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Phosphate Mining: Oversight Has Strengthened, but Financial Assurances and Coordination Still Need Improvement

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Since 1996, federal agencies have taken several actions to strengthen their oversight of phosphate mining on federal land. For example, BLM now conducts more detailed environmental analysis when evaluating new mine plans; requires phosphate mine operators to provide more comprehensive plans for reclaiming mine sites (restoring the land to a stable condition that can support other uses); and requires the… more
Date: May 4, 2012
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Federal Estate, Gift, and Generation-Skipping Taxes: A Description of Current Law

Description: This report contains an explanation of the major provisions of the federal estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer taxes. The discussion divides the federal estate tax into three components: the gross estate, deductions from the gross estate, and computation of the tax, including allowable tax credits. The federal estate tax is computed through a series of adjustments and modifications of a tax base known as the "gross estate." Certain allowable deductions reduce the gross estate to the … more
Date: May 4, 2012
Creator: Luckey, John R.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Saturation and Dynamic Range of Microchannel Plate-Based X-Ray Imagers

Description: This paper describes recent advances in Monte Carlo simulations of microchannel plate (MCP)–based x-ray detectors, a continuation of ongoing work in this area. A Monte Carlo simulation model has been developed over the past several years by National Security Technologies, LLC (NSTec). The model simulates the secondary electron emission process in an MCP pore and includes the effects of gain saturation. In this work we focus on MCP gain saturation and dynamic range. We have performed modeling an… more
Date: May 4, 2012
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Production of Diesel Engine Turbocharger Turbine from Low Cost Titanium Powder

Description: Turbochargers in commercial turbo-diesel engines are multi-material systems where usually the compressor rotor is made of aluminum or titanium based material and the turbine rotor is made of either a nickel based superalloy or titanium, designed to operate under the harsh exhaust gas conditions. The use of cast titanium in the turbine section has been used by Cummins Turbo Technologies since 1997. Having the benefit of a lower mass than the superalloy based turbines; higher turbine speeds in a … more
Date: May 4, 2012
Creator: Muth, T. R. & Mayer, R. (Queen City Forging)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Recovery Act - Geothermal Technologies Program: Ground Source Heat Pumps Final Scientific/Technical Report

Description: A large centralized geothermal heat pump system was installed to provide ice making, space cooling, space heating, process water heating, and domestic hot water heating for an ice arena in Eagan Minnesota. This paper provides information related to the design and construction of the project. Additionally, operating conditions for 12 months after start-up are provided.
Date: May 4, 2012
Creator: Rosenberry, Nick
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Crowdsourcing Workshop & Use Cases

Description: This report describes a crowdsourcing workshop at the 2012 International Internet Preservation Coalition General Assembly. This report contains a workshop report, the discussion paper "Can Crowdsourcing Play a Role in Archiving the Web?, workshop schedule, a list of resources, questions to ask of crowdsourcing sites, crowdsourcing use case templates, and the article "The Crowd & the Library: The Agony and Exstasy of 'Crowdsourcing' Our Cultural Heritage."
Date: May 4, 2012
Creator: Pennock, Maureen E.; Hockx-Yu, Helen & Owens, Trevor
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: International Internet Preservation Consortium
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Microwave Radiometer – 3 Channel (MWR3C) Handbook

Description: The microwave radiometer 3-channel (MWR3C) provides time-series measurements of brightness temperatures from three channels centered at 23.834, 30, and 89 GHz. These three channels are sensitive to the presence of liquid water and precipitable water vapor.
Date: May 4, 2012
Creator: Cadeddu, MP
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

The Crowd & the Library

Description: Presentation for the 2012 International Internet Preservation Consortium General Assembly. This is the presentation used during the crowdsourcing workshop, including the logic behind crowdsourcing and prompts for discussion on how to best attract and utilize crowdsourced volunteers.
Date: May 4, 2012
Creator: Owens, Trevor
Item Type: Refine your search to only Presentation
Partner: International Internet Preservation Consortium

[Group of men BSE 2012]

Description: Photograph of a group of men at the 2nd Annual BSE event in 2012, held by UNT Special Collections. The image shows a group of seven African American men posing in two rows on the steps in front of a white gazebo during the daylight. The men wear all black clothing including their shoes. Black Student Experience (BSE), was created to foster pride and promote academic success among the Black student population at UNT. Created in 2011, BSE is a weekend retreat that introduces incoming freshman an… more
Date: May 4, 2012
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Group of women BSE 2012]

