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Military Training: DOD Needs a Comprehensive Plan to Manage Encroachment on Training Ranges

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The following eight "encroachment" issues are hampering the military's ability to carry out realistic training: endangered species' critical habitat, unexploded ordnance and munitions, competition for radio frequency spectra, protected marine resources, competition for airspace, air pollution, noise pollution, and urban growth around military installations. Officials at all the installations and major commands GAO v… more
Date: May 16, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Nuclear Nonproliferation: U.S. Efforts to Help Other Countries Combat Nuclear Smuggling Need Strengthened Coordination and Planning

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The worldwide trafficking and smuggling of nuclear material has reportedly increased in recent years. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reports 181 confirmed cases of illicit trafficking of nuclear material since 1993. Many of the cases reported by IAEA involved material that could be used to produce a "dirty bomb" that could spread radioactive contamination over a wide area. Nuclear material can b… more
Date: May 16, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Workforce Investment Act: Coordination of TANF Services Through One-Stops Has Increased Despite Challenges

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "A central focus of welfare reform has been to help needy adults with children find and keep jobs. The Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA) unifies a fragmented employment and training system. Despite its similar fundamental focus, the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program was not required to participate in the one-stop system, although many states are coordinating their TANF services through one-s… more
Date: May 16, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Energy Efficiency Standards and Labels in North America: Opportunities for Harmonization

Description: To support the North American Energy Working Group's Expert Group on Energy Efficiency (NAEWG-EE), USDOE commissioned the Collaborative Labeling and Appliance Standards Program (CLASP) to prepare a resource document comparing current standards, labels, and test procedure regulations in Canada, Mexico, and the United States. The resulting document reached the following conclusions: Out of 24 energy-using products for which at least one of the three countries has energy efficiency regulations, th… more
Date: May 16, 2002
Creator: Vanwiemcgrory, Laura; Wiel, Stephen; Van Wie McGrory, Laura & Harrington, Lloyd
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Final Technical Report, Outstanding Junior Investigator Award for De-fg02-94er40869

Description: This report summarizes the research of the Principal Investigator, his postdoctoral research associates, and his students during the period of the award. The majority of the work concerns the behavior of hadrons containing strange, charm, bottom and top quarks, with a particular focus on the extraction of Cabibbo--Kobayashi--Maskawa matrix elements from experiments performed on such systems.
Date: May 16, 2002
Creator: Falk, Adam F.
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Measurement Issues for Energy Efficient Commercial Buildings: Productivity and Performance Uncertainties

Description: In previous reports, we have identified two potentially important issues, solutions to which would increase the attractiveness of DOE-developed technologies in commercial buildings energy systems. One issue concerns the fact that in addition to saving energy, many new technologies offer non-energy benefits that contribute to building productivity (firm profitability). The second issue is that new technologies are typically unproven in the eyes of decision makers and must bear risk premiums that… more
Date: May 16, 2002
Creator: Jones, D.W.
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Energy Efficiency, Building Productivity and the Commercial Buildings Market

Description: The energy-efficiency gap literature suggests that building buyers are often short-sighted in their failure to apply life-cycle costing principles to energy efficient building technologies, with the result that under investment in these advanced technology occurs. This study examines the reasons this behavior may occur, by analyzing the pressures that market forces place on purchasers of buildings. Our basic conclusion is that the fundamental manner in which the buildings sector does business c… more
Date: May 16, 2002
Creator: Jones, D.W.
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Electroproduction of strangeness on light nuclei.

Description: The A(e,e{prime} K{sup +})YX reaction has been investigated in Hall C at Jefferson Laboratory for 6 different targets. Data were taken for Q{sup 2} {approx} 0.35 and 0.5 GeV{sup 2} at a beam energy of 3.245 GeV for {sup 1}H, {sup 2}H, {sup 3}He, {sup 4}He, C and Al targets. The missing mass spectra are fitted with Monte Carlo simulations taking into account the production of {Lambda} and {Sigma}{sup 0} hyperon production off the proton, and {Sigma}{sup -} off the neutron. Models for quasifree p… more
Date: May 16, 2002
Creator: Dohrmann, F.; Abbott, D.; Ahmidouch, A.; Ambrozewicz, P.; Armstrong, C. S.; Arrington, J. et al.
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Are recoil polarization measurements of G{sup P}{ovr sub E}/G{sup P}{ovr sub M} consistent with Rosenbluth separation data?

