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Accounting Profession: Oversight, Auditor Independence, and Financial Reporting Issues

Description: Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The accounting system's self-regulatory system for auditors, which largely depends on voluntary contributions from the accounting industry, is plagued by fragmentation, lack of coordination, poor communication, and conflicts of interest. In GAO's view, the current self-regulatory system is broken, and oversight by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has fallen short in protecting the public interest. B… more
Date: May 3, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Global Taxation and the United Nations: A Review of Proposals

Description: A discussion of the possibility of the United Nations promoting and planning imposition of international taxation on U.N. member states, including the United States was initiated in response to the March 2002 U.N.-sponsored International Conference on Financing for Development, held in Monterrey, Mexico.
Date: May 3, 2002
Creator: Browne, Marjorie Ann
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Tritium in the World Trade Center September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack: It's Possible Sources and Fate

Description: Traces of tritiated water (HTO) were determined at World Trade Center (WTC) ground zero after the 9/11/01 terrorist attack. A method of ultralow-background liquid scintillation counting was used after distilling HTO from the samples. A water sample from the WTC sewer, collected on 9/13/01, contained 0.174{plus_minus}0.074 (2{sigma}) nCi/L of HTO. A split water sample, collected on 9/21/01 from the basement of WTC Building 6, contained 3.53{plus_minus}0.17 and 2.83{plus_minus}0.15 nCi/L, respect… more
Date: May 3, 2002
Creator: Parekh, P; Semkow, T; Husain, L; Haines, D; Woznial, G; Williams, P et al.
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NEXT GENERATION TURBINE PROGRAM

Description: The Next Generation Turbine (NGT) Program's technological development focused on a study of the feasibility of turbine systems greater than 30 MW that offer improvement over the 1999 state-of-the-art systems. This program targeted goals of 50 percent turndown ratios, 15 percent reduction in generation cost/kW hour, improved service life, reduced emissions, 400 starts/year with 10 minutes to full load, and multiple fuel usage. Improvement in reliability, availability, and maintainability (RAM), … more
Date: May 3, 2002
Creator: Day, William H.
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Passive damping in EDS maglev systems.

Description: There continues to be strong interest in the subjects of damping and drag forces associated with electrodynamic suspension (EDS) systems. While electromagnetic drag forces resist the forward motion of a vehicle and therefore consume energy, damping forces control, at least in part, the response of the vehicle to disturbances. Ideally, one would like to reduce the drag forces as much as possible while retaining adequate damping forces to insure dynamic stability and satisfactory ride quality. Th… more
Date: May 3, 2002
Creator: Rote, D. M.
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Production of an Accelerated Oxygen-14 Beam

Description: BEARS is an ongoing project to provide a light-ion radioactive-beam capability at the 88-Inch Cyclotron at LBNL. Light radioactive isotopes are produced at a 10 MeV proton medical cyclotron, transported 350 m via a high-speed gas transport capillary, cryogenically separated, and injected into the 88-Inch Cyclotron's ion source. The first radioactive beam successfully accelerated was Carbon-11 and beams of intensity more than 108 ions/sec have been utilized for experiments. Development of Oxygen… more
Date: May 3, 2002
Creator: Powell, James; O'Neil, James P. & Cerny, Joseph
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E-laboratories : agent-based modeling of electricity markets.

Description: Electricity markets are complex adaptive systems that operate under a wide range of rules that span a variety of time scales. These rules are imposed both from above by society and below by physics. Many electricity markets are undergoing or are about to undergo a transition from centrally regulated systems to decentralized markets. Furthermore, several electricity markets have recently undergone this transition with extremely unsatisfactory results, most notably in California. These high stake… more
Date: May 3, 2002
Creator: North, M.; Conzelmann, G.; Koritarov, V.; Macal, C.; Thimmapuram, P. & Veselka, T.
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A flexible object-oriented software framework for developing complex multimedia simulations.

Description: Decision makers involved in brownfields redevelopment and long-term stewardship must consider environmental conditions, future-use potential, site ownership, area infrastructure, funding resources, cost recovery, regulations, risk and liability management, community relations, and expected return on investment in a comprehensive and integrated fashion to achieve desired results. Successful brownfields redevelopment requires the ability to assess the impacts of redevelopment options on multiple … more
Date: May 3, 2002
Creator: Sydelko, P. J.; Dolph, J. E. & Christiansen, J. H.
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Securities Markets: Competition and Multiple Regulators Heighten Concerns about Self-Regulation

