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Legal and regulatory issues for neural grafts
Date: October 1989
Creator: Andrews, Lori B.
Description: This report discusses the use of neural grafts from fetuses that is showing some success for the treatment of disorders such as Parkinson's disease.
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Distance learning case studies
Date: June 1989
Creator: Barker, Bruce O.
Description: This report discuses distance learning projects, and ways telecommunications technologies such as satellites, cable television, fiber optics, slow scan TV, instructional television fixed services, and microcomputer networking have opened up opportunities for school districts to coordinate schedules and to share resources.
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Life-sustaining technologies and the elderly: antibiotics and the elderly
Date: 1989
Creator: Bentley, David W.
Description: This report describes current treatment practices of life-sustaining technologies by providing tables and figures. It discusses the characteristics of the decision-making process, as well as other issues in antibiotic use.
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Composting technologies, costs, programs, and markets
Date: January 1989
Creator: CAL Recovery Systems, Inc.
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.
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Evaluating distance learning technology
Date: May 1989
Creator: Clark, Richard E.
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.
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Technology assessment on future developments in life sustaining technologies for elderly
Date: 1989
Creator: Cleveland Clinic Foundation: International Center for Artificial Organs and Transplantation
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.
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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
Date: July 1989
Creator: Dede, Christopher
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.
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Life-sustaining technologies and the elderly: legal issues: Canada
Date: 1989
Creator: Dugan, Holly
Description: This report discusses the government financing of health care and life-sustaining technologies in Canada.
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New developments in neuroscience: neural transplants and nerve regeneration technologies: ethical issues: final draft
Date: January 13, 1989
Creator: Gervais, Karen G.
Description: The focal point of this report is elaboration of the metaphysical and ethical issues raised by neural transplants.
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Federal tax policy and infrastructure financing: a report to the Office of Technology Assessment, U.S. Congress
Date: September 13, 1989
Creator: Graham, D. W.
Description: This report starts out by discussing in details the Tax Reform Act of 1986 and its impact on local construction, it provides statistical analysis of the effects of the Tax reform Act, it discusses innovative infrastructure financing techniques, finally federal infrastructure policy options.
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