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China's Political Institutions and Leaders in Charts

Description: This report provides a snapshot of China's leading political institutions and current leaders in the form of nine organization charts and three tables. This chart-based report is intended to assist Members and their staffs seeking to understand where political institutions and individuals fit within the broader Chinese political system and to identify which Chinese officials are responsible for specific portfolios.
Date: November 12, 2013
Creator: Lawrence, Susan V.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Current Debates over Exchange Rates: Overview and Issues for Congress

Description: This report provides information on current debates over exchange rates in the global economy. It offers an overview of how exchange rates work; analyzes specific disagreements and debates; and examines existing frameworks for potentially addressing currency disputes. It also lays out some policy options available to Congress, should Members want to take action on exchange rate issues.
Date: November 12, 2013
Creator: Nelson, Rebecca M.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Defense Management: Actions Needed to Ensure National Guard and Reserve Headquarters Are Sized to be Efficient

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Between fiscal years 2009 and 2013, the total number of funded positions--both full-time support and part-time--at the Department of Defense's (DOD) 75 Army Reserve and Air Force Reserve (Reserves) component headquarters grew from about 30,200 to 31,900 positions (about 6 percent overall). Some organizations grew more markedly, among them the National Guard Bureau (17 percent); Army National Guard Direc… more
Date: November 12, 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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Preliminary Observations on DOD Estimates of Contract Termination Liability

Description: Correspondence issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "In its review of guidance and practices related to contract termination liability estimates, the Department of Defense (DOD) found that weapons programs generally received estimates of contract termination liability from contractors;, although there is no comprehensive guidance on how or when programs should require or consider these estimates. DOD plans to include additional language to help ensure that… more
Date: November 12, 2013
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Management Report: Improvements Are Needed to Strengthen the American Battle Monuments Commission's Internal Controls and Accounting Procedures

Description: Correspondence issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "During its audit of the American Battle Monuments Commission’s (the Commission) fiscal year 2012 financial statements, GAO identified two material weaknesses that resulted in ineffective internal control over financial reporting as of September 30, 2012. Specifically, the material weaknesses concern the Commission’s financial reporting process and its monitoring process. Because of these control weakness… more
Date: November 12, 2013
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Oral History Interview with David Taffet, November 12, 2013

Description: Interview with David Taffet, a Dallas-area LGBT activist from Yonkers, New York. Taffet discusses his education, coming out, anti-war activism at State University of New York at Albany, the SUNY Gay Alliance, moving to Dallas, the AIDS epidemic, police harassment and entrapment, working for the Custom Shop and the Dallas Voice, the "AIDS cocktail" and advancements in treatment of the illness, and grassroots politics.
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Date: November 12, 2013
Creator: Graham, Celeste & Taffet, David
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Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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Public Health Service Agencies: Overview and Funding

Description: Within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), eight agencies are designated components of the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS): (1) the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), (2) the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), (3) the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), (4) the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), (5) the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), (6) the Indian Health Service (IHS), (7) the National Institutes of Hea… more
Date: November 12, 2013
Creator: Corby-Edwards, Amalia K. & Redhead, C. S.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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GUIDE TO CALCULATING TRANSPORT EFFICIENCY OF AEROSOLS IN OCCUPATIONAL AIR SAMPLING SYSTEMS

Description: This report will present hand calculations for transport efficiency based on aspiration efficiency and particle deposition losses. Because the hand calculations become long and tedious, especially for lognormal distributions of aerosols, an R script (R 2011) will be provided for each element examined. Calculations are provided for the most common elements in a remote air sampling system, including a thin-walled probe in ambient air, straight tubing, bends and a sample housing. One popular alter… more
Date: November 12, 2013
Creator: Hogue, M.; Hadlock, D.; Thompson, M. & Farfan, E.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Compound Refractive Lenses for Thermal Neutron Applications

Description: This project designed and built compound refractive lenses (CRLs) that are able to focus, collimate and image using thermal neutrons. Neutrons are difficult to manipulate compared to visible light or even x rays; however, CRLs can provide a powerful tool for focusing, collimating and imaging neutrons. Previous neutron CRLs were limited to long focal lengths, small fields of view and poor resolution due to the materials available and manufacturing techniques. By demonstrating a fabrication metho… more
Date: November 12, 2013
Creator: Gary, Charles K.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Evolution of Long-Term Stewardship at Hanford - 14189

Description: Hanford�s Long-Term Stewardship (LTS) Program has evolved from a small, informal process, with minimal support, to a robust program that provides comprehensive transitions from cleanup contractors to long-term stewardship for post-cleanup requirements specified in the associated cleanup decision documents. The LTS Program has the responsibility for almost 100,000 acres of land, along with over 200 waste sites and will soon have six cocooned reactors. Close to 2,600 documents have been identifie… more
Date: November 12, 2013
Creator: Moren, Richard J. & Grindstaff, Keith D.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Benchmarking Exercises To Validate The Updated ELLWF GoldSim Slit Trench Model

Description: The Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) results of the 2008 Performance Assessment (PA) (WSRC, 2008) sensitivity/uncertainty analyses conducted for the trenches located in the EArea LowLevel Waste Facility (ELLWF) were subject to review by the United States Department of Energy (U.S. DOE) Low-Level Waste Disposal Facility Federal Review Group (LFRG) (LFRG, 2008). LFRG comments were generally approving of the use of probabilistic modeling in GoldSim to support the quantitative sensitivity … more
Date: November 12, 2013
Creator: Taylor, G. A. & Hiergesell, R. A.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Joint Ensemble/Doctoral Recital: 2013-11-12 - UNT University Singers, Natalie Reitz (conducting)

Description: Choral concert performed at the UNT College of Music Winspear Hall; some pieces feature Natalie Reitz in partial fulfillment of the Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) degree in choral conducting.
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Date: November 12, 2013
Duration: 57 minutes 31 seconds
Creator: University of North Texas. University Singers.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Location: 33.206333 -97.155065
Partner: UNT Music Library

Joint Ensemble/Doctoral Recital: 2013-11-12 - UNT University Singers, Natalie Reitz (conducting)

Description: Choral concert performed at the UNT College of Music Winspear Hall; some pieces feature Natalie Reitz in partial fulfillment of the Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) degree in choral conducting.
Access: Restricted to UNT Community Members. Login required if off-campus.
Date: November 12, 2013
Duration: 54 minutes 23 seconds
Creator: University of North Texas. University Singers.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Sound
Location: 33.206333 -97.155065
Partner: UNT Music Library
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