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Recovery and reuse of asphalt roofing waste. Final report

Description: Burning of asphalt roofing waste as a fuel and incorporating asphalt roofing waste in bituminous paving were identified as the two outstanding resource recovery concepts out of ten studied. Four additional concepts might be worth considering under different market or technical circumstances. Another four concepts were rated as worth no further consideration at this time. This study of the recovery of the resource represented in asphalt roofing waste has identified the sources and quantities of … more
Date: February 2, 1984
Creator: Desai, S.; Graziano, G. & Shepherd, P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Littoral Combat Ship: Actions Needed to Improve Operating Cost Estimates and Mitigate Risks in Implementing New Concepts

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The Navy plans to spend about $28 billion to buy 55 Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) and at least 64 interchangeable mission packages to perform one of three missions--mine countermeasures, antisubmarine warfare, and surface warfare--in waters close to shore. The Navy has been developing two different LCS seaframes and plans to select one for production in 2010. Due to the small 78-person crew size--40 core … more
Date: February 2, 2010
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Defense Logistics: Improvements Needed to Enhance Oversight of Estimated Long-term Costs for Operating and Supporting Major Weapon Systems

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "DOD’s reports to Congress on estimated weapon system O&S costs are often inconsistent and sometimes unreliable, limiting visibility needed for effective oversight of these costs. The SAR statute requires that life-cycle cost reporting for major weapon systems be uniform, to the extent practicable, across the department, but GAO found a number of inconsistent practices in how program offices were reporti… more
Date: February 2, 2012
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Homeland Security: Management of First Responder Grant Programs Has Improved, but Challenges Remain

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The Office for Domestic Preparedness (ODP)--originally established in 1998 within the Department of Justice to help state and local first responders acquire specialized training and equipment needed to respond to terrorist incidents--was transferred to the Department of Homeland Security upon its creation in March 2003. After September 11, 2001, the scope and size of ODP's grant programs expanded. For e… more
Date: February 2, 2005
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Department of the Navy: Breakdown of In-Transit Inventory Process Leaves It Vulnerable to Fraud

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO followed up on its previous report on the Navy's in-transit inventory management system, focusing on: (1) determining what happened to the 34 shipments the Navy could not account for; (2) confirming that the Navy actually had receipt information for the 45 shipments that it could not account for in the previous report; and (3) Navy initiatives that address some of the s… more
Date: February 2, 2000
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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International Taxation: Information on Federal Contractors With Offshore Subsidiaries

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Every year, U.S.-based multinational corporations transfer hundreds of billions of dollars of goods and services between their affiliates in the United States and their foreign subsidiaries. Such transactions may be a part of normal business operations for corporations with foreign subsidiaries. However, it is generally recognized that given the variation in corporate tax rates across countries, an incentive e… more
Date: February 2, 2004
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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National Nuclear Security Administration: Contractors' Strategies to Recruit and Retain a Critically Skilled Workforce Are Generally Effective

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Responsibility for ensuring the safety and reliability of the nuclear weapons stockpile rests upon a cadre of workers at eight contractor-operated National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) weapons facilities. Many of these workers--including scientists, engineers, and technicians--have "critical" skills needed to maintain the stockpile. About 37 percent of these workers are at or near retirement a… more
Date: February 2, 2005
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Electronic Health Records: DOD and VA Should Remove Barriers and Improve Efforts to Meet Their Common System Needs

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The Department of Defense (DOD) and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) operate two of the nation's largest health care systems. To do so, both departments rely on electronic health record systems to create, maintain, and manage patient health information. DOD and VA are currently undertaking initiatives to modernize their respective systems, jointly establish the Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record … more
Date: February 2, 2011
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Clean Air Act: Key Stakeholders' Views on Revisions to the New Source Review Program

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) revisions to the New Source Review (NSR) program to control industrial emissions have drawn attention from state and local agencies that implement the program, as well as industry and environmental and health groups. Under the revisions, companies may not have to install pollution controls when making some facility changes. GAO was asked to obtain the opinions of state air… more
Date: February 2, 2004
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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State Department: State Has Initiated a More Systematic Approach for Managing Its Aviation Fleet

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The Department of State's (State) Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) owns 357 helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft (valued at over $340 million) primarily to help carry out its counternarcotics efforts, such as aerial eradication of drug crops in Colombia. INL relies on contractor support to help maintain and operate its aircraft. In 2004, GAO analysis showed that INL lag… more
Date: February 2, 2007
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Health Careers Opportunity Program: Process for Awarding Competitive Grants Included Independent Review

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "To support the education and training of health professionals, the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), administers health professions education programs authorized under title VII of the Public Health Service Act. One of these programs, the Health Careers Opportunity Program (HCOP), provides grants to health professions schools and o… more
Date: February 2, 2007
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Child Care: States Increased Spending on Low-Income Families

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Nationwide, states reported that federal and state expenditures for child care under the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) block grant and the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant grew from $4.1 billion in fiscal year 1997 to $6.9 billion in fiscal year 1999 and totaled over $16 billion in constant fiscal year 1997 dollars for this three-year period. More than half of the children wh… more
Date: February 2, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Chemistry of glass-ceramic to metal bonding for header applications. I. Effect of treatments on Inconel 718 and Hastelloy C-276 metallic surfaces

