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Internal Revenue Service: Status of Recommendation from Financial Audits and Related Financial Management Reports

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "In its role as the nation's tax collector, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has a demanding responsibility in collecting taxes, processing tax returns, and enforcing the nation's tax laws. Since GAO's first audit of IRS's financial statements in fiscal year 1992, a number of weaknesses in IRS's financial management operations have been identified. In related reports, GAO has recommended corrective action to … more
Date: April 28, 2004
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Status of FEMA's FY03 Pre-Disaster Mitigation Program

Description: Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) provides federal disaster assistance to help those in need respond to, prepare for, and recover from disasters. As the costs for disaster assistance have risen, FEMA has made disaster mitigation a primary goal in its efforts to reduce the long-term cost of disasters and minimize risk to property and individuals from natural or man-made hazards. Previous FEMA mitiga… more
Date: April 28, 2004
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Emerging Infectious Diseases: Asian SARS Outbreak Challenged International and National Responses

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) emerged in southern China in November 2002 and spread rapidly along international air routes in early 2003. Asian countries had the most cases (7,782) and deaths (729). SARS challenged Asian health care systems, disrupted Asian economies, and tested the effectiveness of the International Health Regulations. GAO was asked to examine the roles of the World Health Organiza… more
Date: April 28, 2004
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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United Nations: Observations on the Management and Oversight of the Oil for Food Program

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Oil for Food program was established by the United Nations and Iraq in 1996 to address concerns about the humanitarian situation after international sanctions were imposed in 1990. The program allowed the Iraqi government to use the proceeds of its oil sales to pay for food, medicine, and infrastructure maintenance. The program appears to have helped the Iraqi people. From 1996 through 2001, the average daily fo… more
Date: April 28, 2004
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Terrorism Insurance: Effects of the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, insurance coverage for terrorism largely disappeared. Congress passed the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA) in 2002 to help commercial property-casualty policyholders obtain terrorism insurance and give the insurance industry time to develop mechanisms to provide such insurance after the act expires on December 31, 2005. Under TRIA, the Department of Treasury (Tre… more
Date: April 28, 2004
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Purchase Cards: Increased Management Oversight and Control Could Save Hundreds of Millions of Dollars

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "From 1994 to 2003, the use of government purchase cards increased from $1 billion to $16 billion. During this time, agencies primarily focused on ways to increase the use of purchase cards. Beginning in 2001, GAO testified and reported that significant weaknesses in internal controls made agencies vulnerable to fraud, waste, and abuse, and inefficient purchasing actions. In response to increased use of purchase card… more
Date: April 28, 2004
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Medicare: CMS Did Not Control Rising Power Wheelchair Spending

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Medicare spending for power wheelchairs, one of the program's most expensive items of durable medical equipment (DME), rose 450 percent from 1999 through 2003, while overall Medicare spending rose by about 11 percent for the same period, according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). This spending growth has raised concerns that Medicare made improper payments and has payment rates that are out of … more
Date: April 28, 2004
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Judgment Fund: Treasury's Estimates of Claim Payment Processing Costs under the No FEAR Act and Contract Disputes Act

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Notification and Federal Employee Antidiscrimination and Retaliation (No FEAR) Act, which took effect October 1, 2003, requires agencies to repay discrimination settlements and judgments paid on their behalf. The No FEAR Act is similar to the Contract Disputes Act (CDA) of 1978, which holds agencies accountable for payment in contract disputes. Under both laws, federal agencies must reimburse the Judgment … more
Date: April 28, 2004
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Probing the Planck Scale with Proton Decay

Description: We advocate the idea that proton decay may probe physics at the Planck scale instead of the GUT scale. This is possible because supersymmetric theories have dimension-5 operators that can induce proton decay at dangerous rates, even with R-parity conservation. These operators are expected to be suppressed by the same physics that explains the fermion masses and mixings. We present a thorough analysis of nucleon partial lifetimes in models with a string-inspired anomalous U(1)_X family symmetry … more
Date: April 28, 2004
Creator: Harnik, Roni; Larson, Daniel T.; Murayama, Hitoshi & Thormeier, Marc
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An Integrated Accident & Consequence Analysis Approach for Accidental Releases through Multiple Leak Paths

Description: This paper presents a consequence analysis for a postulated fire accident on a building containing plutonium when the resulting outside release is partly through the ventilation/filtration system and partly through other pathways such as building access doorways. When analyzing an accident scenario involving the release of radioactive powders inside a building, various pathways for the release to the outside environment can exist. This study is presented to guide the analyst on how the multiple… more
Date: April 28, 2004
Creator: Polizzi, L. M.
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Improved Processes to Remove Naphthenic Acids

Description: In the first year of this project, we have established our experimental and theoretical methodologies for studies of the catalytic decarboxylation process. We have developed both glass and stainless steel micro batch type reactors for the fast screening of various catalysts with reaction substrates of model carboxylic acid compounds and crude oil samples. We also developed novel product analysis methods such as GC analyses for organic acids and gaseous products; and TAN measurements for crude o… more
Date: April 28, 2004
Creator: Zhang, Aihua; Ma, Qisheng; Goddard, William A. & Tang, Yongchun
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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A Silicon detector system on carbon fiber support at small radius

Description: The design of a silicon detector for a p{bar p} collider experiment will be described. The detector uses a carbon fiber support structure with sensors positioned at small radius with respect to the beam. A brief overview of the mechanical design is given. The emphasis is on the electrical characteristics of the detector. General principles involved in grounding systems with carbon fiber structures will be covered. The electrical characteristics of the carbon fiber support structure will be pres… more
Date: April 28, 2004
Creator: Johnson, Marvin E.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Waste Evaporator Accident Simulation Using RELAP5 Computer Code

