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Financial Audit: Material Weaknesses in Internal Control over the Processes Used to Prepare the Consolidated Financial Statements of the U.S. Government

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "For the past 11 years, since GAO's first audit of the consolidated financial statements of the U.S. government (CFS), certain material weaknesses in internal control and in selected accounting and financial reporting practices have prevented GAO from expressing an opinion on the CFS. GAO has consistently reported that the U.S. government did not have adequate systems, controls, and procedures to properl… more
Date: June 17, 2008
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Defense Infrastructure: High-Level Leadership Needed to Help Communities Address Challenges Caused by DOD-Related Growth

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Due to several simultaneous Department of Defense (DOD) force structure and basing initiatives, 20 installations are expecting a combined net growth of over 173,000 military and civilian personnel, not including family members and all contractors, over fiscal years 2006-2012. Although communities surrounding these installations can expect to realize economic benefits in the long term, DOD has identified… more
Date: June 17, 2008
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
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Millennium Challenge Corporation: Independent Reviews and Consistent Approaches Will Strengthen Projections of Program Impact

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "In January 2004, Congress established the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) for foreign assistance. Eligible countries submit compact proposals for MCC funding for projects aimed at reducing poverty through economic growth. To assess the proposed compacts' likely impact, MCC performs economic analyses estimating the compacts' economic rate of return (ERR) and effects on income and poverty as well a… more
Date: June 17, 2008
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Small Business Administration: Additional Actions Are Needed to Certify and Monitor HUBZone Businesses and Assess Program Results

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The Small Business Administration's (SBA) Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone) program provides federal contracting assistance to small firms located in economically distressed areas, with the intent of stimulating economic development. Questions have been raised about whether the program is targeting the locations and businesses that Congress intended to assist. GAO was asked to examine (… more
Date: June 17, 2008
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Intellectual Property: Leadership and Accountability Needed to Strengthen Federal Protection and Enforcement

Description: Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "U.S. government efforts to protect and enforce intellectual property (IP) rights domestically and overseas are crucial to preventing billions of dollars in losses to U.S. industry and IP rights owners. The illegal importation and distribution of IP-infringing goods also poses a threat to the health and safety of U.S. citizens. However, the challenges involved in IP protection are significant and require effec… more
Date: June 17, 2008
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Federal Judgeships: General Accuracy of District and Appellate Judgeship Case-Related Workload Measures

Description: Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Biennially, the Judicial Conference, the federal judiciary's principal policymaking body, assesses the need for additional judges. The assessment is based on a variety of factors, but begins with quantitative case-related workload measures. This testimony focuses on (1) whether the judiciary's quantitative case-related workload measures from 1993 were reasonably accurate; and (2) the reasonableness of any pro… more
Date: June 17, 2008
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Long-Term Fiscal Outlook: Long-Term Federal Fiscal Challenge Driven Primarily by Health Care

Description: Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "GAO was asked to provide its views on the long-term fiscal outlook. This statement addresses four key points: (1) the federal government's long-term fiscal outlook is a matter of utmost concern; (2) this challenge is driven primarily by health care cost growth; (3) reform of health care is essential but other areas also need attention which requires a multipronged solution; and (4) the federal government face… more
Date: June 17, 2008
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Development of Room-temperature CdMnTe Gamma-ray Detectors

Description: CdMnTe materials have wide bandgap, high resistivity, fair electron-transport properties, and good compositional uniformity. All these features make CdMnTe a good candidate for low cost, high-resolution room-temperature gamma-ray detector. Using several techniques available at BNL, we are characterizing CdMnTe as a material for gamma-ray detectors. The consequent improvements in growth, fabrication, and manufacturing techniques for CdMnTe potentially yield a suitable material for sensing device… more
Date: June 17, 2008
Creator: Bolotnikov, A.
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Novel Method for Growing Te-Inclusion-Free CZT

Description: The authors propose a new method for growth of detector-grade CdZnTe (CZT) with reduced concentration and sizes of Te inclusions. The method is designed to impede the formation of Te-rich inclusions in crystals due to the use of new CZT growth method and a unique ampoule design.
Date: June 17, 2008
Creator: Bolotnikov, A.
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Initial State Radiation Physics at the B Factories

