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Investigation: Military Meals, Ready-To-Eat Sold on eBay

Description: Correspondence issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "As a result of widespread congressional and public interest in the federal response to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, we conducted a limited investigation into allegations that military Meal, Ready-To-Eat (MRE) rations intended for use in the hurricane relief efforts were instead sold to the public on the Internet auction site eBay. We focused our efforts on confirming whether selected MREs being offered f… more
Date: February 13, 2006
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Expedited Assistance for Victims of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita: FEMA's Control Weaknesses Exposed the Government to Significant Fraud and Abuse

Description: Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "As a result of widespread congressional and public interest in the federal response to hurricanes Katrina and Rita, GAO conducted an audit of the Individuals and Households Program (IHP) under Comptroller General of the United States statutory authority. Hurricanes Katrina and Rita destroyed homes and displaced millions of individuals. In the wake of these natural disasters, FEMA faced the challenge of provid… more
Date: February 13, 2006
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Time-Resolved FT-IR Spectroscopy of CO Hydrogenation overSupported Ru Catalyst at 700K

Description: Time-resolved FT-IR spectra of carbon monoxide hydrogenation over alumina-supported ruthenium were recorded on the millisecond timescale at 703 K using various H{sub 2} concentrations (1 atm total pressure). Adsorbed carbon monoxide was detected along with gas phase products methane (3016 and 1306 cm{sup -1}), water (sharp bands from 1900 - 1300 cm{sup -1}), and carbon dioxide (2348 cm{sup -1}). No other surface species were detected other than adsorbed carbon monoxide. The rate of formation of… more
Date: February 13, 2006
Creator: Wasylenko, Walter & Frei, Heinz
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Novel Methods for Binding Disparate Materials

Description: This project was intended to advance the science of surface bonding in order to provide the functionality demanded by target fabrication requirements, as well as similar needs in other fields of importance to LLNL. We have developed and demonstrated a very powerful capability, i.e. 'single molecule force spectroscopy', that allows the strength of individual chemical bonds to be measured. This project focused on long chain molecules that are covalently bound to surfaces on one end and have compl… more
Date: February 13, 2006
Creator: McElfresh, M W; Rudd, R E; Ratto, T V & Langry, K C
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Diffusion through Carbon Nanotube Semipermeable membranes

Description: The goal of this project is to measure transport through CNTs and study effects of confinement at molecular scale. This work is motivated by several simulation papers in high profile journals that predict significantly higher transport rates of gases and liquids through carbon nanotubes as compared with similarly-sized nanomaterials (e.g. zeolites). The predictions are based on the effects of confinement, atomically smooth pore walls and high pore density. Our work will provide the first measur… more
Date: February 13, 2006
Creator: Bakajin, O
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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A High-Resolution Godunov Method for Compressible Multi-Material Flow on Overlapping Grids

Description: A numerical method is described for inviscid, compressible, multi-material flow in two space dimensions. The flow is governed by the multi-material Euler equations with a general mixture equation of state. Composite overlapping grids are used to handle complex flow geometry and block-structured adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) is used to locally increase grid resolution near shocks and material interfaces. The discretization of the governing equations is based on a high-resolution Godunov method,… more
Date: February 13, 2006
Creator: Banks, J W; Schwendeman, D W; Kapila, A K & Henshaw, W D
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The National Environmental Policy Act: Streamlining NEPA

Description: This report discusses elements of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA; 42 U.S.C. §§ 4321, et seq.) relevant to streamlining, issues associated with determining project delays attributed to NEPA, common streamlining methods, and recently proposed and enacted legislative and administrative streamlining activities.
Date: February 13, 2006
Creator: Luther, Linda
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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FY05 LDRD Final Report Technology Basis for Fluorescence Imaging in the Nuclear Domain (FIND)

