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Public Health Information Technology: Additional Strategic Planning Needed to Guide HHS's Efforts to Establish Electronic Situational Awareness Capabilities

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "A catastrophic public health event could threaten our national security and cause hundreds of thousands of casualties. Recognizing the need for efficient sharing of real-time information to help prevent devastating consequences of public health emergencies, Congress included in the Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act in December 2006 a mandate for the Secretary of the Department of Health and Huma… more
Date: December 17, 2010
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Employment Verification: Federal Agencies Have Taken Steps to Improve E-Verify, but Significant Challenges Remain

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "E-Verify is a system to electronically verify work eligibility and operated by the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and the Social Security Administration (SSA). GAO testified in June 2008 that ensuring accuracy and combating fraud were challenges facing E-Verify. As requested, GAO examined the extent to which USCIS and SSA took efforts to (1) red… more
Date: December 17, 2010
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Federal Lands: Adopting a Formal, Risk-Based Approach Could Help Land Management Agencies Better Manage Their Law Enforcement Resources

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Four federal agencies--the Forest Service in the Department of Agriculture and the Bureau of Land Management, Fish and Wildlife Service, and National Park Service in the Department of the Interior--are responsible for managing federal lands, enforcing federal laws governing the lands and their resources, and ensuring visitor safety. Illegal activities occurring on these lands have raised concerns that t… more
Date: December 17, 2010
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Neighborhood Stabilization Program: HUD and Grantees Are Taking Actions to Ensure Program Compliance but Data on Program Outputs Could be Improved

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Congress created the Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP) to help reduce the number of foreclosed and abandoned properties and restore depressed local housing markets. The Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 (HERA) authorized the program's first round (NSP 1), providing $3.92 billion in grant funds to states and local governments. The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) administe… more
Date: December 17, 2010
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Border Security: Enhanced DHS Oversight and Assessment of Interagency Coordination Is Needed for the Northern Border

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The challenges of securing the U.S.-Canadian border involve the coordination of multiple partners. The results of the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) efforts to integrate border security among its components and across federal, state, local, tribal, and Canadian partners are unclear. GAO was asked to address the extent to which DHS has (1) improved coordination with state, local, tribal, and Can… more
Date: December 17, 2010
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Reform of U.S. International Taxation: Alternatives

Description: This report describes and assesses the principal prescriptions that have been offered for broad reform of the current U.S. system for taxing international businesses. The report begins with an overview of current law and of possible revisions. It then sets the framework for considering economic efficiency as well as tax shelter activities. Finally, it reviews alternative approaches to revision in light of those issues.
Date: December 17, 2010
Creator: Gravelle, Jane G.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Using a two-step matrix solution to reduce the run time in KULL's magnetic diffusion package

Description: Recently a Resistive Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) package has been added to the KULL code. In order to be compatible with the underlying hydrodynamics algorithm, a new sub-zonal magnetics discretization was developed that supports arbitrary polygonal and polyhedral zones. This flexibility comes at the cost of many more unknowns per zone - approximately ten times more for a hexahedral mesh. We can eliminate some (or all, depending on the dimensionality) of the extra unknowns from the global matrix… more
Date: December 17, 2010
Creator: Brunner, T A & Kolev, T V
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The use of a high-order MEMS deformable mirror in the Gemini Planet Imager

Description: We briefly review the development history of the Gemini Planet Imager's 4K Boston Micromachines MEMS deformable mirror. We discuss essential calibration steps and algorithms to control the MEMS with nanometer precision, including voltage-phase calibration and influence function characterization. We discuss the integration of the MEMS into GPI's Adaptive Optics system at Lawrence Livermore and present experimental results of 1.5 kHz closed-loop control. We detail mitigation strategies in the cor… more
Date: December 17, 2010
Creator: Poyneer, L. A.; Bauman, B.; Cornelissen, S.; Jones, S.; Macintosh, B.; Palmer, D. et al.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Development of Crystal-Tolerant High-Level Waste Glasses

Description: Twenty five glasses were formulated. They were batched from HLW AZ-101 simulant or raw chemicals and melted and tested with a series of tests to elucidate the effect of spinel-forming components (Ni, Fe, Cr, Mn, and Zn), Al, and noble metals (Rh2O3 and RuO2) on the accumulation rate of spinel crystals in the glass discharge riser of the high-level waste (HLW) melter. In addition, the processing properties of glasses, such as the viscosity and TL, were measured as a function of temperature and c… more
Date: December 17, 2010
Creator: Matyas, Josef; Vienna, John D.; Schaible, Micah J.; Rodriguez, Carmen P.; Crum, Jarrod V.; Arrigoni, Alyssa L. et al.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Progress Report, December 2010: Improved Site Characterization And Storage Prediction Through Stochastic Inversion Of Time-Lapse Geophysical And Geochemical Data