Description: Recent recoil polarization measurements in Hall A at Jefferson Lab show that the ratio of the electric to magnetic form factors for the proton decreases significantly with increasing Q{sup 2}. This contradicts previous Rosenbluth measurements which indicate approximate scaling of the form factors ({micro}{sub p} G{sub E}{sup p}(Q{sup 2})/G{sub M}{sup p} (Q{sup 2}) {approx} 1). The cross section measurements were reanalyzed to try and understand the source of this discrepancy. They find that the… more
Date: May 16, 2002
Creator: Arrington, J.
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Simulation of Transport Phenomena in Aluminum Nitride Single-Crystal Growth

Description: The goal of this project is to apply advanced computer-aided modeling techniques for simulating coupled radiation transfer present in the bulk growth of aluminum nitride (AlN) single-crystals. Producing and marketing high-quality single-crystals of AlN is currently the focus of Crystal IS, Inc., which is engaged in building a new generation of substrates for electronic and optical-electronic devices. Modeling and simulation of this company's proprietary innovative processing of AlN can substant… more
Date: May 16, 2002
Creator: de Almeida, VF
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Expanding the Allowable TRUPACT-II Payload

Description: The partnership between the Carlsbad Field Office (CBFO) and the TRU and Mixed Waste Focus Area (TMFA) was rewarded when several long-term projects came to fruition. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) removed some of the conservatism in the TRUPACT-II Safety Analysis Report for Packaging (SARP) with their approval of Revision 19. The SARP strictly limits the payload constituents to ensure that hydrogen gas and other flammable volatile organic compounds (VOCs) don't build up to flammable/ex… more
Date: May 16, 2002
Creator: St. Michel, W. (INEEL) & Lott, S. (LANL-Carlsbad Operations)
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Planning for Site Transition to Long-Term Stewardship: Identification of Requirements and Issues

Description: A systematic methodology is presented and applied for the identification of requirements and issues pertaining to the planning for, and transition to, long term stewardship (LTS). The method has been applied to three of the twelve identified LTS functions. The results of the application of the methodology to contaminated and uncontaminated federal real property in those three functions are presented. The issues that could be seen as impediments to the implementation of LTS are also identified f… more
Date: May 16, 2002
Creator: Banaee, J.
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Field testing of component-level model-based fault detection methods for mixing boxes and VAV fan systems

Description: An automated fault detection and diagnosis tool for HVAC systems is being developed, based on an integrated, life-cycle, approach to commissioning and performance monitoring. The tool uses component-level HVAC equipment models implemented in the SPARK equation-based simulation environment. The models are configured using design information and component manufacturers' data and then fine-tuned to match the actual performance of the equipment by using data measured during functional tests of the … more
Date: May 16, 2002
Creator: Xu, Peng & Haves, Philip
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The Environmental Management Core Laboratories - A Collaborative Effort to Enhance Cleanup

Description: Acknowledging that the magnitude and diversity of the critical issues facing the DOE-EM cannot be addressed by a single institution, the Laboratory Directors established the EM Core Laboratories. This collaborative network ensures that the best available resources are addressing environmental quality issues through the introduction of critical new science and technology. Based upon the Top-to-Bottom Review, the EM program is shifting the focus of its cleanup efforts to accelerate schedules to r… more
Date: May 16, 2002
Creator: Birrer, S. A.; Frandsen, G. B. & Kearns, P. K.
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Securing collaborative environments

Description: The diverse set of organizations and software components involved in a typical collaboratory make providing a seamless security solution difficult. In addition, the users need support for a broad range of frequency and locations for access to the collaboratory. A collaboratory security solution needs to be robust enough to ensure that valid participants are not denied access because of its failure. There are many tools that can be applied to the task of securing collaborative environments and t… more
Date: May 16, 2002
Creator: Agarwal, Deborah; Jackson, Keith & Thompson, Mary
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2001 Columbia River Recreation Survey -- Implications for Hanford Site Integrated Assessment

