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Medicare: Communications with Physicians Can Be Improved

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Unlike other federal programs that make expenditures under the direct control of the government, Medicare constitutes a promise to pay for covered medical services provided to its beneficiaries by about one million providers. Given this open-ended entitlement, it is essential that appropriate and effective rules and policies be specified so that only necessary services are provided and reimbursed. Congress and… more
Date: February 27, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Financial Audit: IRS's Fiscal Years 2001 and 2000 Financial Statements

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "This report presents the results of GAO's audits of the financial statements of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for fiscal years 2001 and 2000. GAO was able to provide unqualified opinions on IRS's fiscal years 2001 and 2000 financial statements because IRS senior management and staff made extraordinary efforts to compensate for serious internal control and systems deficiencies. Despite these efforts, IRS f… more
Date: February 27, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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VA and Defense Health Care: Increased Risk of Medication Errors for Shared Patients

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Medication errors and adverse drug reactions are a significant concern for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the Department of Defense (DOD) because their large beneficiary populations receive many prescriptions. Each agency has taken steps to reduce the risk of medication errors, such as making patients' medical records more accessible to providers and performing checks for drug interactions. Althou… more
Date: September 27, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Child Labor: Labor Can Strengthen Its Efforts to Protect Children Who Work

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "In 2001, almost 40 percent of all 16- and 17-year-olds in the United States and many 14- and 15-year-olds worked at some time in the year. Children in the United States are often encouraged to work, and many people believe that children benefit from early work experiences by developing independence, confidence, and responsibility. However, the public also wants to ensure that the work experiences of young peop… more
Date: September 27, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Employee Privacy: Computer-Use Monitoring Practices and Policies of Selected Companies

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Over the past decade, there has been a technological revolution in the workplace as businesses have increasingly turned to computer technology the primary tool to communicate, conduct research, and store information. Also during this time, concern has grown among private sector employers that their computer resources may be abused by employees--either by accessing offensive material or jeopardizing the securit… more
Date: September 27, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Defense Budget: Contingency Operations in the Balkans May Need Less Funding in Fiscal Year 2003

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "From the end of the Persian Gulf War in February 1991 through May 2002, the Department of Defense (DOD) reported over $43.9 billion in incremental costs for its overseas contingency operations. These operations include the enforcement of no-fly zones, humanitarian assistance, and peace enforcement operations, as well as combating terrorism beginning in fiscal year 2001. The majority of these costs were incurre… more
Date: September 27, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Tax Administration: New Compliance Research Effort Is on Track, but Important Work Remains

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The U.S. tax system is based on taxpayers voluntarily complying with the tax laws. However, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) last measured taxpayers' rate of compliance using 1988 tax returns. As time has passed, IRS has become concerned that its ability to understand the effectiveness of its programs and target audits on noncompliant returns has deteriorated, potentially resulting in poorer service to taxpa… more
Date: June 27, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Results-Oriented Cultures: Using Balanced Expectations to Manage Senior Executive Performance

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Effective performance management systems link individual performance to organizational goals. In October 2000, the Office of Personnel Management amended regulations to require agencies to link senior executive performance with organizational goals; to appraise executive performance by balancing organizational results with customer satisfaction, employee perspective, and other areas; and to use performance res… more
Date: September 27, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Purchase Cards: Control Weaknesses Leave Army Vulnerable to Fraud, Waste, and Abuse

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Army's purchase card program--the largest within the Defense Department--offers significant benefits, but weak internal controls have left the Army vulnerable to fraudulent, improper, and abusive purchases. The Army has yet to issue servicewide regulations or operating procedures, instead relying on ad hoc memoranda and other informal guidance. The Army also does a poor job of overseeing the purchase card … more
Date: June 27, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Purchase Cards: Navy is Vulnerable to Fraud and Abuse but Is Taking Action to Resolve Control Weaknesses

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Department of Defense (DOD) is promoting departmentwide use of purchase cards for obtaining goods and services. It reported that for the year ended September 30, 2001, purchase cards were used by 230,000 cardholders to make 10.7 million transactions valued at more than $6.1 billion. The benefits of using purchase cards versus traditional contracting and payment processes are lower transaction processing co… more
Date: September 27, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Uranium and Aluminosilicate Surface Precipitation Tests

Description: The 2H evaporator at the Savannah River Site has been used to treat an aluminum-rich waste stream from canyon operations and a silicon-rich waste stream from the Defense Waste Processing Facility. The formation of aluminosilicate scale in the evaporator has caused significant operational problems. Because uranium has been found to accumulate in the aluminosilicate solids, the scale deposition has introduced criticality concerns as well. The objective of the tests described in this report is to … more
Date: November 27, 2002
Creator: Hu, M.Z.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Electric Power Interruption Cost Estimates for Individual Industries, Sectors, and U.S. Economy

Description: During the last 20 years, utilities and researchers have begun to understand the value in the collection and analysis of interruption cost data. The continued investigation of the monetary impact of power outages will facilitate the advancement of the analytical methods used to measure the costs and benefits from the perspective of the energy consumer. More in-depth analysis may be warranted because of the privatization and deregulation of power utilities, price instability in certain regions o… more
Date: February 27, 2002
Creator: Balducci, Patrick J.; Roop, Joseph M.; Schienbein, Lawrence A.; DeSteese, John G. & Weimar, Mark R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Multi-Scale Model Approach to Thermohydrology at Yucca Mountain

Description: The Multi-Scale Thermo-Hydrologic (MSTH) process model is a modeling abstraction of them1 hydrology (TH) of the potential Yucca Mountain repository at multiple spatial scales. The MSTH model as described herein was used for the Supplemental Science and Performance Analyses (BSC, 2001) and is documented in detail in CRWMS M&O (2000) and Glascoe et al. (2002). The model has been validated to a nested grid model in Buscheck et al. (In Review). The MSTH approach is necessary for modeling therma… more
Date: March 27, 2002
Creator: Glascoe, L.; Buscheck, T. A.; Gansemer, J. & Sun, Y.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Irradiated Mail

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Date: March 27, 2002
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Access Grid node minimum requirements.

