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- 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.
- 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.
- 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- This report discusses government (public) information, both published and unpublished, which Federal Government either does or does not make public."Public information", is collected and/or developed at Government expenses or as required by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.
- 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.
- Satellite telecommunications technology transfer to China: case study
- This report discusses the Chinese satellites and launch capabilities, China's international satellite connection, and the present status and future goals to China's space communications.
- Medicaid participation by pediatricians and obstetricians
- This report reviews some of the literature on physician participation in Medicaid, and analyzes some recent data on Medicaid expenditures for physician services across the country and in the State of California.
- 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.
- The effects of distance learning: a summary of the literature: paper for the Congress of the United States, Office of Technology Assessment
- This report offers a brief review of the general characteristics of distance education, and reports the research of the 1980s on the main issues in teaching, learning, educational planning. organization and policy making with regard to use of communications technology in contemporary distance education.
- Physicians' payment and their prescription of laboratory tests: the effects on clinical laboratory services of selected alternatives for paying physicians under the Medicare program
- This report discusses laboratory testing in light of physician payment methods under Medicare. The report focuses primarily on laboratory testing in the outpatient setting, assuming the impatient laboratory testing is covered by the DRG-based Prospective Payment System rates of Medicare.
- Final report on the economics of dementia to the Office of Technology Assessment, Congress of the United States
- This report discusses the model of dementia economics, the occurrences of dementia, patterns of care for the demented patient,and the cost of care.
- 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.
- Continuing the commitment: agricultural development in the Sahel
- This report discusses the hunger in West Africa and draws on the expertise of a large number of people. In 1985, rain came to the Sahel and provided partial relief from its latest drought.
- Quarterly Report to the Technology Assessment Board, April 1 - June 30, 1983
- Report from the Office of Technology Assessment to the Technology Assessment Board covering Congressional use of OTA's work, OTA's communication with Congress, external publications by OTA, and visits to OTA from external groups.
- Distance education and the transformation of schooling
- This report discusses the benefits and challenges of distance education. It address the question how distance learning can change our approach to learning and how it can change us.
- The role of private business in distance learning: the educational partnership
- This report explicates private corporation's role in developing and executing educational partnerships to serve elementary and secondary schools. It discusses the impact of these partnerships on distance learning. as well as the cooperative role of private enterprise in serving the public authority by addressing the educational needs as the local, regional, state and national levels.
- Beneath the bottom line: agricultural approaches to reduce agrichemical contamination of groundwater
- This report descriptively reviews findings from recent sample surveys of farmer attitudes about agricultural chemicals and groundwater quality; their practices and motivations related to chemical management; and their responses to public policy alternatives addressing this issue.
- Technologies for learning at a distance: looking to the future changing educational relationships
- This report discusses the ways to utilize technological advertisements in distance learning. It discusses the impact of technological changes in the educational environment.
- The Accommodation of intellectual property law to the introduction of new technologies; Copyright and new technology; The Impact on the Law of Privacy, Antitrust and Free Speech
- This report discusses the copyright protection laws and the surrounding issues.
- Report on Agricultural Applications and the Economic Impact of Patents on Plant Breeding
- This report provides an introduction on intellectual property statutes in the United States. It discusses the seed and plant industries in the U.S., management of patents and public issues.
- Mechanisms for facilitating a vital and dynamic education system: fundamental roles for education science and technology
- This report aims to synthesize discussions, correspondences and readings in terms of a novel framework that characterizes advances in the field of educational science and technology.
- Assessment of disorders causing dementia: the Family Survival Project: final report
- This report discusses the assessment of disorders causing dementia with disabled veterans.
- 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.
- Employee monitoring in other industrial democracies
- This report explores how other advanced industrial democracies and some multi - national or international agencies are approaching workplace monitoring,.
- Screening for Open-Angle Glaucoma in the Elderly
- A report on open-angle glaucoma (OAG), whcich is the second largest single cause of blindness in the elderly, afflicting an estimated 2 to 3 percent of this age group at any time. the report discusses epidemiology of OAG, treatment, screening technology available, and medicare coverage for OAG.
- 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.
