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Coast Guard: Observations on Arctic Requirements, Icebreakers, and Coordination with Stakeholders

Description: Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The gradual retreat of polar sea ice, combined with an expected increase in human activity--shipping traffic, oil and gas exploration, and tourism in the Arctic region--has increased the strategic interest that the United States and other nations have in the Arctic. As a result, the U.S. Coast Guard, within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), has responsibilities in the Arctic, which are expected to in… more
Date: December 1, 2011
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Foster Children: HHS Guidance Could Help States Improve Oversight of Psychotropic Prescriptions

Description: Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Foster children have often been removed from abusive or neglectful homes and tend to have more mental health conditions than other children. Treatment may include psychotropic drugs but their risks to children are not well understood. Medicaid, administered by states and overseen by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), provides prescription drug coverage to foster children. This testimony examin… more
Date: December 1, 2011
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Government Auditing Standards: 2011 Revision (Supersedes GAO-07-731G) [Reissued on January 20, 2012]

Description: Guidance issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "This publication supersedes GAO-07-731G, Government Auditing Standards: July 2007 Revision. This is the Government Auditing Standards 2011 version. This document outlines standards that contain requirements for auditor reporting on internal control. This revision supersedes the 2007 revision."
Date: December 1, 2011
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Federal Housing Administration: Risks to the Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund and the Agency's Operations

Description: Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) has helped millions purchase homes by insuring private lenders against losses from defaults on single-family mortgages. In recent years, FHA has experienced a dramatic increase in its market role due, in part, to the contraction of other mortgage market segments. The increased reliance on FHA mortgage insurance highlights the need for FHA to ensure that it has the prop… more
Date: December 1, 2011
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Illegal Internet Streaming of Copyrighted Content: Legislation in the 112th Congress

Description: This report describes streaming technology, explains the disparity in criminal penalties for different forms of infringement committed by electronic means, analyzes legislation in the 112th Congress that would harmonize penalties for illegal streaming with those available for other forms of online copyright infringement, and summarizes arguments for and against such a legislative change.
Date: December 1, 2011
Creator: Yeh, Brian T.
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Reaching for Peak Performance in Existing Homes -- A Cold Climate Study With Synergy Construction

Description: Two test homes located in Millbury and Somerville, MA are examined with the goal of providing case studies that could be applied to other similar New England homes. The retrofit process for the enclosure and mechanical systems are examined in detail and the decision-making process is discussed.
Date: December 1, 2011
Creator: Gates, C. & Osser, R.
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Developing a Cost Model and Methodology to Estimate Capital Costs for Thermal Energy Storage

Description: This report provides an update on the previous cost model for thermal energy storage (TES) systems. The update allows NREL to estimate the costs of such systems that are compatible with the higher operating temperatures associated with advanced power cycles. The goal of the Department of Energy (DOE) Solar Energy Technology Program is to develop solar technologies that can make a significant contribution to the United States domestic energy supply. The recent DOE SunShot Initiative sets a very … more
Date: December 1, 2011
Creator: Glatzmaier, G.
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Reference Inflow Characterization for River Resource Reference Model (RM2)

Description: Sandia National Laboratory (SNL) is leading an effort to develop reference models for marine and hydrokinetic technologies and wave and current energy resources. This effort will allow the refinement of technology design tools, accurate estimates of a baseline levelized cost of energy (LCoE), and the identification of the main cost drivers that need to be addressed to achieve a competitive LCoE. As part of this effort, Oak Ridge National Laboratory was charged with examining and reporting refer… more
Date: December 1, 2011
Creator: Neary, Vincent S.
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Financing Solar PV at Government Sites with PPAs and Public Debt (Brochure)

Description: Historically, state and local governmental agencies have employed one of two models to deploy solar photovoltaic (PV) projects: (1) self-ownership (financed through a variety of means) or (2) third-party ownership through a power purchase agreement (PPA). Morris County, New Jersey, administrators recently pioneered a way to combine many of the benefits of self-ownership and third-party PPAs through a bond-PPA hybrid, frequently referred to as the Morris Model. At the request of the Department o… more
Date: December 1, 2011
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Supply Chain Based Solution to Prevent Fuel Tax Evasion: Proof of Concept Final Report