Description: Over the last project six months, our project activities have concentrated on three areas: (1) performing a stochastic inversion of pattern 16 seismic data to deduce reservoir permeability, (2) development of the geochemical inversion strategy and implementation of associated software, and (3) completing the software implementation of TProGS and the geostatistical analysis that provides the information needed when using the software to produce realizations of the Midale reservoir. The report pa… more
Date: December 17, 2010
Creator: Ramirez, A.; Mcnab, W.; Carle, S.; Hao, Y.; White, D. & Johnson, J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Low Cost, Durable Seal

Description: Seal durability is critical to achieving the 2010 DOE operational life goals for both stationary and transportation PEM fuel cell stacks. The seal material must be chemically and mechanically stable in an environment consisting of aggressive operating temperatures, humidified gases, and acidic membranes. The seal must also be producible at low cost. Currentlyused seal materials do not meet all these requirements. This project developed and demonstrated a high consistency hydrocarbon rubber seal… more
Date: December 17, 2010
Creator: Roberts, George; Parsons, Jason & Friedman, Jake
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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ZINC MITIGATION INTERIM REPORT - THERMODYNAMIC STUDY

Description: An experimental program was initiated in order to develop and validate conditions that will effectively trap Zn vapors that are released during extraction. The proposed work is broken down into three tasks. The first task is to determine the effectiveness of various pore sizes of filter elements. The second task is to determine the effect of filter temperature on zinc vapor deposition. The final task is to determine whether the zinc vapors can be chemically bound. The approach for chemically bi… more
Date: December 17, 2010
Creator: Korinko, P.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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EFFECT OF PORE SIZE ON TRAPPING ZINC VAPORS

Description: A series of experiments were conducted to determine the effect of pore size on pumping efficiency and zinc vapor trapping efficiency. A simple pumping efficiency test was conducted for all five pore diameters where it was observed that evacuation times were adversely affected by reducing the pore size below 5 {micro}m. Common test conditions for the zinc trapping efficiency experiments were used. These conditions resulted in some variability, to ascribe different efficiencies to the filter medi… more
Date: December 17, 2010
Creator: Korinko, P.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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High-Power Solid-State Lasers from a Laser Glass Perspective

Description: Advances in laser glass compositions and manufacturing have enabled a new class of high-energy/high-power (HEHP), petawatt (PW) and high-average-power (HAP) laser systems that are being used for fusion energy ignition demonstration, fundamental physics research and materials processing, respectively. The requirements for these three laser systems are different necessitating different glasses or groups of glasses. The manufacturing technology is now mature for melting, annealing, fabricating and… more
Date: December 17, 2010
Creator: Campbell, J H; Hayden, J S & Marker, A J
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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TMED-4 INTERIM REPORT PURE ZR EQUILIBRIUM TEST RESULTS

Description: Due to higher than expected permeation rates in the production of tritium in the TVA, a development and testing program was implemented to develop the understanding of why the higher rates were occurring. In addition, improved data are needed for both the design as well as the predictive models. One part of the program was to determine the equilibrium pressure of hydrogen and tritium over NPZ (1). During the course of this testing, some curious results were discovered (2) compared to the publis… more
Date: December 17, 2010
Creator: Korinko, P. & Morgan, G.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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PROJECT STRATEGY FOR THE REMEDIATION AND DISPOSITION OF LEGACY TRANSURANIC WASTE AT THE SAVANNAH RIVER SITE, South Carolina, USA

Description: This paper discusses the Savannah River Site Accelerated Transuranic (TRU) Waste Project that was initiated in April of 2009 to accelerate the disposition of remaining legacy transuranic waste at the site. An overview of the project execution strategy that was implemented is discussed along with the lessons learned, challenges and improvements to date associated with waste characterization, facility modifications, startup planning, and remediation activities. The legacy waste was generated from… more
Date: December 17, 2010
Creator: Rodriguez, M.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Majorana Thermosyphon Prototype Experimental Results

Description: Objective The Majorana demonstrator will operate at liquid Nitrogen temperatures to ensure optimal spectrometric performance of its High Purity Germanium (HPGe) detector modules. In order to transfer the heat load of the detector module, the Majorana demonstrator requires a cooling system that will maintain a stable liquid nitrogen temperature. This cooling system is required to transport the heat from the detector chamber outside the shield. One approach is to use the two phase liquid-gas equi… more
Date: December 17, 2010
Creator: Fast, James E.; Reid, Douglas J. & Aguayo Navarrete, Estanislao
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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A Degaussing Procedure for the QG01 Quadrupole Magnet

Description: This note describes a degaussing procedure for the QG01 Quadrupole Magnet of the LCLS Injector Beamline and some relevant observations made during the development and testing of this procedure. An important observation is that care must be taken not to cause a current spike when the power supply to the magnet is switched off.
Date: December 17, 2010
Creator: Weidemann, Achim W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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[Commencement Program for University of North Texas, December 17-18, 2010]

Description: Commencement program for the fall 2010 graduating class of the University of North Texas, held in the Coliseum on Friday and Saturday, December 17-18, 2010. The program contains the order of service and a list of graduates for the baccalaureate, master's, and doctoral degrees.
Date: 2010-12-17/2010-12-18
Creator: University of North Texas
Item Type: Refine your search to only Pamphlet
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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