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Internet Cigarette Sales: Giving ATF Investigative Authority May Improve Reporting and Enforcement

Description: Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "State and federal officials are concerned that as Internet cigarette sales continue to grow and as states' cigarette taxes increase, so will the amount of lost state tax revenue due to noncompliance with the Jenkins Act. The act requires any person who sells and ships cigarettes across a state line to a buyer, other than a licensed distributor, to report the sale to the buyer's state tobacco tax administrator. … more
Date: August 9, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Commercial Activities Panel: Use of Numerical Goals

Description: Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "GAO reviewed two competitive sourcing initiatives to determine whether they are consistent with the sourcing principles recommended by the Commercial Activities Panel. GAO found that, based on their current design, the administration's "performance target" and the fiscal year 2003 Treasury and General Government Appropriations bill, are not fully consistent with the sourcing principles adopted by the Panel. The… more
Date: August 9, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Financial Management: Coordinated Approach Needed to Address the Government's Improper Payments Problems

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "This report discusses (1) the amount of improper payments reported in agencies' fiscal year 2000 financial statements, (2) the extent to which agencies' fiscal year 2002 performance plans address improper payments, (3) the extent to which the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has implemented previous GAO recommendations in this area, and (4) other actions that might encourage agencies to better report impr… more
Date: August 9, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Human Capital Flexibilities

Description: Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "GAO discussed human capital flexibilities as they relate to the specific authorities granted to GAO through legislation enacted in 1980 and 2000. The GAO Personnel Act of 1980 implemented a broad banded pay-for-performance system for GAO analysts and specialists and certain special Comptroller General appointment authorities that were granted by Congress. The October 2000 Personnel Flexibilities Act gave GAO ad… more
Date: August 9, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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HIPAA Standards: Dual Code Sets Are Acceptable for Reporting Medical Procedures

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Consistently classifying, defining, and distinguishing among the range of medical services provided today--from diagnoses to treatments--is critical for reimbursing providers and analyzing health care utilization, outcomes, and cost. Codes serve this role by assigning each distinct service a unique identifier. Health care providers, such as hospitals and physicians, report medical conditions and the health-rel… more
Date: August 9, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Customs Service Modernization: Third Expenditure Plan Meets Legislative Conditions, but Cost Estimating Improvements Needed

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The U.S. Customs Service has begun a multiyear, multibillion-dollar project: the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE), a new import processing system that is planned to support effective and efficient movement of goods into the United States. By congressional mandate, Customs' expenditure plans for ACE must meet certain conditions, including being reviewed by GAO. This report addresses whether Customs' lates… more
Date: August 9, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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SSA and VA Disability Programs: Re-Examination of Disability Criteria Needed to Help Ensure Program Integrity

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The three largest disability programs collectively provided $89.7 billion in cash benefits to 10.2 million adults in 2001. However, the Disability Insurance (DI) program, Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program, and VA disability criteria reflect neither medical and technological advances nor the labor market changes that affect the skills needed to perform work and work settings. If these federal disabilit… more
Date: August 9, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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High-Resolution Broadband Spectral Interferometry

Description: We demonstrate solar spectra from a novel interferometric method for compact broadband high-resolution spectroscopy. The spectral interferometer (SI) is a hybrid instrument that uses a spectrometer to externally disperse the output of a fixed-delay interferometer. It also has been called an externally dispersed interferometer (EDI). The interferometer can be used with linear spectrometers for imaging spectroscopy or with echelle spectrometers for very broad-band coverage. EDI's heterodyning tec… more
Date: August 9, 2002
Creator: Erskine, D J & Edelstein, J
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Development of Nanolaminate Thin Shell Mirrors

Description: The space science community has identified a need for ultra-light weight, large aperture optical systems that are capable of producing high-resolution images of low contrast. Current mirror technologies are limited due either to not being scalable to larger sizes at reasonable masses, or to lack of surface finish, dimensional stability in a space environment or long fabrication times. This paper will discuss the development of thin-shell, nano-laminate mirror substrates that are capable of bein… more
Date: August 9, 2002
Creator: Hickey, G S; Lih, S S & Barbee, T
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Water & Aqueous Solutions. Final Progress Report

Description: The Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Water & Aqueous Solutions was held at Holderness School, New Hampshire, 8/4/02 thru 8/9/02. Emphasis was placed on current unpublished research and discussion of the future target areas in this field.
Date: August 9, 2002
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Scientific Analysis Cover Sheet for Radionuclide Screening

Description: The waste forms under consideration for disposal in the proposed repository at Yucca Mountain contain scores of radionuclides (Attachments V and VI). It would be impractical and highly inefficient to model all of these radionuclides in a total system performance assessment (TSPA). Thus, the purpose of this radionuclide screening analysis is to remove from further consideration (screen out) radionuclides that are unlikely to significantly contribute to radiation dose to the public from the propo… more
Date: August 9, 2002
Creator: Ragan, G.
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Influence of Radiation and Multivalent Cation Additions on Phase Separation and Crystallization of Glass

