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American Society of Mechanical Engineers Rail Transportation Divsion

Description: This report discusses the railway systems in China, United States and Canada. A number of Chinese PRC railroad officers, engineers, transportation specialists, and planning experts studied in the USA.
Date: May 30, 1986
Creator: Blaine, David G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Support for educational technology R & D: the federal role

Description: This report examines the history of the United States Federal Government support for education technology research and development. The report identifies funding level for several civilian and military Federal agencies over time period, nature of programs and projects supported, six case studies of illustrative R&D program, and factors policy recommendations.
Date: September 30, 1987
Creator: Blaschke, Charles; Hunter, Beverly & Zucker, Andrew
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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New developments in biotechnology: Requirements for deposit of microorganisms, plants, and animals and the role of the independent depository

Description: This report starts out with historical development of independent depositories. It then discusses general requirements for deposits of microorganisms, plants and animals as they relate to the application for a patent and the role of independent depository in facilitating provisions of patent law governing specifications of the a patent applications.
Date: December 1987
Creator: Bobbie A. Brandon
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Patenting life: Ethical issues related to the patenting of animals

Description: 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
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Influences on development and innovation in educational technology

Description: This report provides a look at the history of educational technology, including both successful and unsuccessful government and private enterprise projects during the past three decades. The report examines trends in technological factors and new technologies that will influence development of innovative educational hardware and software during the next five years.
Date: December 14, 1987
Creator: Brown, Dean; Kahn, Ted M. & Zauderer, Marvin M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Composting technologies, costs, programs, and markets

Description: 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.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Developing law on professional standards and peer review in quality assessment activities

Description: This report describes the expanding role of professional standards and peer review activities in health-care quality assessment initiatives. It also describes how some traditional and some new quality assessment activities that involve professional and peer review are either building on or in conflict with existing legal processes and public policy.
Date: December 1987
Creator: Cahill, Nancy E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Report on the treatment of elderly patients by dialysis and transplantation in Europe

Description: 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.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Evaluating distance learning technology

Description: This report discusses the history of distance learning technology, the number of new and complex technological devices that could be applied to distance learning.
Date: May 1989
Creator: Clark, Richard E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Technology assessment on future developments in life sustaining technologies for elderly

Description: This report discuses ways to sustain or provide and improved quality of life for the elderly, various types of artificial organ technologies that are available and being successfully applies.
Date: 1989
Creator: Cleveland Clinic Foundation: International Center for Artificial Organs and Transplantation
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Payments to physicians in the Permanente Medical Group

Description: This report describes the function of The Permanente Medical Group (TPMG) to provide medical care to Health Plan members within the Kaiser Foundation Hospitals and their associated medical offices.
Date: August 1985
Creator: Collen, Morris F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The epidemiology of dementing disorders

Description: This report discusses causes of the dementia, precipitating or aggravating factors, present and projected needs for people and programs to provide services to victims and their families, groups at high risk for these disorders, frequency of unrecognized or inadequately treated cases, and the costs of the disorders, public and private, economic and non-economic.
Date: January 1986
Creator: Cross, Peter S. & Gurland, Barry J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Japan's science and engineering pipeline: structure, policies, and trends

Description: 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.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The evolution of distance learning: technology-mediated interactive learning: a report for the study, "Technologies for learning at a distance", Science, Education, and Transportation Program

Description: This report has two primary goals. One objective is to provide provocative ideas on how emerging forces external to education may shape the future of distance learning. The second purpose is to depict a potential new field, technology-mediated interactive learning, that may result from synthesis of distance learning, cooperative learning, and computer-supported cooperative work.
Date: July 1989
Creator: Dede, Christopher
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The effectiveness of AIDS educational programs for intravenous drugs users

Description: 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.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The context for exploring workplace monitoring

Description: 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
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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