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Hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis, and related therapies for renal dialysis and the elderly/technology
This report provides the Office of Technology Assessment with an overview of some of the investment issues affecting the future of the electric power industry in support of OTA's ongoing study on competition in the industry.
Date:
January 1988
Creator:
Blagg, Christopher R. & Fenn, Scott
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Composting technologies, costs, programs, and markets
This report provides an overview of the technology of composting which involves three major steps: 1) the preparation of the raw material, 2) the compost process itself, and 3) the grading of the final product.
Date:
January 1989
Creator:
CAL Recovery Systems, Inc.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Computers and learning: do they work?: a review of research
This report discusses the role of computer in utilizing learning process.
Date:
January 21, 1988
Creator:
Capper, Joanne
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The epidemiology of dementing disorders
This report discusses causes of the dementia, precipitating or aggravating factors, present and projected needs for people and programs to provide services to victims and their families, groups at high risk for these disorders, frequency of unrecognized or inadequately treated cases, and the costs of the disorders, public and private, economic and non-economic.
Date:
January 1986
Creator:
Cross, Peter S. & Gurland, Barry J.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Electric power wheeling and dealing: technological considerations for increasing competition: volume II--contractor documents, part C.
This report is to provide the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) with an overview of some of the investment issues affecting the future of the electric power industry in support of OTA's ongoing study on competition in the industry. The paper is organized in three chapters.
Date:
January 1988
Creator:
Fenn, Scott
System:
The UNT Digital Library
New developments in neuroscience: neural transplants and nerve regeneration technologies: ethical issues: final draft
The focal point of this report is elaboration of the metaphysical and ethical issues raised by neural transplants.
Date:
January 13, 1989
Creator:
Gervais, Karen G.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Life-sustaining technologies and the elderly: manpower for selected technologies
This report discusses use an manpower issues related to file life-sustaining technologies widely used by elderly: dialysis, mechanical ventilation, resuscitation, antibiotics, and nutrition support.
Date:
January 1986
Creator:
Hanft, Ruth S.; White, Catherine C. & Fishman, Linda E.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Apollo program: science/engineering personnel demand created by a federal research mission
This report examines several related areas: Were the manpower resources for Apollo available when they were needed? Did Apollo succeed in creating research capabilities that outlasted the program that created them? Finally, can we change Federal research missions better, based on the Apollo experience?
Date:
January 1987
Creator:
Levine, Arnold S.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Medicaid participation by pediatricians and obstetricians
This report reviews some of the literature on physician participation in Medicaid, and analyzes some recent data on Medicaid expenditures for physician services across the country and in the State of California.
Date:
January 1987
Creator:
McMenamin, Peter
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Report on Agricultural Applications and the Economic Impact of Patents on Plant Breeding
This report provides an introduction on intellectual property statutes in the United States. It discusses the seed and plant industries in the U.S., management of patents and public issues.
Date:
January 1988
Creator:
Patterson, Richard J.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Preventive health services for children and youth under Medicaid: early and periodic screening, diagnosis, and treatment
This report discusses the early and periodic screening, diagnosis, and treatment (EPSDT) program which is a Medicaid program of preventive and comprehensive services that States must make available to children and youth eligible for Medicaid.
Date:
January 1987
Creator:
Preston, Bonnie J.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Responses to decision analysis framework for GPO strategic alternatives; report on federal information dissemination
This report discusses proliferation in the demand for information and proliferation of technology and its application.
Date:
January 4, 1988
Creator:
Romano, Frank J.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Release of physician-specific quality of care information: legal issues
This report discusses the physician-specific vs. patient-specific data, the identifiable interests vie for attention in the analysis of physician-identified data collection and disclosure.
Date:
January 1988
Creator:
Simpson, James B.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Assessing cost-effectiveness of computer-based technology in public elementary and secondary schools
This report begins with an explanation of why cost effectiveness studies are important, it continues with the basic economic paradigm for assessing cost-effectiveness.
Date:
January 8, 1987
Creator:
Stern ,David & Cox, Guy
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Affordable Spacecraft: Design and Launch Alternatives
This background paper examines several proposals for reducing the costs of spacecraft and other payloads and describes launch systems for implementing them. It is one of a series of products of a broad assessment of space transportation technologies undertaken by OTA at the request of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, and the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.
Date:
January 1990
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Airport and Air Traffic Control System
A report by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) that assesses "scenarios of future growth in air transportation; alternative ways to increase airport and terminal area capacity; technological and economic alternatives to the ATC (air traffic control) system modifications proposed by the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration); and alternatives to the present ATC process" (p. 3).
Date:
January 1982
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Alaskan Water for California?: The Subsea Pipeline Option
This background paper focuses on one technological option for increasing the supply of fresh water to the Southwest-that of building a freshwater subsea pipeline to transport water from Alaska to California. Originally a suggestion by Governor Walter Hickel of Alaska, the proposal has recently attracted attention in southern California.
Date:
January 1990
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Assessing Contractor Use in Superfund: a background paper of OTA's assessment on Superfund implementation
This report addresses five key questions; to what extent is superfund dependent on contractors? Why depend on contracting to such a great extent? Is the extent of superfund’s dependence on contracting appropriate? Does the extent of superfund’s dependence on contracting reduce environmental effectiveness? Is superfund’s heavy dependence on contracting cost effective?
Date:
January 1989
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
An Assessment of Technology for Local Development
A study by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) that "addresses the question of local development and the opportunities for-and appropriateness of-various technologies that can help local people to take advantage of local resources in meeting the needs of their own communities" (p. iii).
Date:
January 1981
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Blood Policy and Technology
An assessment by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) that assesses the bloody policy and technologies, specifically recent developments in the fields.
Date:
January 1985
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Commercial Biotechnology: An International Analysis
A report by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) that "assesses the competitive position of the United States with respect to Japan and four European countries believed to be the major competitors in the commercial development of 'new biotechnology'" (p. iii).
Date:
January 1984
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Criteria for Evaluating the Implementation Plan Required By the Earthquake Hazards Reduction Act of 1977: A Background Paper
An assessment by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) that looks at the Earthquake Hazards Reduction Act of 1977 and "identifies 14 basic issues or conflicts with which th [sic] implementation plan must cope in order to achieve its objectives" (Introduction).
Date:
January 1980
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Energy in Developing Countries
This report, the first of two, was prepared in response to the requesting committees’ interest in receiving an interim product. It examines how energy is supplied and used in developing countries, and how energy use is linked with economic and social development and environmental quality.
Date:
January 1991
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Enhanced Oil Recovery Potential in the United States
A report by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) assessing "the potential of enhanced recovery techniques for freeing more of this oil [discovered oil] from the sandstone and limestone formations in which it is trapped" (Foreward).
Date:
January 1978
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System:
The UNT Digital Library