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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.
- 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.
- Support for educational technology R & D: the federal role
- 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.
- 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.
- Patenting life: Ethical issues related to the patenting of animals
- 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.
- Influences on development and innovation in educational technology
- 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.
- Surrogate decisionmaking for elderly individuals who are incompetent or of questionable competence
- This report discusses the problem of decision-making for incompetent or questionably competent elderly people as one of the most serious issues facing Americans.
- Composting technologies, costs, programs, and markets
- 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.
- Developing law on professional standards and peer review in quality assessment activities
- 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.
- Computers and learning: do they work?: a review of research
- This report discusses the role of computer in utilizing learning process.
- Evaluation of ethical implications of selected alternatives for paying physicians under the Medicare program
- This report discusses the effects of changes in Medicare reimbursement methods, examines the ethical considerations, and classifies the alternative payment methods.
- Process, Prescience, and Pragmatism: The Office of Technology Assessment
- This report discusses the history and function of the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) as it stood in November 1989, focusing on the benefit of the OTA's function as a practical analysis tool concerning technological issues.
- 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.
- An ethical analysis of withdrawal from life-sustaining technologies and assisted death: a report for the Office of Technology Assessment
- This report is designated to offer an ethical analysis of decisions to withhold and to withdrew life-sustaining technologies form patients in accord with their wishes and interests.
- Evaluating distance learning technology
- This report discusses the history of distance learning technology, the number of new and complex technological devices that could be applied to distance learning.
- Technology assessment on future developments in life sustaining technologies for elderly
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- The epidemiology of dementing disorders
- 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.
- 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.
- Financing care for patients with Alzheimer's disease and related disorders
- This report discusses the financing for patients with Alzheimer's disease,and policy options.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- The international context of labor-management relations: implications for workplace monitoring
- This report explores some of the international developments and notes contrasts with the United States, and some potential lessons with regard to managing the new technology systems of Labor relations and issues relevant to workplace monitoring.
- 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.
- 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.
- Computer networks in elementary and secondary education
- This report discusses the power of new tools for teaching and learning
- 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.
- Life-sustaining technologies and the elderly: legal issues: Canada
- This report discusses the government financing of health care and life-sustaining technologies in Canada.
- 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."
- 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.
- 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.
- Aids and Health Insurance: An OTA Survey
- This survey was conducted as part of an Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) assessment on medical testing and health insurance that will be published at a later date. OTA is also monitoring AIDS-related developments for the U.S. Congress, and the survey results are being published by OTA as the second in a series of Staff Papers on AIDS-related issues.
- 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.
- 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.
- Transplantation of adrenal tissue into the nervous system
- This report the transplantation of adrenal medullary tissue to the nervous system.
- Politics, policy, and China's future course
- This report starts out with an overview of China's politics, the post-Mao era. The report continues with China's policy evaluation.
- The transfer of western managerial knowledge to China
- This report discusses Chinese management, labor productivity, quality of industrial and consumer products, costumer service level, and worker motivation.
- 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.
- Economic incentives and disincentives for recycling of municipal solid waste
- This report is divided into an Executive Summary and four chapters. These chapters examine Federal subsidies to virgin materials, the potential for Federal subsidies for recycled materials, Federal subsidies for alternative energy sources, and state efforts at increasing recycling through tax incentives.
- 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.
- Congressional applications of information technology
- This report discusses the implications of specific information technology applications on the Congress.
- 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.
- 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.
- National security risks of dual-use transfers to China
- This report addresses several basic question about China's military-industrial complex to help provide a framework that policy maker can use in evaluating the likely effects of dual use transfers on Chinese military capability, and the attendant national security risks to the US.
- Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) Materials at the National Archives and Record Administration (NARA), May 12, 1998
- This document is a faxed transmission of Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) materials located in the National Archives as overseen by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) and as of May 12, 1998.
- 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.
- Classification systems for decisionmaking for critically ill elderly patients
- This report discusses classification and aggregation of patients according to differential needs for care that have bee accepted as normal features of contemporary hospital practice.