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Process, Prescience, and Pragmatism: The Office of Technology Assessment (open access)

Process, Prescience, and Pragmatism: The Office of Technology Assessment

This report discusses the history and function of the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) as it stood in November 1989, focusing on the benefit of the OTA's function as a practical analysis tool concerning technological issues.
Date: November 2, 1989
Creator: Carson, Nancy
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
The clinical economics of nutrition support services and antibiotic medications for the critically and terminally ill elderly (open access)

The clinical economics of nutrition support services and antibiotic medications for the critically and terminally ill elderly

This report reviews the techniques that are available for assessing the economic impact of medical care intervention, provided a critical review of the studies that have examined the financial consequences of the use of nutrition support services and antibiotic medication. It also describes how their economic impact may vary from different points of view, and proposes the need for further studies and suggests policy implementation of the available data.
Date: June 2, 1986
Creator: Kitz, Deborah S.; Glick, Henry & Eisenberg, John M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
New developments in biotechnology: field-testing engineered organisms: genetic and ecological issues: contractor documents, volume 2 (open access)

New developments in biotechnology: field-testing engineered organisms: genetic and ecological issues: contractor documents, volume 2

This report includes these topics: Ecological issues relevant to environmental applications of genetically altered organisms / Elliott A. Norse -- An ecosystems approach to potential perturbations of energy flow and nutrient cycles associated with environmental applications of genetically altered organisms / David C. Coleman and Robert E. Hodson -- Ecological impact of genetically engineered organisms on ecosystems / James R. Gosz, C.N. Dahm, and Patrick W. Flanagan -- The genetic basis of changes in host range or habitat / Adrianne Massey and Fred Gould.
Date: December 2, 1986
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library