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Bilingual Voting Assistance: Selected Jurisdictions' Strategies for Identifying Needs and Providing Assistance

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended, contains, among other things, provisions designed to protect the voting rights of U.S. citizens of certain ethnic groups whose command of the English language may be limited. The Department of Justice (DOJ) enforces these provisions, and the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) serves as a national clearinghouse for election information and procedures. The Fann… more
Date: January 18, 2008
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Embassy Security: Upgrades Have Enhanced Security, but Site Conditions Prevent Full Adherence to Standards

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Following the 1998 embassy bombings, the Department of State (State) determined that more than 85 percent of diplomatic facilities did not meet security standards and were vulnerable to terrorist attacks. State's Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations (OBO) has undertaken a program to replace or upgrade the security of these facilities. As of 2007, OBO had constructed more than 50 new embassies and mov… more
Date: January 18, 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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Entitlement Reform Process: Other Countries' Experiences Provide Useful Insights for the United States

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Looking to the future, our nation faces large and growing structural deficits and escalating federal debt due primarily to rising health care costs and known demographic trends. Slowing the growth of entitlements is an essential part of the solution to these challenges. GAO was asked to identify useful insights from the entitlement reform processes in other countries. Specifically, GAO was asked to anal… more
Date: January 18, 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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HUD and Treasury Programs: More Information on Leverage Measures' Accuracy and Linkage to Program Goals Is Needed in Assessing Performance

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "This is the second of two reports on the leveraging of federal funds in housing and community and economic development programs. Leveraging involves using a source of funds to attract other funds or combining multiple sources of funds. This report examines (1) the leverage measures and the transparency of the data and methods used to calculate them, and (2) the relevance of such measures in assessing pe… more
Date: January 18, 2008
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Force Structure--Need for Greater Transparency for the Army's Grow the Force Initiative Funding Plan

Description: Correspondence issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "In January 2007, the Secretary of Defense announced an initiative to expand the Army from a total of 1,037,000 to 1,112,000 active and reserve soldiers by fiscal year 2013--an increase of 74,200 military personnel--in order to meet increasing strategic demands and to help reduce stress on the force. This planned expansion includes building six additional active modular brigade combat teams and additional… more
Date: January 18, 2008
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Defense Infrastructure: Realignment of Air Force Special Operations Command Units to Cannon Air Force Base, New Mexico

Description: Correspondence issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "In September 2005, the Base Realignment and Closure Commission (BRAC) recommended closing Cannon Air Force Base, New Mexico, unless a new mission for the base could be identified by December 31, 2009. In June 2006, the Department of Defense (DOD) announced that Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) would establish a new mission at Cannon Air Force Base and the command would take ownership of the b… more
Date: January 18, 2008
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Isothermal Martensitic and Pressure-Induced Delta to Alpha-Prime Phase Transformations in a Pu-Ga Alloy

Description: A well-homogenized Pu-2 at.% Ga alloy can be retained in the metastable face-centered cubic {delta} phase at room temperature. Ultimately, this metastable {delta} phase will decompose via a eutectoid transformation to the thermodynamically stable monoclinic {alpha} phase and the intermetallic compound Pu{sub 3}Ga over a period of approximately 10,000 years [1]. In addition, these low solute-containing {delta}-phase Pu alloys are metastable with respect to an isothermal martensitic phase transfo… more
Date: January 18, 2008
Creator: Schwartz, A J; Wall, M A; Farber, D L; Moore, K T & Blobaum, K M
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Hydrogen adsorption on Ru(001) studied by Scanning TunnelingMicroscopy

Description: The adsorption of hydrogen on Ru(001) was studied by scanning tunneling microscopy at temperatures around 50 K. Hydrogen was found to adsorb dissociatively forming different ordered structures as a function of coverage. In order of increasing coverage {theta} in monolayers (ML) these were ({radical}3 x {radical}3)r30{sup o} at {theta} = 0.3 ML; (2 x 1) at {theta} = 0.50 ML, (2 x 2)-3H at {theta} = 0.75, and (1 x 1) at {theta} = 1.00. Some of these structures were observed to coexist at intermed… more
Date: January 18, 2008
Creator: Tatarkhanov, Mous; Rose, Franck; Fomin, Evgeny; Ogletree, D.Frank & Salmeron, Miquel
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Development of Solar Grade (SoG) Silicon

