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The Global Peace Operations Initiative: Background and Issues for Congress

Description: This report describes in detail the Global Peace Operations Initiative (GPOI), the centerpiece of the Bush Administration's efforts to prepare foreign security forces to participate in international peacekeeping operations. This report lists the funding and allocations set aside for GPOI, as well as the function of GPOI and its future.
Date: June 11, 2009
Creator: Serafino, Nina M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Federal Land Management: Observations on a Possible Move of the Forest Service into the Department of the Interior

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Growing ecological challenges ranging from wildland fires to climate change have revived interest in moving the Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Forest Service into the Department of the Interior (Interior). The Forest Service manages almost a quarter of the nation's lands but is the only major land management agency outside Interior. GAO was asked to report on the potential effects of moving the Fore… more
Date: February 11, 2009
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Defense Acquisitions: Assessments Needed to Address V-22 Aircraft Operational and Cost Concerns to Define Future Investments

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Since the 1980s, the V-22, developed to transport combat troops, supplies, and equipment for the U.S. Marine Corps and to support other services' operations, has experienced several fatal crashes, demonstrated various deficiencies, and faced virtual cancellation--much of which it has overcome. Although until recently deployed in Iraq and regarded favorably, it has not performed the full range of mission… more
Date: May 11, 2009
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Public Housing: HUD's Oversight of Housing Agencies Should Focus More on Inappropriate Use of Program Funds

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) provided over $6.7 billion in fiscal year 2008 to housing agencies to operate, modernize, and develop about 1.2 million public housing units. It is important that HUD exercise sufficient oversight of housing agencies to help ensure that public housing funds are being used as intended and properly managed. In this report, GAO examines HUD's oversight … more
Date: June 11, 2009
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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National Institutes of Health: Completion of Comprehensive Risk Management Program Essential to Effective Oversight

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The National Institutes of Health (NIH), an agency of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), is the primary federal agency for supporting medical research. The Office of the Director (OD) is the central NIH office responsible for setting policy and overseeing NIH's 27 institutes and centers (IC). Allegations involving one institute raised questions about areas of oversight by the OD. In ligh… more
Date: September 11, 2009
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Business Systems Modernization: Internal Revenue Service's Fiscal Year 2009 Expenditure Plan

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The Internal Revenue Service's (IRS) Business Systems Modernization (BSM) program is a multi-billion-dollar, high-risk, highly complex effort that involves the development and delivery of a number of modernized systems that are intended to replace the agency's aging business and tax processing systems. As required, IRS submitted its fiscal year 2009 expenditure plan in August 2008 to the congressional a… more
Date: March 11, 2009
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Ionic Liquids for Utilization of Waste Heat from Distributed Power Generation Systems

Description: The objective of this research project was the development of ionic liquids to capture and utilize waste heat from distributed power generation systems. Ionic Liquids (ILs) are organic salts that are liquid at room temperature and they have the potential to make fundamental and far-reaching changes in the way we use energy. In particular, the focus of this project was fundamental research on the potential use of IL/CO2 mixtures in absorption-refrigeration systems. Such systems can provide cooli… more
Date: January 11, 2009
Creator: Brennecke, Joan F.; Sen, Mihir; Maginn, Edward J.; Paolucci, Samuel; Stadtherr, Mark A.; Disser, Peter T. et al.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Sludge Batch 5 Slurry Fed Melt Rate Furnace Test with Frits 418 and 550

Description: Based on Melt Rate Furnace (MRF) testing for the Sludge Batch 5 (SB5) projected composition and assessments of the potential frits with reasonable operating windows, the Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) recommended Slurry Fed Melt Rate Furnace (SMRF) testing with Frits 418 and 550. DWPF is currently using Frit 418 with SB5 based on SRNL's recommendation due to its ability to accommodate significant sodium variation in the sludge composition. However, experience with high boron containi… more
Date: February 11, 2009
Creator: Miller, Donald & Pickenheim, Bradley
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Tank 26 Evaporator Feed Pump Transfer Analysis

Description: The transfer of liquid salt solution from Tank 26 to an evaporator is to be accomplished by activating the evaporator feed pump, located approximately 72 inches above the sludge layer, while simultaneously turning on the downcomer. Previously, activation of the evaporator feed pump was an isolated event without any other components running at the same time. An analysis of the dissolved solution transfer has been performed using computational fluid dynamics methods to determine the amount of ent… more
Date: February 11, 2009
Creator: Tamburello, David; Dimenna, Richard & Lee, Si
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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NERI FINAL TECHNICAL REPORT, DE-FC07-O5ID14647, OPTIMIZATION OF OXIDE COMPOUNDS FOR ADVANCED INERT MATRIX MATERIALS

Description: In order to reduce the current excesses of plutonium (both weapon grade and reactor grade) and other transuranium elements, a concept of inert matrix fuel (IMF) has been proposed for an uranium free transmutation of fissile actinides which excludes continuous uranium-plutonium conversion in thermal reactors and advanced systems. Magnesium oxide (MgO) is a promising candidate for inert matrix (IM) materials due to its high melting point (2827 C), high thermal conductivity (13 W/K {center_dot} m … more
Date: January 11, 2009
Creator: PI: JUAN C. NINO, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Tracking the Sun: The Installed Cost of Photovoltaics in the U.S. from 1998-2007

