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Managing for Results: Agency Progress in Linking Performance Plans With Budgets and Financial Statements

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "This report updates GAO's previous assessments of agencies' experiences in linking performance plans and budgets under the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993 (GPRA). GAO has also included in this report an initial assessment of the approaches used by agencies to link performance plans with their audited annual financial statements. Over the first four years of agency efforts to implement GPRA, GAO … more
Date: January 4, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Telecommunications: GSA Action Needs to Realize Benefits of Metropolitan Area Acquisition Program

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Metropolitan Area Acquisition (MAA) program provides local telecommunications services to federal agencies in certain U.S. cities. The General Services Administration (GSA) began the program in 1997 to achieve immediate, substantial, and sustained price reductions for local telecommunications for agencies; to expand their choices of high-quality services; and to encourage cross-agency sharing of resources.… more
Date: April 4, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Financial Statement Restatements: Trends, Market Impacts, Regulatory Responses, and Remaining Challenges

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "A number of well-publicized announcements about financial statement restatements by large, well-known public companies have erased billions of dollars of previously reported earnings and raised questions about the credibility of accounting practices and the quality of corporate financial disclosure and oversight in the United States. Industry officials and academics have speculated that several factors may hav… more
Date: October 4, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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District of Columbia: Fiscal Structural Balance Issues

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The District of Columbia has historically faced many challenges due to its unique circumstances and role as the nation's capital. After several years of struggling with financial crises and insolvency in the early 1990s, the District has significantly improved its financial condition by achieving five consecutive balanced budgets, an upgraded bond rating, and unqualified or "clean" opinions on its financial st… more
Date: September 4, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Quadrennial Defense Review: Future Reviews Can Benefit from Better Analysis and Changes in Timing and Scope

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Congress mandated that every 4 years the Department of Defense (DOD) conduct a review to examine the national defense strategy and its implications for force structure, modernization, infrastructure and the budget. Because the 2001 review, which was issued on September 30, 2001, will have a significant impact on the department's planning and budget, GAO was asked to assess (1) the strengths and weaknesses of D… more
Date: November 4, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Social Security Disability: Disappointing Results from SSA's Efforts to Improve the Disability Claims Process Warrant Immediate Attention

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The number of people applying for benefits from the Social Security Administration's (SSA) two disability programs grew dramatically during the 1990s. As a result, the Disability Insurance and Supplemental Security Programs began to experience huge backlogs of undecided claims. SSA has spent $39 million during the past seven years on various initiatives to help it better manage its caseloads and ensure high-qu… more
Date: February 4, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Telecommunications: Federal and State Universal Service Programs and Challenges to Funding

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins ""Universal service" means providing residential customers with affordable, nationwide access to basic phone service. The Telecommunications Act of 1996 extended support for universal service to eligible schools, libraries, and rural health care providers. Universal service programs are generally funded by mandatory contributions from telecommunications companies. New technologies, however, are putting this fun… more
Date: February 4, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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World Trade Organization: Early Decisions Are Vital to Progress in Ongoing Negotiations

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "In November 2001, the World Trade Organization launched a new set of multilateral negotiations at its ministerial conference in Doha, Qatar. The ministerial conference was important because it laid out an ambitious agenda for a broad set of new multilateral trade negotiations, set forth in the Doha Ministerial Declaration. The declaration calls for a continuation of discussions on liberalizing trade in agricul… more
Date: September 4, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Highlights of a GAO Roundtable: The Chief Operating Officer Concept: A Potential Strategy To Address Federal Governance Challenges

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The federal government is in period of profound transition requires a comprehensive review, reassessment, reprioritization, and reengineering of what the government does, how it does business, and, in some cases, who does the government's business. Agencies will need to transform their cultures so that they are more results oriented, customer focused, and collaborative in nature. At the same time, GAO's work o… more
Date: October 4, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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TDNA Monthly Office Manager's Report: July/August 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 months.
Date: September 4, 2002
Creator: Thompson, Darla
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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TDNA Monthly Office Manager's Report: 2001