Description: The rapid growth of the photovoltaics (PV) industry is threatened by the ongoing shortage of suitable solar grade (SoG) silicon. Until 2004, the PV industry relied on the off spec polysilicon from the electronics industry for feedstock. The rapid growth of PV meant that the demand for SoG silicon predictably surpassed this supply. The long-term prospects for PV are very bright as costs have come down, and efficiencies and economies of scale make PV generated electricity ever more competitive wi… more
Date: January 18, 2008
Creator: Joyce, David B & Schmid, Frederick
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Modification and Measurement of the Adjustable Permanent Magnet Quadrupole for the Final Focus in a Linear Collider

Description: An adjustable permanent magnet quadrupole has been developed for the final focus (FF) in a linear collider. Recent activities include a newly fabricated inner ring to demonstrate the strongest field gradient at a smaller bore diameter of 15mm and a magnetic field measurement system with a new rotating coil. The prospects of the R&D will be discussed.
Date: January 18, 2008
Creator: Kuroda, S.; Okugi, T.; Tauchi, T.; /KEK, Tsukuba; Fujisawa, H.; Ichikawa, M. et al.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Proposed Dark Current Studies at the Argonne Wakefield Accelerator Facility

Description: A study of dark currents has been initiated at the Argonne Wakefield Accelerator Facility (AWA). Emission of dark current is closely related to a breakdown. Breakdown may include several factors such as local field enhancement, explosive electron emission, Ohmic heating, tensile stress produced by electric field, and others. The AWA is building a dedicated facility to test various models for breakdown mechanisms and to determine the roles of different factors in the breakdown. An imaging system… more
Date: January 18, 2008
Creator: Antipov, S. P.; Conde, Manoel Eduardo; Gai, Wei; Power, John Gorham; Yusof, Z. M.; Spentzouris, L. K. et al.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Optimization of the Low Loss SRF Cavity for the ILC

Description: The Low-Loss shape cavity design has been proposed as a possible alternative to the baseline TESLA cavity design for the ILC main linacs. The advantages of this design over the TESLA cavity are its lower cryogenic loss, and higher achievable gradient due to lower surface fields. High gradient prototypes for such designs have been tested at KEK (ICHIRO) and TJNAF (LL). However, issues related to HOM damping and multipacting still need to be addressed. Preliminary numerical studies of the prototy… more
Date: January 18, 2008
Creator: Li, Z.; Ge, L.; Lee, L.; Ng, C.; Schussman, G.; Xiao, L. et al.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Electron Scattering in Hot/Warm Plasmas

Description: Electrical and thermal conductivities are presented for aluminum, iron and copper plasmas at various temperatures, and for gold between 15000 and 30000 Kelvin. The calculations are based on the continuum wave functions computed in the potential of the temperature and density dependent self-consistent 'average atom' (AA) model of the plasma. The cross sections are calculated by using the phase shifts of the continuum electron wave functions and also in the Born approximation. We show the combine… more
Date: January 18, 2008
Creator: Rozsnyai, B F
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Wind Development on Tribal Lands

Description: Background: The Rosebud Sioux Tribe (RST) is located in south central South Dakota near the Nebraska border. The nearest community of size is Valentine, Nebraska. The RST is a recipient of several Department of Energy grants, written by Distributed Generation Systems, Inc. (Disgen), for the purposes of assessing the feasibility of its wind resource and subsequently to fund the development of the project. Disgen, as the contracting entity to the RST for this project, has completed all the pre-co… more
Date: January 18, 2008
Creator: Haukaas, Ken; Osborn, Dale & Pete, Belvin
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Nuclear Power Plant Security and Vulnerabilities

Description: This report discusses the physical security at nuclear power plants and concerns of radiological sabotage, a deliberate act against a plant that could directly or indirectly endanger public health and safety through exposure to radiation.
Date: January 18, 2008
Creator: Holt, Mark & Andrews, Anthony
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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NCSX Plasma Heating Methods

Description: The National Compact Stellarator Experiment (NCSX) has been designed to accommodate a variety of heating systems, including ohmic heating, neutral beam injection, and radio-frequency (rf). Neutral beams will provide one of the primary heating methods for NCSX. In addition to plasma heating, neutral beams are also expected to provide a means for external control over the level of toroidal plasma rotation velocity and its profile. The experimental plan requires 3 MW of 50-keV balanced neutral bea… more
Date: January 18, 2008
Creator: H.W. Kugel, D. Spong, R. Majeski and M. Zarnstorff
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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