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Navy Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) Program: Background and Issues for Congress

Description: This report provides background information and potential issues for Congress on the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS), a relatively inexpensive Navy surface combatant equipped with modular "plug-and-fight" mission packages for countering mines, small boats, and diesel-electric submarines, particularly in littoral (i.e., near-shore) waters.
Date: September 3, 2013
Creator: O'Rourke, Ronald
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Offender Reentry: Correctional Statistics, Reintegration into the Community, and Recidivism

Description: Report that provides background information regarding the prison population in the United States that has been growing steadily for more than 30 years. The report presents correctional system statistics and discusses the federal government's involvement in offender reentry programs and the Second Chance Act (P.L. 110-199) that was enacted on April 9, 2008.
Date: June 3, 2013
Creator: James, Nathan
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Agricultural Disaster Assistance

Description: Report containing a description of recent developments in weather and U. S. policy. as well as an overview of current and expired USDA disaster assistance programs. An appendix reviews the recent history of emergency supplemental farm disaster assistance and administrative actions by USDA.
Date: July 3, 2013
Creator: Shields, Dennis A.
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Legislative Options for Financing Water Infrastructure

Description: Report that addresses several options considered by Congress to address the financing needs of local communities for wastewater and drinking water infrastructure projects and to decrease or close the gap between available funds and projected needs.
Date: June 3, 2013
Creator: Copeland, Claudia; Mallett, William J. & Maguire, Steven
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NFIB v. Sebelius: Constitutionality of the Individual Mandate

Description: Report that provides an overview of the Court's holding with respect to the individual mandate of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) under the Commerce Clause and the Taxing Power. It also addresses possible implications of the decision on existing federal law and future legislation.
Date: September 3, 2012
Creator: Lunder, Erika K. & Staman, Jennifer
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Inherently Governmental Functions and Other Work Reserved for Performance by Federal Government Employees: The Obama Administration's Proposed Policy Letter

Description: Report regarding the Office of Federal Procurement Policy's (OFPP) proposed policy letter on defining inherently governmental functions and other "work reserved for performance by federal government employees."
Date: January 3, 2011
Creator: Halchin, L. Elaine; Manuel, Kate M.; Reese, Shawn & Schwartz, Moshe
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Hezbollah: Background and Issues for Congress

Description: Report that discusses Lebanon's Hezbollah, a Shiite Islamist militia, political party, social welfare organization, and U. S. State Department-designated terrorist organization. The report also discusses recent Hezbollah-related conflicts, Hezbollah's relationship with other Lebanese political parties, and U. S. policy regarding Hezbollah.
Date: January 3, 2011
Creator: Addis, Casey L. & Blanchard, Christopher M.
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State Government Fiscal Stress and Federal Assistance

Description: Report that examines the current status of state fiscal conditions and the role of federal assistance in state budgets. It begins with a brief overview of state budgeting procedures and then provides budgetary data comparing state fiscal conditions in FY2008 to FY2010.
Date: December 3, 2012
Creator: Dilger, Robert Jay
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Banning the Use of Racial Preferences in Higher Education: A Legal Analysis of Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action

Description: This report discusses the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Laws based on suspect classifications such as race or gender, however, typically receive heightened scrutiny and require a stronger, if not compelling, state interest to justify the classification.
Date: September 3, 2013
Creator: Feder, Jody
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Introduction to the Federal Budget Process

Description: This report provides a detailed introduction to the federal budget process, including both the presidential and congressional budget process, sequestration, and numerous forms of budgetary legislation.
Date: December 3, 2012
Creator: Heniff, Bill, Jr.; Lynch, Megan Suzanne & Tollestrup, Jessica
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"Disadvantaged" Small Businesses: Definitions and Designations for Purposes of Federal and Federally Funded Contracting Programs

Description: This report discusses what constitutes a "disadvantaged" small business for purposes of federal and federally funded contracting programs and how firms are certified or otherwise designated as such.
Date: January 3, 2011
Creator: Manuel, Kate M.
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Equivalence of dipole correction and Coulomb cutoff techniques in supercell calculations

Description: Article on the equivalence of dipole correction and Coulomb cutoff techniques in supercell calculations. In this work, the authors compare the dipole correction and Coulomb cutoff methods under the same conditions in the framework of plane-wave based density-functional theory.
Date: June 3, 2008
Creator: Yu, Liping; Ranjan, Vivek; Lu, W.; Bernholc, Jerry & Buongiorno Nardelli, Marco
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Partner: UNT College of Arts and Sciences
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[Executive Summary of A Proposal for the Establishment of a Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science at North Texas State University]

Description: Executive summary of a proposal for the establishment of a Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science at North Texas State University, including information on the purpose, rationale and need, a description of the academy, personnel, organizational structure, management, a budget summary, and expected outcomes.
Date: June 3, 1987
Creator: Miller, James R.
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Partner: Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science
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