Prepared at the request of several committees of Congress, this report discusses the medical, soc...

Nearly 2 billion acres of offshore public domain is owned by the United States adjacent to Alaska...

Substance abuse and addiction are complex phenomena that defy simple explanation or description.A...

Strategic Defense Initiative examines developments in the technologies currently being researched...

Water is a major limiting factor in most areas where Western arid and semiarid agriculture is cur...

This report presents the analyses, findings, and conclusions of OTA's study of the Federal progra...

The Office of Technology Assessment is currently preparing an assessment of energy from biologica...

This report complements the forthcoming OTA assessment on water and agriculture in U.S. arid semi...

Since the discovery of high-temperature superconductivity (HTS), research laboratories around the...

To contribute to the worldwide debate on President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, here ar...

Since the discovery of recombinant DNA technology in the early 1970s, biotechnology has become an...

Pharmaceutical costs are among the fastest growing components of health care costs today. Althoug...

This technical memorandum presents the results of the Office of Technology Assessment's (OTA) rev...

Strategic Defense Initiative examines developments in the technologies currently being researched...

This assessment was made in response to a request from the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations ...

As the United States and other nations begin to get serious about an array of potentially signifi...

This assessment responds to a request by the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transport...

Approximately 20 million Americans work some form of nonstandard work schedule. These schedules, ...

President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative has kindled a national debate over the roles of s...

Archaeological remains and historic structures and landscapes are important tangible reminders of...

Large ocean energy farms may one day prove to be an alternative source of synthetic natural gas f...

Throughout history, man has been fascinated by the mysteries that lay hidden below the ocean surf...

To contribute to the worldwide debate on President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, here ar...

A look at any newspaper's employment section suggests that competition for qualified workers in i...

OTA s 'An Assessment of Technology for Local Development' reviews tools for growing local economi...