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Alternative Approaches to Cargo Policy: A Supplement to an Assessment of Maritime Trade and Technology

Description: Proceedings from a conference that covers the topics "1) the effects of cargo policies now in force; 2) the status of new policies under consideration by the United States and its various trading partners; and 3) costs and benefits of existing, proposed and alternative policies" (p. iii)
Date: August 1985
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
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Annual Report to the Congress: Fiscal Year 1984

Description: This report includes statements by the Chairman and Vice Chairman of the board, TAAC Chairman, and the director of the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA). The report discusses the year in review regarding the work in progress, organization and operations of OTA.
Date: March 1985
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Anti-Satellite Weapons, Countermeasures, and Arms Control

Description: An assessment by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) of the "opportunities and risks involved in an accelerated program of research on new ballistic missile defense technologies, including those that might lead to deployment of weapons in space" (p. iii).
Date: September 1985
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Automation of America's Offices, 1985-2000

Description: An assessment by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) that "assesses the consequences of the continuing and rapid introduction of information and telecommunications technologies in offices" (p. iii).
Date: December 1985
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Ballistic Missile Defense Technologies

Description: An assessment by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) of the "opportunities and risks involved in an accelerated program of research on new ballistic missile defense technologies, including those that might lead to deployment of weapons in space" (Foreward).
Date: September 1985
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Bioaccumulation of contaminants from Black Rock Harbor dredged material by mussels and polychaetes

Description: "This report describes work performed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPS), Environmental research laboratory, Narragansett, R.I. (ERLN), as part of the Interagency Field verification of Testing and predictive Methodologies for Dredged Material Disposal Alternatives Program or the Field Verification Program (FVP)."
Date: February 1985
Creator: Lake, James; Hoffman, Gerald L. & Schimmel, Steven C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Blood Policy and Technology

Description: An assessment by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) that assesses the bloody policy and technologies, specifically recent developments in the fields.
Date: January 1985
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Chemical and Biological Characterization of Black Rock Harbor Dredged Material

Description: "This is one in a series of scientific reports documenting the findings of studies conducted under the Interagency Field Verifications of Testing and Predictive Methodologies for Dredged Material Disposal Alternatives (referred to at the Field Verification Program or FVP). This program is a comprehensive evaluation of environmental effects of dredged material disposal under conditions of upland and aquatic disposal and wetland creation."
Date: September 1985
Creator: Rogerson, Peter F.; Schimmel, Steven C. & Hoffman, Gerald
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Computerizing Materials Data -- A Workshop for the Nuclear Power Industry

Description: Abstract: This report summarizes the recommendations of a Workshop in Computerized Materials Data as related to engineers in the Nuclear Power Industry. Four areas of discussion are featured: the content of a proposed data system; its size and data sources; the user interfaces and system capabilities; and ways of making further progress. In addition, changes in the use of materials data in the Nuclear Power Industry and progress-to-date in computerizing these data are presented.
Date: January 1985
Creator: Rumble, John, Jr. & Westbrook, Jack H.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Critical and Strategic Minerals in Alaska: Tin, Tantalum, and Columbium

Description: Report issued by the U.S. Bureau of Mines discussing critical and strategic Alaskan minerals. As stated in the introduction, "this report presents findings from the second phase of the Bureau's critical and strategic minerals program in Alaska; it summarizes information on tin, tantalum, and columbium production, reserves, and occurrences" (p. 2). This report includes tables and a map.
Date: 1985
Creator: Warner, J. Dean
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Directory of Accredited Laboratories: 1984

Description: Abstract: Laboratories accredited by the National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program (NVLAP) are identified along with the specific test methods for which they are accredited. The current status of existing accreditation programs is given for laboratories that test thermal insulation, freshly mixed concrete, carpet, wood burning stoves, paint, and personnel radiation dosimeters, and that provide acoustical testing services. Indexes are provided for searching the Directory for laboratori… more
Date: February 1985
Creator: NVLAP (Program : U.S.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Dual arm master controller development

Description: The advanced servomanipulator (ASM) slave was designed with an anthropomorphic stance, gear/torque tube power drives, and modular construction. These features resulted in increased inertia, friction, and backlash relative to tape-driven manipulators. Studies were performed which addressed the human factors design and performance trade-offs associated with the corresponding master controller best suited for the ASM. The results of these studies, as well as the conceptual design of the dual arm m… more
Date: January 1, 1985
Creator: Kuban, D. P. & Perkins, G. S.
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Electronic Surveillance and Civil Liberties

Description: A report by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) that focuses on "technological developments in the basic communication and information infrastructure of the United States that present new or changed opportunities for and vulnerabilities to electronic surveillance, not on the details of specific surveillance devices" (Foreward).
Date: October 1985
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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