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National Emergency Grants: Labor Is Instituting Changes to Improve Award Process, but Further Actions Are Required to Expedite Grant Awards and Improve Data

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Department of Labor (Labor) awards national emergency grants to states and local areas to provide assistance to workers who lose their jobs because of major economic dislocations or disasters. Most grants awarded are regular grants to assist workers affected by plant closings or mass layoffs. Questions have been raised about whether grant funds are getting to states and local areas quickly enough. GAO was … more
Date: April 16, 2004
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Project SAFECOM: Key Cross-Agency Emergency Communications Effort Requires Stronger Collaboration

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "One of the five priorities in the President's Management Agenda is the expansion of electronic government (e-government)--the use of Internet applications to enhance access to and delivery of government information and services. Project SAFECOM is one of the 25 initiatives sponsored by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to implement this agenda. Managed by the Department of Homeland Security, the projec… more
Date: April 16, 2004
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Federal Advisory Committees: Additional Guidance Could Help Agencies Better Ensure Independence and Balance

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Because advisory committees are established to advise federal decision makers on significant national issues, it is essential that their membership be, and be perceived as being, free from conflicts of interest and balanced as a whole. GAO was asked to (1) describe the role of federal advisory committees in the development of national policies, (2) examine the extent to which existing guidance and policies and… more
Date: April 16, 2004
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Mineral Revenues: Cost and Revenue Information Needed to Compare Different Approaches for Collecting Federal Oil and Gas Royalties

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "In fiscal year 2003, the federal government collected $5.6 billion in royalties from oil and gas production on federal lands. Although most oil and gas companies pay royalties in cash, the Department of the Interior's Minerals Management Service (MMS) has the option to take a percentage of the oil and gas produced and sell this product-- known as "taking royalties in kind (RIK)." MMS has taken royalties in kin… more
Date: April 16, 2004
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Astro-E2 XRS/EBIT Microcalorimeter XC-ray Spectrometer

Description: The X-ray Spectrometer (XRS) instrument is a revolutionary non-dispersive spectrometer that will form the basis for the Astro-E2 observatory to be launched in 2005. We have recently installed a flight spare XRS microcalorimeter spectrometer at the EBIT-I and SuperEBIT facility at LLNL replacing the XRS from the earlier Astro-E mission and providing twice the resolving power. The XRS microcalorimeter is an x-ray detector that senses the heat deposited by the incident photon. It achieves a high e… more
Date: April 16, 2004
Creator: Porter, F S; Brown, G V; Boyce, K R; Kelley, R L; Kilbourne, C A; Beiersdorfer, P et al.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Supersymmetric Froggatt-Nielsen Models with Baryon- and Lepton-Number Violation

Description: We systematically investigate the embedding of U(1)_X Froggatt-Nielsen models in (four-dimensional) local supersymmetry. We restrict ourselves to models with a single flavon field. We do not impose a discrete symmetry by hand, e.g., R-parity, baryon-parity or lepton-parity. Thus we determine the order of magnitude of the baryon- and/or lepton violating coupling constants through the Froggatt-Nielsen mechanism. We then scrutinize whether the predicted coupling constants are in accord with weak o… more
Date: April 16, 2004
Creator: Dreiner, Herbi K. & Thormeier, Marc
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Chemical Interactions in Multimetal/Zeolite Catalysts

Description: This two-year project has led to a significant improvement in the fundamental understanding of the catalytic action of zeolite-supported redox catalysts. It turned out to be essential that we could combine four strategies for the preparation of catalysts containing transition metal (TM) ions in zeolite cavities: (1) ion exchange from aqueous solution; (2) chemical vapor deposition (CVD) of a volatile halide onto a zeolite in its acidic form; (3) solid state ion exchange; and (4) hydrothermal sy… more
Date: April 16, 2004
Creator: Sachtler, Wolfgang M. H.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Toward Femtosecond X-ray Spectroscopy at the Advanced Light Source

