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Wildfire Suppression: Funding Transfers Cause Project Cancellations and Delays, Strained Relationships, and Management Disruptions

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "In 2003, wildfires burned roughly 4 million acres, destroyed over 5,000 structures, took the lives of 30 firefighters, and cost over $1 billion to suppress. The substantial expense of fighting wildfires has exceeded the funds appropriated for wildfire suppression nearly every year since 1990. To pay for wildfire suppression costs when the funds appropriated are insufficient, the U.S. Forest Service and the Dep… more
Date: June 2, 2004
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Afghanistan Reconstruction: Deteriorating Security and Limited Resources Have Impeded Progress; Improvements in U.S. Strategy Needed

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "In October 2001, in response to the Taliban regime's protection of al Qaeda terrorists who attacked the United States, coalition forces forcibly removed the regime from Afghanistan. In December 2002, Congress passed the Afghanistan Freedom Support Act authorizing assistance funds to help Afghanistan rebuild a stable, democratic society. The act directed GAO to monitor the implementation of U.S. humanitarian an… more
Date: June 2, 2004
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Information Security: Agencies Face Challenges in Implementing Effective Software Patch Management Processes

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Flaws in software code can introduce vulnerabilities that may be exploited to cause significant damage to federal information systems. Such risks continue to grow with the increasing speed, sophistication, and volume of reported attacks, as well as the decreasing period of the time from vulnerability announcement to attempted exploits. The process of applying software patches to fix flaws--patch management--is criti… more
Date: June 2, 2004
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Farmer Mac: Greater Attention to Risk Management, Mission, Public Purpose, and Corporate Governance Is Needed

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "This testimony is based on GAO's October 2003 report, Farmer Mac: Some Progress Made, but Greater Attention to Risk Management, Mission, and Corporate Governance Is Needed (GAO-04-116). GAO's testimony presents a brief overview of Farmer Mac and discusses issues raised in its 2003 report, including Farmer Mac's risk management practices and line of credit with Treasury, mission related activities, board structure, a… more
Date: June 2, 2004
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Information Security: Continued Action Needed to Improve Software Patch Management

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Flaws in software code can introduce vulnerabilities that may be exploited to cause significant damage to federal information systems. Such risks continue to grow with the increasing speed, sophistication, and volume of reported attacks, as well as the decreasing period of the time from vulnerability announcement to attempted exploits. The process of applying software patches to fix flaws, referred to as patch… more
Date: June 2, 2004
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Waste Disposal Act

Description: This law was passed by the government of the Republic of China (Taiwan) to improve environmental sanitation and public health through the regulation of waste disposal.
Date: June 2, 2004
Creator: China (Republic : 1949- )
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Interpretation of long-offset transient electromagnetic data fromMount Merapi, Indonesia, using a three-dimensional optimizationapproach

Description: In the years 1998, 2000, and 2001, long-offset transientelectromagnetic (LOTEM) surveys were carried out at the active volcanoMerapi in Central Java. The measurements investigated the conductivitystructure of the volcanic edifice. Our area of interest, which is belowthe summit and the upper flanks, was investigated using horizontal andvertical magnetic field time derivative data from seventransmitter-receiver setups. Because of topography and athree-dimensional (3-D) underground structure, a 3-… more
Date: June 2, 2004
Creator: Commer, Michael; Helwig, Stefan L.; Hordt, Andreas & Tezkan, Bulent
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Relationship Between Atmospheric circulation and Snowpack in theWestern United States

Description: Snow anomalies in the western United States (U.S.) have beenwidely investigated by many researchers due to its impact on wateravailability. This study focuses on how anomalous atmospheric circulationaffects snowpack accumulation in the western U.S. using observations andoutput from the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) CommunityClimate Model version 3 (CCM3). Our results indicate that themid-latitude atmospheric circulation anomalies induced by the ElNino-Southern Oscillation (ENS… more
Date: June 2, 2004
Creator: Jin, Jiming; Miller, Norman L.; Sorooshian, Soroosh & Gao, Xiaogang
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Characterization of an Effective Cleaning Procedure for Aluminum Alloys: Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy and Zeta Potential Analysis

Description: We have developed a cleaning procedure for aluminum alloys for effective minimization of surface-adsorbed sub-micron particles and non-volatile residue. The procedure consists of a phosphoric acid etch followed by an alkaline detergent wash. To better understand the mechanism whereby this procedure reduces surface contaminants, we characterized the aluminum surface as a function of cleaning step using Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS). SERS indicates that phosphoric acid etching re-est… more
Date: June 2, 2004
Creator: Cherepy, N J; Shen, T H; Esposito, A P & Tillotson, T M
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High Energy Physics semiannual report of research activities. July 1, 2003 - December 31, 2003.