Description: A mini-review of the recent BaBar and Belle results on the process e{sup +}e{sup -} {yields} hadrons using the initial state radiation (ISR) technique, is presented. ISR studies at the {Upsilon}(4s) resonance (B-Factories) can yield to the same observables as the low energy e{sup +}e{sup -} experiments: Precise cross-section measurements, the R ratio (ratio of cross-sections of hadron production to di-muon production) measurement, form factors measurements (from hadron pair production such as e… more
Date: June 17, 2008
Creator: Grauges, Eugeni
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Final Report on The Theory of Fusion Plasmas

Description: Report describes theoretical research in the theory of fusion plasmas funded under grant DE-FG02-04ER54737. This includes work on: explosive instabilities, plasma turbulence, Alfven wave cascades, high beta (pressure) tokamaks and magnetic reconnection. These studies have lead to abetter understanding of fusion plasmas and in particular the future behavior of ITER. More than ten young researchers were involved in this research -- some were funded under the grant.
Date: June 17, 2008
Creator: Cowley, Steven C.
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ADVANCED WAVEFORM SIMULATION FOR SEISMIC MONITORING EVENTS

Description: Earthquake source parameters underpin several aspects of nuclear explosion monitoring. Such aspects are: calibration of moment magnitudes (including coda magnitudes) and magnitude and distance amplitude corrections (MDAC); source depths; discrimination by isotropic moment tensor components; and waveform modeling for structure (including waveform tomography). This project seeks to improve methods for and broaden the applicability of estimating source parameters from broadband waveforms using the… more
Date: June 17, 2008
Creator: Helmberger, Donald V.; Tromp, Jeroen & Rodgers, Arthur J.
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Breakdown Limits on Gigavolt-per-Meter Electron-Beam-Driven Wakefields in Dielectric Structures

Description: First measurements of the breakdown threshold in a dielectric subjected to GV/m wakefields produced by short (30-330 fs), 28.5 GeV electron bunches have been made. Fused silica tubes of 100 {micro}m inner diameter were exposed to a range of bunch lengths, allowing surface dielectric fields up to 27 GV/m to be generated. The onset of breakdown, detected through light emission from the tube ends, is observed to occur when the peak electric field at the dielectric surface reaches 13.8 {+-} 0.7 GV/… more
Date: June 17, 2008
Creator: Thompson, M. C.; Badakov, H.; Cook, A. M.; Rosenzweig, J. B.; Tikhoplav, R.; Travish, G. et al.
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Impact of the FY 2009 Building Technologies Program on United States Employment and Earned Income

Description: The Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) is interested in assessing the potential economic impacts of its portfolio of subprograms on national employment and income. A special purpose input-output model called ImSET is used in this study of 14 Building Technologies Program subprograms in the EERE final FY 2009 budget request to the Office of Management and Budget in February 2008. Energy savings, investments, and impacts on U.S. national employment … more
Date: June 17, 2008
Creator: Livingston, Olga V.; Scott, Michael J.; Hostick, Donna J.; Dirks, James A. & Cort, Katherine A.
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Nanoparticle Solar Cell Final Technical Report

Description: The purpose of this work was to demonstrate all-inorganic nanoparticle-based solar cells with photovoltaic performance extending into the near-IR region of the solar spectrum as a pathway towards improving power conversion efficiencies. The field of all-inorganic nanoparticle-based solar cells is very new, with only one literature publication in the prior to our project. Very little is understood regarding how these devices function. Inorganic solar cells with IR performance have previously bee… more
Date: June 17, 2008
Creator: Breeze, Alison, J; Sahoo, Yudhisthira; Reddy, Damoder; Sholin, Veronica & Carter, Sue
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Thermal neutron imaging support with other laboratories BL06-IM-TNI

Description: The goals of this project are: (1) detect and locate a source of thermal neutrons; (2) distinguish a localized source from uniform background; (3) show shape and size of thermalizing material; (4) test thermal neutron imager in active interrogation environment; and (5) distinguish delayed neutrons from prompt neutrons.
Date: June 17, 2008
Creator: Vanier, P. E.
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Global Climate Change: Status of Negotiations

Description: This report discusses a broad array of issues surrounding the global climate change, such as the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Kyoto Protocol, and “conference of the parties” (COP-13) in 2007.
Date: June 17, 2008
Creator: Fletcher, Susan R.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Executive Budget Process Timetable

Description: The executive budget process is a complex set of activities that includes formulation of the President’s budget, interaction with Congress, and execution of the budget. While some of the activities are required by specific dates, many follow a more flexible schedule established by formal and informal rules and procedures. This report provides a timetable of the major steps in the executive budget process.
Date: June 17, 2008
Creator: Heniff, Bill, Jr.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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