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Finding a balance: computer software, intellectual property and the challenge of technological change
This report identifies three policy issues; 1) the appropriate scope of copyright protection for computer software; 2) patent protection for software-related inventions and algorithms, and how the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office will handle these types of applications; and 3) complications facing librar4ies and commercial and private producers and users of digital information, including computer-based mixed media products.
Date:
1992
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Fueling development: energy technologies for developing countries: summary
This report discusses the issues surrounding energy efficiency in developing countries. Explores the way in which developing countries meet their energy needs, and how that affects the political stability and broad-based economic growth.
Date:
1992
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Preparing for an Uncertain Climate—Volume 1
This report discuses the assessment conducted by OTA office in preparation for climatic changes.
Date:
October 1993
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Preparing for an Uncertain Climate—Volume 2
This is the OTAs second report on climate change. OTA examines how the Nation can best prepare for an uncertain future climate. This assessment tackles the difficult tasks of assessing how natural and human systems may be affected by climate change and of evaluating the tools at our disposal to ease adaptation to a warmer climate.
Date:
October 1993
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Technologies underlying weapons of mass destruction
This report discusses the level of technology required to produce weapons of mass destruction, the material required, and the export controls.
Date:
1993
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A review of the status of technology training for teachers
This report discusses the important role of the use of computers in American education. It also discusses teachers training and their role in the viability of computers in education.
Date:
September 22, 1987
Creator:
Glenn, Allen D. & Carrier, Carol A.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Social aspects of changes in worker monitoring and computer/communications privacy and security practices
This report discusses the work electronic monitoring of employee performance. It considers the personal privacy issue and the potential influence on worker stress and health.
Date:
1987
Creator:
Marx, Gary T. & Sherizen, Sanford
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Perspectives on the role of science and technology in sustainable development
This report examines an array of sustainable development definitions and discusses their common elements.
Date:
September 1994
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
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
Child maltreatment in the United States: etiology, impact, and prevention
This report starts out with definitions of child abuse and neglect, then it discusses the manifestation, effect and costs of child abuse and neglect, short term and long term.
Date:
May 1987
Creator:
Dubowitz, Howard
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Mapping our genes: federal genome projects: How vast? How fast?: contractor reports, volume 2
This report discusses the research and technology efforts aimed at mapping and sequencing large portions or entire genomes. It includes the implication of technologies, social and ethical issues, applications in research biology and medicine etc.
Date:
February 1988
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Mapping our genes: federal genome projects: How vast? How fast?: contractor reports, volume 1
This report discusses the research and technology efforts aimed at mapping and sequencing large portions or entire genomes. It includes the implication of technologies, social and ethical issues, applications in research biology and medicine etc.
Date:
February 1988
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Federal government provision of public information: issues related to public access, technology, and laws/regulations: for Government Information Technology Project, Communications and Information Technology Program,
This report discusses government (public) information, both published and unpublished, which Federal Government either does or does not make public."Public information", is collected and/or developed at Government expenses or as required by public law, and not considered to be classified, personal, or otherwise subject to exemption from the Freedom of Information Act or the Privacy Act.
Date:
December 28, 1984
Creator:
McClure, Charles R.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Mapping our genes: federal genome projects: How vast? How fast?: transcript of workshop, "Issues of Collaboration for Human Genome Projects
This report discusses the research and technology efforts aimed at mapping and sequencing large portions or entire genomes. It includes the implication of technologies, social and ethical issues, applications in research biology and medicine etc.
Date:
June 26, 1987
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Innovative use of information technology in facilitating public access to agency decisionmaking: an assessment of the experience in state and local governments: final report
This report contains four sections. First part discusses methods and data collection, part two presents the framework, part three presents the findings from the brief sample survey of state and local agencies they conducted, as well as data from case studies dealing with use of information technology in providing public access to local government data. Part five evaluates the consistency of these findings and comment of their relevance for federal government considerations.
Date:
March 1985
Creator:
Kraeme, Kenneth L.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A comparative review of information technology management practices in selected state governments
This report presents an analysis of information technology management practices in selected state governments.The focus is on approaches of strategic management in central state governments.
Date:
December 1984
Creator:
Kresslein, John C.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Preventive health services for children and youth under Medicaid: early and periodic screening, diagnosis, and treatment
This report discusses the early and periodic screening, diagnosis, and treatment (EPSDT) program which is a Medicaid program of preventive and comprehensive services that States must make available to children and youth eligible for Medicaid.
Date:
January 1987
Creator:
Preston, Bonnie J.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A note on the strengths and weaknessess [sic] of using the CPS to estimate children's health insurance coverage
This report discusses the strengths and weaknesses of the Current Population Survey (CPS) relative to the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), the National Medical Care Expenditure Survey (NMCE), for the purpose of estimating the numbers of children with different types of health insurance.
Date:
February 1988
Creator:
Swartz, Katherine
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
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
Public access to congressional support agency information in the technological age: case studies
This report discusses the rational for public access, approaches to public access, challenges and opportunities of new technology, and the potential impact on the government printing office.
Date:
November 12, 1987
Creator:
Frantzich, Stephen
Object Type:
Report
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
Object Type:
Report
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
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
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
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