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Federal Compensation Programs: Perspectives on Four Programs for Individuals Injured by Exposure to Harmful Substances

Description: Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The U.S. federal government has played an ever-increasing role in providing benefits to individuals injured as a result of exposure to harmful substances. Over the years, it has established several key compensation programs, including the Black Lung Program, the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP), the Radiation Exposure Compensation Program (RECP), and the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compens… more
Date: April 1, 2008
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Defense Infrastructure: DOD Funding for Infrastructure and Road Improvements Surrounding Growth Installations

Description: Correspondence issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The Department of Defense (DOD) is simultaneously implementing a number of force realignments that contribute to personnel growth at military installations throughout the United States. DOD plans to execute over 800 actions from the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) round, which entail relocating over 123,000 personnel. Concurrent with its BRAC 2005 actions, DOD is also implementing or planning to… more
Date: April 1, 2008
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Internal Control: Improvements Needed in SEC's Accounting and Financial Reporting Process

Description: Correspondence issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "On November 16, 2007, we issued our report on the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) fiscal years 2007 and 2006 financial statements and on SEC's internal control as of September 30, 2007. We also reported on the results of our tests of SEC's compliance with selected provisions of laws and regulations during fiscal year 2007. The purpose of this report is to present areas of SEC's internal c… more
Date: April 1, 2008
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Health Savings Accounts: Participation Increased and Was More Common among Individuals with Higher Incomes

Description: Correspondence issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "With health care spending increasing in the United States, you enacted legislation effective in 2004 establishing tax advantaged health savings accounts (HSA) to be coupled with high-deductible health insurance plans. HSA-eligible high-deductible health plans typically have lower premiums than traditional health plans and HSAs allow account holders to accumulate tax-free savings to pay for medical expens… more
Date: April 1, 2008
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Military Personnel: Better Debt Management Procedures and Resolution of Stipend Recoupment Issues Are Needed for Improved Collection of Medical Education Debts

Description: Correspondence issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Military physicians and other health care professionals are needed to support operational forces during war or other military conflicts and to maintain the well-being of the forces during nonoperational periods. These professionals also provide health care services to military retirees and dependents. The Department of Defense (DOD) acquires its health care professionals primarily through two programs--t… more
Date: April 1, 2008
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Status of Implementation of GAO Recommendations on Evacuation of Transportation-Disadvantaged Populations and Patients and Residents of Health Care Facilities

Description: Correspondence issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Many of the approximately 100,000 people who did not evacuate before Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast in 2005 lacked access to a vehicle. In the aftermath of the storm, questions were raised about how well federal, state, and local governments were prepared to evacuate such transportation-disadvantaged populations. Hurricane Katrina, which ultimately resulted in over 1,300 deaths, also demonstrate… more
Date: April 1, 2008
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Solar Advisor Model; Session: Modeling and Analysis

Description: This project supports the Solar America Initiative by: (1) providing a consistent framework for analyzing and comparing power system costs and performance across the range of solar technologies and markets, PV, solar heat systems, CSP, residential, commercial and utility markets; (2) developing and validating performance models to enable accurate calculation of levelized cost of energy (LCOE); (3) providing a consistent modeling platform for all TPP's; and (4) supporting implementation and usag… more
Date: April 1, 2008
Creator: Blair, N.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Corrective Action Decision Document/Closure Report for Corrective Action Unit 545: Dumps, Waste Disposal Sites, and Buried Radioactive Materials Nevada Test Site, Nevada, Revision 0

Description: This Corrective Action Decision Document (CADD)/Closure Report (CR) has been prepared for Corrective Action Unit (CAU) 545, Dumps, Waste Disposal Sites, and Buried Radioactive Materials, in Areas 2, 3, 9, and 20 of the Nevada Test Site, Nevada, in accordance with the Federal Facility Agreement and Consent Order that was agreed to by the State of Nevada; U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Environmental Management; U.S. Department of Defense; and DOE, Legacy Management (1996, as amended February 20… more
Date: April 1, 2008
Creator: Wickline, Alfred
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Electrical Contacts to Individual Colloidal Semiconductor Nanorods

Description: We report the results of charge transport studies on single CdTe nanocrystals contacted via evaporated Pd electrodes. Device charging energy, E{sub c}, monitored as a function of electrode separation drops suddenly at separations below {approx}55 nm. This drop can be explained by chemical changes induced by the metal electrodes. This explanation is corroborated by ensemble X-Ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) studies of CdTe films as well as single particle measurements by transmission electr… more
Date: April 1, 2008
Creator: Trudeau, Paul-Emile; Sheldon, Matt; Altoe, Virginia & Alivisatos, A. Paul
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Fabrication Flaw Density and Distribution In Repairs to Reactor Pressure Vessel and Piping Welds

Description: The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is developing a generalized fabrication flaw distribution for the population of nuclear reactor pressure vessels and for piping welds in U.S. operating reactors. The purpose of the generalized flaw distribution is to predict component-specific flaw densities. The estimates of fabrication flaws are intended for use in fracture mechanics structural integrity assessments. Structural integrity assessments, such as estimating the frequency of loss-of-coolant… more
Date: April 1, 2008
Creator: Schuster, G. J.; Simonen, F. A. & Doctor, S. R.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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CSI: Dognapping workshop : an outreach experiment designed to produce students that are hooked on science.

