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Internet Gambling: An Overview of the Issues

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Internet gambling is a fast-growing industry with estimated 2003 revenues of more than $4 billion. However, concerns have been raised about its social and economic impacts. In light of recent recommendations by a Congressionally appointed commission, which advocated restricting Internet gambling within the United States, GAO was asked to examine the U.S. payments system, particularly credit cards, as it relate… more
Date: December 2, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Results-Oriented Cultures: Insights for U.S. Agencies from Other Countries' Performance Management Initiatives

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Strategic human capital management challenges face public sector organizations both here and abroad. The United States is not alone in examining how government agencies can use their performance management systems as a tool to foster a more results-oriented organizational culture. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has reported that its member nations have increasingly moved towar… more
Date: August 2, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Defense Acquisitions: Factors Affecting Outcomes of Advanced Concept Technology Demonstrations

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration (ACTD) program was started by the Department of Defense (DOD) as a way to get new technologies that meet critical military needs into the hands of users faster and less cost. GAO was asked to examine DOD's process for structuring and executing ACTDs."
Date: December 2, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Export Controls: More Thorough Analysis Needed to Justify Changes in High Performance Computer Controls

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "For national security and foreign policy reasons, U.S. export control policy seeks to balance economic interests in promoting high technology exports with national security interests to maintain a military advantage in high performance computers over potential adversaries. In January 2002, the President announced that the control threshold--above which computers exported to countries such as China, India, and … more
Date: August 2, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Combating Child Pornography: Federal Agencies Coordinate Law Enforcement Efforts, but an Opportunity Exists for Further Enhancement

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The trafficking of child pornography through increasingly sophisticated electronic media, including Internet chat rooms, newsgroups, and peer-to-peer networks, has made such images more readily accessible. These technological advances have created more challenges for law enforcement, including requiring effective coordination to combat this crime. The federal law enforcement agencies that play a role in invest… more
Date: December 2, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Force Structure: Air Force Needs a Periodic Total Force Assessment

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Air Force began to test the force requirements in its manpower requirements-determination process in May 2000. The defense strategy envisions simultaneously fighting two major theater wars and conducting multiple contingency operations in peacetime. The Total Force Assessment was the Air Force's first evaluation of manpower adequacy in these contexts since 1995. Because the Total Force Assessment was not i… more
Date: May 2, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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TDNA Monthly Office Manager's Report: April 2002

Description: Monthly report written by the Texas Daily Newspaper Association's (TDNA's) office manager, Darla Thompson, to Phil Berkebile providing a summary of revenues and account balances, programs, meetings, and other activities in the office during the previous month.
Date: May 2, 2002
Creator: Thompson, Darla
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Hanford Site Environmental Report for Calendar Year 2001

Description: This report summarizes environmental information for the Hanford Site in Washington State for the calendar year 2001.
Date: September 2, 2002
Creator: Poston, Ted M.; Hanf, Robert W.; Dirkes, Roger L. & Morasch, Launa F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Site Release Reports for C-Well Pipeline, UE-25 Large Rocks Test Site, and 29 GSF Test Pits

Description: The U.S. Department of Energy has implemented a program to reclaim lands disturbed by site characterization at Yucca Mountain. Long term goals of the program are to re-establish processes on disturbed sites that will lead to self-sustaining plant communities. The Biological Opinion for Yucca Mountain Site Characterization Studies required that the U.S. Department of Energy develop a Reclamation Standards and Monitoring Plan to evaluate the success of reclamation efforts. According to the Reclam… more
Date: April 2, 2002
Creator: Rasmuson, K.E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Monitored Geologic Repository Test Evaluation Plan

Description: The Monitored Geologic Repository test & evaluation program will specify tests, demonstrations, examinations, and analyses, and describe procedures to conduct and document testing necessary to verify meeting Monitored Geologic Repository requirements for a safe and effective geologic repository for radioactive waste. This test program will provide assurance that the repository is performing as designed, and that the barriers perform as expected; it will also develop supporting documentation to … more
Date: January 2, 2002
Creator: Skorska, Maria B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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A second-order method for interface reconstruction in orthogonal coordinate systems

Description: The authors present a second-order algorithm for reconstructing an interface from a distribution of volume fractions in a general orthogonal coordinate system with derivatives approximated using finite differences. The method approximates the interface curve by a piecewise-linear profile. An integral formulation is used that accounts for the orthogonal coordinate system in a natural way. The authors present results obtained using this method for tracking a material interface between two compres… more
Date: January 2, 2002
Creator: Colella, P.; Graves, D.T. & Greenough, J.A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Final Report

Description: Final report for program on the study of structure and properties of epitaxial oxide films. The defect structure of epitaxial oxide thin films was investigated. Both binary and complex oxides were studied. Epitaxial oxides were synthesized by organometallic chemical vapor deposition (OMCVD). This technique has been found to be highly versatile for the synthesis of a wide range of epitaxial oxide including dielectrics, ferroelectrics and high T{sub c} superconductors. Systems investigated includ… more
Date: August 2, 2002
Creator: Wessels, B. W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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CH Packaging Maintenance Manual

Description: This procedure provides instructions for performing inner containment vessel (ICV) and outer containment vessel (OCV) maintenance and periodic leakage rate testing on the following packaging seals and corresponding seal surfaces using a nondestructive helium (He) leak test. In addition, this procedure provides instructions for performing ICV and OCV structural pressure tests.
Date: January 2, 2002
Creator: Solutions, Washington TRU
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Agent-Based Mediation and Cooperative Information Systems

