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Welfare Reform: More Research Needed on TANF Family Caps and Other Policies for Reducing Out-Of-Wedlock Births

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "To reduce out-of-wedlock pregnancies among welfare recipients, some states have imposed family caps on welfare benefits. One factor that determines the amount of cash benefits a family receives is the family's size--larger families receive more benefits. In states with a family cap policy, however, no additional cash benefits are provided with the birth of another. Twenty-three states have implemented some var… more
Date: September 11, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Nuclear Waste: Agreement Among Agencies Responsible for the West Valley Site Is Critically Needed

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The West Valley nuclear facility in western New York State was built in the 1960s to convert spent nuclear fuel from commercial reactors into reusable nuclear fuel. New York State, the owner of the site, and the Atomic Energy Commission--the predecessor of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and the Department of Energy (DOE)--jointly promoted the venture. However, the timing of the venture was poor becaus… more
Date: May 11, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Telecommuting: Overview of Potential Barriers Facing Employers

Description: A briefing report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Employers face potential tax, regulatory, and liability barriers when they establish telecommuting programs for their employees. Telecommuting refers to working from remote locations rather than an employer-provided location. Even though telecommuting has grown, some proponents are concerned that various laws and regulations discourage employers from establishing these programs. Many telecommuting proponents… more
Date: July 11, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Force Structure: Projected Requirements for Some Army Forces Not Well Established

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Army has made progress developing a sound basis for its force structure requirements. It has improved the rigor of its analysis through more realistic scenarios and the integration of Army plans and initiatives. It has also expanded the analysis to include requirements for the entire Army. However, the weaknesses GAO identified suggest that the Army still lacks a sound basis for its institutional force req… more
Date: May 11, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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2000 Census: Significant Increase in Cost Per Housing Unit Compared to 1990 Census

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The estimated $6.5 billion full-cycle cost of the 2000 decennial census is nearly double that of the 1990 census. When the full-cycle cost is divided by the number of American households, the cost per housing unit of the 2000 census was $56 compared to $32 per housing unit for the 1990 census. The primary reasons for the cost increases include the following: (1) in the 1990 census, field data collection cost w… more
Date: December 11, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Contract Management: Update on DOD's Purchase of Black Berets

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Army announced in October 2000 that personnel would begin wearing berets eight months later. To meet the tight deadline for the production of 5 million berets at a cost of about $30 million, the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) shortcut normal contracting procedures and waived restrictions that limit military purchases of some items, including clothing, to those produced in the United States or its possessio… more
Date: December 11, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Schools and Libraries Program: Update on State-Level Funding by Category of Service

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Telecommunications Act of 1996 expanded the traditional definition of universal service--affordable, nationwide telephone service--to include eligible schools and libraries. The act authorized the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to begin a program to help these institutions acquire advanced telecommunications services in the following three areas: telecommunications, Internet access, and internal c… more
Date: May 11, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Environmental Liabilities: DOD Training Range Cleanup Cost Estimates Are Likely Understated

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Because of concerns about the long-term budgetary implications associated with the environmental cleanup of the Department of Defense (DOD) training ranges, GAO examined (1) the potential magnitude of the cost to clean up these ranges in compliance with applicable laws and regulations, (2) the scope and reliability of DOD's training range inventory, and (3) the methodologies used to develop cost estimates. GAO… more
Date: April 11, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Multifamily Housing: Issues Related to Mark-to-Market Program Reauthorization

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Office of Multifamily Housing Assistance Restructuring (OMHAR) administers the mark-to-market program, which was created to preserve the affordability of low-income rental housing while reducing the long-term costs of Section 8 project-based assistance. Legislative authorization for both the mark-to-market program and OMHAR is scheduled to terminate on September 30, 2001. If the legislative authority for t… more
Date: July 11, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Defense Logistics: Strategic Planning Weaknesses Leave Economy, Efficiency, and Effectiveness of Future Support Systems at Risk

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Department of Defense's (DOD) Logistics Strategic Plan is not comprehensive enough and does not provide an adequate overall logistics strategy to effectively guide the defense components' logistics plans. The military services, the Defense Logistics Agency, and the U.S. Transportation Command each developed separate logistics transformation and other implementation plans to support the Department-wide Logi… more
Date: October 11, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Army Training: Improvements Are Needed in 5-Ton Truck Driver Training and Supervision

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Instructor shortages are affecting the quality and quantity of Army truck driver training. Fort Leonard Wood, which trains about 90 percent of truck drivers, is especially affected by the instructor shortage. The result is that student drivers are not fully trained in all aspects of the instruction program when they graduate. If formal schools had enough instructors, they would presumably be able to teach the … more
Date: April 11, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Stochastic Engine Convergence Diagnostics

Description: The stochastic engine uses a Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) sampling device to allow an analyst to construct a reasonable estimate of the state of nature that is consistent with observed data and modeling assumptions. The key engine output is a sample from the posterior distribution, which is the conditional probability distribution of the state of nature, given the data. In applications the state of nature may refer to a complicated, multi-attributed feature like the lithology map of a volume… more
Date: December 11, 2001
Creator: Glaser, R
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Reconciliation Report

Description: Reconciliation report with an ending account balance of $434.54 reconciled for the period ending on September 11, 2001.
Date: September 11, 2001
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Yucca Mountain Site Charecteization Project Summary of Socioeconomic Data Analysis Conducted in Support of the Radiological Monitoring Program, During FY 2001