Description: This report presents the results from the Columbia River Recreation Survey conducted in the summer of 2001. The survey combined on-site personal interviews with parties engaged in river recreation with on-site field observations to develop a picture of summer river recreation on the Columbia. The study area stretched from just below Priest Rapids Dam in the north to McNary Dam in the south, and was divided into four "Areas" that correspond to the river areas used by the Groundwater/Vadose Zone … more
Date: May 16, 2002
Creator: Anderson, Dave M.; Scott, Michael J.; Bunn, Amoret L.; Fowler, Richard A.; Prendergast, Ellen L.; Miley, Terri B. et al.
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Opportunities for Catalysis in The 21st Century. A report from the Basic Energy Sciences Advisory Committee

Description: Chemical catalysis affects our lives in myriad ways. Catalysis provides a means of changing the rates at which chemical bonds are formed and broken and of controlling the yields of chemical reactions to increase the amounts of desirable products from these reactions and reduce the amounts of undesirable ones. Thus, it lies at the heart of our quality of life: The reduced emissions of modern cars, the abundance of fresh food at our stores, and the new pharmaceuticals that improve our health are … more
Date: May 16, 2002
Creator: White, J. M. & Bercaw, J.
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Improving exchange-spring magnets with interfacial modification.

Description: Using magnetic thin film multilayers as model exchange-spring systems proves to be the promising intellectual path that helps generate the mechanistic and materials insights needed to create high-performance permanent magnet materials. We demonstrate a new route to improve exchange-spring magnets whereby the hard/soft interface in epitaxial Sm-Co/Fe and Sm-Co/Co bilayer thin film structures is modified via thermal processing. The effect of thermal processing is modeled with a graded interfacial… more
Date: May 16, 2002
Creator: Jiang, J. S.; Pearson, J. E.; Bader, S. D. & Liu, J. P.
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Increased Efficiencies in the INEEL SAR/TSR/USQ Process

Description: The Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory (INEEL) has implemented a number of efficiencies to reduce the time and cost of preparing safety basis documents. The INEEL is continuing to look at other aspects of the safety basis process to identify other efficiencies that can be implemented and remain in compliance with Title 10 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 830. A six-sigma approach is used to identify areas to improve efficiencies and develop the action plan for impleme… more
Date: May 16, 2002
Creator: Cole, N.E.
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Making Energy-Efficiency and Productivity Investments in Commercial Buildings: Choice of Investment Models

Description: This study examines the decision to invest in buildings and the types of investment decision rules that may be employed to inform the ''go--no go'' decision. There is a range of decision making tools available to help in investment choices, which range from simple rules of thumb such as payback periods, to life-cycle analysis, to decision theoretic approaches. Payback period analysis tends to point toward lower first costs, whereas life-cycle analysis tends to minimize uncertainties over future… more
Date: May 16, 2002
Creator: Jones, D.W.
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Long-Term Stewardship Science and Technology Requirements

Description: To ensure technology developed for long-term stewardship will meet existing requirements, a review of requirements was performed. In addition to identifying existing science and technology related requirements, gaps and conflicts of requirements were identified.
Date: May 16, 2002
Creator: McDonald, J. K. & Nickelson, R. A.
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Monte Carlo Evaluation of the Improvements in Nuclear Materials Identification System (NMIS) Resulting From a DT Neutron Generator

Description: Nuclear safeguards active measurements that rely on the time correlation between fast neutrons and gamma rays from the same fission are a promising technique. Previous studies have shown the feasibility of this method, in conjunction with the use of artificial neural networks, to estimate the mass and enrichment of fissile samples enclosed in special, sealed containers. This paper evaluates the use of the associated particle sealed tube neutron generator (APSTNG) as the interrogation source in … more
Date: May 16, 2002
Creator: Pozzi, S. A. & Mihalczo, J. T.
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