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The Implications of Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Medical Technology
20
An Assessment of Community Planning for Mass Transit
11
Staff paper
9
HIV-related issues. Background paper
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Preventive Health Services Under Medicare
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Adolescent Health
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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
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
Life sustaining technologies and the elderly: legal issues: Italy
This report discusses the impact of life-sustaining technologies on the elderly, in Italy. It offers an overview of the current and the projected population of Italy, with emphasis on 60 and over.
Date:
1986
Creator:
Moore, Emily C.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The suitability of consumers' assessments of physician and hospital performance as indicators of the quality of care
This report discusses briefly several distinctions were important for the review of the suitability of data from consumer as indicators of quality of care.
Date:
December 1987
Creator:
Ware, John E.; Allyson, Ross D. & Rubin, Haya R.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Life sustaining technologies and the elderly: prolonged mechanical ventilation
This report aims to identify the tasks assigned by the OTA and their major sections. The issues of concern to the OTA, and those who make contributions to their discussion, are shown.
Date:
October 15, 1985
Creator:
Goldberg, Allen I.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
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
Life sustaining technologies and the elderly: legal issues: Federal Republic of Germany
This report discusses the legal issues in regard to life sustaining technologies and the elderly in the Federal Republic of Germany.
Date:
1989
Creator:
Haug, Christoph
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Release of physician-specific quality of care information: legal issues
This report discusses the physician-specific vs. patient-specific data, the identifiable interests vie for attention in the analysis of physician-identified data collection and disclosure.
Date:
January 1988
Creator:
Simpson, James B.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Issues in American engineering education: a selective review of the literature: a draft report
First part of this report describes the project, provides a timeline of significant events in engineering education, and summarizes the findings. The second part discusses the objectives of the study which is divided into three parts, and the third part is a bibliography of the materials on which this report is based.
Date:
1987
Creator:
Goldman, Steven L.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Persistance in higher S/E education: S/E baccalaureate to S/E doctorate productivity of U.S. baccalaureate-granting institutions
This report describes a study which purpose is to further analyze the BA to PhD pipeline data for the 170 institutions that have either been identified as highly productive institutions or institutions of special interest to policymakers and educational planners.
Date:
September 1987
Creator:
Maxfield, Betty D.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
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
Institutional productivity: the undergraduate origins of science and engineering Ph.D.s
This report describes a study which purpose is to address the question of whether certain types of educational institutions are more effective than others in producing baccalaureates who continue on to earn a science/engineering (S/E) Ph.D., and subsequently enter the S/E work force as well as pursue research careers.
Date:
July 1987
Creator:
Maxfield, Betty D.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Japan's science and engineering pipeline: structure, policies, and trends
This report discusses the Japanese higher education graduates in science and engineering. It discusses the work force in these fields and the major structural reforms in the education system.
Date:
October 23, 1987
Creator:
Cummings, William K.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Privacy and quality-of-work-life issues in employee monitoring: contractor report
This report discusses broad perspectives an historical trends on worker monitoring,and current work-evaluation monitoring. It also describes a variety of federal-agency monitoring practices.
Date:
December 1986
Creator:
Westin, Alan F.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Apollo program: science/engineering personnel demand created by a federal research mission
This report examines several related areas: Were the manpower resources for Apollo available when they were needed? Did Apollo succeed in creating research capabilities that outlasted the program that created them? Finally, can we change Federal research missions better, based on the Apollo experience?
Date:
January 1987
Creator:
Levine, Arnold S.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
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
Psychophysiological monitoring: possibilities and prospects
This report describes the present, near, and long term the evolving capabilities for monitoring and interpreting psychophysiological signals and in particular the Event Related Brain Potential (ERP) with particular emphasis on such ERP components as the P300.
Date:
September 1987
Creator:
Donchin, Emanuel
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Images of science: factors affecting the choice of science as a career
This report describes the dimensions of the problem this nation faces in producing enough scientists and engineers, it also attempt to describe how "images" of science may affect whether American students choose careers in science.
Date:
September 1987
Creator:
Fullilove, Robert E.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Electric power wheeling and dealing: technological considerations for increasing competition: volume II--contractor documents, part A.
This report presents the results of a survey concerning state transmission line certification and sitting procedures, and state energy planning processes.
Date:
July 1988
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Identifying potential scientists and engineers: an analysis of the high school-college transition, Report 2, Multivariate analysis of the high school class of 1982
This report describes the second part of the project that studied the science-oriented behaviors of students as they move through high school into college.
Date:
September 4, 1987
Creator:
Lee, Valerie E.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Federal government information technology: electronic record systems and individual privacy
This report addresses four major areas: 1) technological developments relevant to government record systems; 2) current and prospective Federal agency use of electronic record systems; 3) the interaction of technology and public law relevant to protecting privacy; and 4) possible policy actions the warrant congressional attention, including amendment of existing laws such as the Privacy Act of 1974 and establishment of new mechanisms such as Data Protection Board or Privacy Protection Commission.
Date:
June 1986
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
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
Industrial support of university training and research: implications for scientific training in the "steady state"
This report considers the implications of industrial funding of research and training for the way in which universities train new scientists during this period of "steady state."
Date:
August 1987
Creator:
Gluck, Michael E.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
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