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Guardianships: Collaboration Needed to Protect Incapacitated Elderly People

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "As people age, some become incapable of managing their personal and financial affairs. To protect these people, state laws provide for court appointment of guardians to act on their behalf. In many cases federal programs provide these incapacitated people financial benefits. GAO was asked to examine: (1) what state courts do to ensure that guardians fulfill their responsibilities, (2) what guardianship … more
Date: July 13, 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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Border Security: Additional Actions Needed to Eliminate Weaknesses in the Visa Revocation Process

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The National Strategy for Homeland Security calls for preventing foreign terrorists from entering our country and using all legal means to identify; halt; and where appropriate, prosecute or bring immigration or other civil charges against terrorists in the United States. GAO reported in June 2003 that the visa revocation process needed to be strengthened as an antiterrorism tool and recommended that th… more
Date: July 13, 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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U.S. Postal Service: USPS Needs to Clearly Communicate How Postal Services May Be Affected by Its Retail Optimization Plans

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "A key element of the ongoing postal reform deliberations before Congress is the U.S. Postal Service's (USPS) ability to carry out its mission of providing universal mail delivery and retail services at reasonable rates. Many are concerned that USPS's mission is at risk in the current operating environment of increasing competition and decreasing mail volumes. Preserving universal service, particularly i… more
Date: July 13, 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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Human Capital: Increasing Agencies' Use of New Hiring Flexibilities

Description: Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Improving the federal hiring process is critical given that the executive branch hired nearly 95,000 new employees during fiscal year 2003 and significant hiring may continue over the next few years. In May 2003, GAO issued a report highlighting several key problems in the federal hiring process. That report concluded that the process needed improvement and included recommendations to address the problems. La… more
Date: July 13, 2004
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Surrogate Nuclear Reactions and the Origin of the Heavy Elements

Description: An innovative method for indirectly determining reaction cross sections via Surrogate Nuclear Reactions is presented. Exploring indirect approaches for obtaining reaction cross sections is important since a large number of nuclear reactions relevant to astrophysics cannot be measured with currently available techniques. A program is outlined for developing a comprehensive framework for planning and interpreting experiments that can yield the cross sections of interest. The applications will foc… more
Date: July 13, 2004
Creator: Escher, J; Ahle, L; Bernstein, L; Church, J; Dietrich, F; Forssen, C et al.
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Method of Determining the Extent to which a Nickel Structure has been Attached by a Fluorine-Containing Gas

Description: The method of determining the extent to which a nickel structure has been attacked by a halogen containing gas to which it has been exposed which comprises preparing a quantity of water substantially free from dissolved oxygen, passing ammonia gas through a cuprammonium solution to produce ammonia substantially free from oxygen, dissolving said oxygen-free ammonia in said water to produce a saturated aqueous ammonia solution free from uncombined oxygen, treating at least a portion of said nicke… more
Date: July 13, 2004
Creator: Brusie, James P.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Inspection of Fusion Joints in Plastic Pipe

Description: The standard method of joining plastic pipe in the field is the butt fusion process. As in any pipeline application, joint quality greatly affects overall operational safety of the system. Currently no simple, reliable, cost effective method of assessing the quality of fusion joints in the field exists. Visual examination and pressure testing are current non-destructive approaches, which do not provide any assurance about the long-term pipeline performance. This project will develop, demonstrat… more
Date: July 13, 2004
Creator: Savitski, Alex; Reichert, Connie & Coffey, John
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Lower Saccharide Nanometric Materials and Methods

Description: A ceramic composition having at least one nanometric ceramic powder, at least one lower saccharide, and water. The composition is useful in many industrial applications, including preparation of stronger and substantially defect free green and sintered ceramic bodies.
Date: July 13, 2004
Creator: Schilling, Christopher H.; Tomasik, Piotr & Sikora, Marek
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Measurement of theta{sub 13} with reactor neutrinos

