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Nursing Homes: Many Shortcomings Exist in Efforts to Protect Residents from Abuse

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Often suffering from multiple physical and mental impairments, the 1.5 million elderly and disabled Americans living in nursing homes are a highly vulnerable population. These individuals typically require extensive help with daily living, such as such as dressing, feeding, and bathing. Many require skilled nursing or rehabilitative care. In recent years, reports of inadequate care, including malnutrition, dehydrati… more
Date: March 4, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Dike Propagation Near Drifts

Description: The purpose of this Analysis and Model Report (AMR) supporting the Site Recommendation/License Application (SR/LA) for the Yucca Mountain Project is the development of elementary analyses of the interactions of a hypothetical dike with a repository drift (i.e., tunnel) and with the drift contents at the potential Yucca Mountain repository. This effort is intended to support the analysis of disruptive events for Total System Performance Assessment (TSPA). This AMR supports the Process Model Repo… more
Date: March 4, 2002
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The Snowmass points and slopes: Benchmarks for SUSY searches

Description: The ''Snowmass Points and Slopes'' (SPS) are a set of benchmark points and parameter lines in the MSSM parameter space corresponding to different scenarios in the search for Supersymmetry at present and future experiments. This set of benchmarks was agreed upon at the 2001 ''Snowmass Workshop on the Future of Particle Physics'' as a consensus based on different existing proposals.
Date: March 4, 2002
Creator: al., M. Battaglia et
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What futurecar MPG levels and technology will be necessary?

Description: The potential peaking of world conventional oil production and the possible imperative to reduce carbon emissions will put great pressure on vehicle manufacturers to produce more efficient vehicles, on vehicle buyers to seek them out in the marketplace, and on energy suppliers to develop new fuels and delivery systems. Four cases for stabilizing or reducing light vehicle fuel use, oil use, and/or carbon emissions over the next 50 years are presented. Case 1--Improve mpg so that the fuel use in … more
Date: March 4, 2002
Creator: Patterson, P.; Steiner, E. & Singh, M.
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CH Packaging Program Guidance

Description: The purpose of this document is to provide the technical requirements for preparation for use, operation, inspection, and maintenance of a Transuranic Package Transporter Model II (TRUPACT-II), a HalfPACT Shipping Package, and directly related components. This document complies with the minimum requirements as specified in TRUPACT-II Safety Analysis Report for Packaging (SARP), HalfPACT SARP, and Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Certificates of Compliance (C of C) 9218 and 9279, respectively… more
Date: March 4, 2002
Creator: Washington TRU Solutions LLC
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A Test to Illustrate the Effects of ECOSAFE on the Movement of Oil in Contaminated Soils

Description: An ECOSAFE{trademark} solution was tested at 1 part to 100 milliliters of de-ionized water against a control set using de-ionized water only. Each soil column received five and one-quarter treatments of either ECOSAFE{trademark} solution or de-ionized water over two and one-half days. Air was injected following saturation of the columns and leachate recovery. Soil samples were collected from each column on the final day. The total volume of water added to the Control Column was 6.150 milliliter… more
Date: March 4, 2002
Creator: Jackson, L. M.
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Progress in development of low-enriched U-Mo dispersion fuels.

Description: Results from postirradiation examinations and analyses of U-Mo/Al dispersion miniplates are presented. Irradiation test RERTR-5 contained mini-fuel plates with fuel loadings of 6 and 8 gU cm{sup -3}. The fuel material consisted of 6, 7 and 10 wt.% Mo-uranium-alloy powders in atomized and machined form. The swelling behavior of the various fuel types is analyzed, indicating athermal swelling of the U-Mo alloy and temperature-dependent swelling owing to U-Mo/Al interdiffusion.
Date: March 4, 2002
Creator: Hofman, G. L.; Snelgrove, J. L.; Hayes, S. L. & Meyer, M. K.
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Optimization of Surfactant Mixtures and Their Interfacial Behavior for Advanced Oil Recovery

