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Income Ranges of Taxpayers Who May Have Overpaid Federal Taxes by Not Itemizing

Description: Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "This report provides information on the income ranges of taxpayers who may have overpaid federal taxes by not itemizing. GAO found that of the returns filed for tax year 1998, 53 percent of taxpayers who may have overpaid federal taxes by not itemizing, had adjusted gross incomes of $50,000 or less. Eleven percent showed adjusted gross incomes of more than $75,000. The median adjusted gross income for these ret… more
Date: April 11, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Intercity Passenger Rail: Congress Faces Critical Decisions in Developing a National Policy

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Because of Amtrak's worsening financial condition, there is growing agreement that the current mission, funding, and structure for providing intercity passenger rail needs to be changed. Intercity passenger rail has the potential to complement other more heavily used modes of transportation in markets where rail transport can be competitive. The potential benefits include reduced air and highway congestion, reduced … more
Date: April 11, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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National Preparedness: Integration of Federal, State, Local, and Private Sector Efforts is Critical to an Effective National Strategy for Homeland Security

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Federal, state, and local governments share responsibility for terrorist attacks. However, local government, including police and fire departments, emergency medical personnel, and public health agencies, is typically the first responder to an incident. The federal government historically has provided leadership, training, and funding assistance. In the aftermath of September 11, for instance, one-quarter of the $40… more
Date: April 11, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Environmental Cleanup: Better Communication Needed for Dealing with Formerly Used Defense Sites in Guam

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Chemical testing kits from World War II containing diluted mustard gas and other chemicals have been discovered on Guam. The Department of Defense (DOD) is responsible for identifying and cleaning up contaminated military sites throughout the United States and its territories. In the mid-1990s, DOD scaled back its identification efforts nationally and focused its attention on Guam. It now relies on referrals f… more
Date: April 11, 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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Homeland Security: Responsibility and Accountability for Achieving National Goals

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "In the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks, the Administration took several steps to strengthen homeland security, including the creation of an Office of Homeland Security (OHS). The success of a homeland security strategy requires all levels of government and the private sector to communicate and cooperate with one another. The federal government must formulate realistic budget and resource plans to sup… more
Date: April 11, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Contract Management: Roles and Responsibilities of the Federal Supply Service and Federal Technology Service

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The General Services Administration's (GSA) Federal Supply Service (FSS) and Federal Technology Service (FTS) help agencies to purchase telephone and computer systems, motor vehicles, travel, and everyday supplies valued at more than $30 billion annually. FSS and FTS take different approaches to filling agency customers' requirements but, in the information technology area, they provide similar goods and services an… more
Date: April 11, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Military Personnel: Active Duty Benefits Reflect Changing Demographics, but Continued Focus Is Needed

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Since the advent of the all-volunteer Army in 1973, the number of servicemembers with spouses and children has grown significantly. Although the Department of Defense (DOD) has responded positively to this change, GAO believes that some current family benefits could be strengthened. For example, despite improvements to the quality of military child care centers, DOD needs to further expand child care capacity. Moreo… more
Date: April 11, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Drinking Water Infrastructure: Information on Estimated Needs and Financial Assistance

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) conducts an infrastructure needs assessment every four years to estimate the future capital investment needs of local drinking water systems. In its most recent survey, EPA estimated that nearly $151 billion will be needed during the next 20 years to repair, replace, and upgrade the nation's 55,000 community water systems. The needs assessment survey serves as the basis for … more
Date: April 11, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Paperwork Reduction Act: Burden Increases and Violations Persist

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "This testimony discusses the implementation of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 and information collection authorizations from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) that either expired or were otherwise inconsistent with the act. GAO found that federal paperwork rose by 290 million burden hours during fiscal year 2001--the largest one-year increase since the act was amended and recodified in 1995. This occurr… more
Date: April 11, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Internal Revenue Service: Enhanced Efforts to Combat Abusive Tax Schemes--Challenges Remain

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Estimating the extent of abusive tax schemes used by individual taxpayers is difficult because they are often hidden. Nevertheless, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) believes that the number and dollar consequences of these schemes has grown recently. IRS estimates that 740,000 taxpayers used abusive schemes in tax year 2000. IRS caught $5 billion in improper tax avoidance or tax credit and refund claims, but estim… more
Date: April 11, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Visions: The coming revolutions in particle physics

Description: Wonderful opportunities await particle physics over the next decade, with the coming of the Large Hadron Collider to explore the 1-TeV scale (extending efforts at LEP and the Tevatron to unravel the nature of electroweak symmetry breaking) and many initiatives to develop the understanding of the problem of identity and the dimensionality of spacetime.
Date: April 11, 2002
Creator: Quigg, Chris
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Probe Project Status and Accomplishments - Year Two

