The Great Basin investigation

There are no author-identified significant results in this report

The Great Basin investigation

There are no author-identified significant results in this report

The Great Basin investigation

There are no author-identified significant results in this report

Beware the Pitfalls. A short guide to Avoiding Common Errors in Systems Analysis

The interest in systems analysis, which is now worldwide, is not hard to understand. Analyzing systems of various kinds has helped to solve some important social, economic, and environmental problems, and it has thrown light on others that must eventually be solved. As an aid to establishing policy, systems analysis has been particularly useful where matters are complex, where objectives conflict, and where future planning is difficult. Analysts tend to evaluate their studies on technical adequacy; decision makers stress practical results. The editors of "Pitfalls of Analysis" saw both types of standards as important and related. They organized their material to present first some common pitfalls of technical adequacy and then some common pitfalls of effectiveness

Pitfalls of Analysis

Systems Analysis-or Policy Analysis, as it is sometimes called when public problems are being addressed-aims to deepen our understanding of sociotechnical problems, and to bring about improved solutions to them. However, the craft of systems analysis is a relatively new one, and its practitioners are still exploring ways to conduct such analyses properly, a task complicated by the necessary use of tools and knowledge from many disciplines and contexts. Any craft learns both by what works and by what fails to work, and systems analysis is no exception. This book contributes to the craft of systems analysis by describing many pitfalls of analysis that will lead to failure, thus helping analysts and users to recognize and avoid them

JPL microwave experiment support

Geological parameter effects on remote microwave radiometer response

Surface chemistry of major rock types of Sonora Pass Test Site, California

Chemical study of selected rock samples tabulated as oxide percentage

Ground data investigations Mt. Lassen, site 56-mission 76

Microwave radiometry and infrared photography for meteorological dat

The Great Basin investigation

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