Description: The objective of this project was to develop a knowledge base that is helpful for the design of improved processes for mobilizing and producing oil left untapped using conventional techniques. The main goal was to develop and evaluate mixtures of new or modified surfactants for improved oil recovery. In this regard, interfacial properties of novel biodegradable n-alkyl pyrrolidones and sugar-based surfactants have been studied systematically. Emphasis was on designing cost-effective processes c… more
Date: March 4, 2002
Creator: Somasundaran, Prof. P.
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CO{sub 2} capture for PC boilers using flue-gas recirculation : evaluation of CO{sub 2} recovery, transport, and utilization.

Description: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is investigating retrofitting boilers with flue gas recirculation as a strategy for CO{sub 2} recovery from conventional pulverized coal (PC) plants because of the current motivation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. However, this technology was conceived nearly twenty years ago at Argonne National Laboratory as a low-cost CO{sub 2} source for enhanced oil recovery (EOR). The fundamental concept is to replace combustion air with oxygen diluted by recirculat… more
Date: March 4, 2002
Creator: Doctor, R. D.; Molburg, J. C.; Brockmeier, N. F. & Mendelsohn, M.
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Preliminary assessment of the availability of U.S. natural gas resources to meet U.S. transportation energy demand.

Description: Recent studies have indicated that substitutes for conventional petroleum resources will be needed to meet U.S. transportation energy demand in the first half of this century. One possible substitute is natural gas which can be used as a transportation fuel directly in compressed natural gas or liquefied natural gas vehicles or as resource fuel for the production of hydrogen for fuel cell vehicles. This paper contains a preliminary assessment of the availability of U.S. natural gas resources to… more
Date: March 4, 2002
Creator: Singh, M. K. & Moore, J. S.
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SULFURIC ACID REMOVAL PROCESS EVALUATION: SHORT-TERM RESULTS

Description: The objective of this project is to demonstrate the use of alkaline reagents injected into the furnace of coal-fired boilers as a means of controlling sulfuric acid emissions. Sulfuric acid controls are becoming of increasing interest to utilities with coal-fired units for a number of reasons. Sulfuric acid is a Toxic Release Inventory species, a precursor to acid aerosol/condensable emissions, and can cause a variety of plant operation problems such as air heater plugging and fouling, back-end… more
Date: March 4, 2002
Creator: Blythe, Gary M. & McMillan, Richard
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Early universe cosmology and tests of fundamental physics

Description: This is the report of the Working Group on Early Universe Cosmology and tests of Fundamental Physics, group P4.8 of the of the Snowmass 2001 conference. Here we summarize the impressive array of advances that have taken place in this field, and identify opportunities for even greater progress in the future. Topics include Dark Energy, Cosmic Acceleration, Inflation, Phase Transitions, Baryogenesis, and String/M-theory Cosmology. The introductory section gives an executive summary with six key o… more
Date: March 4, 2002
Creator: Andreas Albrecht, Joshua A. Frieman and Mark Trodden
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U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Appropriations Process: A Brief Explanation

Description: This report examines The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) which is funded by fees collected from customers. However, appropriation measures limit USPTO use of all fees accumulated within a fiscal year. Critics of this approach argue that because agency operations are supported by payments for services, all fees are necessary to fund these services in the year they are provided.
Date: March 4, 2002
Creator: Schacht, Wendy H.
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Structural Modeling of Tesla TDR Positron Target

Description: The Tesla positron target is a 0.4 radiation length thick titanium target that is rotating with a speed of 50 m/s at its periphery. Energy deposition from one pulse occurs over 1 millisecond and results in heating of the target over a 5 cm arc of material. The 22.2 MeV photon beam has a spot size of 0.75 mm and results in a maximum temperature jump of 440 C. Stresses are induced in the material from thermal expansion of the hotter material. Peak effective stresses reach 38 Ksi (2.7 x 10{sup 8} … more
Date: March 4, 2002
Creator: Stein, Werner & Sheppard, John C.
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Continuing Studies on Direct Aqueous Mineral Carbonation of CO{sub 2} Sequestration

