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Federal Employees' Compensation Act: Analysis of Benefits Under Proposed Program Changes

Description: Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "GAO's simulation found that under the current Federal Employees' Compensation Act (FECA) program, the median wage replacement rate--the percentage of take-home pay replaced by FECA--for total-disability beneficiaries was 88 percent for U.S. Postal Service (USPS) beneficiaries and 80 percent for non-USPS beneficiaries in 2010. GAO also found that proposals to set initial FECA benefits at a single compensation … more
Date: July 10, 2013
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Elder Justice: More Federal Coordination and Public Awareness Needed

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "In fiscal year 2011, two agencies--the Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Justice (Justice) --separately administered 12 fragmented but minimally overlapping programs that directed funds toward elder justice, with low risk of duplication. Specifically, because more than one federal agency administers these programs, GAO found that these grant programs are fragmented. Further, GAO found t… more
Date: July 10, 2013
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Medicare Outpatient Therapy: Implementation of the 2012 Manual Medical Review Process

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) implemented two types of manual medical reviews (MMR)--reviews of preapproval requests and reviews of claims submitted without preapproval--for all outpatient therapy services that were above a $3,700 per-beneficiary threshold provided during the last 3 months of 2012. However, CMS did not issue complete guidance on how to process preapproval requests b… more
Date: July 10, 2013
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Financial and Performance Management: More Reliable and Complete Information Needed to Address Federal Management and Fiscal Challenges

Description: Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Three long-standing major impediments prevented GAO from expressing an opinion on the U.S. government's 2012 accrual-based consolidated financial statements: (1) serious financial management problems at the Department of Defense (DOD), (2) the federal government's inability to adequately account for and reconcile intragovernmental activity and balances between federal entities, and (3) the federal government'… more
Date: July 10, 2013
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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A New Electrostatically-focused UV HPD for Liquid Xenon

Description: Appropriate photodetectors are a major challenge for liquid xenon technology as proposed by the next generation of double beta decay, solar neutrino, and dark matter searches. The primary photon signal is tiny and in the hard ultraviolet, the installation is cryogenic, and the sensors themselves must not introduce background. Hybrid photodiodes (HPDs) provide an easy substitute for a conventional PMT with the added advantages of low radioactivity, better area coverage, and single photoelectron … more
Date: July 10, 2013
Creator: Cushman, Priscilla Brooks
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Consistency Test of Dark Energy Models

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Date: July 10, 2013
Creator: Chen, Chien-Wen.; /Taiwan, Natl. Taiwan U.; Gu, Je-An.; /Taiwan, Natl. Taiwan U.; Chen, Pisin. & /KIPAC, Menlo Park /Taiwan, Natl. Taiwan U. /Taipei, Inst. Astron. Astrophys.
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17 GHz High Gradient Accelerator Research

Description: This is a report on the MIT High Gradient Accelerator Research program which has included: Operation of the 17 GHz, 25 MeV MIT/Haimson Research Corp. electron accelerator at MIT, the highest frequency, stand-alone accelerator in the world; collaboration with members of the US High Gradient Collaboration, including the design and test of novel structures at SLAC at 11.4 GHz; the design, construction and testing of photonic bandgap structures, including metallic and dielectric structures; the inv… more
Date: July 10, 2013
Creator: Temkin, Richard J. & Shapiro, Michael A.
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Computational Eulerian Hydrodynamics and Galilean Invariance

Description: Eulerian hydrodynamical simulations are a powerful and popular tool for modeling fluids in astrophysical systems. In this work, we critically examine recent claims that these methods violate Galilean invariance of the Euler equations. We demonstrate that Eulerian hydrohynamics methods do converge to a Galilean-invariant solution,provided a well-defined convergent solutions exists. Specifically, we show that numerical diffusion, resulting from diffusion-like terms in the discretized hydrodynamic… more
Date: July 10, 2013
Creator: Robertson, Brant E.; Kravtsov, Andrey V.; /Chicago U., KICP /Chicago U., Astron. Astrophys. Ctr.; Gnedin, Nickolay Y.; /Chicago U., KICP /Fermilab; Abel, Tom et al.
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Development Of Chemical Reduction And Air Stripping Processes To Remove Mercury From Wastewater

Description: This study evaluates the removal of mercury from wastewater using chemical reduction and air stripping using a full-scale treatment system at the Savannah River Site. The existing water treatment system utilizes air stripping as the unit operation to remove organic compounds from groundwater that also contains mercury (C ~ 250 ng/L). The baseline air stripping process was ineffective in removing mercury and the water exceeded a proposed limit of 51 ng/L. To test an enhancement to the existing t… more
Date: July 10, 2013
Creator: Jackson, Dennis G.; Looney, Brian B.; Craig, Robert R.; Thompson, Martha C. & Kmetz, Thomas F.
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