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United Nations: Observations on the Oil for Food Program and Iraq's Food Security

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Oil for Food program was established by the United Nations and Iraq in 1996 to address concerns about the humanitarian situation after international sanctions were imposed in 1990. The program allowed the Iraqi government to use the proceeds of its oil sales to pay for food, medicine, and infrastructure maintenance. The program appears to have helped the Iraqi people. From 1996 through 2001, the average daily fo… more
Date: June 16, 2004
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Management Report: Opportunities for Improvements in FDIC's Internal Controls and Accounting Procedures

Description: Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "In February 2004, we issued our opinions on the calendar year 2003 financial statements of the Bank Insurance Fund (BIF), the Savings Association Insurance Fund (SAIF), and the FSLIC Resolution Fund (FRF). We also issued our opinion on the effectiveness of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation's (FDIC) internal controls as of December 31, 2003, and our evaluation of FDIC's compliance with significant provis… more
Date: June 16, 2004
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Pipeline Safety: Preliminary Information on the Office of Pipeline Safety's Efforts to Strengthen Its Enforcement Activities

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Interstate pipelines carrying natural gas and hazardous liquids (such as petroleum products) are safer to the public than other modes of freight transportation. The Office of Pipeline Safety (OPS), the federal agency that administers the national regulatory program to ensure safe pipeline transportation, has been undertaking a broad range of activities to make pipeline transportation safer. However, the number of se… more
Date: June 16, 2004
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Border Security: Agencies Need to Better Coordinate Their Strategies and Operations on Federal Lands

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Since the mid-1990s--and especially since September 11--the government has focused attention and resources on preventing illegal aliens, drug smugglers, and potential terrorists from entering the United States across its land borders with Mexico and Canada. The Border Patrol is responsible for protecting the nation's borders. However, a significant portion of the borderlands are federal or tribal lands managed… more
Date: June 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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Solution Verification Linked to Model Validation, Reliability, and Confidence

Description: The concepts of Verification and Validation (V&V) can be oversimplified in a succinct manner by saying that 'verification is doing things right' and 'validation is doing the right thing'. In the world of the Finite Element Method (FEM) and computational analysis, it is sometimes said that 'verification means solving the equations right' and 'validation means solving the right equations'. In other words, if one intends to give an answer to the equation '2+2=', then one must run the resulting… more
Date: June 16, 2004
Creator: Logan, R W & Nitta, C K
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Fs Laser Fabrication of Photonic Structures in Glass: the Role of Glass Composition

Description: The use of fs lasers to directly write photonic structures inside a glass has great potential as a fabrication method for three-dimensional all-optical integrated components. The ability to use this technique with different glass compositions--specifically tailored for a specific photonics application--is critical to its successful exploitation. Consequently, it is important to understand how glass composition effects waveguide fabrication with fs laser pulses and how different glasses are stru… more
Date: June 16, 2004
Creator: Krol, D M; Chan, J W; Huser, T R; Risbud, S H & Hayden, J S
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Status of The General Atomics Low Speed Urban Maglev Technology Development Program

Description: This paper presents the status of General Atomics Urban Maglev Program. The development provides an innovative approach for low speed transportation suitable for very challenging urban environments. Permanent magnets arranged in a 'Halbach' array configuration produce a relatively stiff magnetic suspension operating with an air gap of 25 mm. The project has progressed from design and prototype hardware testing, to the construction of a 120-meter full-scale test track, located in San Diego, Cali… more
Date: June 16, 2004
Creator: Gurol, S; Baldi, R; Bever, D & Post, R
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Sudan: The Crisis in Darfur

Description: This report discusses the crisis in Darfur, which began in February 2003, when two rebel groups emerged to challenge the National Islamic Front (NIF) government in DarfurThe report describes the mechanisms used to cleanse the area of non-Arabs by “total disengagement of administration and suspension of all government services.”
Date: June 16, 2004
Creator: Dagne, Ted
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Singlet Free Energies of a Static Quark-Antiquark Pair.

Description: We study the singlet part of the free energy of a static quark anti-quark (Q{bar Q}) pair at finite temperature. The model is three flavor QCD with degenerate quark masses using N{sub {tau}} = 4 and 6 lattices with Asqtad staggered fermion action. We look at thermodynamics of the system around phase transition and study its scaling with lattice spacing and quark masses.
Date: June 16, 2004
Creator: Petrov, Konstantin
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Electron-helium scattering in the S-wave model using exterior complex scaling

Description: Electron-impact excitation and ionization of helium is studied in the S-wave model. The problem is treated in full dimensionality using a time-dependent formulation of the exterior complex scaling method that does not involve the solution of large linear systems of equations. We discuss the steps that must be taken to compute stable ionization amplitudes. We present total excitation, total ionization and single differential cross sections from the ground and n=2 excited states and compare our r… more
Date: June 16, 2004
Creator: Horner, Daniel A.; McCurdy, C. William & Rescigno, Thomas N.
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New advances in three dimensional transient electromagnetic inversion

Description: Inversion of transient electromagnetic (TEM) data sets to image the subsurface three-dimensional (3-D) electrical conductivity and magnetic permeability properties can be done directly in the time domain. The technique, first introduced by Wang et al. (1994) for causal and diffusive electromagnetic fields and subsequently implemented by Zhdanov and Portniaguine (1997) in the framework of iterative migration, is based upon imaging methods originally developed for seismic wavefields (Claerbout, 1… more
Date: June 16, 2004
Creator: Newman, Gregory A. & Commer, Michael
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Nylon Dissolution in Nitric Acid Solutions

