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Issues in capitation: risk of financial ruin for providers and ways to control this risk
The purpose of this report is to explore issues relating to healthcare expenses. To examine the concept of risk for providers in a capitation payment environment and to estimate the effectiveness of various risk limiting techniques.
Date:
October 1985
Creator:
Vertrees, James G.; Tolley, Dennis & Manton, Kenneth
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Beneath the bottom line: agricultural approaches to reduce agrichemical contamination of groundwater, part B management
This report discusses the assessment of agrichemicals in ground water in the United States in the late 1970's. A series of recommendations are offered in this report to help solve the problems.
Date:
December 1990
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Beneath the bottom line: agricultural approaches to reduce agrichemical contamination of groundwater
This report discusses the agricultural practices that are contributing to the contamination of groundwater, how to develop alternative practices, it outlines major components of the water quality issues, and describes the integrating and coordinating activities of the respective federal agencies.
Date:
December 1990
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment
Object Type:
Report
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
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Technology, public policy, and the changing structure of American agriculture, Background papers, Volume II
This report discusses the commodity programs that have been developed over the years with the objective to raise farm outcomes.
Date:
May 1986
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Role of technology in the education, training, and retraining of adult workers: a report
This report shows how new technological tools or devices are being used in adult education and training it examines the evidence of their effectiveness and costs and it suggests prospects for the future use of technologies.
Date:
October 5, 1984
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Effects of office automation on the public sector workforce: a case study
The objective of this report is to identify and explore conditions under which office automation has been successfully and productively implemented in New York city municipal offices.
Date:
April 1985
Creator:
Greenbaum, Joan M.; Pullman, Cydney & Szymanski, Sharon
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The impact of office automation on the quality of work life: policy implications
This report focuses only on policy implication of video display terminals (VDT) usage in the areas of composition and edition/correction. The rest of the paper presents a brief discussion of the problems resulting from VDT adoption and usage in the office workplace, and the policy implications of both primary and instrumental impacts as described earlier.
Date:
December 1984
Creator:
Ashford, Nicholas A.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Annual Report to the Congress for Fiscal Year 1995
This report includes statements from the TAAC chairman and director’s statement. The report includes the industry, commerce, international security division, as well as health, education and environment division.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Other approaches to civil-military integration: background paper: the Chinese and Japanese arms industries
This report is divided into two sections, one of the PRC and one on Japan. Each section describes the structure and management of the respective defense industrial base and then compares it with its U.S. counterpart. The paper then assesses the degree to which lesson from the PRC and Japanese cases can be applied to the U.S. defense technology and industrial base (DTIB).
Date:
1995
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
International neurotoxicology research: current activities and future directions: a report
This report reviews international research activities in the field of neurotoxicology that will provide a broad overview of research dealing with neurotoxic chemicals that may represent a health hazard to human population.
Date:
1991
Creator:
Annau, Zoltan
Object Type:
Report
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.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Family Respite Center: day care for the demented
This report discusses the Alzheimer's disease and related disorders, describes how a new service evolved from a good idea into a five day a week operation, the Family Respite Center (FRC.
Date:
June 1986
Creator:
Noyes, Lin & Wittenborn, Richard
Object Type:
Report
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.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
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.
Object Type:
Report
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.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Epidemiology and etiology of Parkinson's disease
This report provides introduction of Dr. James Parkinson, diagnosis of Parkinson's syndromes, the age of onset of the disease, racial origin and incidence rate of Parkinson's, as well as survival after the onset of Parkinson's.
Date:
December 15, 1988
Creator:
Rajput, A.H.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Biotechnology in a global economy: Biotechnology developments in Asia - A financial prespective
This report discusses the biotechnology development, government, research institutes and industry and finance in the following countries: Singapore, Thailand, South Korea, and Taiwan.
Date:
June 1991
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment
Object Type:
Report
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.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
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
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
Object Type:
Report
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.
Object Type:
Report
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.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Biotechnology in a global economy
This report discusses the biotechnology in the following countries: Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Ireland, Japan, Korea, Netherlands, Switzerland, and United Kingdom.
Date:
June 1991
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library