Description: Photograph of a group of women at the 2nd Annual BSE event in 2012, held by UNT Special Collections. The image shows a group of sixteen African American women posing in three rows on the steps in front of a white gazebo during the daylight. They all wear white tops and black bottoms. Black Student Experience (BSE), was created to foster pride and promote academic success among the Black student population at UNT. Created in 2011, BSE is a weekend retreat that introduces incoming freshman and tr… more
Date: May 4, 2012
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Big group at BSE 2012]

Description: Photograph of a big group at the 2nd Annual BSE event in 2012, held by UNT Special Collections. The image shows a group of 23 African American men and women posing in three rows on the steps in front of a white gazebo during the daylight. The women (16 of them) are grouped in the middle and all wear white tops and black bottoms. On each side of them are the men, three on the left and 4 on the right. The men wear all black. Black Student Experience (BSE), was created to foster pride and promote … more
Date: May 4, 2012
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Interest Rates on Subsidized Stafford Loans to Undergraduate Students

Description: Beginning July 1, 2012, Subsidized Stafford Loans will be available exclusively to undergraduate students. The federal government "subsidizes" these loans by relieving the borrower of the requirement to pay the interest that accrues while the borrower is in school and during other authorized periods. In the 112th Congress, proposals have been made to reduce the interest rate applicable to Subsidized Stafford Loans that will be made to undergraduate students during AY2012-2013 from 6.8% to 3.4%.… more
Date: May 4, 2012
Creator: Smole, David P.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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In Brief: Clarifying the Concept of "Partnership" in National Security

Description: Over the last few years, the term "partnership" has spread like wildfire through official U.S. national security guidance documents and rhetoric. At the Department of Defense (DOD), which spearheaded the proliferation of the term, "partnership" has been used to refer to a broad array of civilian as well as military activities in support of national security.1 At other U.S. government agencies, and at the White House, the use of the term "partnership" has been echoed and applied even more broadl… more
Date: May 4, 2012
Creator: Dale, Catherine
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Japan-U.S. Relations: Issues for Congress

Description: The post-World War II U.S.-Japan alliance has long been an anchor of the U.S. security role in East Asia. The alliance facilitates the forward deployment of about 36,000 U.S. troops and other U.S. military assets in the Asia-Pacific, thereby undergirding U.S. national security strategy in the region. For Japan, the alliance and the U.S. nuclear umbrella provide maneuvering room in dealing with its neighbors, particularly China and North Korea. Difficult problems remain in the alliance, particul… more
Date: May 4, 2012
Creator: Chanlett-Avery, Emma; Cooper, William H. & Manyin, Mark E.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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An Overview of Major Tax Proposals in the President's FY2012 Budget

Description: This report provides a broad overview of the provisions included in the President's budget request. The budget groups proposed tax provisions into several general categories. According to the Administration's estimates, the tax proposals in the budget would increase revenues $280 billion over the next 10 years
Date: May 4, 2012
Creator: Keightley, Mark P.; Bickley, James M.; Guenther, Gary; Hungerford, Thomas L.; Maguire, Steven; Marples, Donald J. et al.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Budget Control Act of 2011: The Effects on Spending and the Budget Deficit When the Automatic Spending Cuts Are Implemented

Description: This report discusses the two main groups of spending reductions in the Budget Control Act of 2011: (1) discretionary spending caps and (2) an automatic $1.2 trillion spending reduction process that comes into effect on January 02, 2012. It also looks at projected effects of the Act.
Date: May 4, 2012
Creator: Levit, Mindy R. & Labonte, Marc
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Japan-U.S. Relations: Issues for Congress

Description: The post-World War II U.S.-Japan alliance has long been an anchor of the U.S. security role in East Asia. The alliance facilitates the forward deployment of about 36,000 U.S. troops and other U.S. military assets in the Asia-Pacific, thereby undergirding U.S. national security strategy in the region. For Japan, the alliance and the U.S. nuclear umbrella provide maneuvering room in dealing with its neighbors, particularly China and North Korea. This report looks at the relations post-2011 earthq… more
Date: May 4, 2012
Creator: Chanlett-Avery, Emma; Cooper, William H. & Manyin, Mark E.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Five at gazebo BSE 2012]

Description: Photograph of five people in front of a gazebo at the 2nd Annual BSE event in 2012, held by UNT Special Collections. The image shows a group of four African American women and one man posing on the steps in front of a white gazebo during the daylight. The women all wea white tops and black bottoms. In the back stands the one man wearing all black. Black Student Experience (BSE), was created to foster pride and promote academic success among the Black student population at UNT. Created in 2011,… more
Date: May 4, 2012
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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