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Military Retiree Health Benefits: Enrollment Low in Federal Employee Health Plans under DOD Demonstration

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Prior to 2001, military retirees who turned age 65 and became eligible for Medicare lost most of their Department of Defense (DOD) health benefits. The DOD-Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP) demonstration was one of several demonstrations established to examine alternatives for addressing retirees' lack of Medicare supplemental coverage. The demonstration was mandated by the Strom Thurmond Natio… more
Date: June 6, 2003
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Aviation Safety: FAA Needs to Update Curriculum and Certification Requirements for Aviation Mechanics

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The safety of millions of airline passengers depends in part on aviation mechanics--known as A&P mechanics--that are certified to inspect, service, and repair the aircraft's body (airframe) and/or engine (powerplant). The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) establishes the requirements to become certified as an A&P mechanic. Concerns have been raised in the aviation industry about having a sufficient number … more
Date: March 6, 2003
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Tax Administration: Federal Payment Levy Program Measures, Performance, and Equity Can Be Improved

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "According to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), taxpayers currently owe about $249 billion in delinquent taxes. At the same time, the government pays billions of dollars in Social Security, retirement, and other federal payments to thousands of these individuals. To help IRS administer tax laws fairly and collect delinquent taxes effectively, Congress included a provision authorizing the Federal Payment Levy … more
Date: March 6, 2003
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Defense Infrastructure: Personnel Reductions Have Not Hampered Most Commissaries' Store Operations and Customer Service

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "In response to concerns about the impact of proposed cuts in the Defense Commissary Agency's workforce, the House Armed Services Committee placed in its report on the Bob Stump National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2003 a requirement that we evaluate the effect of the personnel reductions. Specifically, we assessed (1) the status of personnel reductions and how they have affected store operations … more
Date: March 6, 2003
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Nuclear Security: Federal and State Action Needed to Improve Security of Sealed Radioactive Sources

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Sealed radioactive sources, radioactive material encapsulated in stainless steel or other metal, are used worldwide in medicine, industry, and research. These sealed sources could be a threat to national security because terrorists could use them to make "dirty bombs." GAO was asked to determine (1) the number of sealed sources in the United States, (2) the number of sealed sources lost, stolen, or abandoned, … more
Date: August 6, 2003
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Unemployment Insurance: States' Use of the 2002 Reed Act Distribution

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Unemployment Insurance (UI) program, administered by the U.S. Department of Labor in partnership with states, plays a critical role in ensuring the financial security of America's workforce. In fiscal year 2002, state UI programs paid benefits totaling $50.8 billion to 10.6 million unemployed workers. In March 2002, in response to an increase in unemployment and the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, t… more
Date: March 6, 2003
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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U.S. Customs Service: Prospective Rulings More Timely, but Database Reliability Questions Remain

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "GAO previously reported that the U.S. Customs Service Office of Regulations and Rulings (OR&R) headquarters was not timely in issuing most of its prospective rulings, which establish the duties importers pay on imported goods. The Trade Act of 2002 required GAO to determine whether OR&R has improved the timeliness of its prospective rulings. In addition, GAO determined what actions OR&R took to improve the tim… more
Date: August 6, 2003
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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EFFECTS OF TEMPERATURE AND ENVIRONMENT ON MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF TWO CONTINUOUS CARBON-FIBER AUTOMOTIVE STRUCTURAL COMPOSITES

Description: The Durability of Carbon-Fiber Composites Project was established at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) by the U.S. Department of Energy to develop experimentally based, durability-driven design guidelines to assure the long-term (15-year) structural integrity of carbon-fiber-based composite systems for automotive structural applications. The project addressed characterization and modeling the durability of a progression of carbon-reinforced thermoset materials, each of which has the same ure… more
Date: October 6, 2003
Creator: Ruggles-Wrenn, M. B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Final Report for LDRD Project 02-ERD-069: Discovering the Unknown Mechanism(s) of Virulence in a BW, Class A Select Agent

Description: The goal of this proposed effort was to assess the difficulty in identifying and characterizing virulence candidate genes in an organism for which very limited data exists. This was accomplished by first addressing the finishing phase of draft-sequenced F. tularensis genomes and conducting comparative analyses to determine the coding potential of each genome; to discover the differences in genome structure and content, and to identify potential genes whose products may be involved in the F. tul… more
Date: February 6, 2003
Creator: Chain, P & Garcia, E
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Social Security Reform

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Date: March 6, 2003
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Development of a Rolling Process Design Tool for Use in Improving Hot Roll Slab Recovery

Description: In this quarter, our primary effort has been focused on model verification, emphasizing on consistency in result for parallel and serial simulation runs, Progress has been made in refining the parallel thermal algorithms and in diminishing discretization effects in the contact region between the rollers and slab. We have received the metrology data of the ingot profile at the end of the fifth pass from Alcoa. Detailed comparisons between the data and the initial simulation result are being perf… more
Date: May 6, 2003
Creator: Couch, R & Wang, P
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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War Powers Resolution: Presidential Compliance

Description: This report gives a summary of the usage of the War Powers Resolution (WPR) and various issues related to proposals to modify or repeal the resolution. The report summarizes most recent developments and background, and gives an overview of United Nations actions, and WPR activities in former Yugoslavia/Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq (post-1991), Haiti, and Somalia. It also includes commentary on the instances formally reported under the WPR, consultation with Congress, and the current issues which Congre… more
Date: March 6, 2003
Creator: Grimmett, Richard F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Study of the Ionization Dynamics and Equation of State of a Strongly Coupled Plasma