Description: This report presents results of: (1) measurement of valence state ratios of iron in glass, and (2) a study of the effect of iron redox ratio on phase separation behavior in a glass. The redox ratio of iron in two sodium silicate (NS) glasses has been determined using a colorimetric method, Moessbauer analysis, and optical absorption. The experimental procedures were described in a previous report. We found that these three methods gave excellent agreement for the values of the Fe++/Fe+++ (redox… more
Date: August 9, 2002
Creator: Weinberg, Michael C.; Uhlmann, Donald R. & Smith, Gary L.
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COMBUSTION TURBINE (CT) HOT SECTION COATING LIFE MANAGEMENT

Description: The integrity of coatings used in hot section components of combustion turbine is crucial to the reliability of the buckets. This project was initiated in recognition of the need for predicting the life of coatings analytically, and non destructively; correspondingly, three principal tasks were established. Task 1, with the objective of analytically developing stress, strain and temperature distributions in the bucket and thereby predicting thermal fatigue (TMF) damage for various operating con… more
Date: August 9, 2002
Creator: Viswanathan, R.; Krzywosz, K.; Cheruvu, S. & Wan, E.
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Process System Hydraulics

Description: An analysis of hydraulic characteristics of the reactor plenum and the geometry of the permanent tube slots indicates the effect of the plenum pressure gradient on flow is substantially less than has been used previously to determine process water flows from cumulative fuel assembly resistances. This report details results of that study.
Date: August 9, 2002
Creator: Bland, C.A.
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New Crystalline Materials for Nonlinear Frequency Conversion, Electro-Optic Modulation, and Mid-Infrared Gain Media

Description: New crystalline materials were investigated for applications in frequency conversion of near-infrared wavelengths and as gain media for tunable mid-infrared solid-state lasers. GaCa{sub 4}O(BO{sub 3}){sub 3} (GdCOB), YCa{sub 4}O(BO{sub 3}){sub 3} (YCOB), LaCa{sub 4}O(BO{sub 3}){sub 3} (LaCOB), and Gd{sub 0.275}Y{sub 0.725}Ca{sub 4}O(BO{sub 3}){sub 3} were characterized for frequency conversion of 1 {micro}m lasers. For type I doubling at 1064 nm, LaCOB, GdCOB, and YCOB were found to have effect… more
Date: August 9, 2002
Creator: Adams, J.
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Spectral Astrometry Mission for Planets Detection

Description: The Spectral Astrometry Mission is a space-mission concept that uses simultaneous, multiple-star differential astrometry to measure exo-solar planet masses. The goal of SAM is to measure the reflex motions of hundreds of nearby ({approx}50 pc) F, G and K stars, relative to adjacent stars, with a resolution of 2.5 {micro}-arcsec. SAM is a new application of Spectral Interferometry (SI), also called Externally Dispersed Interferometry (EDI), that can simultaneously measure the angular difference … more
Date: August 9, 2002
Creator: Erskine, D J & Edelstein, J
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Laboratory Studies of the X-Ray Emission Produced by the Interaction of Solar Wind Heavy Ions with Comets

Description: The process of X-ray emission following charge exchange between solar wind heavy ions and cometary gases is studied in the laboratory. The emission is recorded with the spare ASTRO-E 6 x 6 microcalorimeter array. The microcalorimeter affords a resolution of better than 10 eV in the range of X-ray energies of interest and thus individual emission lines can be resolved. Our present measurements focus on the most abundant K-shell heavy ions found in the solar wind. In particular, we measure the K-… more
Date: August 9, 2002
Creator: Beriersdorfer, P.; Chen, H.; May, M. J.; Thorn, D.; Boyce, K. R.; Brown, G. V. et al.
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Longitudinal Coherence Measurements of the Transient Collisional X-Ray Laser

Description: The first longitudinal coherence measurement of the transient inversion collisional x-ray laser is presented. The scheme under study is the picosecond output of the Ni-like Pd x-ray laser at 14.68 nm generated by the C0MET laser facility at LLNL. Interference fringes were generated using a Michelson interferometer setup in which a thin multilayer membrane was used as a beam splitter. Longitudinal coherence measurements were made for this transition by changing the length of one interferometer a… more
Date: August 9, 2002
Creator: Smith, R F; Hubert, S; Fajardo, M; Zeitoun, P; Dunn, J; Hunter, J R et al.
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Mark XII, V-TO Physics Parameters

Description: Uranium-233 has previously been produced in a 4:2 mixed lattice of Mark VX-C two tube drivers and 82 lb. Mark V-TO ThO2 targets. A subsequent campaign is planned that will use a 3:3 lattice of Mark XII-A three tube drivers with similar ThO2 target assemblies. This report documents a parametric study of this second campaign, presenting the production rates and reactivities of various combinations of driver and target design. The purpose of this study was to provide background material for design… more
Date: August 9, 2002
Creator: Patrick, L.W.
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Armenia-Azerbaijan Conflict

Description: This report presents an overview of the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict. This is a clash between the principles of territorial integrity and self-determination that is occurring in the Caucasus, creating the longest inter-ethnic dispute in the former Soviet Union. The report includes the background and analysis of history, warfare and peace process in the region. The report discusses the Armenian and Azerbaijani perspective, the role and views of others (Iran, Turkey, Russia), as well as the U.S. p… more
Date: August 9, 2002
Creator: Migdalovitz, Carol
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