Description: This report describes the results of research and development in the area of communication among disparate species of software agents. The two primary elements of the work are the formation of ontologies for use by software agents and the means by which software agents are instructed to carry out complex tasks that require interaction with other agents. This work was grounded in the areas of commercial transport and cybersecurity.
Date: June 2, 2002
Creator: PHILLIPS, LAURENCE R.; LINK, HAMILTON E. & GOLDSMITH, STEVEN Y.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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COMBUSTION TURBINE (CT) HOT SECTION COATING LIFE MANAGEMENT

Description: The integrity of coatings used in hot section components of combustion turbine is crucial to the reliability of the buckets. This project was initiated in recognition of the need for predicting the life of coatings analytically, and non destructively; correspondingly, three principal tasks were established. Task 1, with the objective of analytically developing stress, strain and temperature distributions in the bucket and thereby predicting thermal fatigue (TMF) damage for various operating con… more
Date: December 2, 2002
Creator: Viswanathan, R.; Gandy, D.; Krzywosz, K.; Cheruvu, S. & Wan, E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Beam Tools for Geant4 (User's Guide)

Description: Geant4 is a tool kit developed by a collaboration of physicists and computer professionals in the high energy physics field for simulation of the passage of particles through matter. The motivation for the development of the Beam Tools is to extend the Geant4 applications to accelerator physics. The Beam Tools are a set of C++ classes designed to facilitate the simulation of accelerator elements: r.f. cavities, magnets, absorbers, etc. These elements are constructed from Geant4 solid volumes li… more
Date: December 2, 2002
Creator: V.Daniel Elvira, Paul Lebrun and Panagiotis Spentzouris
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Mini RF-driven ion source for focused ion beam system

Description: Mini RF-driven ion sources with 1.2 cm and 1.5 cm inner chamber diameter have been developed at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Several gas species have been tested including argon, krypton and hydrogen. These mini ion sources operate in inductively coupled mode and are capable of generating high current density ion beams at tens of watts. Since the plasma potential is relatively low in the plasma chamber, these mini ion sources can function reliably without any perceptible sputtering da… more
Date: August 2, 2002
Creator: Jiang, X.; Ji, Q.; Chang, A. & Leung, K. N.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Defocus step size of the LBNL One Angstrom Microscope

Description: The change in focus of a high-resolution electron microscope is generally assumed to be linear with change in objective lens current. Thus the defocus step size should be constant for a constant step in lens current. Measurements on the LBNL One-Angstrom Microscope show that the step size increases with increasing underfocus (reduced lens current). Differentiation of the best-fit quadratic shows that the defocus step size varies linearly as defocus changes.
Date: July 2, 2002
Creator: O'Keefe, Michael A. & Nelson, E. Chris
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Final Topical Report, ''Multi-Dimensional Analysis of the Forced Bubble Dynamics Associated with Bubble Fusion Phenomena''

Description: A new adaptive grid, 3-D FEM hydrodynamic shock (ie, HYDRO )code called PHASTA-2C has been developed and used to investigate bubble implosion phenomena leading to ultra-high temperatures and pressures. In particular, it was shown that nearly spherical bubble compressions occur during bubble implosions and the predicted conditions associated with a recent ORNL Bubble Fusion experiment [Taleyarkhan et al, Science, March, 2002] are consistent with the occurrence of D/D fusion.
Date: December 2, 2002
Creator: Lahey, Richard T., Jr.; Jansen, Kenneth E. & Natrath, Sunitha
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Practical superconductor development for electrical power applications : annual report for FY 2001.

Description: Most large-scale applications of high-critical-temperature superconductors will require wires or tapes that can carry large current in applied magnetic fields. This report describes research and development efforts at Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) aimed at producing practical superconducting components and devices using the Y-Ba-Cu-O and Bi-(Pb)-Sr-Ca-Cu-O systems. Topics discussed include various methods of forming second- and first-generation composite conductors, characterization of thei… more
Date: May 2, 2002
Creator: Cha, Y. S.; Dorris, S. E.; Dusek, J. T.; Emerson, J. E.; Erck, R. A.; Fisher, B. L. et al.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Recent Progress on the National Spherical Torus Experiment (NSTX)

Description: Recent upgrades to the NSTX facility have led to improved plasma performance. Using 5MW of neutral beam injection, plasmas with toroidal {beta}{sub T} (= 2{micro}{sub 0}<p>/B{sub T}{sup 2} where B{sub T} is the vacuum toroidal field at the plasma geometric center) > 30% have been achieved with normalized {beta}{sub N} (= {beta}{sub T}aB{sub I}/I{sub p}) {approx} 6% {center_dot} m {center_dot} T/MA.. The highest {beta} discharge exceeded the calculated no-wall {beta} limit for several w… more
Date: July 2, 2002
Creator: Gates, D. A.; Bell, M. G.; Bell, R. E.; Bialek, J.; Bigelow, T.; Bitter, M. et al.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Testing and Disposal Strategy for Secondary Wastes from Vitrification of Sodium-Bearing Waste at Idaho Nuclear Technology and Engineering Center

Description: The Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory (INEEL) is considering vitrification to process liquid sodium-bearing waste. Preliminary studies were completed to evaluate the potential secondary wastes comprise acidic and caustic scrubber solutions, HEPA filters, activated carbon, and ion exchange media. Possible treatment methods, waste forms, and disposal sites are evaluated from radiological and mercury contamination estimates.
Date: January 2, 2002
Creator: Herbst, Alan K.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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