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Information on Recent Default and Foreclosure Trends for Home Mortgages and Associated Economic and Market Developments

Description: Correspondence issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Substantial growth in the mortgage market in recent years has helped many Americans become homeowners. However, as of the latest quarterly data available, June 2007, more than 1 million mortgages were in default or foreclosure, an increase of 50 percent compared with June 2005. Defaults and foreclosures on home mortgages can impose significant costs on borrowers, lenders, mortgage investors, and neighbor… more
Date: October 16, 2007
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Questions for the Record Related to the Benefits and Medical Care for Federal Civilian Employees Deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq

Description: Correspondence issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "GAO appeared before the House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, Committee on Armed Services on September 18, 2007, to discuss the benefits and medical care for federal civilian and U.S. government contract employees deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. This report responds to Congress' request that GAO provide answers to questions for the record from the hearing. The questions are (1) What are t… more
Date: October 16, 2007
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Aviation Security: DHS Has Made Progress in Securing the Commercial Aviation System, but Key Challenges Remain

Description: Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Transportation Security Administration's (TSA) mission is to protect the nation's transportation network. Since its inception in 2001, TSA has developed and implemented a variety of programs and procedures to secure commercial aviation. GAO examined (1) the progress DHS and TSA have made in securing the nation's commercial aviation system, and (2) challeng… more
Date: October 16, 2007
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Maritime Security: One Year Later: A Progress Report on the SAFE Port Act

Description: Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Because the safety and economic security of the United States depend in substantial part on the security of its 361 seaports, the United States has a vital national interest in maritime security. The Security and Accountability for Every Port Act (SAFE Port Act), modified existing legislation and created and codified new programs related to maritime security. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and its … more
Date: October 16, 2007
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Medicare Advantage: Required Audits of Limited Value

Description: Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "In fiscal year 2006, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) estimated it spent over $51 billion on the Medicare Advantage program, which serves as an alternative to the traditional feefor- service program. Under the Medicare Advantage program, CMS approves private companies to offer health plan options to Medicare enrollees that include all Medicare-covered services. Many plans also provide supple… more
Date: October 16, 2007
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Defense Business Transformation: A Full-time Chief Management Officer with a Term Appointment Is Needed at DOD to Maintain Continuity of Effort and Achieve Sustainable Success

Description: Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The Department of Defense (DOD) continues to face significant challenges in resolving its many long-standing business challenges. DOD is solely responsible for eight high-risk areas and shares responsibility for another seven governmentwide areas on GAO's high-risk list. GAO designated DOD's approach to business transformation as high risk in 2005 because (1) DOD's improvement efforts were fragmented, (2) DOD… more
Date: October 16, 2007
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Science & Technology Review November 2007

Description: This month's issue has the following articles: (1) Simulating the Electromagnetic World--Commentary by Steven R. Patterson; (2) A Code to Model Electromagnetic Phenomena--EMSolve, a Livermore supercomputer code that simulates electromagnetic fields, is helping advance a wide range of research efforts; (3) Characterizing Virulent Pathogens--Livermore researchers are developing multiplexed assays for rapid detection of pathogens; (4) Imaging at the Atomic Level--A powerful new electron microscope… more
Date: October 16, 2007
Creator: Chinn, D J
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Elastic constants and volume changes associated with two high-pressure rhombohedral phase transformations in vanadium

Description: We present results from ab-initio electronic-structure calculations of mechanical properties of the rhombohedral phase of vanadium reported in recent experiments (R Ia), and other predicted high-pressure phases (R Ib and bcc), focusing on properties relevant to dynamic experiments. We find that of the three transitions the largest volume collapse (1.3%) is for the R Ia to R Ib transition. Calculations of the single crystal and polycrystal elastic constants reveal a remarkably small discontinuit… more
Date: October 16, 2007
Creator: Lee, B; Rudd, R E; Klepeis, J E & Becker, R
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Brazil’s WTO Case Against the U.S. Cotton Program

Description: The "Brazil cotton case" is a long-running World Trade Organization dispute settlement case initiated by Brazil - a major cotton export competitor - in 2002 against specific provisions of the U.S. cotton program. This report details the overview of the case, background on the U.S. cotton sector, a sequence of events in the case, specific claims of Brazil on the U.S. Cotton policy being against World Trade Organization ordinances, panel recommendations, and related information and figures.
Date: October 16, 2007
Creator: Schnepf, Randy
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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[Letter from Ken Whalen to TDNA Board Members, October 16, 2007]

Description: Letter from Ken Whalen to the TDNA Board Members, with the subject "Nominations for 2008 Treasurer," stating that it is time to begin the nomination process for officers and directors in the TDNA (Texas Daily Newspaper Association). TDNA President Charles Moser will choose a nomination committee in charge of electing those for the board openings. Included with the letter is a ballot listing of names in alphabetical order, and ballot deadline is October 19, 2007.
Date: October 16, 2007
Creator: Whalen, Ken
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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The GLAST LAT Instrument Science Operations Center

Description: The Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) is scheduled for launch in late 2007. Operations support and science data processing for the Large Area Telescope (LAT) instrument on GLAST will be provided by the LAT Instrument Science Operations Center (ISOC) at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC). The ISOC supports GLAST mission operations in conjunction with other GLAST mission ground system elements and supports the research activities of the LAT scientific collaboration. The ISOC… more
Date: October 16, 2007
Creator: Cameron, Robert A.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Use of Reclaimed Water for Power Plant Cooling.