Description: The goal of this research was to provide a proof-of-concept (POC) system for preventing non-taxable (non-highway diesel use) or low-taxable (jet fuel) petrochemical products from being blended with taxable fuel products and preventing taxable fuel products from cross-jurisdiction evasion. The research worked to fill the need to validate the legitimacy of individual loads, offloads, and movements by integrating and validating, on a near-real-time basis, information from global positioning system… more
Date: December 1, 2011
Creator: Capps, Gary J.; Lascurain, Mary Beth; Franzese, Oscar; Earl, Dennis Duncan; West, David L.; McIntyre, Timothy J. et al.
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Reducing Data Center Loads for a Large-Scale, Low-Energy Office Building: NREL's Research Support Facility (Book)

Description: This publication detailing the design, implementation strategies, and continuous performance monitoring of NREL's Research Support Facility data center. Data centers are energy-intensive spaces that facilitate the transmission, receipt, processing, and storage of digital data. These spaces require redundancies in power and storage, as well as infrastructure, to cool computing equipment and manage the resulting waste heat (Tschudi, Xu, Sartor, and Stein, 2003). Data center spaces can consume mor… more
Date: December 1, 2011
Creator: Sheppy, M.; Lobato, C.; Van Geet, O.; Pless, S.; Donovan, K. & Powers, C.
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National 2010-2011 Survey of E85: CRC Project E-85-2

Description: This study examined the quality of E85 fuel around the country in each of the three volatility classes identified in ASTM D5798-10. Samples were collected from pumps in 21 states between July 2010 and May 2011, with almost 40 samples collected in each class. Parameters tested to assess fuel quality were volatility, ethanol content, water content, acidity, pHe, inorganic chloride and sulfate, and total sulfate. Class 1 samples more often met the volatility specification than samples from other c… more
Date: December 1, 2011
Creator: Alleman, T. L.
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The nature of the lightest scalar meson, its N_c behaviour and semi-local duality

Description: One-loop unitarized Chiral Perturbation Theory (UChPT) calculations, suggest a different N{sub c} behaviour for the {sigma} or f{sub 0}(600) and {rho}(770) mesons: while the {rho} meson becomes narrower with N{sub c}, as expected for a {bar q}q meson, the f{sub 0}(600) contribution to the total cross section below 1 GeV becomes less and less important. Here we review our recent work where we have shown, by means of finite energy sum rules, that a different N{sub c} behavior for these resonances… more
Date: December 1, 2011
Creator: JR Pelaez, MR Pennington, J Ruiz de Elvira, DJ Wilson
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Evaluations of University of Wisconsin Silicon Carbide Temperature Monitors 300 LO and 400 LO B

Description: Silicon carbide (SiC) temperature monitors 05R4-02-A KG1403 (300 LO) and 05R4-01-A KG1415 (400 LO B) were evaluated at the High Temperature Test Lab (HTTL) to determine their peak irradiation temperatures. HTTL measurements indicate that the peak irradiation temperature for the 300 LO monitor was 295 {+-} 20 C and the peak irradiation temperature for the 400 LO B monitor was 294 {+-} 25 C. Two silicon carbide (SiC) temperature monitors irradiated in the Advanced Test Reactor (ATR) were evaluate… more
Date: December 1, 2011
Creator: Davis, K. L.; Rempe, J. L.; Knudson, D. L.; Chase, B. M. & Unruh, T. C.
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Search for universal extra dimensions in ppbar collisions

Description: We present a search for Kaluza-Klein (KK) particles predicted by models with universal extra dimensions (UED) using a data set corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 7.3 fb{sup -1}, collected by the D0 detector at a p{bar p} center of mass energy of 1.96 TeV. The decay chain of KK particles can lead to a final state with two muons of the same charge. This signature is used to set a lower limit on the compactification scale of R{sup -1} > 260 GeV in a minimal UED model.
Date: December 1, 2011
Creator: Abazov, Victor Mukhamedovich; /Dubna, JINR; Abbott, Braden Keim; U., /Oklahoma; Acharya, Bannanje Sripath; Inst., /Tata et al.
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EnergySavers: Tips on Saving Money & Energy at Home (Brochure)

