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- Water for Walker Lake
- This report discusses the Walker River flows, water rights decrees, agricultural diversions, and other issues related to Walker River water.
- 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).
- Western surface mine permitting and reclamation
- This report responds to a request from the House Committee on interior and Insu- Iar Affairs to assess the ability of current mining and reclamation technologies and methodologies, and of Federal programs and policies, to meet the statutory mandates for environmental protection in reclaiming the surface of Western coal mined lands.
- Wetlands: Their Use and Regulation
- A report by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) that "describes the ecological values of wetlands, trends in wetlands use, and the effect of Federal and State wetland programs on wetlands" (p. iii).
- 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.
- Who Goes There: Friend or Foe?
- This report discusses the problem of fratricide, or “friendly fire” casualties among combat units. The House Armed Services Committee requested that OTA assess the technology and techniques available to reduce this tragic loss of life.
- Wireless Technologies and the National Information Infrastructure
- This report examines the role wireless technologies will play in the emerging National Information Infrastructure (NII) and identifies the challenges that policymakers, regulators, and wireless service providers will face as they begin to more closely integrate wireless systems with existing wireline networks. The report also discusses some of the technical and social implications of the widespread use of wireless technologies— paying particular attention to the profound changes that wireless systems may cause in patterns of mobility.
- 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).
- Wood Use: U.S. Competitiveness and Technology: Vol. 2
- An assessment by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) that "reviews wood manufacturing technologies that might be used to extend the timber resource through improved utilization and explores the prospects for changes in the way wood products are manufactured and used" (Abstract).
- Worker Training: Competing in the New International Economy
- This report focuses on the training given to employed workers both from the standpoint of the competitiveness of U.S. industry and from the standpoint of the individual worker who may need training to advance. Most workers who get training get it from their employer, and much of the report looks at the employer provided training system. The message of this report is that the debate about national training policies needs to be broadened to encompass not only training programs for the economically disadvantaged, the displaced worker, or people with special needs, but also those who stand on the front line of American productivity-employed workers at all levels.
- World Petroleum Availability 1980-2000
- A technical memorandum by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) that "estimates plausible levels of world oil production to the year 2000 and assesses the factors likely to determine which levels are actually reached" (p. iii).
- 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).
- Drug Bioequivalence
- Report of the findings from a panel of the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) regarding drug bioequivalence therapies. According to the report, the purpose of the Drug Bioequivalence Study Panel "was to examine the relationships between the chemical and therapeutic equivalence of drug products and to assess the capability of current technology -- short of therapeutic trials in man -- to determine whether drug products with the same physical and chemical composition produce comparable therapeutic effects" (p. 5).
- Services in the U.S. Balance of Payments 1982-1984: Documentation of OTA Estimates
- This report documents the procedures and assumptions used to prepare the OTA's estimates of the impacts of services trade on the Nation's balance of payments as published in the OTA Special Report Trade in Services: Export and Foreign Revenues.
- Policies and procedures of the Office of Technology Assessment : communication with Congress and the public
- A manual for OTA employees, providing guidance for drafting proposals and reports. Includes standards and procedures for communicating with Congress.
- Distributive justice and the allocation of technological resources to the elderly
- This report examines the problems if distributive justice and the allocation of technological resources to the elderly. The second part of this report looks more narrowly at the specific question of the use of age as a criterion in the allocating of technological resources. The third part provides a closer examination of health care resources seeing whether the nature of the resources may have a bearing on how they are distributed.
- Issues in capitation: risk of financial ruin for providers and ways to control this risk
- The purpose of this report is to explore issues relating to healthcare expenses. To examine the concept of risk for providers in a capitation payment environment and to estimate the effectiveness of various risk limiting techniques.
- Costs and Effectiveness of Colorectal Cancer Screening in the Elderly
- In this paper OTA summarizes the evidence on the effectiveness and costs of colorectal cancer screening in the elderly and explores the implications for Medicare of offering this preventive technology as a Medicare benefit. Nowhere are the hard choices between potential medical benefits and high costs illustrated more clearly than with this cancer screening technology.
- Science Advice to the Congress, May 1991
- This report is divided into three parts: first, an account of science advice to Congress and its dependence on its agencies; secondly, a more detailed look at the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) as the agency with most to offer other countries and most resemblance to parliamentary committee work; and thirdly, a short consideration of whether or not an OTA is appropriate for the UK.
- The suitability of consumers' assessments of physician and hospital performance as indicators of the quality of care
- This report discusses briefly several distinctions were important for the review of the suitability of data from consumer as indicators of quality of care.
- Institutional approaches to the care of individuals with dementia: report of a national facility survey and the Hebrew Home for the Aged at Riverdale, as a case study: prepared under contract for the (U.S.) Congressional Office of Technology Assessment
- This report discusses the provision components, compassionate and cost-effective care to individuals with dementing illnesses, and their families.
- Urinary incontinence in Alzheimer's disease
- This report discusses the urinary incontinence in old people diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, which is associated with impaired cognition.
- Privacy and quality-of-work-life issues in employee monitoring: contractor report
- This report discusses broad perspectives an historical trends on worker monitoring,and current work-evaluation monitoring. It also describes a variety of federal-agency monitoring practices.
- Neurotoxic pesticides and the farmworker: a report
- This report discusses the effect of agriculture pesticides on neurological harm, cancer, reproductive damage and other serious adverse health effects.
- How technology affects teaching
- This report discusses a study that provides an opportunity for teachers to speak to policy makers about their experiences with educational technology.
- 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.
- Caregivers of patients with dementia: final report
- This report discuses caregivers of patients with Alzheimer's Disease or another dementing illness, based on a mail survey carried out between November 26, 1986 and January 28, 1986. The report presents the study purpose, study scope and method and a description of the sample obtained.
- Life-Sustaining Technologies and the Elderly Life, the Legal Issues
- This report discusses the case law and statutes which address the physician-patient relationship that present examples of both moral consensus and divergence.
- Annual Report to the Congress for Fiscal Year 1995
- This report includes statements from the TAAC chairman and director’s statement. The report includes the industry, commerce, international security division, as well as health, education and environment division.