Description: The realization of tunable, ultrashort pulse x-ray sources promises to open new venues of science and to shed new light on long-standing problems in condensed matter physics and chemistry. Fundamentally new information can now be accessed. Used in a pump-probe spectroscopy, ultrashort x-ray pulses provide a means to monitor atomic rearrangement and changes in electronic structure in condensed-matter and chemical systems on the physically-limiting time-scales of atomic motion. This opens the way… more
Date: April 16, 2004
Creator: Chong, Henry Herng Wei
Item Type: Refine your search to only Thesis or Dissertation
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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One-Step PCR Sequencing. Final Technical Progress Report for February 15, 1997 - November 30, 2001

Description: We investigated new chemistries and alternate approaches for direct gene sequencing and detection based on the properties of boron-substituted nucleotides as chain delimiters in lieu of conventional chain terminators. Chain terminators, such as the widely used Sanger dideoxynucleotide truncators, stop DNA synthesis during replication and hence are incompatible with further PCR amplification. Chain delimiters, on the other hand, are chemically-modified, ''stealth'' nucleotides that act like norm… more
Date: April 16, 2004
Creator: Shaw, B. R.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Indicators of the energy error in the Linac to Booster transfer

Description: The match between the Linac beam energy and the energy determined by the bending field of the Booster magnets is crucial for rf capture, beam quality, and the transmission efficiency in a Booster cycle. The observation of the injection energy match is important for injection tuning. Several signals, such as phase shift drive (PSD), radial position error (RPOS), synchrotron phase (SPD), and fast phase error (FPERR), provide consistent information on the energy match and can be used for an inject… more
Date: April 16, 2004
Creator: Yang, Xi & MacLachlan, James
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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YUCCA MOUNTAIN SITE DESCRIPTION

Description: The ''Yucca Mountain Site Description'' summarizes, in a single document, the current state of knowledge and understanding of the natural system at Yucca Mountain. It describes the geology; geochemistry; past, present, and projected future climate; regional hydrologic system; and flow and transport within the unsaturated and saturated zones at the site. In addition, it discusses factors affecting radionuclide transport, the effect of thermal loading on the natural system, and tectonic hazards. … more
Date: April 16, 2004
Creator: Simmons, A. M.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analysis for Southern California Coastal Facilities

Description: The overall objective of this study was to develop probabilistic seismic hazard estimates for the coastal and offshore area of Ventura, Los Angeles and Orange counties for use as a basis for the University of Southern California (USC) to develop physical models of tsunami for the coastal regions and by the California State Lands Commission (SLC) to develop regulatory standards for seismic loading and liquefaction evaluation of marine oil terminals. The probabilistic seismic hazard analysis (PSH… more
Date: April 16, 2004
Creator: Savy, J & Foxall, B
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Progressive Compression of Volumetric Subdivision Meshes

Description: We present a progressive compression technique for volumetric subdivision meshes based on the slow growing refinement algorithm. The system is comprised of a wavelet transform followed by a progressive encoding of the resulting wavelet coefficients. We compare the efficiency of two wavelet transforms. The first transform is based on the smoothing rules used in the slow growing subdivision technique. The second transform is a generalization of lifted linear B-spline wavelets to the same multi-ti… more
Date: April 16, 2004
Creator: Laney, D & Pascucci, V
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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X-ray Spectroscopy with Elliptical Crystals and Face-On Framing Cameras

Description: X-ray spectrometers using elliptically bent crystals have desirable properties for applications requiring broad spectral coverage, good spectral resolution, and minimized source broadening. Previous work used custom-positioned film or microchannel plate detectors. They find it is also useful and cost-effective to field elliptical crystals in existing snouts on the face-on gated microchannel plate framing cameras commonly used at many facilities. they numerically explored the full design space (… more
Date: April 16, 2004
Creator: Heeter, R.; Emig, J.; Fournier, K.; Hansen, S.; May, M. & Young, B.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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