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "In the securities markets, competition among self-regulatory organizations (SRO) and their members for customer orders has heightened concerns about conflicts of interest in their roles as both market operators and regulators. Nasdaq--the market run by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD)--has been in competition with NASD members that run electronic communications networks. For years, the New… more
Date: May 3, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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The Diverging Sphere and the Rib in Prompt Detonation

Description: Steady state corner-turning in the rib is possible if R{sub 0}/R{sub 1} << 0.15, where R{sub 0} is the half-width and R{sub 1} the inner radius. For thicker ribs, the kinetics will further slow the turn. A steady state turn will have a symmetrical detonation front. The inverse radius relation appears to hold for the diverging sphere, at least for large radii. The reaction zone lengths for diverging spheres and ratesticks increase with the radius of curvature and are comparable.
Date: May 3, 2002
Creator: Souers, P C; McGuire, E; Garza, R; Roeske, F & Vitello, P
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Distribution of minimum distance among N random points in d dimensions

Description: The Minimum Distance test in the DIEHARD suite for validating random number generators often indicates ''false positives,'' rejecting the quality of what is actually a good generator. A reason for this is presented. The test has enough sensitivity to detect the discrepancy between the approximate theoretical distribution of minimum distance used, and the actual distribution. We present next-order corrections to the theoretical expected distribution, for the 2-dimensional case used in DIEHARD an… more
Date: May 3, 2002
Creator: Fischler, Mark
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Estimation of environmental noise impacts within architectural spaces.

Description: Public Law 91-596, ''Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970,'' Dec. 29, 1970, stimulated interest in modeling the impacts of interior noise on employees, as well as the intelligibility of interior public-address and other speech intra-communication systems. The classical literature on this topic has primarily featured a statistical uniform diffuse-field model. This was pioneered by Leo L. Beranek in the 1950s, based on energy-density formulations at the former Bell Telephone (AT and T) Labo… more
Date: May 3, 2002
Creator: Chang, Y. S.; Liebich, R. E. & Chun, K. C.
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MAPPING INDUCED POLARIZATION WITH NATURAL ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS FOR EXPLORATION AND RESOURCES CHARACTERIZATION BY THE MINING INDUSTRY

Description: In this quarter we continued the processing of the Safford IP survey data. The processing identified a time shift problem between the sites that was caused by a GPS firmware error. A software procedure was developed to identify and correct the shift, and this was applied to the data. Preliminary estimates were made of the remote referenced MT parameters, and initial data quality assessment showed the data quality was good for most of the line. The multi-site robust processing code of Egbert was… more
Date: May 3, 2002
Creator: Nichols, Edward
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The 2002 Farm Bill: Overview and Status

Description: The Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform, or FAIR, Act of 1996 (commonly known as the "farm bill"), which was due to expire in 2002, is expected to be extended for another six years when President Bush signs the bill into law. This report discusses the provisions of the new "farm bill," including the federal spending involved.
Date: May 3, 2002
Creator: Becker, Geoffrey S. & Womach, Jasper
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Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002: Summary and Comparison with Previous Law

Description: The Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 was enacted on March 27, 2002 as P.L. 107-155. It passed the House on February 14, 2002, as H.R. 2356 (Shays- Meehan), by a 240-189 vote. Its companion measure, on which it was largely based, had initially been passed by the Senate in 2001 as S. 27 (McCain-Feingold). On March 20, 2002, however, the Senate approved the House-passed H.R. 2356 by a 60- 40 vote, thus avoiding a conference to reconcile differences between S. 27 and H.R. 2356. The two primar… more
Date: May 3, 2002
Creator: Cantor, Joseph E. & Whitaker, L. Paige
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Colombia: Summary and Tables on U.S. Assistance, FY1989-FY2003

Description: In early 2002, the Bush Administration requested $573.2 million for Colombia ($538.2 million in FY03 State Department foreign operations funds and $35.0 million in FY2002 emergency supplemental funds). This request builds on the programs developed during the Clinton Administration, whose centerpiece counternarcotics (CN) program was “Plan Colombia,” through which Congress provided funding of $860 million in FY2000 emergency supplemental funds and $257 million in related FY2001 funds. These prog… more
Date: May 3, 2002
Creator: Serafino, Nina M.
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China's Trade with the United States and the World

Description: This report provides a quantitative framework for policy considerations dealing with U.S. trade with China. It provides basic data and analysis of China’s international trade with the United States and other countries. Since Chinese data differ considerably from those of its trading partners (because of how entrepot trade through Hong Kong is counted), data from both PRC sources and those of its trading partners are presented. Charts showing import trends by sector for the United States highlig… more
Date: May 3, 2002
Creator: Lum, Thomas & Nanto, Dick K.
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