Description: Recent experimental results have provided unambiguous evidence that neutrinos have a small but finite mass and mix from one type into another. The phenomenon of neutrino mixing is characterized by the coupling between the neutrino flavor (nu{sub e,mu,tau}) and mass eigenstates (nu{sub 1,2,3}) and the associated mixing angles. Previous neutrino oscillation experiments have determined two of the three mixing angles in the neutrino mixing matrix, U{sub MNSP}. Using multiple neutrino detectors plac… more
Date: July 13, 2004
Creator: Heeger, Karsten M.; Freedman, Stuart J.; Kadel, Richard W. & Luk, Kam-Biu
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Ground Motion Saturation Evaluation (GMSE) Data Needs Workshop

Description: The objective of the data needs workshop is to identify potential near-term (12-18 month) studies that would reduce uncertainty in extremely low probability (< 10{sup -5}/yr) earthquake ground motions at Yucca Mountain. Recommendations made at the workshop will be considered by BSC and DOE management in formulating plans for FY05 seismic-related investigations. Based on studies done earlier this year, a bound on peak ground velocities (PGVs), consisting of a uniform distribution from 150 cm/… more
Date: July 13, 2004
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Bounding Peak Ground Velocities for Seismic Events at Yucca Mountain, Nevada

Description: Earthquake ground motions have been assessed using a probabilistic seismic hazard analysis (PSHA) of the proposed repository for spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive wastes at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. To meet the applicable regulations, consideration must be given to ground motions that have probabilities of exceedance as low as 10{sup -8}/yr. In the PSHA, aleatory variability in ground motion attenuation relations is characterized by unbounded lognormal distributions. At extremely low … more
Date: July 13, 2004
Creator: King, J.; Coppersmith, K. & Quittmeyer, R.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Border Security: Additional Actions Needed to Eliminate Weaknesses in the Visa Revocation Process

Description: Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The National Strategy for Homeland Security calls for preventing foreign terrorists from entering our country and using all legal means to identify; halt; and where appropriate, prosecute or bring immigration or other civil charges against terrorists in the United States. GAO reported in June 2003 that the visa revocation process needed to be strengthened as an antiterrorism tool and recommended that the Depa… more
Date: July 13, 2004
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Multi Dimensional Phase Only Filter

Description: Today's sensor networks provide a wide variety of application domain for high-speed pattern classification systems. Such high-speed systems can be achieved by the use of optical implementation of specialized POF correlator. In this research we discuss the modeling and simulation of the phase only filter (POF) in the task of pattern classification of multi-dimensional data.
Date: July 13, 2004
Creator: Gudmundsson, K. & Awwal, A.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Advancing Justice Through DNA Technology Act of 2003 (H.R. 3214): A Section-by-Section Analysis

Description: This report summarizes the Advancing Justice Through DNA Technology Act (H.R. 3214). Additionally, the report covers each title of the act such as title one expanding the ability to qualify for the DNA Backlog Grant Program.
Date: July 13, 2004
Creator: Velez Pollack, Estela I.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Apparent molar volumes and apparent molar heat capacities of Pr(NO3)3(aq), Gd(NO3)3(aq), Ho(NO3)3(aq), and Y(NO3)3(aq) at T = (288.15, 298.15, 313.15 and 328.15) K and p = 0.1 MPa

Description: Relative densities and relative massic heat capacities have been measured for acidified solutions (prepared at University of Lethbridge) of Y(NO{sub 3}){sub 3}(aq), Pr(NO{sub 3}){sub 3}(aq), and Gd(NO{sub 3}){sub 3}(aq) at T = (288.15, 298.15, 313.15, and 328.15) K and p = 0.1 MPa. In addition, relative densities and massic heat capacities have been measured at the same temperatures and pressure for Y(NO{sub 3}){sub 3}(aq) and Ho(NO{sub 3}){sub 3}(aq) solutions which were supplied from the Lawr… more
Date: July 13, 2004
Creator: Rard, J; Lui, J; Erickson, K; Munoz, J & Hakin, A H
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Pay Equity Legislation in the 108th Congress

Description: This report discusses the historical presence of a gendered wage gap and the acts, such as the Equal Pay Act (EPA), and compensation for workers to shrink the gap. The report discusses the opposition who believe the gender wage gap will naturally reduce when women continue working and working themselves up the corporate ladder.
Date: July 13, 2004
Creator: Dale, Charles V. & Levine, Linda
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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