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Information Technology: OMB and Department of Homeland Security Investment Reviews

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "In July 2002, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued two memorandums directing agencies expected to be part of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to temporarily cease funding for new information technology (IT) infrastructure and business systems investments and submit information to OMB on current or planned investments in these areas. GAO was asked to (1) explain OMB's implementation of thes… more
Date: February 10, 2004
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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HHS Bioterrorism Preparedness Programs: States Reported Progress but Fell Short of Program Goals for 2002

Description: Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The anthrax incidents during the fall of 2001 raised concerns about the nation's ability to respond to bioterrorist events and other public health threats. The incidents strained the public health system, including surveillance and laboratory workforce capacities, at the state and local levels. Several months after the incidents, the Congress appropriated funds to strengthen state and local bioterrorism prepare… more
Date: February 10, 2004
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Government-Sponsored Enterprises: A Framework for Strengthening GSE Governance and Oversight

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Congress established government sponsored enterprises (GSE)-- such as Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, the FHLBank System, and the Farm Credit System--to facilitate the development of mortgage and agricultural lending in the United States. Although the federal government does not explicitly guarantee the GSEs' approximately $4.4 trillion in financial obligations, the potential exists that the government would provide financ… more
Date: February 10, 2004
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Double-shell target design for the NIF: Noncryogenic ignition and nonlinear mix studies for Stockpile Stewardship

Description: Double-shell ignition is complementary to the baseline approach by virtue of not requiring: (1) cryogenic preparation and fielding, (2) high-contrast pulse-shaping for shock-timing, and (3) demanding x-ray flux symmetry control. The use of simpler low-contrast pulse-shaping potentially allows more benign hohlraum conditions by reducing the risk of laser backscatter. In addition, the associated higher laser fluence threshold for optics damage initiation allows the possibility of more routine hig… more
Date: February 10, 2004
Creator: Amendt, P
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Homeland Security - Reducing the Vulnerability of Public and Private Information Infrastructures to Terrorism: An Overview

Description: This report assesses the impact of the September 11, 2001 attacks on public and private information infrastructures in the context of critical infrastructure protection, continuity of operations (COOP) planning, and homeland security.
Date: February 10, 2004
Creator: Seifert, Jeffrey W.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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TPV Network Sensitivity: A Simulation Study

Description: A viable thermophotovoltaic power conversion system requires an electrically connected network of diodes that is designed to be fault tolerant for a prescribed power rating and generator life. This paper describes simulation studies investigating the sensitivity of various series/parallel network configurations to diode variability. The results show the effect of diode mismatch and reverse breakdown behavior on network performance.
Date: February 10, 2004
Creator: Vell, J. L.; Oppenlander, J. E.; Gaes, W. S.; Siganporia, D. M. & Danielson, L. R.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Developing an energy efficiency service industry in Shanghai

Description: The rapid development of the Chinese economy over the past two decades has led to significant growth in China's energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Between 1980 and 2000, China's energy consumption more than doubled from 602 million to 1.3 billion tons of coal-equivalent (NBS, 2003). In 2000, China's GHG emissions were about 12% of the global total, ranked second behind only the US. According to the latest national development plan issued by the Chinese government, China's en… more
Date: February 10, 2004
Creator: Lin, Jiang; Goldman, Charles; Levine, Mark & Hopper, Nicole
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Heterogeneity of Sedimentary Aquifers: effect on microbial dynamics at successive spatial scales as revealed by geophysical imaging: Final report to the Department of Energy on Award DE-FG02-9ER62478

Description: This report describes the geological component of the interdisciplinary study of the experimental aquifer at Oyster, Virginia, by the NABIR program, Department of Energy (Natural and Accelerated Bioremediation Research), between 1997 and 2003, as conducted by the Sediment dynamics group of Old Dominion University. The Geological component of the Oyster study was designed to (1) predict patterns of physical heterogeneity in sedimentary aquifers that control groundwater flow by application of geo… more
Date: February 10, 2004
Creator: Swift, Donald J. P.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Comparison of Performance of Underground Vaults and Trenches for Disposal of Radioactive Waste

Description: This report compares the predicted behavior of several radionuclides disposed in grouted trenches or vaults that exhibited higher aquifer concentrations than if they were disposed in shallow trenches. The general modeling approach is first presented for the vaults and the shallow trenches, then the details for the radionuclides are presented along with explanations or suggestions for the behavior.
Date: February 10, 2004
Creator: Collard, LB
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Adaptations of the Purge Water Management System for Long-Term Groundwater Monitoring at Savannah River Site, South Carolina (final)

Description: To monitor the groundwater contamination and the effectiveness of remedial actions, over a thousand monitoring wells are in active operation (i.e., require quarterly or semi-annual sampling) at SRS. Most wells are expected to continue in operation for another 20 to 40 more years. Required sample volumes can range from a less than a liter to 10 liters. To support the long-term groundwater monitoring requirements of these wells, SRS actively seeks technologies that can maximize data acquisition a… more
Date: February 10, 2004
Creator: Schiefer, E
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Proposed Holistic Strategy for the Closure of F-Area, A Large Nuclear Industrial Complex at the Savannah River Site, South Carolina

