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International Trade: Customs' Revised Bonding Policy Reduces Risk of Uncollected Duties, but Concerns about Uneven Implementation and Effects Remain

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Since 2003, the Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has been unable to collect at least $480 million in antidumping (AD) and countervailing (CV) duties. In July 2004, CBP revised its policy regarding the continuous bonds (CB) that importers post. The policy potentially significantly increases the amount of the bonds for affected importers. Following the application… more
Date: October 18, 2006
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Capital Financing: Department Management Improvements Could Enhance Education's Loan Program for Historically Black Colleges and Universities

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU), which number around 100, undertake capital projects to provide appropriate settings for learning, but many face challenges in doing so. In 1992, Congress created the HBCU Capital Financing Program to help HBCUs fund capital projects by offering loans with interest rates near the government's cost of borrowing. We reviewed the program by considering (1… more
Date: October 18, 2006
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Medicaid: Strategies to Help States Address Increased Expenditures during Economic Downturns

Description: A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "During economic downturns, states may struggle to finance Medicaid, a federal-state health financing program for certain low-income individuals. States receive federal matching funds for their Medicaid programs according to a statutory formula based on each state's per capita income (PCI) in relation to national PCI. The number of individuals eligible for Medicaid can increase during downturns as a resu… more
Date: October 18, 2006
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Microbial Impacts on the Migration of Actinides -Effects of Exudates on Adsorption-

Description: The interaction of actinides with microorganisms has been extensively studied to elucidate migration behavior of actinides in the environments. However, the mechanisms of interaction of microorganisms and actinides are poorly understood. They have been conducting basic science on microbial accumulation of actinides in order to elucidate the environmental behavior of actinides under relevant conditions. The effect of exudates from bacteria cells on the sorption of Eu(III) and Cm(III) by Chlorell… more
Date: October 18, 2006
Creator: Ohnuki, T.; Ozaki, T.; Yoshida, T.; Nankawa, T.; Kozai, N.; Sakamoto, F. et al.
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Methods for high precision 14C AMS measurement of atmospheric CO2 at LLNL

Description: Development of {sup 14}C analysis with precision better than 2{per_thousand} has the potential to expand the utility of {sup 14}CO{sub 2} measurements for carbon cycle investigations as atmospheric gradients currently approach traditional measurement precision of 2-5{per_thousand}. The AMS facility at the Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, produces high and stable beam currents that enable efficient acquisition times for large numbers of {sup 14}C … more
Date: October 18, 2006
Creator: Graven, H D; Guilderson, T P & Keeling, R F
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Microbial Transformations of Radionuclides Released From Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing Plants.

Description: Microorganisms can affect the stability and mobility of the actinides U, Pu, Cm, Am, Np, and the fission products Tc, I, Cs, Sr, released from nuclear fuel reprocessing plants. Under appropriate conditions, microorganisms can alter the chemical speciation, solubility and sorption properties and thus could increase or decrease the concentrations of radionuclides in solution and the bioavailability. Dissolution or immobilization of radionuclides is brought about by direct enzymatic action or indi… more
Date: October 18, 2006
Creator: Francis, A. J.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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North Korean Ballistic Missile Threat to the United States

Description: This report updates recent information concerning, specifically, North Korea’s long-range ballistic missile program. On July 4-5, 2006, North Korea test-launched seven ballistic missiles, including a new Taepo Dong 2 that failed soon after launch. Apparently successful shorter-range missile tests included some combination of SCUDs and No Dongs. More recently, North Korea conducted an underground nuclear test and said it would deploy nuclear weapons on their ballistic missiles, although there is… more
Date: October 18, 2006
Creator: Hildreth, Steven A.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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[Letter from Ken Whalen to Patrick Birmingham, October 18, 2006]

Description: Letter from Ken Whalen to Patrick Birmingham on October 18, 2006 with the subject Nomination Committee. The letter is in regards to Birmingham for accepting President Jeremy L. Halbreich's request to serve on the Board of Directors Nomination Committee. Other members serving will include Larry Walker, Darrell Coleman and Nelson Clyde IV. The purpose of the nomination committee is to fill three positions with two new people and one re-nominated.
Date: October 18, 2006
Creator: Whalen, Ken
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Letter from Ken Whalen to Larry Walker, October 18, 2006]

Description: Letter from Ken Whalen to Larry Walker on October 18, 2006 with the subject Board Nominations. The letter beings with Whalen thanking Walker for his acceptance of Jeremy L. Halbreich's appointment as chairman of the 2007 board of directors nomination committee. Whalen has listed the other members who are to also serve on the nomination committee with Walker.
Date: October 18, 2006
Creator: Whalen, Ken
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Letter from Ken Whalen to Darrell Coleman, October 18, 2006]

Description: Letter from Ken Whalen to Darrell Coleman on October 18, 2006 with the subject Nomination Committee. The letter is in regards to Coleman for accepting President Jeremy L. Halbreich's request to serve on the Board of Directors Nomination Committee. Other members serving will include Larry Walker, Patrick Birmingham and Nelson Clyde IV. The purpose of the nomination committee is to fill three positions with two new people and one re-nominated.
Date: October 18, 2006
Creator: Whalen, Ken
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Letter from Ken Whalen to Patrick Birmingham, October 18, 2006]

Description: Letter from Ken Whalen to Patrick Birmingham on October 18, 2006 with the subject Nomination Committee. The letter is in regards to Birmingham for accepting President Jeremy L. Halbreich's request to serve on the Board of Directors Nomination Committee. Other members serving will include Larry Walker, Darrell Coleman and Nelson Clyde IV. The purpose of the nomination committee is to fill three positions with two new people and one re-nominated.
Date: October 18, 2006
Creator: Whalen, Ken
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Western Water Resource Issues

