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Aerospace technology utilization in air pollution, criminalistics, and public transportation
Information systems and public planning, social factors
Multidisciplinary research in management and administration with emphasis on large scale R and D public programs
Problem statements on transportation, air pollution, and criminalistics for transfer of aerospace technology to public sector
Environmental effects on management economics of public science programs
Multidisciplinary studies in programs in the public sector, including project management, NASA technology transfer, national decision making, and space regulations
Interfaces between technology and public need for improved systems and services
Catalog of NASA special publications issued before 1971
Activities in transferring aerospace technology including impact on general public
Bibliography of scientific publications and presentations relating to planetary quarantine for year 1970 - Vol. 5
NASA Office of Technology Utilization, examining publications, information sources, data processing and dissemination facilities
Aerospace technology direct and derived benefits for public, discussing earth resources program, communication satellites and NASA effect on nonaerospace activities and economy
This report is part of a series of annual papers on Advanced Concepts and Missions Division (ACMD) publications. It contains a bibliography and corresponding abstract of all papers presented or published by personnel of ACMD during the calendar year 1971. Also included are abstracts of final reports ACMD contracted studies perfomed during this time period.
Decision makers within Governmental agencies and Congress must evaluate competing (and sometimes conflicting) proposals which seek funding and implementation. Present value analysis can be an effective decision making tool by enabling the formal evaluation of the effects of competing proposals on efficient national resource utilization. A project's costs are not only its direct disbursements, but its social costs as well. How much does it cost to have those funds diverted from their use and economic benefit by the private sector to the public project? Comparisons of competing projects' social costs allow decision makers to expand their decision bases by quantifying the projects' impacts upon the economy and the efficient utilization of the country's limited national resources. A conceptual model is established for the choosing of the appropriate discount rate to be used in evaluation decisions through the technique.
The policy making process which led to development of the Public Health Service Guidelines governing research involving human subjects is outlined. Part 1 examines the evolution of PHS Guidelines, tracing (1) evolution of thought and legal interpretation regarding research using human subjects; (2) initial involvement of the Federal government; (3) development of the government's research program; (4) the social-political environment in which formal government policy was developed; and (5) various policy statements issued by the government. Part 2 analyzes the process by which PHS Guidelines were developed and examines the values and other underlying factors which contributed to their development. It was concluded that the evolution of the Guidelines is best understood within the context of a mixed-scanning strategy. In such a strategy, policy makers make fundamental decisions regarding the basic direction of policy and subsequent decisions are made incrementally and within the contexts set by the original fundamental decisions.
A bibliographic compilation, with approximately 200 listings, on planetary quarantine is presented. Also given are scientific publications, and presentations along with an author index.