Exploratory Research and Problem Assessment: Abstracts of NSF Research ResultsNational Science Foundation, RANN--Research Applied to National Needs, RANN Document Center, 1975 - 117 páginas |
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Página 5 - Program of Policy Studies in Science and Technology, The George Washington University, Washington DC (July 1972).
Página 39 - Sets forth principles agreed to by an expert interdisciplinary working group of the Society for the use of the Law of the Sea Conference and others concerned with the rational management of the Living Resources of the Sea. The principles concern the rationale, goals and components of a management regime, dispute avoidance and problems of enforcement.
Página 51 - For these topics the following general questions were addressed : What can we now authoritatively say on the subject? What are the gaps in knowledge which limit our confidence in the assessments we can now make? What must be done to improve the data and our understanding of their significance so that better assessments may be made in the future? What programs of focused research, monitoring, and/or action are needed?
Página 17 - This document is the lay summary of the full technical report on this project, a technology assessment which addresses the secondary impacts of a transition to advanced automotive propulsion systems. The results of the program relate impacts in multiple areas to the choice of government policy options available. Policy options considered fall into the categories of government subsidy, tax policy, and regulation. Impact areas are materials, energy, environment, economics, and societal. Of 14 advanced...
Página 54 - With appropriate levels of knowledge and technology, an explosive device of much greater destructive potential than from ordinary explosive materials can be constructed from only about ten kilograms of enriched uranium or plutonium. However, by 1980 many tens of thousands of kilograms of plutonium alone will be processed each year in the facilities preparing fuel for the nuclear-powered generating plants required to meet the world's demand for electricity.
Página 33 - Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences The Technological Institute Northwestern University Evans ton, Illinois FIELD EXPERIMENTS WITH KEY COMMUNICATORS IN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT * Albert H.
Página 43 - Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea. The political issues confronted here include the question of an international regime for the seabed, the breadth of territorial area, the nature and extent of coastal economic zones, straits used for international navigation, and maritime environment. Ann Hollick describes these basic issues and relates them to US ocean policymaking. Robert Osgood then examines the central concern of US policy — the relation of the prospective law of the sea treaty to US...
Página 33 - September 1973. to identify important. researchable questions in the area of technology transfer to developing countries. and to set priorities among them. A list of questions was produced along with a recommended approach to doing research in the technology transfer field Brief papers by researchers on various aspects of technology transfer and developing nations are included.
Página 51 - ... providing an international scientific consensus on what we know and do not know and how to fill the gaps" on inadvertant climate modification issues that would necessarily have to involve multinational cooperation. SMiC has prepared the definitive assessment of the present state of scientific understanding of the possible impacts of man's activities on the regional and global climate. The following major areas have been covered by their assessment: -- Previous climate changes -- Man's activities...
Página 3 - A descriptive and analytical study was made of the process of planning, programming, and evaluation of technological projects and programs as carried out by 86 offices within Federal executive agencies. The focus is on the extent to which techniques of technology assessment are used, based on interviews with 115 officials.