Description: This report is a summary of socioeconomic data analyses conducted in support of the Radiological Monitoring Program during fiscal year 2001. Socioeconomic data contained in this report include estimates for the years 2000 and 2001 of the resident population in the vicinity of Yucca Mountain. The estimates presented in this report are based on selected Census 2000 statistics, and housing and population data that were acquired and developed in accordance with LP-RS-00 1 Q-M&0, Scientific Inve… more
Date: December 11, 2001
Creator: Roe, L.K.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Database Transformations for Biological Applications

Description: The goal of this project was to develop tools to facilitate data transformations between heterogeneous data sources found throughout biomedical applications. Such transformations are necessary when sharing data between different groups working on related problems as well as when querying data spread over different databases, files and software analysis packages.
Date: April 11, 2001
Creator: Overton, C.; Davidson, S. B.; Buneman, P. & Tannen, V.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Genetic Engineering of a Radiation-Resistant Bacterium for Biodegradation of Mixed Wastes

Description: The mixture of toxic chemicals, heavy metals, halogenated solvents and radionuclides in many DOE waste materials presents a challenging problem for separating the different species and disposing of individual contaminants. One approach for dealing with mixed wastes is to genetically engineer the radiation-resistant bacterium, Deinococcus radiodurans to survive in and detoxify DOE's mixed waste streams, and to develop process parameters for treating mixed wastes with such constructed strains. Th… more
Date: June 11, 2001
Creator: Lidstrom, Mary E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Zero-Valent Iron Permeable Reactive Barriers: A Review of Performance

Description: This report briefly reviews issues regarding the implementation of the zero-valent iron permeable reactive barrier (PRB) technology at sites managed by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). Initially, the PRB technology, using zero-valent iron for the reactive media, was received with great enthusiasm, and DOE invested millions of dollars testing and implementing PRBs. Recently, a negative perception of the technology has been building. This perception is based on the failure of some deployments… more
Date: June 11, 2001
Creator: Korte, NE
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Summary of Dissolved Concentration Limits

Description: According to the Technical Work Plan titled Technical Work Plan for Waste Form Degradation Process Model Report for SR (CRWMS M&O 2000a), the purpose of this study is to perform abstractions on solubility limits of radioactive elements based on the process-level information and thermodynamic databases provided by Natural Environment Program Operations (NEPO) and Waste Package Operations (WPO). The scope of this analysis is to produce solubility limits as functions, distributions, or constan… more
Date: June 11, 2001
Creator: Chen, Yueting
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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MAPPING INDUCED POLARIZATION WITH NATURAL ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS FOR EXPLORATION AND RESOURCES CHARACTERIZATION BY THE MINING INDUSTRY

Description: In this quarter we completed the manufacture and bench testing of the first prototype of the MT-24/LF system to be used in the natural IP survey. The MT-24/LF will dramatically reduce field costs by simplifying field operations through the use of high accuracy GPS synchronization between wide band high accuracy (24 bit) autonomous recording systems. The simplification of field operations comes about from the elimination of the need for long lengths of telemetry cable and also from the eliminati… more
Date: July 11, 2001
Creator: Nichols, Edward
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Application of Reservoir Characterization and Advanced Technology to Improve Recovery and Economics in a Lower Quality Shallow Shelf San Andres Reservoir. Quarterly Progress Report: July 1--September 30, 2001

Description: The Class 2 Project at West Welch was designed to demonstrate the use of advanced technologies to enhance the economics of improved oil recovery (IOR) projects in lower quality Shallow Shelf Carbonate (SSC) reservoirs, resulting in recovery of additional oil that would otherwise be left in the reservoir at project abandonment. Accurate reservoir description is critical to the effective evaluation and efficient design of IOR projects in the heterogeneous SSC reservoirs. Therefore, the majority o… more
Date: December 11, 2001
Creator: Hickman, T. Scott & Justice, James J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Optical Imaging in Microstructures

Description: This research was focused on developing morphology-dependent stimulated raman scattering (MDSRS) spectroscopy as an analytic optical imaging technique. MDSRS uses the cavity modes (called morphology dependent resonances, MDRs) associated with axisymmetric dielectric microstructures to generate nonlinear optical signals. Since different cavity modes span different regions inside the microstructure, it becomes possible to generate location-specific spectra. The information gotten from MDSRS imagi… more
Date: April 11, 2001
Creator: Aker, P. M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Foundation for a Syntactic Pattern Recognition System for Genomic DNA Sequences

Description: The goals of this project were to establish database access to several databases of interest, customizing bioJava for database applications, improving performance of bioJava applets, development of additional applets, and maintenance of GenLang for web applications.
Date: April 11, 2001
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Ultra-High Resolution ARP Spectrometer System for NSLS Undulator Beamline U13. Final Report, August 15, 1996 - August 31, 2000j

Description: DOE award DEFG02-96ER45590 was for the construction of an ARP Spectrometer for installation at the National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS) on undulator beamline U13. The spectrometer is completely assembled and under vacuum on the floor of the NSLS. It consists of vacuum chamber; pumps, sample cryostat and manipulator, and electronic energy analyzer. The analyzer has achieved energy resolution of 5 meV in multi-channel mode, angular resolution of 2 mR is expected though as yet unproven, and sa… more
Date: April 11, 2001
Creator: Jensen, Eric
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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