- Basic neuroscience and disorders causing dementia
- This report reviews aspects of contemporary neuroscience, emphasizing new information derived from basic and clinical disciplines. It defines the syndrome of dementia and discusses the magnitude of this problems and other issues regarding the disease.
- Educational technology: information networks, markets, and innovation
- This report aims to provide an insight about reasons why educational markets are under-producing educational software, and what thoughtful, practical remedies can be employed to bring the production of educational software up to the socially desirable level.
- 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.
- 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.
- Implications of alternative Medicare payment methods for pneumoccal vaccination
- The purpose of this report is to: 1)update the estimated level of use of pneumococcal vaccine in the United States, 2)examine factors that influence its use, and 3) assess how, if at all, selected alternative payment methods might affect the use of this vaccine.
- China's foreign policy, Beijing's military modernization, and American policy alternatives
- This report discusses the determinants of Chinese foreign policy under Mao, the foreign policy changes under Deng, and the influence of military modernization on Chinese foreign policy and on Washington-Beijing relations.
- Responses to decision analysis framework for GPO strategic alternatives; report on federal information dissemination
- This report discusses proliferation in the demand for information and proliferation of technology and its application.
- Evaluation of a 24 hour care system for persons with Alzheimer's and related disorders
- This report discusses the care for the persons with Alzheimer's disease in state hospitals hospitals, and nursing homes.
- Surveillance, historical policy review
- This report discusses the issues at the crossroads between privacy, security and civil liberties in one hand and law enforcement, national security, or effective administration on the other.
- Financial assistance, education debt and starting salaries of science and engineering graduates: evidence from the 1985 survey of recent college graduates
- This report provides statistics on financial aid debt, type of financial aid, salary and percent of financial aid for the Science/Engineering students.
- Federal computers and telecommunications: security and reliability considerations and computer crime legislative options
- This report concentrates on two major topics: The adequacy of security and reliability policies of the federal government and Computer crime trends and limitations to legislative responses to current and future technological developments.
- Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy: clinical application and Medicare physician payment
- This report discusses the new methods of paying physicians; fee schedules, payment for an episode-of-illness, and capitation payments.
- China's evolving computer industry: the role of foreign technology transfers
- This report provides a series of assessments regarding China's strategy and objectives for computer development. It examines the specific role played by acquisition of foreign computers and related know-how by PRC.
- 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.
- The Effectiveness of Drug Abuse Treatment: Implications for Controlling AIDS/HIV Infection
- This Background Paper examines the evidence of the effectiveness of drug abuse treatment; it also evaluates the role that such treatment might play in reducing the spread of HIV. Because most intravenous drug users are not in treatment, the paper also examines other approaches to HIV prevention among this high-risk group.
- Motivational, behavioral, and psychological implications of electronic monitoring of worker performance
- 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.
- Report on data protection and privacy in seven selected states
- This report describes the privacy protections in effect in seven selected states in the U.S., along with the extent of personal data collection in the states, with particular emphasis on "computer matching" at the state level.
- Intellectual property and the new computer-based media
- This report discusses the intellectual property rights. The concern is primarily with how modern electronics has changed the locus of creation, publishing, and distribution of such property.
- Assessing cost-effectiveness of computer-based technology in public elementary and secondary schools
- This report begins with an explanation of why cost effectiveness studies are important, it continues with the basic economic paradigm for assessing cost-effectiveness.
- Alternative approaches to developing a cadre of "teacher technologists"
- This report discusses the use of technology in education of students K-12 and university.
- Working paper: marine ecological consequences of waste disposal
- This report summarizes the observed effect on marine resources of waste disposal activities. It first briefly describes the nationwide impacts of pollutants on water quality, sediment quality, and marine organisms.
- 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.
- Nutritional support and hydration for critically and terminally ill elderly
- This report discusses the enteral or parenteral nutritional support as a therapy for anyone, including someone 65 or older, who is unable to meet his/her nutrition needs with meals and snack due to inadequate ingestion or impaired digestion or absorption.
- The 1992 World Administrative Radio Conference: technology and policy implications
- This report discusses the role of radio technologies and services in our daily lives. The report elaborates on the outcomes and implications for U.S. radio technology, and the next steps and lessons for the future.
- 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.