Description: The CSI: Dognapping Workshop is a culmination of the more than 65 Sandian staff and intern volunteers dedication to exciting and encouraging the next generation of scientific leaders. This 2 hour workshop used a 'theatrical play' and 'hands on' activities that was fun, exciting and challenging for 3rd-5th graders while meeting science curriculum standards. In addition, new pedagogical methods were developed in order to introduce nanotechnology to the public. Survey analysis indicated that the w… more
Date: April 1, 2008
Creator: Boyle, Timothy J.; Gorman, Anna K.; Pratt, Harry D., III; Hernandez-Sanchez, Bernadette A.; Lambert, Timothy N.; Ottley, Leigh Anna M. et al.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Emittance Reduction between EBIS LINAC and Booster by Electron Beam Cooling; Is Single Pass Cooling Possible?

Description: Electron beam cooling is examined as an option to reduce momentum of gold ions exiting the EBIS LINAC before injection into the booster. Electron beam parameters are based on experimental data (obtained at BNL) of electron beams extracted from a plasma cathode. Preliminary calculations indicate that single pass cooling is feasible; momentum spread can be reduced by more than an order of magnitude in less than one meter.
Date: April 1, 2008
Creator: Hershcovitch,A.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Carbon Dioxide Selective Supported Ionic Liquid Membranes: The Effect of Contaminants

Description: The integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) is widely viewed as a promising technology for the large scale production of energy in a carbon constrained world. These cycles, which include gasification, contaminant removal, water-gas shift, CO2 capture and compression, and combustion of the reduced-carbon fuel gas in a turbine, often have significant efficiency advantages over conventional combustion technologies. A CO2 selective membrane capable of maintaining performance at conditions app… more
Date: April 1, 2008
Creator: Luebke, D. R.; Ilconich, J. B.; Myers, C. R. & Pennline, H. W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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MSTD 2007 Publications and Patents

Description: The Materials Science and Technology Division (MSTD) supports the central scientific and technological missions of the Laboratory, and at the same time, executes world-class, fundamental research and novel technological development over a wide range of disciplines. Our organization is driven by the institutional needs in nuclear weapons stockpile science, high-energy-density science, nuclear reactor science, and energy and environment science and technology. We maintain expertise and capabiliti… more
Date: April 1, 2008
Creator: King, W. E.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle Value Proposition Study: Phase 1, Task 2: Select Value Propositions/Business Model for Further Study

Description: The Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV) Value Propositions Workshop held in Washington, D.C. in December 2007 served as the Task 1 Milestone for this study. Feedback from all five Workshop breakout sessions has been documented in a Workshop Summary Report, which can be found at www.sentech.org/phev. In this report, the project team compiled and presented a comprehensive list of potential value propositions that would later serve as a 'grab bag' of business model components in Task 2. After c… more
Date: April 1, 2008
Creator: Sikes, Karen R; Markel, Lawrence C; Hadley, Stanton W & Hinds, Shaun
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

EE&RE; Session: CIGS

Description: This project supports the Solar America Initiative by carrying out work on target topics identified for Photovoltaic Systems: (1) Improving cell and module efficiency of thin film Cu(In,Ga)Se2 materials; (2) Implementing the Science and Technology Facility (S&TF) and the Process Development and Integration Laboratory (PDIL) to facilitate laboratory/industry interaction in developing PV manufacturing technologies; (3) Addressing industrial issues in materials and manufacturing processes with… more
Date: April 1, 2008
Creator: Contreras, M.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Calculation of Reactive-evaporation Rates of Chromia

Description: A methodology is developed to calculate Cr-evaporation rates from Cr2O3 with a flat planar geometry. Variables include temperature, total pressure, gas velocity, and gas composition. The methodology was applied to solid-oxide, fuel cell conditions for metallic interconnects and to advanced-steam turbines conditions. The high velocities and pressures of the advanced steam turbine led to evaporation predictions as high as 5.18 9 10-8 kg/m2/s of CrO2(OH)2(g) at 760 °C and 34.5 MPa. This is equival… more
Date: April 1, 2008
Creator: Holcomb, G. R.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Regional Consumer Hydrogen Demand and Optimal Hydrogen Refueling Station Siting

Description: Using a GIS approach to spatially analyze key attributes affecting hydrogen market transformation, this study proposes hypothetical hydrogen refueling station locations in select subregions to demonstrate a method for determining station locations based on geographic criteria.
Date: April 1, 2008
Creator: Melendez, M. & Milbrandt, A.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Search for Heavy, Long-Lived Neutralinos that Decay to Photons at CDF II Using Photon Timing

Description: The authors present the results of the first hadron collider search for heavy, long-lived neutralinos that decay via {tilde {chi}}{sub 1}{sup 0} {yields} {gamma}{tilde G} in gauge-mediated supersymmetry breaking models. Using an integrated luminosity of 570 {+-} 34 pb{sup -1} of p{bar p} collisions at {radical}s = 1.96 TeV, they select {gamma}+jet+missing transverse energy candidate events based on the arrival time of a high-energy photon at the electromagnetic calorimeter as measured with a ti… more
Date: April 1, 2008
Creator: Aaltonen, T.; Adelman, J.; Akimoto, T.; Albrow, M. G.; Alvarez Gonzalez, B.; Amerio, S. et al.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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