Description: The U.S. Department of Energy's consumer guide to saving money and energy at home and on the road. It consists of the following articles: (1) Save Money and Energy Today - Get started with things you can do now, and use the whole-house approach to ensure that your investments are wisely made to save you money and energy; (2) Your Home's Energy Use - Find out how your home uses energy, and where it's losing the most energy so you can develop a plan to save in the short and long term; (3) Air Lea… more
Date: December 1, 2011
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Structural considerations for solar installers : an approach for small, simplified solar installations or retrofits.

Description: Structural Considerations for Solar Installers provides a comprehensive outline of structural considerations associated with simplified solar installations and recommends a set of best practices installers can follow when assessing such considerations. Information in the manual comes from engineering and solar experts as well as case studies. The objectives of the manual are to ensure safety and structural durability for rooftop solar installations and to potentially accelerate the permitting p… more
Date: December 1, 2011
Creator: Richards, Elizabeth H.; Schindel, Kay; Bosiljevac, Tom; Dwyer, Stephen F.; Lindau, William & Harper, Alan
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Theoretical study of proton beam preparation for the g-2 experiment

Description: Beam preparation for the g-2 experiment is studied. Because of limited 2.5-MHz rf voltage and the 66-ms limited time duration allowance for the whole process, the Booster batch must be first captured to a lower 2.5-MHz rf voltage followed by a rotation in the 2.5-MHz bucket in order to achieve the required narrow half bunch width of 50 ns. The appearance of bunch tails can be reduced by first rotation by a linear barrier voltage before the adiabatic capture.
Date: December 1, 2011
Creator: Ng, King-Yuen
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Biomolecular interactions and responses of human epithelial and macrophage cells to engineered nanomaterials.

Description: Engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) are increasingly being used in commercial products, particularly in the biomedical, cosmetic, and clothing industries. For example, pants and shirts are routinely manufactured with silver nanoparticles to render them 'wrinkle-free.' Despite the growing applications, the associated environmental health and safety (EHS) impacts are completely unknown. The significance of this problem became pervasive within the general public when Prince Charles authored an article… more
Date: December 1, 2011
Creator: Kotula, Paul Gabriel; Brozik, Susan Marie; Achyuthan, Komandoor E.; Greene, Adrienne Celeste; Timlin, Jerilyn Ann; Bachand, George David et al.
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Suzaku And Multi-Wavelength Observations of OJ 287 During the Periodic Optical Outburst in 2007

Description: Suzaku observations of the blazar OJ 287 were performed in 2007 April 10-13 and November 7-9. They correspond to a quiescent and a flaring state, respectively. The X-ray spectra of the source can be well described with single power-law models in both exposures. The derived X-ray photon index and the flux density at 1 keV were found to be {Lambda} = 1.65 {+-} 0.02 and S{sub 1keV} = 215 {+-} 5 nJy, in the quiescent state. In the flaring state, the source exhibited a harder X-ray spectrum ({Lambda… more
Date: December 1, 2011
Creator: Seta, Hiromi; Isobe, N.; Tashiro, Makoto S.; Yaji, Yuichi; Arai, Akira; Fukuhara, Masayuki et al.
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Nuclear Energy Advanced Modeling and Simulation Waste Integrated Performance and Safety Codes (NEAMS Waste IPSC).

Description: The objective of the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Nuclear Energy Advanced Modeling and Simulation Waste Integrated Performance and Safety Codes (NEAMS Waste IPSC) is to provide an integrated suite of computational modeling and simulation (M&S) capabilities to quantitatively assess the long-term performance of waste forms in the engineered and geologic environments of a radioactive-waste storage facility or disposal repository. Achieving the objective of modeling the performance of a … more
Date: December 1, 2011
Creator: Schultz, Peter Andrew
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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