Description: Preliminary experiments to study the ionization dynamics and equation of state of a strongly coupled plasma have been performed at the LLNL COMET laser facility. In these experiment, a 1.0 J, 500 fs, 532 nm laser was used to create a uniform, warm dense plasma.The primary diagnostic, Fourier Domain Interferometry (FDI), was used to provide information about the position of the critical density of the target and thus the expansion hydrodynamics, laying the ground work for the plasma characteriza… more
Date: February 6, 2003
Creator: Shepherd, R; Audebert, P; Geindre, J P; Iglesias, C; Foord, M; Rogers, F et al.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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PNNL DOE-Voluntary Protection Program (VPP) FY2003 Program Evaluation

Description: This Program Evaluation report is an updated revision to the annual assessment of PNNL's VPP Program performance with respect to DOE-VPP criteria. It contains a summary of results and a data sheet for each of the VPP Elements, including strengths, weaknesses, recent/anticipated changes that will affect each Element, and a rating for each Element. Recommendations are also offered for continuous improvement.
Date: February 6, 2003
Creator: Wright, Patrick A.; Bowers, Harold N.; Madson, Vernon J.; Isern, Nancy G.; Collins, Drue A.; Haney, Janice M. et al.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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South Korean Politics and Rising “Anti-Americanism”: Implications for U.S. Policy Toward North Korea

Description: This report outlines the shifts in the South Korean polity since the election of 2002 which exposed the generational divide in South Korea with younger people more apt to criticize the United States, particularly on matters pertaining to North Korea and US military presence on the Korean Peninsula. The report also discusses these developments, particularly the rise in anti-Americanism and how it impacts American policy towards North Korea.
Date: May 6, 2003
Creator: Manyin, Mark E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Medicare+Choice

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Date: June 6, 2003
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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R&D on an Ultra-Thin Composite Membrane for High-Temperature Operation in PEMFC. Final Report

Description: FuelCell Energy developed a novel high-temperature proton exchange membrane for PEM fuel cells for building applications. The laboratory PEM fuel cell successfully operated at 100-400{supdegree}C and low relative humidity to improve CO tolerance, mitigate water and thermal management challenges, and reduce membrane cost. The developed high-temperature membrane has successfully completed 500h 120C endurance testing.
Date: October 6, 2003
Creator: Yuh, C.-Y.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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EFFECTS OF TEMPERATURE AND ENVIRONMENT ON MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF TWO CHOPPED-FIBER AUTOMOTIVE STRUCTURAL COMPOSITES

Description: The Durability of Lightweight Composite Structures Project was established at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) by the U.S. Department of Energy to provide the experimentally-based, durability-driven design guidelines necessary to assure long-term structural integrity of automotive composite components. The initial focus of the ORNL Durability Project was on composite materials consisting of polyurethane reinforced with E-glass. Current focus of the project is on composite materials reinforc… more
Date: October 6, 2003
Creator: Ruggles-Wrenn, M. B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Kernel Principle Component Analysis of Microarray Data. Final Report

Description: Given the limitations in the quantity and quality of gene expression array data, the focus of the research was shifted to development of statistical and computational tools for evaluation and detection of disease susceptibility mutations within a large set of individuals or even an entire population. The diseases that are of particular interest are those with complex etiology, involving interaction of multiple genes and/or environmental factors.
Date: November 6, 2003
Creator: Haghighi, F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Scaling Cross Sections for Ion-atom Impact Ionization

Description: The values of ion-atom ionization cross sections are frequently needed for many applications that utilize the propagation of fast ions through matter. When experimental data and theoretical calculations are not available, approximate formulas are frequently used. This paper briefly summarizes the most important theoretical results and approaches to cross section calculations in order to place the discussion in historical perspective and offer a concise introduction to the topic. Based on experi… more
Date: June 6, 2003
Creator: Kaganovich, Igor D.; Startsev, Edward & Davidson, Ronald C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Inverse Bremsstrahlung Stabilization of Noise in the Generation of Ultra-short Intense Pulses by Backward Raman Amplification

Description: Inverse bremsstrahlung absorption of the pump laser beam in a backward Raman amplifier over the round-trip light transit time through the sub-critical density plasma can more than double the electron temperature of the plasma and produce time-varying axial temperature gradients. The resulting increased Landau damping of the plasma wave and detuning of the resonance can act to stabilize the pump against unwanted amplification of Langmuir noise without disrupting nonlinear amplification of the fe… more
Date: November 6, 2003
Creator: Berger, Richard L.; Solodov, Daniel S. Clark Andrei; Valeo, Ernest J. & Fisch, Nathaniel J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Radiation and Shielding Data for Pu-Al Components

Description: Radiation intensities associated with the various Pu-Al fuel and target components considered to date for a Cm244 production program vary according to quantity and isotopic content of the Pu used, age of the Pu since separation, and component design. This report summarizes the results of calculations made to determine expected radiation intensities and includes associated shielding data for use in evaluating future shielding requirements for billet preparation and tube extrusion facilities.
Date: January 6, 2003
Creator: Vernon, P. B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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