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Electronic Government: Federal Agencies Have Made Progress Implementing the E-Government Act of 2002

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The E-Government Act (E-Gov Act) of 2002 was enacted with the general purpose of promoting better use of the Internet and other information technologies to improve government services for citizens, internal government operations, and opportunities for citizen participation in government. Among other things, the act specifically requires the establishment of the Office of Electronic Government within the… more
Date: December 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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Port Security: Better Planning Needed to Develop and Operate Maritime Worker Identification Card Program

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "As part of a multilayered effort to strengthen port security, the Maritime Transportation Security Act (MTSA) of 2002 calls for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to issue a worker identification card that uses biological metrics, such as fingerprints, to control access to secure areas of ports or ships. Charged with the responsibility for developing this card, the Transportation Security Adminis… more
Date: December 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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Federal Communications Commission: Federal Advisory Committees Follow Requirements, but FCC Should Improve Its Process for Appointing Committee Members

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "FCC has regulatory authority over many complex telecommunications issues. To obtain expert advice on these issues, FCC often calls upon its federal advisory committees, comprised mostly of members from industry, private consulting, advocacy groups, and government. These committees must follow the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA), which sets requirements on the formation and operation of such commit… more
Date: December 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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SSA's Disability Programs: Improvements Could Increase the Usefulness of Electronic Data for Program Oversight

Description: Correspondence issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "In 2003, we added the federal government's disability programs to our high-risk list in part because of difficulties agencies faced in managing these programs and the expected growth in the rolls as baby boomers reach their disability-prone years. The Social Security Administration (SSA) manages the federal government's two largest disability programs, the Disability Insurance (DI) program and the Supple… more
Date: December 10, 2004
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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No Child Left Behind Act: Education Needs to Provide Additional Technical Assistance and Conduct Implementation Studies for School Choice Provision

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The school choice provision of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLBA) of 2001 applies to schools that receive Title I funds and that have not met state performance goals for 2 consecutive years, including goals set before the enactment of NCLBA. Students in such schools must be offered the choice to transfer to another school in the district. GAO undertook this review to provide the Congress a report on t… more
Date: December 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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Experimental astrophysics with high power lasers and Z pinches

Description: With the advent of high energy density (HED) experimental facilities, such as high-energy lasers and fast Z-pinch, pulsed-power facilities, mm-scale quantities of matter can be placed in extreme states of density, temperature, and/or velocity. This has enabled the emergence of a new class of experimental science, HED laboratory astrophysics, wherein the properties of matter and the processes that occur under extreme astrophysical conditions can be examined in the laboratory. Areas particularly … more
Date: December 10, 2004
Creator: Remington, B. A.; Drake, R. P. & Ryutov, D. D.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Appropriations for FY2005: Energy and Water Development

Description: This report is a guide to the Energy and Water Development appropriations bill, including the funding for civil works projects of the Army Corps of Engineers (Corps), the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation (BOR), most of the Department of Energy (DOE), and a number of independent agencies.
Date: December 10, 2004
Creator: Behrens, Carl
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Effects of polar solvents on the fracture resistance of dentin: Role of water hydration

Description: Although healthy dentin is invariably hydrated in vivo, from a perspective of examining the mechanisms of fracture in dentin, it is interesting to consider the role of water hydration. Furthermore, it is feasible that exposure to certain polar solvents, e.g., those found in clinical adhesives, can induce dehydration. In the present study, in vitro deformation and fracture experiments, the latter involving a resistance-curve (R-curve) approach (i.e., toughness evolution with crack extension), we… more
Date: December 10, 2004
Creator: Ritchie, R. O.; Nalla, R. K.; Balooch, M.; Ager, J. W., III; Kruzic, J. J. & Kinney, J. H.
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First tests of a Micromegas TPC in a magnetic field

Description: Since the summer of 2003, a large Micromegas TPC prototype (1000 channels, 50 cm drift, 50 cm diameter) has been operated in a 2T superconducting magnet at Saclay. A description of this apparatus and first results from cosmic ray tests are presented. Additional measurements using simpler detectors with a laser source, an X-ray gun and radio-active sources are discussed. Drift velocity and gain measurements, electron attachment and aging studies for a Micromegas TPC are presented. In particular,… more
Date: December 10, 2004
Creator: Colas, P.; Giomataris, I.; Lepeltier, V. & Ronan, M.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM APPROACH FOR PLAY PORTFOLIOS TO IMPROVE OIL PRODUCTION IN THE ILLINOIS BASIN

Description: Oil and gas have been commercially produced in Illinois for over 100 years. Existing commercial production is from more than fifty-two named pay horizons in Paleozoic rocks ranging in age from Middle Ordovician to Pennsylvanian. Over 3.2 billion barrels of oil have been produced. Recent calculations indicate that remaining mobile resources in the Illinois Basin may be on the order of several billion barrels. Thus, large quantities of oil, potentially recoverable using current technology, remain… more
Date: December 10, 2004
Creator: Seyler, Beverly & Grube, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Identification of Non-Pertechnetate Species In Hanford Tank Waste, Their Synthesis, Characterization, And Fundamental Chemistry

Description: This proposal had three major goals: (1) develop capillary electrophoresis mass spectrometry as a characterization technique, (2) separate a non-pertechnetate fraction from a waste sample and identify the non-pertechnetate species in it by CEMS, and (3) synthesize and characterize bulk quantities of the identified non-pertechnetate species and study their ligand substitution and redox chemistry.
Date: December 10, 2004
Creator: Ashely, Kenneth R.; Schroeder, Norman; Olivares, Jose A. & Scott, Brian
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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81891 - A New Class of Solvents for TRU Dissolution and Separation: Ionic Liquids

