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National Marine Fisheries Service: Improvements Are Needed in the Federal Process Used to Protect Marine Mammals from Commercial Fishing

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Because marine mammals, such as whales and dolphins, often inhabit waters where commercial fishing occurs, they can become entangled in fishing gear, which may injure or kill them--this is referred to as "incidental take." The 1994 amendments to the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) require the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) to establish take reduction teams for certain marine mammals to dev… more
Date: December 8, 2008
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Medicare Advantage Organizations: Actual Expenses and Profits Compared to Projections for 2006

Description: Correspondence issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The federal government's spending on the Medicare Advantage (MA) program has grown substantially in recent years, from approximately $60 billion in 2006 and $77 billion in 2007 to an estimated $91 billion in 2008. MA organizations provide health care coverage to Medicare beneficiaries through private health plans, thus offering an alternative to the original Medicare fee-for-service (FFS) program. Paymen… more
Date: December 8, 2008
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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validation and Enhancement of Computational Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer Predictive Capabilities for Generation IV Reactor Systems

Description: Nationwide, the demand for electricity due to population and industrial growth is on the rise. However, climate change and air quality issues raise serious questions about the wisdom of addressing these shortages through the construction of additional fossil fueled power plants. In 1997, the President's Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology Energy Research and Development Panel determined that restoring a viable nuclear energy option was essential and that the DOE should implement a R… more
Date: December 8, 2008
Creator: Spall, Robert E.; Smith, Barton & Hauser, Thomas
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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High Brightness Neutron Source for Radiography

Description: This research and development program was designed to improve nondestructive evaluation of large mechanical objects by providing both fast and thermal neutron sources for radiography. Neutron radiography permits inspection inside objects that x-rays cannot penetrate and permits imaging of corrosion and cracks in low-density materials. Discovering of fatigue cracks and corrosion in piping without the necessity of insulation removal is possible. Neutron radiography sources can provide for the non… more
Date: December 8, 2008
Creator: Cremer, J. T.; Piestrup, Melvin A.; Gary, Charles K.; Harris, Jack L.; Williams, David J.; Jones, Glenn E. et al.
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Individual Genetic Susceptibility

Description: Risk estimates derived from epidemiological studies of exposed populations, as well as the maximum permissible doses allowed for occupational exposure and exposure of the public to ionizing radiation are all based on the assumption that the human population is uniform in its radiosensitivity, except for a small number of individuals, such as ATM homozygotes who are easily identified by their clinical symptoms. The hypothesis upon which this proposal is based is that the human population is not … more
Date: December 8, 2008
Creator: Hall, Eric J.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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AN INNOVATIVE APPROACH FOR CONSTRUCTING AN IN-SITU BARRIER FOR STRONTIUM-90 AT THE HANFORD SITE WASHINGTON

Description: Efforts to reduce the flux of Sr-90 to the Columbia River from Hanford Site 100-N Area past-practice liquid waste disposal sites have been underway since the early 1990s. Termination of all liquid discharges to the ground in 1993 was a major step toward meeting this goal. However, Sr-90 adsorbed on aquifer solids beneath liquid waste disposal sites and extending beneath the near-shore riverbed remains a continuing contaminant source to groundwater and the Columbia River. The initial pump-and-tr… more
Date: December 8, 2008
Creator: RJ, FABRE
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Evidence against correlations between nuclear decay rates and Earth-Sun distance

Description: We have reexamined our previously published data to search for evidence of correlations between the rates for the alpha, beta-minus, beta-plus, and electron capture decays of 22Na, 44Ti, 108Agm, 121Snm, 133Ba, and 241Am and the Earth?Sun distance. We find no evidence for such correlations and set limits on the possible amplitudes of such correlations substantially smaller than those observed in previous experiments.
Date: December 8, 2008
Creator: Norman, Eric B.; Browne, Edgardo; Shugart, Howard A.; Joshi, Tenzing H. & Firestone, Richard B.
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Evaluation of Promoters for Rhodium-Based Catalysts for Mixed Alcohol Synthesis

Description: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) are conducting research to investigate the feasibility of producing mixed alcohols from biomass-derived synthesis gas (syngas). PNNL is tasked with obtaining commercially-available catalysts or preparing promising mixed-alcohol catalysts and screening them in a laboratory-scale reactor system. Commercially-available catalysts and the most promising experimental catalysts are provided to NREL for testing… more
Date: December 8, 2008
Creator: Gerber, Mark A.; White, James F.; Gray, Michel J. & Stevens, Don J.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Fuel cycle comparison of distributed power generation technologies.

