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  • Strategic Defense Initiative
    Office of Tech Office of TechnAssess. / Office of the Technology Assessment
    Strategic Defense Initiative examines developments in the technologies currently being researched under SDI. The OTA does not repeat the work of its earlier reports but gives special attention to filling in gaps in those reports and to describing technical progress made in the intervening period. The report also presents information on the prospects for functional survival agai...
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    69,61 €

  • Strategic Defenses
    Office of Tech Office of TechnAssess. / Office of the Technology Assessment
    To contribute to the worldwide debate on President Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative, here are two important studies, Ballistic Missile Defense Technologies and Anti-Satellite Weapons, Countermeasures. and Arms Control.Originally published in 1986.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books fr...
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    117,32 €

  • Patenting Life
    Office of Technology Assessment / United States Congress
    Since the discovery of recombinant DNA technology in the early 1970s, biotechnology has become an essential tool for many researchers and industries. The potential of biotechnology has spurred the creative genius of inventors seeking to improve the Nation’s health, food supply, and environment. In 1980, the Supreme Court ruled that a living micro-organism could be patented. ...
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    23,18 €

  • Oil and Gas Technologies for the Arctic and Deepwater
    Office of Technology Assessment
    Nearly 2 billion acres of offshore public domain is owned by the United States adjacent to Alaska and the lower 48 States. Much of the Nation’s future domestic petroleum supply is expected to come from this area. Areas of highest potential apparently occur in deep water and in the Arctic where operating conditions are severe, development costs high, and financial risks immens...
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    40,04 €

  • Energy from Biological Processes
    Office of Technology Assessment / United States Congress
    This assessment responds to a request by the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation for an evaluation of the energy potential of various sources of plant and animal matter (biomass). This report complements an earlier OTA report on the Application of Solar Technology to Today’s Energy Needs in evaluating the major solar energy resources available to the Unit...
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    30,94 €

  • The Effects of Nuclear War
    Of Tech Office of Technology Assessment / Of The Un Congress of the United States
    This assessment was made in response to a request from the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations to examine the effects of nuclear war on the populations and economies of the United States and the Soviet Union. It is intended, in the terms of the Committee’s request, to 'put what have been abstract measures of strategic power into more comprehensible terms.'The study examines ...
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    34,02 €

  • Gasohol
    Office of Technology Assessment / United States Congress
    The Office of Technology Assessment is currently preparing an assessment of energy from biological processes. In the course of this study we have carried out an extensive analysis of alcohol fuels from agricultural products. This technical memorandum presents these findings in response to congressional interest in synthetic fuels. The purpose of the memorandum is to illuminate ...
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    33,71 €

  • Water-Related Technologies for Sustainable Agriculture in Arid/Semiarid Lands
    Office of Technology Assessment
    This report complements the forthcoming OTA assessment on water and agriculture in U.S. arid/semiarid lands. The full assessment focuses on U.S. experience. Foreign experience is also important, however, particularly as U.S. agricultural, economic, and foreign aid interests are increasingly linked with those of other countries. The global significance of agricultural research a...
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    17,88 €

  • Biological Components of Substance Abuse and Addiction
    Office of Technology Assessment / United States Congress
    Substance abuse and addiction are complex phenomena that defy simple explanation or description. A tangled interaction of factors contributes to an individual’s experimentation with, use, and perhaps subsequent abuse of drugs. Regardless of the mix of contributing factors, the actions and effects exerted by drugs of abuse underlie all substance abuse and addiction. In order ...
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    15,97 €

  • Losing A Million Minds
    Office of Technology Assessment
    Prepared at the request of several committees of Congress, this report discusses the medical, social, political, and financial aspects of dementia in the elderly and assesses the impact of these diseases on the Nation. The U.S. Office of Technology Assessment published this first government report on Alzheimer’s disease in 1987. ...
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    41,08 €