Description: Through the current EMSP funding, solvent extraction technologies based on liquid-liquid partitioning of TRU to an Ionic Liquid phase containing conventional complexants has been shown to be viable. The growing understanding of the role that the different components of an ionic liquid can have on the partitioning mechanism, and on the nature of the subsequent dissolved species indicates strongly that ionic liquids are not necessarily direct replacements for volatile or otherwise hazardous organ… more
Date: December 10, 2004
Creator: Rogers, Robin D.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Managing Tight Binding Receptors for New Spearations Technologies

Description: Much of the earth's pollution involves compounds of the metallic elements, including actinides, strontium, cesium, technetium, and RCRA metals. Metal ions bind to molecules called ligands, which are the molecular tools that can manipulate the metal ions under most conditions. This DOE-EMSP sponsored program strives (1) to provide the foundations for using the most powerful ligands in transformational separations technologies and (2) to produce seminal examples of their applications to separatio… more
Date: December 10, 2004
Creator: Busch, Daryle H.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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YUMMY: The Yucca Mountain MCNP-Library

Description: Point-wise libraries provided with the MCNP code contain neutron data for a limited number of temperatures. However, it is important to have the option of using data from a wide range of temperatures for transport calculations. For this purpose, a multi-temperature, ACE-format neutron library was generated for 134 nuclides, as requested by Yucca Mountain Project (YMP) staff. The library is referred to as YUMMY (YUcca Mountain MCNP-librarY). The neutron cross section data are based on ENDF/B-V o… more
Date: December 10, 2004
Creator: Alpan, FA
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Final Technical Report EMSP 70045 Investigation of Pore Scale Processes That Affect Soil Vapor Extraction

Description: Dense nonaqueous phase liquid (DNAPL) contamination in the vadose zone is a significant problem at Department of Energy sites. Soil vapor extraction (SVE) is commonly used to remediate DNAPLs from the vadose zone. In most cases, a period of high recovery has been followed by a sustained period of low recovery. This behavior has been attributed to multiple processes including slow interphase mass transfer, retarded vapor phase transport, and diffusion from unswept zones of low permeability. This… more
Date: December 10, 2004
Creator: Valocchi, Albert J.; Werth, Charles W. & Webb, Andrew W.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Direct observation of surface ethyl to ethane interconversion uponC2H4 hydrogenation over Pt/Al2O3 catalyst by time-resolved FT-IRspectroscopy

Description: Time-resolved FT-IR spectra of ethylene hydrogenation over alumina-supported Pt catalyst were recorded at 25 ms resolution in the temperature range 323 to 473 K using various H2 flow rates (1 atm total gas pressure). Surface ethyl species (2870 and 1200 cm-1) were detected at all temperatures along with the gas phase ethane product (2954 and 2893 cm-1). The CH3CH2Pt growth was instantaneous on the time scale of 25ms under all experimental conditions. At 323 K, the decay time of surface ethyl (1… more
Date: December 10, 2004
Creator: Wasylenko, Walter & Frei, Heinz
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Guiding of relativistic laser pulses by preformed plasmachannels

Description: Guiding of relativistically intense (>1018 W/cm2) laser pulses over more than 10 diffraction lengths has been demonstrated using plasma channels formed by hydrodynamic shock. Pulses up to twice the self guiding threshold power were guided without aberration by tuning the guide profile. Transmitted spectra and mode images showed the pulse remained in the channel over the entire length. Experiments varying guided mode power and simulations show a large plasma wave was driven.Operating just bel… more
Date: December 10, 2004
Creator: Geddes, C. G. R.; Toth, Cs.; van Tilborg, J.; Esarey, E.; Schroeder, C. B.; Cary, J. et al.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Anticircumvention under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and Reverse Engineering: Recent Legal Developments

Description: Defines the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and practice of reverse engineering. The report is categorized into five categories, (I) Background, (II) Exceptions to the copyright monopoly: reverse engineering, (lll) Lexmark International v. Static Control Components, Inc, (lV) Chamberlain Group, Inc. v. Skylink Technologies, Inc, and (V) Conclusion
Date: December 10, 2004
Creator: Jeweler, Robin
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Verification and Validation using DAKOTA via the DakTools scripts

Description: Several of the intermediate capabilities which are being developed by the AX V&V program may be helpful in other ways. This paper describes a new PYTHON interface to one such tool, DAKOTA (a parallel optimizing controller from Sandia National Laboratory) and the subsequent simpler set of operations required to run and analyze sets of calculations using any LCC computational platform.
Date: December 10, 2004
Creator: Brandon, S & Tipton, P
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Performance Evaluation of Industrial Hygiene Air Monitoring Sensors

Description: Tests were performed to evaluate the accuracy, precision and response time of certain commercially available handheld toxic gas monitors. The tests were conducted by PNNL in the Chemical Chamber Test Facility for CH2MHill Hanford Company. The instruments were tested with a set of dilute test gases including ammonia, nitrous oxide, and a mixture of organic vapors (acetone, benzene, ethanol, hexane, toluene and xylene). The certified gases were diluted to concentrations that may be encountered in… more
Date: December 10, 2004
Creator: Maughan, A D.; Glissmeyer, John A. & Birnbaum, Jerome C.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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