Description: The Probe project has established a facility for storage- and network-related research, development and testing. With sites at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), Probe is investigating local-area or wide-area distributed storage issues ranging from data mining to optimizing retrieval operations from tape devices. Probe has completed its second full year of operation. In this document we will describe the status of the p… more
Date: April 11, 2002
Creator: Burris, R. D.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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A light diet for a giant appetite: An assessment of China's proposed fluorescent lamp standard

Description: Lighting has been one of the fastest growing electric end-uses in China over the last twenty years, with an average annual growth rate of 14%. Fluorescent lighting provides a significant portion of China's lighting need. In 1998, China produced 680 million fluorescent lamps, of which 420 million were linear fluorescent lamps of various diameters (T8 to T12). There are substantial variations both in energy efficiency and lighting performance among locally produced fluorescent lamps. Such variati… more
Date: April 11, 2002
Creator: Lin, Jiang
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Generalizing Lifted Tensor-Product Wavelets to Irregular Polygonal Domains

Description: We present a new construction approach for symmetric lifted B-spline wavelets on irregular polygonal control meshes defining two-manifold topologies. Polygonal control meshes are recursively refined by stationary subdivision rules and converge to piecewise polynomial limit surfaces. At every subdivision level, our wavelet transforms provide an efficient way to add geometric details that are expanded from wavelet coefficients. Both wavelet decomposition and reconstruction operations are based on… more
Date: April 11, 2002
Creator: Bertram, M.; Duchaineau, M.A.; Hamann, B. & Joy, K.I.
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DENSE MEDIA CYCLONE OPTIMIZATION

Description: The test data obtained from the Baseline Assessment that compares the performance of the density traces to that of different sizes of coal particles is now complete. The experimental results show that the tracer data can indeed be used to accurately predict HMC performance. The following conclusions were drawn: (i) the tracer curve is slightly sharper than curve for coarsest size fraction of coal (probably due to the greater resolution of the tracer technique), (ii) the Ep increases with decrea… more
Date: April 11, 2002
Creator: Luttrell, Gerald H.
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Detection of Materials of Interest to Non-Proliferation: A Novel Approach

Description: We propose the development of a novel detector that can locate and identify materials of interest to Nuclear Arms Non Proliferation. The device will combine nuclear acoustic resonance (NAR) with superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) widely used in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), geophysics, nondestructive evaluations, and biomagnetism, to name only few. NAR works like NMR. Thus resonant absorption (of applied ultrasonic energy) by a nuclear spin system occurs when the ultrasonic… more
Date: April 11, 2002
Creator: Ze, F; Tittmann, B R & Lehahan, P M
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New Insights into the X-Ray Spectra of Heliumlike and Neonlike Ions

Description: Recent measurements of the K-shell and L-shell x-ray spectra of highly charged helium-like and neon-like ions are presented that were performed on the Livermore electron beam ion traps and the Princeton tokamaks. These measurements provide new insights into collisional and indirect line formation processes, identifications of forbidden lines, and a new plasma line diagnostic of magnetic field strength.
Date: April 11, 2002
Creator: Beiersdorfer, P.; Chen, H.; Hey, D.; May, M.; Osterheld, A.; Reed, K. et al.
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WebSpace - a WebWindows based gateway to the ANL LabSpace. Final report for period September 1, 1995 - August 31, 1998

Description: The goal of this project was to prototype a Web based computational and collaboratory environment that would act as a commodity technologies based front-end or Gateway to larger HPC systems such as ANL LabSpace. The original name - WebSpace - proposed for such a system was taken during the course of this project by Silicon Graphics and used for their Web authoring environment. To avoid confusion, we changed the name of this project's system to WebFlow.
Date: April 11, 2002
Creator: Furmanski, Wojtek
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Impact of Climatological Conditions on Low Enriched Uranium Loading Station Operations for the HEU Blend Down Project

Description: A computer model was developed using COREsim to perform a time motion study for the Low Enriched Uranium (LEU) Loading Station operations. The project is to blend Highly Enriched Uranium (HEU) with Natural Uranium (NU) to produce LEU to be shipped to Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) for further processing. To cope with a project cost reduction, the LEU Loading Station concept has changed from an enclosed building with air-conditioning to a partially enclosed building without air conditioning. T… more
Date: April 11, 2002
Creator: Chang, R. C.
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A STUDY OF THE EFFECTS OF POST-COMBUSTION AMMONIA INJECTION ON FLY ASH QUALITY: CHARACTERIZATION OF AMMONIA RELEASE FROM CONCRETE AND MORTARS CONTAINING FLY ASH AS A POZZOLANIC ADMIXTURE

Description: Work completed in this reporting period focused primarily on continuing measurements of the rate of ammonia loss from concrete, and the measurement of ammonia gas in the air above concrete and flowable fill immediately after placement. Concrete slabs were prepared to monitor the loss of ammonia during mixing, the concentration in the airspace above the slabs soon after placement, and the total quantity of ammonia evolved over a longer time period. Variables tested include temperature, ventilati… more
Date: April 11, 2002
Creator: Rathbone, Robert F. & Robl, Thomas L.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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