Description: Freshwater demands are steadily increasing throughout the United States. As its population increases, more water is needed for domestic use (drinking, cooking, cleaning, etc.) and to supply power and food. In arid parts of the country, existing freshwater supplies are not able to meet the increasing demands for water. New water users are often forced to look to alternative sources of water to meet their needs. Over the past few years, utilities in many locations, including parts of the country … more
Date: October 16, 2007
Creator: Veil, J. A. & Division, Environmental Science
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Charm Meson Spectroscopy at BaBar and CLEO-C

Description: In this mini-review we report on the most recent progress in charm meson spectroscopy. We discuss the precision measurements performed by the BABAR and CLEO-c experiments in the non strange charm meson part and we present the newly discovered strange charmed meson excited states.
Date: October 16, 2007
Creator: Zghiche, A.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Development of a Fast High-Power Pulser and ILC DR Injection/Extraction Kicker

Description: Kicker is an efficient HOM power extractor. Peak HOM voltage and average power at the feeder may be sufficient to act on the kicker pulser. Feeder imperfections (real cable, feedthroughs, kicker electrodes, loads) is one source of residual energy between bunches. HOM spectrum is broad.
Date: October 16, 2007
Creator: Krasnykh, A.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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TECHNICAL AND REGULATORY CONSIDERATIONS IN USING FREIGHT CONTAINERS AS INDUSTRIAL PACKAGES

Description: The United States (US) Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Environmental Management (EM), is actively pursuing activities to reduce the radiological risk and clean up the environmental legacy of the nation's nuclear weapons programs. EM has made significant progress in recent years in the clean-up and closure of sites and is also focusing on longer-term activities necessary for the completion of the clean-up program. The packaging and transportation of contaminated demolition debris and low-l… more
Date: October 16, 2007
Creator: Opperman, E; Mark Hawk, M & Ron Natali, R
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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LCLS Ultrafast Science Instruments:Conceptual Design Report

Description: The Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), along with Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), and the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), is constructing a Free-Electron Laser (FEL) facility, which will operate in the wavelength range 1.5 nm - 0.15 nm. This FEL, the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), utilizes the SLAC linac and will produce sub-picosecond pulses of short wavelength X-rays with very high peak brightness and almost comple… more
Date: October 16, 2007
Creator: Arthur, J.; Boutet, S.; Castagna, J-C.; Chapman, H.; Feng, Y.; Foyt, W. et al.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The GLAST Large Area Telescope Detector Performance Monitoring

Description: The Large Area Telescope (LAT) is one of two instruments on board the Gamma-ray Large Area Telescope (GLAST), the next generation high energy gamma-ray space telescope. The LAT contains sixteen identical towers in a four-by-four grid. Each tower contains a silicon-strip tracker and a CsI calorimeter that together will give the incident direction and energy of the pair-converting photon in the energy range 20 MeV - 300 GeV. In addition, the instrument is covered by a finely segmented Anti-Coinci… more
Date: October 16, 2007
Creator: Borgland, A. W. & Charles, E.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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SPENT FUEL CASK IMPACT LIMITER ATTACHMENT DESIGN DEFICIENCIES

Description: A recent structural analysis of the T-3 Spent Fuel Containment Cask found problems with the design of the attachment system. Assumptions in the original SARP concerning the loading in the attachment bolts were found to be inaccurate in certain drop orientations. Similar weaknesses in the attachment system designs of other casks were also noted. This paper documents the lessons learned and their applicability to impact limiter attachment system designs.
Date: October 16, 2007
Creator: Leduc, D & Jeffery England, J
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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R-invariant New Inflation Model vs Supersymetric Standard Model

Description: We revisit the implications of the R-invariant New Inflation model to the supersymmetric standard model in light of recent discussion of gravitino production processes by the decay of the inflaton or the supersymmetry breaking field. We show that the models with supergravity mediation do not go well with the R-invariant New Inflation model, where the gravitino abundance produced by the decay of the inflaton or the supersymmetry breaking field significantly exceeds the bounds from cosmological o… more
Date: October 16, 2007
Creator: Ibe, Masahiro & Shinbara, Y.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Applications of Parallel Computational Methods to Charged-Particle Beam Dynamics

Description: The availability of parallel computation hardware and the advent of standardized programming interfaces has made a new class of beam dynamics problems accessible to numerical simulations. We describe recent progress in code development for simulations of coherent synchrotron radiation and the weak-strong and strong-strong beam-beam interaction. Parallelization schemes will be discussed, and typical results will be presented.
Date: October 16, 2007
Creator: Kabel, A.; Cai, Y.; Dohlus, M.; Sen, T. & Uplenchwar, R.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Transportation Security: Efforts to Strengthen Aviation and Surface Transportation Security are Under Way, but Challenges Remain

Description: Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Transportation Security Administration's (TSA) mission is to protect the nation's transportation network. Since its inception in 2001, TSA has developed and implemented a variety of programs and procedures to secure commercial aviation and surface modes of transportation, including passenger and freight rail, mass transit, highways, commercial vehicles, an… more
Date: October 16, 2007
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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