Description: This report discusses the debate over western water resources, which revolves around the issue of how best to plan for and manage the use of this renewable, yet sometimes scarce and increasingly sought after, resource.
Date: October 18, 2006
Creator: Cody, Betsy A. & Sheikh, Pervaze A.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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[Letter from Ken Whalen to Nelson Clyde IV, October 18, 2006]

Description: Letter from Ken Whalen to Nelson Clyde IV on October 18, 2006 with the subject Nomination Committee. The letter is in regards to Clyde for accepting President Jeremy L. Halbreich's request to serve on the Board of Directors Nomination Committee. Other members serving will include Larry Walker, Patrick Birmingham and Darrell Coleman. The purpose of the nomination committee is to fill three positions with two new people and one re-nominated.
Date: October 18, 2006
Creator: Whalen, Ken
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Study of Multi-body Charmless B Decays with the BaBar Experiment

Description: The authors report recent measurements of charmless B decays to the final states K{sup +}K{sup +}K{sup -}, {phi}{phi}K, {eta}'{eta}'K, M{sub S}{sup 0}K{sub S}{sup 0}K{sub L}{sup 0}, {bar {Lambda}}p{pi}{sup +}, K*{sup +}h{sup +}h{sup -} and KX(inclusive). The results were obtained using a data sample of up to 288.5 fb{sup -1} recorded by the BABAR detector at the PEP-II asymmetric B factory at SLAC.
Date: October 18, 2006
Creator: Latham, Thomas E.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Characterization of Vadose Zone Sediments Below the C Tank Farm: Borehole C4297 and RCRA Borehole 299-E27-22

Description: The overall goal of the Tank Farm Vadose Zone Project, led by CH2M HILL Hanford Group, Inc., is to define risks from past and future single-shell tank farm activities at Hanford. To meet this goal, CH2M HILL Hanford Group, Inc. tasked scientists from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory to perform detailed analyses on vadose zone sediments from within Waste Management Area (WMA) C. This report is the first of two reports written to present the results of these analyses. Specifically, this repo… more
Date: October 18, 2006
Creator: Brown, Christopher F.; Serne, R. JEFFREY; Bjornstad, Bruce N.; Horton, Duane G.; Lanigan, David C.; Clayton, Ray E. et al.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Nano-Scale Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry - A new analytical tool in biogeochemistry and soil ecology

Description: Soils are structurally heterogeneous across a wide range of spatio-temporal scales. Consequently, external environmental conditions do not have a uniform effect throughout the soil, resulting in a large diversity of micro-habitats. It has been suggested that soil function can be studied without explicit consideration of such fine detail, but recent research has indicated that the micro-scale distribution of organisms may be of importance for a mechanistic understanding of many soil functions. D… more
Date: October 18, 2006
Creator: Herrmann, A M; Ritz, K; Nunan, N; Clode, P L; Pett-Ridge, J; Kilburn, M R et al.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Assessment of New Calculation Method for Toxicological Sums-of-Fractions for Hanford Tank Farm Wastes

Description: The toxicological source terms used for potential accident assessment in the Hanford Tank Farms DSA are based on toxicological sums-of-fractions (SOFs) that were calculated based on the Best Basis Inventory (BBI) from May 2002, using a method that depended on thermodynamic equilibrium calculations of the compositions of liquid and solid phases. The present report describes a simplified SOF-calculation method that is to be used in future toxicological updates and assessments and compares its res… more
Date: October 18, 2006
Creator: Mahoney, Lenna A.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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A Thermal Wind Model for GPO J1655-40

Description: Recent Chandra observations of an outflowing gas in GRO J1655-40 resulted in a suggestion by Miller et al. (2006) that the wind in this system must be powered by a magnetic process that can also drive accretion through the disk around the black hole. The alternative explanations, of radiation pressure or thermally driven flows, were considered unsatisfactory because of the highly ionized level of the gas and because of the derived small distance from the black hole, well inside the minimum dist… more
Date: October 18, 2006
Creator: Netzer, Hagai & /Tel Aviv U. /Wise Observ. /KIPAC, Menlo Park
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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FRACTIONAL CRYSTALLIZATION FLOWSHEET TESTS WITH ACTUAL TANK WASTE

Description: Laboratory-scale flowsheet tests of the fractional crystallization process were conducted with actual tank waste samples in a hot cell at the 222-S Laboratory. The process is designed to separate medium-curie liquid waste into a low-curie stream for feeding to supplemental treatment and a high-curie stream for double-shell tank storage. Separations criteria (for Cs-137 sulfate, and sodium) were exceeded in all three of the flowsheet tests that were performed.
Date: October 18, 2006
Creator: HERTING, D.L.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Fracture and Fragmentation of Simplicial Finite Elements Meshes using Graphs

Description: An approach for the topological representation of simplicial finite element meshes as graphs is presented. It is shown that by using a graph, the topological changes induced by fracture reduce to a few, local kernel operations. The performance of the graph representation is demonstrated and analyzed, using as reference the 3D fracture algorithm by Pandolfi and Ortiz [22]. It is shown that the graph representation initializes in O(N{sub E}{sup 1.1}) time and fractures in O(N{sub I}{sup 1.0}) tim… more
Date: October 18, 2006
Creator: Mota, Alejandro; Knap, Jaroslaw & Ortiz, Michael
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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