Description: Auger electron spectroscopy and depth Auger profiling were used to study the surfaces of Inconel 718 and Hastelloy C-276. The metal surfaces were processed in the same manner as is presently being used in the manufacturing of glass-ceramic headers. At each step in the process, samples were studied with Auger spectroscopy to determine their resultant elemental surface composition and film thickness. In addition, the effect of a final plasma cleaning operation on the metal surface was examined. T… more
Date: February 2, 1984
Creator: Kramer, D P; Craven, S M; Schneider, R E; Moddeman, W E & Brohard, D W
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Export Controls: Improvements Needed to Prevent Unauthorized Technology Releases to Foreign Nationals in the United States

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Countries posing national security concerns to the U.S. could upgrade their military forces with certain technologies having civilian and military (dual-use) applications. The Department of Commerce (Commerce) may require employers to obtain a "deemed export" license before they can transfer these technologies to foreign nationals in the U.S. The State Department also requires foreign nationals to obtai… more
Date: February 2, 2011
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Final Work Plan: Investigation of Potential Contamination at the Former USDA Facility in Powhattan, Kansas.

Description: This Work Plan outlines the scope of work to be conducted to investigate the subsurface contaminant conditions at the property formerly leased by the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) in Powhattan, Kansas (Figure 1.1). Data obtained during this event will be used to (1) evaluate potential contaminant source areas on the property; (2) determine the vertical and horizontal extent of potential contamination; and (3) provide recommendations for future action, with the ultimate goal of assigning th… more
Date: February 2, 2007
Creator: LaFreniere, L. M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Terascale High-Fidelity Simulations of Turbulent Combustion with Detailed Chemistry

Description: The TSTC project is a multi-university collaborative effort to develop a high-fidelity turbulent reacting flow simulation capability utilizing terascale, massively parallel computer technology. The main paradigm of our approach is direct numerical simulation (DNS) featuring highest temporal and spatial accuracy, allowing quantitative observations of the fine-scale physics found in turbulent reacting flows as well as providing a useful tool for development of sub-models needed in device-level si… more
Date: February 2, 2009
Creator: Im, Hong G.; Trouve, Arnaud; Rutland, Christopher J. & Chen, Jacqueline H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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High Thermal Conductivity Carbon Foam used for the Thermal Management of Engine Oil

Description: The need for maintaining a lower specific engine oil temperature is essential in enhancing the longevity of the oil and of the engine and its components. By decreasing the engine oil temperature the oil is able to perform its job more efficiently. It is proposed to use the carbon foam, with its exceptional thermal management capabilities, to aid in reducing and stabilizing the engine oil temperature during steady state operation. Also, it is possible to use the carbon foam to heat the engine oi… more
Date: February 2, 2006
Creator: Ott, R. D.; McMillan, A. D. & Choudhury, A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Final Technical Report

Description: This research consisted of a theoretical investigation of the properties of surface-based nanostructures, having as a main goal the deeper understanding of the atomic-scale mechanisms responsible for the formation and stability of such structures. This understanding will lead to the design of improved systems for applications in diverse areas such as novel electronic devices, sensors, field-effect transistors, substrates with enhanced hydro-phobic (water repelling) or hydro-philic (water absorb… more
Date: February 2, 2009
Creator: Kaxiras, Efthimios
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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International Experience with Key Program Elements of IndustrialEnergy Efficiency or Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Target-SettingPrograms

Description: Target-setting agreements, also known as voluntary ornegotiated agreements, have been used by a number of governments as amechanism for promoting energy efficiency within the industrial sector. Arecent survey of such target-setting agreement programs identified 23energy efficiency or GHG emissions reduction voluntary agreement programsin 18 countries. International best practice related to target-settingagreement programs calls for establishment of a coordinated set ofpolicies that provide stro… more
Date: February 2, 2008
Creator: Price, Lynn; Galitsky, Christina & Kramer, Klaas Jan
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Cost of Transmission for Wind Energy: A Review of Transmission Planning Studies

Description: The rapid development of wind power that the United States has experienced over the last several years has been coupled with a growing concern that wind development will require substantial additions to the nation's transmission infrastructure. Transmission is particularly important for wind power due to the locational dependence of wind resources, the relatively low capacity factor of wind plants, and the mismatch between the short lead time to build a new wind project and the longer lead time… more
Date: February 2, 2009
Creator: Mills, Andrew D.; Wiser, Ryan & Porter, Kevin
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Quark--parton model with large parton k/sub T/

Description: The quark--parton model is generalized to allow for arbitrarily large parton k/sub T/. Since it is expected that < k/sub T/ > will rise with Q/sup 2/ in (highly virtual) photon mediated processes, this generalization is necessary to restore the applicability of the quark-parton model. By treating k/sub T/ as an essential kinematical variable, the introduction of a new scaling variable z is considered. Together with Bjorken's x variable, a unified kinematical description is given of the four dis… more
Date: February 2, 1978
Creator: Hwa, R.C.; Matsuda, S. & Roberts, R.G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Liquid Phase Methanol LaPorte Process Development Unit: Modification, Operation, and Support Studies

Description: The primary focus of this Process Development Unit operating program was to prepare for a confident move to the next scale of operation with a simplified and optimized process. The main purpose of these runs was the evaluation of the alternate commercial catalyst (F21/0E75-43) that had been identified in the laboratory under a different subtask of the program. If the catalyst proved superior to the previous catalyst, then the evaluation run would be continued into a 120-day life run. Also, mino… more
Date: February 2, 1991
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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