goals for transit" (p. vii). digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc39352/
- Assessment of Community Planning for Mass Transit, Volume 6: Los Angeles Case Study
- One of nine studies done by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) assessing community planning for mass transit. The report identifies "the factors that help communities, facing critical technological choices, make wise decisions that are consistent with local and national goals for transit" (p. vii). digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc39351/
- Assessment of Community Planning for Mass Transit, Volume 5: Denver Case Study
- One of nine studies done by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) assessing community planning for mass transit. The report identifies "the factors that help communities, facing critical technological choices, make wise decisions that are consistent with local and national goals for transit" (p. vii). digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc39350/
- Assessment of Community Planning for Mass Transit, Volume 10: Washington, D.C. Case Study
- One of many studies conducted by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA). This report is intended "to provide an information base for an overall assessment of community planning for mass transit" (preface). digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc39356/