Description: F-Area is a large nuclear complex located near the center of the Department of Energy's (DOEs) Savannah River Site in South Carolina. The present closure strategy for F-Area is based on established SRS protocol for a site-specific, graded approach to deactivation and decommissioning. Uncontaminated facilities will be closed under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). Facilities requiring removal or in-situ disposition of residual chemical and/or radiological inventories will be decommis… more
Date: February 10, 2004
Creator: SHEDROW, CB
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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U.S. Public Diplomacy: State Department and the Broadcasting Board of Governors Expand Efforts in the Middle East but Face Significant Challenges

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, were a dramatic reminder of the importance of our need to cultivate a better public opinion of the United States abroad. Yet recent opinion research indicates that foreign publics, especially in countries with large Muslim populations, view the United States unfavorably. GAO issued two studies in 2003 that examined changes in U.S. public diplomacy resources and programs s… more
Date: February 10, 2004
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Numerical simulatin of supernova-relevant laser-driven hydro experiments on OMEGA

Description: In ongoing experiments performed on the OMEGA laser [J. M. Soures et al., Phys. Plasmas 5, 2108 (1996)] at the University of Rochester Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE), nanosecond laser pulses are used to drive strong blast waves into two-layer targets. Perturbations on the interface between the two materials are unstable to the Richtmyer-Meshkov instability as a result of shock transit and the Rayleigh-Taylor instability during the deceleration-phase behind the shock front. These experime… more
Date: February 10, 2004
Creator: Leibrandt, D; Robey, H F; Edwards, M J; Braun, D G; Miles, A R & Drake, R P
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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LDRD LW Project Final Report:Resolving the Earthquake Source Scaling Problem

Description: The scaling behavior of basic earthquake source parameters such as the energy release per unit area of fault slip, quantitatively measured as the apparent stress, is currently in dispute. There are compelling studies that show apparent stress is constant over a wide range of moments (e.g. Choy and Boatwright, 1995; McGarr, 1999; Ide and Beroza, 2001, Ide et al. 2003). Other equally compelling studies find the apparent stress increases with moment (e.g. Kanamori et al., 1993; Abercrombie, 1995; … more
Date: February 10, 2004
Creator: Mayeda, K; Felker, S; Gok, R; O'Boyle, J; Walter, W R & Ruppert, S
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Measuring the Effect of Fuel Structures and Blend Distribution on Diesel Emissions Using Isotope Tracing

Description: Carbon atoms occupying specific positions within fuel molecules can be labeled and followed in emissions. Renewable bio-derived fuels possess a natural uniform carbon-14 ({sup 14}C) tracer several orders of magnitude above petroleum-derived fuels. These fuels can be used to specify sources of carbon in particulate matter (PM) or other emissions. Differences in emissions from variations in the distribution of a fuel component within a blend can also be measured. Using Accelerator Mass Spectromet… more
Date: February 10, 2004
Creator: Cheng, A. S.; Mueller, C. J.; Buchholz, B. A. & Dibble, R. W.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Guidelines - A Primer for Communicating Effectively with NABIR Stakeholders

Description: This version of the communication primer comprises two interlocking parts: Pat 1, a practical section, intended to prepare you for public interactions, and Part 2, a theoretical section that provides social and technical bases for the practices recommended in Part 1. The mutual support of practice and theory is very familiar in science and clearly requires a willingness to observe and revise our prior assumptions--in this document, we invoke both. We hope that is offering will represent a step … more
Date: February 10, 2004
Creator: Weber, James R.; Schell, Charlotte J.; Marino, T & Bilyard, Gordon R.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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B Physics at the Tevatron

Description: After a five year upgrade period, the Fermilab experiments CDF and D0 are taking high quality data in Run II of the Tevatron Collider. We report on the start-up of both detectors and present a selection of first B physics results from the Tevatron. We also compare different B hadron producers such as the {Upsilon}(4S) with the hadron collider environment and discuss general features of B physics at a hadron collider.
Date: February 10, 2004
Creator: Paulini, Manfred
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Students around Sigma Lambda Beta table]

Description: A photograph of students seated at the Sigma Lambda Beta table during a banquet sponsored by the UNT Multicultural Center. There are place settings, napkins, flowers, and a card with the fraternity's name on it.
Date: February 10, 2004
Creator: University of North Texas. Multicultural Center.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Votes Other than Favorably on Judicial Nominations, 1939-2003

Description: Judicial nominations are submitted to the Senate by the President. Once a nomination is submitted, the Senate refers it to the Judiciary Committee. Either the Senate or the Senate Judiciary Committee may choose not to act when considering the nomination. If the Judiciary Committee does act and schedules a vote on a nominee, any of four motions can be made.
Date: February 10, 2004
Creator: Sollenberger, Mitchel A.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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