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- Health care technology and its assessment in eight countries
- This report is a part of a larger study on International Differences in Health Care Technology and Spending. It discusses health care technology as a policy issue, healthcare technology in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden, United Kingdom and United States, as well as the lessons from the eight countries.
- List of publications
- This report provides general information on categories of publications issued by OTA: Energy and materials, industry, technology and employment, international security and commerce, biological applications, food and renewable resources, health, communication and information technologies, oceans and environment, science, transportation and innovation.
- Institutional approaches to the care of individuals with dementia: report of a national facility survey and the Hebrew Home for the Aged at Riverdale, as a case study: prepared under contract for the (U.S.) Congressional Office of Technology Assessment
- This report discusses the provision components, compassionate and cost-effective care to individuals with dementing illnesses, and their families.
- 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.
- Neurotoxic pesticides and the farmworker: a report
- This report discusses the effect of agriculture pesticides on neurological harm, cancer, reproductive damage and other serious adverse health effects.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Experiences of the Atlanta area ADRDA in the development and management of the community services program
- This report describes the experiences of the Atlanta Area ADRDA Chapter over a two year period in the development, establishment, and direction of Community Services Program for persons with Alzheimer's diseases and related disorders.
- The federal regulatory response to the problem of neurotoxicity: a report
- This report discusses federal laws applicable to the regulation of potentially neuron-toxic substances that can be divided into three basic categories.
- Alternative approaches to developing a cadre of "teacher technologists"
- This report discusses the use of technology in education of students K-12 and university.
- Dementia among nursing home patients: defining the condition, characteristics of the demented, and dementia on the RUG-II classification system
- This report discusses how dementia affects the quality of life, the increasing number of demented persons, the onset of dementia conditions.
- Urinary incontinence in Alzheimer's disease
- This report discusses the urinary incontinence in old people diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, which is associated with impaired cognition.
- Computer networks in elementary and secondary education
- This report discusses the power of new tools for teaching and learning
- Technology, Public Policy, and the Changing Structure of American Agriculture, Volume 2, Part E
- This report discusses the challenges in the agricultural research with that come with the recent development in genetics and molecular biology. The report discusses the breakthroughs in agricultural research in creating new knowledge in both animal and plant worlds.
- Impact of dementia within minority groups: submitted to Office of Technology Assessment, United States Congress, contract no. 533-5300.0
- The purpose of this report is to provide a foundation for understanding the impact of dementia on the ethnic minority elderly.
- The Senior Respite Care Program
- This report discusses a community survey of 112 caregivers, may of them Alzheimer's Disease families, that had indicated that their primary need was the ability to get away from their caregiving responsibilities for "a few hours now and then."
- Computers and learning: do they work?: a review of research
- This report discusses the role of computer in utilizing learning process.
- 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.
- Evaluation of effects of the quality of care of selected alternatives for paying physicians under the Medicare program
- This report tries to anticipate the kinds of effects on the quality of personal health care services that would result from each of several alternative ways of paying for physician's services to Medicare patients.
- American firms and the transfer of technology to China: how business people view the process
- This report examines some of the ideas and impressions of business people from firm of varying sizes that are transferring technology to China. It also examines the factors that these American business people view as helpful and those that they perceive as stumbling blocks to their China projects.
- Assessing human risks posed by neurotoxic substances: final draft
- This report discusses risk assessment as a analytic process by which the nature and magnitude of risk is identified.
- 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.
- Technology, public policy, and the changing structure of American agriculture, Volume 2, Background papers
- This report discusses various land management technologies that are under development in response to needs to reduce soil erosion, reduce leaching of plant nutrients and chemicals, and reduce fuel costs, while maintaining or increasing crops. The paper discuses the following lines of research: conservation tillage, controlled traffic farming, costumed prescribed tillage, multi-cropping, and organic farming.
- 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.
- Personalized decision analysis as an expert elicitation tool: an instructive experience in information security policy
- This report discusses the ways that the personalized decision analysis (PDA)help the experts in decision making process.
- Technology, public policy, and the changing structure of American agriculture, Volume II, Background papers
- This report discusses the genetically engineering procedures, including: definitions and scopes, production of pharmaceuticals, control of infectious diseases, major breakthroughs needed, detection and treatment of genetic abnormalities, control of caner and leukemia, and institutional arrangements.
