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      Biological Components of Substance Abuse and Addiction

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      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…

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      Scientific Validity of Polygraph Testing: A Research Review and Evaluation

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      Reprinted from the 1983 edition –T.p. verso.

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      Biological Rhythms – Implications for the Worker: New Developments in Neuroscience

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      Approximately 20 million Americans work some form of nonstandard work schedule. These schedules, which require that an individual work during nondaytime hours, noncontinuous hours, or for extended periods, are referred…

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      Gasohol: A Technical Memorandum

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      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…

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      Water-Related Technologies for Sustainable Agriculture in U.S. Arid/Semiarid Lands

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      Water is a major limiting factor in most areas where Western arid and semiarid agriculture is currently practiced. Increasing water demands from nonagricultural users plus growing problems of ground water…

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      Energy from Biological Processes

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      Responding to a request by the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation for an evaluation of the energy potential of sources of plant and animal matter (biomass), this report…

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      Patenting Life: New Developments in Biotechnology

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      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…

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      The Effects of Nuclear War

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      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…

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      Green Products by Design: Choices for a Cleaner Environment

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      As the United States and other nations begin to get serious about an array of potentially significant environmental threats, from global climate change to local groundwater contamination, traditional formulas of…

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      Nomination of John H. Gibbons to Be Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy: Hearing Before the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate, One Hundred Third Congress, First Session, January 26, 1993

      This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…

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