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Hurricanes Katrina and Rita: Coordination between FEMA and the Red Cross Should Be Improved for the 2006 Hurricane Season

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The Red Cross played a key role in providing relief to victims of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, mounting its largest ever disaster response. Under the National Response Plan, and its emergency support function-6 (ESF-6), the Red Cross and FEMA are tasked with working together to coordinate federal mass care assistance in support of voluntary organizations, as well as state and local governments, as they … more
Date: June 8, 2006
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Privacy: Preventing and Responding to Improper Disclosures of Personal Information

Description: Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The recent security breach at the Department of Veterans Affairs, in which personal data on millions of veterans were compromised, has highlighted the importance of the federal government's processes for protecting personal information. As the federal government obtains and processes information about individuals in increasingly diverse ways, it remains critically important that it properly protect this infor… more
Date: June 8, 2006
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Scaling Properties of Hyperon Production in Au + Au Collisions at sqrt sNN = 200 GeV

Description: We present the scaling properties of Lambda, Xi, and their anti-particles produced at mid-rapidity in Au+Au collisions at RHIC at psNN = 200 GeV. The yield of multi-strange baryons per participant nucleon increases from peripheral to central collisions more rapidly than the Lambda yield, which appears to correspond to an increasing strange quark density of matter produced. The value of the strange phase space occupancy factor gamma s, obtained from a thermal model fit to the data, approaches un… more
Date: June 8, 2006
Creator: Adams, J.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Abortion: Legislative Response

Description: The primary focus of this issue brief is legislative action with respect to abortion. However, discussion of those legislative proposals necessarily involves a brief discussion of the leading U.S. Supreme Court decisions concerning a woman’s right to choose whether to terminate her pregnancy. For a more detailed discussion of the relevant case law, see CRS Report 95-724, Abortion Law Development: A Brief Overview.
Date: June 8, 2006
Creator: Lewis, Karen J. & Jon, Shimbukuro O.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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A Monte Carlo Model for Interrogation of Thick Cargos for Clandestine Fissionable Materials; Tests with 14-MeV Neutrons

Description: A Monte Carlo model has been developed for interrogation of fissionable material embedded in thick cargos when high-energy {beta}-delayed {gamma} rays are detected following neutron-induced fission. The model includes the principal structural components of the laboratory, the neutron source and collimator assembly in which it resides, the assembly that represents cargo of given characteristics, a target of highly-enriched uranium (HEU) and large external plastic scintillators for photon detecti… more
Date: June 8, 2006
Creator: Prussin, S.; Descalle, M.; Hall, J.; Pruet, J.; Slaughter, D.; Accatino, M. et al.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Fundamentals of reservoir surface energy as related to surface properties, wettability, capillary action, and oil recovery from fractured reservoirs by spontaneous imbibition

Description: The objective of this project is to increase oil recovery from fractured reservoirs through improved fundamental understanding of the process of spontaneous imbibition by which oil is displaced from the rock matrix into the fractures. Spontaneous imbibition is fundamentally dependent on the reservoir surface free energy but this has never been investigated for rocks. In this project, the surface free energy of rocks will be determined by using liquids that can be solidified within the rock pore… more
Date: June 8, 2006
Creator: Morrow, Norman R.; Fischer, Herbert; Li, Yu; Mason, Geoffrey; Ruth, Douglas; Seth, Siddhartha et al.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Integrating Ontological Knowledge and Textual Evidence in Estimating Gene and Gene Product Similarity

Description: With the rising influence of the Gene On-tology, new approaches have emerged where the similarity between genes or gene products is obtained by comparing Gene Ontology code annotations associ-ated with them. So far, these approaches have solely relied on the knowledge en-coded in the Gene Ontology and the gene annotations associated with the Gene On-tology database. The goal of this paper is to demonstrate that improvements to these approaches can be obtained by integrating textual evidence ext… more
Date: June 8, 2006
Creator: Sanfilippo, Antonio P.; Posse, Christian; Gopalan, Banu; Tratz, Stephen C. & Gregory, Michelle L.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Energy Amplification and Beam Bunching in a Pulse Line Ion Accelerator

Description: In a first beam dynamics validation experiment for a new Pulse Line Ion Acceleration (PLIA) concept, the predicted energy amplification and beam bunching were experimentally observed. Beam energy modulation of -80 keV to +150 keV was measured using a PLIA input voltage waveform of -21 kV to +12 kV. Ion pulses accelerated by 150 keV, and bunching by a factor of four were simultaneously achieved. The measured longitudinal phase space and current waveform of the accelerated beam are in good agreem… more
Date: June 8, 2006
Creator: Roy, P. K.; Waldron, W. L.; Yu, S. S.; Coleman, J. E.; Henestroza, E.; Grote, D. P. et al.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Intrabeam Scattering in the NLC Main Damping Rings