Description: As installations of grid-connected solar photovoltaic (PV) systems have grown, so too has the desire to track the installed cost of these systems over time, by system characteristics, by system location, and by component. This report helps to fill this need by summarizing trends in the installed cost of grid-connected PV systems in the United States from 1998 through 2007. The report is based on an analysis of installed cost data from nearly 37,000 residential and non-residential PV systems, to… more
Date: February 11, 2009
Creator: Wiser, Ryan; Barbose, Galen & Peterman, Carla
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Final Report 200 MW L-Band Annular Beam Klystron for Accelerators

Description: This program developed a 200 MW, 1.3 GHz, Annular Beam Klystron (ABK) for accelerator systems. An ABK provides lower impedance than a conventional klystron, making it possible to produce higher RF powers with lower voltages. With a higher power per unit, fewer klystrons would be required for a large accelerator. Lower voltage also simplifies and reduces the cost of the power supply system. Both features will significantly lower the cost of an RF system. This device operates at 475 kV. The klyst… more
Date: February 11, 2009
Creator: Read, Michael; Ferguson, Patrick; Ives, Lawrence; Song, Liqun; Carlsten, Bruce & Fazio, Michael
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Foam Transport in Porous Media - A Review

Description: Amendment solutions with or without surfactants have been used to remove contaminants from soil. However, it has drawbacks such that the amendment solution often mobilizes the plume, and its movement is controlled by gravity and preferential flow paths. Foam is an emulsion-like, two-phase system in which gas cells are dispersed in a liquid and separated by thin liquid films called lamellae. Potential advantages of using foams in sub-surface remediation include providing better control on the vo… more
Date: November 11, 2009
Creator: Zhang, Z. F.; Freedman, Vicky L. & Zhong, Lirong
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Final Project Report Project 10749-4.2.2.1 2007-2009

Description: This is the final report for the DOE Project 10749-4.2.2.1 for the FY2007 - FY2009 period. This report is non-proprietary, and will be submitted to DOE as a final project report. The report covers activities under the DOE Project inside CRADA 269 (Project 53231) as well as project activites outside of that CRADA (Project 56662). This is the final report that is summarized from the non-proprietary quarterlies submitted to DOE over the past 2.5 years, which in turn are summaries from the propriet… more
Date: May 11, 2009
Creator: Zacher, Alan H.; Holladay, Johnathan E.; Frye, J. G.; Brown, Heather M.; Santosa, Daniel M. & Oberg, Aaron A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Energy Saving Glass Lamination via Selective Radio-Frequency Heating

Description: This Inventions and Innovations program supported the technical and commercial research and development needed to elevate Ceralink's energy saving process for flat glass lamination from bench scale to a self-supporting technology with significant potential for growth. Radio-frequency heating was any un-explored option for laminating glass prior to this program. With significant commercial success through time and energy savings in the wood, paper, and plastics industries, RF heating was found t… more
Date: November 11, 2009
Creator: Shulman, Holly S. & Allan, Shawn M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Tank Space Options Report

Description: Since this report was originally issued in 2001, several options proposed for increasing double-shell tank (DST) storage space were implemented or are in the process of implementation. Changes to the single-shell tank (SST) waste retrieval schedule, completion of DST space saving options, and the DST space saving options in progress have delayed the projected shortfall of DST storage space from the 2007-2011 to the 2018-2025 timeframe (ORP-11242, River Protection Project System Plan). This repo… more
Date: August 11, 2009
Creator: Willis, W. L. & Ahrendt, M. R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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DWPF GC FILTER ASSEMBLY SAMPLING AND ANALYSIS

Description: On March 18, 2009 a Defense Waste Processing Facility (DWPF) GC Line Filter Assembly was received at the Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL). This filter assembly was removed from operation following the completion of Sludge Batch 4 processing in the DWPF. Work on this sample was requested in a Technical Assistance Request. This document reports the pictures, observations, samples collected, and analytical results for the assembly. The assembly arrived at SRNL separated into its three com… more
Date: November 11, 2009
Creator: Bannochie, C. & Imrich, K.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Paleontological overview of oil shale and tar sands areas in Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming.

Description: In August 2005, the U.S. Congress enacted the Energy Policy Act of 2005, Public Law 109-58. In Section 369 of this Act, also known as the ''Oil Shale, Tar Sands, and Other Strategic Unconventional Fuels Act of 2005,'' Congress declared that oil shale and tar sands (and other unconventional fuels) are strategically important domestic energy resources that should be developed to reduce the nation's growing dependence on oil from politically and economically unstable foreign sources. In addition, … more
Date: February 11, 2009
Creator: Murphey, P. C.; Daitch, D. & Division, Environmental Science
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Separation of Highly Complex Mixtures by Two-Dimension Liquid Chromatography

Description: This report summarizes the progress made on the title project during the grant period. We developed a new classification of two-dimensional separations based on the observation that separations can be made in time or in space. Thus, two-dimensional separations can be made in time×time, space×space, space×time, or time×space. The two successive separations must use two different modes of chromatography that afford uncorrelated or weakly correlated patterns of retention factors for the components… more
Date: December 11, 2009
Creator: Guiochon, Georges
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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