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Medicare Physician Payments: Information on Spending Trends and Targets

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) system, implemented in 1998 and subsequently revised, is used to update Medicare's physician fees and moderate the growth in Medicare spending for physician services. SGR, and a predecessor system implemented in 1992, were designed to reduce physician fee updates if spending growth exceeded a specified target. Although spending growth slowed substantially under both systems, concern… more
Date: May 5, 2004
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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A proposal for a UPC memory consistency model, v1.0

Description: The memory consistency model in a language defines the order in which the results of write operations maybe observed through read operations. The behavior of a UPC program may depend on the timing of accesses to shared variables, so a program defines a set of possible executions, rather than a single execution. The memory consistency model constrains the set of possible executions for a given program; the user may then rely on properties that are true of all of those executions. The memory cons… more
Date: May 5, 2004
Creator: Yelick, Katherine; Bonachea, Dan & Wallace, Charles
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Chloroethyinitrosourea-derived ethano cytosine and adenine adducts are substrates for escherichia coli glycosylases excising analogous etheno adducts

Description: Exocyclic ethano DNA adducts are saturated etheno ring derivatives formed mainly by therapeutic chloroethylnitrosoureas (CNUs), which are also mutagenic and carcinogenic. In this work, we report that two of the ethano adducts, 3,N{sup 4}-ethanocytosine (EC) and 1,N{sup 6}-ethanoadenine (EA), are novel substrates for the Escherichia coli mismatch-specific uracil-DNA glycosylase (Mug) and 3-methyladenine DNA glycosylase II (AlkA), respectively. It has been shown previously that Mug excises 3,N{su… more
Date: May 5, 2004
Creator: Guliaev, Anton B.; Singer, B. & Hang, Bo
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Overseas Basing Commission

Description: The Commission on Review of Overseas Military Facility Structure of the United States is charged with implementing Public Law 108-132 Sec. 128 by conducting a thorough study of matters relating to the overseas military facility structure of the United States. See also the Commission's Amended Charter and the Original Charter.
Date: May 5, 2004
Creator: Commission on Review of Overseas Military Facility Structure of the United States
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IMPROVEMENT OF WEAR COMPONENT'S PERFORMANCE BY UTILIZING ADVANCED MATERIALS AND NEW MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGIES: CASTCON PROCESS FOR MINING APPLICATIONS

Description: In this reporting period, we continued full disc prototype manufacturing. The vacuum offgas system no longer leaks and was modified to include a vapor condenser and a by-pass for argon purge. Two sand molds were made with an oxidation prevention agent and steel mandrels inserted in the center holes to reduce shrinkage restriction. A copper coating was applied between H13 and WC inserts. The two sand molds are ready to be HIPped and examined next quarter.
Date: May 5, 2004
Creator: Huang, Xiaodi & Gertsch, Richad
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Shadowing effects on the nuclear suppression factor, R sub dAu, in d +Au interactions

Description: We explore how nuclear modifications to the nucleon parton distributions affect production of high transverse momentum hadrons in deuteron-nucleus collisions. We calculate the charged hadron spectra to leading order using standard fragmentation functions and shadowing parameterizations. We obtain the d+Au to pp ratio both in minimum bias collisions and as a function of centrality. The minimum bias results agree reasonably well with the BRAHMS data while the calculated centrality dependence unde… more
Date: May 5, 2004
Creator: Vogt, R.
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Sensitivity Analysis of Coupled Groundwater Processes within a Land Surface Model

Description: Management of surface water quality is often complicated by interactions between surface water and groundwater. Traditional Land-Surface Models (LSM) used for numerical weather prediction, climate projection, and as inputs to water management decision support systems, do not treat the lower boundary in a fully process-based fashion. LSMs have evolved from a leaky bucket to more sophisticated land surface water and energy budgets that typically have a so-called basement term to depict the bottom… more
Date: May 5, 2004
Creator: Maxwell, R M; Miller, N L & Kollet, S J
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Thermal Decomposition Kinetics of HMX

