Indian Health Care (open access)

Indian Health Care

This report is an assessment of health care for American Indians and Alaska Natives who are eligible for medical and health-related services from the Federal Government. The Federal agency that is responsible for providing these services is the Indian Health Service (IHS), a component of the Public Health Service (PHS) in the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS).
Date: April 1986
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Intellectual Property Rights in an Age of Electronics and Information (open access)

Intellectual Property Rights in an Age of Electronics and Information

This report examines the impact of recent and anticipated advances in communication and information technologies on the intellectual property system. It focuses primarily on the Federal copyright system, and on the continuing effectiveness of copyright law as a policy tool in the light of technologies such as audioand videorecorders, computer programs, electronic databases, and telecommunications networks.
Date: April 1986
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Research funding as an investment: can we measure the returns? (open access)

Research funding as an investment: can we measure the returns?

A report on the mounting intensity of global competition in the 1980s that underscores the critical role played by the basic research enterprise of the United States. Basic research is the backbone of much of the technological development that has provided not only our economic prosperity, but improvements in health, a strong national defense, and exciting and fundamental advances in knowledge.
Date: April 1986
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
System: The UNT Digital Library
Assessment of disorders causing dementia: the Family Survival Project: final report (open access)

Assessment of disorders causing dementia: the Family Survival Project: final report

This report discusses the assessment of disorders causing dementia with disabled veterans.
Date: April 1986
Creator: Petty, Diana M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
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.
System: The UNT Digital Library