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Global Health: U.S. AIDS Coordinator Addressing Some Key Challenges to Expanding Treatment but Others Remain

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), announced January 2003, aims to provide 2 million people with anti-retroviral (ARV) treatment in 14 of the world's most severely affected countries. In May 2003 legislation established the position of the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator in the State Department. GAO was asked to (1) identify major challenges to U.S. efforts to expand ARV treatment in … more
Date: July 12, 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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The MC&A Council at SSC RF-IPPE as a Coordinating Body for System Sustainability

Description: The State Scientific Center of the Russian Federation - Institute of Physics and Power Engineering's (SSC RF - IPPE) practice of nuclear material control and accounting (MC&A) has undergone significant changes during the period of cooperation with U.S. national laboratories from 1995 to the present. These changes corresponded with general changes of the Russian system of state control and accounting of nuclear materials resulting from the new Concept of the System for State Regulating and C… more
Date: July 12, 2004
Creator: Poplavko, V.; Skorkin, V. & Myakishev, G.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Thermal Expansion of AuIn2

Description: The thermal expansion of AuIn{sub 2} gold is of great interest in soldering technology. Indium containing solders have been used to make gold wire interconnects at low soldering temperature and over time, AuIn{sub 2} is formed between the gold wire and the solder due to the high heat of formation and the high inter-metallic diffusion of indium. Hence, the thermal expansion of AuIn{sub 2} alloy in comparison with that of the gold wire and the indium-containing solder is critical in determining t… more
Date: July 12, 2004
Creator: Saw, C K & Siekhaus, W J
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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On The Use Of Models To Assess Foot-And-Mouth Disease Transmission And Control

Description: The 2001 outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) in Europe (Ferguson et al. 2001a, 2001b; Bouma et al. 2003) and concern about the possibility of an intentional introduction of a devastating foreign animal disease triggered renewed interest in both theoretical and experimental research related to FMD. Theoretical models of disease transmission, which influenced the tactical decisions of the United Kingdom (UK) government during the epidemic (Taylor 2003), resulted in large numbers of uninfect… more
Date: July 12, 2004
Creator: Kostova-Vassilevska, Tanya
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The role of Hydrogen and Creep in Intergranular Stress Corrosion Cracking of Alloy 600 and Alloy 690 in PWR Primary Water Environments ? a Review

Description: Intergranular attack (IGA) and intergranular stress corrosion cracking (IGSCC) of Alloy 600 in PWR steam generator environment has been extensively studied for over 30 years without rendering a clear understanding of the essential mechanisms. The lack of understanding of the IGSCC mechanism is due to a complex interaction of numerous variables such as microstructure, thermomechanical processing, strain rate, water chemistry and electrochemical potential. Hydrogen plays an important role in all … more
Date: July 12, 2004
Creator: Rebak, R B & Hua, F H
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Toward green systems for cleanrooms: Energy efficient fan-filter units

Description: The paper presents results of laboratory-measured performance of fan-filter units (FFUs) used for cleanrooms. A total of twenty FFUs collected from the market were tested, including thirteen 1220 mm x 610 mm (or 4 ft x 2 ft) units and seven 1220 mm x 1220 mm (or 4 ft x 4 ft) units. The paper concludes that there are wide variations in FFUs energy performance, and that there are opportunities in improving energy efficiency and lowering operating costs of FFUs. Furthermore, the paper suggests the… more
Date: July 12, 2004
Creator: Jeng, Ming-Shan; Xu, Tengfang & Lan, Chao-Ho
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Statistical Comparison of Gross Alpha and Radium Measurement Between Background and Point of Compliance (POC) Wells at the SRS Sanitary Landfill (SLF)

Description: Statistical analyses were performed on groundwater monitoring data obtained for gross alpha, radium 226, and 228 from the SRS Sanitary Landfill (SLF). Several inference tests were performed using the prescribed statistical methods of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act Part B Permit regulations (US EPA 1992). Test results show that the LFW 29R, LFW 57B and LFW 62B wells have significantly elevated concentrations of all three radiological constituents above background. However, isotopic r… more
Date: July 12, 2004
Creator: TUCKFIELD, RICHARD
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Spectrometric Analysis for Pulse Jet Mixer Testing