Description: H Area Operations is planning to process Pu-contaminated uranium scrap in support of de-inventory efforts. Nylon bags will be used to hold materials to be dissolved in H-Canyon. Based on this set of twelve nylon dissolutions, it is concluded that (when other variables are held constant): increased acid concentration results in increased dissolution rates; increased acid concentration results in a lower dissolution onset temperature; little, if any, H plus is consumed during the depolymerization… more
Date: June 16, 2004
Creator: KESSINGER, GLENF.
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EDGE2D Simulations of JET{sup 13}C Migration Experiments

Description: Material migration has received renewed interest due to tritium retention associated with carbon transport to remote vessel locations. Those results influence the desirability of carbon usage on ITER. Subsequently, additional experiments have been performed, including tracer experiments attempting to identify material migration from specific locations. In this paper, EDGE2D models a well-diagnosed JET{sup 13}C tracer migration experiment. The role of SOL flows upon the migration patterns is ide… more
Date: June 16, 2004
Creator: Strachan, J.D.; Coad, J.P.; Corrigan, G.; Matthews, G.F. & Spence, J.
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Local structure around Sn in CeCoIn{sub 5-x}Sn{sub x}

Description: The local structure around Sn dopants in CeCoIn{sub 5-x}Sn{sub z} has been probed by extended x-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS) technique. The fit results for both x = 0.12 and x = 0.18 clearly indicate the dopant Sn atoms predominantly occupying the planar In(1) site. These results are consistent with the quasi-two-dimensional electronic properties of CeCoIn{sub 5} and is discussed in relation to the observed bulk properties.
Date: June 16, 2004
Creator: Daniel, M.; Han, S.-W.; Booth, C.H.; Cornelius, A.L.; Bauer, E.D. & Sarrao, J.L.
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Coupled Geochemical and Hydrological Processes Governing the Fate and Transport of Radionuclides and Toxic Metals Beneath the Hanford Tank Farms

Description: This annual report describes 1.5 y of progress on a 3 y project. The project addresses the goals of the Environmental Management Sciences Program (EMSP) that seeks innovative basic research to benefit cleanup technologies and decision-making strategies for contaminated environments. Our project specifically addresses Hanford research needs in subsurface science by contributing to the objectives of the Tank Farm Vadose Characterization Project and the 200 Area Remedial Action Project which are c… more
Date: June 16, 2004
Creator: Jardin, Philip M.; Fendorf, Scott E. & Mayes, Melanie
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Imaging detectors and electronics - A view of the future

Description: Imaging sensors and readout electronics have made tremendous strides in the past two decades. The application of modern semiconductor fabrication techniques and the introduction of customized monolithic integrated circuits have made large scale imaging systems routine in high energy physics. This technology is now finding its way into other areas, such as space missions, synchrotron light sources, and medical imaging. I review current developments and discuss the promise and limits of new techn… more
Date: June 16, 2004
Creator: Spieler, Helmuth
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President's Commission on Moon, Mars and Beyond

Description: The mission of the Commission shall be to provide recommendations to the President on implementation of the vision outlined in the President's policy statement entitled "A Renewed Spirit of Discovery" and the President's Budget Submission for Fiscal Year 2005 (collectively, "Policy"). The Commission shall examine and make recommendations to the President regarding: a) science research agenda to be conducted on the Moon and other destinations as well as human and robotic science activities that … more
Date: June 16, 2004
Creator: President's Commission on Moon, Mars and Beyond
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Observation of Self-Sputtering in Energetic Condensation of Metal Ions

Description: The condensation of energetic metal ions on a surface may cause self-sputtering even in the absence of substrate bias. Charge-state-averaged self-sputtering yields were determined for both zirconium and gold ions generated by a cathodic vacuum arc. Films were deposited on differently biased substrates exposed to streaming Zr and Au vacuum arc plasma. The self-sputtering yields for both metals were estimated to be about 0.05 in the absence of bias, and exceeding 0.5 when bias reached-50 V. These… more
Date: June 16, 2004
Creator: Anders, Andre
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Farm Program Payments: USDA Should Correct Weaknesses in Regulations and Oversight to Better Ensure Recipients Do Not Circumvent Payment Limitations

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Farmers receive about $15 billion annually in federal payments to help produce major crops, such as corn, cotton, rice, and wheat. The Farm Program Payments Integrity Act of 1987 (1987 Act) limits payments to individuals and entities--such as corporations and partnerships--that are "actively engaged in farming." This testimony is based on GAO's report, Farm Program Payments: USDA Needs to Strengthen Regulations and … more
Date: June 16, 2004
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Transcript of 9-11 Commission Hearing 12, June 16, 2004

Description: Transcript of the twelfth public hearing held by the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States held June 16, 2004 at the NTSB Conference Center in Washington, D.C. The two-day hearing focused on two distinct topics: the 9-11 Plot and the federal government's immediate response to the attacks on September 11, 2001.On June 16 at the National Transportation Safety Board Conference Center, the Commission heard from several of the federal government's top law enforcement and i… more
Date: June 16, 2004
Creator: National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States
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Staff Statement: Outline of the 9/11 Plot

Description: Official statement issued by the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States describing preliminary findings regarding the conspiracy that produced the September 11 terrorist attacks against the United States.
Date: June 16, 2004
Creator: National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States
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Staff Statement: Overview of the Enemy

Description: Official statement issued by the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States describing preliminary findings regarding the nature of the enemy that carried out the September 11 attacks.
Date: June 16, 2004
Creator: National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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