Description: We use Bane's approximation to the Bjorken-Mtingwa theory of intrabeam scattering to calculate the emittance growth as a function of bunch charge in the KEK ATF. We find that our results are consistent with the experimental data. We then calculate the emittance growth in the NLC Main Damping Rings using the same formulae; we allow for some uncertainty in the ATF data by using two different values for the Coulomb log factor in the formulae for the emittance growth rates. We find that despite the… more
Date: June 8, 2006
Creator: Wolski, Andrzej
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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GASEOUS HYDROGEN EFFECTS ON THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF CARBON AND LOW ALLOY STEELS (U)

Description: This report is a compendium of sets of mechanical properties of carbon and low alloy steels following the short-term effects of hydrogen exposure. The property sets include the following: Yield Strength; Ultimate Tensile Strength; Uniform Elongation; Reduction of Area; Threshold Cracking, K{sub H} or K{sub th}; Fracture Toughness (K{sub IC}, J{sub IC}, and/or J-R Curve); and Fatigue Crack Growth (da/dN). These properties are drawn from literature sources under a variety of test methods and cond… more
Date: June 8, 2006
Creator: Lam, P
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Investigations of (Delta)14C, (delta)13C, and (delta)15N in vertebrae of white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) from the eastern North Pacific Ocean

Description: The white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) has a complex life history that is characterized by large scale movements and a highly variable diet. Estimates of age and growth for the white shark from the eastern North Pacific Ocean indicate they have a slow growth rate and a relatively high longevity. Age, growth, and longevity estimates useful for stock assessment and fishery models, however, require some form of validation. By counting vertebral growth band pairs, ages can be estimated, but becau… more
Date: June 8, 2006
Creator: Kerr, L A; Andrews, A H; Cailliet, G M; Brown, T A & Coale, K H
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Coupled Multi-Electrode Investigation of Crevice Corrosion of 316 Stainless Steel and NiCrMo Alloy 625

Description: Crevice corrosion is currently mostly studied using either one of two techniques depending on the information desired. The first method involves two multicrevice formers or washers fastened on both sides of a sample plate. This technique provides exposure information regarding the severity of crevice corrosion (depth, position, frequency of attack) but delivers little or no electrochemical information. The second method involves the potentiodynamic or potentiostatic study of an uncreviced sampl… more
Date: June 8, 2006
Creator: Bocher, F.; Presuel-Moreno, F.J. & Scully, J.R.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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[Western Name Exchange Program at UNT]

Description: A document announcing student's ability to participate in the Western Name Exchange program with grad schools. It is a way for under-represented students to access graduate admissions and financial aid information online.
Date: June 8, 2006
Creator: University of North Texas. Multicultural Center.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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The reaction of OH with acetaldehyde and deuterated acetaldehyde: Further insight into the reaction mechanism at both low and elevated temperatures

Description: Article on the reaction of OH with acetaldehyde and deuterated acetaldehyde and further insight into the reaction mechanism at both low and elevated temperatures.
Date: June 8, 2006
Creator: Taylor, Philip H.; Yamada, Takahiro & Marshall, Paul
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Partner: UNT College of Arts and Sciences
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China-U.S. Relations: Current Issues and Implications for U.S. Policy

Description: Throughout much of the George W. Bush Administration, U.S.-China relations have remained unusually smooth and stable. But U.S. policy toward China now appears to be subject to competing reassessments. State Department officials late in 2005 unveiled what they described as a new policy framework for the relationship -- one in which the United States was willing to work cooperatively with a non-democratic China while encouraging Beijing to become a "responsible stakeholder" in the global system. … more
Date: June 8, 2006
Creator: Dumbaugh, Kerry
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Immigration Related Border Security Legislation in the 109th Congress

Description: Border security is considered a central aspect of the United States' overall homeland security. Securing the border involves controlling the official ports of entry (POE) through which legitimate travelers and commerce enter the country, as well as monitoring and patrolling the nation's land and maritime borders to detect and interdict the entry of illegal persons and contraband. In the 109th Congress, there are a large number of bills currently pending that would address some of the immigratio… more
Date: June 8, 2006
Creator: Nuñez-Neto, Blas & Beaver, Janice Cheryl
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Taiwan: Recent Developments and U.S. Policy Choices

Description: Under the Bush Administration, U.S.-China-Taiwan relations have undergone a number of changes. Initially, the new Administration seemed to abandon the long-standing U.S. policy of "strategic ambiguity" on Taiwan in favor of "strategic clarity" that placed more emphasis on Taiwan's interests and less on PRC concerns. President Bush's first term has been a time of increasing complexity and unpredictability in Taiwan's political environment. Political trends in Taiwan have raised anxieties about i… more
Date: June 8, 2006
Creator: Dumbaugh, Kerry
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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