- The Role of technology transfer for China's economic future
- This report discusses the impact of several industries on China's economic future. The clothing and consumer electronics industry,the motor vehicle industry. The report describes the ranking Chinese, South Korean and Japanese exports to the United States.
- Assessment of disorders causing dementia: the Family Survival Project: final report
- This report discusses the assessment of disorders causing dementia with disabled veterans.
- Payments to physicians in the Permanente Medical Group
- 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.
- 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.
- American Society of Mechanical Engineers Rail Transportation Divsion
- 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.
- 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.
- New developments in biotechnology: Requirements for deposit of microorganisms, plants, and animals and the role of the independent depository
- 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.
- 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.
- New developments in biotechnology: patenting life: Intellectual property protection for plants and varieties
- This report starts out with introduction to history of intellectual property protection for plants. It discusses federal statutory protection for plans, the plant patent act, the plant variety protection act, and utility patents. The report offers a comparison of various statutes and other forms of intellectual property.
- 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.
- New developments in biotechnology: field-testing engineered organisms: genetic and ecological issues: contractor documents, volume 2
- This report includes these topics: Ecological issues relevant to environmental applications of genetically altered organisms / Elliott A. Norse -- An ecosystems approach to potential perturbations of energy flow and nutrient cycles associated with environmental applications of genetically altered organisms / David C. Coleman and Robert E. Hodson -- Ecological impact of genetically engineered organisms on ecosystems / James R. Gosz, C.N. Dahm, and Patrick W. Flanagan -- The genetic basis of changes in host range or habitat / Adrianne Massey and Fred Gould.
- The effectiveness of educational programs to help prevent school-age youth from contracting HIV: a review of relevant research
- This report reviews the research on AIDS and sex education programs. It examines the more significant studies that have evaluated the actual impact of those programs upon various outcomes, including knowledge, attitudes, skills and sexual behaviors.
- Final report to the Office of Technology Assessment on agency profiles of civil liberties practices, from the KBL Group, Inc.
- This report presents the results of an empirical study which profiles the information and technology practices of seven federal agencies/programs as they relate to three civil liberties areas: the collection of personal or company information; the provision of public information; and access to agency decision-making.
- New developments in biotechnology: field-testing engineered organisms: genetic and ecological issues: contractor documents, volume 1
- This report includes these topics: Potential environmental impact of widespread releases of non-ice nucleating bacteria in agriculture / D.A. Andow, S.S. Snapp, and P.S. Teng -- An assessment of the impact of large-scale applications of ice-minus bacteria and other procedures designed to decrease population sizes of ice-nucleative-active bacteria on crops / Christen D. Upper, Susan S. Hirano, Gabor Vali.
- The effectiveness of AIDS educational programs for intravenous drugs users
- 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.
- Background paper on cataract surgery and physician payment under the Medicare program
- This report both describes current clinical and economic aspects of cataract surgery and analyzes how alternative methods of paying physicians might affect cataract surgery in the future.
- 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.
- Changes in sexual behavior of homosexual and bisexual men since the beginning of the AIDS epidemic
- This report discusses Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) and the ways to prevent those not infected with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) from becoming infected with it.
- Abstracts of Case Studies in the Health Technology Case Study Series
- Compilation of report abstracts for publications in the Office of Technology Assessment "Health Technology Case Studies Series" which provide background information on technologies related to healthcare and medicine.
- Preparing for an Uncertain Climate: Summary
- This is the final report on climate change. OTA examines how the Nation can best prepare for an uncertain future climate.
- Services in the U.S. Balance of Payments 1982-1984: Documentation of OTA Estimates
- This report documents the procedures and assumptions used to prepare the OTA's estimates of the impacts of services trade on the Nation's balance of payments as published in the OTA Special Report Trade in Services: Export and Foreign Revenues.
- Aid to developing countries: the technology/ecology fit
- This report focuses primarily on AID and to a lesser extent on the World Bank. AID and the World Bank have made the most observable efforts to integrate environmental and development concerns.
- The Border war on drugs
- A report on smuggling of illegal drugs into the United States is a problem of serious proportions. The three major drugs of foreign source—cocaine, heroin, and marijuana-are the products traded by an enormous criminal enterprise whose retail sales total approximately $50 billion annually. Federal efforts to stop or deter international narcotics trafficking have met with only limited success.