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Legal and regulatory issues for neural grafts
This report discusses the use of neural grafts from fetuses that is showing some success for the treatment of disorders such as Parkinson's disease.
Date:
October 1989
Creator:
Andrews, Lori B.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Distance learning case studies
This report discuses distance learning projects, and ways telecommunications technologies such as satellites, cable television, fiber optics, slow scan TV, instructional television fixed services, and microcomputer networking have opened up opportunities for school districts to coordinate schedules and to share resources.
Date:
June 1989
Creator:
Barker, Bruce O.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Life-sustaining technologies and the elderly: antibiotics and the elderly
This report describes current treatment practices of life-sustaining technologies by providing tables and figures. It discusses the characteristics of the decision-making process, as well as other issues in antibiotic use.
Date:
1989
Creator:
Bentley, David W.
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
Evaluating distance learning technology
This report discusses the history of distance learning technology, the number of new and complex technological devices that could be applied to distance learning.
Date:
May 1989
Creator:
Clark, Richard E.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Technology assessment on future developments in life sustaining technologies for elderly
This report discuses ways to sustain or provide and improved quality of life for the elderly, various types of artificial organ technologies that are available and being successfully applies.
Date:
1989
Creator:
Cleveland Clinic Foundation: International Center for Artificial Organs and Transplantation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The evolution of distance learning: technology-mediated interactive learning: a report for the study, "Technologies for learning at a distance", Science, Education, and Transportation Program
This report has two primary goals. One objective is to provide provocative ideas on how emerging forces external to education may shape the future of distance learning. The second purpose is to depict a potential new field, technology-mediated interactive learning, that may result from synthesis of distance learning, cooperative learning, and computer-supported cooperative work.
Date:
July 1989
Creator:
Dede, Christopher
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Life-sustaining technologies and the elderly: legal issues: Canada
This report discusses the government financing of health care and life-sustaining technologies in Canada.
Date:
1989
Creator:
Dugan, Holly
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Transplantation of adrenal tissue into the nervous system
This report the transplantation of adrenal medullary tissue to the nervous system.
Date:
July 30, 1989
Creator:
Fine, Alan
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
Federal tax policy and infrastructure financing: a report to the Office of Technology Assessment, U.S. Congress
This report starts out by discussing in details the Tax Reform Act of 1986 and its impact on local construction, it provides statistical analysis of the effects of the Tax reform Act, it discusses innovative infrastructure financing techniques, finally federal infrastructure policy options.
Date:
September 13, 1989
Creator:
Graham, D. W. & Shinn, Paul L.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Life sustaining technologies and the elderly: legal issues: Federal Republic of Germany
This report discusses the legal issues in regard to life sustaining technologies and the elderly in the Federal Republic of Germany.
Date:
1989
Creator:
Haug, Christoph
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Life sustaining technologies and the elderly: legal issues: Yugoslavia
This report discusses different existing Federal laws at republic and provincial level in Yugoslavia with regard to health insurance. it talks about the allocation of resources, the method of payments, patient rights,and ethical issues.
Date:
1989
Creator:
Haug, Christoph
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The immunological aspects of neural grafting
This report starts out with an overview of the immune system, describes the central nervous system (CNS), and future consideration.
Date:
October 10, 1989
Creator:
Hickey, William F.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A study of distance education policies in state education agencies
This report provides a definition of distance learning and an overview of selected policies, operative policies and existing polices. The report discusses the policy changes and opportunities, as well as the implications for Federal Policy.
Date:
February 24, 1989
Creator:
Holznage, Donald C. & Olson, Thomas
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Benefit charges for financing infrastructure: a report
This report discusses benefit-based charges that have become an increasingly popular mans to generate funds for operating and capital costs of public works.
Date:
August 1989
Creator:
Hopkins, Thomas D.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Nutritional support and hydration for critically and terminally ill elderly
This report discusses malnutrition as a problem of increasing prevalence in hospitalized patients. The report will primary focus on the critically, terminally or chronically ill elderly, as well the detection, prevention and management of protein energy malnutrition.
Date:
1989
Creator:
Lipschitz, David A. & Chernoff, Ronni
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Reconstructing the brain: new strategies for brain disease
This report the use of new methods in molecular biology in the transplant process to arrest or correct brain disease. The report discusses the nature and consequences of these new methods for brain transplant technology.
Date:
1989
Creator:
McKay, Ronald D.G.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The effects of distance learning: a summary of the literature: paper for the Congress of the United States, Office of Technology Assessment
This report offers a brief review of the general characteristics of distance education, and reports the research of the 1980s on the main issues in teaching, learning, educational planning. organization and policy making with regard to use of communications technology in contemporary distance education.
Date:
May 1989
Creator:
Moore, Michael G.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Distance education and the transformation of schooling
This report discusses the benefits and challenges of distance education. It address the question how distance learning can change our approach to learning and how it can change us.
Date:
May 1989
Creator:
Ohler, Jason
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The role of private business in distance learning: the educational partnership
This report explicates private corporation's role in developing and executing educational partnerships to serve elementary and secondary schools. It discusses the impact of these partnerships on distance learning. as well as the cooperative role of private enterprise in serving the public authority by addressing the educational needs as the local, regional, state and national levels.
Date:
June 1989
Creator:
Otterman, Lloyd O. & Pease, Pamela S.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Beneath the bottom line: agricultural approaches to reduce agrichemical contamination of groundwater
This report descriptively reviews findings from recent sample surveys of farmer attitudes about agricultural chemicals and groundwater quality; their practices and motivations related to chemical management; and their responses to public policy alternatives addressing this issue.
Date:
March 1989
Creator:
Paddgit, Steven & Wintsch, Susan J.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
New developments in neuroscience: historical and ethical issues in neural transplants
This report investigates neuroscience, it explores the social and intellectual context surrounding advances in neurosciences.
Date:
1989
Creator:
Pinkus, Rosa L.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Economic considerations in regulating neurotoxic substances
This report discusses economic consideration in regulating neurotoxic substances which involves balancing the economic benefits of utilizing these substances commercially against their actual or potential risks to human health and the environment.
Date:
April 28, 1989
Creator:
Provenzano, George
System:
The UNT Digital Library