Description: First report of the Texas Daily Newspaper Association's Office Manager, summarizing activities in 2001 as a precursor to subsequent monthly updates.
Date: January 4, 2002
Creator: Thompson, Darla
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Temperature and Emissivity of a Shocked Surface: A First Experiment

Description: We have conducted an experiment in which the temperature and the wavelength dependent emissivity of a shocked surface has been measured. In the past, only the thermal emission from the shocked surface has been measured. The lack of knowledge of the emissivity as a function of wavelength leads to uncertainty in converting the measured emission spectrum into a surface temperature. We have developed a technique by which we are able to calculate both the emissivity of the shocked surface over a ran… more
Date: February 4, 2002
Creator: Poulsen, P & Hare, D E
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Social Services Block Grant (Title XX of the Social Security Act)

Description: The Social Services Block Grant (SSBG) is a flexible source of funds that states may use to support a wide variety of social services activities. States have broad discretion over the use of these funds. This short report provides background information on the SSBG and tracks relevant legislation and appropriations measures.
Date: November 4, 2002
Creator: Gish, Melinda
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Acoustic Filtration, Fractionation, and Mixing in Microfluidic Systems

Description: This project is concerned with the research and development of a technique to manipulate small particles using acoustic energy coupled into a fluid filled plastic or glass sample chamber. These resulting miniaturized systems combine high functionality with an inexpensive, disposable sample chamber. Our approach to this problem is based on a combination of sophisticated modeling tools in conjunction with laboratory experiments. The design methodology is summarized in Figure 1. The process begins… more
Date: February 4, 2002
Creator: Wang, A & Fisher, K
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Agriculture and Fast Track or Trade Promotion Authority

Description: This report considers the issue of new "fast track" or trade promotion authority (APA) legislation in the 107th Congress. Moreover, the report summarizes the agricultural debates on the issue.
Date: January 4, 2002
Creator: Becker, Geoffrey S. & Hanrahan, Charles E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Commemorative Observances: A Chronological List

Description: This report provides information about the Chronological List on Commemorative Observances for 2002 and 2003 indicating the proclamation number and its federal register citation.
Date: December 4, 2002
Creator: Richardson, Glenda
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Reactive Fluid Flow and Applications to Diagenesis, Mineral Deposits, and Crustal Rocks

Description: The objective is to initiate new: modeling of coupled fluid flow and chemical reactions of geologic environments; experimental and theoretical studies of water-rock reactions; collection and interpretation of stable isotopic and geochemical field data at many spatial scales of systems involving fluid flow and reaction in environments ranging from soils to metamorphic rocks. Theoretical modeling of coupled fluid flow and chemical reactions, involving kinetics, has been employed to understand the… more
Date: November 4, 2002
Creator: Rye, Danny M. & Bolton, Edward W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Flow of two-dimensional liquid metal jet in a strong magnetic field.

Description: Steady, two-dimensional flow of a liquid metal jet pouring vertically down from a nozzle in the presence of crossed magnetic and electric fields has been investigated. The magnetic field is supposed to have a single component transverse to the flow. An asymptotic, high Hartmann number model has been used to study a combined effect of surface tension, nonuniform magnetic field, gravity and inertia. Relations have been obtained for a jet issuing from a duct, pouring into a draining duct, pouring … more
Date: November 4, 2002
Creator: Reed, C. B. & Molokov, S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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A matrix lower bound

Description: A matrix lower bound is defined that generalizes ideas apparently due to S. Banach and J. von Neumann. The matrix lower bound has a natural interpretation in functional analysis, and it satisfies many of the properties that von Neumann stated for it in a restricted case. Applications for the matrix lower bound are demonstrated in several areas. In linear algebra, the matrix lower bound of a full rank matrix equals the distance to the set of rank-deficient matrices. In numerical analysis, the ra… more
Date: February 4, 2002
Creator: Grcar, Joseph F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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