Description: Direct aqueous mineral carbonation has been investigated as a process to convert gaseous CO{sub 2} into a geologically stable, solid final form. The process utilizes a solution of sodium bicarbonate (NaHCO{sub 3}), sodium chloride (NaCl), and water, mixed with a mineral reactant, such as olivine (Mg{sub 2}SiO{sub 4}) or serpentine [Mg{sub 3}Si{sub 2}O{sub 5}(OH){sub 4}]. Carbon dioxide is dissolved into this slurry, by diffusion through the surface and gas dispersion within the aqueous phase. T… more
Date: March 4, 2002
Creator: O'Connor, W. K.; Dahlin, D. C.; Nilsen, D. N.; Gerdemann, S. J.; Rush, G. E.; Penner, L. R. et al.
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Annotated bibliography of research carried out from 1993 to 1999 under DoE Award No. DE-IA02-94ER14411: Spectroscopic investigation of the vibrational quasi-continuum arising from internal rotation of a methyl group

Description: This report covers work carried out during a six year period under a DoE interagency grant. Because all results have been published as full papers in appropriate refereed journals that are openly available in most scientific libraries, the report takes the form of an annotated bibliography. In the interests of scientific continuity and bibliographic usefulness, however, work carried out on this same project from 1990-1992 under an earlier DoE award, as well as related work currently (2000-2002)… more
Date: March 4, 2002
Creator: Hougen, Jon T.
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CH Packaging Operations Manual

Description: Introduction - This procedure provides instructions for assembling the following CH packaging payload: - Drum payload assembly - Standard Waste Box (SWB) assembly - Ten-Drum Overpack (TDOP).
Date: March 4, 2002
Creator: Solutions, Washington TRU
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Recycling of bleach plant filtrates by electrodialysis removal of inorganic non-process elements.

Description: Water use in the pulp and paper industry is very significant, and the U.S. pulp and paper industries as well as other processing industries are actively pursuing water conservation and pollution prevention by in-process recycling of water. Bleach plant effluent is a large portion of the water discharged from a typical bleached kraft pulp mill. The recycling of bleach plant effluents to the kraft recovery cycle is widely regarded as an approach to low effluent bleached kraft pulp production. The… more
Date: March 4, 2002
Creator: Tsai, S. P.; Pfromm, P.; Henry, M. P.; Fracaro, A. T.; Swanstrom, C. P. & Moon, P.
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Storage Area Networks and The High Performance Storage System

Description: The High Performance Storage System (HPSS) is a mature Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM) system that was developed around a network-centered architecture, with client access to storage provided through third-party controls. Because of this design, HPSS is able to leverage today's Storage Area Network (SAN) infrastructures to provide cost effective, large-scale storage systems and high performance global file access for clients. Key attributes of SAN file systems are found in HPSS today, and… more
Date: March 4, 2002
Creator: Hulen, Harry; Graf, Otis; Fitzgerald, Keith & Watson, Richard W.
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Broadband Internet Access: Background and Issues

Description: This report is about the Broadband Internet Access, The Background and analysis of Broadband. It's importance, and about broadband technologies like Cable, Satellite and other technologies. The status of Broadband Deployment and Development Issues.
Date: March 4, 2002
Creator: Angele. A
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West Hackberry Tertiary Project, Class I

Description: The West Hackberry Tertiary Project is a field test of the concept that air injection can generate tertiary oil recovery through the Double Displacement Process. The Double Displacement Process is the gas displacement of a water invaded oil column for the purpose of recovering tertiary oil through gravity drainage. The novel aspect of this project is the use of air as the injection fluid. In Gulf Coast oil reservoirs with pronounced bed dip, reservoir performance has shown that gravity drainage… more
Date: March 4, 2002
Creator: Haley, Kenneth A.; Gillham, Travis H. & Yannimaras, Demetrios
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