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Defense Management: Comprehensive Strategy and Annual Reporting Are Needed to Measure Progress and Costs of DOD's Global Posture Restructuring

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The Department of Defense's (DOD) Integrated Global Posture and Basing Strategy calls for a comprehensive restructuring of U.S. forces overseas. DOD's planned changes will require billions of dollars to implement at a time when DOD is supporting operations in Iraq and realigning domestic bases. As requested, GAO examined (1) the extent to which DOD has articulated a global posture strategy that has the … more
Date: September 13, 2006
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Federal Tax Policy: Information on Selected Capital Facilities Related to the Essential Governmental Function Test

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Unlike state and local governments, Indian tribal governments are in general restricted to using tax-exempt bonds for activities that are an "essential government function," where "essential government function" does not include functions not customarily performed by state and local governments. This restriction has been difficult to enforce by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and increased the tax co… more
Date: September 13, 2006
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. Aerospace Industry: Progress in Implementing Aerospace Commission Recommendations, and Remaining Challenges

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The U.S. aerospace industry's wide-ranging activities--including commercial aviation, national security, and space exploration--make it critical to the economic health and strategic strength of our nation. However, the industry faces challenges, such as a national air traffic management system that, in its present form, cannot handle expected increases in demand; an aging aerospace workforce; and an inc… more
Date: September 13, 2006
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Critical Infrastructure Protection: DHS Leadership Needed to Enhance Cybersecurity

Description: Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Increasing computer interconnectivity has revolutionized the way that our nation and much of the world communicate and conduct business. While the benefits have been enormous, this widespread interconnectivity also poses significant risks to our nation's computer systems and, more importantly, to the critical operations and infrastructures they support. The Homeland Security Act of 2002 and federal policy est… more
Date: September 13, 2006
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Investigation of GPS/IMU Positioning System for Mining Equipment

Description: The objective of this project is to investigate the applicability of a combined Global Positioning System and Inertial Measurement Unit (GPS/IMU) for information based displays on earthmoving machines and for automated earthmoving machines in the future. This technology has the potential of allowing an information-based product like Caterpillar's Computer Aided Earthmoving System (CAES) to operate in areas with satellite shading. Satellite shading is an issue in open pit mining because machines… more
Date: September 13, 2006
Creator: Stratton, Ken L.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Dual-phase argon ionization detector for measurement of coherent elastic neutrino scattering and medium-energy nuclear recoils

Description: We propose to build and deploy a 10-kg dual-phase argon ionization detector for the detection of coherent neutrino-nucleus scattering, which is described by the reaction; (V) + (Z,N) {yields} (v) + (Z,N). Our group would be the first to make this measurement. Its detection would validate (or refute) central tenets of the Standard Model. The existence of this process is also relevant to astrophysics, where coherent neutrino scattering is assumed to impede energy transport within neutron stars. W… more
Date: September 13, 2006
Creator: Winant, C D; Bernstein, A; Hagmann, C; Madden, N & Stoeffl, W
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Evolution of Two-Component Systems in Bacteria RevealsDifferent Strategies for Niche Adaptation

Description: Two-component systems including histidine protein kinasesrepresent the primary signal transduction paradigm in prokaryoticorganisms. To understand how these systems adapt to allow organisms todetect niche-specific signals, we analyzed the phylogenetic distributionof nearly 5000 histidine protein kinases from 207 sequenced prokaryoticgenomes. We found that many genomes carry a large repertoire of recentlyevolved signaling genes, which may reflect selective pressure to adapt tonew environmental c… more
Date: September 13, 2006
Creator: Alm, Eric; Huang, Katherine & Arkin, Adam
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Fluidized Bed Steam Reformer (FBSR) Product: Monolith Formation and Characterization

Description: The most important requirement for Hanford's low activity waste (LAW) form for shallow land disposal is the chemical durability of the product. A secondary, but still essential specification, is the compressive strength of the material with regards to the strength of the material under shallow land disposal conditions, e.g. the weight of soil overburden and potential intrusion by future generations, because the term ''near-surface disposal'' indicates disposal in the uppermost portion, or appro… more
Date: September 13, 2006
Creator: Jantzen, Carol M.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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A Study of the Structure and Metabolic Processes of a Novel Membrane Cytochrome in an Extreme Microbial Community