Description: The fuel-cycle energy use and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated with the application of fuel cells to distributed power generation were evaluated and compared with the combustion technologies of microturbines and internal combustion engines, as well as the various technologies associated with grid-electricity generation in the United States and California. The results were primarily impacted by the net electrical efficiency of the power generation technologies and the type of employed f… more
Date: December 8, 2008
Creator: Elgowainy, A.; Wang, M. Q. & Systems, Energy
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Transfer Function Design for Scientific Discovery

Description: As computation scales beyond terascale, the scientific problems under study through computing are increasingly pushing the boundaries of human knowledge about the physical world. It is more pivotal than ever to quickly and reliably extract new knowledge from these complex simulations of ultra scale. In this project, the PI expanded the traditional notion of transfer function, which maps physical quantities to visual cues via table look-ups, to include general temporal as well as multivariate pa… more
Date: December 8, 2008
Creator: Huang, Jian
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Counting Electoral Votes: An Overview of Procedures at the Joint Session, Including Objections by Members of Congress

Description: This report describes the steps which precede the joint session and the procedures set in the Constitution and statute by which the House and Senate jointly certify the results of the electoral vote. It also discusses the procedures set in law governing challenges to the validity of an electoral vote, and makes reference to the procedures followed during the joint session in 2005 by which the election of George W. Bush was certified.
Date: December 8, 2008
Creator: Maskell, Jack & Rybicki, Elizabeth
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The United Arab Emirates (UAE): Issues for U.S. Policy

Description: This report examines the political and economic landscape of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The UAE’s open economy and society have won praise, but lax export controls, particularly in the emirate of Dubai, are causing U.S. concern over proliferation of advanced technology; terrorist transiting; and human trafficking. The UAE undertook its first major electoral process in December 2006, although with a small, hand-picked electorate and for a body with limited powers.
Date: December 8, 2008
Creator: Katzman, Kenneth
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Scaling of radial propagating structures in the scrape-off layer of the National Spherical Torus Experiment (NSTX)

Description: The radial propagation of spatiotemporal turbulent structures in the scrape-off layer of the National Spherical Torus Experiment [M. Ono, M.G. Bell, R.E. Bell, et al. Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 45, A335 (2003)] is investigated. Two-dimensional spatiotemporal imaging of the Dα emission intensity is used to observe the fluctuation structures in the poloidal plane perpendicular to the ambient magnetic field. Turbulent structures are extracted and the individual properties such as velocity, spati… more
Date: December 8, 2008
Creator: Windisch, T., Grulke, O., Zweben, S.J., and Maqueda, J.R.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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A theoretical study of the ground state and lowest excited states of PuO0/+/+2 and PuO20/+/+2

Description: The ground and excited states of neutral and cationic PuO and PuO2 have been studied with multiconfigurational quantum chemical methods followed by second order perturbation theory, the CASSCF/CASPT2 method. Scalar relativistic effects and spin-orbit coupling have been included in the treatment. As literature values for the ionization energy of PuO2 are in the wide range of ~;;6.6 eV to ~;;10.1 eV, a central goal of the computations was to resolve these discrepancies; the theoretical results in… more
Date: December 8, 2008
Creator: Gibson, John K.; La Macchia, Giovanni; Infante, Ivan; Gagliardi, Laura & Raab, Juraj
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The integrated Status and Effectiveness Monitoring Program : U.S. Forest Service Fish Abundance and Steelhead Redd Surveys Annual Report : January 1 - December 31, 2008.

Description: This contract report is one of a series of reports that document implementation components of the Bonneville Power Administration's (BPA) funded project: Integrated Status and Effectiveness Monitoring Program (ISEMP - BPA project No.2003-017-00, Chris Jordan, NOAA-NWFSC project sponsor). Other components of the project are separately reported, as explained below. The ISEMP project has been created as a cost effective means of developing protocols and new technologies, novel indicators, sample d… more
Date: December 8, 2008
Creator: Call, Justin
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Gas-Phase Reactions of Doubly Charged Lanthanide Cations with Alkanes and Alkenes. Trends in Metal(2+) Reactivity

Description: The gas-phase reactivity of doubly-charged lanthanide cations, Ln2+ (Ln = La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb, Lu), with alkanes (methane, ethane, propane, n-butane) and alkenes (ethene, propene, 1-butene) was studied by Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry. The reaction products consisted of different combinations of doubly-charged organometallic ions?adducts or species formed via metal-ion-induced hydrogen, dihydrogen, alkyl, or alkane eliminations from t… more
Date: December 8, 2008
Creator: Gibson, John K.; Marcalo, Joaquim; Santos, Marta; Pires de Matos, Antonio & Haire, Richard G.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Gas-Phase Oxidation of Cm+ and Cm2+ -- Thermodynamics of neutral and ionized CmO

Description: Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry was employed to study the products and kinetics of gas-phase reactions of Cm+ and Cm2+; parallel studies were carried out with La+/2+, Gd+/2+ and Lu+/2+. Reactions with oxygen-donor molecules provided estimates for the bond dissociation energies, D[M+-O](M = Cm, Gd, Lu). The first ionization energy, IE[CmO], was obtained from the reactivity of CmO+ with dienes, and the second ionization energies, IE[MO+](M = Cm, La, Gd, Lu), from the r… more
Date: December 8, 2008
Creator: Gibson, John K; Haire, Richard G.; Santos, Marta; Pires de Matos, Antonio & Marcalo, Joaquim
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Scale-up and Technology Transfer of Protein-based Plastic Products

Description: Over the last number of years researchers at ISU have been developing protein based plastics from soybeans, funded by Soy Works Corporation. These materials have been characterized and the processing of these materials into prototype products has been demonstrated. A wide range of net-shape forming processes, including but not limited to extrusion, injection molding and compression molding have been studied. Issues, including technology transfer, re-formulation and product consistency, have bee… more
Date: December 8, 2008
Creator: Grewell, David
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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