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Welfare Reform: Rural TANF Programs Have Developed Many Strategies to Address Rural Challenges

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "About 49 million people, or 17 percent of the country's total population, live in rural communities, and 18 states have at least a third of their population in rural areas. Rural areas often have less favorable employment conditions than urban areas and have fewer public transportation options to help people get to and from work. Given these conditions and the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TA… more
Date: September 10, 2004
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Corporate Credit Unions: Competitive Environment May Stress Financial Condition, Posing Challenges for NCUA Oversight

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Thousands of credit unions have placed about $55 billion of their excess funds in corporate credit unions (corporates). In a three-tiered system, corporates provide lending, investment, and processing services for their member credit unions. Problems with investments in the past prompted regulatory changes that required higher capitalization and stricter risk management, but allowed for expanded investm… more
Date: September 10, 2004
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Disability Insurance: SSA Should Strengthen Its Efforts to Detect and Prevent Overpayments

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The Social Security Administration's (SSA) Disability Insurance (DI) program is one of the nation's largest cash assistance programs for disabled workers. In fiscal year 2003, the DI program provided about $70 billion in financial assistance to approximately 7.5 million disabled workers, their spouses, and dependent children. This program has grown in recent years and is poised to grow further as the ba… more
Date: September 10, 2004
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Information Technology: Foundational Steps Being Taken to Make Needed FBI Systems Modernization Management Improvements

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is investing more than a billion dollars over 3 years to modernize its information technology (IT) systems. The modernization is central to the bureau's ongoing efforts to transform the organization. GAO was asked to determine whether the FBI has (1) an integrated plan for modernizing its IT systems and (2) effective policies and procedures governing management … more
Date: September 10, 2004
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 Audit: Process for Preparing the Consolidated Financial Statements of the U.S. Government Needs Further Improvement

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "For the past 7 years, since the first audit of the consolidated financial statements of the U.S. government (CFS), certain material weaknesses in internal control and financial reporting have resulted in conditions that have prevented GAO from expressing an opinion on the CFS. Specifically, GAO has reported that the federal government did not have adequate systems, controls, and procedures to properly p… more
Date: September 10, 2004
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Energy Employees Compensation: Many Claims Have Been Processed, but Action Is Needed to Expedite Processing of Claims Requiring Radiation Exposure Estimates

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Subtitle B of the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act, administered by the Department of Labor (Labor), provides eligible workers who developed illnesses from their work, or their survivors, with a onetime total payment of $150,000, and coverage for medical expenses related to the illnesses. For some claims, Labor uses radiation exposure estimates (dose reconstructions) perfor… more
Date: September 10, 2004
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Generation of Methane in the Earth's Mantle: In situ High P-T Measurements of Carbonate Reduction

Description: We present in situ observations of hydrocarbon formation via carbonate reduction at upper mantle pressures and temperatures. Methane was formed from FeO, CaCO{sub 3}-calcite and water at pressures between 5 and 11 GPa and temperatures ranging from 500 to 1500 C. The results are shown to be consistent with thermodynamic calculations of the relevant chemical reactions based on the thermochemical models and ab initio theory. The study demonstrates the existence of abiogenic pathways for the format… more
Date: September 10, 2004
Creator: Scott, H P; Hemley, R J; Mao, H; Herschbach, D R; Fried, L E; Howard, W M et al.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Comparison and Evaluation of Various Tritium Decontamination Techniques and Processes

Description: In support of fusion energy development, various techniques and processes have been developed over the past two decades for the removal and decontamination of tritium from a variety of items, surfaces, and components. Tritium decontamination, by chemical, physical, mechanical, or a combination of these methods, is driven by two underlying motivational forces. The first of these motivational forces is safety. Safety is paramount to the established culture associated with fusion energy. The secon… more
Date: September 10, 2004
Creator: Gentile, C. A.; Langish, S. W.; Skinner, C. H. & Ciebiera, L. P.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Project 1: Microbial Genomes: A Genomic Approach to Understanding the Evolution of Virulence. Project 2: From Genomes to Life: Drosophilia Development in Space and Time

Description: This project seeks to use the genomes of two close relatives, A. actinomycetemcomitans and H. aphrophilus, to understand the evolutionary changes that take place in a genome to make it more or less virulent. Our primary specific aim of this project was to sequence, annotate, and analyze the genomes of Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans (CU1000, serotype f) and Haemophilus aphrophilus. With these genome sequences we have then compared the whole genome sequences to each other and to the current… more
Date: September 10, 2004
Creator: DeSalle, Robert
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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AGING FACILITY CRITICALITY SAFETY CALCULATIONS

