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New developments in biotechnology: field-testing engineered organisms: genetic and ecological issues: contractor documents, volume 1 (open access)

New developments in biotechnology: field-testing engineered organisms: genetic and ecological issues: contractor documents, volume 1

This report includes these topics: Potential environmental impact of widespread releases of non-ice nucleating bacteria in agriculture / D.A. Andow, S.S. Snapp, and P.S. Teng -- An assessment of the impact of large-scale applications of ice-minus bacteria and other procedures designed to decrease population sizes of ice-nucleative-active bacteria on crops / Christen D. Upper, Susan S. Hirano, Gabor Vali.
Date: April 9, 1986
Creator: Andow, D. A.; Snapp, S. S. & Teng, P. S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
American Society of Mechanical Engineers Rail Transportation Divsion (open access)

American Society of Mechanical Engineers Rail Transportation Divsion

This report discusses the railway systems in China, United States and Canada. A number of Chinese PRC railroad officers, engineers, transportation specialists, and planning experts studied in the USA.
Date: May 30, 1986
Creator: Blaine, David G.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The epidemiology of dementing disorders (open access)

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.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Financing care for patients with Alzheimer's disease and related disorders (open access)

Financing care for patients with Alzheimer's disease and related disorders

This report discusses the financing for patients with Alzheimer's disease,and policy options.
Date: August 11, 1986
Creator: Davis, Karen & Neuman, Patricia
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The context for exploring workplace monitoring (open access)

The context for exploring workplace monitoring

This report describes the history of monitoring work and the legal framework which applies to employee privacy rights and associate4d issues of worker protection.
Date: September 26, 1986
Creator: Deutsch, Steven
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The international context of labor-management relations: implications for workplace monitoring (open access)

The international context of labor-management relations: implications for workplace monitoring

This report explores some of the international developments and notes contrasts with the United States, and some potential lessons with regard to managing the new technology systems of Labor relations and issues relevant to workplace monitoring.
Date: September 26, 1986
Creator: Deutsch, Steven
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Senior Respite Care Program (open access)

The Senior Respite Care Program

This report discusses a community survey of 112 caregivers, may of them Alzheimer's Disease families, that had indicated that their primary need was the ability to get away from their caregiving responsibilities for "a few hours now and then."
Date: April 1986
Creator: Dunn, Louise
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Philosophical issues concerning the rights of patients suffering serious permanent dementia (open access)

Philosophical issues concerning the rights of patients suffering serious permanent dementia

This report discusses the rights of seriously and permanently demented people. Do they have the same right to autonomy, to the beneficence of their custodians, to dignity, and to a minimum level of resources as sick people of normal mental competence have? The emphasis is on extended analysis of various philosophical issues.
Date: 1986
Creator: Dworkin, Ronald
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Employee perceptions and supervisory behaviors in clerical VDT work performed on systems that allow electronic monitoring (open access)

Employee perceptions and supervisory behaviors in clerical VDT work performed on systems that allow electronic monitoring

The purpose of this report is to obtain empirical data about how the potential monitoring capabilities of new office systems technology are, in fact, being taken up by management and reacted to by employees.
Date: April 1986
Creator: Eisenman, Elaine J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Politics, policy, and China's future course (open access)

Politics, policy, and China's future course

This report starts out with an overview of China's politics, the post-Mao era. The report continues with China's policy evaluation.
Date: May 1986
Creator: Fingar, Thomas
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The transfer of western managerial knowledge to China (open access)

The transfer of western managerial knowledge to China

This report discusses Chinese management, labor productivity, quality of industrial and consumer products, costumer service level, and worker motivation.
Date: May 1986
Creator: Fischer, William A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Dementia among nursing home patients: defining the condition, characteristics of the demented, and dementia on the RUG-II classification system (open access)

Dementia among nursing home patients: defining the condition, characteristics of the demented, and dementia on the RUG-II classification system

This report discusses how dementia affects the quality of life, the increasing number of demented persons, the onset of dementia conditions.
Date: April 1986
Creator: Foley, William J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Renal dialysis decisionmaking (open access)

Renal dialysis decisionmaking

This report summarizes the general policies of acceptance of patients for treatment. Decision to initiate treatment with dialysis are made by review committees in each of six institutions that provide dialysis treatments.
Date: March 1, 1986
Creator: Freeman, Richard B.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Experiences of the Atlanta area ADRDA in the development and management of the community services program (open access)

Experiences of the Atlanta area ADRDA in the development and management of the community services program

This report describes the experiences of the Atlanta Area ADRDA Chapter over a two year period in the development, establishment, and direction of Community Services Program for persons with Alzheimer's diseases and related disorders.
Date: April 1986
Creator: French, Carolyn W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
National security risks of dual-use transfers to China (open access)

National security risks of dual-use transfers to China

This report addresses several basic question about China's military-industrial complex to help provide a framework that policy maker can use in evaluating the likely effects of dual use transfers on Chinese military capability, and the attendant national security risks to the US.
Date: July 7, 1986
Creator: Frieman, Wendy
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Life-sustaining technologies and the elderly: manpower for selected technologies (open access)

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.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Legal perceptions and medical decisionmaking (open access)

Legal perceptions and medical decisionmaking

This report examines the influence of legal perceptions on medical decision-making, focusing on care concerned with life-sustaining technologies for elderly.
Date: March 1986
Creator: Kapp, Marshall B. & Lo, Bernard
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Accuracy of diagnosis and consequences of misdiagnosis of disorders causing dementia (open access)

Accuracy of diagnosis and consequences of misdiagnosis of disorders causing dementia

This report discusses the diagnosis of clinical syndrome of dementia, accuracy of differential diagnosis of dementig disorders, prognosis and prognostic accuracy, public health consequences of misdiagnosis,and summary of recommendations.
Date: June 1986
Creator: Katzman, Robert; Lasker, Bruce & Bernstein, Nancy
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Role of technology transfer for China's economic future (open access)

The Role of technology transfer for China's economic future

This report discusses the impact of several industries on China's economic future. The clothing and consumer electronics industry,the motor vehicle industry. The report describes the ranking Chinese, South Korean and Japanese exports to the United States.
Date: May 1986
Creator: Keidel, Albert
Object Type: Report
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
The medical care and treatment of the critically-ill elderly in China: issues and lessons for American policies (open access)

The medical care and treatment of the critically-ill elderly in China: issues and lessons for American policies

This report begins with background discussion of China and its people. The report includes a special focus on country's strong religious and philosophic tradition. The report concludes with a discussion of possible benefits for the corresponding American experience.
Date: April 1986
Creator: Langenbrunner, John C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Analysis of data bases for health services research on dementia (open access)

Analysis of data bases for health services research on dementia

This report offers different sources of data regarding different forms of dementia, as well as illustrations and applications in a different settings.
Date: July 1986
Creator: Liu, Korbin
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Impact of dementia within minority groups: submitted to Office of Technology Assessment, United States Congress, contract no. 533-5300.0 (open access)

Impact of dementia within minority groups: submitted to Office of Technology Assessment, United States Congress, contract no. 533-5300.0

The purpose of this report is to provide a foundation for understanding the impact of dementia on the ethnic minority elderly.
Date: March 24, 1986
Creator: Lockery, Shirley A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Satellite telecommunications technology transfer to China: case study (open access)

Satellite telecommunications technology transfer to China: case study

This report discusses the Chinese satellites and launch capabilities, China's international satellite connection, and the present status and future goals to China's space communications.
Date: July 1986
Creator: McLucas, John & Getsinger, Norman
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library