Description: An evaporator is used on liquid waste from processing facilities to reduce the volume of the waste through heating the waste and allowing some of the water to be separated from the waste through boiling. This separation process allows for more efficient processing and storage of liquid waste. Commonly, the liquid waste consists of an aqueous solution of chemicals that over time could induce corrosion, and in turn weaken the tubes in the steam tube bundle of the waste evaporator that are used to… more
Date: April 28, 2004
Creator: POLIZZI, L.M.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Direct synthesis of LiNi1/3Co1/3Mn1/3O2 from nitrateprecursors

Description: Two novel methods for synthesis of the title compound directly from metal nitrates are described. Phase-pure materials are produced when precursors are calcined between 600 and 1000 C, with little to no ion mixing exhibited for products heated to 900 C or above. The electrochemical characteristics of these materials depended upon calcination temperature and synthesis method, with results comparable to a commercial sample for the materials made at high temperatures in a one-step process without … more
Date: April 28, 2004
Creator: Patoux, Sebastien & Doeff, Marca M.
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A COMPUTATIONAL WORKBENCH ENVIRONMENT FOR VIRTUAL POWER PLANT SIMULATION

Description: This is the fourteenth Quarterly Technical Report for DOE Cooperative Agreement No: DE-FC26-00NT41047. The goal of the project is to develop and demonstrate a Virtual Engineering-based framework for simulating the performance of Advanced Power Systems. Within the last quarter, good progress has been made on all aspects of the project. Software development efforts have focused primarily on completing a prototype detachable user interface for the framework and on integrating Carnegie Mellon Unive… more
Date: April 28, 2004
Creator: Bockelie, Mike; Swensen, Dave; Denison, Martin; Chen, Zumao; Linjewile, Temi; Maguire, Mike et al.
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Beyond the standard model in many directions

Description: These four lectures constitute a gentle introduction to what may lie beyond the standard model of quarks and leptons interacting through SU(3){sub c} {direct_product} SU(2){sub L} {direct_product} U(1){sub Y} gauge bosons, prepared for an audience of graduate students in experimental particle physics. In the first lecture, I introduce a novel graphical representation of the particles and interactions, the double simplex, to elicit questions that motivate our interest in physics beyond the stand… more
Date: April 28, 2004
Creator: Quigg, Chris
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Development of a Standard Methodology for the Quantitative Measurement of Steel Phase Transformation Kinetics and Dilation Strains Using Dilatometric Methods, QMST (TRP 0015)

Description: The purpose of this collaborative project was to develop a standard practice for obtaining and archiving quantitative steel transformation kinetic data and thermal strain data. Two families of dilatometric equipment were employed to develop this standard practice for testing bar product steels. These include high-speed quenching and deformation dilatometers and Gleeble{reg_sign} thermomechanical simulation instruments. Standard measurement, data interpretation and data reporting methods were de… more
Date: April 28, 2004
Creator: Metha, Manish & Oakwood, Tom
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Government Printing Office: Technological Changes Create Transformation Opportunities

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Advances in technology have led to more organizations making information available over the Internet and the World Wide Web rather than through print, significantly changing the nature of printing and information dissemination. Government Printing Office (GPO) management recognizes that the new environment in which it operates requires that the agency modernize and transform itself and the way it does business. To a… more
Date: April 28, 2004
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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A New Detailed Term Accounting Opacity Code: TOPAZ

Description: A new opacity code, TOPAZ, which explicitly includes configuration term structure in the bound-bound transitions is being developed. The goal is to extend the current capabilities of detailed term accounting opacity codes such as OPAL that are limited to lighter elements of astrophysical interest. At present, opacity calculations of heavier elements use statistical methods that rely on the presence of myriad spectral lines for accuracy. However, statistical approaches have been shown to be inad… more
Date: April 28, 2004
Creator: Iglesias, C A; Chen, M H; Isaacs, W; Sonnad, V & Wilson, B G
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Recovery and Visualization of 3D Structure of Chromosomes from Tomographic Reconstruction Images

Description: The objectives of this work include automatic recovery and visualization of a 3D chromosome structure from a sequence of 2D tomographic reconstruction images taken through the nucleus of a cell. Structure is very important for biologists as it affects chromosome functions, behavior of the cell and its state. Chromosome analysis is significant in the detection of deceases and in monitoring environmental gene mutations. The algorithm incorporates thresholding based on a histogram analysis with a … more
Date: April 28, 2004
Creator: Babu, S; Liao, P; Shin, M C & Tsap, L V
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Corrective Action Decision Document for Corrective Action Unit 516: Septic Systems and Discharge Points, Nevada Test Site, Nevada: Revision 1

Description: This Corrective Action Decision Document (CADD) identifies and rationalizes the U.S. Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration Nevada Site Office's selection of a recommended corrective action alternative appropriate to facilitate the closure of Corrective Action Unit (CAU) 516: Septic Systems and Discharge Points, Nevada Test Site (NTS), Nevada, under the Federal Facility Agreement and Consent Order. Located in Areas 3, 6, and 22 on the NTS, CAU 516 includes six Corrective… more
Date: April 28, 2004
Creator: United States. National Nuclear Security Administration. Nevada Site Office.
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Immigration-Related Detention: Current Legislative Issues

Description: The attacks of September 11, 2001, have increased interest in the authority under statute to detain noncitizens (aliens) in the United States. Under the law there is broad authority to detain aliens while awaiting a determination of whether the noncitizen should be removed from the United States. The law also mandates that certain categories of aliens are subject to mandatory detention (i.e., the aliens must be detained).
Date: April 28, 2004
Creator: Siskin, Alison
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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