Description: Work performed as a part of this ER sets the foundation for applications of high brightness light sources to important homeland security and nonproliferation problems. Extensive modeling has been performed with the aim to understand the performance of a class of interrogation systems that exploit nuclear resonance fluorescence to detect specific isotopes, of particular importance for national security and industry.
Date: February 13, 2006
Creator: Barty, C J
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Groundwater Modeling System Linkage with the Framework for Risk Analysis in Multimedia Environmental Systems

Description: The information in this document summarizes the approach that is used to link FRAMES-2 with GMS. This linkage will provide the user with the ability to (1) send information to a specific model in GMS, thereby modifying the models input information, as allowed by the model developer, (2) run the executable of the numerical model contained in GMS, and (3) extract, from the appropriate GMS output, information required for consumption by downstream models, which are also linked with FRAMES-2.
Date: February 13, 2006
Creator: Whelan, Gene & Castleton, Karl J.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Protein Classification Based on Analysis of Local Sequence-Structure Correspondence

Description: The goal of this project was to develop an algorithm to detect and calculate common structural motifs in compared structures, and define a set of numerical criteria to be used for fully automated motif based protein structure classification. The Protein Data Bank (PDB) contains more than 33,000 experimentally solved protein structures, and the Structural Classification of Proteins (SCOP) database, a manual classification of these structures, cannot keep pace with the rapid growth of the PDB. In… more
Date: February 13, 2006
Creator: Zemla, A T
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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[SEX fliers for UNT campus]

Description: A document advertising an event called SEX (Successfully Experience the X factor) hosted by the UNT Multicultural Center on campus. Jordan K. Spradley is the speaker. At the bottom is a short description of the purpose of the event and its purpose.
Date: February 13, 2006
Creator: University of North Texas. Multicultural Center.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Group posing during 2006 BHM]

Description: A photograph of a students during the 2006 Black History Month program. They are gathered around presenters for a picture and two are wearing jackets with lettering outlined in gold.
Date: February 13, 2006
Creator: University of North Texas. Multicultural Center.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Image
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Natural Gas: Factors Affecting Prices and Potential Impacts on Consumers

Description: Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "In early December 2005, wholesale natural gas prices topped $15 per million BTUs, more than double the prices seen last summer and seven times the prices common during the 1990s. For the 2005-2006 heating season, the U.S. Energy Information Administration predicts that residences heating with gas will pay 35 percent more, on average, than they paid last winter. This testimony addresses the following: (1) the … more
Date: February 13, 2006
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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IR DIAGNOSTICS FOR DYNAMIC FAILURE OF MATERIALS

Description: This project explores the thermodynamics of dynamic deformation and failure of materials using high-speed spatially-resolved infrared (IR) measurements of temperature. During deformation mechanical work is converted to different forms of energy depending on the deformation processes. For example, it can be dissipated as heat in purely plastic deformation, stored as strain energy in dislocations in metals and in oriented polymeric molecular structures, and expended during the generation of new s… more
Date: February 13, 2006
Creator: McElfresh, Michael & DeTeresa, S.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Industrial Competitiveness and Technological Advancement: Debate Over Government Policy

Description: This report includes discussion over the debate over government policy regarding industrial competitiveness and technological advancement. Technology and competitiveness, legislative initiatives, and various approaches are among topics discussed in this report.
Date: February 13, 2006
Creator: Schacht, Wendy H.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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China Naval Modernization: Implications for U.S. Navy Capabilities — Background and Issues for Congress

Description: Concern has grown in Congress and elsewhere about China's military modernization. The topic is an increasing factor in discussions over future required U.S. Navy capabilities. The issue for Congress addressed in this report is: How should China's military modernization be factored into decisions about U.S. Navy programs?
Date: February 13, 2006
Creator: O'Rourke, Ronald
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Metabolic engineering of proanthocyanidins through co-expression of anthocyanidin reductase and the PAP1 MYB transcription factor