Description: The action of iron oxidizing microbes can generate acid mine drainage (AMD), characterized by acidic, toxic metal-tainted water that pollutes various water resources. The acidophilic biofilm community populating the Richmond mine, a pyrite (FeS{sub 2}) deposit in Northern California, is a key component of the oxidation of Fe(II) as well as subsequent pyrite dissolution. These natural biofilms contain many novel proteins that are being studied in order to understand how these microbes oxidize ir… more
Date: September 13, 2006
Creator: Wong, Stephanie E.; Jeans, Christopher & Thelen, Michael P.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Plasma and Beam Production Experiments with HYBRIS, aMicrowave-assisted H- Ion

Description: A two-stage ion source concept had been presented a few years ago, consisting of a proven H- ion source and a 2.45-GHz Electron Cyclotron-Resonance (ECR) type ion source, here used as a plasma cathode. This paper describes the experimental development path pursued at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, from the early concept to a working unit that produces plasma in both stages and creates a negative particle beam. Without cesiation applied to the second stage, the H{sup -} fraction of this … more
Date: September 13, 2006
Creator: Keller, R. AUTHOR-Kwan, S.; Hahto, S.; Regis, M. & Wallig, J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Nonequilibrium pattern formation and spatiotemporal chaos in fluid convection

Description: The final report for grant number DE-FG03-98ER14891 summarizes the application of the unique simulation capabilities developed under DOE support to investigations of important issues in pattern formation and spatiotemporal chaos in Rayleigh-Benard convection, particularly emphasizing quantitative contact with the active experimental programs.
Date: September 13, 2006
Creator: Cross, Michael
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Alaska Native Allotments: Alternatives to Address Conflicts with Utility Rights-of-way

Description: Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "In 1906, the Alaska Native Allotment Act authorized the Secretary of the Interior to allot individual Alaska Natives (Native) a homestead of up to 160 acres. The validity of some of Copper Valley Electric Association's (Copper Valley) rights-of-way within Alaska Native allotments is the subject of ongoing dispute; in some cases the allottees assert that Copper Valley's electric lines trespass on their land. T… more
Date: September 13, 2006
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Internet Infrastructure: Challenges in Developing a Public/Private Recovery Plan

Description: Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Since the early 1990s, growth in the use of the Internet has revolutionized the way that our nation communicates and conducts business. While the Internet originated as a U.S. government-sponsored research project, the vast majority of its infrastructure is currently owned and operated by the private sector. Federal policy recognizes the need to prepare for debilitating Internet disruptions and tasks the Depa… more
Date: September 13, 2006
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Endangered Species Act (ESA) in the 109th Congress: Conflicting Values and Difficult Choices

Description: This report discusses conflicting values and difficult choices related to the Endangered Species Act (ESA) in the 109th Congress.It also identifies bills that were introduced in the 109th Congress to address specific concerns related to how the ESA is implemented and how endangered species are managed.
Date: September 13, 2006
Creator: Buck, Eugene H.; Corn, M. Lynne; Sheikh, Pervaze A.; Baldwin, Pamela & Meltz, Robert
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Thermal Analysis of the ILC Superconductin Quadrupole

Description: Critical to a particle accelerator's functioning, superconducting magnets serve to focus and aim the particle beam. The Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) has received a prototype superconducting quadrupole designed and built by the Centro de Investigaciones Energ{acute e}ticas, Medioambientales y Tecnol{acute o}gicas (CIEMAT) to be evaluated for the International Linear Collider (ILC) project. To ensure proper functioning of the magnet, the device must be maintained at cryogenic tempera… more
Date: September 13, 2006
Creator: Ross, Ian & /Rose-Hulman Inst., Terre Haute /SLAC
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Student with Brazil poster from 2006 Carnival]

Description: A photograph of students sitting at the booth for Brazil at the 2006 Carnival celebration. They are seated behind the table which has a green, yellow and blue table cloth on it. There is a poster that is folded in half with maps and information about Brazil on it and there is a cooking pot with a drink in it and cups for people to try it. They are under a tent and other groups are set up around them.
Date: September 13, 2006
Creator: University of North Texas. Multicultural Center.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Panama poster for 2006 Carnival]

Description: A photograph of a tri-fold poster about Panama for the 2006 Carnival celebration. It has photos, maps, the flag, and information about the country on it.
Date: September 13, 2006
Creator: University of North Texas. Multicultural Center.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[2006 Carnival entrance booth]

Description: A photograph of the entrance booth to the 2006 Carnival celebration.The two tables have a banner strung across them with the Multicultural Center logo on one side and information about the Carnival event on the other side. The tent with booths under it is visible past the tables.
Date: September 13, 2006
Creator: University of North Texas. Multicultural Center.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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