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Office of Technology Assessment
Construction and materials research and development for the nation's public works
Date: June 1987
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Description: A report on the nation’s infrastructure that is the physical framework that supports and sustains virtually all domestic economic activity; it is essential to maintaining international competitiveness as well.
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Trends and status of computers in schools: use in Chapter 1 programs and use with limited English proficient students
Date: March 1987
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Description: A report on computers in American Education: trends and status, use of educational technology, and the use of technology for students with limited English proficiency.
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Technologies for underwater archaeology & maritime preservation
Date: September 1987
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Description: This background paper describes and assesses the role of technology in underwater archaeology and historic maritime preservation. As several underwater projects have recently demonstrated, advanced technology, often developed for other uses, plays an increasingly important role in the discovery and recovery of historic shipwrecks and their contents.
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Science, technology, and the Constitution
Date: September 1987
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Description: This background paper summarizes and discusses major themes that are being explored in special reports the project on Science, Technology, and the Constitution.
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Permallink:digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc39633/
Technologies for the preservation of prehistoric & historic landscapes
Date: July 1987
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Description: This background paper shows, the implementation of Federal historic preservation laws with respect to historic landscapes lags far behind the effort expended on historic buildings and archaeological sites.
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Permallink:digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc39635/
Preparing for science and engineering careers: field level profiles
Date: January 21, 1987
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Description: This Staff Paper is an addendum to Demographic Trends and the Scientific and Engineering Work Force, an OTA Technical Memorandum published in December 1985. The paper was produced in response to a request by Committee on Science and Technology of the House of Representatives, to examine differences in the supply and demand of personnel across individual field of science and engineering, and the sensitivity of these fields to demographic trends.
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Hospital information systems at the Veterans Administration: special report
Date: September 1987
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Description: This Special Report focuses on the Decentralized Hospital Computer Program (DHCP) currently under developmental the Veterans Administration. The study was requested by the House Committee on Appropriations and the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs. This Special Report is intended as a narrowly focused, quick response to the concerns of the requesting committees.
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Trade adjustment assistance: new ideas for an old program: special report
Date: May 1987
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Description: Trade Adjustment Assistance program (TAA) includes two programs: employment and training assistance for workers who have lost jobs on account of trade and technical assistance for firms and industries hurt by imports. Both parts of TAA have the potential to help workers and businesses adjust to intensifying global competition. This report discusses options for TAA redesign and administration that could make both programs more effective.
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From pollution to prevention: a progress report on waste reduction
Date: June 1987
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Description: The report examines the effectiveness of the limited Federal actions taken so far and summarizes what industry and State and local governments have done to implement waste reduction. These programs are encouraging, and they help us understand what congressional policy options might accomplish, This special report discusses in greater detail several options that first appeared in Serious Reduction of Hazardous Waste.
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Permallink:digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc39630/
Technology Dependent Children: Hospital Vs. Home Care
Date: May 1987
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Description: This technical memorandum is about problems arising out of success. Recent advances in medical technology have permitted sick children who once would have died to survive with the assistance of sophisticated equipment and intensive nursing care. Often, the assistance is needed for just a short time, but sometimes the dependence on life-sustaining technology is permanent. As technology for helping keep children alive has improved, a new population of technology-dependent children has emerged.
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