Description: The Access Grid is a group-to-group collaborative system developed at Argonne National Laboratory. The system is designed to support high-fidelity, high-bandwidth interactions. This document specifies the minimum requirements that need to be fulfilled for a space to be considered an Access Grid Node.
Date: June 27, 2002
Creator: Judson, I. R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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ETEdit v.8.1 user's manual.

Description: This user's guide documents the capabilities and functions of the Expanded Time Phase Force Deployment Data (TPFDD) Editor (ETEdit) software application. Step-by-step procedures for using ETEdit are provided in Chapter 5. Although ETEdit is primarily an editing tool for use with various software applications, it can also be used as a stand-alone application or in tandem with another application. It provides force module data that allow you to display and modify movement requirements, as well as… more
Date: February 27, 2002
Creator: Braun, M. D.; Clemmons, M. A.; Lurie, G.; Simunich, K. L.; Timmerman, D.; VanderZee, H. et al.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Emery Biomass Gasification Power System: Final Report

Description: Emery Recycling Corporation (now Emery Energy Company, LLC) evaluated the technical and economical feasibility of the Emery Biomass Gasification Power System (EBGPS). The gasifier technology is owned and being developed by Emery. The Emery Gasifier for this project was an oxygen-blown, pressurized, non-slagging gasification process that novelly integrates both fixed-bed and entrained-flow gasification processes into a single vessel. This unique internal geometry of the gasifier vessel will allo… more
Date: November 27, 2002
Creator: Phillips, Benjamin; Hassett, Scott & Gatley, Harry
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Novel Concepts for Damage-Resistant Alloys in Next Generation Nuclear Power Systems

Description: The discovery of a damage-resistant alloy based on Hf solute additions to a low-carbon 316SS is the highlight of the Phase II research. This damage resistance is supported by characterization of radiation-induced microstructures and microchemistries along with measurements of environmental cracking. The addition of Hf to a low-carbon 316SS reduced the detrimental impact of radiation by changing the distribution of Hf. Pt additions reduced the impact of radiation on grain boundary segregation bu… more
Date: December 27, 2002
Creator: Bruemmer, Stephen M.; Andersen, Peter L. & Was, Gary
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Intercomparison of numerical simulation codes for geologic disposal of CO2

Description: Numerical simulation codes were exercised on a suite of eight test problems that address CO2 disposal into geologic storage reservoirs, including depleted oil and gas reservoirs, and brine aquifers. Processes investigated include single- and multi-phase flow, gas diffusion, partitioning of CO2 into aqueous and oil phases, chemical interactions of CO2 with aqueous fluids and rock minerals, and mechanical changes due to changes in fluid pressures. Representation of fluid properties was also exami… more
Date: November 27, 2002
Creator: Pruess, Karsten; Garcia, Julio; Kovscek, Tony; Oldenburg, Curt; Rutqvist, Jonny; Steefel, Carl et al.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Status Assessment of Readiness to Deploy Permanganate Treatment for Removal of Strontium and Actinides from Savannah River Site High Level Waste

Description: The current plan to dispose of high-level waste at the Savannah River Site uses monosodium titanate (MST) to remove soluble strontium and alpha-emitting radionuclides to levels acceptable for disposal in the Saltstone Production Facility. This report assesses the merits of the process using sodium permanganate, instead of monosodium titanate (MST), to remove soluble strontium and actinides from Savannah River Site high-level waste. It also describes the major elements of the recommended researc… more
Date: November 27, 2002
Creator: Fink, S.D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Extended barrel support saddle design and analysis.

Description: This paper summarizes the extensive structural analysis and design of the support saddles for the Extended Barrel of the ATLAS Tilecalorimeter that has taken place at Argonne National Laboratory over the past several months. This work has been a continuation and expansion of work that has taken place over the course of several years within the ATLAS Tilecalorimeter collaboration. This paper will be divided into four main sections. Section 1 is the introduction to the analysis and will give a br… more
Date: February 27, 2002
Creator: Guarino, V.; Grudzinski, J. & Petereit, E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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IMPROVEMENT OF WEAR COMPONENT'S PERFORMANCE BY UTILIZING ADVANCED MATERIALS AND NEW MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGIES: CASTCON PROCESS FOR MINING APPLICATIONS

Description: The project has seen quite a bit of activity in this quarter, highlighted by the fabrication of a bit insert for field testing. In addition: (1) Several alternative process techniques were attempted to prevent bloating, cracking and delamination of FM material that occurs during binder burnout. The approaches included fabrication of FM material by three pass extrusion and warm isostatic pressing of green material, slow and confined burnouts as well as, burnout of thin plate instead of rod stock… more
Date: August 27, 2002
Creator: Huang, Xiaodi & Gertsch, Richard
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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