Description: The Analytical Development Section (ADS) was tasked with providing support for a Hanford River Protection Program-Waste Treatment Program (RPP-WTP) project test involving absorption analysis for non-Newtonian pulse jet mixer testing for small scale (PJM) and prototype (CRV) tanks with sparging. Tanks filled with clay were mixed with various amounts of powdered dye as a tracer. The objective of the entire project was to determine the best mixing protocol (nozzle velocity, number of spargers used… more
Date: July 12, 2004
Creator: ZEIGLER, KRISTINE
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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A specialized framework for data retrieval Web applications

Description: Although many general-purpose frameworks have been developed to aid in web application development, they typically tend to be both comprehensive and complex. To address this problem, a specialized server-side Java framework designed specifically for data retrieval and visualization has been developed. The framework's focus is on maintainability and data security. The functionality is rich with features necessary for simplifying data display design, deployment, user management and application de… more
Date: July 12, 2004
Creator: Nogiec, Jerzy; Trombly-Freytag, Kelley & Walbridge, Dana
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Seeing and Reading Red: Hue and Color-word Correlation in Images and Attendant Text on the WWW

Description: This work represents an initial investigation into determining whether correlations actually exist between metadata and content descriptors in multimedia datasets. We provide a quantitative method for evaluating whether the hue of images on the WWW is correlated with the occurrence of color-words in metadata such as URLs, image names, and attendant text. It turns out that such a correlation does exist: the likelihood that a particular color appears in an image whose URL, name, and/or attendant … more
Date: July 12, 2004
Creator: Newsam, S
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Environmentally Assisted Cracking of Nickel Alloys - A Review

Description: Nickel can dissolve a large amount of alloying elements while still maintaining its austenitic structure. That is, nickel based alloys can be tailored for specific applications. The family of nickel alloys is large, from high temperature alloys (HTA) to corrosion resistant alloys (CRA). In general, CRA are less susceptible to environmentally assisted cracking (EAC) than stainless steels. The environments where nickel alloys suffer EAC are limited and generally avoidable by design. These environ… more
Date: July 12, 2004
Creator: Rebak, R
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Testing Impact?s Radiation Code

Description: This is a summary of work done over an 8 week period from May to July 2004, which concerned testing the longwave and shortwave radiation packages in Impact. The radiation code was initially developed primarily by Keith Grant in the context of LLNL's 2D model, and was added to Impact over the last few summers. While the radiation code had been tested and also used in some aerosol-related calculations, its 3D form in Impact had not been validated with comparisons to satellite data. Along with suc… more
Date: July 12, 2004
Creator: Edis, Taner; Cameron-Smith, Philip; Grant, Keith E.; Bergmann, Dan & Chuang, Catherine C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Energy Box

Description: Only Nixon could go to China. And maybe only petroleum industry CEOs can spur action on global climate change. Here's Lord Browne, head of BP, in a recent issue of Foreign Affairs magazine: 'Global temperatures have risen by about 0.6 degrees Celsius since the nineteenth century. Other measures of climate bolster the theory that the world is getting warmer. . . . [The] trend is undoubtedly due in large part to substantial increases in carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from human activity.' But sho… more
Date: July 12, 2004
Creator: Friedmann, S J & Homer-Dixon, T
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Waste Package Component Design Methodology Report

Description: This Executive Summary provides an overview of the methodology being used by the Yucca Mountain Project (YMP) to design waste packages and ancillary components. This summary information is intended for readers with general interest, but also provides technical readers a general framework surrounding a variety of technical details provided in the main body of the report. The purpose of this report is to document and ensure appropriate design methods are used in the design of waste packages and a… more
Date: July 12, 2004
Creator: Mecham, D. C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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