Soviet science and engineering education and work force policies: recent trends (open access)

Soviet science and engineering education and work force policies: recent trends

This report discusses the Soviet education in the science and engineering that has been characterized by major quantitative achievements and serious qualitative and administrative shortcomings.
Date: 1988
Creator: Balzer, Harley
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis, and related therapies for renal dialysis and the elderly/technology (open access)

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
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Patenting life: Ethical issues related to the patenting of animals (open access)

Patenting life: Ethical issues related to the patenting of animals

This report discusses the importance of patenting transgenic animal for scientific and technology developments, and for innovation and entrepreneurship. It also discusses metaphysical and teological arguments opposing the patenting of transgenic animals.
Date: June 8, 1988
Creator: Brody , Baruch A. & White, Becky
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Computers and learning: do they work?: a review of research (open access)

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
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Report on the treatment of elderly patients by dialysis and transplantation in Europe (open access)

Report on the treatment of elderly patients by dialysis and transplantation in Europe

This report discusses the EDTA Registry which is an organization that collects information on patients receiving treatment for end stage rental failure by dialysis and transplantation in over 30 countries in mainland Europe and on the Mediterranean seaboard.
Date: 1988
Creator: Challah, S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Changes in sexual behavior of homosexual and bisexual men since the beginning of the AIDS epidemic (open access)

Changes in sexual behavior of homosexual and bisexual men since the beginning of the AIDS epidemic

This report discusses Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) and the ways to prevent those not infected with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) from becoming infected with it.
Date: March 1988
Creator: Coates, Thomas J.; Stall, Ron D. & Hoff, Coleen C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The federal regulatory response to the problem of neurotoxicity: a report (open access)

The federal regulatory response to the problem of neurotoxicity: a report

This report discusses federal laws applicable to the regulation of potentially neuron-toxic substances that can be divided into three basic categories.
Date: December 1988
Creator: Courteau, Jacqueline B. & Young, John S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The effectiveness of AIDS educational programs for intravenous drugs users (open access)

The effectiveness of AIDS educational programs for intravenous drugs users

The purpose of this paper is to examine the potential effectiveness of “educational” programs for preventing the spread of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the virus that causes AIDS among IV drug users.
Date: March 1988
Creator: Des Jarlais, Don C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The effectiveness of educational programs to help prevent school-age youth from contracting HIV: a review of relevant research (open access)

The effectiveness of educational programs to help prevent school-age youth from contracting HIV: a review of relevant research

This report reviews the research on AIDS and sex education programs. It examines the more significant studies that have evaluated the actual impact of those programs upon various outcomes, including knowledge, attitudes, skills and sexual behaviors.
Date: March 1988
Creator: Douglas, Kirby
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Assessing human risks posed by neurotoxic substances: final draft (open access)

Assessing human risks posed by neurotoxic substances: final draft

This report discusses risk assessment as a analytic process by which the nature and magnitude of risk is identified.
Date: December 16, 1988
Creator: ENVIRON Corporation
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Aids and Health Insurance: An OTA Survey (open access)

Aids and Health Insurance: An OTA Survey

This survey was conducted as part of an Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) assessment on medical testing and health insurance that will be published at a later date. OTA is also monitoring AIDS-related developments for the U.S. Congress, and the survey results are being published by OTA as the second in a series of Staff Papers on AIDS-related issues.
Date: February 1988
Creator: Eden, Jill; Mount, Laurie & Miike, Lawrence
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Electric power wheeling and dealing: technological considerations for increasing competition: volume II--contractor documents, part C. (open access)

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
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Economic incentives and disincentives for recycling of municipal solid waste (open access)

Economic incentives and disincentives for recycling of municipal solid waste

This report is divided into an Executive Summary and four chapters. These chapters examine Federal subsidies to virgin materials, the potential for Federal subsidies for recycled materials, Federal subsidies for alternative energy sources, and state efforts at increasing recycling through tax incentives.
Date: December 1988
Creator: Franklin Associates, Ltd.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Classification systems for decisionmaking for critically ill elderly patients (open access)

Classification systems for decisionmaking for critically ill elderly patients

This report discusses classification and aggregation of patients according to differential needs for care that have bee accepted as normal features of contemporary hospital practice.
Date: 1988
Creator: Gage, Robert W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Effects of quality of care information on consumer choice of physicians and hospitals (open access)

Effects of quality of care information on consumer choice of physicians and hospitals

This report discusses the necessity of quality health care information, the access to health information and the intentions of providing such information.
Date: 1988
Creator: Glanz, Karen & Rudd, Joel
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Impact of AIDS on the Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program (Northern California Region) (open access)

The Impact of AIDS on the Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program (Northern California Region)

The topic of this fourth paper in OTA’S series of AIDS-related issues is the impact of the AIDS epidemic on the Kaiser Permanence Medical Care Program’s (KPMCP) northern California region and was originally commissioned for OTA’s assessment of Medical Testing and Health Insurance. Key OTA staff involved in the oversight of the project were Jill Eden, Larry Miike, and Laurie Mount.
Date: July 1988
Creator: Hiatt, Robert A.; Fireman, Bruce; Quesenberry, Charles P., Jr. & Selby, Joseph V.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Evaluation of the evidence on the effectiveness of well child care services for children (open access)

Evaluation of the evidence on the effectiveness of well child care services for children

This report discusses the frequency and timing of recommended child visits, and the frequency and timing of recommended screening tests or procedures in well child care.
Date: July 1988
Creator: Homer, Charles J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Life sustaining technologies: elderly in Japan (open access)

Life sustaining technologies: elderly in Japan

This report analyzes issues which life sustaining technologies have created with respect to growing number of elderly in Japan. It deals with future trends in the care of the elderly in the Japanese health care system.
Date: 1988
Creator: Kimura, Rihito
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Patenting life: Commercial applications and economic impact of patented animals (open access)

Patenting life: Commercial applications and economic impact of patented animals

This report provides an overview of U.S. live stock sector. It discusses the potential of commercial applications and expected economic impacts.
Date: June 1988
Creator: Lesser, William H.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Annual Report to the Congress, Fiscal Year 1987 (open access)

Annual Report to the Congress, Fiscal Year 1987

Annual report detailing the progress and budget of the Office of Technology Assessment.
Date: March 1988
Creator: Office of Technology Assessment
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Annual Report to the Congress, Fiscal Year 1988 (open access)

Annual Report to the Congress, Fiscal Year 1988

Annual report of the progress and budgets of the Office of Technology Assessment.
Date: 1988
Creator: Office of Technology Assessment
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Office of Technology Assessment Fiscal Year 1990 Justification of Estimates, December 16, 1988 (open access)

Office of Technology Assessment Fiscal Year 1990 Justification of Estimates, December 16, 1988

This report contains justification for the Office of Technology Assessment's (OTA) estimated FY1990 budget request.
Date: December 16, 1988
Creator: Office of Technology Assessment
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Quarterly Report to the Technology Assessment Board, April 1 - June 30, 1988 (open access)

Quarterly Report to the Technology Assessment Board, April 1 - June 30, 1988

This is a quarterly report detailing the budget and progress of the Office of Technology Assessment.
Date: 1988
Creator: Office of Technology Assessment
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Quarterly Report to the Technology Assessment Board, January 1 - March 31, 1988 (open access)

Quarterly Report to the Technology Assessment Board, January 1 - March 31, 1988

This is a quarterly report detailing the budget and progress of the Office of Technology Assessment.
Date: 1988
Creator: Office of Technology Assessment
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library