Description: Article on the metabolic engineering of proanthocyanidins through co-expression of anthocyanidin reductase and the PAP1 MYB transcription factor.
Date: February 13, 2006
Creator: Xie, De-Yu; Sharma, Shashi B.; Wright, Elane; Wang, Z.-Y. (Zeng-Yu), 1963- & Dixon, R. A.
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Partner: UNT College of Arts and Sciences
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Isentropic Compression in a Strip Line, Numerical Simulations and Comparison with GEPI Shot 268

Description: Isentropic compressions in a strip line geometry are performed on the GEPI facility at Centre d'etudes de Gramat in order to study isentrope, associated Hugoniot and phase changes [1] [2]. 3D GEPI configuration has been calculated here to test the new beta version of the electromagnetism package coupled with the dynamics in LS-DYNA{reg_sign} and compared with the GEPI experiment number 268.
Date: February 13, 2006
Creator: Lefrançois, A; L'Eplattenier, P. & Burger, M.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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A 3D Parallel Beam Dynamics Code for Modeling High Brightness Beams in Photoinjectors

Description: In this paper we report on IMPACT-T, a 3D beam dynamics code for modeling high brightness beams in photoinjectors and rf linacs. IMPACT-T is one of the few codes used in the photoinjector community that has a parallel implementation, making it very useful for high statistics simulations of beam halos and beam diagnostics. It has a comprehensive set of beamline elements, and furthermore allows arbitrary overlap of their fields. It is unique in its use of space-charge solvers based on an integrat… more
Date: February 13, 2006
Creator: Qiang, Ji; Lidia, S.; Ryne, R.D. & Limborg, C.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Importance of mineralogical data for groundwater quality affectedby CO2 leakage

Description: Recently, geological storage of CO{sub 2} has been extensively investigated. The impact of leakage from CO{sub 2} storage reservoirs on groundwater quality is one of the concerns. Dissolution of CO{sub 2} in groundwater results in a decrease in pH. Such acidic condition can affect the dissolution and sorption mechanisms of many minerals (Jaffe and Wang, 2004). Some heavy-metal-bearing minerals dissolve under acidic conditions. For example, galena (PbS) can dissolve and increase significantly Pb… more
Date: February 13, 2006
Creator: Xu, Tianfu
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Isentropic Compression up to 200 KBars for LX 04, Numerical Simulations and Comparison with Experiments

Description: Isentropic compression experiments and numerical simulations on LX-04 (HMX / Viton 85/15) were performed respectively at Z accelerator facility from Sandia National Laboratory and at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in order to study the isentrope and associated Hugoniot of this HE [1][2][3][4][5]. 2D and 3D configurations have been calculated here to test the new beta version of the electromagnetism package coupled with the dynamics in Ls-Dyna and compared with the ICE Z shot 1067 on LX … more
Date: February 13, 2006
Creator: Lefrançois, A.; Hare, D.; L'Eplattenier, P. & Burger, M.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Copper Tube Compression in Z-Current Geometry, Numerical Simulations and Comparison with Cyclope Experiments

Description: Metallic tubes compressions in Z-current geometry were performed at the Cyclope facility from Gramat Research Center in order to study the behavior of metals under large strain at high strain rate [1]. 3D configurations of cylinder compressions have been calculated here to benchmark the new beta version of the electromagnetism package coupled with the dynamics in Ls-Dyna and compared with the Cyclope experiments. The electromagnetism module is being developed in the general-purpose explicit and… more
Date: February 13, 2006
Creator: Lefrançois, A.; L'Eplattenier, P. & Burger, M.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Data Quality Issues Associated with the Presence of Chlorinated Hydrocarbons in Tank Vapor Samples

Description: Characterization data for the gases and vapors in the Hanford Site high-level radioactive waste tank headspaces are compiled and available via the TWINS interface (TWINS 2006). A recent re-examination of selected data from TWINS has shown a number of anomalies with respect to compounds that are (1) not expected to be present in the tank based on operational knowledge and (2) not found consistently in the same tank by alternative analysis methods or repeat sampling. Numerous results for two chem… more
Date: February 13, 2006
Creator: Evans, John C. & Huckaby, James L.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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