Description: The purpose of this design calculation is to revise and update the previous criticality calculation for the Aging Facility (documented in BSC 2004a). This design calculation will also demonstrate and ensure that the storage and aging operations to be performed in the Aging Facility meet the criticality safety design criteria in the ''Project Design Criteria Document'' (Doraswamy 2004, Section 4.9.2.2), and the functional nuclear criticality safety requirement described in the ''SNF Aging System… more
Date: September 10, 2004
Creator: Sanders, C.E.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Inhalation Exposure Input Parameters for the Biosphere Model

Description: This analysis is one of 10 reports that support the Environmental Radiation Model for Yucca Mountain, Nevada (ERMYN) biosphere model. The ''Biosphere Model Report'' (BSC 2004 [DIRS 169460]) describes in detail the conceptual model as well as the mathematical model and its input parameters. This report documents development of input parameters for the biosphere model that are related to atmospheric mass loading and supports the use of the model to develop biosphere dose conversion factors (BDCFs… more
Date: September 10, 2004
Creator: Rautenstrauch, K.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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MOLTEN CARBONATE FUEL CELL POWER PLANT LOCATED AT LADWP MAIN STREET SERVICE CENTER

Description: The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) has developed one of the most recognized fuel cell demonstration programs in the United States. In addition to their high efficiencies and superior environmental performance, fuel cells and other generating technologies that can be located at or near the load, offers several electric utility benefits. Fuel cells can help further reduce costs by reducing peak electricity demand, thereby deferring or avoiding expenses for additional electric u… more
Date: September 10, 2004
Creator: Glauz, William W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Engineering Radioactive Stents for the Prevention of Restenosis

Description: Radiation has become an accepted treatment for the prevention of restenosis (re-blockage) of coronary arteries following angioplasty. Radioactive stents could be the easiest method of delivery for the radiation, although clinical trials were disappointing. One likely reason was the choice of P-32 as the radionuclide, which fails to match the biological needs of the problem. What radionuclide would perform best remains unknown. This project established the physical infrastructure necessary for a… more
Date: September 10, 2004
Creator: Thomadsen, Bruce; Nickles, Robert J.; DeWerd, Larry; Henderson, Douglass; Nye, Jonathan; Culberson, Wes et al.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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2003 Electronic Spectroscopy and Dynamics - July 6-11, 2003

Description: The Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on 2003 Electronic Spectroscopy and Dynamics - July 6-11, 2003 was held at Bates College, Lewiston, Maine, July 6-11, 2003. The Conference was well-attended with 103 participants (attendees list attached). The attendees represented the spectrum of endeavor in this field coming from academia, industry, and government laboratories, both U.S. and foreign scientists, senior researchers, young investigators, and students. In designing the formal speakers program,… more
Date: September 10, 2004
Creator: Bernstein, Elliot
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Environmental Transport Input Parameters for the Biosphere Model

Description: This analysis report is one of the technical reports documenting the Environmental Radiation Model for Yucca Mountain, Nevada (ERMYN), a biosphere model supporting the total system performance assessment for the license application (TSPA-LA) for the geologic repository at Yucca Mountain. A graphical representation of the documentation hierarchy for the ERMYN is presented in Figure 1-1. This figure shows relationships among the reports developed for biosphere modeling and biosphere abstraction p… more
Date: September 10, 2004
Creator: Wasiolek, M.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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2003 Laser Diagnostic in Combustion Conference

Description: The GRC Laser Diagnostics in Combustion aims at bringing together scientists and engineers working in the front edge of research and development to discuss and find new ways to solve problems connected to combustion diagnostics. Laser-based techniques have proven to be very efficient tools for studying combustion processes thanks to features as non-intrusiveness in combination with high spatial and temporal resolution. Major tasks for the community are to develop and apply techniques for quanti… more
Date: September 10, 2004
Creator: Allen, Mark G.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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NMR in rotating magnetic fields: Magic angle field spinning

Description: Magic angle sample spinning has been one of the cornerstones in high-resolution solid state NMR. Spinning frequencies nowadays have increased by at least one order of magnitude over the ones used in the first experiments and the technique has gained tremendous popularity. It is currently a routine procedure in solid-state NMR, high-resolution liquid-state NMR and solid-state MRI. The technique enhances the spectral resolution by averaging away rank 2 anisotropic spin interactions thereby produc… more
Date: September 10, 2004
Creator: Sakellariou, D.; Meriles, C.; Martin, R. & Pines, A.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Thermally induced mechanical and permeability changes around anuclear waste repository -- a far-field study based on equivalentproperties determined by a discrete approach

Description: A numerical investigation is conducted on the impacts of the thermal loading history on the evolution of mechanical response and permeability field of a fractured rock mass containing a hypothetical nuclear waste repository. The geological data are extracted from the site investigation results at Sellafield, England. A combined methodology of discrete and continuum approaches is presented. The results of a series of simulations based on the DFN-DEM (Discrete Fracture Network-Distinct Element Me… more
Date: September 10, 2004
Creator: Min, Ki-Bok; Rutqvist, Jonny; Tsang, Chin-Fu & Jing, Lanru
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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