Description: This report describes the research conducted in the High Energy Physics Division of Argonne National Laboratory during the period of July 1 through December 31, 2003. Topics covered here include experimental and theoretical particle physics, advanced accelerator physics, detector development, and experimental facilities research. Lists of Division publications and colloquia are included.
Date: June 2, 2004
Creator: Spinka, H. M.; Nodulman, L. J.; Goodman, M. C.; Repond, J.; Ayres, D. S.; Proudfoot, J. et al.
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Electroweak results from CDF

Description: Inclusive W and Z production cross-sections have been measured by CDF and certain electroweak parameters extracted with high precision from these measurements. New results on diboson production at the Tevatron are also presented.
Date: June 2, 2004
Creator: Waters, D. S.
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Deformation potentials of CdSe quantum dots

Description: The size dependent deformation potentials of CdSe quantum dots are studied by first principle and semi-empirical pseudopotentials calculations. They find that the amplitude of the quantum dot deformation potential is only slightly larger than the bulk value, and this increase is mostly caused by the off {Lambda} point deformation potentials in the bulk, which are larger in amplitude than the {Lambda} point deformation potential.
Date: June 2, 2004
Creator: Li, Jingbo & Wang, Lin-Wang
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Grid based monitoring on the Rutgers CDF analysis farm

Description: Run II at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider started in March 2001, and it will continue probing the high energy frontier in particle physics until the start of the LHC at CERN. The CDF collaboration at Fermilab has already stored 260 TB of data and expects to store 1PB of data in the next two years. The HEXCAF computing farm is being set up at Rutgers State University
Date: June 2, 2004
Creator: al., Fedor Ratnikov et
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Identification of Anthropogenic Climate Change Using a Second-Generation Reanalysis

Description: Changes in the height of the tropopause provide a sensitive indicator of human effects on climate. A previous attempt to identify human effects on tropopause height relied on information from 'first-generation' reanalyses of past weather observations. Climate data from these initial model-based reanalyses have well-documented deficiencies, raising concerns regarding the robustness of earlier detection work that employed these data. Here, we address these concerns using information from the new … more
Date: June 2, 2004
Creator: Santer, Ben; Wiglet, Tom; Simmons, Adrian; Kallberg, Per; Kelly, Graeme; Uppala, Sakari et al.
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Compressive and Tensile Stress in CdSe Semiconductor Quantum Dots

Description: Compressive and tensile stress in colloidal CdSe quantum dots (QDs) is examined using resonance Raman spectroscopy. We find that the dispersion of the longitudinal optical phonon mode with size does not follow theoretical calculations based on phonon confinement models. To account for these deviations, the presence of compressive or tensile stress in the QDs was proposed. We find that CdSe QDs prepared via a single source precursor (SSP) method exhibit compressive stress, while CdSe QDs prepare… more
Date: June 2, 2004
Creator: Meulenberg, R W; Jennings, T & Strouse, G F
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The Law of the Sea Convention and U.S. Policy

Description: This report includes information regarding the Law of the Sea Convention and United States policy. Background, United States interests, and Senate issues are among topics discussed in this report.
Date: June 2, 2004
Creator: Browne, Marjorie Ann
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Construction and Changes in the Sludge Receipt and Adjustment Tank(Glass Apparatus Development Laboratory)

Description: The Defense Waste Processing Facility (DWPF), at the Savannah River Site is processing and immobilizing the radioactive high level waste sludge slurry at SRS into a durable borosilicate glass for final geological disposal. Each time a new batch of radioactive sludge is to be processed by the DWPF, the process flow sheet is to be tested and demonstrated to ensure an acceptable melter feed and glass can be made. These demonstrations are completed in the Shielded Cells Facility in the Savannah Riv… more
Date: June 2, 2004
Creator: DOBOS, JAMES
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