Description: Nucleation-growth kinetic expressions are derived for thermal decomposition of HMX from a variety of types of data, including mass loss for isothermal and constant rate heating in an open pan, and heat flow for isothermal and constant rate heating in open and closed pans. Conditions are identified in which thermal runaway is small to nonexistent, which typically means temperatures less than 255 C and heating rates less than 1 C/min. Activation energies are typically in the 140 to 150 kJ/mol reg… more
Date: May 5, 2004
Creator: Burnham, A K & Weese, R K
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COAMPS Application to Dispersion Scavenging Problem: Heavy Precipitation Simulation

Description: Precipitation scavenging can effectively remove particulates from the atmosphere. Therefore, this process is of importance in the real-time modeling of atmospheric transport for hazardous materials. To account for the rainfall effect in LLNL operational dispersion model, a modified version of a standard below-cloud aerosol scavenging model has been developed to handle the emergency response in this scenario (Loosmore and Cerdewall, 2003, hereafter referred to as LC). Two types of rain data can … more
Date: May 5, 2004
Creator: Chin, H. & Cederwall, R.
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Two Models of Magnetic Support for Photoevaporated Molecular Clouds

Description: The thermal pressure inside molecular clouds is insufficient for maintaining the pressure balance at an ablation front at the cloud surface illuminated by nearby UV stars. Most probably, the required stiffness is provided by the magnetic pressure. After surveying existing models of this type, we concentrate on two of them: the model of a quasi-homogeneous magnetic field and the recently proposed model of a ''magnetostatic turbulence''. We discuss observational consequences of the two models, in… more
Date: May 5, 2004
Creator: Ryutov, D. D.; Kane, J. O.; Mizuta, A.; Pound, M. W. & Remington, B. A.
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Broken SU(3) antidecuplet for {Theta}{sup +} and {Xi}{sub 3/2}

Description: If the narrow exotic baryon resonances {Theta}{sup +}(1540) and {Xi}{sub 3/2} are members of the J{sup P} = 1/2{sup +} antidecuplet with N*(1710), the octet-antidecuplet mixing is required not only by the mass spectrum but also by the decay pattern of N*(1710). This casts doubt on validity of the {Theta}{sup +} mass prediction by the chiral soliton model. While all pieces of the existing experimental information point to a small octet-decuplet mixing, the magnitude of mixing required by the mas… more
Date: May 5, 2004
Creator: Pakvasa, Sandip & Suzuki, Mahiko
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Cathodes for Low Temperature Sofc: Issues Concerning Interference From Inert Gas Adsorption and Charge Transfer

Description: This report summarizes the work done on the project over the duration of the project, from October 1, 2002 through December 31, 2003, which includes a three month no-cost extension. Effort was directed in the following areas: (1) Fabrication of Sr-doped LaCoO3 (LSC) dense and porous samples. (2) Design and construction of a conductivity relaxation apparatus for the estimation of surface exchange coefficient, k{sub chem}, which depends on adsorption, and oxygen chemical diffusion coefficient, {t… more
Date: May 5, 2004
Creator: Virkar, Anil V.
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Factors Controlling In Situ Uranium and Technetium Bio-Reduction and Reoxidation at the NABIR Field Research Center

Description: Summary of Recent Field Testing: Extensive in situ (in ground) field testing using the push-pull method has demonstrated that indigenous microorganisms in the shallow (< 8 m) aquifer in FRC Areas 1 and 2 are capable of coupling the oxidation/fermentation of injected ethanol, glucose, or acetate to the reduction of U(VI) and Tc(VII). Despite highly variable initial (prior to testing) contaminant concentrations (pH: 3.3-7.2; Nitrate: 0.1-140 mM; U(VI): 1-12 uM; Tc(VII): 200-15000 pM), sequenti… more
Date: May 5, 2004
Creator: Istok, Jonathan; Krumholz, L; McKinley, J. & Gu, B.
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Women in Iraq: Background and Issues for U.S. Policy

Description: The issue of women’s rights in Iraq has taken on new relevance, following the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, efforts to reconstruct Iraq, and recent elections for a Transitional National Assembly (TNA). Over the past three years, the Bush Administration has reiterated its interest in ensuring that Iraqi women participate in politics and ongoing reconstruction efforts in Iraq. There has also been a widening debate regarding the extent to which the U.S.-led reconstruction efforts have been ab… more
Date: May 5, 2004
Creator: Armanios, Febe
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