Report of the Supplemental Security Income Outreach Demonstration Program : crossproject analysis and recommendations /

"April 1996."

Cost-effectiveness of the U.S. Geological Survey stream-gaging program in central Florida /

Bibliography: p. 86-89.

Library Research and Demonstration Program: Abstracts

Mode of access: Internet.

United Nations : U.S. participation in the Environment Program ; report to congressional requesters /

"GAO/NSIAD-89-142."

Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs) and the medicare program : implications for medical technology.

"OTA-TM-H-17"--P. [4] of cover.

Demonstration Project 85, Video Imagery Systems for Highway Applications, HR-1047, 1990

The report describes the state of the art video equipment used and experiences gained from the 6,800 mile field test. The first objective of this project was to determine if laser disc equipment could capture and store usable roadway images while operating in a mobile environment. The second objective was to evaluate methods of using optical disc storage and retrieval features to enhance highway planning and design function. Several highway departments have attempted to use video technology to replace the traditional 16 and 35 mm film format used in photologging. These attempts have met with limited success because of the distortion caused by video technology not being capable of dealing with highway speeds. The distortion has caused many highway signs to be unreadable and, therefore, clients have labeled the technology unusable. Two methods of using optical laser disc storage and retrieval have been successfully demonstrated by Wisconsin and Connecticut Departments of Transportation. Each method provides instantaneous retrieval and linking of images with other information. However, both methods gather the images using 35 mm film techniques. The 35 mm film image is then transferred to laser disc. Eliminating the film conversion to laser disc has potential for saving $4 to $5 per logging mile. In addition to a cost savings, the image would be available immediately as opposed to delays caused by film developing and transferring to laser disc. In June and November of 1986 Iowa DOT staff and cooperating equipment suppliers demonstrated the concept of direct image capture. The results from these tests were promising and an FHWA Demonstration program established. Since 1986 technology advancements have been incorporated into the design that further improve the image quality originally demonstrated.

Effects of Air Pollution Control on Climate

Urban air pollution and climate are closely connected due to shared generating processes (e.g., combustion) for emissions of the driving gases and aerosols. They are also connected because the atmospheric lifecycles of common air pollutants such as CO, NOx and VOCs, and of the climatically important methane gas (CH4) and sulfate aerosols, both involve the fast photochemistry of the hydroxyl free radical (OH). Thus policies designed to address air pollution may impact climate and vice versa. We present calculations using a model coupling economics, atmospheric chemistry, climate and ecosystems to illustrate some effects of air pollution policy alone on global warming. We consider caps on emissions of NOx, CO, volatile organic carbon, and SOx both individually and combined in two ways. These caps can lower ozone causing less warming, lower sulfate aerosols yielding more warming, lower OH and thus increase CH4 giving more warming, and finally, allow more carbon uptake by ecosystems leading to less warming. Overall, these effects significantly offset each other suggesting that air pollution policy has a relatively small net effect on the global mean surface temperature and sea level rise. However, our study does not account for the effects of air pollution policies on overall demand for fossil fuels and on the choice of fuels (coal, oil, gas), nor have we considered the effects of caps on black carbon or organic carbon aerosols on climate. These effects, if included, could lead to more substantial impacts of capping pollutant emissions on global temperature and sea level than concluded here. Caps on aerosols in general could also yield impacts on other important aspects of climate beyond those addressed here, such as the regional patterns of cloudiness and precipitation.

Biogenesis soil, washing technology.

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Children's dental services under the Medicaid program.

"OTA-BP-H-78"--P. [4] of cover.

Ultrox International ultraviolet radiation/oxidation technology : applications analysis report.

Mode of access: Internet.

Low temperature thermal treatment (LT³®) technology /

Mode of access: Internet.

Service and Methods Demonstrations Program report /

Documentation of the activities and accomplishments of the Service and Methods Demonstration Program for fiscal years 1979, 1980, and 1981.

Army technology serving society 1995 /

Mode of access: Internet.

Potential effects of section 3 of the Federal Coal Leasing Amendments Act of 1976.

Mode of access: Internet.